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There has been a storyline kicking around of late that Donald Trump is losing sway within the Republican Party, noting that his Senate picks in places like Alaska and North Carolina appear to be underperforming. While that may be true in specific circumstances, Trump's death grip on the GOP more broadly doesn't appear to be relaxing much. The latest evidence of that reality came Tuesday morning when Michigan Rep. Fred Upton announced he would not run for a 19th term against fellow Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga this year. "Even the best stories have a last chapter," Upton said on the...

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If anyone had any doubt that our "objective" television news operations are deeply partisan and nearly unanimous Biden-voter caucuses, observe the revulsion and disgust spilling out into public view when one of them hires a Republican to offer the Other Party's Viewpoint on their airwaves. CBS News decided to hire former Republican congressman (and Trump Chief of Staff) Mick Mulvaney, and then liberal Washington Post media reporter Jeremy Barr was handed internal recordings of staff "turmoil" over this supposed outrage. Barr "obtained" a recording of a staff meeting led by CBS News co-President Neeraj Khemlani. Surely, the staffer recording this...

Far-left extremists are believed to have been involved in the sabotage of power lines in the southern commune of Villard-Bonnot that saw over 5,000 people go without power early Tuesday morning. Over the period from Monday night into Tuesday morning, a total of 5,539 people in Villard-Bonnot were without electricity after nine power lines were allegedly set on fire on the Brignoud bridge, which crosses the Isère river near the city of Grenoble. It has been suggested the fires may have been a deliberate act of sabotage by far-left extremists, who are also suspected of the arson of another power...

The linear accelerator building at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Photo: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Scientists are preparing to unleash an extraordinarily powerful X-ray beam that will help reveal how the universe works at the tiniest scales. The beam is made possible thanks to an upgrade to the 2-mile-long particle accelerator in Menlo Park, California, which will energize electrons to 99.9999999% the speed of light—around 670 million miles per hour—to create images that will hopefully untangle mysteries like the underpinnings of photosynthesis and how materials conduct electricity. The new X-rays at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center will be a billion...

What’s going on with the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin? There’s lot of speculation: He’s mentally unbalanced, he has Parkinson’s Disease or he has thyroid cancer. Putin is constantly in the company of Dr. Yevgeny Selivanov, reports Project (“Proekt”), a Russian media outlet banished from its homeland, according to the UK’s Daily Mail. The title of Selivanov’s doctoral thesis reflects his medical specialty: “Peculiarities of diagnostics and surgical treatment of elderly and senile patients with thyroid cancer.” Another physician, Dr. Alexey Shcheglov, a surgeon with ear, nose and throat training, hovers so close to Putin “that during public events...

Most people seem to think that tighter monetary policy will bring on a recession, but they believe that it will solve the inflation problem. In his podcast, Peter Schiff explained why they’ve got it half right. We are heading toward a recession, but it’s not going to solve the inflation problem. In reality, we’re heading for stagflation. Inflation is a problem globally, but the only major central bank talking about fighting inflation is the Fed. The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan continue to hold interest rates down and run quantitative easing, despite rising prices in both economies....

While Disney makes headlines for its support of LGBTQ+ kids and condemns Florida lawmakers for their recently-passed anti-grooming bill, it’s important to remind the public of Disney’s history of covering up pedophilia within their company. It seems to be on-trend that they want to perpetuate the sexual grooming of children. Back in 2014, a Disney Cruise Line steward, 36-year-old Ahmed Sofyan, was charged with two counts of molestation and one count of false imprisonment after holding a 13-year-old girl in an unoccupied cabin and molesting her. When this story was released, an ex-Disney Cruise officer spoke out, reporting a similar...

6 April 2022Wednesday of the 5th week of Lent Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingDaniel 3:14-20,24-25,28 ©God has sent his angel to rescue his servantsKing Nebuchadnezzar said, ‘Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods, and that you refuse to worship the golden statue I have erected? When you hear the sound of horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, or any other instrument, are you prepared to prostrate yourselves and worship the statue I have made? If you refuse to worship it, you must be thrown straight away...

