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Treasury sends $15 billion in August child tax credit payments © istock Millions of households received their second monthly payment of the expanded child tax credit this week, with the Treasury Department saying Friday $15.4 billion was disbursed. “Today 61 million children across America are benefiting from the advance Child Tax Credit, helping families put food on the table and meet the needs of the next generation,” said Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo in a statement. “We want every eligible family to have access to the advance Child Tax Credit, which is why we will continue our outreach efforts to...

PAYPAL HOLDINGS, Inc, is an indispensable, American, global corporation, without whose services, financially transacting online is difficult. The company is worth $16.929 billion. The worthless Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is a meddlesome shakedown operation, in the mold of the Southern Poverty Law Center, that has taken it upon itself to decide who lives and who dies socially and financially. People like Pat Buchanan and Tucker Carlson the ADL deems to be mired in white supremacism. What next? The ADL and PayPal have conspired to ferret out “bigotry and extremism” from the financial industry, by which they mean ban thought crimes. "Racism—systemic...

Is the Catholic Church falling apart?In the last episode of Holy Smoke, I discussed Pope Francis's brutal and petty new document which seeks to ban as many Latin Masses as possible. This week we look at the other recent developments, which are arguably just as disturbing: two criminal prosecutions in which close allies of the Pope are accused of a range of hair-raising offences – and the question of how much Francis knew about their activities still hasn't been answered, either by the Vatican or its tame press corps.. Also, I touch on a new explanation for Rome's dreadful pact...

Afghanistan is falling under Taliban control at an alarming pace while the president goes on vacation. “Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?” a reporter asked Joe Biden in July following the administration’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops. “No. It is not,” Biden firmly responded. President Biden is not being honest. Biden: "The Afghan troops have 300k well-equipped, as well-equipped as any army in the world…" MSNBC's Richard Engel: "There is not a cohesive well-armed, well-equipped, well-led Afghan army right now" pic.twitter.com/UNKO66tE50 — Joe Gierut (@Joe_Gierut) July 8, 2021 Now, only a few weeks later, the Biden-Harris administration found...

How does a once-great country become the complete mess America is today? The honest answer is we are all at fault. It's as easy for the left to blame conservatives as it is for the right to blame liberals. It's easy for the elites in cities to say Americans aren't working as hard as they used to and are getting fat off too much fast food. It's easy for regular Americans to look at the hypereducated urban elites and feel like they've sold out and left America behind to pursue profits in foreign markets. The problem is all of this...

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - Friday, a woman reached out to News4 claiming she was paralyzed after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.Brandy McFadden got her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on April 16. "I just started not feeling great," she recalled.By the following afternoon, Mcfadden said she couldn't walk and had excruciating neck pain. "It just started progressively getting worse and I just started screaming in pain at the top of my lungs."Unable to move from the neck down, her husband took her to the emergency room at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Six days later, she remained in the hospital, and...

One of two brothers accused of killing a Chicago police officer was on the street despite being charged in a hit-and-run months earlier while on probation, according to a report. Emonte Morgan, 21, whom prosecutors say admitted fatally shooting Officer Ella French, 29, during a Saturday traffic stop, allegedly slammed into a man in a crosswalk on April 9 — while he was already on probation for a 2019 robbery, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Morgan could have been sent back to jail at a court hearing set for Tuesday over the incident — some three days after he and his...

Three major airlines — Southwest, American and Delta — have decided against following United Airlines in requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for employees.The CEOs of all three major airlines have each said that they will not be requiring their employees to get vaccinated, CNN reports. Last week, United Airlines became the first major airline to issue a vaccine mandate for its employeesADVERTISEMENT"The facts are crystal clear: everyone is safer when everyone is vaccinated," United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby and President Brett Hart told employees in a memo.Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said in a memo obtained by CNN that while the company...

