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Former President Donald Trump will use the 2022 Kentucky Derby as a fundraiser when he attends the race next month, according to an invitation that was posted Thursday on Twitter by a New York Times reporter. The invitation shared by Maggie Haberman came from Trump’s political action committee. It specifically said the event would be May 7 at Churchill Downs “with special guest President Donald J. Trump.”

I mean those types of things should be decided as a public health issue by the public health organizations, in this case the CDC. This is a public health matter, not a judicial matter."

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A bill promoting the use of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and other “alternative” COVID-19 treatment drugs was introduced Thursday at the Statehouse.Introduced by Rep. Kris Jordan (R-Ostrander) in the late hours Thursday, House Bill 631 protects and encourages the use of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and other drugs not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat COVID-19 patients, according to the bill’s text.So long as a patient or a patient’s representative consents to the treatment – and a health care provider deems its use appropriate – Ohioans diagnosed with COVID-19 are eligible to receive drugs like ivermectin...

Michigan’s effort to end coal production and replace it with solar energy is being aided by a woke public utility that has agreed to stop its use by 2025, this despite the state’s abundant energy resources, including coal, natural gas, and nuclear. Attorney General Dana Nessel announced an agreement between the state and Consumers Energy Company, which says on its website that it provides natural gas and electricity to 6.6 million of Michigan’s 10 million residents.

According to the Washington Post, Trump and McCarthy spoke Thursday evening after the audio was leaked. Trump is reportedly not upset with McCarthy and was “happy that McCarthy hadn’t followed through on what he had said privately.” WaPo reported (emphasis ours): House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) hold on his status as the presumptive next GOP speaker was already tenuous. And on Thursday it seemed like it could slip further. But how much? For now, McCarthy appears to have avoided blowback from the top of the party. Many Republicans seem to be waiting for a cue from Trump about how...

White supremacists have claimed ownership over the new Viking Hollywood blockbuster The Northman, which stars Nicole Kidman and Anya Taylor-Joy. The epic historical film, which has been released nationwide today, is the latest from Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) and a violent revenge tale taken from Viking legends. However its 'all-white cast', which features famous faces including Alexander Skarsgård and Ethan Hawke, as well as it's 'pure macho stereotypes' have seen the blockbuster championed by supremacists before it was even released. Posts on Reddit and 4Chan have been celebrating the film, with one 4Chan user writing: 'Robert Eggers. He...

President Obama, I'm willing to bet $1M that you (and your friends in the White House and CDC) are the misinformation spreaders and not me and my friends. Will you accept? Or do you agree I'm right?Steve Kirsch16 hr ago Executive SummaryPresident Obama correctly observed that COVID-19 misinformation is causing people to die. It’s a serious problem and we fully agree. We just disagree on who is spreading the misinformation.However, just pointing out the problem won’t solve it.If President Obama wants to actually do something meaningful to solve the issue, all he has to do is accept my very reasonable...

The two French tourists struck and killed this week by a No. 3 train in Brooklyn have been identified as well-known graffiti artists who hoped to leave their mark in New York City. Pierre Audebert, 28, and Julian Blanc, 34, were fatally struck by a Manhattan-bound train sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday, police said.

Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the 39th direct descendant of India's Gohil Rajput dynasty, knew he was gay at age 12. But he could only live his truth three decades later. Gohil publicly came out in an interview to a local newspaper in 2006, becoming the first openly gay royal in the country. He was 41 at the time. Until 2018, homosexuality was illegal in India, punishable under Section 377, a colonial-era draconian law that demanded up to life imprisonment for anyone committing sexual acts "against the order of nature." Naturally, Gohil's public unmasking triggered a nation-wide scandal. The entire town...

On April 21 former President (at least officially) Barack Obama gave a speech at Stanford University for their Cyber Policy Center called, “Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm.” In that speech, Obama mentioned “misinformation” about Covid vaccines online and claimed, “People are dying because of misinformation.” Obama was right that misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines is killing people—but he’s totally wrong about what the misinformation is. The government, media, and big corporation lies about the “safety” and “efficacy” of Covid vaccines, and the mandates many cities or companies imposed, have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and adverse events....

he controversial former automotive executive Carlos Ghosn has resided in Beirut since infamously defecting from Japan in a Yamaha instrument case. He fled the country and what he believed would be an unfair trial there after top-level Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi Alliance bosses accused him of underreporting his earnings, as well as using company funds for lavish personal items. His—let's just say innovative—relocation only came after he was arrested by Japanese authorities, and he's now wanted for international arrest by France, as the Wall Street Journal reports. A French investigating magistrate has put out five warrants against Ghosn and four individuals linked to...

