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The City of Portland, Maine has opted to raise property taxes in order to provide free housing for asylum seekers. The average home price in the City is $475, 000. Up to now the tax on such a house has been $5,200. The expected additional annual levy is in the $350 range. Portland Mayor Kate Snyder said "so-called asylum seekers are being sent here without us being consulted or even getting any prior notice from the Biden Administration. Housing them has become a significant financial burden." "The property tax hike was just one of the options the City Council considered,"...

President Joe Biden’s economic advisor told CNBC that the White House didn’t miss “much at all” on inflation. That was despite inflation firing up in June for the fastest increase since December 1981.

A 25-year-old YouTuber and boxer seems to have found a new political punching bag: President Joe Biden.

Robert Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, were captured while fighting for the Ukrainian army last week The pair were part of a ten-men squad which encountered Russian forces in Kharkiv They disabled a Russian tank but then were lost in the fog of return fire then disappeared, comrades say Drueke served in Iraq in the US Army but Huynh, a former Marine, has never been in active combat before He gave an interview before he ventured to the region in which he said he was prepared to die Now, there are fears they may be given the same death...

There are few American actors more iconic than Clint Eastwood. His iconic "Man With No Name" character is the face of the American West for a generation of men. Dirty Harry is perhaps the most recognizable fictional police officer in American history. And the man who played them? Well, he spent some time as a small-town mayor in California.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm pushed back against the notion that there were too many regulations on oil refineries, and that was behind the lack of production. Host Joe Scarborough asked Granholm if President Joe Biden should “level with the American people” and admit that overregulation was an issue.

Two former US servicemen have been captured during fighting with Russian forces in Ukraine, The Telegraph has been told. Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, had been serving as volunteers with a regular Ukrainian army unit. A comrade of the two men, who asked not to be named, told The Telegraph said that they had been captured after running into a much larger Russian force during a battle last Thursday. "We were out on a mission and the whole thing went absolutely crazy, with bad intel," he said. "We were told the town was clear when it turned out...

NEW YORK CITY- Fear not, America. While you’re paying $5 a gallon for gasoline, can’t find baby formula in most states, and are paying $24 for an order of chicken wings, sleep soundly knowing the city of New York feels your pain. In yet another case of the government apparatus pissing away taxpayer dollars on dumb stuff, such as conducting torturous experiments on poodles, giving smartphones to illegal aliens, abandoning $80 billion in sophisticated military equipment in Afghanistan, and indoctrinating school children to hate America, there is the Big Apple. According to the New York Post, the city that never...

STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP (snip) The January 6th Unselect Committee is disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution. If they had any real evidence, they’d hold real hearings with equal representation. They don’t, so they use the illegally-constituted committee to put on a smoke and mirrors show for the American people, in a pitiful last-ditch effort to deceive the American public…again. Our Constitution protects the right to confront accusers, honors the right to fair trials, and holds the right to legal representation as paramount in our justice system. Equal representation and the opportunity to offer rebuttal evidence...

The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with a delay. Our GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one used by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. GDPNow is not an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed. Rather, it is best viewed as a running estimate of real GDP growth based on available economic data for the current measured quarter. There are no subjective adjustments made to GDPNow—the...

This qualifies as a political earthquake. In a special primary election to fill out the term of former rep. Filemon Vela, who resigned his House seat in March, GOP candidate Mayra Flores received 50.98% of the vote, making a runoff election unnecessary. Rep.-elect Flores will represent the Texas 34 Congressional District that runs along the Gulf Coast to the Mexican border, and which is 84.54% Hispanic.Source.Hispanic voters are dumping the Democrats, a trend that has the potential to doom the party at a national level.🚨BREAKING🚨 The first Mexican-born woman ever elected to Congress is REPUBLICAN @MayraFlores2022 who ran on a...

It may not look like it at first glance, but a headstone on the Warren-Powers Cemetery in Polk County has a hidden message. "Forever in our hearts, until we meet again, cherished memories, known as our brother, father, papa, uncle, friend, and cousin," said Lindsay Owens, daughter of the late Steven Owens. If you pay special attention to the headstone, you'll notice that the first letter of each phrase reads 'F--- off.' It's something that Steven Owens' family members say he often said jokingly. "It was definitely his term of endearment. If he didn't like you, he didn't speak to...

President Donald Trump is not done calling out Liz Cheney.He just released a blistering statement calling her “angry and sick” and pointing out that she is a warmonger.Will Liz Cheney apologize for those wars?

Former President Barack Obama has made an unusual request to install a massive 2,500 gallon commercial-grade propane tank at his Martha’s Vineyard estate, according to reports. The cost of installing the large tank and filling it with gas could reportedly cost up to $75,000.

While Democrat John Fetterman holds a strong lead over Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race, the Pennsylvania Governor race is much closer in the early days of the race. Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee, holds only a 4-point lead over his far-right Republican rival, state Sen. Doug Mastriano, with just under 13 percent of voters remaining undecided in the race in the newest USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll. That puts Shapiro’s advantage over Mastriano within the poll’s 4.4% margin of error.

The FDA has followed highly promising results from trials demonstrating the hair regrowth potential of a common arthritis drug with a landmark approval, giving baricitinib the green light as a treatment for severe alopecia areata. The move makes the drug the first ever FDA-approved drug for systemic treatment of the disease, and will take the form of a daily pill that proved hugely promising in recent Phase 3 trials. Baricitinib is a drug originally developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and recently began to attract interest from scientists researching treatments for another autoimmune disorder in the form of alopecia areata. This...

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he would consider using his emergency war powers to increase gas production in a letter to oil companies. Biden warns oil companies in his letter that “at a time of war, refinery profit margins well above normal being passed directly onto American families are not acceptable.”

The FDA’s Vaccines & Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) is meeting today to discuss emergency use authorization for the mRNA COVID-19 shots for children ages 6 months to 5 years. 🚨LIVE NOW: FDA Panel on EUA products for infants and toddlers ages 6 mo.-4 years old happening now. https://t.co/D7S1SwJ8UE — Lindsay (@TexasLindsay) June 15, 2022 In the meeting, the FDA discussed the case of a 17-month-old female infant that suffered multiple seizures in the clinical trials.

At least 2 200 households near Flagstaff, Arizona were ordered to evacuate late Monday, June 13, 2022, due to threats posed by the growing Pipeline Fire. Due to conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property, Flagstaff Mayor Paul Deasy signed a declaration of emergency for the Pipeline Fire, allowing him to govern by proclamation and impose regulations as needed. The fire started on Sunday morning, about 10 km (6 miles) north of Flagstaff, producing a noticeable plume of smoke and forcing recreationists in the area to leave immediately, especially those in the area of Schultz Pass...

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow used a Tuesday press conference to urge Congress to make it harder for people to buy “those crazy guns.” Fox News quotes Burrow saying, “With everything that’s going on, if you’re not going to outlaw everything, you’ve gotta at least make it harder to get those crazy guns that everybody is using.”