Even though my time as the Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner has ended, the partisan attacks on the agency and my record have not. Just this week, U.S. Reps. John Larson (D-CT) and Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) continued to repeat false claims about my tenure as SSA commissioner. It is disappointing that Rep. Larson continues to play politics with the independent and nonpartisan agency that millions of Americans rely on by continuing to repeat union propaganda meant to undermine my legacy at SSA despite my repeated requests to Rep. Larson and Congress for funding and support to properly staff our offices...

A team of researchers from CNRS and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France develop the first prototype for an artificial neuron, according to a study published in Science (1). As in the brain, their system uses ions to carry information, and it relies on a thin layer of water transporting ions within long graphene incisions.Our brain can perform the most impressive and complex tasks. However, despite this complexity, it needs very little energy. This high efficiency comes from neurons, which have a membrane with tiny pores called ion channels. These channels can open and close according to the stimuli received...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Pentagon is sending roughly 3,000 American troops to Kabul to help evacuate many of the U.S. Embassy employees there. This comes as the Taliban continues to gain ground in Afghanistan just before U.S. troops officially withdraw. “We believe this is the prudent thing to do given the rapidly deteriorating security situation in and around Kabul,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said. Security is seemingly deteriorating after decades of U.S. involvement. Mike McElhiney first stepped foot in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago “We were the first team to go in and be on the ground consistently in...

HA NOI — Viet Nam recorded 9,180 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, a reduction of 503 against Thursday. A further 275 people have died of coronavirus complications. The new cases take the total number of infections to 255,748, and the total number of deaths to 5,088, ranking 80th and 69th out of 222 nations and territories, respectively. Of the latest transmissions, just 30 were imported, and the rest discovered either in the community or already in locked down or quarantine zones.

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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman accidentally shot a friend while using the laser sight on a handgun to play with a cat, authorities said.A criminal complaint charging the 19-year-old woman with negligent use of a weapon said she was visiting a Kenosha apartment on Tuesday afternoon where a 21-year-old man had brought a handgun. The woman, who a witness said had been drinking...

Kentucky is offering travel incentives in an effort to boost vaccinations. The state launched the “Vax and Visit” initiative on Thursday, which offers the chance to win “safe-cations” at Kentucky State Parks for those who receive at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Eligible residents will have the chance to win golf rounds, overnight lodging and campground stays at Kentucky state parks.

(Search didn't turn this up. Full list in comment) “Social control is best managed through fear.” – scientist/author Michael Crichton in his 2006 novel Next. “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” -- FDR. “Fear whatever we tell you to fear.” -- Shaman Anthony Fauci. Every day it’s a different story – another flip flop or belly flop – from another eminent authority or revered agency (the CDC, Dr. Fascista, the Geezer-in-chief, Nanny Nancy, the National Institutes for Driving Us All F---ing Nuts). Get vaccinated (but forget the tens of thousands streaming across the border who are infected). Wear...

The surge in homicides in Los Angeles since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has played out almost entirely among Latino and Black victims, according to a Times analysis of Los Angeles Police Department data.

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August 13 is the shared feast date* of third century saint and antipope — two adjectives rarely held in tandem — Hippolytus of Rome, and also the feast of the official pope to whom he reconciled in the end, Pontian. His legend, including his feast date, has been muddled with another ancient martyr of the same name, and even with the mythological son of Theseus — from which also derives the etymologically apt fancy that St. Hippolytus met his end by the straining of horses.** But Hippolytus the theologian and cleric was no fable. Zealous after the correct doctrine in...

President Joe Biden made a statement on Thursday supporting California Governor Gavin Newsom and urging voters to vote “no” on the Golden State’s upcoming recall election in September. “Governor Newsom is leading California through unprecedented crises. He is a key partner in fighting the pandemic and delivering economic relief to working families and helping us build our economy back better than ever. He’s taking on the climate crisis and standing up for the rights of women, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community,” President Biden said in the statement. “He knows how to get the job done because he’s been doing it....