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Police have been granted more time to question Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood who was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault. The 20-year-old footballer, who made his debut for the club in March 2019, was arrested on Sunday following allegations on social media. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said he remained in custody for questioning. Manchester United earlier said the forward would not return to training or matches until further notice. Greenwood has not responded to the social media allegations. GMP said: "Detectives have been granted additional time to speak to a man in his 20s who is being held...

It’s all very well for Kevin McCarthy and other GOP members of Congress to rant on Fox News about how terrible the border crisis is, but what are they doing about it? At least 2 million illegal migrants crossed the border last year, and all we heard from Congress was hot air. Republicans in Washington will tell you they are powerless to do anything about illegal migration until after they regain control in November, assuming they do. But one lone New York gubernatorial candidate did more to inform the public about the Biden administration’s partnership with people-smuggling cartels than did...

Well, it turns out things haven't gone so good for wokester company, Penzey's Spices, which ran a 'Republicans are racist' campaign for .. I am not sure what purpose, it wasn't business. According to Fox News: A Wisconsin-based spice company that made headlines earlier this month when its CEO sent an email to customers accusing Republicans of racism is now asking people to buy gift cards after hemorrhaging tens of thousands of customers. Earlier this month, Penzeys Spices CEO Bill Penzey renamed the extended Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend to be "Republicans are racist weekend" in a newsletter to...

Throughout much of 2021, left-of-center political analysts often asked themselves, What is Kyrsten Sinema’s deal? As she battled all year against simple Senate passage of the Build Back Better legislation, and against the filibuster reforms needed to enact other Biden priorities like voting rights, it became quite the parlor game. Sinema’s Democratic partner in Senate obstruction, Joe Manchin, had the obvious excuse of representing one of the reddest states in the country. Sinema’s Arizona is a battleground state that is trending blue. The fact that her centrist Arizona Senate colleague Mark Kelly, who is up for reelection this very year,...

‘Thomas still has male body parts and is still attracted to women’ ************************************************************************************ A member of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team said some team members are uncomfortable changing in the locker room with transgender swimmer Justin Thomas. Thomas, 22, who spent the previous three years swimming with the men’s team before he began transitioning to a woman, has created an uneasy environment in the locker room, as he still retains his biologically male genitalia — which are sometimes exposed — and is attracted to women, one teammate told the Daily Mail in an interview. “It’s really upsetting because...

In the past 18 months military leaders have toppled the governments of Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan and now, Burkina Faso. West African leaders on Friday called an emergency summit on the situation in Burkina Faso, where the new military leader, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, told the nation in his first public address that he would return the country to constitutional order “when the conditions are right.” The resurgence ofcoups has alarmed the region’s remaining civilian leaders. Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Friday, “It represents a threat to peace, security and stability in West-Africa.” First came Mali, in August 2020....

Mendenhall Law Group is suing four universities in Ohio over those institutions' vaccine and COVID-19 testing requirements. Campus Reform spoke with parents and students represented in the suits.. Mendenhall Law Group, a firm based out of Akron, Ohio, has filed a series of lawsuits taking aim against COVID-19 policies in effect at four universities across the state. The firm argues that policies regarding vaccination, masking, and testing at Ohio University, University of Cincinnati, Bowling Green State University, and Miami University of Ohio are in violation of state law. The lawsuits were filed on behalf of affected students, employees, and parents....

Bannon: You believe that some of the biggest and most powerful and respected names in pharmaceuticals, and that would be Pfizer and Moderna and others, are essentially a modern day Enron, is that not your theory of the case? Edward Dowd: Correct and...

With Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement, President Biden is now following through on his campaign promise that if a vacancy occurs on his watch, he will nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. “The person I will nominate will be somebody with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity,” Biden said last week. “And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court. “It’s long overdue, in my view,” he added. “I made that commitment during the campaign for President, and I will keep that commitment.” Among the believed frontrunners is Judge...

