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Protesters blocking the Ambassador Bridge face a deadline of 7pm Friday to clear out, after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that 'everything is on the table' to end the Freedom Convoy demonstrations after speaking directly with President Joe Biden. A Canadian court on Friday issued the injunction to end the blockade at the key bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario with Detroit, setting up a potential showdown between police and protesters when the 7pm deadline arrives. Specifics of the injunction are being worked out, with a draft to be presented to the court when the proceedings resume on Friday evening....

It all comes back to Biden’s brutal bungling of the Afghanistan pull-out, including the emptying of the prison at Bagram.History is teaching us a lesson in real-time. Under one party’s administration, violent jihadis are running scared. Under the other one, they flourish.

A growing number of states this week announced plans to end or phase out mask mandates, but New Mexico won’t be joining them – at least for now. Acting Health Secretary Dr. David Scrase said Wednesday his email inbox is brimming with messages “from people essentially demanding an end to the mask mandate.” But he said the state plans to stay the course with its health orders and isn’t ready to say if they will be extended again. The current orders – which last week were extended through March 4 – include a mask requirement in indoor public settings. “We...

Former Trump Administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s sister-in-law just filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against CNN. Valerie Flynn claims the network deceptively edited a video to falsely make it appear she is a follower of QAnon.The lawsuit says: “CNN abandoned all journalistic standards and integrity, including CNN’s own standards and code of ethics, in writing, editing, and publishing the false narrative. CNN did not seek the truth or report it. It betrayed the truth to sensationalize the news for self-glory, profit and politics. “The entire family then exclaimed, ‘God Bless America.’ In the altered clip used in the...

Gu’s Instagram page is a collection of motivational and inspirational slogans, a scrapbook designed to present a specific, curated image of her to the world. One user commented on an otherwise innocuous post: “Why can you use Instagram and millions of Chinese people from mainland cannot, why you got such special treatment as a Chinese citizen. That’s not fair, can you speak up for those millions of Chinese who don’t have internet freedom,” user “cilla chan” wrote. “Anyone can download a vpn,” Gu replied, “it’s literally free on the App Store”. The website Protocol noted that multiple users fired back...

Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke appears to have flip-flopped – again – on confiscating AR-15s, as polls show him trailing behind Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The failed senatorial and presidential contender said earlier this week that he has "no interest in taking" assault weapons from gun owners. "I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone," O’Rourke said to reporters in Tyler, Texas. "What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment. I want to make sure that we protect our fellow Texans far better than we’re doing right now."

Multiple reports hold that this year’s Oscars won’t require vaccines in part because some nominees aren’t vaccinated>P One of the more baffling news reports this week is that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will not be requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for attendees of the 2022 Oscars. And on Thursday night during his opening monologue, Jimmy Kimmel joked that it’s time to “wildly speculate” about who precisely the Academy is catering to. “Let the witch hunt begin,” he joked. So, in case you’re catching up, supposedly, despite having a vaccine mandate for all employees, the Academy has ditched a...

The Canadian city of Windsor and the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association secured a court injunction Friday afternoon to put an end to the ongoing blockade at the busiest international crossing in North America. The ruling comes as weekslong, nationwide Covid-19 protests have disrupted the supply chain and triggered a state of emergency in the country's most populous province.

Explanation: Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342's light is dimmed and reddened by intervening cosmic clouds, this sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust, young star clusters, and glowing pink...

A 103-year-old man with a history of heart illness died in hospital early Friday (Feb 11) morning after passing out while eating a chocolate cake at his home in Hong Kong. Emergency personnel were called to his flat on Sau Chuk Yuen Road in Kowloon City shortly before 12.30am after police received a report from his son. An initial investigation suggested the elderly man collapsed while eating in the living room, according to police. He lived with his son, daughter-in-law and a domestic helper. He was taken in an unconscious state to Kwong Wah Hospital in Yau Ma Tei, where...

Comedian-actress Milana Vayntrub, who is known to millions of TV viewers for playing cheerful saleswoman ‘Lily’ in AT&T’s ubiquitous wireless commercials, has penned a personal essay in which she expresses gratitude for abortion, describing her own experience terminating her unwanted child as ‘no big deal.’ One of the real horrors of legal abortion besides the obvious killing of babies has been the demonic mindset that has risen up, referring to abortion as a ‘human right’ and as ‘healthcare’ when it is none of those things. Over the years, legal abortion has been pushed, in some parts of the world, all...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico Police officer who was shot Friday morning in the Sedillo Hill area is in stable condition at an area hospital, according to a tweet from New Mexico State Police. The shooting happened around 9 a.m. Friday near Sedillo Hill Road bridge over I-40. New Mexico State Police tweeted they are searching for a male and a female suspect. The male is believed to be between 5’2″ and 5’4″ tall, heavyset, wearing a black hoodie, and blue pants. The female is believed to be 5’7″ tall with a thin build, wearing a tan shirt...

The move threatens to plunge Libya back to the split between two warring, parallel administrations that governed from 2014 until a unity government was installed last year as part of a U.N.-backed peace plan. A spokesman for the parliament said it had chosen former interior minister Fathi Bashagha by a show of hands after the only other candidate withdrew. The parliament wants to take control of Libya's political future after the collapse of an election that was planned for December, saying Dbeibah's interim government is no longer valid and pushing any new election back until next year.

The new book from Bill Gates is called How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. You can read it on May 3, 2022, and it’s being published by Knopf in the U.S. and Penguin Random House internationally. Bill Gates says he has been “thinking about this for a long time”, and you better believe it when he tells you that. Bill Gates has been thinking about this time way back when his mother was pulling strings over at IBM to flood the fledging Microsoft company with millions in funding. He has been thinking about this time since he was a child,...

@HotlineJosh #OHSEN: Gibbons releases campaign internal showing him with a commanding lead: Gibbons 23 Mandel 11 Vance 9 Timken 8 Dolan 6 Second Ohio poll — the other was an independent survey — showing him up. Pollster said he’s leading with both Trump Rs and “traditional Republicans”

In a first-look profile of Amazon’s eagerly anticipated The Lord of the Rings TV series, The Rings of Power, the project’s creative team had some words about online trolls who have been outraged that the show will feature a far more diverse cast than Peter Jackson’s trilogy of films. “It felt only natural to us that an adaptation of [author J.R.R.] Tolkien’s work would reflect what the world actually looks like,” executive producer Lindsey Weber told Vanity Fair, which also published several new photos from the series. “Tolkien is for everyone. His stories are about his fictional races doing their...

S President Joe Biden will phone Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday evening Moscow time, the Kremlin said Friday. The call came after a written request of the White House, and the two leaders are supposed to discuss the current tensions over Ukraine. “The American side asked for a conversation with President Putin, and it will take place tomorrow evening Moscow time,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Biden left the White House on Friday afternoon for the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. He is supposed to stay there over the weekend.

Republican voters would like their leaders to meet the simple test of not calling them terrorists for engaging in peaceful political protest.

One-fifth of Americans believe that President Biden will be a successful president in the long run, according to new poll results released on Thursday. According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, 20 percent of Americans believe that Biden will be a successful president in the long run compared to 43 percent who believe he will be an unsuccessful president and 37 percent of Americans who said it was too early to tell.

President Biden's daily travel schedule is below. This list only shows President Biden's travels. If a date or timeframe is not specifically listed, then he is in Washington, D.C. at that time. Friday, February 11th 4:00pm - 11:59pm Camp David Saturday, February 12th 12:00am - 11:59pm Camp David Sunday, February 13th 12:00am - 12:00pm Camp David