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Attorney General primary candidate George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and the nephew of former President George W. Bush (R), was rejected by Republican voters in all but five of Texas’s 254 counties. On Tuesday, 68 percent of Republicans voted to re-elect Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been a fierce opponent of illegal immigration and the monopolistic business practices of giant tech corporations. Bush received 32 percent of votes cast, losing to Paxton in all but five of Texas’s 254 counties. The only counties Bush won were Loving County, where fewer than...

If the ratifications are agreed to this week, the WHO would also be granted sole authority over what constitutes a pandemic. And, as we have seen over the past two years, just about anything qualifies as an ‘existential threat to public health’ including, but not limited to: misinformation, parents protesting at school boards, free speech, and – of course – racism. The fact that the WHO is on the cusp of unrestricted authority to decide these measures should terrify every American.What’s more, the changes also include plans for a mandatory and universal vaccine passport system that’s overseen by the WHO....

A man in China is stunned after being quoted a standard price for a haircut and then being told afterwards the price was 12 times higher. Baidu A hair salon in China is under investigation for telling a customer a hair perm and styling cost 398 yuan (S$83) but afterwards charged him 4,776 yuan under a bizarre system whereby they divided his scalp into 12 “sections” with each costing the quoted price for the service. The man, surnamed Liu, went to the Zhenxuan Hair Salon in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, eastern China, last week to have a hair perm and styling. A...

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With essential consumer goods like cooking oil becoming more expensive, Singaporeans like housewife Raihan (above) are feeling the pinch. Raihan Ibrahim, The Straits Times file Housewife Raihan Ibrahim feels the pinch whenever she shops for groceries near her five-room HDB flat in Bedok. Prices of groceries, lamented this 44-year-old to AsiaOne, has gone up markedly in the last few years, especially cooking oil and butter. So much so that Raihan came up with a savings hack of her own – by opting for frozen ingredients instead of the more expensive fresh ingredients to cope with rising food prices. Besides switching...

A transgender woman was wrongly accused of being the teenage gunman who opened fire on a Texas elementary school. Photographs of 20-year-old Sam, of Georgia, whose last name has been omitted for her own safety, have been shared on social media after someone on 4chan, an anonymous online forum, claimed she was shooter responsive for Tuesday's school massacre. 'Here's the shooter's Reddit,' the user posted on 4chan along with a link to Sam's personal Reddit account shortly after Salvador Ramos, 18, opened fire on Robb Elementary School, killing 19 children and two teachers. Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, of Arizona, helped...

The philanthropist argues that the West must "mobilize all our resources" to defeat Putin-as the war is setting back urgent action against climate change. The invasion of Ukraine "may have been the beginning" of the Third World War, according to the philanthropist and financier George Soros. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he argues that even if this is outcome averted, the war has relegated the fight against climate change to second place-and we have "already fallen far behind". This damagw is on the verge on being irreversible-meaning that our civilization "may not survive". Such high stakes demand...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called for “total help” from other counties as Russian forces continue to advance in the eastern region of Ukraine amid Moscow’s ongoing invasion of the country. In an address, Zelensky stressed Ukraine’s need for aid from other countries, saying that Russian forces have significantly more equipment and soldiers than Ukraine in some places and adding that Moscow’s “desire to fight still remains.”

Mixed feelings abound after an older Florida woman said she shot and killed a man who had broken into her home. Virginia Morrison, 69, told outlets she was protecting herself and her partner after a stranger—later identified as Ezequiel Rosario-Torres, 38—entered her home on Sunday, said nothing, and refused to leave, even in the face of separate warning shots. “I have feelings. I have God in my life,” she told WOFL. “That’s my main thing: Wondering if God’s going to forgive me for taking a life. It bothers me.” But at least one member of Rosario-Torres’ family suggested he wanted...

Yep, there it is, the first reference to cannabis use by Salvador Ramos, the Texas elementary school killer. In the New York Times. Took 24 hours, give or take. And Ms. Rodriguez recalled he would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Start Them Young! First Cavalry Troopers show a saddle to Meadows Elementary students during the school's annual career day, May 20, 2022 on Fort Hood, TX. The career day was conducted to provide the children of servicemembers exposure to a variety of career options for their future, including civilian, and army occupations. (Photo by Sgt. Broderick Hennington) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Who Will Win Among The Mascots? The...

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that American parents are lying to their children by telling them they will be safe from mass shootings at school. Swalwell said, “The public is with us, and parents want us on offense. Look at Republicans, they go on offense on wildly unpopular issues like a woman’s right to choose, and they don’t care about public sentiment. They lean in on that. Instead, we are always, always apologizing about, well, we’re not trying to infringe on the 2nd Amendment. We’re not saying gun control. Why don’t we just have guns disciplined...

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he and first lady Jill Biden would travel to Uvalde, Texas, after a mass shooting at an elementary school. Biden said his trip to the Uvalde community would “let them know that we have a sense, just a sense of their pain and hopefully bring some little comfort to the community in shock, and grief, and in trauma.”

O n the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to crack down on US Police. The Biden regime will review the use of force policies, restrict the flow of military surplus equipment and encourage limitations on no-knock warrants

AOC says she's itching to ditch her Tesla after spat with Elon: Progressive rep says she wants to buy electric car made at unionized factory after Musk told her to stop flirting with him on Twitter AOC said that she bought the electric Tesla Model 3 in order to get back and forward to DC during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic Following her recent banter with Elon Musk on Twitter, AOC says she wants to buy an American electric car that was built by union workers AOC is one of around 10 members of Congress who own Tesla...

We are the greatest nation in the world, and we are failing our children like no other. To read the description of America’s latest school shooter is to recognize an all-too-familiar profile: Young, male, angry. Notably disturbed, witnesses piecing together the clues — including online threats made openly, not on the dark web — only after the fact. An obsession with guns, violence and first-person shooter video games. An estrangement from at least one parent. Refusal to attend school. Anger towards girls and women. Antisocial. Has no sense of belonging to family, to school, to community, and thus retreats online,...

"All hail the people of Georgia, who just rejected one poisonous big lie and disproved another. Republican primary voters overwhelmingly re-nominated Gov. Brian Kemp over ex-Sen. David Perdue, former President Donald Trump’s chosen standard-bearer for his 2020 “stolen election” fantasies."

NASA's next-generation space observatory successfully watched a moving asteroid as the telescope inches towards the end of its six-month commissioning period. The successful tracking of a nearby object shows that the James Webb Space Telescope can keep a watch on solar system objects as well as the distant galaxies, stars and other faraway objects it is expected to observe in its perhaps 20-year lifespan. asteroid named after Tenzing Norgay. The Tibetan mountaineer was one of the first two known individuals to summit Mount Everest, alongside Edmund Hillary. Coincidentally, the Webb observations took place just days before the 69th anniversary of...

Pope says ‘Irish brought the whiskey, Italians brought the Mafia,’ referring to US immigrantsROME – Speaking about the need to welcome, accompany, promote, and integrate migrants when they arrive in a new country, Pope Francis said that when it comes to the United States, “a people of migrants,” the Irish brought the whiskey and the Italians brought the mafia.To understand migrants today, the pope said, the only thing most people have to do is look to their own roots because “most of us are children or grandchildren of migrants,” himself included, as his parents arrived in Argentina from northern Italy.Recalling...

Ward talks to "Lucky" Luckadoo, World War II veteran who flew 25 B-17 missions in 1943 and the subject of "Damn Lucky," a new book written by Kevin Maurer.Watch This 100-Year-Old Badass B-17 Pilot Describe Flying into Hell | May 23, 2022 | Ward Carroll