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Biden Speaks at Critical Moment for Economic Agenda US President Joe Biden has been mocked online after he stumbled his way through a speech designed to promote his administration’s $3.5 trillion ‘Build Back Better’ agenda. The bill, which is currently stuck in Congress as Democrats argue over the cost, is designed to boost America’s social security net. President Biden travelled to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania to deliver the speech, which was marred by numerous gaffes and malapropisms.

President Biden admitted during a CNN town hall Thursday night that he has no immediate solution to the problem of spiking gas prices and suggested that Americans would not start seeing relief at the pump until next year. “My guess is, you’ll start to see gas prices come down as we get by and going into the winter – I mean, excuse me, into next year, 2022,” the president told moderator Anderson Cooper at the Baltimore event. “I don’t see anything that’s going to happen in the meantime that’s going to significantly reduce gas prices. “I must tell you, I...

Pennsylvania State Police said the agency is mourning a trooper who died Thursday after a hospitalization. Trooper Dung X. Martinez, 57, was a patrol trooper with Troop T, the King of Prussia Barracks, police said. “Our department expresses deep sorrow for the sudden loss of a colleague and friend,” Commissioner Colonel Robert Evanchick said. “We wish Trooper Martinez’s family and friends comfort and peace during this difficult time and ask Pennsylvanians to keep them in their thoughts.” Martinez joined the state police in April of 2000, graduating with the 107th cadet class, police said. He worked with troops in Media,...

Republicans are telling Meghan Markle to 'stick to acting' and daring the royal family to strip her of her title after she wrote a letter to Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer advocating for paid family leave on Thursday.... 'Ms. Markle's latest interference in U.S. politics reignites the question in my mind as to why the Royal Family does not simply strip her and Harry officially of their titles, particularly since she insists on sending this under the pretense of being the Duchess of Sussex,' Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., told DailyMail.com.... ...'Meghan Markle is incredibly...

Yuma, AZ – A quick-thinking U.S. Marine Corps veteran singlehandedly thwarted a gas station holdup early Wednesday morning, security footage showed (video below). The incident occurred inside the Chevron station located at 10747 E. North Frontage Road at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 20, the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) said in a press release. Security footage released by the sheriff’s office showed a customer chatting with someone behind the service counter as two masked suspects barged into the business just feet behind him. As the customer casually turned away from the counter and stepped towards the doors, he glanced...

Scalise says GOP memo on closed-door Birx testimony confirms world was 'misled' on COVID ... The memo ... provides "key takeaways" from Birx’s recent committee testimony to Congress on Oct. 12/13 and gives fresh insight into the origins of the virus as well as the U.S. government’s pandemic response. "President Biden and Democrats have politicized Covid from the start and refused to acknowledge its origins from China," Scalise told Fox News in a statement. "Republicans have been sounding the alarm on these issues for well over year, and Dr. Birx’s closed-door testimony confirms that the world was misled." "Perhaps most...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A ceremony honoring the Veterans of the Year for 2020 and 2021 will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Wilton-Saratoga Springs Elks Club at 1 Elks Lane in Saratoga Springs. The event is free and open to the public. The annual award is co-sponsored by the Friends of the New York State Military Museum and the Capital District of New York Chapter of the Association of the United States Army. Presidents of the two co-sponsor organizations will be present for the awards. New York State Senator Jim Tedisco will present the New York...

CHICAGO -- The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Cook County taxes on guns and ammunition violate the state constitution because they "directly burden a law-abiding citizen's" second amendment right to buy the items for self-defense. Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis wrote in a 6-0 decision that the taxes violate the constitution's uniformity clause. She noted revenue from the tax isn't directed toward funds or programs to curb the costs of gun violence or reduce the violence. Illinois' largest county approved the $25 tax on the retail purchase of a firearm within the county in 2012. In 2015, Cook...

Some scientists believe the current surge of COVID-19 has peaked and the pandemic, at least in the U.S., will ease over the winter months. But then what? Will the virus surge back again next year? TRANSCRIPT STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: What is the end game for COVID? We seem to have made it past the worst of the delta surge. Case levels are less than half what they were a couple of months ago. We've reported on this program on projections that new cases may keep dropping all winter. But of course, that is just a projection, and it does not...

