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President Joe Biden acknowledged Thursday in a new interview that people were not happy under his administration, as they were fighting historically high inflation and record-high gas prices. “People are really, really down. They’re really down,” he admitted.

Hunter Biden, the only living son of President Joe Biden, "always acknowledged the benefit and advantage" of his powerful family name, but was "struggling under a massive drug addiction", a new memoir from his ex-wife of 24 years reveals.The book published on Tuesday by Kathleen Buhle dovetails with details of Hunter Biden's life laid bare in his own autobiography last year, painting a picture of a troubled man.

MIAMI (AP) — Florida is the only state that hasn’t preordered COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers in anticipation of their final approval by the federal government, and Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he won’t facilitate their distribution, though he said they’ll be available to those who want them. White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, who confirmed Florida’s outlier status on Thursday, said not preordering the vaccines could mean delaying their availability in children’s hospitals and other facilities that have relied on state distribution of the shots. Florida officials said the jabs would be available at pharmacies and community health centers, which...

Investigative reporter and professor at Syracuse Law, David Cay Johnston, appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, Tuesday, where he called out Democrats for failing to follow through with investigations into former President Donald Trump. While there are ongoing investigations, others have been abandoned at very little cost to the former president. Johnston specifically named DC Attorney General Karl Racine, who dropped the investigation into the misuse of tens of millions of dollars by Trump’s inaugural committee after settling for a relatively small fine.

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol held its third hearing on Thursday afternoon, which many observers on social media found “boring.” The hearing was so boring, in fact, that NBC News’ Lester Holt announced the network was ending its live broadcast of the hearing to air the U.S. Open golf tournament.

Elon Musk, in a recently released video, has again called out the Biden administration over its alleged bias against his flagship company Tesla because it is non-unionized. “The current Democratic Party does not support Tesla because it is not unionized,” Musk said during a lengthy late May interview, part of which was released on June 15. “The pressure on this will increase over time,” he added. “The more Tesla is successful, the more Tesla is an existential threat to the UAW [United Auto Workers],” Musk said while sitting down with the Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley club at the Gigafactory...

A grand celestial reunion is due in Earth’s skies throughout June. Sky-watchers will get a rare chance to see all the major planets in our solar system bunched together—with the moon joining the festivities, too, from June 17 to June 27. This rare alignment includes the five planets easily spotted with the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Each is bright enough to be seen even in light-polluted city skies, with brilliant Venus being the brightest and Mercury the faintest. Our closest planets will appear to be arranged across the sky in the same order as their distance...

Hollywood power couples aren’t always blessed with fairy tale relationships – as we’ve witnessed with the likes of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, and with the recent Johnny Depp and Amber Heard court case. While Depp decides how best to move on since the winding up of that drama, we don’t need much to be reminded of that high-profile slap at the Oscars that shocked the world in March, about which questions remain – chiefly, what made Will Smith lose his cool to that extent?

Pushaw insisted that no matter how bad the media wants Florida to look, everyone is moving there

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Barber points out McElroy’s abortion hypocrisyOakland ordinary speaks unambiguously to Wall Street Journal.When San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced last month that he had prohibited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion, tensions flared up again — with some bishops expressing support for Cordileone, and others offering objection to the “weaponization” of the Eucharist.And when one of the bishops who has most vocally disagreed with Cordileone – Robert McElroy of San Diego – became a cardinal two weeks later, the nomination was taken in the media as a resounding papal salvo in the bishops’ intrareligious dialogue.For...

A call for a host of taxes on the U.S. and European nations designed to transfer wealth to economies confronting “the cost of drought, floods and superstorms made worse by rising temperatures” was renewed Wednesday at a U.N. climate conference in Germany. If heeded, the so-called “loss and damage” demand will see prosperous, successful countries on the hook for billions of dollars for decades or even centuries to come. The BBC reports poorer countries claim a promise they would be compensated for the damage done by richer countries’ emissions would be honoured this year. They now doubt new money to...

ELEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 6:7-15 Friends, today’s Gospel gives us the Our Father. It asks that God’s will be done "on earth as it is in heaven," but biblical cosmology sees these two realms as interpenetrating fields of force. Heaven, the arena of God and the angels, touches upon and calls out to earth, the arena of humans, animals, plants, and planets. Salvation, therefore, is a matter of the meeting of heaven and earth, so that God might reign as thoroughly here below as he does on high. Jesus’ great prayer, which is constantly on the lips of...

State Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing backlash after he told a conservative radio host that “God has a plan” for the third and fourth graders gunned down last month at an elementary school in Uvalde. In a May 29 interview with conservative host Trey Graham, published just five days after an 18-year-old shooter massacred 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary school, he said that it was “difficult to give comfort” to the families of the victims. “If I lost one of my children I’d be pretty devastated, especially in a way that is so senseless and seemingly...

The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot presents a pre-produced compilation of key Trump allies recounting a "heated" phone call between former President Trump and former Vice President Pence.

Researchers from Beijing Normal University published their findings in a report Tuesday. In the report, translated using Google Translate, the team claims to have discovered “several cases of possible technological traces of extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the Earth.” Those traces include narrowband signals, which are used for short-range transmissions. According to the report, “electromagnetic waves are the most suitable carrier or messenger for interstellar communication. Regardless of wind or rain, (the waves) can penetrate the earth’s atmosphere regardless of weather.” Peng Bo, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory, said that the signals are likely alien civilizations, but they are...

ne day about seven months ago, I was standing in a dark room in a hospital not far from Tel Aviv, performing an ultrasound on the taut belly of a woman well into her third trimester. She was 35 weeks pregnant, due in about a month. She and I felt the fetus kick, right under the ultrasound probe. “Strong one!” I said in Hebrew. She smiled. I managed to freeze a sweet picture of the bow-shaped fetal upper lip, and pressed “Print,” to give to her later. ... At that point, I needed to tell her about that small head...

When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. –Proverbs 29:2.And there’s a whole lot of mourning going on. Here’s a partial list of some recent observations.In 2020, we reelected President Trump in an historic landslide, but in a handful of key states, through several coordinated methods (including foot soldier election fraud and computerized voting machine manipulation), the election was stolen in the dead of election night. Joe Biden was not elected President. It was a criminal coup that put him there.There was NO “attack” on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th,...

Voicing concern about a possible Chinese invasion of his country, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned Israel – in an exclusive interview on Monday – from relying too heavily on China. “China is an authoritarian country and they do business in a very different philosophy,” Wu told The Jerusalem Post in a video interview from his office in Taipei. “Sometimes they use trade as a weapon, and we have seen them practicing their weaponized trade relations with many other countries. “They did it to Lithuania, they did it to the Czech Republic and they also did it to Australia. Sometimes...

There have been 112 speakers, signs, statues and other targets completely canceled on campus during the last academic year, and another 74 attempted cancelations, according to The College Fix’s Campus Cancel Culture Database, which tracks such incidents. That amounts to a total of 186 campus cancel culture incidents from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022. Put another way, there have been almost four campus cancel incidents per week over the past school year. “For people who claim that cancel culture is a made up right-wing phenomenon, I invite them to scroll through page after page after page of our...

U.S. energy exports are booming at the very time domestic gasoline and diesel prices are at or near their peaks. With America’s fuel prices expected to rise even further, the “resource nationalism” debate — should we be exporting commodities we need? — is heating up. According to new tanker cargo volume data from Kpler, U.S. crude exports averaged 3.13 million barrels/day (b/d) in January-May. That’s the best first five months of the year ever. Exports of clean petroleum products — including the diesel and gasoline in such high demand domestically — averaged 2.32 million b/d. That’s the best first five...