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Is CNN’s resident potato on the chopping block too? Brian Stelter’s days are numbered at CNN, according to former breaking news editor for the Washington Examiner “SOURCE: Stelter is “down to weeks if not days” left at CNN. They go on “He is everything that reminds the new owners of the Zucker era they desperately want to get past”” Jon Nicosia reported on Wednesday evening. Stelter is reportedly causing problems and “stirring discontent within the ranks.” CNN’s worldwide president Jeff Zucker resigned in February and insiders have been calling for Stelter to be fired since. A CNN insider previously told...

Democratic Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman held a huge lead over Republican Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s Senate race in a USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday. The poll showed Fetterman led his political rival by 9 points despite the Democrat suffering a stroke in May that hospitalized him just days before the state’s primary. He has yet to return to the campaign trail and has acknowledged that he “almost died.” Fetterman had an overall favorability rating of 45% compared to 28% for Oz, according to the poll. Half of the respondents viewed Oz unfavorably, while only 27% were unfavorable...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Biden attacked 'ultra MAGA laws' on Wednesday afternoon before signing an executive order designed to roll back a wave of anti-LGBTQI+ legislation 'We're in a battle for the very soul of this nation,' he said at the White House Supporters crowded into the East Room for an event marking Pride Month The EO will seek to help transgender kids access healthcare and school support It also seeks an end to conversion therapy, calling on the Federal Trade Commission to consider issuing consumer warnings against the practise The administration says more than 300 anti-LGBTQI+ laws have been introduced The order will...

A quick-thinking driver has foiled an alleged car thief by using a forklift to trap her inside the vehicle she was attempting to steal. Brendan Mills came home to find a woman inside his red Volkswagen Polo at his Waterford West property, south of Brisbane on June 5. By sheer good fortune he had left the forklift parked beside the car, with the forks facing towards it. So he immediately jumped into his forklift and hoisted the car up six feet in the air, trapping the alleged car thief inside before calling Queensland police. The alleged car thief was unable...

US forces captured a senior ISIS leader who is known as a bomb maker during an operation in Syria on Thursday. Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led coalition against The Islamic State, said no civilians were harmed in the operation and there were no damages incurred to coalition aircraft or assets. The identity of the ISIS leader, described as “one of the group’s top leaders in Syria,” has not been released. Additional details on the operation were not immediately available. “Coalition forces will continue to hunt the remnants of Daesh wherever they hide to ensure their enduring defeat,”

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Sri Lanka’s federal government on Monday approved a proposal that would shorten the work week of most public sector staff to four days so that workers will have time to farm their own crops, Reuters reported Tuesday, noting the measure aims to combat Sri Lanka’s worsening food shortages caused by a recent economic crisis. “Sri Lanka’s Cabinet late on Monday approved a proposal for public sector workers to be given leave every Friday for the next three months, partly because the fuel shortage made commuting difficult and also to encourage them to farm,” Reuters reported on June 14. “It seems...

Dementia is one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people worldwide, affecting thinking and behaviours as you age. But what if you could stop this degenerative disease in its tracks? A world-first study from the University of South Australia could make this a reality as new genetic research shows a direct link between dementia and a lack of vitamin D. Investigating the association between vitamin D, neuroimaging features, and the risk of dementia and stroke, the study found: * low levels of vitamin D were associated with lower brain volumes and an increased risk of dementia...

A woman who admitted that she could 'barely contain her anger' at being fired was filmed on surveillance camera smashing hundreds of bottles of wine at an Argentinian supermarket. Evelin Roldán was fired from her job at the Polo Supermarket in Rafaela, Argentina on Monday. The 25-year-old had a discussion with the store owners, which became so heated that they called police. Roldán then cleared out multiple shelves of wine and threw the bottles across the isle floor. She was later arrested. Roldán defended her actions which she were came under a 'state of rage' and claimed the video -...

“They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!” – A fake quote from the movie BraveheartOf course, the fake William Wallace (as played by Mel Gibson) turned out to be incorrect. The Scots were at war with their neighbors on and off ever since Scotland emerged as an independent kingdom up until 1707 when it became part of the United Kingdom. But is that going to change in the near future? Rather than having a wildman on a horse with blue paint on his face riding in to lead his people to independence, we have Scottish...

