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Hunter Biden desperately insisted his brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, get screened for HIV as their torrid affair cooled off in the summer of 2018, emails show. Biden, 52, implored Hallie to be tested for HIV in an email sent to Beau Biden’s widow on July 27, 2018, about a month before he fathered an out-of-wedlock child with former stripper Lunden Roberts.

[H/T COUNTrecount]All they have to do is answer a few questions we have.Steve KirschApr 22 OverviewEveryone agrees: COVID misinformation is a serious problem. But all the methods the authorities have used to try to address the problem attempt to censor our speech. That won’t work. It will never work. It is not how America wants these disputes resolved.Instead, if the authorities really want to stop the so-called “misinformation spreaders,” all they have to do is create a document or video that answers the questions we have. If we find the answers compelling, we'll happily stop spreading “misinformation” and promote the...

* Twitter’s board accepted billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed. * The announcement ends a weeks-long saga Musk kicked off when he offered to buy the company at $54.20 per share, his “best and final.” * Twitter’s board sought to fend off a hostile takeover by adopting a so-called poison pill. In this article TWTR +2.83 (+5.77%) WATCH NOW VIDEO03:05 Board approves Twitter sale to Elon Musk for approx. $44B Twitter’s board has accepted an offer from billionaire Elon Musk to buy the social media company and take it...

Ana Navarro told her co-host Monday on ABC’s “The View ” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was waging an “anti-American” war against The Walt Disney Corporation. Co-host Joy Behar said, “So Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is punishing our parent company, Disney, for speaking out against his so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law. He revoked Disney’s special status, that could cost Florida taxpayers $2 billion. This goes against the GOP’s brand of being business-friendly. Now can he win this culture war? Because he’s taking on the mouse, and the mouse is bigger than Ron DeSantis.”

Whatever she thinks she’s doing, American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten isn’t helping her members with such over-the-top extremism as claiming that things like Florida’s new parental-rights law are “the way in which wars start.” Yes, she actually argued on a podcast that parents and politicians worried about some teachers and school staff seeking to indoctrinate kids are just pushing “propaganda” and “misinformation.” “We’re not indoctrinating,” she said. “We’re not grooming. . . . What we’re doing is making sure we educate kids. We keep them safe. We keep them welcome. And we teach them how to think, not...

A new book being published by a pair of New York Times reporters writes that White House Office of Public Engagement director and senior adviser Cedric Richmond referred to two prominent members of "the Squad" as "f---ing idiots." An excerpt of the new book, "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future" by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, obtained by Fox News Digital writes that Richmond, a former House member, made the comments about Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., to a friend. Counselor to the President Steve Ricchetti also had words for "the...

When it comes to disinformation, ex-prez Barack Obama is an expert. Just not in the way he seems to think. In a Stanford University speech Thursday, Obama called on Big Tech to “redesign” itself to face the dangers disinformation allegedly poses to the nation. SNIP Obama, after all, won PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” Award in 2013 for his endlessly repeated claim that under ObamaCare, “if you like your health plan, you can keep it.”

Trading on shares of Twitter were halted in anticipation of an announcement from the social media giant. Soon after, it was announced that he had begun the process of buying all Twitter shares ahead of taking the company private. BREAKING – Twitter has been sold to Elon Musk and will go private after agreeing to a deal worth $44 billion. pic.twitter.com/vEkGwXTDmt — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 25, 2022 In preparation for the announcement, Musk had Tweeted that he hopes his critics stay on the platform. I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech...

President Joe Biden made his first endorsement of the midterm election cycle on Saturday, lending his support to Rep. Kurt Schrader (Ore.), a centrist Democrat locked in a contentious primary. “We don’t always agree, but when it has mattered most, Kurt has been there for me,” Biden said in a statement. “And in doing so, he has helped to pass much of my agenda into law ― making a huge difference in the lives of the Oregonians he represents and all of America.” “Now we have a lot more to do and to get it done we need to keep...

New York judge held former President Donald Trump in contempt of court Monday because of the Trump Organization's refusal to turn over documents to New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an ongoing investigation into whether It fraudulently reported the value of real estate holdings in financial statements. State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled Trump must pay a fine of $10,000 per day until he complies with a subpoena for business records related to the investigation. “Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously, and I take mine seriously,” Engoron said Monday when handing down the...