PMO says Justin Trudeau will hold a media availability Monday at 11:15 ET https://twitter.com/iamSas/status/1487974991190798336

On Jan. 24, Europe's biggest religious freedom case went to trial. A Finnish member of parliament, Päivi Räsänen, has been charged by the Finnish prosecutor general with three counts of "ethnic agitation," a hate speech provision in Finland's criminal code. Each count relates to Räsänen's respectful expression of widely-held Christian beliefs.The first charge concerns a 2019 tweet in which Räsänen questioned the decision of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (her own denomination) to partner with Helsinki's gay pride parade; this tweet also featured an image of Romans 1:24-27. Räsänen had moved on and forgotten about this tweet — until...

Aortic valve stenosis, or AS, is a heart condition that often shows no symptoms until it’s already too late. The condition is when the heart's aortic valve narrows, reducing or blocking blood flow from the heart into the main artery to the body (aorta).This can cause chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, or a rapid, fluttering heartbeat in the more severe and life-threatening cases.Some people are more prone to getting it, including those of older age, with diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart conditions from birth.Given the ageing of the UK population, it is thought that there may be a large pool...

During the 2020 fall semester, Kali Fontanilla—a high school English language teacher working in the Salinas, California, school district—noticed that many of her students were failing one of their other classes: ethnic studies. This was at the height of the pandemic, and instruction was entirely online, leaving many students in the lurch. Still, Fontanilla thought it was odd to see so many Fs. Salinas has a majority Mexican population; all of Fontanilla's students were Hispanic and were learning English as a second language. Education officials who propose adding ethnic studies to various curriculums—and making it mandatory, as the Salinas school...

Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, a schoolteacher from Overbook, Kan., has been accused of organizing and leading an all-female battalion of jihadis for the Islamic State (ISIS). The Department of Justice announced Friday that Fluke-Ekren has been charged with “providing and conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.” She was caught in Syria and was scheduled to appear Monday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va. It’s not your average career trajectory for a Kansas schoolteacher, but Fluke-Ekren, who also went by “Allison Elizabeth Brooks,” “Allison Ekren,” “Umm Mohammed al-Amriki” (that is, the mother of Muhammad the...

MPs are starting to file into the House of Commons ahead of a statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 15:30 GMT. Johnson will comment on the initial findings of Sue Gray’s inquiry, which was published by the UK government a short time ago. Following the statement, expect MPs to grill Johnson over the report’s findings and the separate ongoing inquiry by the Metropolitan Police. Stay tuned for what could be a significant moment for the future of Johnson’s premiership.

A little over a year ago, I wrote,[I]t is now clear that, whatever health risks the Wuhan virus presents, they pale in comparison to the social, mental, economic, and spiritual carnage wrought by the foolish political actions -- and subsequent foolish private actions -- that tragically followed the Wuhan virus into the U.S. As many warned, including President Trump, for the Wuhan virus, the “cure” has indeed been worse than the disease.In other words, most of the suffering in America today is not due to the Wuhan virus, but rather to our foolish and widespread reaction to the Wuhan virus....

In keeping with his career-long tradition of performative activism, Neil Young demanded in a (since-deleted) open letter on his website that Spotify either remove his music or Joe Rogan’s podcast from its service—in the name of quelling COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.

The green agenda often backfires when governments embrace it either as a means of placating militant environmentalists or as a half-assed attempt to take a shortcut to some sort of utopian future where evil petrochemicals no longer are used. We see plenty of examples of the former, where Americans are paying far more at the gas pump because Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline and is hobbling domestic oil and gas production, and where Germans are shivering and electricity prices are soaring because coal and nuclear power plants have been shut down.But the latter path also carries disaster in its...

DOT received $6 billion to issue grants to "help cities and towns" with road safety as part of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that Congress passed. The U.S. Department of Transportation's "National Roadway Safety Strategy" includes promoting the use of speed cameras in cities and towns as a "proven safety countermeasure." DOT received $6 billion to issue grants to "help cities and towns" with road safety, which was part of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that Congress passed. "That law creates a new Safe Streets and Roads for All program, providing $6 billion to help cities and towns deliver new,...