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The number of children traveling alone who were picked up at the Mexican border by U.S. immigration authorities likely hit an all-time high in July, and the number of people who came in families likely reached its second-highest total on record, a U.S. official said Monday, citing preliminary government figures.

The Biden administration believes that border violators have more rights than American citizens. If you or I try to enter our homeland from a foreign country, we are required to provide a negative COVID test, but an illegal entrant on the southern border faces no such necessity. And receives complimentary transportation to the destination of his/her/their choice courtesy of our taxes, to boot.

In Monday's White House press briefing, Jen Psaki only added to the confusion surrounding the Biden administration's messaging on restrictions that may be levied amid renewed federal mandates invoked to slow the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. In an attempt to clean up a briefing where Deputy White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre opened the door to more lockdowns last week, Psaki merely doubled down on the conflicting statements. "We've been clear, we're not going back to the shutdowns of March of 2020," Psaki stated. "We are not going back to the economy shutting down," saying "we've made too much...

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in the Tri-Mission Embassy Meet and Greet in Brussels | July 11, 2018 Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization | July 11, 2018 President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May visit the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst | July 13, 2018 President Donald J. Trump departs the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on Marine One | July 13, 2018 resident Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in an arrival ceremony at Blenheim Palace with Prime Minister Theresa May and Philip May | July 12, 2018 President...

Mountain View police have arrested a man suspected of a hate crime following a car crash on Sunday afternoon, officials say. Police said they responded to reports of a crash at around noon on the 1600 block of Villa Street involving two vehicles. The caller told police the other driver involved in the collision became agitated after the crash and physically assaulted both the caller and his wife, who was a passenger in his vehicle.

A major bridge connecting Memphis, Tennessee, to Arkansas reopened to traffic in both directions on Monday afternoon, nearly three months after a crack forced its closure, the Arkansas Department of Transportation announced in a tweet. The Hernando DeSoto Bridge, which carries Interstate 40 over the Mississippi River, was shut down for repairs May 11 after a routine inspection found a structural crack. The 3.3-mile bridge was built in the late 1960s to early 1970s and, as one of only two Mississippi River crossings in the Memphis area, carries about 60,000 vehicles daily, according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The...

Anybody know? We already know what the hurricane names will be for this year. What about the variants? I see news about the Lambda variant. Where did it get that name? What if the variant is discovered by somebody in the US while at the same time the same variant is discovered by somebody else in Japan. What prevents the variant from having two different names?

An escalating blame game between President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats over the expiration of the federal eviction ban has left local officials frustrated and scrambling to deal with a wave of renters now at risk of losing their homes. The Biden administration on Monday rebuffed calls from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats to revive the eviction moratorium, which expired Saturday, after unsuccessfully leaning on Congress to enact its own ban last week. The White House said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacked legal authority to reinstitute the eviction prohibition - even on a limited or...

Based upon reports from inside several governments, the IMF has been directing all central banks to terminate paper money by 2022 and move to digital currencies. The real motive here is to terminate the underground economy and to ensure that everyone is 100% taxed as they determine. This has been the driving force behind the shift toward tangible assets with real estate, collectibles, and equities rising. This has been capital trying to get off the grid. One house on the beach I am personally aware of sold for $1.2 million in 1992 is up for sale now at $7.8 million....

If you've never read George Orwell's 1984 you need to gain an understanding of the story. The video at the link provides the story in less than 8 minutes.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) reportedly sat down for an 11-hour interview as part of state Attorney General Letitia James's investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against him from several female aides. As The New York Times reported on Monday, the interview was conducted on July 17, with participants prohibited from discussing it in public. However, five people who were briefed on the interview spoke to the Times. The interview apparently took place in a conference room at Cuomo's Midtown Manhattan office. Former prosecutor Joon Kim and employment lawyer Anne Clark, who have been charged with leading the investigation...

