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It's a run-down former saloon. Working guys come here for cheap grub. The evening special is roast pork with apple sauce and mashed potatoes. About 5:20, two tough, contemptuous men show up to wait for something. They don't care what anybody might guess about their plans or who else might walk in. The two men are professional killers, one of them armed with a sawed-off shotgun. They are casual about insulting regular people and bossing them around. One killer goes in the back, the kitchen, and ties up the cook and another fellow who happens to be there. The mood...

With US gasoline prices hovering near record $5 per gallon nationwide, analysts have said demand destruction has already set in. "One could argue that demand destruction for gasoline has already started ... Since the start of March, U.S. gasoline consumption is 6% lower than the corresponding period in 2019," Peter McNally, analyst at Third Bridge, told Yahoo Finance. Ukraine War Since the start of the Ukraine war, the US gasoline prices have been spiking. However, the price spiral had set in even earlier, and analysts have pointed out that prices have nearly doubled from the day President Joe Biden took...

The Japanese yen is at its weakest point in two decades. A year ago, the dollar was worth 110 yen. Now it is worth 135. Japan’s central bank is increasingly hearing calls to hike up interest rates à la the Federal Reserve, despite its historically accommodative monetary stance. To help explain the backstory, here is an excerpt from the Finance section of The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Long before the world wars, even long before America’s Admiral Perry forced Japan open to the world, the Japanese had a unique view of debt. In Japan capital exists...

A pro-life Republican politician had his office firebombed on Monday, the latest in a spate of attacks against pregnancy centers and pro-life officials in the wake of a bombshell leaked Supreme court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v Wade. Andrew Barkis, a Republican representing the Olympia in the Washington state legislature, had his Olympia office attacked around 4 a.m. Monday's attack was the 17th so far on a pregnancy support clinic or an office of a pro-life figure. It was not clear whether he was deliberately attacked for his beliefs. The same group of people were also seen ransacking...

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote an acclaimed book called Team of Rivals in which she described Abraham Lincoln’s recruitment of the ablest men of the time for his cabinet. We are witness to the exact opposite. Joe Biden seems intent on assembling a team of the least able. I’m calling it Team of Fools. I have written extensively about Biden’s shortcomings. Nothing exceeds his capacity for choosing the wrong people. It would be difficult to zero in on Biden’s worst choice, but his Homeland Security Secretary would be a good candidate. Alejandro Mayorkas has me somewhat confused. I can’t tell...

National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd criticized open border "activists" within the White House Tuesday for the migrant crisis at the southern border. On "America's Newsroom," Judd argued President Biden and his staff "do not care" about the issues created by illegal immigration like drug smuggling, human trafficking and economic strain so long as they achieve their political agenda.

Multiple “Republican” incumbents in the South Carolina House of Representatives were defeated in the GOP primary election on Tuesday evening – although several of these vulnerable politicians managed to hang on against spirited primary challenges. Arguably the biggest name to fall? Former House ways and means chairman Brian White – a fiscal liberal who was handily defeated by challenger April Cromer in the race for S.C. House District 6 in Anderson County. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Cromer received 2,565 votes (or 59.64 percent of all ballots cast) compared to White’s 1,736 votes (40.36 percent). As I noted in...

More than 100 Republicans who won their 2022 primary elections have supported and amplified Donald Trump’s baseless assertion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, a fraudulent claim that fuelled riots at the US Capitol and is central to a House committee investigation into the attack. An analysis from The Washington Post, reviewing the field of candidates in this year’s races through 7 June primaries, has so far found that voters picked seven candidates for US Senate, 82 candidates for the House of Representatives, five for governor, four for state attorney general and one for secretary of state...

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Half of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in the wake of the January 6 siege on the Capitol will not return to Congress next year. an end to his time in federal office after he lost Tuesday's GOP primary to Trump-backed Russell Fry, a state representative from South Carolina. Representatives Adam Kinzinger of Indiana, John Katko of New York, Fred Upton of Michigan and Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio have announced they would not run for re-election. The remaining five Congress members who voted to impeach Trump are Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Jamie...