The risk of hitting floating mines in the major Black Sea shipping route is adding to perils for the few merchant ships still sailing in the region, and governments must ensure safe passage to keep supply chains running, maritime officials said according to Reuters. The Black Sea – whose waters are shared by Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia and Turkey, as well as the warring Ukraine and Russia – is key for shipping grain, oil and oil products. Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of laying mines in the Black Sea, and in recent days, Turkish and Romanian military diving teams...

Mortgage applications are going down as expectations of monetary tightening send mortgage rates soaring. Mortgage applications decreased 6.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 1, 2022. The Refinance Index decreased 10 percent from the previous week and was 62 percent lower than the same week one year ago. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 3 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 3 percent compared with the previous week and was 9 percent lower than the same week one year...

There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it and history says it: The coming election is the type of election that the party in power loses big. And to some Democrats, only one man can save the party from disaster: Donald Trump. Of course, many Democrats have tried to make Trump the issue for the last six years. But after last November's Virginia governor election -- in which the Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe, tried very hard to make about Trump, only to lose...

The socialised healtchare system in England failed to meet its own cancer waiting time target in 98 per cent of areas, analysis has revealed. Only two of the 107 areas in England covered by the National Health System (NHS) met the cancer waiting time target set out by NHS ENgland, which states that no more than fifteen per cent of people who revieced an urgent warning should have to wait more than two months to begin treatment. The analysis of government figures, conducted by Sky News, found that only Bolton and Calderdale, both in West Yorkshire, actually met the target,...

The EU is expected to deliver another shock to its agricultural sector by capping Russian imports of potash, a crucial ingredient for growing food, according to Bloomberg, citing a Dow Jones report. The European Commission is expected to imminently unveil broad new sanctions on Russia. Much of the fertilizer is purchased from Belarus; the landlocked country in Eastern Europe could also be slapped with new sanctions for its involvement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Potash is a key ingredient for agricultural fertilizers. Europe produces only a negligible amount of the fertilizer, and to potentially cap imports from Russia and or...

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In 2016, this correspondent and others started searching for incidents in which a handgun was fired to defend against a bear or bears, and failed to stop the attack by driving off or killing the bear. Access to a defensive tool, such as a shotgun, rifle, bear spray, handgun, hatchet, or knife all presents similar problems. Therefore we only considered cases where a handgun was actually fired. If we were looking at the effectiveness of bear spray, we would only look at cases where the bear spray was actually sprayed.To prevent selection bias, all cases where a handgun was fired...

China’s NHC reiterated its commitment to its “dynamic” zero-tolerance policy on Wednesday as local authorities in Shanghai confirmed the worst fears of the financial hub’s approximately 26 million residents: what was initially introduced as a 9-day staggered lockdown has been extended “indefinitely” as the number of newly confirmed cases soared to a new record on Tuesday. Authorities counted more than 13,000 new cases in Shanghai alone, more than half of the 20,000+ new cases across the entire country. According to Bloomberg, these tallies have surpassed the toll from the early days of the pandemic, when the virus was still raging...

As fuel prices hit all-time highs amid a massive cost of living crisis, Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party government has hiked payroll tax across the United Kingdom. Despite the ongoing cost of living crisis brought about by the aftermath of the Chinese Coronavirus Pandemic and the Ukraine War, Boris Johnson’s government has successfully hiked payroll tax across the UK.

WASHINGTON, Saturday, April 5. EVENTS OF THE COMING WEEK. The coming week will furnish an interesting page in the history of the rebellion and the country. The War and Navy Departments to-day furnish no news that can be published. THE TWO NEW DEPARTMENTS. The creation of the two new Departments, for Maj.-Gen. BANKS and Maj.-Gen. MCDOWELL, has been freely discussed to-day. The fact that Gen. MCCLELLAN is to the field, at the head of his troops, and is acting upon the expectation that MCDOWELL's corps d'armee will prove one of his supports in the execution of his great programme excites...

VIDEO AT LINK................ Former President Barack Obama made an appearance at the White House to commemorate the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act. And President Joe Biden is receiving some attention from the event as well. But not for good reasons. As the event wrapped up on Tuesday, the camera caught Biden wandering around the stage — something that has become a somewhat regular occurrence. Biden has no idea where he is. pic.twitter.com/MTUr1osVGy — Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) April 5, 2022 Trending: Police Hear Car Crash Into Pond at Night, Arrive to Find Family Trapped in Partially Submerged Car However,...