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A proposed California desalination plant that would produce 50 million gallons of drinking water per day failed a crucial regulatory hurdle on Monday, possibly dooming a project that had been promoted as a partial solution for sustained drought. The staff of the California Coastal Commission recommended denying approval of the Huntington Beach plant proposed by Poseidon Water, controlled by the infrastructure arm of Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management. The commission’s staff said the project was more susceptible to sea-level rise than was understood when it was first proposed more than two decades ago. The plant is expected to produce 50 million...

An 88-year-old retired NYPD cop living out his golden years in Ireland was busted in a dragnet worthy of a Hollywood movie — for keeping an old, decommissioned revolver in his home. The daring morning police raid was the largest in recent memory in the tiny village of Swanlinbar, County Cavan, population 200, when up to 10 armed officers in six vehicles descended on the picture-postcard hamlet.

The U.S. government faced a potential nuclear crisis in 2020, when Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, fearing then-President Donald Trump would order the U.S. military to strike China, plotted to thwart any such directive with a scheme that one prominent Republican lawyer likened to “‘The Caine Mutiny’ with plutonium.” The podcast was taped with New York litigator George Conway and Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carol Leonnig on the panel. All three, to varying degrees, expressed skepticism as to whether Trump will ultimately be indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election — despite the...

A major staff fail: they put up the wrong video! They were supposed to post the one where we MADE all our shots….@JoshMandelOhio https://t.co/Wfqsgj7bBD— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 30, 2022TOLEDO, OHIO — @TedCruz and I at Northwest Baptist Church getting warmed up for rally. Pastors over politicians and backboards over bricks! pic.twitter.com/NLm6X0IhvF— Josh Mandel (@JoshMandelOhio) April 30, 2022

Hi guys! I am glad to see you again on my channel! In this video, we gonna visit a grocery store and check prices after 2 months of the war in Ukraine. We'll also make a grocery shopping and check how much we spent and how prices changed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OdOkOmmX3A

"My Love from the Star" is a Korean drama about the frustrations of being a storm-tossed actress in love with a Superman-like alien who has to go back to his star or die.

Look up in the sky at the right moment this weekend and you could see two of the solar system's brightest planets almost touching. Venus and Jupiter will be millions of miles apart, but from Earth they will appear close to colliding. This planetary conjunction happens annually but this year they will appear much closer than usual. The same spectacle won't occur again like this until 2039. Just the naked eye or binoculars should be enough to see it in a clear sky. After Saturday, the two planets will go their separate ways as they drift apart in the coming...

A new Freedom Center pamphlet reveals the worst, most humiliating, and most dangerous defeat in the history of American warfare. The David Horowitz Freedom Center is excited to announce the publication of its new pamphlet, written by Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield: How Obama and Biden Destroyed the Greatest Military the World Has Ever Seen. Read the introduction, written by Greenfield and Freedom Center founder David Horowitz, below. Read the whole PDF version: HERE. To order the pamphlet: CLICK HERE. Introduction by David Horowitz and Daniel Greenfield Joseph R. Biden is directly responsible for the worst, most humiliating, most dangerous –...

Calcium supplements are linked to a heightened risk of death among those with aortic valve stenosis, a progressive and potentially fatal condition, finds research. What's more, these supplements seem to worsen the condition, irrespective of whether or not they are combined with vitamin D. Aortic stenosis occurs when the aortic valve, the main outflow valve of the heart, stiffens and narrows. This means it can no longer open fully, reducing or blocking blood flow from the heart into the rest of the body. …Participants were divided into those not taking any supplements (1292;49%), those supplemented with vitamin D alone (332;12%),...

ecretary of State Tony Blinken, arguably the worst Secretary of State in modern US history, testified before Congress this week. During one interaction with Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) asked Blinken about Hunter Biden. Blinken refused to discuss hypotheticals. Maybe it’s because Tony Blinken met with Hunter back in 2015 when he was Deputy Secretary of State. The New York Post reported on their meeting back in November 2020. Hunter Biden sought a meeting with his president-elect dad’s pick for secretary of state shortly after joining the board of a controversial Ukrainian energy company in 2015, according to a report Tuesday....