A team of scientists from Northwestern University and Seoul National University in Korea now has demonstrated a high-performing thermoelectric material in a practical form that can be used in device development. The material—purified tin selenide in polycrystalline form—outperforms the single-crystal form in converting heat to electricity, making it the most efficient thermoelectric system on record. The researchers were able to achieve the high conversion rate after identifying and removing an oxidation problem that had degraded performance in earlier studies. A key application target is capturing industrial waste heat—such as from power plants, the automobile industry and glass- and brick-making factories—and...

“If there is anything outrageous, then it is your incredible audacity in making these claims that are known to be based on lies, racism and deep-rooted hatred,” they wrote. The legislators decried the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime accusing others of violating freedom of expression, assembly and other human rights. “In 2019 alone, you murdered 1,500 protesters in the streets of Tehran... Your country routinely hangs or throws LGBTQ+ individuals from public buildings... Let’s not forget your recent attempts to kidnap an Iranian dissident journalist in New York or your country’s flagrant involvement in a major terrorist plot on European...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Top supporters of the recall against California Gov. Gavin Newsom want to block him from branding the contest as a Republican effort in the official election guide that will be sent to voters ahead of the Sept. 14 contest. His contention that the effort is led by Republicans seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election and an “attempt by national Republicans and Trump supporters to force an election and grab power in California" are “at best misleading, at worst flat-out false, and in all events a hyperbolic outrage," according to a lawsuit filed Friday by two...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Fort Leavenworth, KansasFort Leavenworth is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth, roughly 20 miles northwest of Kansas City. Built in 1827, it is the second oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C., and the oldest permanent settlement in Kansas. Fort Leavenworth has been historically known as the "Intellectual Center of the Army."Today, the garrison supports the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) by managing and maintaining the home of the US Army Combined Arms Center (CAC). CAC's mission involves leader...

White House officials on Monday described a behind-the-scenes scramble over the weekend to locate any legal avenue for the administration to continue barring evictions. The effort ultimately came up short, the officials said, leaving millions of renters in the lurch and exposing a rare divide with Democratic members of Congress. "I don't think this means this President is going to give up," said Gene Sperling, the White House official responsible for managing coronavirus relief efforts, during an afternoon briefing. "I think he's going to keep looking, keep pushing." Still, Sperling and other White House officials made clear that even after...

Today, Monday, August 2, 2021, a big strong man bombed out of the superheavyweight class of the Women’s division of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Read that sentence again: We are living in a post-truth society. The best that can be done with it is to finely hone your cynicism, question everything you are told, and learn to appreciate dark humor. Gavin Hubbard is 6’1” at 285 pounds. He was most assuredly born a physical male and competed somewhat successfully in the Men’s Division of Olympic weightlifting up until 2001. Psychological issues caused him to reevaluate his gender identity,...

Just a point of curiosity. I've been reading up on how buildings can be designed to draw heat from the ground and have it sent upwards, which keeps the ground floor cooler. So, I'm just wondering how often southern homes make use of this design and why it isn't used more?

Around 50 million Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses would arrive in Vietnam in the fourth quarter, the health minister says. Nguyen Thanh Long said Mondy that more Covid-19 vaccine doses would arrive in the fourth quarter, including around 47-50 million of the Pfizer vaccine. He did not mention possible numbers for other vaccines apart from saying they would also be available. Vietnam has so far received over 420,000 Pfizer doses. The Health Ministry has approved administration of the Pfizer vaccine as the second dose for those who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine as their first. The second Pfizer does will only...

More people in states with high COVID-19 case rates are getting vaccinated against the virus, the head of the White House unit in charge of countering the pandemic said Monday. “The eight states with the highest current case rates have seen an average increase of 171 percent in the number of people newly vaccinated each day over the past three weeks,” White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients told a virtual briefing. “Louisiana has seen a 302 percent increase in the average number of newly vaccinated per day,” Zients added. “Mississippi, 250 percent. Alabama, 215 percent, and Arkansas, 206 percent....