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Women and children are among the scores of people killed in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in a border town in southern Nigeria, authorities say. "The fire occurred in an illegal bunkering site situated at the boundary between Rivers State and Imo State," the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) said in a statement sent to CNN on Sunday. It said the fire had led "to the death of men, women and children in the hundreds," adding that the remains of some victims "were burnt beyond recognition." According to local media reports, emergency response teams have counted...

President Biden on Sunday mourned Orrin Hatch, calling the late Republican senator from Utah an “American original” who fought to make the country a better place. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, died at the age of 88 on Saturday in Salt Lake City. Biden, who served for more than three decades in the U.S. Senate with Hatch, praised his former colleague in a statement, calling him a “fighter who carried with him the memory of his humble upbringing near Pittsburgh, who never humored a bully, or shied from a challenge.”

Participants in Moderna’s clinical trials for its mRNA booster Covid shots keep dying.EXCLUSIVE: How The Atlantic Council Pulled Over The COVID-19 Matrix On The WorldAnd Moderna keeps obscuring their deaths.Last week, Moderna disclosed a death in its newest booster trial in a single chart on page 49 of a 53-page report, while elsewhere in the report inaccurately claiming the trial had “no fatal events.”Today, a reader pointed out another death in an earlier Moderna booster trial, this one from cardiac arrest in a 72-year-old man. The victim had received his third or “booster” dose nine days before.The death appears to...

50 years ago… 20 years ago… heck, even 2 years ago under Trump… Would you ever have imagined, in your wildest nightmares, that radical leftist activists calling themselves teachers would be setting up secret areas at school for children to undress and change into trans outfits? And in middle school, no less?Well, unfortunately, that’s exactly the hell that America has found itself in. It’s 2022, Joe Biden is President, parents are labeled terrorists while the actual terrorists are handed billions in high-tech weapons, and schools are allowing teachers to create and maintain “secret gender transition closets” that are used to...

Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter Well, that's a relief. I thought Trump lost, but he says he won the presidency in 2020, which means he can't run again. "Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." U.S. Const. Amend. xxii, sec. 1 5:55 AM · Apr 24, 2022

Dozens of New York City public school teachers will be placed on unpaid leave starting Monday for allegedly using a fake Covid-19 vaccine card.As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, New York City Mayor Eric Adams fired 1,430 city employees who refused to receive the experimental Covid-19 shot. The list included 36 police officers, 25 firefighters, and 914 employees from the Department of Education.The far-left mayor exempted athletes and performers from his vaccine mandate. Adams argued that his decision to exempt athletes and performers was to put them on a “level playing field.”“This is about putting New York City-based performers on...

A California man was arrested and charged after making threats against Merriam-Webster, Inc. for the company's inclusive language around gender, according to the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Massachusetts. Jeremy David Hanson, 34, of Rossmoor, California, was arrested and charged with one count of interstate communication of threats to commit violence, according to a press release. He has since been released ahead of an upcoming court date on April 29. Hanson is accused of leaving threatening comments on Merriam-Webster's website as well as sending threatening messages via the company's "contact us" feature. The comments left by Hanson were...

Several Minnesotans opened up about the harms of COVID-19 mandates during a press conference this week on a GOP-backed bill that would protect residents from “unconstitutional and medically irresponsible COVID-19 vaccine mandates.”Vaccine nightmareSuzanna Newell held back tears as she described how her health dramatically changed within 30 hours of taking a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on April 13, 2021. The once-active triathlete who had no underlying health conditions is now in constant debilitating pain, unable to perform even the simplest tasks.“My primary doctor filled out the Pfizer paperwork and said my symptoms are from the vaccine. I’ve yet to...

Fox Nation host Piers Morgan said Sunday on FNC’s “Media Buzz” that former President Donald Trump had a “pathological belief” he won the 2020 presidential race while discussing the details of his interview with Trump set to air on his new show “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on Monday. Discussing Trump asking about his criticism, Morgan said, “He was very angry, quite profane in parts. And he was reading out these things, one by one, and saying, ‘How can you say these things about me? This is so disloyal after all I’ve done for you.’ I said, ‘Look, I didn’t agree with...