Can you win by losing or conceding an election? Yes. At the moment, a growing number of people in politics — including many from the left — believe that both the Biden/Harris White House and the Democratic Party are damaged brands. Granted, in politics the negative can often be flipped back to the positive in a matter of weeks or months.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that President Joe Biden needs to understand how important of an issue immigration is after the recent elections in France and past votes in the U.K. and U.S. and stated that working-class voters have “a reasonable argument, that there’s this elitist group that’s running the world that’s left us behind.”

A report from the Daily Wire states that the “FBI may have conducted millions of warrantless searches of Americans’ electronic data,” during the 2021 fiscal year, per a report released on April 29th from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). According to this report, from December 2020 through November 2021, the FBI conducted “fewer than 3,394,053” searches of U.S. data that was pulled from the National Security Agency (NSA). The rationale for the report reading “fewer than” when detailing the data inquiries is due to a rather complex and arguably funny bit of math in reporting data...

President Donald Trump called 2020 Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon "very attractive" in meeting, adding, "not that I've looked at a woman that way in five years," according to a forthcoming book by two New York Times reporters. Authors Jonathan Martins and Alexander Burns detail Trump's involvement in downballot races and 2020 meetings with party leaders in their forthcoming book "This Will Not Pass," which Insider obtained ahead of its May 3 release. Then-Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, they wrote, tried to avoid bringing up races where Trump disliked the Republican incumbent, like GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who openly...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to destroy the Donbas and all who live there. “The constant brutal bombardments, the constant Russian strikes on infrastructure and residential areas show that Russia wants to empty this territory of all people. Therefore, the defence of our land, the defence of our people, is literally a fight for life,” he said late Friday in his nightly video address to the nation.

Douglas Emhoff told a group that brings Jews and Muslims together that his history-making role as the second gentleman and as the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president has brought him closer to Judaism. “I didn’t realize what a big deal it would be not only to the Jewish community and to faith communities but to myself,” Emhoff said Thursday at an iftar, or Ramadan break-fast, hosted by the Muslim Jewish Advisory Council. “It’s actually driven me closer to faith. It has opened my eyes to a lot of things.” Emhoff noted, for instance, the Passover seder...

One of the most remarkable developments in the last two national elections was the surge in voting among young people, historically a low-turnout crowd who proved pivotal to Democrats winning a House majority in 2018 and Joe Biden winning the presidency.A lingering question has been whether that was a Trump-era anomaly or whether it marked an enduring change in voting behavior.The good news, according to a new poll of 18-to-29-year-olds released this week by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, is that turnout among the young is on track to be as high as it was in the 2018...

Nina Jankowicz is the Czar of Biden's newly minted Disinformation Governance Board. The 33-year-old comes equipped with a vastly oversized ego and little else. No one thinks more of her than does she.She claims that she wants to protect free speech. On the other hand, she opposes free speech.Jankowicz also suggested last week that she opposes The First Amendment because she thinks it is bad for 'marginalized communities' and called Elon Musk a 'free speech absolutist' because he wants to make Twitter more open to all voices.Se echoed the falsehood that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformationWhen questioned, she said...

The Justice Department filed a complaint Friday challenging Alabama's Senate Bill (S.B.) 184, which bans transgender treatments for children. The DOJ asserts that criminalizing the sexual transition of children is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment on the grounds of equal protection. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation this month to outlaw puberty blocking medications for minors. The bill makes it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to transgender children to help in their gender transition.

While insisting that "I don't want to denigrate the accomplishments of former President Obama, I have to say that right now he is terribly jealous of what President Biden has done," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a close friend. "Some of the things that Barrack couldn't get done in eight years have come to pass in less than two years of the Biden Administration." "It's an impressive list," she boasted. "First, the borders are open. While Barrack was concerned that the president lacked the constitutional authority to just ignore existing law, Joe plowed straight ahead and did everything by executive...