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Former NFL great and current FS1 analyst Shannon Sharpe found himself playing defense this weekend after saying that he would rather pay “20 bucks a gallon than have Trump in office.”The trouble started for Sharpe after he posted a tweet jokingly asking if anyone knew any gas station owners who were hiring. The tweet also showed a $118 purchase at the pump.“Anyone knows someone hiring that owns a gas station? You get a discount IF* you [work] at an establishment,” Sharpe wrote on Saturday. “Do ppl still siphon off gas? It was a thing when I was a growing up.”

A German man got himself vaccinated against Covid 90 times so he could sell forged jab passes. The passes, which had real vaccine batch numbers, were being sold to those who did not want to get jabbed themselves. It is said that the man, 60, from the city of Magdeburg, received up to 90 vaccinations against COVID-19 at centres in Saxony. The 60-year-old, whose name has not been released in line with German privacy laws, got the jabs for months until police caught him. He was discovered after he had a COVID-19 jab two days in a row at a...

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A groundbreaking new study paid viewers of the Fox News Network to watch CNN for 30 days...The early impacts, after just three days, showed that the viewers were already starting to change.

I see three plausible scenarios for the Russian future:1. North Korea2. Imperial Reboot3. JubileeSince Ukraine is resolved to fight, the choice of a Russian historical track ultimately depends upon the resolve of the West. Today I'll outline the North Korea scenario 🧵If the West deescalates and Putin stays in power, he will become much stronger and Russia will become more like North Korea. You shouldn't delude yourself, there's no way back to February 23. As a result of "deescalation", Russia won't return to the status quoIf the West deescalates, it means Putin was absolutely, 100% right to rush Z and...

“For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live” (Proverbs 4:3-4 KJV).

“You know that feeling when it hurts? I once fell in love with a boy, but he didn’t fall in love with me, and I thought it hurt. But it turned out that it hurts to see your mother die in front of you. “My brother keeps coming up to mum, saying, ’Mummy, don’t sleep, you will freeze’. “We will never visit her grave. She has remained in the damp and dark basement. We went to the toilet, slept, ate leftovers in the same basement. “Once uncle Kolya caught a pigeon, and we fried it and ate it. And then...

New York (CNN Business)In a forthcoming book, a pair of New York Times reporters and CNN political analysts report that President Joe Biden "assessed" Fox News "as one of the most destructive forces in the United States." The reporters, Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, say that Biden was even more critical of Fox Corp patriarch Rupert Murdoch. According to the book, Biden told an unnamed associate in mid-2021 that Murdoch was "the most dangerous man in the world."

Sky News host Sharri Markson says the media can’t “turn away” from the Hunter Biden laptop scandal any longer, after the story was “censored”. “Biden escaped scrutiny entirely from the whole of the American media - with the exception of the New York Post and Fox News,” Ms Markson said. “How far have we fallen that tech giants run by woke billionaires and their fake fact-checkers now decide what is real, genuine news and what is not? The same companies that donate to the Democrats and are far from impartial. “Why aren't they being held to account now? “No apology...

A celebrity chef who once ruled the peaks of New York City's restaurant scene has admitted to being an active member of the Gambino crime family and committing shocking crimes at the height of his powers in the 1980s and 90s. David Ruggerio, 59, who once ran the kitchens of top Manhattan restaurants La Caravelle, Maxim's and Le Chantilly, came clean with the shocking admission in an interview with Vanity Fair published on Thursday. Ruggerio -- a former Food Network star who largely dropped out of sight after a 1998 arrest on credit card fraud charges -- admitted in the...

The latest figure marks a 43% increase compared to 2021 and a 63% increase compared to 2020The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the world's largest organization of law enforcement officers, has counted 101 officers shot in the line of duty as of April 1, including 17 fatally, so far in 2022. The latest figure marks a 43% increase compared to the number of officers shot at the same time period in 2021 and a 63% increase compared to 2020, FOP reports. "We are in the midst of a real crisis. The violence directed at law enforcement officers is unlike...

