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Ilhan Omar smiled through a chorus of boos and jeers at a Somali music festival in her home state of Minnesota over Independence Day weekend. The squad member made an appearance at a concert featuring Somali singer Soldaan Seraar at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday night, but a viral video shows that much of the crowd was not happy to see her. Some videos show people chanting 'get out!' at the congresswoman and telling her to 'get the **** out of here.' It is not immediately clear what prompted the boos, but a Newsweek article said that some...

Long ago, almost up until the end of the last ice age, a peculiar giant kangaroo roamed the mountainous rainforests of New Guinea.Now, research published by myself and colleagues suggests this kangaroo was not closely related to modern Australian kangaroos. Rather, it represents a previously unknown type of primitive kangaroo unique to New Guinea.Australia used to be home to all manner of giant animals called megafauna, until most of them went extinct about 40,000 years ago. These megafauna lived alongside animals we now consider characteristic of the Australian bush – kangaroos, koalas, crocodiles and the like – but many were...

Beverages—not including those in reusable cups—purchased in unincorporated Santa Cruz County now have a 25-cent fee tacked onto the priceStarting today, anyone purchasing a beverage in the unincorporated parts of Santa Cruz County—and who didn’t bring their own reusable cup—will notice a 25-cent fee tacked onto the price. That is due to the county’s new disposable cup fee, which was created to reduce the amount of single-use cups for hot and cold beverages going into landfills. Approved in November 2019, the fee was delayed during the Covid-19 pandemic to avoid adverse impacts on local businesses. “Santa Cruz County is a...

Katy Perry, Jessica Chastain and Kim and Kourtney Kardashian are among those not so eager to celebrate their country's independence this year now that the right to choose was stripped away for millions of women. Many stars have taken to social media to effectively 'cancel' Fourth of July 'due to a shortage of independence' in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Since SCOTUS reversed the ruling guaranteeing the right to an abortion, many celebrities have slammed the Supreme Court, speaking out on social media about the topic. Perry, whose song Firework is an unofficial...

Ancient Lybian Ruins In Windsor Full Of Geoplymer Marble, Granite And LimestonePaul Cook | July 1, 2022 | YouTube

Romney criticized Biden and former President Donald Trump as the Utah Republican explained what he'd like to see in a future presidential candidate.Trump, he said, "would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) returned from a visit to Turkey over the weekend saying he will do everything in his power to close a sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara. President Biden signalled his support for the weaponry sale to Turkey in a statement on Thursday, expressing optimism that Congress will pass this measure. Biden had met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the day prior, but shut down the notion that the proposed deal was a “quid pro quo” for Turkey supporting Finland and Sweden’s applications to join the NATO military alliance. In a Twitter thread on Sunday,...

2020 saw Black voters and candidates alike turn out in droves. From Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D) successful campaign in Georgia to Jaime Harrison’s unsuccessful Senate campaign in South Carolina, it seemed Black voters and candidates were lining up on the left. But while the Democratic Party tends to have a lock on Black voters, that bloc is not a monolith. And Black Republicans are confident their ranks will continue growing ahead of the midterms and the 2024 presidential election. “So many Black Americans have been raised in a conservative way,” said Paris Dennard, national spokesperson and director of Black media...

GOP Senator Mitt Romney is warning that a second Trump would "feed the sickness" of America and make national distrust "incurable."

Just when the wife of one incarcerated Jan. 6 prisoner believed things couldn’t get worse, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) informed her they are going to suspend all of her husband’s benefits. According to United States Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), “this is what you have when vindictive leftists get in charge of major parts of the government.” In an unsigned letter from the VA—dated June 13 and appearing to originate from the “Director Regional Office,”—Angel and Kenneth Harrelson were notified that the administration “received information from the United States Department of Justice” that Kenneth had been “indicted and charged...

