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Highway 75 is blocked in both directions by farm equipment, semi-trailer trucks and more Protesters in semi-trailer trucks, farm equipment and other vehicles who have blocked all highway lanes at Manitoba's main Canada-US border crossing since Thursday morning have begun letting livestock and medical vehicles through. All 50 vehicles, which also include snowplows and construction machinery, have blocked off both northbound and southbound lanes on Highway 75, RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Paul Manaigre told CBC News...

Roughly 75 percent of registered voters believe defunding police departments is either a “major” or “minor” reason for rising violent crime in the United States, a new Morning Consult/Politico poll found. The survey, conducted on Feb. 5-6 with 2,005 registered voters and a ±2 percentage point margin of error, found that nearly half — 49 percent — think defunding police departments is a “major reason” for rising violent crime. Twenty-six percent believe cutting funds is a minor reason, and a quarter of those polled do not think defunding police departments have contributed to rising violent crime at all. The survey...

Nicholas Baker, a student at Saint Louis University, a Catholic institution, recently announced his candidacy for the student government’s Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. Baker is not the traditional candidate for a role that typically attracts left-leaning progressives. But Baker, who also serves as president of SLU’s College Republicans, said he is fed up with the direction in which his institution is headed. “As things stand, SLU is accepting of virtually everyone except for traditional Catholics and conservatives. They’ve gone so far as to allow a group of two thousand students to organize under the name ‘SLU Sluts,’” Baker...

A coalition of House Democrats are joining with House Republicans to protest Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) mask mandate, which has been mandated for all House members since the start of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The rule, introduced as House Resolution 38 (H.R. 38), directs the House Sergeant-at-Arms “to impose a $500 fine for a first offense and a $2,500 fine for any subsequent offense against a Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner for failure to wear a mask in contravention of the Speaker’s announced policies of January 4, 2021.” Pelosi had earlier put the mandate...

SÃO PAULO – A protest of Black activists against the killing of a Congolese refugee in Brazil ended up with a church being occupied by a number of protestors at the end of Mass. On February 5, Black organizations organized demonstrations in several Brazilian cities protesting the killing of Moïse Kabagambe, a Congolese refugee who was beaten to death at a Rio de Janeiro beach kiosk on January 24 after demanding delayed payments from his manager. Kabagambe’s homicide was seen by many in the South American country as a consequence of systemic racism. A few days later, on February 2,...

President Biden said Thursday in his first TV interview of 2022 that he’s done a “deep dive” on “about four” possible candidates to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “What I’ve done is I’ve taken about four people and done the deep dive on them, meaning these thorough background checks, and see if there’s anything in the background that would make them not qualified,” Biden told NBC news anchor Lester Holt.

Biden snaps at ‘wise guy’ Lester Holt for noting how president was wrong about inflation President Biden called NBC journalist Lester Holt a “wise guy” Thursday when the veteran TV anchor pointed out that Biden erroneously said high inflation would be temporary and that instead it surged to a new 40-year high. “I think it was back in July, you said inflation was going to be temporary. I think a lot of Americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is,” Holt said during Biden’s first TV interview of 2022. “Well, you’re being a wise guy with me a little...

The former editorial page editor of the New York Times is making the same claim about his intent in publishing an outrageous falsehood about Sarah Palin that he made in 2017. If the jury credits his argument in 2022, victims of journalistic malpractice may find it nearly impossible to win libel cases against media organizations. Former Times editor James Bennet testified this week in the jury trial of Ms. Palin’s defamation case against his former newspaper. Back in 2017, the Times published an editorial containing fake news about the former Alaska governor and GOP vice-presidential candidate. In the editorial, which...

Tom Lapolla recently retired from the New York Fire Department because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.February 3, 2022 Your Eminence, I am writing this open letter in charity and with the utmost respect, in the hopes that you will have a change of heart and step into the breach by publicly supporting the NYC police officers, firefighters and EMTs who are now about to be terminated by Mayor Eric Adams, not for any malfeasance on their part, but for failing to obey an unjust and tyrannical mandate requiring that they be injected against their will with an experimental gene therapy, which...

There are a ton of misinformation-peddlers out there, lurking in the shadows, trying to kill you with misinformation. Here at the Babylon Bee, we care deeply about your safety, so we told our best researchers to compile a list of COVID treatments the CDC has NOT approved. Avoid these at all costs! 1) Drinking plenty of water: Please. Do you know what else drinks water? A horse. 2) Spending some time in the warm, pleasant Sun: This sun imbues us with Vitamin D, which the CDC has not approved for protection against COVID. Get inside now!!! 3) Getting a nice...

