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On April 19th, 1775, at about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town’s common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment’s hesitation the Americans began to drift off the green.Suddenly, the “shot heard around the world” was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or...

The Black Lives Matter organization was silent when approached for comment on 2020’s skyrocketing number of Black murders and experts citing BLM and the defund the police movements for contributing to the deaths. Fox News Digital reached out to the Black Lives Matter press team on April 14 inquiring if they had comment on FBI data showing there was a 32% increase in Black murders in 2020 compared to 2019, as well as a comment regarding experts such as the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald arguing the BLM and defund the police movements contributed to the murder spike, not the...

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<p>Three sailors from the USS George Washington aircraft carrier were found dead in less than one week, the Navy said, as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and local authorities investigate the deaths.</p><p>One sailor was found unresponsive on board the carrier last Friday, while two other sailors were found at off base locations on April 9 and 10.</p>

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced on Tuesday that the state legislature will consider a proposal to eliminate Disney’s special tax and governing jurisdiction in DeSantis’s fight against the megacorporation’s woke politics. “I am announcing today that we are expanding the call of what they are going to be considering this week, and so yes, they will be considering … termination of all special districts that were enacted in Florida prior to 1968, and that includes the Reedy Creek Improvement District,” DeSantis declared. The Reedy Creek Improvement District is Disney’s special governing and special taxing district for the Walt Disney World...

A mask off Jack Dorsey went after CNN in a series of tweets in which the Twitter founder accused the legacy media network of deliberately creating division in society. The controversy started when CNN’s Brian Stelter tweeted an article accusing Fox News host Tucker Carlson of “always selling the same thing…selling doubt.” “And you all are selling hope?” Dorsey responded. and you all are selling hope? — jack⚡️ (@jack) April 19, 2022 “They’re selling truth, which is hope-agnostic,” Democrat pollster Spiers tweeted. “It’s supposed to inform you, not make you feel some kind of way.” However, Dorsey wasn’t having any...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a $46.5 billion budget Tuesday morning that includes $1.8 billion in election-year tax relief and a $1 billion deposit into the state's rainy day fund. “The budget I’m signing into law today brings real improvements to the lives of working families and sets us up for a stronger fiscal future,” Pritzker said in a statement. “Investments in stronger schools, modernized airports and newly paved highways, hundreds of thousands of well-paying infrastructure jobs, and a better funded pension system… these are the kind of priorities we can invest in when our state is governed responsibly.”

"My Love from the Star" is the story of an alien come to earth 400 years before. He has the ability to teleport, travel at breathtaking speed, use superhuman strength, as well as stop time - all useful qualities when you're courting an earth girl.

Despite the clear intentions of western government to cripple Russian energy production, loadings of Russian oil have so far been surprisingly resilient, so much so that Russia’s current account balance is at all time highs. According to JPMorgan, shipments in the seven days to April 16 hit 7.3 mbd, only 330 kbd below the 7.58 mbd averaged in February before the start of the war. Remarkably, JPM calculates that Russian crude exports are averaging 360 kbd above pre-invasion volumes, while exports of oil products like fuel oil, naphtha, and VGO have declined by 700 kbd (full report available to pro...

Labour has accused the UK government of establishing a “fake taskforce” to address supply chain disruption because it was dissolved weeks after it was announced. The National Economic Recovery Taskforce (Logistics) was announced on 14 September 2021 when supply disruption was peaking due to factors including a lorry driver shortage, but did not survive beyond a reshuffle on 21 October. Michael Gove had been appointed to head the cross-government committee. Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner said: “Instead of serious solutions, all they’ve got is gimmicks and fake announcements to grab cheap headlines, with no real plan to solve the...

Angelina Jolie may be trying to sue the FBI over the Brad Pitt plane incident involving their son -- but if it is her, she's proceeding anonymously ... having just gotten the green light to do. Jolie has been speculated as the person behind a recent Jane Doe lawsuit filed against the federal agency over a FOIA request -- one the feds have apparently denied this woman as it pertains to an investigation they undertook a few years back involving alleged abuse on a private jet ... this according to a new report from Politico. This woman has apparently been...