The muted intifada. Swastikas tonight on vehicles at the Armon haNatziv Arab terrorism raises its head.pic.twitter.com/UvD86HmLgT— תנועת אם תרצו (@ImTirtzu) April 23, 2022

Bild am Sonntag, the Sunday edition of Bild, the best-selling European newspaper, declared today that the hatred of Jews by radical Muslims is “a shame for this country.” The editorial, written by the editor in chief Johannes Boje, followed what the newspaper described as “an aggressive antisemitic agitation against people of the Jewish faith – in the middle of Germany” (Wieder offener Judenhass auf Deutschlands Straben [https://www.bild.de/news/inland/news-inland/antisemitische-demo-in-berlin-wieder-offener-judenhass-auf-deutschlands-strassen-79861108.bild.html]) According to Saturday night’s report, some 600 people marched through Kreuzberg and Neukolln with Palestinian flags, openly denying Israel’s right to exist. They roared aggressively, “c...d killer Israel” and attacked journalists.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are in the runoff to be the next president of France. Find out how the race is unfolding live. Initial projections and first results expected from 8pm CEST/7pm BST

Democrats are literally freaking out and melting down over the idea of the grooming-enablers at the Walt Disney Company paying their fair share of taxes, and I’m here to explain why… You’re welcome. Every time I find common ground with Democrats, Democrats find new principles. Billionaire, multinational corporations should not receive special treatment, handouts, tax cuts, or what’s otherwise known as corporate welfare, Democrats say.

The results of an online exit poll in France have been announced. APA reports quoting La libre that up to 58% of voters voted for Emmanuel Macron. The results of the exit poll are unofficial and are subject to change.

According to the MOU Galveston National Laboratory, a US National Lab and Wuhan Lab have signed a partnership which allows both labs to destroy secret files in their possession.EXCLUSIVE: How The Atlantic Council Pulled Over The COVID-19 Matrix On The World According to a legal document, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has the authority to order a collaborating U.S. lab to delete all data generated from their collaborative work.The Wuhan lab and the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Galveston National Laboratory signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) of collaboration that requires each of the two labs to destroy “secret...

The results in the French presidential elections are in and incumbent Emmanuel Macron, who was favourite to win, has secured a second term with 58% of the votes, projections show. Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen received 42% of the votes, they say.

The drama of the final round of voting for President in France interrupted by an attack on a priest in Nice this Sunday. Both the priest and a nun wounded politicians and police in the area quick to talk mental illness over any notion of a terrorist attack. What they will say after the voting remains to be seen. One fear of the media is that voter turnout will be low with the leftist voters staying home and narrowing the margin between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen. Le Pen's hopes pinned on a maximum mobilization of anti-Macron...

After Kerry laid out some of the administration’s goals, Mitchell wanted to know about concrete steps. While doing so she lamented that world events have caused gas prices to raise and people don’t like high gas prices: You know, let's—let’s-- agree that he has laid out, you know, some extraordinary goals and made some promises and that Congress does hold a lot of this in their hands. But, but there have been big events, like the war and, you know, Russian sanctions, the sanctions on Russian oil and he's had to go to the strategic reserves and put out more...

You just can’t make this stuff up. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Joe Biden gets frustrated when his passions aren’t being heard and digested. Americans just aren’t smart enough to see how brilliant Joe Biden is and how wonderful his policies are for the country. “There are limitations that have been imposed upon him…[that] have not allowed people to see, at all times, what his magic is,” Psaki said to NBC News White House Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell on Wednesday. VIDEO:

After leaving office on down note, Trump is kingmaker in 2022 — and in pole position for 2024.Former President Donald Trump now enjoys the highest favorability rating among the seven U.S. political leaders tracked in the RealClearPolitics (RCP) polling average, marking a striking political transformation from where he was 15 months ago while leaving office.Trump has a favorability rating of 45.8%, more than three points higher than President Joe Biden's rating of 42.6%, according to the RCP average.The other five political leaders polled — Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Senate...