A weed farmer worked in a commercial-scale cannabis factory to pay off a £20,000 debt to the gangsters who trafficked him to the UK from Albania. Gentian Haroku, 33, wasn’t told where he’d been working off the debt and had never worked with the class B drug before he was placed in the converted Cutteslowe house. Jailing him for six months, Recorder John Hardy QC said: “I’ve taken into account everything that’s been so ably advanced by [your barrister]. “The prevalence of this kind of offending particularly in this particular area is such that those who engage in this conduct...

Italian police have discovered the mummified remains of a 70-year-old woman sitting at a table more than two years after she died, prompting calls for better elder care in the country.

Besides being viewed as "poor people's food," the bean’s “magical” quality has also contributed to the decline in consumption.Beans have been a dietary staple in Mexico for millennia, but their per capita consumption in the country has dropped by nearly 50% in recent decades, according to one food scientist. “It’s real sad because the average Mexican now consumes less than 20 pounds of beans per year,” said Amanda Gálvez Mariscal, a food and biotechnology researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). That figure is almost half of what it was in 1980, when the per-person consumption of the...

This leftist movie critic really doesn't like Shut In. I don't know how that can be considering we NEVER EVEN SENT HER A SCREENER TO REVIEW! She hasn't seen the movie, yet she's convinced it's "just as bad as you think." In her "review" she seemed to revel in the chance to, and I quote, "tell a white man that his movie ideas are bad." The leftists in Hollywood want The Daily Wire to fail. They see us building an alternative to their woke propaganda machine and they feel threatened. Help us send a message to the wokesters in Hollywood...

Ian McDonald, the multi-instrumentalist who was a founding member of both King Crimson and Foreigner, has died at the age of 75.

A Russian teenager was sent to prison on Thursday for supposedly "training" for terrorist activities and other charges that included blowing up a virtual government intelligence building on the video game Minecraft. A military court in Siberia sentenced the boy, 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov, to five years for the charges -- which stemmed from anti-government leaflets he'd handed out and videos on cellphones belonging to Uvarov and at least two others. Authorities also said they'd uncovered a plot by the teens to blow up a virtual building belonging to the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, that they'd built in the...

“To err is human; to forgive, divine,” said Alexander Pope in 1711. Those wise words are something every American ought to consider now, three centuries later, before attempting to “cancel” others, ruining lives, careers and reputations, for speech and behavior deemed offensive. In his poem “An Essay on Criticism, Part II,” the English poet explains that anyone can make a mistake — we’re all imperfect — yet at these moments of human frailty, we should show mercy and aspire to forgive sinners as God would do. Hence, in an age of censorship, political correctness and “wokeness” run amok, it is...

By now, we are all well familiar with the fickle vacillation of public health guidance around community masking. Initially, masks were simply not really effective. Shortly thereafter, they were not only effective for protecting others, but also for protecting oneself. Then they were mandated. Most recently, those cloth masks that have become commonplace, which were encouraged for nearly two years, which we were taught to hand-make by news outlets, were suddenly, as if overnight, relegated to ‘facial decorations.’ How can it be that a tool which has been around and studied1 for well over 100 years in the context of...

A group of Chinese officials might stage an internal coup against Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and transition China to a democratic political system, according to Roger Garside, author of “China Coup.”“The body politic of China is terminally ill. Only a transplant can save the body politic, and the only other system on offer is competitive democracy,” Garside, a former diplomat, told Epoch TV’s “China Insider” program on Jan. 31.Garside, who served twice at the British Embassy in Beijing, argues that high-level officials in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including Premier Li Keqiang, believe that Xi is taking China in a...

The monoclonal antibody treatment from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Vir BioTechnology protects well against the Omicron subvariant that is becoming more prevalent in the United States, the companies said Feb. 10.Preclinical data suggest that sotrovimab, the monoclonal, “retains neutralizing activity against the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron ,” the companies said in a press release.The data, based on pseudovirus and pharmacokinetic testing, was not made public. A Vir spokesperson didn’t respond when asked why. The companies said the results are being shared with government authorities around the world and that they plan on publishing them on the preprint server bioRxiv in the...