"The demonization, the demoralization, and the defunding the police rhetoric from the Democratic Party, coupled with other ideologies the Democratic Party started to take on caused me to leave the party." La’Ron Singletary A former New York police chief and longtime Democrat says he is so disgusted with the contempt members of his party have for cops that he is running for Congress as a Republican. Former Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary, who is vying to represent the Empire State’s 25th Congressional District, told The Daily Wire he can no longer support the Democrat Party because of its anti-police rhetoric....

ELKO, NV--Experiencing a moment of incredible grace and patience, local husband Clarence McTwombly sat his wife down and gently showed her how it was actually possible to close the 8,537 unused browser tabs on her mobile phone. "See honey, that 'X' in the upper right corner allows you to close that tab you are no longer using," said Clarence to his wife, Clarice, as she nodded along while not really listening because she saw a tab showing a swimsuit she had been looking at a few months ago, but was now probably ready to buy. "All you need to do...

Azusa High’s mascot has been Aztecs since the school opened in 1956. At Tuesday’s Azusa Unified School District meeting, the board will decide if it stays that way. Gladstone High in Covina, one of the district’s two high schools, will become a middle school for the 2023-24 school year as part of a massive district reorganization, with students who would have attended Gladstone High blending into rival Azusa High. The question is, will Azusa High be rebranded with a new mascot the way West Covina and Charter Oak high schools were in the 1980s when respective rivals Edgewood and Royal...

On Monday night, Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff headlined a fundraiser in the private Brentwood home of Walt Disney Television's Chairman of Entertainment Dana Walden and producer husband Matt Walden. The evening raised $1 million dollars for the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, with money going to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and state party committees. Harris' trip to Los Angeles to raise cash for the Democrats reflected "the gradual return to normalcy of the Hollywood ATM," in the words of Deadline Magazine. Vacuuming up money from Hollywood elites appears to be the one role in...

Joe Kahn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime Beijing bureau chief who was promoted to managing editor of the paper in 2016, will succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor. Full story here… https://www.barrons.com/news/new-york-times-names-next-editor-to-lead-us-paper-01650380711

Transgender orthodoxy has moved so far past the bounds of sanity that any attempt to question its effects is quickly discouraged and punished. We are expected to shut up and accept that public schools are passing policies to keep students’ gender identity transitions from parents, that medical professionals can file to remove children from their parents’ custody if parents oppose physical and chemical transition efforts, that a young man competed on a women’s swimming team and took home a women's championship title, and that a man who claimed to identify as a woman was allowed into a women’s prison where...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a podcast interview posted early Tuesday morning that her young son "has never had a playdate in his house before" due to her fears about COVID-19. The admission came during an interview with Jessica Yellin on her News Not Noise podcast after a question about COVID vaccines for children who are under five years old — and, for what it's worth, among the least likely to get seriously ill from an infection. "Parents with young children feel a little forgotten," Yellin explained adding "they want to know why is this taking so...

People Get Ready! For The Federal Reserve to actually withdraw its massive stimulus. I generally discuss that negative impact of rising mortgage rates on the housing market, but today I am focusing on the decline in agency mortgage-backed security prices due to rising mortgage rates. Here is the uniform MBS price for a 3.5% coupon security. It is falling like a rock with anticipated Fed monetary tightening. And duration risk is going to the moon! (That is, accelerating rapidly). At least energy prices are cooling thanks to China grinding to a halt with the latest Covid epidemic. I wish The...

The mainstream media today reported that three companies connected to far-right radio host Alex Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid lawsuits related to false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. The mainstream elites have been targeting Alex Jones and Infowars for years now. Their allies in Big Tech also targeted Alex Jones and colluded to take him off their platforms on the same day back in August 2018. On Monday Alex Jones released a response to today’s media attacks. Alex Jones vows he will not let the corporate media win. Alex Jones: When you see these headlines out...