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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s population shrank for the second year in a row in 2021 as the nation’s most populous state was hit by declining birth rates, higher deaths from the pandemic and fewer people moving into the state from elsewhere in the U.S., officials said Monday. California lost 117,552 people in 2021, putting its population to 39,185,605, the California Department of Finance said. That’s still the largest state population in the country ahead of second-place Texas. But after years of steady population growth for California that put it close to having 40 million residents, the state’s population is...

First lady Jill Biden will visit with Ukrainian refugees in Romania and Slovakia over Mother’s Day, the White House announced Monday. The first lady will travel to Romania on May 5, where she will meet with US service members at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase, US Embassy staff and humanitarian aid workers as well as members of the Romanian government over the course of several days.

RNLI volunteers sped to the rescue as the vessel was "engulfed" in flamesA huge 55-foot boat went up in flames near a Welsh coast with two people managing to escape. Emergency services came to the rescue on Saturday night after the vessel caught on fire near Aberthaw. In a post on social media, Barry Dock RNLI said two people had abandoned a 55-foot vessel, which was "engulfed" by flames, and had taken refuge on a life raft. A pilot vessel known as Bristol Interceptor was first to reach the scene and take the two seafarers onboard. You can read all...

President Biden and former President Clinton had lunch together at the White House on Monday, a White House official told The Hill. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the meeting for reporters and said the pair were having “a wide-ranging discussion.” She noted Biden has “had a number of conversations” with the former president. “And they talked about having lunch just a few weeks ago so this is an opportunity to do exactly that, and I’m sure they will have a broad conversation,” she added.

Famed leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky has credited former President Donald Trump for being one of the few prominent statesmen in the West actively pushing for peace in Ukraine as opposed to escalating war with Russia. Though Chomsky called the former president a dangerous figure for a host of reasons during a recent virtual interview, he did admit that Trump has proposed practical, peaceful solutions to ending the war in Ukraine. Chomsky said: Well, there is, fortunately, one statesman in the United States and Europe, a high political figure, who has made a very sensible statement about how you can...

Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought...As daggers are often found in weapon-rich male burials, or ‘warrior graves’, many researchers speculated that they were primarily ceremonial objects used in prehistoric funerals to mark out the identity and status of the deceased. Others suggested that they may have been used as weapons or tools for crafts.However, the lack of a targeted method of analysis for copper-alloy metals, like those available for ceramic, stone, and shell artefacts, left this problem unresolved.A revolutionary...

Find your local county committee. Ask if there is a vacancy in your precinct. The time commitment should be about one meeting per month ! -OFFICIALLY ENDORSED BY TRUMP

After May 7, 2022 there will exist a dynamic in the nation that has not since America woke up on the morning after the election in 2020. Simply put, we were right. By “we” I’m referring to everyone from the harshest critic of the “vote fraud” crowds but who in the back of their mind couldn’t have confidence in the oft repeated lie “most secure election in history,” to people just like you and me who had the audacity to ask about it and were told to shut up, sit down, or we’d be cancelled. The premiere of Dinesh D’Souza’s...

AP films Ukrainian security services as they hunt down and arrest civilians with pro-Russian views in Kharkov. The man in the video is detained for making anti-Ukrainian posts on social media...

In a darkened room in Washington, faithful followers of the Biden administration gathered dutifully for this morning's Two Minutes Hate. Every day, zealous disciples of the Party come together to rile one another up in hatred and anger over a different target of the Party's wrath. Recent objects of the Two Minutes Hate include LibsofTikTok, Elon Musk, and The Babylon Bee. Today, it was Tucker Carlson. The crowd writhed and jeered, slowly building in energy and hate as images of Carlson appeared on screen with words flashing across such as "racist", "white supremacist", and "look at that dazzling smile, it's...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that she believed President Joe Biden being able to laugh at himself during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner proves he is “mentally stable,” unlike former President Donald Trump. Discussing comedian Trevor Noah’s performance, Behar said, “Can I say something about Trevor because I’m a comedian, and you are? I think that’s a very hard job. He was good for, like, almost an hour. His jokes were, like, so smoothly integrated into the bit. To make Washington laugh is hard. The only audience that’s worst than Washington are doctors. They’re the...

