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It’s not something I ever thought I would see… The use of coal as a way to generate electricity is on the rise. Given the politics around clean energy, it comes as a surprise to see the increasing use of coal – the dirtiest form of carbon-based fuel – to produce electricity. Last week was a bit of a shocker as Germany announced that it would pass laws to reopen previously closed coal-based power plants for the purpose of electricity production. It appears that there have been some unintended consequences from the European Union’s stance on Russia. Last week, Russia...

Missouri officials have declared a 'large fatality event' after a passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago hit a dump truck that was blocking a public crossing and completely derailed on Monday. Three people are dead -- including two on the train and one in the dump truck -- after the train's eight cars and its two locomotives came off the tracks, officials with the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. At least 50 people were injured, the Chariton County Ambulance Service said. At least nine patients were being taken to a University of Missouri Health Care hospital in Columbia,...

On Saturday, June 18 the price of bitcoin fell to around $17,700… its lowest price since 2020, and a 74% drop from its all-time high last November.Now, it doesn’t take much for bitcoin and crypto critics to declare the end of crypto… so when bitcoin fell below $18,000 for the first time in years, you can imagine what happened.It was once again the death of bitcoin as we know it… and the fifteenth declaration of bitcoin’s demise in 2022, according to Bitcoin Obituaries.But regular Daily readers know that these headlines aren’t anything new… we see them all year long, regardless...

The Walt Disney Co. has released its first teaser trailer for the Disney+ movie Hocus Pocus 2 just as star Bette Midler has launched her own campaign against pro-lifers by smearing conservative Supreme Justices and even mocking couples who have expressed the desire to adopt unwanted babies. Hocus Pocus 2 sees Bette Midler reprising her role as one of three witches from the 1993 cult favorite movie. The sequel will skip cinemas and begin streaming on Disney+ September 30. Watch below: Like many Hollywood celebrities, Bette Midler has spent the past few days rage tweeting about the Supreme Court’s historic...

“Ah Redfin,” Glenn Kelman wrote in an all-staff e-mail two weeks ago, “I’m sorry to say that we’re asking about 8% of our employees to leave…” The online real estate brokerage’s CEO went on to announce a sweeping layoff. It was either that or cease to exist… Redfin (RDFN) stock is down more than 90% since February 2021. And last month, demand came in at 17% less than the brokerage expected. It’s a brutal time in real estate. Last year’s manic market has cooled in a matter of months. Mortgage rates have soared, crushing demand. It might feel like another...

Chicago Police Deputy Chief Migdalia Bulnes went to Camp Pendleton near San Diego, California , where 9,000 Marines become civilians every year, to replenish the city's police force, and took six former Marines who are now officers to help in the recruitment, she said Thursday. The department has recently hired 50 new officers but still needs more to operate fully, according to CBS. "The reality is that we need to fill the gaps quickly," Bulnes said.

Pro-abortion activists from the Woman’s March organization scaled a crane in Washington, DC, on Tuesday and unfurled a banner that read, “Biden Protect Abortion.” The stunt occurred in the 1500 block of North Capitol Street and P Street, NBC 4 reported. Women’s March proclaimed on Twitter that their “Summer of Rage is just starting” in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe v. Wade on Friday. “This team of activists, all from states such as Florida, Texas, and Michigan, states Biden needs to secure re-election, will scale a crane in Washington D.C. to send the President a clear...

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays So far, Trump’s second term has been a huge success. He has several major SCOTUS victories, looks better than ever compared to Biden, and the Jan6 theater just went full Jussie. You can’t win harder than that. 4:21 PM · Jun 28, 2022

Over the course of nearly 10 minutes on Tuesday (nine minutes and 43 seconds, excluding a whopping five teases), CBS Mornings sat enthralled by Hillary Clinton as she seethed over the Dobbs Supreme Court case overturning Roe v. Wade, boasting of her “fascinating” and “powerful” sit-down and “stark warning” for the American people that “women will die” and our system of government’s in danger because of abortion opponents. Co-host Nate Burleson teased the interview in the show’s Eye Opener: “And a stark warning from Hillary Clinton after the controversial decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.” Co-host and Democratic party donor...

