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TheHill.com BUSINESS & LOBBYING Abbott border inspections threaten fresh produce supply in US BY KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM - 04/15/22 5:18 PM ET SHARE TWEET ... MORE Getty Images Semi-trucks wait for inspection before crossing the border at the Zaragoza International Bridge, in Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas on May 31, 2019. – President Donald Trump escalated his abrupt tariff threats against Mexico, triggering alarm about the likely economic fallout, spooking global markets and raising the prospect of US trade wars on multiple fronts. Trump unexpectedly announced his readiness to levy tariffs on all Mexican imports, beginning at...

Bill Maher ridiculed President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan during a recent appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” saying the president’s signature effort will primarily benefit consultants and other “pigs” who feed at the trough of government spending. On Tuesday’s episode of Rogan’s podcast, Maher said some of the plan’s stated goals make sense to

Hundreds of scientists from around the world took part in protests last week to apply pressure on government agencies to make “rapid and deep” cuts to greenhouse gas emissions before it’s too late. In London, 25 scientists glued pages of scientific papers, along with their hands, to the windows of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to force the agency to look at the climate research they say the British government has been ignoring, The Guardian reported. In Madrid, over 50 protesters were arrested after taking to the streets and throwing fake blood on the steps of the...

Most Americans believe it is time to end mask mandates on airlines, polling by Scott Rasmussen, detailed by America First Policy Institute, reveals. On Wednesday, federal officials announced yet another extension of the federal mask mandate, forcing Americans to wear masks on planes, trains, buses, and other modes of public transportation for another two weeks. The mandate was set to expire on April 18, but many had their doubts, as the Biden White House has continued to extend the mask mandate time and time again throughout the entirety of his presidency — another reminder that the president failed to uphold...

Dozens of concerned parents, teachers and students gathered Friday outside Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters demanding unvaccinated staff be allowed back on campus and in the classrooms to help with staffing shortages in the district. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said he will fill 400 classroom teacher vacancies by drawing from a pool of about 3,000 administrators and other school staff. This comes after a report by Partnership for Los Angeles Schools said thousands of teachers, counselors and other school staff positions remain vacant in the district. Teachers demonstrating Friday said they should be brought back because some who are filling...

In 1970, Agnes Moorehead performed this dramatic Biblical reading as a special guest on the 'Oral Roberts Easter Special'. The show was actually recorded a couple of months earlier, in January 1970. Moorehead, of course, was best known to TV audiences as 'Endora' the mother of Samantha on the hit ABC series 'Bewitched' at the time of this special. I thought I'd share it here as we celebrate the beginning of Passover and Easter weekend around the world. Moorhead was a devout Christian, brought up in a strict Presbyterian household in which her father was a minister. It's been reported...

I was listening, this afternoon, to one of the local conservative radio hosts here in Vegas and he played a clip of Sen. Kennedy who appeared on TV last night on, I believe, Newsmax. After the clip was played, the host stated that Kennedy would be his choice for VP under Trump (or DeSantis). The more I thought about it, the more I began to concur. Every time I hear Kennedy he seems to make a lot of sense, he has a great sense of humor and appears to be someone would would be an effective debater going up against...

A second group of asylum seekers arrived in Washington, D.C., Thursday on a charter bus after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to transport migrants from Texas to D.C. This comes just one day after the first bus of undocumented migrants from Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, was transported to the nation’s capital. Abbott said the order is a direct response to President Joe Biden's plans to end Title 42 expulsions on May 23. The controversial policy, which the Trump administration implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, restricts migrants from coming into the country under the...

Shocked beach-goers have spotted large weedy sea dragons far away from home and splurged across beaches in Australia - the fish have been found lifeless at the city’s northern beachesDozens of bizarre and vibrant creatures have washed up on Australian beaches following weeks of record rainfall. Experts have been left stunned by the dead marine fish as pictures emerge of their unusual presence across seafronts in New South Wales. The weedy seadragons have been spotted in Cronulla, Malabar and the Central Coast and they are thought to be 10 times the amount of normal wash-ups to hit the beaches. Dr...

The relatives of the doomed crew of Russia's Black Sea flagship Moskva defied Russian censors to hold an unofficial memorial today, as Ukraine claimed that all 510 servicemen onboard died - including the ship's captain. -snip- As a result 'all the crew of the cruiser Moskva died'. This included the ship's captain, Anton Kuprin, Gerashchenko said. The battleship had a usual crew number of 510 sailors. He claimed: 'The leadership of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation have deliberately hidden the truth from relatives and friends of the crew members.' His account contradicts other earlier versions, including that...

