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Young Democrats accused of staging a hoax photo op to falsely tie Glenn Youngkin, Republican candidate for Virginia, to white nationalists - reports.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNBC during an interview on Friday that the spending bill that Democrats are proposing would lower inflation by reducing household costs including health care. “I don't think that these investments will drive up inflation at all. First of all, they're fully paid for and not by imposing higher taxes on anyone earning under $400,000. But by asking corporations, high-income individuals to pay their fair share, and by investing in the Internal Revenue Service so that they can boost compliance which has fallen to low levels,” Yellen said during an interview in Rome, where she is...

Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid reportedly split after a harassment incident involving Yolanda Hadid, news reports say ... Former "One Direction" member Zayn Malik pleaded no contest for harassing ex girlfriend Gigi Hadid's mom, Yolanda Hadid, in the couple's Bucks County, PA home last month, according to multiple news reports. The 28-year-old British singer was charged with four counts of harassment after he pushed Yolanda into a dresser and called her a "f*****g Dutch slut," Daily Mail reports. He was reportedly charged Sept. 29.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service recognizes an individual or group's dedication to public service at the local, state and national, or international levels. President George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, once said “Public service is a noble calling; worth doing and worth trying to succeed in.”

Cardinal Burke: Bishops Have ‘Sacred Duty’ to Apply Canon Law to Pro-Abortion Catholic PoliticiansCardinal Burke explained that he was speaking out because the issue was “a matter of life and death for the unborn and of eternal salvation for the Catholic politicians involved.”On the eve of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis, a U.S. cardinal said that Catholic bishops have a “sacred duty” to apply canon law by advising pro-abortion politicians not to receive Holy Communion.In a 2,800-word statement issued on Oct. 28, Cardinal Raymond Burke recalled his efforts to persuade Catholic politicians to defend the lives of...

Government is considering payments of $450,000 per person affected by Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018 WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma. The U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering payments that could amount to close to a million per family, though the final numbers could...

President Biden on Friday cruised through Rome with an 85-vehicle motorcade — drawing criticism for the poor optics ahead of a global warming summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to which Biden is bringing about a dozen top US officials. “Biden arriving at the Vatican. His motorcade is lonnnnnng,” tweeted Washington Post reporter Chico Harlan, along with a video of the procession. “#Decarbonize this,” one person captioned the video. “America’s Marie Antoinette class is Washington’s elites – and that shows it,” another person responded. Biden routinely says there’s a “climate crisis” caused by fossil fuels. It’s unclear how many of the motorcade...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barring an unforeseen breakthrough, intelligence agencies won’t be able to conclude whether COVID-19 spread by animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab, officials said Friday in releasing a fuller version of their review into the origins of the pandemic. The paper issued by the Director of National Intelligence elaborates on findings released in August of a 90-day review ordered by President Joe Biden. That review said that U.S. intelligence agencies were divided on the origins of the virus but that analysts do not believe the virus was developed as a bioweapon and that most agencies believe the...

A photo of Legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull taken in 1885. (Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) Science has confirmed a man in South Dakota is the great-grandson of the iconic Native American leader Sitting Bull. DNA from the famous chieftain's hair matched that of Ernie LaPointe, who has long claimed this famous relation. Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka-Iyotanka, led the Lakota tribe of Sioux people in what is now South Dakota. He is most notable for being the military leader who famously defeated U.S. Lt. Col. George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876....

What began as internet rumblings over the gross distortions of science to support the ‘Big Bang Hypothesis’ is now producing tangible rifts in the planet’s tectonic thought plates. We are on the threshold of a startling new reality. Wise men once said the world was flat. Wise never meant never wrong. Wiser men now say the universe is not expanding, but rotating. Understanding this rotation is all that prevents limited time travel. We will begin with the startling equations of Einstein and Godel in 1949. To those students intent on additional mathematics support of this theory, please refer to stress-energy...

