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The White House defended President Joe Biden’s son Hunter for selling $375,000 worth of his artwork, despite questions about the ethics surrounding his newfound career. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the buyers of Hunter’s art would remain anonymous, as part of the “purview of the gallarist” showing his paintings.

Carl Nassib came out last offseason via a brief social media video. It made him the first openly gay NFL player. There were criticisms this wasn’t important or something no one needed to know. Some even accused him of using his announcement to ensure he wouldn’t be cut this year by the Las Vegas Raiders. Nassib, however, has said little since that day. He’s just done his job, and done it pretty well. It’s been far more important than that. Consider that until Monday, Nassib’s head coach was Jon Gruden, who in emails uncovered during a tangential NFL investigation freely...

he White House admitted Wednesday they were unable to guarantee packages would arrive on time this Christmas. “We are not the postal service, or UPS, or FedEx,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. “We cannot guarantee. What we can do is use every lever at the federal government’s disposal to reduce delays.”

Conservation groups have expressed outrage after the US Department of Agriculture revealed it killed eight young wolves in an Idaho forest. The Timberline wolf pack - unofficially "adopted" by students at Boise's Timberline High School over the past 18 years - appears to have been among the targets. Their den, on public lands in Boise National Forest, was found empty this spring. An official from the Agriculture Department confirmed federal agents had killed the animals in order to force the adult wolves to relocate.

Dog the Bounty Hunter is giving up the hunt for Brian Laundrie, who disappeared shortly before the body of his fiancée, Gabby Petito, was found in a Wyoming park. The 68-year-old bounty hunter, whose real name is Duane Chapman, said he has left Florida and flown back to his home state of Colorado to nurse a sprained ankle. He and his team had been searching for the 23-year-old fugitive in the swampy Carlton Reserve. His daughter, Lyssa Chapman, wrote on Twitter that the “bait is set.” Late last week, police hunting for Laundrie reportedly found a recently used campsite at...

-> UK Health Security Agency data shows people over 30-years-old who received two doses of vaccine contracted virus at higher rates than unvaccinated. -> Government data also shows 70% of people in UK that died of Covid in September were fully vaccinated! ================================================================================ Data out of the UK shows people over the age of 30 who received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine contracted the Covid-19 virus at higher rates than those who were unvaccinated. The anomaly appears in data from the UK Health Security Agency’s Covid-19 vaccine surveillance report documenting recent Covid case counts. According to the data, Covid...

Oct 13 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc(FB.O) will now count activists and journalists as "involuntary" public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an interview this week. The social media company, which allows more critical commentary of public figures than of private individuals, is changing its approach on the harassment of journalists and "human rights defenders," who it says are in the public eye due to their work rather than their public personas. Facebook is under wide-ranging scrutiny from global lawmakers and regulators over its content moderation practices and...

Oh, how the main stream media loved to run headline stories on the Delta COVID surge here in the free state of Florida, dragging the name of our fantastic governor Ron DeSantis through the mud every chance they got. Funny thing, though, the same media has no interest in reporting on COVID cases in Democrat states like Minnesota where infections, hospitalizations and deaths are skyrocketing despite having a senior population that is 93% vaccinated. Isn’t that the opposite of what they have been telling us?🤔 “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32...

On this date in 1780, American Revolution patriots hanged nine captive loyalist prisoners in North Carolina, in the wake of the Battle of King’s Mountain. Although the colonials would ultimately accomplish their break with the British Empire, the British and their local loyalists had a strong run in a southern campaign from about 1778. But even at their acme, the redcoats could not extend their writ westward past the Appalachian Mountains, into the frontiers where hunger to swallow up Indian land made for ferocious adherence to the pro-independence cause, since the Crown was trying to limit settler expansion in those...

Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that airline pilots should be far more worried about the potential health consequences of contracting COVID-19 than any risk of possible side effects from vaccines. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, made the comments during Wednesday's press briefing by the White House COVID-19 Response Team. "We have examples of people—they may not necessarily be pilots, maybe there are some—who actually have gotten COVID and have had an unexplained but real impacting on their ability to function normally," Fauci said. When...

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who is vying to replace outgoing Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), holds a substantial lead among his primary challengers — a lead which increases when voters are told of his vow to vote against reelecting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as Republican leader, a Fabrizio Lee & Associates survey released this week found. On the surface, Greitens, who has positioned himself as a MAGA candidate, leads his Republican primary challengers by double digits, garnering 36 percent support in the field. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R), perhaps his top GOP challenger, falls in...

