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VIDEORarely has anybody every demonstrated such joy as Philadelphia's Mayor James Kenney did when he jubilantly performed his "Sanctuary City" dance in 2018. Well, that over the top joy has now been completely replaced by very sad gloom when Kenney glumly announced with deep sadness that he just wanted to give up being mayor. To get an idea of how happy Kenney was in 2018 that Philly would be a sanctuary city, I actually tried to replicate his "Sanctuary City" dance. However, despite practicing it over and over many, many times I could never quite do it. The missing element...

Off-duty correction officer hailed hero An off-duty correction officer is being hailed a hero after he shot a man who pointed a gun at a crowd in Queens. NEW YORK - A New York City Department of Correction officer is being hailed a hero after shooting a man who pointed a gun at a crowd in Queens, said Mayor Eric Adams. Correction Officer David Donegan, who was off-duty at the time, was also shot during a memorial celebration near 214 Place and Jamaica Avenue in Queens Village. According to Adams and police officials, a 23-year-old man pointed a gun toward...

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article263062583.html She thought nothing of it. ,, It was from CNN 10, formerly known as CNN Student News, a straightforward, fact-based news program for middle and high school students. She had shown the daily news program to students countless times, as had many other teachers around the country, including at Ragan’s Rocklin school. ..... “If it’s all CNN, why not listen to OAN?” Nagelmann asked at the meeting, referring to the far-right, pro-Trump One America News Network. .... On Facebook, Nagelmann posts often about conspiracy theories ranging from “chemical trails” ,,,to fake NASA and CIA documents that “prove” the Earth...

“Ed departments…they’re the dumbest part of every college,” the president of Hillsdale College said in a video published June 30 by News Channel 5. “If you study physics, there’s a subject, right? How does the physical world work? That’s hard to figure out,” President Larry Arnn said at a meeting in June with the governor of Tennessee. “Education is the study of how to teach,” Arnn (pictured) said in the video. “Is that a separate art? I don’t think so.” “Do they ever talk about anything except what they’re going to do to these kids?” he said. News Channel 5...

The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that the Second Amendment guarantees law-abiding citizens the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, both in their homes and in public. On Friday, New York responded that it didn’t care. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ushered in the long Independence Day weekend on Friday by signing into law legislation crafted in response to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. Just more than a week earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court in Bruen had declared that New York’s prior “may issue” gun licensing...

The purpose of the January 6 committee is to further the lie that there was nothing seriously wrong with the 2020 election and to criminalize any questioning of the election. The January 6 riot gives the committee a nice hook, but that’s not what they really care about. They want to prevent you from admitting the election was irregular, faulty, or anything less than the most perfect election in the history of mankind, and from supporting people who fought against those irregularities. In service of this goal, the January 6 committee repeatedly lied about the actual claims Donald Trump supporters...

Customers are withdrawing funds and closing accounts after a British bank told them to leave if they didn’t agree with a new pronoun policy. Halifax revealed new employee name tags featuring preferred pronouns in a tweeted image and captioned it, “Pronouns matter.” The move has caused customers to criticize the bank for “virtue signaling” and hundreds to say they will end relations with the bank. “I shall be transferring my [mortgage] over to another bank,” Ryan Link tweeted in response. “One [that] values customer service and short wait times over pronouns and virtue signaling. Loved the good old days when...

Stocks were mostly lower on Tuesday as concerns about a possible recession in the U.S. weighed on investor sentiment, but lower interest rates appeared to boost the tech sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 290 points, or about 0.9%, after falling roughly 700 points earlier in the session. The S&P 500 dipped 0.4%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite outperformed and rose more than 1%.

More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices were exported to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices touched record highs. The export of crude and fuel is blunting the impact of the moves by U.S. President Joe Biden designed to lower record pump prices. Biden on Saturday renewed a call for gasoline suppliers to cut their prices, drawing criticism from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Cherelle Griner has been working to get her wife out of jail since she was taken into custody in February after being arrested for allegedly having cannabis oil. She was charged with 'large scale transportation of drugs' and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Cherelle said there was 'no way possible' her wife could have done that. She also revealed that the Biden Administration originally told her they would 'handle [Brittney's arrest] behind the scenes' and to 'stay quiet.' 'I did that, and respectfully, we're over 140 days at this point, that does not work,' she...

