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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has an election-year message for frustrated voters: At least he’s trying. For those who think he isn’t doing enough to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion, Biden announced $800 million in new military support on Thursday. To ease the pain of high gas prices, he’s tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and reopened onshore sales of oil and natural gas leases on public land. And to address historic inflation, Biden has tried to smooth out supply chain-crimping bottlenecks at the nation’s ports. The president hopes the moves, which are being announced in near-daily rollouts...

I don't even own a place right now. I'm literally staying at friends' places,” he was quoted as saying by the New York Post. “If I travel to the Bay Area, which is where most of Tesla's engineering is, I basically rotate through friends' spare bedrooms,” the Tesla CEO added. “I don't have a yacht, I don't take vacations,” he added. Musk was responding to a question about wealth disparity across the world and the amount of money spent by billionaires. “I think there's axiomatic flaws that are leading to that conclusion. It would be very problematic if I would...

New video shows Vladimir Putin looking bloated and awkwardly gripping a table for support — heightening suspicions that the warmongering president is seriously ill. The footage released by the Kremlin Thursday shows Putin, 69, tightly gripping the table with his right hand as soon as he sits down — then keeping it there throughout the nearly 12-minute clip. Putin sits with hunched shoulders and regularly fidgets and taps his toes during the briefing with his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, who is also rumored to be suffering health woes. The clip shows Putin and his key adviser “both depressed & seemingly...

A Travis Heights resident caught an interesting looking animal on their ring camera. What do you think it is?A Travis Heights resident is left questioning what resides in their neighborhood after catching a mysterious animal on their ring camera. SNIP The animal looks similar to a lemur, or some sort of monkey- two species not native to the Central Texas area. SNIP

Concerns are being raised over what the drought might be doing to an ancient salmon run that goes through the heart of Silicon Valley. Roger Castillo doesn’t look after the rivers and streams and their wildlife in Silicon Valley because it’s his job. He does it because he loves it. Storm Dumps Half-Inch Of Rain On Oakland, Peninsula, South Bay; 1" Reported In Santa Cruz Mountains “What are we going to leave our children you know?” Castillo said. The mostly self-taught citizen-naturalist is a former truck mechanic who just discovered thriving schools of Chinook salmon fry in Los Gatos Creek....

Bonola moved to the United States from Mexico more than two decades ago; ICE has lodged a detainer with Queens Central Booking ----------- EXCLUSIVE – David Bonola, the handyman arrested in the grisly murder of Queens mother Orsolya Gaal, had been living in the United States in violation of immigration law when he was arrested, law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News Digital on Friday.

A Minnesota man connected to a scheme to launder millions in federal child nutrition funds has been charged after he was caught attempting to leave the country with a fraudulently obtained passport. Court documents show Mohamed Jama Ismail, 49, of Isanti, is charged with one count of passport fraud. He has not been charged in connection with the investigation into Feeding Our Future. According to the criminal complaint, Ismail allegedly ran multiple companies in a scheme that collectively misappropriated more than $30 million of Federal Child Nutrition Program funds distributed through the Minnesota Department of Education. One of those companies,...

It was obvious when the J6 committee began using their unilateral subpoena authority to demand phone records, text messages, documents and emails, that part of their plan was to leak/release internal GOP discussions amid politicians that would anger the MAGA voters ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Part of the J6 goal is to create division and sow animosity amid the republican party. DUH. However, what the J6 committee doesn’t seem to realize is that MAGA voters already know the scheming, conniving, duplicitous rats within the republican political ranks. Heck, we already hate most of them, so outing Kevin McCarthy...

A species of giant two-humped camel, Camelus knoblochi, is known to have lived for approximately a quarter of a million years in Central Asia. A new study in Frontiers in Earth Science shows that C. knoblochi's last refuge was in Mongolia until approximately 27,000 years ago. In Mongolia, the last of the species coexisted with anatomically modern humans and maybe the extinct Neanderthals or Denisovans. While the main cause of C. knoblochi's extinction seems to have been climate change, hunting by archaic humans may also have played a role. "Here we show that the extinct camel, Camelus knoblochi, persisted in...

Two teams of researchers working independently have shown the viability of using neutral atoms to create quantum circuits—both have published outlines of their work in the journal Nature. One of the groups, with members from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, ColdQuanta and Riverlane, successfully ran an algorithm on a cold atom quantum computer for the first time. The second group, with members from Harvard, MIT, QuEra Computing Inc., the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, showed that it was possible to build a quantum processor based on coherent transport of entangled atom arrays. Hannah Williams, with Durham...