Meeting the European Union's Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe's limited use today, according to a study from Belgian university KU Leuven. The independent KU Leuven study is the first to offer EU-specific numbers related to the International Energy Agency's warning in 2021 of looming supply challenges for the enabling metals needed to help end fossil fuels. The study says that by 2050, Europe's plans for producing clean energy technologies will require annually: 4.5 million tons...

The terror campaigns, the bullying, the arbitrary and ever-changing orders coming from the World Health Organization (WHO) and our federal and state administrations have resulted in the destruction of a world-class system of American medical care. In the U.S., we were told that we needed to lockdown for two weeks, March of 2020, to protect our hospitals from being swamped with sick and dying COVID-19 patients. We were also told assertively that the new pandemic could cause up to 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. alone.1 That model was flawed at the outset. Author Neil Ferguson of the Imperial College...

Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke on Monday said he tested positive for COVID-19. “In addition to being fully vaccinated and boosted, I regularly test for COVID-19 while traveling the state for town hall meetings,” O’Rourke said in a tweet. O’Rourke said he tested negative on Sunday before getting a positive test on Monday.

Feast of Saint Mark, Evangelist Mark 16:15-20 Friends, today’s Gospel gives us Mark’s very laconic account of the Ascension: “Then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.” We should think of it as Jesus’ going to his heavenly place in order to reign over the earth. Now, don’t literalize this language—there aren’t chairs in heaven—but take it very seriously indeed. What Mark is suggesting is that Jesus is now reigning; he’s in the attitude of a king on his throne. This means that he...

This one is really amazing, starts about 4:40 into the videohttps://youtu.be/dUask2cfFh4?t=283 This one should end any debate as to what is happening over there.

People flocked to Hırka-ı Şerif Mosque in Istanbul’s Fatih district on Friday as an heirloom of the Prophet Muhammad was put back on display after two years. The cloak worn by the prophet has been carefully preserved for nearly 1,400 years, attracting a large crowd to the mosque where it is kept by descendants of Uwais al-Qarni, a Muslim believer to whom the prophet gifted the garment. Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya and Fatih Mayor Ergün Turan were among the dignitaries attending the “reopening” ceremony for the cloak. The crowd listened to a recitation of verses from the Quran and soon...

Alarge number of artifacts belonging to the second and third centuries A.D. were unearthed in an underground city featuring places of worship, silos, water wells and passages with corridors in southeastern Mardin province’s Midyat district. Midyat, which is almost an open-air museum with its history and culture, offers a magical atmosphere to its visitors with stone houses, inns, mosques, churches and monasteries that are thousands of years old. In the district, a cave was found within the scope of a project started two years ago for cleaning and conservation of the historical streets and houses. After it was determined that...

After turning 2 years old, my son, Avishai, started demanding that he only wear tractor shirts, and my mind spiraled into darkness. I catastrophized worst-case scenarios, imagining a world where he fell for everything stereotypically manly. I envisioned him on a football field, barreling through mega-muscled opponents. Imagined him waxing a sports car on a warm summer day. I have always judged other guys who seemed boxed in by masculinity, but 3 ½ years ago, when I became a stay-at-home dad, my bias skyrocketed. My son was born in Albany, New York, on the bedroom floor of the apartment I...

Former President Donald Trump gave a powerful and inspirational keynote address at the Heritage Foundation’s annual leadership conference, Breitbart News reported.The 45th President of the United States touched on a number of pressing topics facing the nation, but he especially gave attention to the failing economy and how climate change activists have been allowed to destroy the potentially dominant American economy.The 45th President of the United States touched on a number of pressing topics facing the nation, but he especially gave attention to the failing economy and how climate change activists have been allowed to destroy the potentially dominant American...

Two newspapers - one Swedish, the other Finnish - have reported the governments of Sweden and Finland have agreed to submit NATO applications at the same time and that it will happen in the middle of next month. Finnish newspaper Iltalehti said that the Swedish government has expressed a wish to Finland that they apply together in the week starting May 22 and Swedish government sources confirmed the information to Sweden's Expressen tabloid. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to growing support in Sweden and Finland, a Russian neighbour, for joining NATO. Though not members, both Nordic countries closely co-operate...