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On Monday Jennifer Wright the Arizona Assistant Attorney General fired off a letter to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office requesting information related to registration list maintenance in the State of Arizona. The Attorney General is starting his investigation. OAN’s Christina Bobb reported. AZ Attorney General is investigating the election fraud in AZ pic.twitter.com/FtzhNgqXtp — Christina Bobb (@christina_bobb) October 11, 2021 Here is the letter.

U.S. gas prices rose on Columbus Day to $3.27 a gallon, a new 7-year-high. The cost of a gallon keeps rising, with some experts saying no drop is in sight. The primary drive is the climbing price of crude oil, analysts say. That accounts for between 50 percent and 60 percent of the price of gas for drivers, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA) spokesman Andrew Gross. “And last week’s decision by OPEC and its oil-producing allies to not increase production further only exacerbated the upward momentum for crude oil prices,” Gross said in a statement. AAA pegged the...

Ben & Jerry’s co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are under fire after they failed to come up with a reason why they refuse to sell their ice cream in parts of Israel over political disagreements but do business in areas of the United States where they disagree with laws and policies.

On September 30th, Israeli Ministry of Health, deleted thousands of comments and testimonies about vaccine adverse effects. This is how it unfolded. (CLICK LINK FOR 5 MINUTE VIDEO)

ARMVILLE, N.C. (WITN) -A local post office has been dedicated in memory of the late Congressman Walter B. Jones Junior. The Farmville post office in Pitt County has been renamed for the Congressman who passed away in 2019. Jones was a lifelong Farmville resident and represented eastern Carolina’s Third District in Congress for 24 years. His successor, Republican Greg Murphy, and Democratic Congressman GK Butterfield joined more than a hundred area residents and elected officials as a plaque honoring Jones was unveiled outside the post office Tuesday morning.

Kraft Heinz CEO Miguel Patricio said today the firm is 'raising prices, where necessary', blaming a lack of truck drivers in the UK and labour shortages and an increase in logistics costs in the US. He told the BBC consumers will need to get used to paying more for food due to the world's rising population and a lack of land to grow produce. But he also said firms would have to take on the cost rises, adding: 'I think it's up to us and to the industry and to the other companies to try to minimise these price increases.'...

Inmates of New York City's Rikers Island jail complex are reportedly running amok.Detainees at the understaffed jail have taken control of entire units, The New York Times reported.Inmates of New York City's long-beleaguered Rikers Island jail complex are running amok at the notorious lockup - and some have taken control over entire facility units, The New York Times reported on Monday."Rikers has long been dysfunctional, decrepit and dangerous," Zachary Katznelson told the news outlet. He's the executive director of a research and advocacy organization called Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.But Katznelson added, "What we...

Eric Clapton thinks he can change the world - or at least the world’s perception of COVID-19 vaccines. The 76-year-old rocker - who has repeatedly railed against the vaccines and associated mandates in recent months - has now helped bankroll an anti-vax band, Rolling Stone reported. According to the publication, Clapton donated £1,000 ($1,360) to British rockers Jam For Freedom through a GoFundMe set up to help pay for legal fees they incurred after “breaching COVID regulations” at a gig. Jam For Freedom has been playing shows across the UK in recent months, blasting the COVID shots in their songs....

Jon Stewart says former President Trump has "a very good chance" of winning back the White House if he enters the 2024 race. "I think he’s got it — he’s got a very good chance. And they’re smarter about it," Stewart said Sunday during an interview with David Remnick at the 22nd annual New Yorker Festival. "The danger of the coup — again, Jan. 6 is the TV event moment of it," the host of "The Problem with Jon Stewart" on Apple TV+, said of the riot by Trump supporters at the Capitol earlier this year. "It’s the special that...

Post-traumatic osteoarthritis is a musculoskeletal disorder shadowing especially the life of young and active population. Inhibition of cartilage damage progression with early intervention is crucial. To predict how an intervention would affect the state of an injured knee joint, knowledge of biomechanical and inflammatory aspects of osteoarthritis progression is necessary. For the first time, researchers have now captured both mechanisms in a physics-based computational model predicting cartilage degradation and a possible recovery scenario after anterior cruciate ligament injury and reconstruction. Rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament is a typical sports injury. An injured knee joint can be treated with ligament...