SEATTLE (AP) — With a backdrop of flowering trees, it was a setting fit for the signing of major environmental legislation. Even Seattle’s notorious clouds parted as President Joe Biden stepped up to speak Friday. But when he sat down at a small desk with the presidential seal that had been set up for the occasion, there was no new law to sign, just an executive order directing federal officials to keep better track of trees in national forests. The gap between the scale of the global warming crisis and the president’s initiatives seemed wider than ever on Earth Day....

GOP lesson: DeSantis deployed states’ rights, and his popularity soared.Rod Thomson4/21/2022Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won in 2018 over Andrew Gillum by 32,000 votes, or four-tenths of one percentage point. Very, very close in a big purple state. Since that victory, DeSantis has endured relentless attacks on every conceivable issue, non-issue and fake issue.National outlets such as 60 Minutes and state publications in every market gaslit and flat-out lied about DeSantis, from Covid deaths to transgenderism in schools to the fictional “don’t say gay” bill. Late-night former comedians, Hollywooders, corporate cowards and the White House have all singled out DeSantis for...

The husband of shamed California “super mom” Sherri Papini has filed for divorce just days after she pleaded guilty to charges related to her sensational kidnapping hoax, reports said Friday. Keith Papini of Redding, Calif., filed for divorce from Sherri on Wednesday in Shasta County court, a local ABC affiliate reported, citing court documents. Sherri pleaded guilty Monday to lying to federal investigators and mail fraud as part of her scheme to fake her own kidnapping in 2016. In November 2016, Papini, a 39-year-old mother of two, was found about 150 miles from her home after being missing for three...

Former President Trump again tossed around the idea that he will run for the presidency in 2024 Thursday, as he said he'd rather be a 'dictator' than a 'dumb person and bragged about 'acing' the aptitude test. 'First they said not too smart,' Trump said, talking about how Democrats and the media described him. 'But then, they made me a dictator instead. Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person.' He bemoaned that no one calls for invoking the 25th Amendment against President...

Explanation: No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over our fair planet Earth. Instead, the shadow line or terminator is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight. With the Sun illuminating the scene from the right, the cloud tops reflect gently reddened sunlight filtered through the dusty troposphere, the lowest layer of the planet's nurturing atmosphere. A clear high altitude layer, visible along the dayside's upper edge, scatters blue sunlight and fades into the blackness of space. This picture was taken in June...

President Biden on Friday celebrated Earth Day in Seattle with a rambling speech vowing to make “every vehicle” in the military “climate-friendly” while admitting his personal fleet includes a prized Corvette that “does nothing but pollute.” Biden didn’t offer specifics while telling local Democrats in a park that he intends to cut the emissions of war machines like tanks, helicopters and fighter jets. “I’m going to start the process for every vehicle in the United States military — every vehicle — is going to be climate-friendly — every vehicle. No, I mean it. We’re spending billions of dollars to do...

FReepers, it is Earth Day! For Earth Hour, let's be sure to fire up our barbecues with some good red meat. Turn up the a/c inside and let those festive lights blaze. Perhaps take a long sightseeing drive. Celebrate!!

Disney stocks continue its sharp decline as the company is set to rank among the worst-performing stocks in 2022. On Friday Disney opened at $120.04 per share, down nearly a dollar from yesterday when it closed at $121.66 after it had opened at $125.50 per share. The media conglomerate is continuing its free fall as experts reported the company was the worst-performing Dow Jones stock of the year, plummeting 31 percent over the last year, Operation Sunlight reported. Compared to the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones, Disney's stock has seen the sharpest decline with 31 percent, followed...

Rockefeller Foundation President Rajiv Shah told Bloomberg Television’s David Westin a “massive, immediate food crisis” is on the horizon. Shah provides what could be a timeline for the next global food crisis that could begin “in the next six months.” He said global fertilizer supply disruptions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine would have an “even worse” impact on the crisis, slashing crop yields worldwide. Shah said debt relief and emergency aid for emerging market countries are needed to mitigate the effects of the food crisis. Shah’s appearance on Bloomberg is interesting because of the foundation’s repetitive talk about...