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As the latest existing home sales report cautioned, with NAR chief economist Larry Yun warning that “housing affordability continues to be a major challenge, as buyers are getting a double whammy: rising mortgage rates and sustained price increases,” BofA joins the chorus warning that last year’s housing euphoria is unlikely to repeat and this year will be a much more challenging year for the housing market given significant headwinds to affordability and ongoing supply-side challenges. Among the numerous headwinds facing US housing, BofA warns that the Russia/Ukraine conflict adds a new factor to the mix as higher oil and commodity...

The "Greens" promise renewables, solar and wind power, will replace fossil fuels. After all, the wind and sun are free, and they don't pollute! Oops. Now countries that embraced renewables are so desperate for power that they eagerly import coal, the worst polluter of all! Do they apologize? No. Greens never apologize. Germany was a leader in renewable energy, so confident in solar and wind power that they closed half their nuclear plants. Oops. That leaves Germans so short of power that Germans are now desperate to buy fossil fuels from Russia. Even worse, pollution-wise, high-pollution coal now tops wind...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blasted Swiss food and beverage giant Nestlé for maintaining business ties to Russia despite its invasion of his country.“‘Good food. Good life.’ This is the slogan of Nestlé. Your company that refuses to leave Russia,” Zelensky said during a televised address to the people of Switzerland on Saturday.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is once again in the crosshairs of liberals. This has been going on since his confirmation hearings in 1991, when President George H.W. Bush had the temerity to nominate a Black conservative to take the Supreme Court seat of Thurgood Marshall. Thomas' confirmation hearings provided a laboratory showing how low liberals are willing to go to try to discredit a conservative, even more so one who is Black. Now liberal journalists are having their most recent field day because it happens that Thomas' wife, Ginni, is a conservative like him, is an American patriot...

Geneva (AFP) – Scientists are urging Europe not to delay the transition to greener agriculture in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which threatens global wheat supplies and raises fears over food shortages. The European Commission is preparing to pass emergency measures on Wednesday to deal with the consequences of the war and sanctions on Russia, also a major exporter of cereals. That will include granting temporary exemptions for fallow land, but some states, including agricultural powerhouse France, are calling for a much greater roll-back of the EU’s green agricultural policies. The bloc's "Farm to Fork" strategy -- which aims...

Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine proceeds in accordance with previously set goals and plans, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday. “It (the special operation) is going on strictly in accordance with the plans and with purposes that were established beforehand”, he said, adding that from from the very beginning, no one was expecting it to take “a couple of days”...

Over his many years as the leader of Russia, President Vladimir Putin has dedicated a lot of time and effort to controlling history. The Kremlin works hard to ensure Putin’s constructed worldview, in which Russian greatness is derived from the country’s past glory and suffering, is taught in schools and shown in all media and academic discourse as reality. A shocking and important example of this was the closing late last year of the Memorial human rights organization, which investigated Soviet repression, with the prosecution claiming that Memorial “creates a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state and...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are 'backstabbing' each other An upcoming book from two New York Times journalists reportedly uncovers deep tensions between President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The book, which is titled: “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” reveals Vice President Harris' concerns regarding her portfolio. According to an excerpt published in Politico today, Joe Biden's communications director Kate Bedingfield blamed the tension between the White House and his second-in-command on Ms Harris. The Washington Times columnist Charlie Hurt said the upcoming book shows Joe and Kamala are "backstabbing" each...

Jackson, echoing many legal experts that had come to her defense, noted current sentencing guidelines are outdated and “[lead to extreme disparities in the system,” noting judges are told to take “various aspects” of the case into account beyond the guidelines and offenders face other consequences beyond prison time. The judge emphasized she “make[s] sure that the children’s voices are represented in my sentencing” and tells child pornography offenders about “victim statements” she’s received “so that they will understand what they have done” andto make clear that they “are contributing to child sex abuse.”

The Crimea-born Grandmaster, who switched from representing Ukraine to Russia in 2009, now faces being stripped of his place in the upcoming Candidates Tournament in June. The 6-month ban is due to run until Wednesday, September 21.

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Daily Wire host Candace Owens tweeted Monday that the New York Times sent her a message asking where she got her ideas that "Ukraine was a corrupt country," adding that such ideas are similar to those "seen from Russian state media." Candace's response was gloriously embarrassing — for the New York Times. "Received an email from The NYTimes asking for comment regarding me “advancing ideas that Ukraine is a corrupt country”—similar to Russian state TV. I replied informing them that I actually got my ideas from the New York Times, and provided them links to their past articles," Candace wrote.

A large, deadly tornado battered parts of the New Orleans area on Tuesday night, with damage reported in Arabi and the Lower Ninth Ward.... According to PowerOutage.us, there were more than 10,000 customers without power in Orleans and St. Bernard Parish. The weather service said there were two tornado reports in St. Tammany Parish.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will marry his fiancé in Belmarsh Prison today, just weeks before the third anniversary of his dramatic arrest. Assange has been held in high-security jail ever since he was dragged out of London's Ecuadorian embassy in 2019 and last year was given permission to marry. He is currently fighting extradition to the United States, where he is wanted for an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following WikiLeaks' publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. He has always denied any wrongdoing and won support for...

"Do you remember when there were only two genders and only one and a half of them had to shave their mustaches?" Best new product launch ever! From the co-founder, Co-CEO and god-king of The Daily Wire.

Nancy Pelosi's husband cashed in up to $5 million worth of Tesla stock last week as the speaker lobbied for legislation to give subsidies to the electric vehicle industry. Paul Pelosi exercised options to buy between $1 million and $5 million in shares of the electric car maker on March 17, according to disclosures filed with the House clerk. He purchased the option on Dec. 22, 2020, at an overall contract value of between $500,000 and $1 million. Nancy Pelosi has since spearheaded legislation to give tens of billions of dollars to build electric charging stations across the country. Democrats...

LAKELAND, Fla. - A school that marketed itself as being a place for troubled teens in Lakeland has closed. The death of 17-year-old Naomi Wood at Lakeland Girls Academy, on May 19, 2020, was made public last year after an investigation showed she had complained about stomach pains in the weeks before. The investigation revealed Wood asked to see a doctor, but was refused and was instead offered over the counter medication, soup, and prayer. "Staff members made the child get up for meals and fed her soup, as that is their protocol when children are sick. They also prayed...

The US has agreed to ease Trump-era tariffs on UK steel and aluminium shipments, resolving an issue that had strained relations between the allies. The move follows earlier deals with the European Union and Japan over the controversial taxes, which were imposed by former President Donald Trump in 2018 in the name of national security. In exchange, the UK will suspend extra taxes it had put on US products such as bourbon and Levi's jeans.

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"We generally lag about three weeks or so behind the U.K. in the dynamics of what goes on with the outbreak," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "So if we are going to see an uptick, we should start seeing it within the next week or so."