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Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was unable to commit to stop federal funding from going to Chinese scientific research, despite the U.S. intelligence community assessing the regime as America’s top adversary.Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), made the remarks while appearing virtually at the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hearing on June 16, during an exchange with Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas).“The NIH is still funding research in China, at least $8 million since 2020. In the Intelligence Community’s 2022 Annual Threat Assessment, the Chinese Communist Party is presented as one of the...

“Is the potato baked?” a friend said to me about the Stelter rumors that are swirling.Ten days ago Axios reported that CNN’s new boss, Chris Licht, had zeroed in on Stelter and Jim Acosta as particularly egregious partisans within a network line-up that reliably tilts liberal. Licht wants the new CNN to be less sensationalistic — no more “breaking news” banners unless there really is breaking news, for instance — and less overtly hostile to Republicans. Licht is “determined to tamp down spectacle and has discouraged the presentation of content in an alarmist fashion,” a source told Fox News. He’s...

I’m just going to say it: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a despicable human being.On one hand, Madam Speaker trots out her “deep Catholic faith” — when she finds it politically expedient to do so. Other times, she dismissively harangues us about her staunch support of on-demand abortion. And “best” of all, she often cites the former in obscene support of the latter — most notably her reference to late-term abortion as “sacred ground.” If that is not despicable, I don’t know what is.Pelosi on Thursday cited her faith — comically so — while asserting her uncompromising pro-abortion stance, as...

The mystery with Disney is what was the business decision behind inserting a same-sex scene in the kid’s film?It is apparent the Disney Corporation — in regards to its dramatic releases — is going with a current slate of recycled properties. Established characters and plotlines are being pimped out in theaters and on the Disney+ streaming service. Sequels and extended storylines have been joined by a raft of origin stories. The success of “The Mandalorian” birthed “The Book of Bobba Fett,” and the long-gestating “Obi-Wan” was given life. Now they are tapping into the goldmine of the “Toy Story” franchise...

UBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities across much of the Muslim world have barred Disney's latest animated film “Lightyear” from being played at cinemas after the inclusion of a brief kiss between a lesbian couple, the company said Thursday as the movie premiered.

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, 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.IF YOU WERE ARRESTED FOR BEING A CHRISTIAN, WOULD THERE BE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CONVICT YOU?

White House aides are leaving the administration before the fall midterms as one top official said that many staffers are simply 'tapped out.' The Hill Newspaper reported Thursday on the burnout being felt inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., as President Joe Biden has had to deal with a pandemic, a war, rising inflation, a baby formula shortage, among other things, after 17 months in office, and for some staff, a year or more on the campaign trail. 'It's been a long few years,' the official told the Hill. 'The burnout is real. It might not be the ideal time to leave...

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There is no more effective way for President Biden to meet his aggressive climate goals than a carbon tax. The timing seems ripe: his Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, has been a prominent advocate. Big business has flipped from opponent to proponent. Republican opposition is no longer monolithic. But a carbon tax lacks support where it matters most: with Mr. Biden and the Democratic base. Progressive Democrats claim a carbon tax and its close cousin, cap-and-trade, are unfair to the poor and racial minorities. And a carbon tax appears to conflict with Mr. Biden’s promise not to raise taxes on any...

. . . Another juvenile case that caused national outrage toward Gascon was Hannah Tubbs, a transgender criminal who allegedly sexually assaulted a girl in the woman's restaurant at a Denny's as a teenager in 2014. The 26-year-old was tried as a juvenile, despite being eight years over the legal age. Tubbs was sentenced to two years in a juvenile facility, despite being found guilty of sexually assaulting a minor and had been accused of assaulting a four-year-old the year before. Gascon said he was concerned Tubbs could be victimized due to her gender identity in an adult facility. ....

People can make fun of us all they want about the unusual food combinations that Southerners grow up eating and never stop loving. A peanut butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich? Pass the chips. Pineapple-and-cheese casserole? We'll take seconds. Salt on watermelon? Duh. However, the most classic combination barely needs an introduction: peanuts and Coca-Cola. These two very different items, in fact, are not just a snack and refreshment to be enjoyed separately at the same time, but a dynamic duo to be guzzled straight out of a cold glass bottle. Together.

Olga Garcia blames District Attorney George Gascón for the death of her son Officer Joseph Santana. Jeff Nguyen reports.

A Russian lawmaker called for Lithuania's independence to be repealed, submitting a draft bill claiming the Baltic republic illegally left the Soviet Union more than three decades ago. The proposed legislation was submitted to the Russian lower house, the Duma, on Wednesday by Yevgeny Fyodorov, a member of the ruling United Russia party. In March 1990, Lithuania became the first republic to announce it intended to restore its independence from the disintegrating USSR, under whose control it had been for five decades after the Soviet army occupied it in 1940.

President Joe Biden has been under fire for inflation that has reached its highest point in 41 years and has squeezed the finances of millions of Americans. He has blamed Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the COVID pandemic for the surge in prices - and now has pointed to inflation being a global issue. In an interview with the Associated Press that was conducted Thursday, he slapped back suggestions he is to blame. 'Isn't it kind of interesting? If it's my fault, why is it the case in every other major industrial country in the world that inflation is...

Microsoft has recently added a new privacy feature that allows Windows 11 users to get a list of all the apps that have recently accessed their sensitive info and devices, including their camera, microphone, and contacts. Added in one of the June Windows 11 Preview Builds, it can now be tested by Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Besides requests to access the users' contacts, the newly included privacy feature also keeps track of apps that have accessed other sensitive information linked to your location, phone calls, messaging, and screenshots in the last week. The list of nosy apps is...

The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline, according to figures released Wednesday. The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, counted more than 930,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2020. That’s up from about 862,000 abortions in 2017, when national abortion figures reached their lowest point since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide. About one in five pregnancies ended in abortion in 2020, according to the report, which comes as the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn that decision.

The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline, according to figures released Wednesday. The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, counted more than 930,000 abortions in the U.S. in 2020. That’s up from about 862,000 abortions in 2017, when national abortion figures reached their lowest point since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized the procedure nationwide. About one in five pregnancies ended in abortion in 2020, according to the report, which comes as the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn that decision.

How did John Rutledge know Reaganomics would be such a smashing success? In December 1981 the Journal ran a contrarian op-ed by Mr. Rutledge, then president of Claremont Economics Institute. It was the most prescient prediction by an economist I have ever read. Mr. Rutledge predicted that inflation would decline faster than expected; that interest rates would fall, not rise, despite the growing deficit; and the economy and financial markets wouldn’t slump, but soar. It all happened.

Thank God for truth, divine law and our inherited common sense. A nation built upon lies, fraud and ulterior motives has never lasted. People who betray their sworn oaths to honestly serve their fellow man do great harm to their fellow man. And unfortunately, citizens who are innocent, naive, self-indulgent, distracted and disengaged from the process of self-governance will suffer greatly as wayward governments run by narcissistic politicians collapse under decades of compounded corruption. We become enslaved by our lack of knowledge, until such time we find the courage to escape our captors. The controlling minority of politicians in our...

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- An Oahu school teacher is behind bars accused of distributing child pornography in incidents going back to 2019. According to the criminal complaint document, 34-year-old Alden Bunag committed the alleged crimes from November 2019 through at least October 2021. Federal investigators caught wind of the crimes in July 2021 after a cybertip led them to a private school teacher in Philadelphia who had allegedly uploaded child pornography. RELATED Federal authorities seize nearly 100 crocodile leather handbags in Honolulu Federal authorities seize nearly 100 crocodile leather handbags in Honolulu FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Philadelphia...