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New York, June 24, 2022 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has today affirmed the Government of United States of America's (US) Aaa long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings. The outlook remains stable. The rating affirmation is driven by Moody's view that the US is emerging from the pandemic shock with its credit strengths intact, underpinned by exceptional economic strength, high institutional and governance strength, and the unique and central roles of the US dollar and US Treasury bond market in the global financial system, which among other benefits provide extraordinary funding capacity. The US' strong policy response to the pandemic...

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

LQ Jones, a character actor and director best known for his appearances in dozens of Western films like The Wild Bunch and Hang ‘Em High, as well as his collaborations with filmmaker Sam Peckinpah, has died aged 94.Jones died of natural causes at his Hollywood Hills home, surrounded by his family.

In presidential politics, many of us seem to be enchanted with pretty faces. As was earlier true with John Kennedy, Gary Hart, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Martin O’Malley, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom is the latest “pretty face” in American politics who not so quietly believes his best qualification to become POTUS is his mug.

HENDERSONVILLE — The executive director of the North Carolina Apple Festival resigned June 23 over comments he made on social media about Juneteenth, according to the festival Facebook page. The post on the festival’s Facebook page said David Nicholson, the executive director of the festival, confirmed the resignation of David Nicholson, the event’s long-time.

US inflation is the highest in 40 years, yet inflation may be slowing as 1) The Fed cranks up interest rates and 2) the global economy is slowing. The closely watched consumer price index probably rose nearly 9% in June from a year earlier, a fresh four-decade high. Compared with May, the CPI is seen rising 1.1%, marking the third month in four with an increase of at least 1%. While persistently high and broad-based inflation is seen persuading Fed officials to raise their benchmark rate 75 basis points for a second consecutive meeting on July 27, recession concerns are...

Epic campaign ad for Jerone Davison in Arizona. Who is he campaigning against? https://youtu.be/BVRxzoKQ8Zk

A Manhattan bodega worker charged with murder tried to avoid the confrontation that led to him being thrown behind bars after he fatally stabbed a customer, new video shows.

What explains America’s hyper-ideological response to the Ukraine crisis? Less than a year before Vladimir Putin launched his invasion, Washington had wrapped up two decades of lousy regime-change wars, waged in the name of planting “freedom” in that region’s inhospitable soil. There was, or seemed to be, broad agreement that liberal moralism in foreign policy stood discredited: It had destabilized whole swaths of the Middle East and North Africa and bogged down America and its allies in the region’s bloody and intricate enmities—and to what end? Yet now, a few months later, the United States and its NATO allies are...

The following is from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. We have a corroboration from another source of the information it contains: "Last evening we learned that President LINCOLN had gone on a visit to the Army of the Potomac, in its new position on the James River, and as he will probably be on his return by the time this reaches our readers, there is no necessity for keeping the fact from the public. The steamboat Ariel brought Brig.-Gen. ANDREW PORTER and Brig.-Gen. NAGLEE to Washington on Sunday night. Both of them were sick, and Gen. MCCLELLAN thought they would be...

A Lancaster County movie theater has canceled showings of an independent movie featuring prominent right-wing Pennsylvania figures, most notably State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor, according to LancasterOnline. The movie, billed as an exploration of the populist right movement in Pennsylvania, was supposed to premiere July 16 at the IMAX theater in the Penn Cinema on Airport Road in Manheim Township. But the venue management cancelled it following pushback from members of Lancaster Stands Up, the newspaper reported. The group Lancaster Stands Up started after the 2016 election of Donald Trump as “a vehicle for everyday people...

What if the U.S. dragging Europe behind it – by the hair – and claiming that the Russian economy will eventually collapse, turns out to be like the “miscalculation” Russia made in the initial days of the war when it pounded on Kyiv’s door only to withdraw? In fact, what if it's a “lie”? ... Economic black holes are forming all over Europe - including Berlin and London. It is only natural that Germany’s crisis is voiced the most because if Germany falls, the rest will follow. The fact that it recorded a foreign trade deficit for the first time...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Investigators are seeking information on a fire that broke out at Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in Bethesda, Md. early Sunday morning, according to Pete Piringer, spokesperson for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. The fire broke out around 2 a.m. and involved several pews in the main church area, Piringer tweeted. The church is located at 9601 Old Georgetown Road. Sunday's masses are being held in the Christopher Hall Gymnasium, according to the parish website.

A Chinese man who sought treatment for a recurring urinary problem was shocked to find out that he had ovaries and had been menstruating for 20 years. **SNIP** Chen’s symptoms reportedly started soon after having corrective surgery for his irregular urination during puberty. He continued to experience symptoms for the past 20 years. Despite being treated for appendicitis, Chen’s symptoms persisted. It was not until last year that doctors finally found the cause of his symptoms: Chen reportedly had female sex chromosomes. After traveling some 930 miles from Sichuan province to Guangzhou to visit a hospital that treats genitalia issues,...

A new study from Israel reveals that there was “no increase in the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis” in unvaccinated adults who had COVID-19 infection.This contradicts the findings of earlier studies that suggested there may be a connection between cardiac inflammation and coronavirus infections.In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, the researchers concluded that there is “no increase in the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis in COVID-19 recovered patients compared to uninfected matched controls...”

I had an “aha” moment recently. I found myself thinking that progressives camouflage themselves by appearing stupid. It serves their purposes perfectly. We underestimate and discount them as fools, and they continue their nefarious agenda unimpeded. Look at all they accomplish! They are so far from being fools, they’re winning. We who have common sense rail at them for the nightmares of inflation, open borders, medical tyranny, supply chain problems, energy policy, violence, lack of support for the rule of law, and persecuting those they dislike but they are laughing at us. They love every glorious minute. Destroying babies, turning...

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Philippians 1:6 (King James Version) It is obvious the Barak Obiden puppet regime is trying to overwhelm America into collapse but it is not working. Yes, the economy is in a recession if not a full-blown depression, but the character of the nation is withstanding all they are throwing at it. There are millions of Americans suffering from their war on energy being fought in the guise of saving the earth gods and goddesses, but...

A female US Army soldier took to TikTok to question her loyalty to the United States after the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade. "How am I supposed to wake up every day and put on a freaking uniform that says United States Army when the United States doesn't even give a rat's ass about me," the soldier said. In 2019, the Army advised soldiers not to use TikTok on government-owned phones, citing national security risks from the Chinese app. China-based employees also have access to US user data. Human Events host Jack Posobiec originally broke the news of...

An academic article that seeks to provide the “consciousness needed to eradicate whiteness,” was published by the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. “We must actively and collectively help to do the work of disrupting, dismantling, and eradicating whiteness,” California State University East Bay professor G.T. Reyes says in his call to teachers. Titled “A love letter to educational leaders of Color: “CREWing UP” with critical whiteness studies” the article called on scholars, including white scholars, to “fully humanize themselves by abandoning whiteness, destroying it, and sending it to its grave.” Reyes said that this is the “greatest act...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE KING JOSIAH FINDS GOD AND HIS WORD 2nd KINGS CHAPTERS 22-23 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, not turning aside to the right or to the left. 1 "King Josiah" 2 Source 3 Source 4 Source Hilkiah the high priest said, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read from it in the...