After the Chicago Sky won the Women’s National Basketball Association Championship, the city sponsored a parade Tuesday for the WNBA champs. Video of the event, though, shows that few Chicagoans took notice of the procession. The Sky beat the Phoenix Mercury 80-74 Sunday at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena to become the first Chicago-based team ever to become WNBA champs and the first team in the city to take the big win since the Cubs won the World Series in 2016. The Associated Press tried to present the WNBA rally in the best light claiming that ” Chicago turned out Tuesday” and...

The United States military had to delay a test of its new hypersonic weapons system due to rocket failure, according to Reuters on Thursday. A booster rocket with a hypersonic glide body attached failed to launch during a test at Kodiak, Alaska, according to ABC News. The aborted launch was part of the joint 'Dark Eagle' program jointly run by the Army and Navy... ...It comes after it was revealed that China carried out a second test.. believed to have taken place on August 13

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pushed back on the House Select Jan. 6 Committee’s subpoena issued to former top Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, describing it as “invalid” during remarks to reporters on Wednesday. “Issuing invalid subpoena weakens our power, not if somebody votes against it,” McCarthy said at a press conference. Earlier this month, Bannon was among four former Trump administration officials targeted by the Democrat-controlled committee for subpoenas to provide testimony regarding their alleged actions on the day of the riot. Through an attorney, Bannon informed the committee he would not respond to his subpoena because he is...

A California math teacher is under fire after she was filmed donning a feather headdress and doing a bizarre 'Native American' dance for her students. Footage of John W North High School math teacher Candice Reed donning feathered headgear while chanting 'SOH CAH TOA' -a mnemonic for remembering the definitions of the trigonometric functions sine, cosine, and tangent- has gone viral. The video was posted to Facebook on Wednesday by Shadae Johnson, a member of the Urban Indigenous Peoples Advisory Council Member in Vancouver. Johnson said the footage was filmed on Tuesday by a Native American student in Reed's math...

President Joe Biden revisited his love of trains during a trip to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, promising to get millions of vehicles off the roads. “We will take literally millions of automobiles off the road,” Biden boasted, arguing that more high-speed trains like the ones constructed in China would make trains more attractive. If more people took trains, Biden argued, it would save millions of barrels of oil and reduce pollution. “This is not hyperbole; this is a fact,” he insisted. “These are facts.” Biden boasted $66 billion in government spending to subsidize trains in his infrastructure...

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon reacts to protests against Dave Chappelle's Netflix special amid the impending death of comedy

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in the $1 billion settlement of concussion claims, according to a proposed deal filed Wednesday in federal court. The revised testing plan follows public outrage over the use of “race-norming,” a practice that came to light only after two former NFL players filed a civil rights lawsuit over it last year. The adjustments, critics say, may have prevented hundreds of Black players suffering from dementia to win awards that average $500,000 or more.

An Amish couple was killed and their eight children were injured after their horse-drawn buggy was hit by a pick-up truck over the weekend.... ...KIRO 7 reported that 38-year-old Barbie Esh was pronounced dead at the scene and that her husband, 39-year-old John Esh, died at VCU Medical Center on Monday night. The outlet added that the horse pulling the buggy was euthanized because of the injuries it sustained.... ...[Stoltzfus ]also shared in an update on Wednesday that all eight children had been released from the hospital. "I don't have a list of exact injuries but I know there are...

The Philippine government has issued a diplomatic protest against the frequent disruptive actions of Chinese vessels challenging its ships patrolling the South China Sea.The Filipino Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that the protest was against the “unlawful issuance of over 200 radio challenges, sounding of sirens, and blowing of horns by Chinese government vessels.”These provocative actions, announced by the ministry on Oct. 20, were conducted against Philippine authorities who were on their routine patrols in the region. The timing was not specified.Conflicts in the South China Sea have been happening for years with Manila and Beijing, along with neighboring...

Gun-toting lady in red is running for Nevada Governor

Suppliers to two blacklisted Chinese companies—telecom giant Huawei and China’s top chipmaker SMIC—were approved to receive billions of dollars worth of licenses for U.S. technologies shipments between November and April, documents released by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Oct. 21 detail.Some 301 licenses worth a total of $103 billion were approved for suppliers to sell goods to Huawei and SMIC, according to the documents prepared by the Commerce Department.Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) were put on a U.S. trade blacklist, known as the “entity list,” in May 2019 and December 2020 respectively over national security concerns....