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A BIRD pooped on President Joe Biden during his infrastructure speech today in Iowa, as he's been trolled for "talking s***" on Twitter. While he didn't seem to notice the splatter on his jacket, many folks did - including the bird responsible for the mess. "Even the Birds know this guy is full of [poop emoji]," tweeted one user. "Biden wasn't the only one spouting poop today," commented another Twitter user.

Julie Kelly from American Greatness went on The War Room and dropped several bombs on the FBI and Deep State’s actions before, during and after the January 6 protests. The FBI under Chris Wray is still hiding hundreds of thousands of requested documents related to January 6 and uploaded them to a sharable platform so defense attorneys can have access to the documents. Meanwhile, the trials of the hundreds of men and women who attended the January 6, 2021 protests are ongoing. Julie Kelly: (FBI) agents were deployed to Capitol grounds EARLY on January 6th. Well, what were they doing...

President Joe Biden and Democrats’ attempt to blame the nationwide gasoline price hike on Russia appears to be working, according to the latest polling data. The majority of Americans surveyed primarily pinned high gasoline prices on Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the poll released Sunday by ABC News. A whopping 71% of respondents blamed Putin “a great deal” for the high costs at the pump while another 68% blamed Big Oil for the prices, echoing another Democratic talking point. “Because of the actions we’ve taken to address Putin — the Putin price hike, we are in a better place...

BREAKING: Videos posted online show political and racial rants by NYC Subway attack 'person-of-interest' Frank James - ... In another post on April 7, James discussed the confirmation of Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Raspy-voiced comedian and character actor Gilbert Gottfried has died at the age of 67, his family announced in a heartfelt message with a photo of the funnyman on Twitter. The comedian died Tuesday due to complications from muscular dystrophy, his friend and publicist Glenn Schwartz said in a statement. Gottfried voiced the animated character Iago in the 1992 film Aladdin and also was behind the Aflac Insurance duck mascot. 'We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long sickness,' the family tribute said. 'In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert...

“I’m 63 now full of hate, full of anger, and full of bitterness.” He also criticized the mayor for not doing more to combat homelessness. “Eric Adams, Eric Adams: What are you doing brother? What’s happening with this homeless situation,” he said while referring to the subway. “Every car I went to was loaded with homeless people. It was so bad I couldn’t even stand. I had to keep moving from car to car.” [cut] “What’s going on in that place is violence,” he said about a facility he claimed to receive care from. “Not physical violence,” he explained, “but...

The Food and Drug Administration is grappling with field mice at its headquarters, an infestation exacerbated by food left behind in offices that have been largely unoccupied during the Covid-19 pandemic, the agency confirmed to POLITICO. Pest-control problems in Washington-area buildings were not unusual prior to the pandemic; indeed, mouse traps are frequently spotted inside the Capitol. And two former FDA officials told POLITICO that mice have long taken refuge inside the agency’s sprawling Silver Spring, Md., campus, known as White Oak. But the rodent problem worsened during the pandemic, forcing the agency to assign some employees returning to the...

LAUREL, Miss. (WLBT) - An umpire is recovering Monday after she was punched in the face following a softball game. Moments after that confrontation, a Laurel mother was arrested and charged with simple assault. Saturday night. Kristie Moore says she was filling in, calling a 12-year-old softball game after one of her umpires got sick. She’s been calling games for 10 years. One of the moms was allegedly cursing so badly during the game that she was asked her to leave. Eventually the coach made the mom leave, but instead of going home, Kiara Thomas allegedly waited for Moore after...

Police said the person of interest in this shooting attack, 62-year-old Frank James, rented the U-Haul connected to the mass shooting attack. It took several hours for the police to identify Frank James as a person of interest because according to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a glitch caused the cameras in the subway to malfunction. Totally normal. "We are communicating with the MTA to find out was it throughout the entire station or was it just one camera,” Mayor Adams told WCBS 880. “The cameras at three subway stations the NYPD attempted to access — 25 St, 36 St and...

ATICAN CITY (CNS) — The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church asked Pope Francis to scrap plans to have a Ukrainian woman and a Russian woman carry the cross together during the pope’s Way of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum April 15. Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, said April 12, “I consider such an idea untimely, ambiguous and such that it does not take into account the context of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.” For Eastern Catholics in Ukraine, he said, “the texts and gestures of the 13th station of this Way of the...

