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Beijing will "not hesitate to start a war" if Taiwan declares independence, China's defence minister warned his US counterpart on Friday (Jun 10), the latest salvo between the superpowers over the island. The warning came as Wei Fenghe held his first face-to-face meeting with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore. US-China tensions have been soaring over democratic, self-ruled Taiwan, which lives under constant threat of invasion by China. Beijing views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary.

Thirteen Peruvian shamans gathered on Friday to perform spiritual rituals with rattles, smoke and flowers in support of the national soccer team ahead of their World Cup playoff against Australia in Qatar. Peru take on the Socceroos at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan on Monday, with the winners taking one of the last spots at the World Cup finals in the Gulf state later this year. The shaman, dressed in multicolored Andean ponchos and cloaks, performed the ceremony on a hillside in Lima around a portrait of the Peru team.

When you're at the zoo, you're probably looking out to see the exotic animals. However, one should pay even more attention to the surroundings and signage. Ilham, a tour guide in Indonesia, was driving tourists through Sinka Zoo in West Kalimantan on Thursday (June 9) afternoon when he stopped to change the car's tire as it had a puncture. The 49-year-old then jumped over a fence to wash his dirty hands at a pond, not knowing it houses one of the zoo's crocodiles, reported Detik News, an Indonesian online news platform. "When the victim was at the edge of the...

Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig to launch write-in campaign for Michigan governor Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press Fri, June 10, 2022 Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, whose nominating petition for governor was rejected by state officials because of too many fraudulent signatures, announced Thursday he will launch a write-in campaign for the Republican nomination. "I'm going to run as a write-in," Craig said Thursday night on "Let it Rip" on Fox 2 Detroit. "I'm going to be the next governor." Craig, who retired after eight years as chief in Detroit in June 2021, said he made the decision...

The Biden administration will scrap a paint scheme for Air Force One proposed by former President Donald Trump, after the Air Force determined the design would create too much heat for the presidential aircraft, a U.S. official said on Friday. The current exterior color scheme on the presidential aircraft, known as Air Force One when the president is on board, is white with two shades of blue and dates back to President John F. Kennedy's administration. Trump, who left office in January 2021, wanted to change it to red, white and blue. "The Trump paint scheme is not being considered...

Two days before the second anniversary of Rayshard Brooks’ death, the two Atlanta police officers charged in the 27-year-old’s shooting filed federal lawsuits alleging they were falsely arrested and their constitutional rights were violated. Attorney Lance LoRusso filed the lawsuits late Friday on behalf of Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan, the officers who attempted to arrest Brooks in the parking lot of an Atlanta Wendy’s. Named as defendants are the city of Atlanta, Fulton County, former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and former DA Paul Howard, who brought criminal charges against both men days after the shooting. Former Fulton County Assistant...

A Washington law firm has filed a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for interfering with the use of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.The lawsuit was filed by Boyden Gray & Associates on behalf of three doctors who were disciplined for prescribing human-grade ivermectin to patients.The firm’s founder, attorney Boyden Gray, is a former legal adviser to the Reagan and Bush administrations.Gray told The Epoch Times that the FDA had violated well-established law that allows doctors to prescribe an FDA-approved drug as an off-label treatment.Ivermectin was no different, he said. It was approved by the FDA...

If you think the world is moving beyond coal, think again. The post-Covid economic rebound and surging electricity demand have resulted in big increases in coal prices and coal demand. Since January, the Newcastle benchmark price for coal has doubled. And over the past few weeks, China and India have announced plans to increase their domestic coal production by a combined total of 700 million tons per year. For perspective, US coal production this year will total about 600 million tons. The surge in coal demand in China and India – as well as in the U.S., where coal use...

A week ago we learned that the go-broke date for Social Security had been pushed back by a whole year:The annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released Thursday says Social Security’s trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits beginning in 2035, instead of last year’s estimate of 2034. The year before that it estimated an exhaustion date of 2035.The projected depletion date for Medicare’s trust fund for inpatient hospital care moved back two years to 2028 from last year’s forecast of 2026…When the Social Security trust fund is depleted the government will be able to pay 80%...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls out lawmakers and the media for focusing on the January 6 committee while ignoring record-high inflation impacting Americans on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'

I was lucky enough to have other things to do last night which prohibited me from watching the latest installment in the Democrat obsession with January 6th, and yeah, I’m including Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger in that group now.The January 6th committee held a primetime hearing, garnering complete buy-in for the stunt from all the networks and cable stations except Fox News, and it didn’t take long for the clips to start coming out. What transpired was a political show trial that would make Stalin blush.Of course, one can have their opinion of January 6th, and that opinion can...