Russia sent a formal diplomatic note to the US this week calling on Washington and NATO to stop arming Ukraine. The note, which was obtained by The Washington Post, said the Western campaign to pour weapons into Ukraine was “adding fuel” to the conflict and could lead to “unpredictable consequences.” The diplomatic note was sent Tuesday, when news broke of a new massive US military aid package for Ukraine. President Biden announced the new aid on Wednesday, which is worth $800 million and includes howitzers for the first time. The package also includes helicopters, armed Switchblade drones, coastal defense drones,...

The United States now believes that the Russian guided-missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of President Vladimir Putin's Black Sea fleet, was hit by two Ukrainian missiles before sinking, according to a senior U.S. official. The official told reporters on Friday that the vessel had been hit by Neptune anti-ship missiles. Russia claimed that she sank when being towed in stormy seas after a fire triggered explosions in an ammunition store. But the official's account backs Ukraine's Operational Command South which claimed that the Moskva began to sink after being hit by Neptune missiles. Mykhailo Samus, director of a Lviv-based military...

Neil W. McCabe, the national political editor of The Star News Network, reports from Washington’s Union Station, where Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott sent migrants who crossed the border into his state. A social worker from the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington told The Star News Network that she and other staffers from Catholic Charities, including Monsignor John Enzler, the local president provided the migrants with food, clothing, diapers and toys – and tickets to their requested destinations. Some of the migrants went to New York City, others went to Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Miami.

Explanation: Wind-sharpened rocks known as ventifacts cover this broad sloping plain in the foot hills of Mount Sharp, Gale crater, Mars. Dubbed gator-back rocks their rugged, scaly appearance is captured in these digitally stitched Mastcam frames from the Curiosity rover on mission sol 3,415 (March 15, 2022). Driving over gator-back rocks before has resulted in damage to the rover's wheels, so Curiosity team members decided to turn around and take another path to continue the rover's climb. Curiosity has been on an ascent of Gale crater's central 5.5 kilometer high mountain since 2014. As it climbs, the durable rover has...

Former President Donald Trump has endorsed best-selling author J.D. Vance, a vocal national populist, in the Ohio Republican Senate primary race. [cut] This is not an easy endorsement for me to make because I like and respect some of the other candidates in the race — they’ve said great things about “Trump” and, like me, they love Ohio and love our Country. I’ve studied this race closely and I think J.D. is the most likely to take out the weak, but dangerous, Democrat opponent — dangerous because they will have so much money to spend. [Emphasis added] However, J.D. will...

Listen to this article 0:00 / 2:31 1X BeyondWords Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., paid her daughter another $24,000 in campaign cash during the most recent quarter, Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News Digital show. Karen Waters, who has been organizing slate-mailing operations to bolster her mother's re-election for nearly two decades, and her company, Progressive Connections, have received more than $1.2 million since 2003 for campaign services, including "slate mailer management" fees and "campaign managing services." A "Citizens for Waters" campaign committee filing from earlier this week shows that the younger Waters received $24,000 from the committee between...

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the motto of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post. It may sound like a warning, but more and more it seems like a summary of the left’s aspirations to control debate and shut down any opposition. A recent example of those aspirations appeared in a column by former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s big buy of Twitter stock. The original headline — changed after widespread mockery — was this: “Elon Musk’s vision for the Internet is dangerous nonsense: Musk has long advocated a libertarian vision of an ‘uncontrolled’ internet. That’s also...

Nothing was more predictable about this most predictable of wars than the certain failure of Putin’s Coup de Main invasion to seize Kyiv and conquer Ukraine in one fell swoop. And yet its success was confidently predicted by Russia’s FSB domestic security service, which, instead of the SVR foreign intelligence, was given the task of sustaining the fiction that Ukraine is Russian. Perhaps it is not strange that Putin, himself a former FSB officer, did not question this reckless optimism. He knew that the CIA fully agreed with the FSB estimate, as did the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BDN) and the French...

In One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture (LSU Press, 1982), sociologist John Shelton Reed wrote convincingly of what he called "regional racism." The accepted definition of "racism" is "prejudice against members of a different ethnic group," with "ethnic" defined as a "subgroup ... with a common national or cultural tradition." By this definition, the South and the West, with their distinctive cultural traditions, may constitute "ethnic groups," and there is a great deal of prejudice in our national culture against both. The relationship of these ethnicities, and particularly of the South, with the nation as a whole, has...

Incumbent Republican Ken Paxton has established a large lead over Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush in the upcoming runoff for attorney general, according to a new poll released this week. According to a new poll from the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation, Paxton is leading the race for attorney general with 65 percent of support among “likely” voters, against Bush’s 23 percent. When the survey respondents are filtered to just be “almost certain voters,” Paxton’s lead grows to 71 percent versus 20 percent for Bush.