The chick was sleeping Monday on one of its parents' feet when "the parent took off, and it just accidentally knocked the chick out of the nest," research ecologist Peter Sharpe, who oversees the bald eagle restoration project on the Channel Islands in California, told CNN. Sharpe and his team are monitoring 21 bald eagle nests on the islands this season. The eaglet fell between 10 and 15 feet and landed in a steep gully, Sharpe said. The nest is monitored with a video camera that captured the fuzzy youngster's dramatic fall. The rescue team arrived Tuesday, and Sharpe and...

Lavrov got the "idea" to utter the sad sentence to make distorted and cynical use of historical Nazism, some time after the "talks" between Russia and the "moderate" Abu Mazen --infamous Holocaust distorted since the 1980s-- on the Temple Mount, as a payback for denouncing Bucha and other massacres _______________ CHRONOLOGY: "Russia's message to Israel: a telephone conversation between Putin and Abu Mazen," Elior Levy, Reuters. While Israel is facing riots in Jerusalem, preparing for a political crisis with Jordan and exchanging stings with the Kremlin, the Russian president spoke by telephone with the Palestinian Authority chairman. According to...

The level of the Dead Sea is currently dropping by more than a meter every year. But this is not new, according to German and Israeli researchers who maintain that the level of the salty lake also dropped millennia ago. At the end of the last ice age, for example, the water level dropped by 250 meters within a few thousand years...Dr. Daniela Müller and Prof. Achim Brauer from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam, together with Dr. Yoav Ben Dor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studied 15,000-year-old sediments from the Dead Sea and the surrounding...

Deborah Birx, a leading member of the Trump administration’s White House coronavirus task force, said on Sunday the U.S. should be prepared for another potential COVID-19 surge after a recent uptick in infections in South Africa. “Each of these surges are about four to six months apart. That tells me that natural immunity wanes enough in the general population after four to six months that a significant surge is going to occur again. And this is what we have to be prepared for in this country,” she added. Birx specifically warned Americans should be “preparing right now for a potential...

A truck driver who law enforcement believes was driving under the influence dumped 2,000 gallons of "hot asphalt binder" in a California forest this week. Raoul Payette, Jr., 58, was driving on Highway 199 in Del Norte County Tuesday with a damaged tire, California Highway Patrol said. Near the town of Gasquet, CHP says Payette's semi-truck drifted off the road and into a power pole, which fell onto the highway. He allegedly continued on for another mile until the trailer he was towing overturned. Officials from Six Rivers National Forest said the trailer contained 2,000 gallons of "hot asphalt binder,"...

He may have been killed in a simmering beef that started over duck sauce. A longtime co-worker of the Chinese food deliveryman fatally shot in Forest Hills on Saturday told The Post that the disgruntled customer wanted for questioning by cops in the slaying first hassled the joint over the amount of duck sauce it gave him. One night late last year, “The customer came in and ordered some food,” recalled Great Wall restaurant worker Soi Chung, 70. “He left with the food but then came back and said, ‘It’s not enough.’ He came to the counter and wanted more...

City health officials are “strongly” encouraging Minneapolis residents to put their face masks back on, regardless of vaccination status. The Minneapolis Health Department said in a Thursday news release that residents should “wear masks in indoor public settings and businesses,” citing an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The city said its seven-day new case rate has increased from 51 infections per 100,000 people in mid-March to 227 per 100,000. Hospitalizations have increased from 1.9 per 100,000 people to 4.8 per 100,000, which the city describes as “above the caution threshold.” The city boasted about using “science to guide its...

I have been using plant fertilizer Eleanor's VF-11 for decades on plants, both indoors and outdoors. I like it because it is effective almost immediately and best of all, it does not burn the plants so easily, the way most fertilizers do. Since the Covid era began, this particular product has been near impossible to find in retail stores. I went to the website for Eleanor's VF-11 and ordered one gallon for about $25.00. My money was accepted on April 5th, 2022. I received a Receipt of that sale and told I would be contacted when it shipped. Since then,...

Supporters keen to see president throw his hat in the ring again.Donald Trump dropped a big hint that he is preparing to run for president again in 2024 during a ‘Save America’ rally in Greenwood, Nebraska.Trump appeared at the event, which was attended by thousands of his supporters, to publicly endorse gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster.The former president showed off his iconic dance moves to ‘Hold On, I’m Comin’ by Sam & Dave, a performance that many of his supporters took as confirmation that he will throw his hat in the ring once again.Nothing like a Trump Rally to get you...