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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is starting to look like that unexpected — and unwanted — houseguest who just won’t leave.</p><p>For months, many economists had sounded a reassuring message that a spike in consumer prices, something that had been missing in action in the U.S. for a generation, wouldn’t stay long. It would prove “transitory,’’ in the soothing words of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and White House officials, as the economy shifted from virus-related chaos to something closer to normalcy.</p>

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he New York Times is about to get in big trouble, and their only recourse may be to out whoever at the FBI allowed them to get into trouble. That’s the takeaway from the series of events surrounding raids on Project Veritas. According to Human Events co-publisher Will Chamberlain, a clear breach of attorney-client privilege was perpetrated by the FBI. When the NY Times reported on it with details, they breached privilege as well. What makes it all even more insidious is that the NY Times is currently involved in a lawsuit from Project Veritas, making this all seem like...

James O’Keefe’s New York home was raided by FBI agents just 5 days ago on Saturday. On Friday, the FBI conducted a raid of two New York addresses of people connected to Project Veritas as part of an investigation on how Ashley Biden’s diary was made public shortly before the 2020 election. Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe’s home was also raided by FBI agents as part of this “investigation”. .... Now tonight, five days after the FBI raided his home, The New York Times released a new report on James O’Keefe with several private documents from Project Veritas. It took...

Anxious about a surge of coronavirus infections enveloping Europe as cases tick up in the United States, senior health officials in the Biden administration are pressing urgently to offer vaccine booster shots to all adults. But support for the renewed push is not unanimous. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has expressed caution about making extra shots so broadly available now, according to several officials familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. As a result, tension is rising among officials over how quickly to proceed and who should get...

Researchers inventoried 298 "sex spots" on the beach, over a total area of over two square miles, mainly among "bushy and dense vegetation" and nebkhas -- dunes that wad up around vegetation. They studied them during May 2018, a period which included the local Gay Pride festival. The tourists' sex, and "cruiser trampling," impacts "directly" not only on the nebkhas, but also on eight native plant species, three of which are endemic, they found. Tourists trample over the vegetation, remove plants and sand, make their own "nests" -- even fencing them off -- and dump waste including cigarettes, condoms, toilet...

Peloton has been accused of blocking people from using the hashtag “LetsGoBrandon” on its fitness platforms because it doesn’t meet its guidelines. The fitness equipment company has been sending users an error message when they try to connect with others on the Peloton App using the tag, according to screenshots published by PJ Media on Wednesday. The phrase has become an anti-President Biden rallying cry in recent weeks, ever since an NBC reporter interviewing NASCAR driver Brandon Brown on Oct. 2 mistook a vulgar chant from the crowd — “F–k Joe Biden” — as “Let’s go, Brandon.” As the phrase...

Nobody in government or mainstream media is willing to state the obvious conclusion.Winston Churchill once said, “When you’re going through hell, keep going.” That seems to be the mindset of all the pawns of Big Pharma in Belgium where they’re experiencing a tremendous surge in Covid-19 breakthrough cases that is causing the worst strain on hospitals since before the pandemic. Instead of questioning the efficacy of the Covid vaccines, they’re all singing the newly written chorus that if we want to return to normal someday, we better get used to getting booster jabs on a regular basis.This narrative is already...

A construction manager tackles gender stereotypes daily as she shares the reality of how she is treated as a woman on a building site. Autumn Westfall, a project manager in commercial construction as well as a model, from Macomb, Michigan, discusses her bizarre experiences as a woman in a male-dominated industry. She explained to her 13,100 TikTok followers: “It’s 100% true that pretty privilege does exist and yes it is absolutely rude how when people find you attractive they are generally just nice to you for that reason and that reason only.”

(JTA) — You could call it bashert: 15 years after a landmark decision in Judaism’s Conservative movement that paved the way for gay and lesbian students to enter its rabbinical schools and for rabbis to perform same-sex weddings, it would seem like destiny that two Conservative rabbis would wed. Of course, it happened at Camp Ramah. Rabbi Ariella Rosen and Rabbi Becca Walker tied the knot at the Conservative movement’s camp in Palmer, Massachusetts, last month, with yet another queer woman rabbi, Megan GoldMarche, officiating. Rosen’s father, Rabbi Jim Rosen, also played a role. “It feels like we shouldn’t be...

Two Germans and a Chilean have been detained over the murder in Paraguay of a German man and his daughter in a crime police believe was related to the theft of rare Stradivarius violins. Bernard Raymond von Bredow, 62, a museum owner and luthier, was slain along with his 14-year-old daughter Lydia last month at their home in Aregua, east of the Paraguayan capital. Police said Von Bredow’s body showed signs of torture. Commissioner Hugo Grance, the chief investigator of the local police, said four violins believed to have been made by the revered Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari were found...

