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Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said that gas prices “didn’t matter” to her because she drives an electric vehicle while millions of Americans feel the financial burden of record-high gas prices. Stabenow’s remarks came during Tuesday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing about President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget.

Anchors Sandra Smith, John Roberts and Bret Baier reacted Tuesday on Fox News to actor Mathew McConaughey’s White House address, noting how “impassioned” McConaughey was. Smith said, “You were just listening to actor Matthew McConaughey, born in Uvalde, Texas, meeting with the victims’ families, met with the president, saying we need to make the lost lives matter. He went into the ways he believes we can improve the situation in this country and prevent mass shootings. He wants to raise the age for buying an assault rifle to 21 years old unless you are in the military. He says all...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/FOX58) — Jenny Rae Le Roux from Irvine has been a businesswoman for 20 years. Over the last 10 years, she has owned a management consulting business. The Republican will be running against Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom in the California primary election. She says as an executive, she knows what it takes to reshape the state. Le Roux says California has lost people and businesses but feels like she could bring growth back to the state. "Out of all of the candidates, I'm the only one who has worked in organizations the size of the state of California...

Brazil is the fourth-largest producer of food in the world. The country is entirely self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs, and it ranks as the world’s number one producer of banana, cacao, cassava, coffee, corn, maize, rice, soybean, and sugar. Although the bulk of these products are consumed domestically, a considerable part is also exported, including oranges, palm oils, garlic, peanuts, tea, etc. But Brazil needs a steady supply of fertilizers to power its mighty agricultural industry. The country’s largest international supplier of fertilizers is Russia, which accounts for 44 percent of the total Brazil consumes each year. Since the war in...

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas County resident has contracted the first case of monkeypox reported in Texas, state and county health officials revealed Tuesday A test for the viral disease came back positive for monkeypox, and the patient is isolated at home, officials said in separate statements. A few people had been exposed to the patient, whom officials are not identifying, and are monitoring themselves for symptoms, according to the statements. The patient also had recently traveled internationally, and officials are trying to contact passengers who had flown with the patient on a recent flight from Mexico to Dallas for...

Nasrallah v. US envoy to negotiate on maritime border: "If you (the Lebanese government) want to, continue negotiations but not with Hochstein (US envoy), Frankenstein or any Stein who comes to Lebanon" @coren_ido https://t.co/WzcagFfExU pic.twitter.com/pg69dIUAQ2— roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס (@kaisos1987) May 9, 2022

American bishops 'cold' about new pro-Lgbt cardinalPope Francis' decision to make Robert McElroy a cardinal continues to cause debate across the Atlantic. For a Father James Martin who rejoices at the nomination of McElroy, the man he defines as "a friend of the LGBTQ community" and who was also "one of the first supporters of Building a Bridge”, there is a whole US Catholic world that grew up with the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI that is turning its nose up at the nomination.The reaction of the Bishops' Conference itself, led by the Archbishop of Los Angeles...

Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf is pushing state legislators to pass a bill that would send checks up to $2,000 to households with income under $80,000.

An Australian court has ordered Twitter to supply far-right internet personality Avi Yemini with the name and email address registered to the account @PRGuy17 as part of Yemini’s effort to launch defamation action against the anonymous poster. The order was made by the Federal Court of Australia on Tuesday, and will force Twitter to hand over the name, email address, and IP addresses associated with the account on the date the account was created. Twitter will also have to supply Yemini with the IP addresses associated with tweets posted by @PRGuy17 between December 31 last year and February 11 this...

The latest ocean container bookings data reveals that despite the strong levels of inbound cargo during the first five months of 2022, import demand is not just softening — it’s dropping off a cliff. Because capacity on the trans-Pacific has remained relatively stable, Drewry’s container spot rates from China to the West Coast have plunged 41% month-over-month to $9,630. Freight forwarders will enjoy expanding margins on ocean freight, while U.S. trucking carriers and intermodal volume providers may start to see volume risks. Consumer buying patterns are rapidly normalizing to pre-COVID levels, and U.S. retailers are stuck with too much inventory....