Where Pope Francis Needs to ImprovePolls reveal that a large majority of Catholics have a positive view of Pope Francis. However, far fewer look to him for moral guidance. (In one study, only 11% did.) It is therefore difficult to know how many Catholics are familiar with, and judge his performance by, his published statements. Having paid close attention to his statements during his pontificate, I note three problems that, if overcome, would benefit Catholics and no doubt others as well.Lack of ClarityAll too often, Francis’ statements tend to confuse rather than clarify important issues of faith. Philip Lawler, author...

WION News reported: Known for its ‘modern meets midcentury’ design, the house has been completely newly reconstructed this year and has been designed by the famous architecture firm Woods + Dangaran. The house now has five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, class-A glassy walls and a breath-taking view of the Downtown LA skyline. The whole house features interiors of unvarnished woods and other similar natural materials to match the muted palette of grey and cream tones throughout the house. In the back of the house is an open rectangular pool a few feet away from the house which sends a sense of...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware’s state auditor, who is responsible for rooting out government fraud, waste and abuse, was indicted Monday on public corruption charges. An indictment issued by a New Castle County grand jury charges Kathleen McGuiness, 58, with felony counts of theft and witness intimidation, and misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, conflict of interest and noncompliance with state procurement laws. Prosecutors said the charges include allegations that McGuiness hired her daughter and one of her daughter’s friends, both high school seniors at the time, as temporary employees in May 2020, even though other temporary employees had to leave...

A woman is suing a Wisconsin school district, saying her son contracted COVID-19 after his school removed its coronavirus mitigation measures. Shannon Jensen filed the lawsuit against Waukesha School District and school board on October 5, seeking an injunction to force the district to comply with COVID-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the lawsuit, seen by Insider and first reported on by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Waukesha School District removed its student mask mandate and other measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19 in May. Jensen's son still wore a...

Oxidative stress is a condition resulting from an imbalance between the generation of reactive oxygen species and the ability of antioxidants to neutralize those free radicals present in an animal or human's body. Researchers at have recently carried out a study investigating the potential effects of methyl donor supplementation on oxidative stress in the hippocampus of rats who were administered high amounts of fructose and that displayed depression-like behaviors. Their paper suggests that the administration of methyl donors, nutrients that can cause epigenetic alterations in the body, could be a valuable strategy for treating depression. "Ours is the first study...

We are now a little over a month into the Constitutional Carry era in Texas. As most of your probably know, HB1927 included the creation of a new "30.05" sign to go along with the familiar 30.06 and 30.07 signs. If you don't know, and you carry a handgun in Texas with or without an LTC, then you should look it up and familiarize yourself with the effect of each sign. My question: Have you seen any 30.05 signs in the wild yet? If so, did they replace a 30.06 and/or 30.07 sign from before, or were they put up...

At least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Using machine learning to analyze and map more than 100,000 studies of events that could be linked to global warming, researchers paired the analysis with a well-established data set of temperature and precipitation shifts caused by fossil fuel use and other sources of carbon emissions. These combined findings - which focused on events such as crop failures, floods and heat waves - allowed scientists to make a solid link between escalating extremes...

John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence under then-President Donald Trump, said on Sunday that the Biden administration’s efforts to purchase Chinese-made drones for federal law enforcement agencies make no sense because it’s a risk to U.S. national security.In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Ratcliffe, also a former U.S. lawmaker from Texas, said the Trump administration tagged the Chinese company in question after intelligence officials discerned with “moderate confidence” the firm was spying on critical U.S. infrastructure electronically and sending the collected data to the Communist leadership in Beijing.“Yeah, those reports are accurate as reflected, the Biden...

There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former occurring over the last 250 years or so. However, there’s an important difference between the despotisms of old and coercive governments in the modern era: modern-day tyrants frame themselves as the righteous side in any conflict. Think about it: Ancient Persian Emperors and the...

LAS VEGAS (LifeSiteNews) — After winning a stunning victory in a much-anticipated competition for the World Boxing Council (WBC) title Saturday, undisputed heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury gave all the glory to Jesus Christ, saying, “my Lord and Savior rose me to my feet tonight to give Him the glory.”In what was widely hailed as an incredible fight Saturday night at the packed T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, internationally-acclaimed British boxer Tyson Fury (also known as the “Gypsy King”) held on to his WBC heavyweight title after a suspenseful bout resulting in a definitive knockout of opponent Deontay Wilder...