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The White House is ready to turn mental health awareness into action with its participation in the second-annual Mental Health Action Day, in partnership with MTV. First lady Dr. Jill Biden and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy led a conversation at the White House on Wednesday for the first-ever Mental Health Youth Action Forum, where they were joined by Selena Gomez and 30 mental health activists and content creators. By both sharing individual experiences with mental health and mental illness, and introducing actionable ways to be proactive about mental well-being, the group highlighted the Biden-Harris administration's priority in tackling...

Or you can buy the only grocery item that’s apparently inflation-proof: 99-cent AriZona iced tea. Context The annual Inflation rate currently stands at a 40-year-high of 8.5%, the highest level of inflation since December 1981. As prices surge, two categories have particularly hit Americans’ wallets. One is fuel, which reached an all-time record national average of $4.33 per gallon in mid-March, and fuel still remains at a near-high $4.12 per gallon as of this writing. Another is food, which as of February had experienced 7.9% year-over-year inflation. What the bill does The Food and Fuel Family Savings Act would give...

The University of Central Florida must reinstate a longtime tenured professor who was fired after comments he made on Twitter were roundly condemned as racist following the murder of George Floyd, an arbitrator has ruled. The university had said in June 2020 that it was investigating Negy’s comments on Twitter “If Afr. Americans as a group, had the same behavioral profile as Asian Americans (on average, performing the best academically, having the highest income, committing the lowest crime, etc.), would we still be proclaiming ‘systematic racism’ exists?” he wrote. In another comment on Twitter, he wrote, “Black privilege is real:...

Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign "agreed" to leak alleged secret communications between Donald Trump and Russia's Alfa Bank to the media, Clinton's former campaign manager, Robby Mook, testified Friday in the U.S. government's case against former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann. Sussmann is accused of lying to the FBI in 2016 when he tried to drum up an investigation damaging to Trump. Mook during the hearing said he was told by campaign general counsel Marc Elias that the Alfa data had come from "people that had expertise in this sort of matter" and that while the campaign was not...

Harley-Davidson is suspending manufacturing for two weeks and has shut down operations in Wisconsin and York, Pennsylvania due to supply chain issues. The shutdown affects the Harley plant in Menomonee Falls. According to a company press release, the decision was made "out of an abundance of caution, is based on information provided by a third-party supplier to Harley-Davidson late on Tuesday concerning a regulatory compliance matter relating to the supplier’s component part.” The news sank Harley's stock price nearly 9% shortly before Thursday’s market open. Shares closed at $32.43, down 9.3%. In York, Harley announced the company would also suspend...

Belgium’s three confirmed cases of monkeypox have been linked to a large-scale fetish festival in the port city of Antwerp, organisers said Friday. Several European countries have reported cases in recent days, and the World Health Organisation is investigating whether some outbreaks spread within the gay community.

It's very hard to stop inflation without a recession," says Larry Harris, former chief economist of the SEC. While the impact may be felt broadly, every household will experience it to varying degrees. Still, there is advice that is universal. By nearly every measure, the U.S. economy made a stunning recovery after the coronavirus pandemic spurred mass shutdowns and layoffs nationwide. The labor market has added back millions of jobs and wages have gone up substantially, even among lower-paying positions. But soaring inflation and rapidly rising interest rates have most Americans worried that the good times will be short lived....

A project to increase access to central Ohio’s main rivers and creeks has a new leader, and it’s a name familiar to many. Dr. Amy Acton, who served as Ohio’s health director during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, was named Thursday the director of RAPID 5. RAPID 5 is a nonprofit group that looks to expand public access to undeveloped areas near Franklin County’s major waterways. RAPID stands for “River And Parks + Imagination + Design,” and the 5 refers to the Big Darby Creek, Scioto River, Olentangy River, Alum Creek and Big Walnut Creek. “This is a...

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. House passed a bill on Thursday that allows the U.S. president to issue an energy emergency declaration, making it unlawful for companies to excessively increase gasoline and home fuel prices. The bill must pass the Senate, which is unlikely, and be signed by President Joe Biden to become law. The legislation, sponsored by Democratic Representatives Katie Porter and Kim Schrier, passed the House 217 to 207, with no Republicans supporting it. In the Senate, evenly divided at 50 members in each party, 10 Republicans would need to support it for the bill to...

ACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Leaders of a Tennessee abortion clinic calculated driving distances and studied passenger rail routes as they scanned the map for another place to offer services if the U.S. Supreme Court lets states restrict or eliminate abortion rights. They chose Carbondale in Illinois - a state that has easy abortion access but is surrounded by more restrictive states in the Midwest and South. It will be the southernmost clinic in Illinois when it opens in August. "I think at this point, we all know the stark reality that we´re facing in Tennessee. We are going to lose...