AMERICAN NEWS Apr 22, 2022 12:35 PM EST BREAKING: Georgia court forces Marjorie Taylor Greene to face hearing to determine if she is an 'insurrectionist' The challenge argues that Greene's alleged role in Jan. 6 violates a rarely cited provision of the 14th Amendment. ADVERTISEMENT BREAKING: Georgia court forces Marjorie Taylor Greene to face hearing to determine if she is an 'insurrectionist' Mia Cathell Mia Cathell The Post Millennial April 22, 2022 12:35 PM 3 Mins Reading Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took the stand in front of an administrative law judge at a hearing Friday over a challenge to...

Addressing the Portuguese parliament via video link, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called on Portugal to send "heavy weapons" and strengthen the sanctions on Russia. "I am grateful for the opportunity in this difficult time because you know how we are feeling, fighting for our independence, but also our survival," said Zelensky, referring to what Portugal experienced in history. Zelensky's 15-minute speech received a standing ovation in the parliament attended by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister Antonio Costa.

On July 2, 1863, Confederate forces approaching Gettysburg found the high ground already occupied. A Union Signal Corps was stationed atop the large, smooth hill known as Little Round Top, where they could observe troop movements and communicate that intelligence to battlefield commanders below. Since this gave the Federals a distinct advantage, the Confederates resolved to take the lightly guarded hill. Signal Corps officers, seeing the soldiers in gray amass for an all-out assault, sent up a cry for help. It was answered by Maj. General George Sykes and Colonel Strong Vincent, whose combined divisions were able to beat back...

With barely more than one month remaining before the Biden administration plans to lift Title 42, a bipartisan group from the House and Senate endorsed legislation to keep Title 42 in place until the Biden administration ends its COVID-19 public health emergency declarations and puts together a plan to handle the massive influx of illegal immigrants terminating Title 42 would create. The legislation endorsed by the Problem Solvers Caucus — a group of 58 Republican and Democrat lawmakers —that has a companion bill with bipartisan support in the Senate, is aimed at enacting congressional oversight for "terminating the suspension of...

SB 4C isn't just about political punishment. It's about Floridian autonomy and stopping a wicked giant. Finally, someone is willing to take on the Mouse. Disney long has loomed large in Florida and dictated what happens in the Sunshine State. In response to the culture war predations by Disney, Floridian Republicans have finally said 'enough is enough' and successfully pushed through legislation to end Disney’s 55-year-old self-governing powers, in which it rules its humongous Florida properties like an all-powerful baron. While critics have rightly pointed out that the legislation amounts to political punishment, there are freedom reasons to support this...

FDA on Thursday announced the availability of a draft guidance that, if finalized, would state the agency’s “intent to exercise enforcement discretion” regarding the distribution and sale of products labeled as dietary supplements and containing NAC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine). The draft guidance, which is scheduled to be published April 22 in the Federal Register, was released three weeks after FDA reaffirmed its position in responses to two citizen petitions that NAC is excluded from the definition of a dietary supplement because the ingredient was first approved as a drug in 1963. FDA, however, is still considering commencing a rulemaking to permit the...

In the Fall of 2021, jobs, education opportunities and entire careers were on the line, as governments, corporations, colleges, hospitals and other institutions implemented multiple vaccine mandates. These punitive, discriminatory vaccine mandates were rolled out illegally, in violation of personal beliefs and body autonomy rights. By the time these “life-saving” vaccines were forcefully rolled out, they had a REVERSE effect on mortality. From September to December 2021, the vaccine mandates rapidly increased EXCESS mortality rates for Gen X (ages 40-55), Gen Z, and Millennials (ages 25 to 40). According to mortality data from the fall of 2021, the Millennial generation...

For more than a century, America’s intellectual class and political elites have joined forces to defend a specific kind of expertise or technical rationality as the basis of their authority over the direction of society and the lives of American citizens. This expert authority lays claim to specialized scientific knowledge, and confidence in a fixed, irreversible historical progress. Continuous human progress is assumed by these elites to be determined by a rational process, and this process culminates in and authorizes the rule of technical experts. This view is radically different from the American founders’ commonsense understanding of moral and political...

Colonel Douglas Macgregor appeared on Tucker Carlson to give a brutally honest assessment of the conflict in Ukraine. Regarding the transfer of heavy weapons and artillery, Macgregor notes something many have discussed. The logistics of sending in those weapons from western Ukraine (Poland border) to the eastern Ukraine battle encompasses a thousand-mile trek. Russia can easily hit those convoys en route, negating the supply line. Additionally, the U.S. has sent $4.7 billion in military equipment and financial aid so far (see graphic below), and we have no idea who is in control of those weapons. WATCH: To give scale for...

I can't stand the @nytimes but this is a classic NON-DENIAL DENIAL. In a crisis, "Kevin" wet his pants. Go Back to the car dealership in California Kevin, and let @mattgaetz take it from here. https://t.co/zWWvkSZ99D— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) April 22, 2022My statement on the New York Times pic.twitter.com/PWi2WkoWzh— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) April 21, 2022