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The show amassed 7.2 billion minutes of viewing time in one week Stranger Things season four has broken a US streaming record for minutes watched within a single week. According to Nielsen (via The Hollywood Reporter), the Netflix series racked up 7.2 billion minutes of viewing time for the week of May 30 to June 5. This is the highest weekly total for any streaming title since Nielsen’s weekly rankings began almost two years ago. Stranger Things also holds the biggest two-week tally for any streaming show, achieving 5.14 billion minutes of viewing when season four released in the week...

Biden economic advisor Brian Deese said that Americans should 'stand firm' on paying record-high gas prices because the 'future of the liberal world order' is more important. 'What do you say to those families that say, 'listen, we can't afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?' the director of the National Economic Council was asked on CNN Thursday. What you heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes. This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm,' he replied. Deese added: 'At the same time,...

Bill Gates has secured legal approval for the controversial purchase of thousands of acres of prime North Dakota farmland, after the deal drew fury from the state's residents. The state's Republican Attorney General Drew Wrigley had inquired into the land sale, and on Wednesday issued a letter saying the transaction complied with an archaic anti-corporate farming law. The Depression-era law prohibits corporations or limited liability companies from owning farmland or ranchland, but allows individual trusts to own land if it is leased to farmers, which Gates intends to do. Gates is now the largest private owner of farmland in America...

State law would make nearly all abortions a felonyFollowing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday, Planned Parenthood and one of its abortion providers filed a new lawsuit with Idaho’s Supreme Court to block its trigger law banning nearly all abortions. That law is scheduled to go into effect within the next two months. Planned Parenthood announced the lawsuit in a press release on Monday afternoon. Lawyers from the law firms WilmerHale and Bartlett French filed the petition on behalf of Planned Parenthood and Idaho provider Dr. Caitlin Gustafson. The Idaho Legislature passed the abortion trigger law in 2020, with a...

Legendary composer John Williams appears to be ready to hang up his baton — at least when it comes to film music. The composer, 90, whose work also extended into TV, having composed various iterations of NBC News‘ “The Mission” theme as well as well-known tracks for the Olympics, is currently working on the latest Indiana Jones film, he told the Associated Press. “I don’t want to be seen as categorically eliminating any activity,” Williams told the AP in an interview. He noted that a “Star Wars” film, another franchise he’s well known for, can take about six months of...

Pope reflects on papacy in interview with Argentine news agencyVATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said the goals he has achieved in more than nine years as pope were simply the fruit of the ideas discussed by the College of Cardinals prior to his election.In an interview with Argentine news agency Telam published July 1, the pope said that objectives, such as the reform of the Roman Curia, were “neither my invention nor a dream I had after a night of indigestion.”“I gathered everything that we, the cardinals, had said at the pre-conclave meetings, the things we believed the new...

Late News Tonight: At least three people dead and eight injured following a 6.1 magnitude earthquake on the southern coast of Iran... Protesters breaking into Libya's parliament building in Tobruk tonight... Freedom Protesters Face Police Crackdown On Canada Day In Ottawa Supporters of COVID freedom marking Canada Day with a major presence on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in the face of phalanxes of black uniformed police. Cries of: "Freedom" heard from the crowd of thousands in front of Parliament.... In Bunker Hill, West Virginia this weekend The 1776 Restoration Movement planning Freedom Celebration rallies. The rallies ahead of a planned...

Blank-check firm Digital World Acquisition Corp said on Friday former U.S. President Donald Trump's social media firm was served with two separate subpoenas over its merger plans. The development comes days after Digital World said each of its board of directors received subpoenas from federal prosecutors over the SPAC deal with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the creator of social media platform Truth Social. The blank-check firm said on Friday TMTG received subpoenas from the U.S. securities regulator and a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York, adding federal prosecutors sought the same documents from TMTG...

Loitering for the purpose of prostitution is no longer a crime in California.