May 20, 2022 ***BREAKING Hillary campaign manager testifies that she approved spread of Russiagate lie https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/ex-fbi-general-counsel-baker-continue-cross-examination?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter ***BREAKING Hillary Clinton approved dissemination of Trump-Russian bank allegations to media, campaign manager testifies https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-approved-trump-russian-bank-allegations-sussmann-trial Defense team in Sussmann trial cross examines Durham witness, ex-FBI attorney Baker for second day https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/ex-fbi-general-counsel-baker-continue-cross-examination Marc Elias testifies about fusion GPS https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/marc-elias-testifies-about-fusion-gpss-trump-russia-dirt-digging-in-sussmann-case Reluctant Witness Devastates Defense Claims In Special Counsel Criminal Case https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/20/reluctant-witness-devastates-defense-claims-in-special-counsel-criminal-case/ Turley: Jury pool in Michael Sussmann trial a 'nightmare' for prosecutors https://www.foxnews.com/media/turley-jury-pool-michael-sussmann-trial-nightmare-prosecutors May 19th, 2022 FBI witness in Sussmann trial says Trump-Alfa Bank allegation was 'far-reaching,' not objective | Just The News https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/second-day-sussmann-trial-opening-statements-witness *Recommended by...

In recent weeks, the tumult in Washington has largely centered on the issue of student loans. Almost every Democrat and left-leaning pundit has come out in favor of some degree of relief for those who have amassed debts to pay for college. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) for example, penned a Washington Post opinion piece with the exhortative title, “President Biden, it’s time to cancel student debt.” What he wants the President to do is to forgive students of their payment obligations under their federal student loan contracts. It’s highly questionable whether the President has the legal authority to unilaterally forgive...

Amid the rampant hyperbole in reaction to the Supreme Court’s pending overturn of Roe v. Wade, nothing has been more misleading than the accusation from leftist activists, the media and Democrats — even President Biden himself — that gay rights could be next. “We’re outraged,” the Human Rights Campaign president declared, “because reproductive rights are LGBTQ+ rights.” A similar statement from GLAAD trumpeted, “None of us are safe from the extreme anti-women and anti-LGBTQ ideology that now dominates this Court.” As the president of the country’s largest organization representing LGBT Republicans and their allies, I see this false line of...

Facebook employees were told to stop discussing abortion at work after the subject has become 'the most divisive and reported topic' on the company's internal chat system. Executives at Meta, its parent company, allege abortion discussions on Workplace, an internal social media platform, have put the organization at 'an increased risk' of being seen as a 'hostile work environment,' The Verge reported. VP of HR Janelle Gale, during a town hall meeting Thursday, told staff the abortion discussions isolate certain employees and are harmful to the work environment. 'Even if people are respectful, and they're attempting to be respectful about...

SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) - China is quietly ramping up purchases of oil from Russia at bargain prices, according to shipping data and oil traders who spoke to Reuters, filling the vacuum left by Western buyers backing away from business with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine in February. The move by the world's biggest oil importer comes a month after it initially cut back on Russian supplies, for fear of appearing to openly support Moscow and potentially expose its state oil giants to sanctions. read more China's seaborne Russian oil imports will jump to a near-record 1.1 million barrels...

Ok so she finished 3rd. The Hannity hate worked. Her tweet's didn't help. Neither did the infighting amongst the freepers. We have to keep the seat. Lose it and it's gone for 6 years. Trump knows it. Taking a chance on Oz is a deal with the devil-we all know that too. She fought hard and didn't quit like too many republicans do before as well as after elections. She kept it up after losing by 20 points in the house election. In her defense the district appears deep blue and if she fought the good fight in an expected...

A furious female skateboarder has slammed Red Bull for sponsoring a contest where she placed second to her trans rival. Taylor Silverman claims she and other female competitors were disadvantaged by officials at the Red Bull Cornerstone Contest, where she placed second and received a $2,750 award. Trans skateboarder Lillian Gallagher was awarded $5,000 for placing first and winning two separate divisions - money that Silverman says should have been given to her. Silverman, who has been skateboarding for 11 years, said when she tried to reach out to officials to 'do the right thing even if it's not the...

A '90s actor who starred in the hit TV show "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" has been charged with perpetuating a scheme to defraud the U.S. government of CARES Act funds, according to the Department of Justice. Austin St. John, who played the red Power Ranger on the show, which aired from 1993 to 1995, was one of 18 charged with filing fraudulent applications for loans from the Paycheck Protection Program, and transferring them to the two ringleaders of the scheme. St. John, whose real name is Jason Geiger, allegedly obtained more than $400,000 in fraudulent PPP loans and transferred them...

In March 2021, the National Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. The report focused specifically on a Monkeypox outbreak. This tabletop exercise can be added to a long list of other pandemic table top exercises. In a previous thread that I wrote back in November 2021 (before my twitter account was banned) I wrote a thread entitled “Who Are The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security And Why Did They Publish A Document Called The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028”. In that thread I spoke of 4 pandemic tabletop...

We want to open this evening with a story you may not have heard, but that you should definitely know about. It begins early last year when Joe Biden, in one of his very first acts as president, brought the United States back into the World Health Organization. We saw this, and we thought: Why would Biden be so anxious to do something like that? At the time, we assumed it was just part of his larger de-orangification effort. Trump had pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, so Biden had to do the opposite. Childish, but that...