SINKING SPRING, Pa. — A York County teacher is charged after police say he made threats in connection with COVID-19. Police say Chad Gerrick, 50, a teacher at Sinking Springs Elementary School in the Central York School District, put up a plastic barrier in his classroom. Police say it was taken down by maintenance, which angered Gerrick. Investigators say on Friday, Gerrick made threats to school officials, including saying if he got COVID-19, he would shoot them and spread COVID-19 to everyone he could. The district says Gerrick is on leave.

A fiercely devoted Florida mom was thrown in jail because she refused to leave her daughter’s bedside in the hospital — and she’s “not sorry that I made them take me out of there in handcuffs.” Lynn Savage, 70, was taken into custody on trespassing charges after she wouldn’t comply with visiting hours while her daughter, Amber, was recovering from brain surgery at UF Health North in Jacksonville, news station WKRC reported. “I could not in good conscience and good heart leave her bedside not knowing how she was going to make it through the night voluntarily,” Savage told the...

NBCUniversal’s Global Talent Development and Inclusion (GTDI) group announced an expansion of its Spellcheck for Bias partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. After a year-long pilot initiative using the tool to create more opportunities for Latinx representation on screen, GDTI will continue to expand Spellcheck for Bias to improve Black and Asian American Pacific Islander representation as well. Spellcheck for Bias utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze film and television scripts and manuscripts to identify representation of characters and percentage of dialogue by gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, age and body type. It also analyzes unidentified characters...

Recently a law firm called Siri & Glimstad LLP wrote a letter to two heavy hitters within the U.S.--the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on behalf of their client, Dr. Patricia Lee, an ICU physician, and surgeon who has had the unfortunate experience of treating many COVID-19 vaccine-injured patients. In the letter addressed to the FDA, CBER Director Dr. Peter Marks, CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force Deputy Director Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, and the law firm’s Managing Partner, Aaron Siri, raised attention to serious claims. Specifically, they stated that both critical public...

Many CTH readers are well versed in the fraudulent case manufactured by corrupt DOJ and FBI officials against Flynn. This extensive interview allows Flynn to describe what was happening in his own words. General Flynn describes the “security state” that runs government. However, we have defined it as….The Fourth Branch of Government.

(LifeSiteNews) […]Alberta doctor details COVID jab reactionsAccording to the Alberta doctor’s letter, she was perplexed at how busy things were on her shifts soon after the COVID jabs were rolled out.“I only had two patients affected by Covid in long-term care before the vaccine was available. One died and the other remained largely asymptomatic,” wrote the Alberta physician.“Once the vaccine rolled out to the community, I had one high functioning 87-year-old male contract COVID within the first few weeks of his first dose. Fortunately, he did very well without needing medical attention. Through the third wave, I had another high...

The White House has been speaking with U.S. oil and gas producers in recent days about helping to bring down rising fuel costs, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Energy costs are rising worldwide, in some cases leading to shortages in major economies like China and India. In the United States, the average retail cost of a gallon of gas is at a seven-year high, and winter fuel costs are expected to surge, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Oil-and-gas production remains below the nation’s peak reached in 2019. “We are closely monitoring the cost of oil and...

Several thousand years ago, an Iron Age salt miner took a dump in what is now the Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut area of Austria. In all likelihood, the pooper never gave their little deposit a second thought, and would be rather surprised to learn that it has now become a scientific artifact, enabling researchers to discover that Europeans ate blue cheese and drank beer 2,700 years ago. Reporting the ancient excrement in the journal Current Biology, the study authors reveal that the paleofeces has remained preserved in the region’s prehistoric salt mines over the past few millennia. Using a range of analytical techniques,...

President Joe Biden is expected to announce the Port of Los Angeles will begin operating 24 hours a day, a push from the White House to clear supply chain disruptions that are threatening holiday shopping season plans and slowing the nation’s economic recovery from the pandemic, according to media reports. The Los Angeles Times is reporting Biden is scheduled to make the announcement Wednesday. A similar plan is in effect at the Port of Long Beach. The two ports are responsible for nearly half of all imports into the United States. Under the proposed plan, the Port of Los Angeles...