“Yes, the Supreme Court just made a decision that guns are more important than these young women and their lives… I think we’re going to have a revolution of sorts,” Jennifer Siebel Newsom, producer and director of “Fair Play,” a recent documentary on gender roles within a heterosexual relationship, proclaimed on Sunday night’s CNN Newsroom. Host Pamela Brown welcomed both Newsom and the author of “Fair Play,” Eve Rodsky onto the show to discuss their recent documentary. The conversation quickly changed to that of “the main ways” that women have found a way into society by “managing their own fertility.”...

Meghan Markle has urged men to be 'more vocal' with their anger at the repealing of Roe v. Wade, as she revealed that Prince Harry's response to the news on Friday was 'guttural'. The Duchess of Sussex, 40, spoke to Vogue magazine in conversation with author and activist Gloria Steinem, 88, and journalist Jessica Yellin. Steinem declared the day after Friday's ruling that she would welcome women traveling to New York for an abortion into her own Manhattan home. She said that her husband was a feminist, and he reacted with anger to the Supreme Court's decision. Markle said that...

Justice Clarence Thomas has spent the last twenty summers driving to nearly forty states in his RV often meeting people who don’t have a clue he’s a judge. He spends his vacations taking in the natural beauty of the country and meeting its people.

Thanks to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, young women are confronting some basic truths about men and women that feminism has denied for the last half-century. Like other left-wing movements, feminism is based on a denial of reality (or, if you prefer, on lies). The best-known example is the feminist insistence that, except for physical differences, men and women are basically the same. This includes the central feminist belief about men's and women's sexual natures. For half a century, women have been told that their sexual nature is no different from male sexual nature -- just as men can...

Spine-related pain is increasingly common in older adults. While medications play an important role in pain management, their use has limitations in geriatric patients. Now a new review study has found acetaminophen is safe in older adults, but ibuprofen may be more effective for spine-related pain. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories should be used short-term in lower dose courses with gastrointestinal precaution while corticosteroids show the least evidence for treating non-specific back pain. Additionally, nerve pain medications (gabapentin and pregabalin) can be used in older persons, with caution to dose and kidney function. Among their findings: Pain medicines gabapentin and pregabalin may cause...

The California Attorney General’s office leaked the names and addresses of the state’s legal gun owners. The private information of California’s gun owners was posted in publicly-accessible files to the California Department of Justice’s 2022 Firearms Dashboard Portal, The Reload reported. "We are investigating an exposure of individuals’ personal information connected to the DOJ Firearms Dashboard,” a spokesperson for the office told The Reload. “Any unauthorized release of personal information is unacceptable. We are working swiftly to address this situation and will provide additional information as soon as possible.” The Reload reported:

For many, after-work drinks are a common way of relaxing after a busy week. But one worker in Japan could be nursing a protracted hangover after he lost a USB memory stick following a night out with colleagues. Why? It contained the personal details of nearly half a million people. The unnamed man placed the memory stick in his bag before an evening of drinking in the city of Amagasaki, north-west of Osaka. He spent several hours drinking in a local restaurant before eventually passing out on the street, local media reported.

Call 911, the Fire Department & the Ambulance. I need a nurse I can't breathe after hearing this woman testify about how President Trump tried to take the steering wheel in the Presidential limo.

Hutchinson said Trump got into “the beast” after his speech at the Ellipse on January 6 with the belief that he would be driven to the Capitol. According to Hutchinson, who allegedly received this information from Tony Ornato, the Assistant Director for the Secret Service, Trump grew angry after he was informed that he was being driven back to the West Wing. President Trump posted several “truths” on Truth Social following Cassidy’s testimony refuting her outlandish statements. That’s when FOX News crank Bret Baier jumped in to defend young Cassidy. Bret Baier told his audience that Cassidy was under oath...

Married Las Vegas Pastor and the inmate. A pastor at a women’s prison in Las Vegas has been charged with sexually abusing an inmate, according to police and court records.

Alex Holder said that during the interviews he conducted for his Discovery+ docuseries Unprecedented, Donald Trump never wavered from his contention that the election was stolen from him, while his children, including Ivanka, supported their father’s post-election challenge. Yet Holder’s access to the First Family isn’t the only reason that the January 6th Committee was interested in his footage, something that put him in the spotlight this week after news broke that his materials had been subpoenaed and he appeared for a private deposition