In Prytula’s office, there are fragments of a Russian jet, weapons and bloodstained military clothing, including a balaclava and gloves taken from Russian soldiers killed on the battlefield. He described the grisly collection as “feedback” as to the value of the cars. He said: “It’s really helped because our units create mobile groups. And behind you, you can see a piece of Russian jet Su-34. That’s exactly a gift from our soldiers. We help them with a pickup and he destroyed this Russian plane and this was something like feedback for us. “The first thing that they brought here was...

Veteran Republican operative and longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone claims he’s being “censored” on the ex-president’s social media site Truth Social. The latest declaration from Stone comes as the platform’s traffic nose-dives, with conservatives splintered between other right-wing Twitter alternatives, including Truth, Gab, and Gettr. On Saturday night, Stone took to Truth Social—which brands itself a free-speech haven—to post about “radical Islam,” including a picture of an old Trump campaign button and the comment, “Trump also warns again a growing threat of terrorism by radical Islam mix in the predicted the 9/11 attack.”

Since 1989 conviction, Oscar Franklin Smith has been on death row and now he may choose between electrocution and lethal injection as a mode of deathOscar Franklin Smith, a 71-year-old triple murderer from Tennessee, has been informed that he may choose how he wants to die as the US state restarts capital punishment after a two-year break due to a pandemic. Since his 1989 conviction, Oscar Franklin Smith has been on death row. Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row convict, was born on March 25, 1950. Smith was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife, Judy Lynn Smith, 35,...

Radio personality and broadcaster Dana Potter has lost his battle with cancer.Radio personality and broadcaster Dana Potter has lost his battle with cancer, according to Magic 101.7 FM’s website. In a Facebook post, the station said it’s radio family is mourning the loss of Potter, and he was one of the best to ever join its family. In a statement from the station, “Dana Potter fought hard in his battle with cancer but as it often does, it took our friend tonight and the world is a more empty place for it. Dana loved radio almost as much as he...

A notorious New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Dominic Taddeo, a hitman from a Rochester-area crime family, escaped on March 28, according to the Bureau of Prisons website. Taddeo, 64, had been imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being transferred to a residential halfway house, also in Florida, in February. He failed to return from an authorized medical appointment and “was placed on escape status” on Monday, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson...

A disgraced Florida youth pastor convicted of murdering and dismembering a 16-year-old boy he fostered has been sentenced to life in prison. Ronnie Hyde, 65, was convicted Friday in the June 1994 murder and dismemberment of Fred Paul Laster, whose torso was found behind a dumpster at a Lake City gas station. It took police two decades to identify the body as that of the teen. Hyde, who was 38 at the time of the murder, denied the charges against him, despite DNA evidence connecting him to the crime. 'I would never hurt him,' Hyde said during his testimony Thursday,...

Russia hadn’t lost a warship to an attack since World War II. Until last week. On Thursday, the Ukrainian navy announced it destroyed a Russian amphibious warship, the Saratov, that was conducting resupply missions in the Ukrainian port of Berdyansk. While the details are fuzzy, it's yet more proof that Russia’s war in Ukraine isn't going well. Following the invasion, Turkey invoked the 1936 Montreux Convention and denied entry to all foreign warships not previously based in the Black Sea. What’s there now, and perhaps what Russia can bring by canal from the Caspian Sea, is all the navy Russia...

WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama will return to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he left office to promote the Affordable Care Act in an event alongside President Joe Biden, a White House official said. The celebration of the 2010 health care overhaul will be their first joint appearance since they attended events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at Ground Zero in New York last fall, the official said.

Chinese musicians played the Ukrainian dance "Lasso", inspired by its performance by a Ukrainian fighter. Frankov resident Mishka Adamchak inspired Chinese musicians to play the pipe from the trenches. This was written on his Facebook page by the frankovsky musician, leader of the group "Coralli" Misha Adamchak, who now serves in the volunteer battalion "Hospitallers", reports censor. I am sure that this is a good sign – we are supported by representatives of the largest people in the world! I think it is absolutely not superfluous to accept such a powerful battalion into the ranks of the musical army of...