The temporary restraining order also applies to any families who are members of the LGBTQ organization PFLAG. The judge said the investigations can cause "immediate and irreparable injury," including, "gross invasions of privacy in the home and school, and the resulting trauma felt by parents, siblings, and other household members," as well as negative impacts on grades and school activity, fear and anxiety and "increased incidence of depression." The investigations, carried out by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), come after state Attorney General Ken Paxton released a non-legally binding opinion earlier this year declaring providing gender-affirming...

One person was killed Friday after an airplane crashed into a Southern California strawberry field shortly after takeoff and burst into flames, according to media reports. The single-engine Mooney M20T went down near State Route 101 around 8:20 a.m. in Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles County. The plane possibly hit the side of the Gold Coast Christian Church. The church is located in an office building and the crash caused debris to spill onto the northbound lanes of the freeway, Fox Los Angeles reported. The Federal Aviation Administration told Fox News the plane took off from Camarillo Airport...

Can y'all please do me a little favor? My brother in Washington state asked if we could all go vote NO on an assault weapons ban for Washington state: https://komonews.com/news/local/gun-law-reform-group-says-majority-of-washington-state-wants-assault-weapon-ban

Rudy Giuliani was hit with an ethics charge by the Washington, D.C., Office of Disciplinary Counsel on Friday over his promotion of baseless claims about fraud in the 2020 presidential election before a federal court in Pennsylvania, jeopardizing his ability to practice law in the city. The D.C. Bar’s disciplinary arm said that he had violated the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct by bringing a proceeding and asserting “issues therein without a non-frivolous basis in law and fact for doing so” and engaging “in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice,” according to the filing. The complaint said that Giuliani...

Friday is the day that the radical pro-abortion group Jane's Revenge warned us about. When the group took credit for the firebombing of the headquarters for Wisconsin Family Action last month, they also issued a warning that emphasized that what happened in Wisconsin was "only a warning" and called it "the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US and we will issue no further warnings." The statement also read that "We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days." That attack took place sometime between late in the...

The Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx allegedly slapped her husband during a domestic dispute, according to her spouse. A police officer from the Flossmoor Police Department in Illinois was dispatched to a home on June 4 at around 10:00 p.m. in response to a domestic dispute between Kim Foxx and her husband, Kelley Foxx. Kelley Foxx dialed 911 to report a domestic dispute with his wife, according to the police report, which states that the officer was told that the dispute was physical but there were no injuries “yet.”

Former President Donald Trump endorsed Katie Britt in Alabama's Senate runoff, months after he dropped the endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks (R). Britt, who served as the chief of staff for retiring Sen. Richard Shelby, is considered the front-runner in the runoff, though Brooks remains competitive.

Documents released today by the US Food and Drug Administration says that Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for children under the age of six... Vaccine Link To Justin Bieber's Illness?... At the Summit Of The America's "The Los Angeles Declaration"... US Envoy Amos Hochstein heading to Beirut... Four are dead in a terrorist attack in Colombia... Electric car maker Tesla says it plans a three for one stock split... Consumer confidence in the US moving dramatically downward... A sharp drop on Wall Street today... The highest inflation in the US since December 1981... "A tough fall and winter...

NEW YORK – US imports from China rose to an all-time record after seasonal adjustment in April, despite the Shanghai lockdown and other Covid-related blockages in the Chinese economy. That isn’t what you read in Bloomberg News, whose 30 economists and 100 full-time economics reporters apparently haven’t learned the difference between seasonally adjusted and unadjusted data. Unadjusted, the data show a typical bouncing-ball pattern over a 12-month cycle. It is meaningless to make month-to-month comparisons without taking into account the pronounced seasonality of trade patterns. The chart above reflects seasonal adjustment performed on the Eviews econometrics platform using the TRAMO...