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President Biden on Tuesday night said the “gun lobby” is responsible for US mass shootings and called for new gun control laws after a gunman murdered 18 children and two adults at an elementary school in Texas. “As a nation, we have to ask when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?” Biden said in remarks from the White House just before 9 p.m. “It’s been 3,448 days — 10 years — since I stood up...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday lamented the lack of Senate support for tougher gun laws following a mass shooting in Texas hours earlier but rejected the notion of eliminating the filibuster for the purpose of passing such a bill. Manchin noted that he has three grandchildren similar in age to the victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where at least 14 kids and one teacher were shot and killed. “It’s just absolutely horrific,” Manchin said. “You all know where I stand; I’ll do anything I can.” Pressed on whether he would consider scrapping the filibuster to tighten...

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A Border Patrol agent is being credited with killing the gunman in a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. An anonymous law enforcement official told the Associated Press that an agent rushed into Robb Elementary School without waiting for backup. The Border Patrol agent shot and killed the gunman, who was hiding behind a barricade, this source said. The as-yet-unidentified agent was wounded but able to walk out of the school, the source added. Border Patrol sources told Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that the agent believed to have shot and killed the gunman...

As truckers see higher costs at the gas pump, consumers may find everything becoming more expensive he Biden administration is considering tapping a rarely used diesel reserve to help ease the pain at the gas pump as inflation continues to drive up prices. Diesel prices sky-rocketed in the past year, soaring to a staggering $5.57. Last year, the average cost for a gallon of diesel was around $3.00. Imagine paying today’s price to fill up more than 100 gallons. That’s what truckers are facing across the country. Last week, somebody came and paid $1,200 to fill his tanks. The gas...

Time to dig out those bell-bottoms and eight-track tapes. Wall Street may be headed for a second season of “That ’70s Show.” Not that today’s millennial investors know what those items are of course. A pair of high-profile financial commentators went on record this week saying investors may need to study the playbook for the 1970s if they want to make money in the 2020s. Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens’ College at Cambridge and chief economic adviser at Allianz, warned of a ’70s-style “stagflation” in a Bloomberg interview this week, blaming the Federal Reserve’s view in 2021 that inflation would...

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Energy bills are set to go up by more than £800 this autumn - as the regulator warned that the price cap is likely to hit £2,800 in October. Ofgem's boss described soaring gas prices as a "once in a generation event" - made even more acute by Russia's war in Ukraine. Campaigners say - millions more people will be thrust into what is known as “fuel stress” - forced to choose between paying for food or heating their homes. ...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, and the Media. "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness." (1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. "If my people, who are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from...

Australia's economy minister on Wednesday (Mar 25) called on China to drop punishing trade tariffs if it wants to thaw frozen relations, after Beijing sent a message signalling it is ready to improve ties. China - Australia's biggest trading partner - imposed tariffs and disrupted more than a dozen key industries, including wine, barley and coal, as relations deteriorated sharply in the past two years. Canberra had irked Beijing by calling for an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and by banning telecoms giant Huawei from building Australia's 5G network.

A San Francisco Bay Area gas station is charging nearly $8 per gallon ahead of Memorial Day weekend as California’s average price continues to trend upward, ABC’s KABC-TV 7 reported on Tuesday. The Chevron station in Menlo Park, California, was pictured offering regular gasoline to customers at a price of $7.25 per gallon, with its higher-octane gasoline hitting $7.75 per gallon. Gas prices are spiking across the country at shocking rates. In California alone, gasoline has gone up almost $2 per gallon over the last year. That number over the same period nationwide is $1.61, according to The Daily Wire....

The United Kingdom supports a proposal by Lithuania to recruit an international fleet of naval warships to break the Russian blockade of Ukraine which is preventing the export of huge amounts of grain to the rest of the world. Millions of tons of grain are stuck inside Ukraine and without it, levels of world hunger are considered highly likely to rise and may even trigger another migrant crisis. Such is the background to the suggestion by Lithuania that a so-called “coalition of the willing” of warships outside the structures of NATO,/B> could work together on getting food out of Ukraine’s...

Newt Gingrich: ... So the president overall, President Trump overall has a very good track record. Look, I want to say I was for Perdue. And as you know, I'm very deeply for Jake Evans in the sixth District. But the fact is that Governor Kemp, to his credit, put together a very powerful campaign, used all the weapons that a sitting governor has to raise an amazing amount of money spent about two and a half months demolishing Perdue as a candidate, with Perdue not having the money to counter it. And Kemp is going to win a significant...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is willing to spend over $100 million on his preferred candidate in the 2024 election. What Happened: In a recent podcast interview with Jacob Goldstein, Bankman-Fried said he had a “soft cap” of $1 billion that he would likely spend on supporting his ideal candidate in a presidential campaign. Goldstein asked whether the FTX chief was going to be a big spender on campaigns in the next election cycle, to which Bankman-Fried responded that it would largely depend on who would be running. “Let’s say Donald Trump runs for President....

This summer, power grids worldwide won’t produce enough electricity to meet the soaring demand, threatening more than one billion people with rolling blackouts. Grids are stretched thin by fossil fuel shortages,/B>, drought and heatwaves, commodity disruptions and soaring prices due to the war in Ukraine, and the failed green energy transition where grid operators retired too many fossil fuel generation plants. Combine this all together, and a perfect storm of blackouts threatens much of the Northern Hemisphere. The power crisis, affecting a large swath of the world and top economies, could be less than a month away when summer begins...

Following Tuesday's mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, Arizona GOP congressman Paul Gosar spread a false and transphobic claim that the suspected shooter was a "transsexual leftist illegal alien." Gosar tweeted the claim even though authorities had already identified the suspect as an 18-year-old male resident of Uvalde, where the shooting occurred. As of Tuesday evening, the GOP representative has not commented on his tweet, which was deleted about two hours after being published. This false claim has been proliferating on social media with photos of a transgender person unrelated to the attack. The images appear to have been...

Alabama’s Senate race is serving up as a proxy battle between Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul’s divergent visions of the Republican Party. While Paul has campaigned on behalf of Mo Brooks, the Alabama congressman who on Jan. 6 urged the crowd of Donald Trump’s supporters to start “taking down names and kicking ass” before the storming of the U.S. Capitol, McConnell’s allies favor Katie Britt, a telegenic 40-year-old who ran the state’s Business Council. “The people who I trust that I know really well from my state, Thomas Massie and others, tell me he has a great voting record ......

<p>Ricky Gervais’ Netflix comedy special “SuperNature” has only been released on the streamer for a few hours, but it has already drawn criticism for a string of graphic and hurtful transphobic jokes.</p><p>Four minutes into the special, Gervais dives into material about the trans community, seemingly calculated to draw controversy.</p>

“Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen” (Proverbs 25:6-7).

Tesla stock reached an all time high of $1,243 in November 2021. Today, it briefly touched $620 before closing at $628.