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Police in a Colorado town are pleading with the public to "stop trying to take selfies" with a moose on the loose in the area. The Erie Police Department posted a short video to Facebook showing the moose that wandered into town walking down a road with a police escort. Police said Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are making plans to relocate the massive animal. "Please keep a safe distance (further than you would think is safe) if you encounter the moose," the Facebook post said. "Please, please, please stop trying to take selfies with wildlife." The department also asked...

It’s the inflation you’re not supposed to see. From toilet paper to yogurt and coffee to corn chips, manufacturers are quietly shrinking package sizes without lowering prices. It’s dubbed “shrinkflation,” and it’s accelerating worldwide. In the US, a small box of Kleenex now has 60 tissues; a few months ago, it had 65. Chobani Flips yogurts have shrunk from 5.3 ounces to 4.5 ounces. In the UK, Nestlé slimmed down its Nescafe Azera Americano coffee tins from 100 grams to 90 grams. In India, a bar of Vim dish soap has shrunk from 155 grams to 135 grams. Shrinkflation isn’t...

Progressive activists are still planning to protest outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh on the same day a man was arrested for planning to kill him over upcoming rulings on abortion and gun rights. “We’re protesting peacefully at his home again tonight,” Ruth Sent Us, a pro-choice and progressive group, posted on its Twitter account. The organization has been leading protests outside the home of Supreme Court justices, vowing to continue their “civil disobedience” despite laws prohibiting the gathering outside of the justices’ homes or against obstructing justice. Equal Act backers rally for Senate action on...

[Catholic Caucus] French Catholics Petition Pope Francis Over Suspension of Ordinations in ToulonThe petitioners expressed their ‘serious concern about the lasting consequences on the relations between Rome and the Christian people of France, already shaken’ by Traditionis Custodes and France’s 2021 sex abuse report.A group of Catholics from the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, in southeastern France, has petitioned Pope Francis asking him to reconsider his recent decision to suspend the ordinations of priests and deacons scheduled for the end of this month. This measure, made public June 2 by Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon, followed a fraternal visit of the diocese...

A credit scheme for greener aviation fuels will be rolled out in July, to give businesses and travellers the option of paying more to reduce their carbon footprint when they fly and transport goods by air. Announcing the pilot scheme on Wednesday (June 8), Transport Minister S. Iswaran said the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Temasek will release more details shortly. Sustainable aviation fuels currently cost up to three times that of conventional jet fuel, and credit schemes are one way for airlines to bring down the cost of using more eco-friendly fuels. All SIA...

President Biden said that Tuesday’s primary results in California, Mississippi and other states sent a message that voters want leaders who will take a tough stance on crime. “I think the voters sent a clear message last night. Both parties have to step up and do something about crime, as well as gun violence,” Biden told reporters on Wednesday before boarding Air Force One to travel to California.

With record inflation and out-of-control government spending, the notion of a fiscally responsible government seems like an afterthought. Both parties have not provided even the slightest hint at curbing expenditures in any way. The more members from both parties speak, the more money they seemingly want to spend. Fortunately, our country has at least one member of Congress concerned with our national debt: Sen. Rand Paul. On Monday, Paul introduced his "Six Penny Plan," which he says will balance the federal budget within five years. With numerous financial troubles on the horizon, his plan is the legitimate solution our country...

San Franciscans’ landslide repudiation of Chesa Boudin’s de-prosecution strategy is good for San Francisco, of course — but it’s also good for all big, dense cities such as New York. It’s even good for the climate. Cities only work when people behave according to common standards — and the de-prosecution movement has proven that absent an external deterrent, enough people will behave hellishly to make life hell for everyone else. San Franciscans voted to remove Boudin from office for a simple reason: He couldn’t deliver on his promise. The supposedly idealist young prosecutor promised to cut crime while declining to...

The Government have reiterated that 'biological sex' should determine who takes part in women's sport despite transgender cyclist Emily Bridges saying she suffered physical threats after Boris Johnson first issued that stance. When the row over Bridges' potential participation in female races erupted in April, Prime Minister Johnson weighed into the debate by claiming: 'I don't think that biological men should be competing in female sporting events.' The 21-year-old Welsh rider has since been temporarily barred from competing by cycling's world governing body, the UCI, as well as British Cycling, who have suspended their transgender policy. But Bridges criticised Johnson...

An alleged squatter with a bogus lease is refusing to leave a Chicago woman’s house — and there’s nothing cops can do about it, the homeowner said. Danielle Cruz told ABC 7 she recently put the three-bedroom Chatham pad on the market but when a contractor arrived to make some final repairs to the vacant home, a stranger was shacked up in it. Cruz immediately called the cops but when officers arrived, the nightmare house guest allegedly whipped out a fake lease and claimed to have already paid $8,000 in rent, leaving cops powerless to kick her out, she said....