Donald Trump is definitely running for president again in 2024 and will easily win the Republican nomination and retake the White House, his self-proclaimed “secret adviser” claims in a provocative new book. Dick Morris, a veteran political consultant who advised Bill Clinton for years, says he served as an unpaid, back-channel adviser to Trump in 2020. His father, Eugene Morris, was the longtime real estate lawyer for Trump’s dad, Fred and then son Donald. So, they have a longtime connection. In his new book “The Return: Trump’s 2024 Comeback” (Humanix Books), Morris claims that voters who have buyer’s remorse with...

Zimbabwe's central bank will start selling gold coins later this month to try and tame inflation by providing a store of value to the country's plunging currency and giving the population an alternative to the U.S. dollar. The one troy ounce 22-carat gold coin will be called 'Mosi-Oa-Tunya' and will be available starting July 25. The name means "Smoke that Thunders," referencing Victoria falls. "Each coin will have a serial number," Zimbabwe's central bank said in a press release. "Upon purchase, the buyer shall take physical possession of the coin and be issued with a Bearer Ownership Certificate. The buyer...

The invasion declaration may put pressure on governors in Texas and Arizona to act on the matterMultiple Texas counties on Tuesday will declare that the migrant crisis at the southern border is an "invasion," Fox News has learned, a move that could lead to similar declarations across the state. Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan is expected to announce the move at a news conference Tuesday afternoon, along with a number of other officials from other counties who will join him. Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith told Fox News Digital that he believes approximately 12 to15 counties could end up having...

Little is going President Joe Biden’s way as the summer lull sets in before the crush of midterm elections.Gas prices are up; his approval rating is down. A conservative Supreme Court majority is hacking away at his agenda by abolishing federal abortion rights and undermining environmental protections meant to curb climate change. His own party is losing patience, fearing that any chance of consequential change while Democrats control Congress is vanishing.

The CEO of one of the largest Big Tech companies in the world appeared on Communist Chinese state-affiliated media to praise China for its “inspiring” and “innovative” app development scene.

“I think because it’s a COVID mitigation thing, we do see sort of higher support for it, than if it were just sort of a pure immigration concern,” Ipsos pollster and senior vice president Chris Jackson told Axios, adding that he was “surprised” that most Hispanics supported Title 42.Breitbart News adds:These poll numbers come as President Joe Biden’s administration is in a legal dispute over the pandemic-era immigration policy. After Biden announced the program would end in May, 21 states sued the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), alleging Biden unlawfully terminated the program.A federal judge ordered Biden to keep Title...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have resigned from government saying they no longer have confidence in Boris Johnson to lead the country. Mr Sunak said the public expected government to be conducted "properly, competently and seriously". Mr Javid echoed this in his resignation letter, saying the government was not "acting in the national interest". The resignations came minutes after PM sought to draw a line under a row about MP Chris Pincher, who is facing sexual misconduct allegations. Mr Johnson admitted he had made a "bad mistake" in appointing Mr Pincher to the role of deputy chief...

President Biden said Tuesday he was not sure whether he will visit the Chicago suburb where a gunman murdered six people and injured more than 30 others at a Fourth of July parade — as Vice President Kamala Harris travels to the Windy City later in the day for a pre-planned trip. “I’m not sure,” Biden told reporters as he departed a Medal of Honor event in the White House East Room when asked whether a trip was in the offing. The White House later announced that Biden had ordered the American flag to be flown at half-staff on public...

Despite serious supply problems in the market, oil prices crashed on Tuesday morning (5 July 2022) due to renewed recession fears and the prospect of demand destruction.

Health officials in the U.K. this month identified the country’s first polio outbreak in 40 years, and believe the outbreak was caused by a strain of polio found in the oral polio vaccine.Health officials in Britain warned parents on June 22 to ensure their children have been vaccinated against polio after multiple closely related versions of the virus that cause the disease were found in sewage water at the London Beckton Sewage Treatment Works — the largest water treatment plant in the U.K.“The Global Polio Laboratory Network has confirmed the isolation of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) from environmental samples...