A shocking report revealed that almost half of the nation’s murder cases go unsolved, including around three out of four Chicago murder cases, a CBS News investigation team found. Using FBI crime statistics to determine their findings, the team found that the national clearance rate for murder cases — meaning solved cases — in major U.S. urban cities had sunk to its lowest levels in over 50 years. The team primarily used data from 2020 as that year was the most recent release from the FBI. Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project told CBS News that from June 2020...

On Friday's "Eric Bolling The Balance," Bolling, in his monologue, dissects the backwards issues the Democratic party has created, including making an illusion that former President Donald Trump & the "MAGA" crowd is evil, as well as that the government isn't trying to track you, but THEY OBVIOUSLY ARE.

Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin has signed a decree establishing June 8 as an official state holiday, Day of Family, Love and Fidelity. On this day the Orthodox Church commemorates Ss. Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia of Murom, revered as patrons of Christian marriage. Mr. Vladimir Legoida, the Chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church Department for Relations with the Society and Media, has remarked on this occasion: - "Once again, the President has underscored the importance of the family for our nation. Let me remind you that the holiday has been celebrated in Russia since 2008. It has come a...

More vandalism of Catholic churches, pro-life pregnancy centers, and a pro-life memorial have been reported since Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday. LifeChoice pregnancy center in Winter Haven, Florida was defaced with pro-abortion graffiti June 25. Director of Development for LifeChoices Lyndsy Flanagan told CNA Tuesday that the clinic was alerted by a local pastor who saw the damage on Sunday morning. A local church community, Winter Haven Worship Center, volunteered to repaint the whole building on Monday, Flanagan said. The vandals also painted over security cameras and the clinic’s sign, she said. A pressure washer could not clean...

Just over four months ago, the U.S. and several allied nations levied unprecedented sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. For weeks afterwards, the Russian ruble's value tanked, foreign multinational companies pulled out of the country, and economic prospects began looking grim. But Russia responded aggressively. It shored up the ruble's value and increased oil exports to China and India. The ruble is now the world's strongest performing currency. Thanks to years of preparations, Russia has become far more self-sufficient, and has massive foreign exchange reserves. It has also reopened several companies that were previously under foreign...

Clinton joins a growing list of prominent Democrats attacking Thomas.NEW YORK CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Justice Clarence Thomas a “person of grievance” as the justice continues to support Christian values in America. On June 28, Clinton spoke with CBS Morning Show host Gayle King, raging against the pro-life Supreme Court Justice and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. “I went to law school with him,” Clinton said. “He’s been a person of grievance for as long as I have known him — resentment, grievance, anger.” “There are so many things about it that...

NEW YORK – In a June 23 letter to Congress four U.S. bishop conference chairmen commended the Senate for passing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act regarding gun violence and urged them to continue to work together to “confront a culture of violence.” It’s the second letter U.S. bishops have sent to Congress on the topic in 20 days, after mass shootings in Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma resulted in 36 deaths, and renewed a national conversation on U.S. gun laws and culture. Concerning the bipartisan legislation, the letter identified several key provisions that “particularly heartened” the bishops....

“Peace Be to This House!” (Luke 10:1-20) “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Yes, peace to you! Peace be to this house! That’s what Jesus told me to tell you, isn’t it? He sends out his laborers into the harvest field and instructs them, “Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’” So today, the first thing I want to say to you is what Jesus told me to tell you: Peace be to this house. Friends, today I want to tell you why you need this peace and...

CONTRA COSTA, Calif. - AnaMarie Avila Farias, a member of the Contra County Board of Education, called for a Fourth of July boycott in a Facebook post Friday.

streets are blocked and a popular holiday festival is canceled in downtown Akron as tensions grow over a deadly police-involved shooting. FOX 8 also heard from the family of Jayland Walker as they talked about how they want him to be remembered and their calls for peace. Demonstrations continued into the evening in downtown Akron Thursday as people protest the death of 25-year old Jayland Walker after a police-involved shooting early Monday morning.

July 4th. We are not celebrating until we get our independence back.