Apple’s going to handle the lending for its new buy now, pay later (BNPL) service, and doesn’t plan on shifting that responsibility to a financial service, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNBC. The company’s subsidiary, Apple Financing LLC, is reportedly licensed to provide lending services and will remain separate from Apple’s main business. Apple announced its BNPL service, Pay Later, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday. The service will let users make a purchase through Apple Pay, and then pay back that amount in four equal installments over the course of six weeks with no interest....

Long-time Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said on Tuesday that he plans to release a new audiobook based on 9 hours of a never-before-heard interviews with former President Donald Trump. "I'm going through, now, nine hours of Trump interviews I did, that were not published, we're going to put out an audio book, Simon & Schuster, of nine hours of Trump that we have never heard before," Woodward said on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "You see who this man is, what he cares about, the self-focus, the absence of being concerned about the people out there," he also said. "This is...

With their eyes on Texas, a massive new migrant caravan is underway in southern Mexico. It’s the largest of 2022 and—thanks in part to Mexican government accommodations—it might soon be the biggest one on record. Many previous caravans have crumbled in sometimes-violent confrontations with National Guard troops, or upon reaching internal checkpoints where migrants are prevented from crossing Mexican state borders for lack of visas. However, caravan organizer Luis Villigran told Fox News the Mexican government has committed to start issuing 1,000 temporary work visas a day to the migrants he’s leading northward. That will certainly ease migrants’ progress. At...

Democrats in the Massachusetts House voted Wednesday to override a veto by Gov. Charlie Baker (R) that blocked legislation providing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. As Breitbart News reported last month, Baker vetoed the legislation that would allow tens of thousands of illegal aliens in the state to obtain driver’s licenses. Baker said he vetoed the plan because it “significantly increases the risk that noncitizens will be registered to vote.”

At a moment global humanitarian and hunger relief groups are warning of a “catastrophe” for already vulnerable populations particularly in Africa and the Middle East which rely heavily on Ukrainian and Black Sea region grain exports, the United Nations has said it will likely take “months” to de-mine Ukraine’s ports. The war-torn country is the fourth biggest exporter of grain in the world. Hundreds of merchant vessels had been stranded in the war’s opening months at Ukrainian ports following the Russian invasion, and still nearly 100 remain stuck along with their crews. This week a special advisor on maritime security...

At the start of the pandemic, professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics and co-author of the book “The Great COVID Panic” Dr. Paul Frijters, saw that governments’ response to COVID-19 did not match the level of lethality of the virus and decided to develop a method to quantify the harm government COVID policies would have on people’s well-being. Frijters’s analytical models revealed that the harm from policies, including lockdowns, would be colossal compared to any benefits. “I could calculate what kind of ballpark figure the mental health crisis would look like, and then I lay that...

At least one person has died in a fiery accident involving eight semis and three passenger cars on Interstate-30 in Arkansas. Arkansas Department of Transportation says there are multiple drivers injured, but have not specified how many or the extent of their injuries. Arkansas State police said there were 'fatalities.' The eastbound lanes of I-30 remain closed and backed up for miles approaching the carnage. Traffic is moving on slowly in the westbound lanes, and traffic is being diverted off the highway. Arkansas DOT is distributing food and water to drivers stranded on the interstate, and authorities are turning traffic...

Biden took no questions from reporters before embarking on his fraught ascension of the Air Force One stairs. He also did not stop to speak to the press as he departed the White House Wednesday morning. The president, 79, previously appeared to lose his balance navigating Air Force One’s steps last month as he traveled to Illinois. In March 2021, Biden fell repeatedly on the steps. The White House blamed that episode on windy weather at the airport.

The newest Taco Bell location is giving fans a new way to "Live Más." On June 7, Taco Bell Defy officially opened its doors and drive-thru lanes for a futuristic dining experience. The cutting-edge restaurant is located in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota and has some unique features to improve the drive-thru experience. A video shared on Taco Bell's Instagram shows one of the most innovative designs: the vertical lift feature. This food delivery technology, which the narrator in the Instagram video unofficially calls the "food tube," transports food from the kitchen directly to customers through a chute. The new location also...

On the cusp of nonstop, around-the-clock (primetime!) coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, a couple of domestic terrorists are actually getting their day in court, and it is informative to see how Merrick Garland’s Justice Department is handling their prosecution. Recall Garland’s breathless declaration, during his confirmation hearings, that “150 years after the Department’s founding, battling extremist attacks on our democratic institutions also remains central to its mission.” Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were arrested in the “mostly peaceful” protests following George Floyd’s murder. The two lawyers handed out Molotov cocktails to the crowd, and Rahman tossed one into...