A 47-year-old man with known a history of placing suspicious parcels on the city’s metro system has been indicted by prosecutors in Toulouse after allegedly planting an explosive device in the Saint-Etienne cathedral. The man was arrested on Friday by French police in the suburb of Balma several hours after he is said to have placed an explosive device at the foot of the altar of the Saint-Etienne cathedral at around 8:30 am that morning during Mass. As the man attempted to flee the cathedral, a church employee, a sacristan, made an attempt to detain the man before he could...

A California mother of two who allegedly faked her own kidnapping for 22 days in 2016 will admit that it was all a hoax under a plea deal she struck with prosecutors on Tuesday. Sherri Papini, 39, will plead guilty to counts of lying to FBI agents and mail fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California's Office confirmed. "I am deeply ashamed of myself for my behavior and so very sorry for the pain I’ve caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story and those who worked so...

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans, upset with Disney’s embrace of the LGBTQ movement, no longer want to do “business” with Mickey Mouse and instead will seek out “family-friendly alternatives,” according to a new survey shared with Secrets. The latest data said that 68.2% of voters are now “less likely to do business with Disney.” Of those, 57.2% are “much less likely” to buy from the entertainment giant known for its kid-friendly parks and movies. What’s more, 69% said that they are likely to “support family-friendly alternatives to Disney.” The survey, from Convention of States Action in partnership with The Trafalgar...

The emails recovered from Hunter’s laptop “make clear that Hunter was cashing in on the Biden name, including as a board member of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company. That influence-peddling was a potential political liability for Mr. Biden, which was why the facts deserved an airing before the election.” Yes, they did deserve airing, but the country’s in the very best of hands, so that didn’t happen. Now, courtesy of the Associated Press, we learn that the rot surrounding Washington has insinuated itself into some alarming spots. “Federal prosecutors,” we learned, “charged two men they say were posing as federal...

Despite continuing to report record numbers of daily cases (more than 25K on Monday and another 22K+ on Tuesday), Shanghai started easing its lockdown on Monday, while the American State Department starting pulling all non-essential personnel from its consulate in the city of more than 25 million – a decision that greatly angered the Chinese government. City officials announced on Monday that they would be easing the lockdown after a tremendous public backlash. From now on, they would be grouping residential units into three risk categories as a step towards allowing “appropriate activity” for those who live in neighborhoods with...

Nur-Sultan, April 11, Interfax - Pope Francis in a conversation with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has confirmed his intention to pay an official visit to Nur-Sultan and take part in the Congress of Leaders of World Religions, the Kazakh presidential press service said. "The Pope expressed his gratitude to the president for the opportunity to meet, and confirmed his official visit to Kazakhstan, and that he will attend the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions as well. He said he had high expectations for his upcoming visit and participation in the forum," Tokayev said in a statement...

We envision a Nebraska where every life is cherished, valued, and protected,' the Nebraska Family Alliance declared in support of the bill.LINCOLN, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) – After eight hours of debate on Wednesday, the Nebraska legislature failed to pass a pro-life “trigger” law that would have banned abortions in the Cornhusker State were Roe v. Wade to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Even though a majority of the legislature supported the bill, it failed to obtain the 33 votes needed to overcome the filibuster that blocked a vote on the bill, falling short by two votes in a 31-15...

A Washington Post columnist suggested on Monday that President Biden could solve the mounting inflation crisis by rolling back border restrictions and allowing more immigrants to enter the United States. In an oped titled "Democrats are missing the bigger immigration issue," Washington Post columnist and CNN commentator Catherine Rampell scolded moderate Democrats for attempting to block President Biden from lifting existing Title 42 immigration restrictions without a plan in place amid an expected surge of migrants at the southern border. With the midterms fast approaching, Rampell said Democrats should be less worried about allowing in too many immigrants, and more...

The World Health Organization is analyzing a few dozen cases of two new sub-variants of the Omicron strain to determine how infectious and dangerous they might be, according to Reuters. The agency said it added BA.4 and BA.5 to its monitoring list because of their "additional mutations that need to be further studied to understand their impact on immune escape potential,” Reuters said. All versions of Omicron have proven to be highly transmissible. The BA.2 subvariant now represents about 94% of all sequenced cases but does not appear to cause severe disease, Reuters said. Last week, the CDC said BA.2...

Some colleges and universities in New York City have reinstituted mask mandates amid a rise in COVID-19 cases. Columbia University, the affiliated Barnard College and Pace University have all started requiring masks again in at least some indoor settings. Columbia reinstated mask rules on Monday “based on the current situation and in an abundance of caution,” according to school communications obtained by The Post. The policy, which requires students to wear non-cloth masks, is expected to remain in place through the final weeks of the spring semester. Instructors, however, still have the option to remove their masks while teaching. The...