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Gas prices in California are starting to creep down — but they still remain the highest in the nation, and state lawmakers want to know why. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, announced the formation of a non-partisan committee to investigate rising gas prices in California, to be chaired by Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks. The committee's first hearing is expected to happen by the end of the month.

From the comment section: "If you're seeking out married men, that might be the reason you're getting ghosted." "Why would you put any trust whatsoever in a person who would break their marriage vows? You get what you deserve." "Why is this article even a thing? Like we are supposed to feel bad for the mistress. If they cheat with you- they will cheat on you. & karma will work itself out!" "This boggles the mind. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if someone is cheating on their wife. Then perhaps they are not going to be...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available

Bloomberg News appeared to join a growing chorus of liberal outlets rejecting President Joe Biden’s gaslighting on the severity of the American inflation crisis. The headline for Bloomberg News’ Biden smackdown was right on the nose: “White House Claim of Inflation Cushion Undercut by Savings Data.” U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and other Biden talking heads have “repeatedly” cited “Americans’ bank accounts [injected with pandemic-era savings] as buffers” against the 40-year-high inflation-plagued economy. However, as Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin analyzed, “the money is rapidly evaporating for 26 million low-income families.”

The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to order Juul Labs Inc. to take its e-cigarettes off the U.S. market, according to people familiar with the matter.The FDA could announce its decision as early as Wednesday, the people said. The marketing denial order would follow a nearly two-year review of data presented by the vaping company, which sought authorization for its tobacco- and menthol-flavored products to stay on the U.S. market.

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TASS, June 22. For more than two months now, Ukraine, the UN, the EU and intermediaries have been debating the problem of exporting grain blocked in the country due to the ongoing conflict. Various parties have put forward seven ways to export grain from Ukraine: via the ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol, through Odessa, by rail through Romania, Hungary and Poland, and to Lithuania across Belarus or Poland. However, no final decision has been made so far on how to export anywhere from 20 to 25 million tonnes of grain, according to different estimates. The next attempt at possibly unlocking...

The Biden State Department this month named its first ever special representative for racial equity and justice. The newly minted envoy, Desirée Cormier Smith, once slammed white diplomats for being overly "protective" of the United States and lacking the "empathy" of their minority counterparts. Smith, a self-described "Black activist," made the comments in an October 2020 interview. At the time, Smith served as senior policy adviser for Open Society Foundations, the think tank funded by Democratic billionaire donor George Soros. The State Department on Friday announced Smith’s appointment to the post, which was created to "confront systemic racism and injustice...

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Lee Zeldin added some extra flavor to the final debate of the gubernatorial campaign when he dismissed Andrew Giuliani as a former "Chick-Fil-A" runner at the White House outranked by the Easter Egg Bunny". The put down came as the former White House aide and son of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was grilling Zeldin over past comments about former President Donald Trump. "This is a guy who a couple of years ago said that President Trump made racist statements and lied to you last night ladies and gentlemen. Unfortunately, he's going to flip and flop," Giuliani...

VIDEO: The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Dagestan today held a creative patriotic flash mob with the overtaking of sheep marked with the Z sign. We wanted the best, but it turned out to be ambiguous. By the way, it is quite symbolic that the Republic of Dagestan is among the leaders of the regions in terms of the number of "200 cargo" that returns from the so-called "special operation" 😏

A drone strike caused a fire at a refinery in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday, but no one was hurt and the blaze was contained quickly, officials said. The fire engulfed industrial equipment at the Novoshakhtinsk oil processing plant in the Rostov-on-Don region. The authorities said that dozens of firefighters extinguished the flames in a half-hour and no one was hurt. The refinery said in a statement that the fire was caused by a strike carried out by two drones, describing it as a “terrorist” act. It didn’t give further details, but the state news agency...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 21 -- 3 P.M. Having learned that reports of an exciting character were industrioulsy circulated in Philadelphia and New-York, respecting affairs in front of Richmond, your correspondent called at the War Department for information, and was assured that no advices had been received, which indicate any engagement of a character beyond the daily skirmishing growing out of reconnoissances, and none announcing any change in the general position of our forces before Richmond. The following message was received at the War Department at 3 1/4 P.M.: MCCLELLAN's HEADQUARTERS, June 21 -- 2 1/2 P.M. To Hon. Edwin M....

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm on Wednesday proposed setting legally binding targets to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030 and a ban on all pesticide use in areas such public parks, playgrounds and schools. The European Commission said the current rules limiting the use of pesticides were too weak and have not been applied consistently across the EU. A study by the group Pesticide Action Network Europe last month said the contamination of fruit and vegetables produced in the European Union with the most toxic pesticides has substantially increased over the past decade....

POLIO is spreading in the UK for the first time in decades, officials claim. Health bosses urged Brits to check their children's jabs are up to date after picking up signs of the virus being passed between individuals. Experts have detected the same bug in London sewage samples since April – a clear signal of a community outbreak. The last case of polio being contracted in Britain was in 1984 and the country was declared polio-free in 2003. Before a vaccine was introduced in the 1950s, epidemics would result in thousands of people being paralysed annually and hundreds of deaths....

One sure way the Palestinian leaders whip up an anti-Israel frenzy among their people is to claim that Israel is intent on changing the status quo on the Temple Mount, by allowing Jews to pray on the Mount, something the Israeli government has always forbidden. Israel is also charged with increasing the number of Jews visiting the Mount and extending the hours and days they are allowed to visit, all as part of a sinister plan to seize Al-Aqsa, destroy it, and build in its place the Third Temple. The latest example of such hysteria, and the threat of a...

@CHueyBurns NRSC Chair Rick Scott told reporters this morning that he speaks often with Trump, assumes he is running in 2024. And he declined to commit to supporting McConnell for Majority Leader if GOP wins senate, saying there will be a leadership election.

Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is quietly shifting his campaign messaging away from former President Trump as he transitions into what's likely to be one of the most hotly contested Senate elections of the midterms.

What was the most gripping moment?The most emotional testimony of the day came from a former Georgia state election worker, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, and her mother, Ruby Freeman, a temporary election worker, who recalled the harassment they received after they were personally implicated in a baseless conspiracy theory about voter fraud.

What was once planned as a quick visit to Israel-and-the-Palestinians by President Biden has become a three-way affair, with Saudi Arabia not only added to the itinerary, but has become the main event, the meeting in Riyadh with the Saudi Crown Prince will overshadow his lightning visits to Jerusalem and Bethlehem. In Israel, Biden will attend the Maccabiah Games and no doubt discuss with Prime Minister Bennett ways for Israel to tamp down “tension” in the area – even though all such tension is provoked by the Palestinians – and he will repeat, in his conversations with both Israel...

As if further evidence was needed to reveal the fundamental anti-Semitic nature of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the recently-produced Boston “Mapping Project” proved conclusively that anti-Israel activists inhabit an ideological universe replete with conspiracies, delusions, and nihilistic hatred, both for Israel and the Jewish community as a whole. The BDS Boston Facebook page, which promoted the map, enthusiastically cheered on this fantasy of oppression, wildly claiming, as they did, that the map “illustrate[s] how local support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing, evictions, and privatization locally, and to US imperialist projects worldwide.”...