How despairing you feel about these results depends on how charitable you want to be to Republican voters.But the fact that insurrectionist Doug Mastriano is closer to becoming governor than milquetoast centrist Mehmet Oz is to becoming senator should not fill you with warm and fuzzy feelings about the state of the GOP.The charitable explanation for Oz trailing John Fetterman by nine points while Mastriano trails Josh Shapiro by just four is that Fetterman is an unusually strong candidate and Oz an unusually weak one. The 46/37 margin between them doesn’t mean Republican voters prefer election truthers like Mastriano to...

IRVING, Texas – ExxonMobil today released the following statement in response to a letter from President Biden.We have been in regular contact with the administration to update the President and his staff on how ExxonMobil has been investing more than any other company to develop U.S. oil and gas supplies. This includes investments in the U.S. of more than $50 billion over the past five years, resulting in an almost 50% increase in our U.S. production of oil during this period. Globally, we’ve invested double what we’ve earned over the past five years -- $118 billion on new oil and...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil today released the following statement in response to a letter from President Biden. We have been in regular contact with the administration to update the President and his staff on how ExxonMobil has been investing more than any other company to develop U.S. oil and gas supplies. This includes investments in the U.S. of more than $50 billion over the past five years, resulting in an almost 50% increase in our U.S. production of oil during this period. Globally, we’ve invested double what we’ve earned over the past five years -- $118 billion on new oil and...

“‘Do not judge so that you will not be judged’” (Matthew 7:1). One of the central messages of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount to His followers is for them to be discerning and perceptive in what they believe and what they do. All Christians need to make every effort to judge between truth and falsehood, between the internal and the external, between reality and sham, and between true righteousness and false righteousness. Every message we hear is to be judged for the soundness of its doctrine. Paul told the Galatians, “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should...

Democrats have spent decades warning that the United States must stop using the most efficient and affordable energy sources or it will be consumed by heat waves, fireballs, and cataclysmic weather events. Every flood, every hurricane—every natural event, really—is now blamed on climate change. We have burdened our children with an irrational dread over their future. Then again, many in The Cult of Malthus won’t even have children. So, why, if we’re on the precipice of this apocalypse, if saving the planet trumps every other concern, is Joe Biden begging everyone to drill? On the days Democrats aren’t blaming Putin...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre handed over the daily briefing to National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby Wednesday afternoon. Kirby was asked by Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy how long President Joe Biden can deplete the Strategic Petroleum Reserve before it becomes a national security problem. Kirby claimed he didn't know the current inventory and passed the question off to Biden's energy advisors. DOOCY: "How much lower can we let the strategic petroleum reserves get before that becomes a problem?"Kirby doesn't give a firm answer. pic.twitter.com/MfNXn5jREf— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 15, 2022President Joe Biden has tapped...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is projected to progress to the next round in the state’s special election for its at-large congressional seat following the March death of Rep. Don Young (R). Palin was in the top four candidates in the primary race Saturday, which featured candidates of all parties. The top four vote-getters in the primary advance to a ranked-choice election, according to novel voting laws in Alaska. With 132,730 votes counted, Palin had 28.3 percent of the vote, putting her atop the field, according to The Associated Press. The former governor was one of more than 50...

The new University of Austin (UATX), in Texas, will open this summer. It will be a radically different kind of university, neither right-wing nor left-wing. Rather, it will be on the wing that focuses on advancing truth. What in the world does that mean, and what is truth? I can make this clear by quoting a passage from John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Note that this passage is neither right- nor left-wing, but about truth:If an opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own...

The QAnon-obsessed father brainwashed by conspiracy theories who allegedly killed his children with a spearfishing gun because he believed they had serpent DNA admitted in a handwritten letter that he was 'delusional.' In the two-page letter viewed by PEOPLE, Matthew Taylor Coleman had written to a friend about what has been going through his mind in the 10 months since he was locked up for the murder of his two children in August 2021. 'I was deceived,' Coleman wrote in the letter from an undisclosed federal prison in California. 'I was deceiving myself. I know now that the [reptile] DNA...