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Republican pollster Rick Shaftan is like a lot of political junkies: He looks to his mother for hints on what real America is thinking. Lately, their talks have been about former President Donald Trump and whether he should run again. SNIP Of course, Trump does make some news, but it's mostly complaining about the 2020 election results and cheering on some 140 GOP candidates he has endorsed for 2022 who have won so far. SNIP “It’s actually even worse than it appears for Trump,” said Shaftan, whose new poll shows a dramatic drop in support for Trump in Iowa and...

Insufferable NeverTrumper Bill Kristol should know by now that putting dumb inflation hot takes on Twitter minutes before devastating economic news is released doesn’t return dividends. Kristol tweeted at 8:00 a.m. a laundry list of predictions he claimed were “[s]traightforward from here.” One of his crystal ball items he mentioned was: “Inflation subsides.” That prediction only had a shelf life of about 30 minutes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report at 8:30 a.m. revealing that inflation had skyrocketed a whopping 9.1 percent year-over-year in June for the fastest pace since December 1981, wiping out Dow Jones expectations of...

Experts believe that the "exceptional" treasure trove could lead to more discoveries in the area. The front and back of a gold coin from the ancient Roman empire. The front shows Augustus Caesar and the back shows his grandson on a horse. One of the gold coins from the Roman empire found in the English countryside. Augustus Caesar is featured on the front, and his grandson Gaius on horseback is depicted on the back. (Image credit: Two of the 11 gold coins from the Roman empire found in the English countryside. Photo by Adrian Marsden) A cache of gold coins...

Amid the restructuring of the global order that has been accelerated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the evolving position of China had been lost in the fog of war. The heads of the UK’s security service (MI5) and US Federal Bureau of Investigation sought to disperse this fog with a rare joint press conference warning of the “immense threat” from China.For China, the invasion of Ukraine has provided substantial intelligence about how the west would respond militarily, economically and politically to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan: they know that the western response will entail a large package of sanctions, cyber...

Leftist outlets warning about potential data privacy infringements for those seeking abortions pushed for the surrender of people’s privacy when it came to COVID-19. MRC Free Speech America found at least eight major publications that seemed to have respective major epiphanies on the importance of data privacy. Once the news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court would — and eventually did — overturn the infamous pro-abortion Roe v. Wade (1973) decision, liberal outlets like The Washington Post, The New York Times, BuzzFeed News and Fortune went into apparent shock and hypocritically warned about Big Tech’s threat to women’s abortion-related data...

A 21-year-old Arizona woman who is 26-weeks pregnant with a baby girl who is 'incompatible with life' says she is now being forced to feel her unborn daughter 'suffer every day,' after her termination was canceled following the Supreme Court's recent reversal of the Roe v. Wade ruling. The woman, named Chloe, 21, who asked that her last name be withheld for privacy reasons, was told 23 weeks into her pregnancy that her baby was 'incompatible with life.' The 21-year-old, who is from Arizona, scheduled an induction, however, the day it was supposed to take place, Roe v. Wade was...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s central bank said Wednesday it is raising its target interest rate by a full percentage point in an effort to fight inflation — and warned more rate hikes are likely to follow. The Bank of Canada raised the overnight rate to 2.5% in the biggest increase since 1998 and the highest level since 2008. The bank said inflation is higher and more persistent than had been projected and the bank expects it will likely remain around 8% in the next few months. It blamed the war in Ukraine, ongoing supply disruptions and excess demand in Canada....

New Zealand medical professionals have penned an open letter to the authorities requesting that an investigation be conducted into the deaths that have occurred since vaccinations for Covid were administered. An unredacted version of the letter from the New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science (NZDSOS) is being prepared for the police, according to the news release. “There is a shockingly large burden of deaths and injuries following the Covid-19 vaccines, of itself and compared to any other treatment or vaccine in modern times,” NZDSOS said in a statement. “We report many cases that DEMAND proper investigation, as befits any...

When Mystrichrome was fresh and new, it was not an easy paint to get ahold of. If you owned a Mystichrome Cobra and got into an accident that required paint repair, you were in for a nasty surprise. Only certain body shops around the country could spray the paint, and to do so, a Ford representative had to be present. Not only that, but that Ford rep was responsible for bringing the paint, overseeing the work done, then re-sealing the can and bringing the leftover paint back with them. ...In Patterson’s video, he shows the cost of just 16 ounces...