Two top Arizona election officials abruptly quit their jobs before the state's primary elections, citing continuous threats from former President Donald Trump's supporters after the 2020 elections, multiple reports say. Leslie Hoffman, the elected county recorder in Yavapai County, said on Friday that she was stepping down later this month after facing two years of "nastiness" from election deniers, The Washington Post reported. Hoffman said elections director Lynn Constabile, who had worked for the county for 18 years, was leaving for the same reason, The Post reported. Constabile did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

A 26-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested Sunday after police say he sexually battered a woman in Irvine last month. Rafael Cortez was at a storage facility at 17 Shield in Irvine on June 25 when the alleged battery took place, the Irvine Police Department said in a news release. Cortez was exiting an elevator when a woman got on, then he re-entered the elevator, police said in a news release.

Missouri state Rep. Tricia Derges (R) was convicted on Tuesday after she applied for nearly $900,000 in CARES Act funds for what she said were COVID-19 testing costs incurred by nonprofit Lift Up, but the organization never provided any testing services, according to a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Derges was also found guilty on Tuesday in separate schemes in which she fraudulently marketed a stem cell treatment and illegally prescribed drugs to patients. “It has truly been an honor to serve the citizens of the 140th District,” Derges wrote in her resignation letter, where she made...

In around 1485 or 1486, Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli came up with probably his most famous painting, the "Birth of Venus." Botticelli’s choice of subject was nothing new. Venus and her equivalents, including the Greek Aphrodite and the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, are among the most common figures depicted in art. Archaeologists dub one of the oldest of all sculptures, the “Venus of Willendorf,” on the assumption that this 25,000-year-old work was intended to represent a Stone Age fertility goddess similar to the Venus of later tradition. In virtually all civilizations, a Venus equivalent plays a prominent role in myth, legend...

Claudia Conway, 17, said she is 'not celebrating July 4th today' on Monday as she clapped back at a reporter who called her a 'potty mouth' for leading pro-abortion protests after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. She urged Americans 'especially at a time like this not to buy into July 4th propaganda.' 'You know – 'land of the free.' We're not free,' she insisted. 'Why should we be celebrating independence when not all of us have independence?' Conway questioned during a rally she organized. 'And that's why we're out here fighting for our reproductive rights, challenging the overturn...

Both served in the Continental Congress. Both signed the Declaration of Independence. Both served as U.S. Ministers in France. Both were U.S. Presidents, one elected the 2nd President and the other the 3rd. Download as PDF ... Once political enemies, they became close friends in later life. An awe swept America when they both died on the same day, JULY 4, 1826, exactly 50 years since they approved the Declaration of Independence. Their names were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson's handwritten Declaration of Independence used the wording "inalienable rights" as seen in the copies at the American Philosophical...

Hershel W. "Woody" Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, whose heroics under fire over several crucial hours at the Battle of Iwo Jima made him a legend in his native West Virginia, died Wednesday. He was 98. Williams' foundation announced on Twitter and Facebook that he died at the Veterans Affairs medical center bearing his name in Huntington. "Today, America lost not just a valiant Marine and a Medal of Honor recipient, but an important link to our Nation's fight against tyranny in the Second World War," U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in...

Why are woke white people always trying to convince blacks and other minorities that the American system is rigged against us and forces driven by white privilege will never let us excel? In a recent commencement address, Carol Strohecker, dean of the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, perpetuated that narrative by saying anti-black racism killed Minnesotans like George Floyd and Amir Locke and countless other black Americans across our nation. Strohecker is another liberal in the woke mob, trying to convince black people, like me, that America is racist, and we are oppressed. No matter how hard white liberals...

Under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country”By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)July 4, 2022Under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country.”And you don’t have to take my word for that.NBC News just reported: (the bolding is mine)Black women are underserved when it comes to birth control access. The Roe decision could make that worse.Discrimination, stigma and systemic barriers in the health care system have already led to a gap in contraceptive access for Black women.The Supreme Court’s ruling to gut nationwide rights to abortion last...

Independence Day is celebrated in the United States on July 4, and features parades, ceremonies commemorating the historic event, fireworks, barbecues and the occasional retail store sale. At the center of the observance is the Declaration of Independence, an influential political document that 56 members of the Continental Congress signed in 1776. From the 18th century to the present day, the Declaration of Independence has garnered a lot of attention, as well as a few misconceptions and myths about its origins. Here are five interesting facts about the Declaration of Independence. They include how it originally condemned slavery, how the...