Friday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen advised that “there will be some continued shortages” heading into the holiday season as a result of inflation. “CNN Newsroom” anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Yellen if inflation is “going to get worse Yellen predicted energy prices would “begin to moderate in the months ahead,” and price increases across the board would “subside.” “Well, there will be some continued shortages,” Yellen stated. “Semiconductors are in very short supply. That’s caused the prices of both new and used vehicles to surge. Energy prices have gone up, but I believe energy prices will begin to moderate in the...

Southwest Airlines employees now know the date they must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination to their employer, or face being placed on unpaid leave. A federal judge denied the Southwest Airlines’ Pilots Association (SWAPA) petition to temporarily strike down the carrier’s December 8, 2021 internal vaccination deadline, along with their entire lawsuit against Southwest alleging violations of the Railway Labor Act. Mandatory Vaccination Will “Improve the Safety of Air Transportation” The pilots union representing roughly 9,000 pilots working for the Dallas-based airline originally sued the carrier in August 2021, claiming the working conditions under the pandemic broke the “status quo”...

A London theatre has added a ‘trigger warning’ to its production of William Shakespeare’s 415-year-old play Macbeth. The Almeida Theatre in London includes this “content warning”: “This production includes extreme scenes of violence, including violence against children, suicide, and the use of blood, firearms and knives. It also contains flashing lights, vaping and the smoking of real cigarettes.” It further directed viewers to the Samaritans suicide charity “if you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this production” of the over-400-year-old play, which as The Times noted, is considered suitable for children and often taught in school...

A Washington, D.C., district court judge issued a minute order Thursday asking the Biden administration to agree that both civilian and active-duty military plaintiffs will not be terminated while they await a ruling after they sued the administration over religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines. "None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending," read a minute order from District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly obtained by Fox News. The Biden administration, which had until noon on Friday to respond, said in a filing that it would not agree to...

Facebook the company is being renamed to Meta, and the social network will be a brand within that entity, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. You may think that this is just a cheap and cynical rebranding exercise to mitigate the ongoing controversies in which Facebook is mired. But this move goes way beyond that. We're well beyond an organization renaming itself to simply signal a change in direction or attitude. We're beyond a company trying to shed its toxic image. This isn't an antidote to the poison. Mark Zuckerberg has gone off the deep end. The name change heralds...

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1) A major case of buyer’s remorse is setting in, with 16% of DemoKKKrats saying the 2020 election should be overturned according to Morning Consult, with 60% of Republicans agreeing. 2) Botoxic loses again: infrastructure spending bill postponed as the Whackadoodle Terrorist Conference can’t seem to find a bill “progressive” enough to satisfy them. 29 more stories with links at the site.

It is only a matter of time before China's plan to replace the United States as the world's preeminent military becomes reality, a top U.S. general warned, calling on the Washington and its allies to speed efforts to counter Beijing’s bid for dominance. General John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Washington’s second-most-senior military officer, called the rapid rise of the Chinese military “stunning.” “The pace they're moving and the trajectory that they're on will surpass Russia and the United States if we don't do something to change it," he told the Defense Writers Group on...

[H/T CheshireTheCat]Remember, admitting you have a problem is the first step towards recovery. By Joy PullmannOCTOBER 29, 2021 The extent to which corporate media rigs elections for Democrats has been rigorously documented since at least Tim Groseclose’s 2012 book, “Left Turn.” In that book, the political scientist concluded through data-driven analysis that media bias on average shifts the electorate 20 points to the left on a 100-point political worldview scale. Without media bias, he argued, the average American state would be as Republican-leaning as Texas or Kentucky, and those two states would be even more conservative.Media bias was highly visible...

Bob Nightengale, USA Today's MLB writer, penned a piece Wednesday titled "MLB, club won't budge on Atlanta baseball team's nickname, but here's why I won't use it" that began by listing the "blatantly racist" caricatures and the "offensive" mascot that were previously removed and how headdresses, face paint and the famous "tomahawk chop" chant at games became "strongly discouraged."