MUNCIE, Ind.–A former pastor and school nurse has been sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for molesting children. Brian Couch received a sentence of 105 years in prison on Wednesday, according to the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office. During Wednesday’s hearing, one of Couch’s victims testified. She said the sexual molestation began when she was 6 years old and happened repeatedly. “Other kids are put to bed and told that monsters don’t exist, but the victim here was forced to live with hers. Brian Couch is the proverbial monster under the bed. The victims are serving a life sentence,...

Eritrean troops involved in the conflict in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia are killing hundreds of Orthodox priests and raping their wives, the religious freedom charity Release International reported. The charity claims Ethiopian Orthodox clergy are being targeted in the fighting between Tigrayan forces and Ethiopian and Eritrean troops. Violence began in November 2020 after the Tigray People's Liberation Front, a former ruling party, refused to join a new political party set up by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Tigrayans and other ethnic groups are calling for greater autonomy from the Ethiopian Government. Conflict has spread from the fertile, semi-autonomous...

Sad news has hit Hollywood as Gavan O'Herlihy has reportedly passed away. The veteran actor, who originally appeared on Happy Days and whose memorable big screen credits included classics like Never Say Never Again, Willow, and Superman III, was 70 years old. Gavan O'Herlihy was born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 29, 1951. Classic television fans may recognize him as the forgotten Cunningham sibling from Happy Days, playing the eldest brother Chuck Cunningham in the first episode of the 1970s comedy series. The character then vanished from the series with no on-screen explanation, coining the term "Chuck Cunningham Syndrome," which...

ROME — World leaders are running out of time and must address the challenges of climate change before it’s too late, Pope Francis said. In a letter to Catholics in Scotland signed Nov. 9, where the U.N. Climate Change Conference is being held, the pope said he hoped leaders attending the summit would “meet this grave challenge with concrete decisions inspired by responsibility toward present and future generations.” “Time is running out; this occasion must not be wasted, lest we have to face God’s judgment for our failure to be faithful stewards of the world he has entrusted to our...

There were a total of 31, 793 priests in 2020 compared to 38,209 in 1990, marking a 16.5% drop in 30 years, totalling 6,416 fewer priests. But in the last ten years alone the number of clergy has dropped by 11%. This decline has been partly counterbalanced by increasing numbers of foreign priests entering Italy to serve in Italian dioceses. "These figures should be no cause for alarm. However, they should be examined seriously because they touch on the issue of vocations potential in our Italian Churches, on the prospects of youth and school pastoral ministry, and on the life...

Early this morning, Remembrance Day, Cranbrook RCMP were alerted to the fact that someone had spray painted graffiti on the Wall of Honour at the Cenotaph in Rotary Park. RCMP were called by a Cranbrook resident who was walking by the Cranbrook Cenotaph. He noted someone had left a message in bright green spray paint on the War Memorial. The resident said that no one was around at the time. “Thankfully, the Cranbrook RCMP, Cranbrook Fire Services and City of Cranbrook staff worked together and were able to quickly remove the writings before any of our war heroes and veterans...

Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The ten-year anniversary of the "House of the Egyptian Family", which sees itself as an interreligious liaison and aims to prevent or defuse sectarian conflicts, took place under the motto "10 years of love, cooperation and brotherhood". The Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Tavadros II and Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, attended the main event, which was held on Monday, November 8, at the Al-Azjar University Conference Center. The ceremony was also attended by bishops, journalists, representatives of various Christian and Islamic communities, political representatives and judge Adly Mansour, who served...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Thursday on her show “Deadline” that right-wing media, former President Donald Trump and guns were fueling the domestic extremism threat level. Wallace said, “A domestic extremism threat unlike any other before in our country’s history looms over every facet of American life right now, today. It is fueled in-part by disgraced ex-president who is still lying about the fact that he lost the 2020 election fair and square. That disgraced ex-president now passes his days trying to stymy the bipartisan investigation into the worst attack on Congress in centuries, one that of course happened on...

Leading sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics should explain why they remain largely silent about alleged human rights abuses in China with the Games opening there in just under three months, Human Rights Watch said Friday. The rights group said in an on-line briefing that it had reached out to all but one of the IOC’s so-called TOP sponsors — and leading broadcast rights holder NBC — in lengthy letters almost six months ago. The only reply came from sponsor Allianz, which it wrote only last month. “We stand behind the Olympic Movement and our longstanding support for its ideals...