U.S. consumer prices in June accelerated at the fastest annual pace since November 1981.

A new discovery may provide a key to a great scientific enigma: How does the awake brain transform sensory input into a conscious experience? The study relied on data collected from electrodes implanted, for medical purposes, deep in the human brain. The information was utilized to examine differences between the response of the cerebral cortex to sounds in sleep vs. wakefulness, at a resolution of single neurons. The researchers were surprised to discover that the brain's response to sound remains powerful during sleep in all parameters but one: the level of alpha-beta waves associated with attention to the auditory input...

STORY AT-A-GLANCE: * Using CDC data, no significant differences were found in COVID-19 case growth between states with or without mask mandates, during periods of low or high transmission * The widespread use of masks did not reduce COVID-19 transmission in Europe, and a moderate positive correlation was found between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe * An update to a CDC study on school mask mandates, using nearly six times more data, found no significant relationship between mask mandates in U.S. schools and COVID-19 case rates * In Kansas, counties with a mask mandate had significantly higher COVID-19...

The Arizona Democratic Party released a statement recently thanking Karrin Taylor Robson, a RINO primary candidate for Arizona Governor, for her generous donations to “help elect Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.” “She herself is a big funder of Arizona Democrats, funneling thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates as recently as 2020,” they added.Michael Ward, the Husband of AZGOP Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward, shared this statement mocking Robson on her unofficial endorsement from the Arizona Democratic Party.Great job ⁦@Karrin4Arizona⁩ pic.twitter.com/tYqFEArDZX— Michael P Ward, DO, Col, USAF (ret) (@jimmythemole001) July 12, 2022Karrin Robson is one of the fakest Republicans in...

The steamers McClennan and Trade Wind bring New-Orleans papers of July 4. Gen. BUTLER had suspended the functions of the City Councils. Bureaus of Finance, and of Streets and Landings, consisting of three members each, had been appointed, among whom the duties appertaining to the Councils of the city were divided. Provisions, vegetables and fruit were being allowed to come freely into the city. Two men, named FIDEL KELLER and JOHN W. ANDREWS, had been sent to Ship Island for confinement with hard labor, for exhibiting bones, alleged to be of Yankee soldiers, fashioned into personal ornaments.A Mrs. PHILIPS, for...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Police say property crime rates jumped nine percent in 2021. Now, business owners tell KATU they feel like things are only getting worse. Paige Ashcroft owns Fate Beauty Society. She said in the last year she's experienced vandalism, a stolen car, siphoned gas, and vehicle break-ins. "We’re just experiencing so much chaos within my husband’s office is downtown, I have this space here and then in our home, we’re feeling like we’re always having to defend ourselves against some sort of crime or robbery," Ashcroft said. Wyatt Savage opened his first business in Portland's Old Town....

DEVELOPING: U.S. announces another $1.7 billion in aid to Ukraine. The money is for humanitarian purposes, intended to support the salaries of hospital workers as the nation reels from the ravages of war.

A team co-led by a City University of Hong Kong (CityU) neuroscientist has identified a key mechanism of a biological clock that ensures roundworms stay regular by defecating at steady intervals. The defecation step is under the timed control of a nerve cell located in the worm's head. This cell fires a nerve impulse, or burst of electrical discharge, every 45 seconds or so. Each impulse is immediately transmitted along the worm through a nerve fiber that contacts a nerve cell in the tail. This cell then fires an impulse with the near-synchronized impulse from the head nerve cell that...

LZ Water Tank Members of the LZ team in the LZ water tank after the outer detector installation. Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility An innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector – the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment – has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results. LZ is located deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) and is led by the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The take-home message...

BERLIN -- The German government unveiled a new package of climate measures Wednesday to close the emissions gap in the transport and housing sectors as part of the country's plan to become carbon neutral by 2045. Transport Minister Volker Wissing said his department planned to boost the installation of electric vehicle charging stations, expand public transport and build more bicycle lanes in the hopes that people will leave their gasoline-powered cars at home. But Wissing, a member of the pro-business Free Democratic Party, said Germany would not be introducing a general highway speed limit that environmental activists have said would...

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