Diesel prices are setting records, nationwide, as a gallon of the fuel now averages $5.72 as of Wednesday. Drivers fueling up at a truck stop in east Houston said the pain at the pump is crippling as rising prices force some to park their rigs. Houstonian Raymond Mayberry said he’s been a truck driver since 2003. He’s a self-employed trucker. Even with the help of fuel-saving apps and a rewards program at the truck stop, Mayberry said he’s counting “every penny” because the almost-daily rise in diesel price affects his bottom line. “It comes out of our profit. If you...

In Nevada ... with half the vote counted: M. Robertson 30.2% 6,398 D. Brog 16.1% 3,417 C. Serrano 15% 3,178 C. Steel 12.8% 2,716 C. Hardy 12.7% 2,682 Newcomer, Colonel Mark Robertson is headed to victory in the Nevada CD#1 GOP primary. He will face DEM incumbent Dina Titus in November. The seat is rated a Toss Up. In Texas, Republican Mayra Flores was elected to fill the vacant CD#34 for six months. She will face incumbent DEM Vicente Gonzalez in the new CD#34 in November. The seat is rated a Toss Up.

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TraitorState/DistrictStatusTrump Endorsement Liz Cheney(WY‑AL)Primary 08/16/2022 [Hageman]Anthony Gonzalez (OH‑16)NOT RUNNINGJaime Herrera Beutler (WA‑3)Jungle Primary 08/02/2022 [Joe Kent]John Katko (NY‑24) NOT RUNNING Adam Kinzinger (IL‑16) NOT RUNNINGPeter Meijer(MI‑3) Primary 08/02/2022 [John Gibbs]Dan Newhouse (WA‑4) Jungle Primary 08/02/2022[Loren Culp]Tom Rice (SC‑7) DEFEATED IN PRIMARY [Russell Fry]Fred Upton (MI‑6) Primary 08/02/2022 [NONE]David Valadao (CA‑21) Passed jungle primary (26.1%)[NONE]

A pregnant Missouri woman who was found dead at her home on Thursday was allegedly beheaded by her ex-boyfriend. KMOV reported that Liese Dodd, 22, was discovered dead at her Alton home after her mother came to check on her. Deundrea Holloway, 22, was accused of beheading Dodd and discarding her head in a dumpster. Dodd — who was due in mid or late July — had been in an on-and-off relationship with Holloway for the past two years, according to KMOV. “She was savagely killed. She was decapitated,” Alton Police Chief Marcos Pulido said. Holloway was arrested in Gillespie,...

urkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned Greece to demilitarize islands in the Aegean Sea, saying he was “not joking” and posting tweets in Greek and English, in a marked harshening of rhetoric against Turkey’s neighbor and historic regional rival. Turkey says Greece has been building a military presence in violation of treaties that guarantee the unarmed status of the Aegean islands. It argues the islands were ceded to Greece on the condition they remained demilitarized. Athens counters that the islands, which have been garrisoned for decades and lie within close striking distance of a large Turkish landing fleet,...

KAMPALA, June 8 (Reuters) - Uganda on Wednesday said recent exploration surveys have shown it has gold ore deposits of about 31 million tonnes and it wants to attract big investors to develop the sector hitherto dominated by small wildcat miners. Over the last two years aerial exploration was done across the country followed by geophysical and geochemical surveys and analyses, Solomon Muyita, spokesperson for the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, told Reuters. Muyita said an estimated 320,158 tonnes of refined gold could be extracted from the 31 million tonnes of ore. Most of the deposits were discovered in...

RIYADH — Around 15,209 violators of residency, labor laws and border security regulations were arrested in various regions of the Kingdom within a week. According to the Ministry of Interior the arrests were made during the joint field campaigns carried out by various units of the security forces across the Kingdom during the week from June 2 to 10. The arrests included 9,337 violators of the residency system, 3,996 violators of the border security rules, and 1,876 violators of the labor laws. Another 186 people were arrested while trying to cross the border into the Kingdom, 40% were Yemenis, 49%...