Growing food shortages may represent the same health threat to the world as the COVID-19 pandemic, a leading global health figure has warned. Rising food and energy prices, in part sparked by the war in Ukraine, could kill millions both directly and indirectly, Peter Sands, the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday (Jun 7). "Food shortages work in two ways. One is you have the tragedy of people actually starving to death. But second is you have the fact that often much larger numbers of people are...

In a photo shared on Reddit, it showed a a boy walking around with an object resembling an assault rifle. Reddit/Singapore Raw Just days after a man was seen carrying a 'shotgun', a boy was seen walking around a parking lot with an object resembling an assault rifle. In the previous incident, the police said they are investigating two men for causing public alarm. While the boy's antics was shared in a Reddit post this morning (June 7), some pinpointed the location to Yishun and our checks online showed that the photo was taken along Yishun Street 22. In the...

There is a serious problem with the homogenized nature of cybersecurity professionals, Trellix CEO Bryan Palma said during his keynote at the RSA Conference. An overwhelming majority of individuals in the cybersecurity field identify as straight, white, and male, according to a recent Trellix-commissioned survey conducted by a market research firm. This clear lack of diversity is holding the industry back in two main ways. “First, we are turning away great people and doing our industry a significant disservice by failing to cultivate a more inclusive environment,” Palma explained. “We are all better when we benefit from the diverse perspectives...

You may have heard that drinking too much tea too close to bedtime can disrupt your sleep, but according to a new study, long-term tea consumption may also reduce the health impact of chronic insomnia . In the study published in peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications on Monday (June 6), researchers from Westlake University in China found that habitual tea drinking was linked to a lower risk of disorders related to the gut flora — the tiny organisms that live in our digestive tracts — and bile acids from the liver. Imbalances in gut microbes and bile acids are closely related...

A California Democrat behind the state’s law softening sex offender requirements for sodomy with minors suggested Tuesday that he would introduce additional legislation adding “Drag Queen 101” to school curriculums.

While former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted of lying to the FBI, a number of new details came to light during his trial. Some haven’t been made known or been widely reported. 1. FBI Lawyer Sussmann Met With Sought Perkins Coie JobSussmann passed along claims about Clinton presidential rival Donald Trump to FBI lawyer James Baker on Sept. 19, 2016, as well as data that supposedly supported the claims. Baker gave the information to others in the bureau, triggering an investigation. The FBI and CIA both determined the claims were unsupported. Baker, while testifying during the trial,...

Explanation: Do dragons fight on the altar of the sky? Although it might appear that way, these dragons are illusions made of thin gas and dust. The emission nebula NGC 6188, home to the glowing clouds, is found about 4,000 light years away near the edge of a large molecular cloud unseen at visible wavelengths, in the southern constellation Ara (the Altar). Massive, young stars of the embedded Ara OB1 association were formed in that region only a few million years ago, sculpting the dark shapes and powering the nebular glow with stellar winds and intense ultraviolet radiation. The recent...

A majority of Americans said they believe the U.S. is headed for another Great Depression, according to the latest Rasmussen survey. A total of 55% of respondents said another 1930s-like depression was likely over the next few years — the highest finding since 2009, Rasmussen Reports said. Of that total, 25% said they thought another depression was very likely. The Rasmussen survey found that 34% don't think another depression was likely, and 11% were not sure. The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted May 11-12. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday said the U.S. faced the "very real risk of...

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — Days after he told a conservative podcast that he was going to Texas A&M University, Kyle Rittenhouse corrected himself on Twitter to say that he is planning to attend Blinn College, a two-year public college, this year. His announcement comes one day after a Texas A&M spokesperson told The Texas Tribune on Sunday that Rittenhouse had not in fact been accepted at the Tier One research university for this summer or fall, despite his claims about his plans to attend. The university would not say whether Rittenhouse had applied to the school.