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Torrential rains in Japan, record-breaking heatwaves in Europe, and recurring droughts in the western US. For the second year in a row the start of summer in the northern hemisphere has been marked by extreme weather. To what extent is global warming to blame? These extreme weather events happing at almost the same time in multiple locations around the world are “absolutely not a coincidence", says Pascal Yiou, climatologist and researcher at French research centre le Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement. Yiou says global warming is to blame. “It is disrupting the whole dynamic of the atmosphere,”...

Prince Harry has waded into US politics again in his keynote speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, blasting the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan Markle arrived hand in hand ahead of his speech to delegates on climate change and poverty during the two hour meeting. The 37-year-old attacked American politics during his keynote speech at the United Nations event in New York City today. During his speech he said: 'The few weaponizing lies and disinformation at the expense of the many. 'And from the horrific war in Ukraine to...

The announcement comes after two unrelated patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana, both of whom later died, tested positive for the virus. The patients had shown symptoms including diarrhea, fever, nausea, and vomiting, WHO said, adding that more than 90 contacts are being monitored. Marburg is a highly infectious viral hemorrhagic fever in the same family as the better known Ebola virus disease and has a fatality ratio of up to 88%, according to WHO. "Illness begins abruptly, with high fever, severe headache, and malaise," it stated. The virus is transmitted to humans from fruit bats and can...

Justin Trudeau - Jim Carrey Justin Trudeau - Jim Carrey — THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld/© New Line/courtesy Everett Collection Justin Trudeau debuted a new look this week, trading the long hair and beard he’s sported for the past few years for a close-cropped haircut with clean-shaven face. Trudeau’s new haircut was on display on Friday, July 15 when he spoke with children during a visit to Chelsea, Quebec. The Canadian PM’s new ‘do, however, immediately invited comparisons to another similar look: the iconic bowl cut sported by Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) in “Dumb and Dumber.” The similarity became the subject...

Governor Doug Ducey-endorsed Arizona gubernatorial primary candidate Karrin Taylor Robson has been caught and exposed for scamming elderly voters across the nation in a deceitful fundraising scheme.Trump-Endorsed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake discovered that Robson uses phone messaging alerts that purport to back conservative causes to trick conservative senior citizens into donating to her failing campaign.Not only is she endorsed by Doug Ducey, but the Arizona Democratic Party recently published a statement thanking Robson for her support and thousands of dollars donated to Democratic Candidates “up and down the ballot” as recently as 2020.However, some of the messages from her campaign...

Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 12:38–42 Friends, today in our Gospel, some Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign. And Jesus replies, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet,” who was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights. Jonah was called by God to preach conversion to Nineveh, which is described as an enormously large city. It took, they said, three days to walk through it. I can’t help but think of Nineveh as one of our large, modern cities,...

On Sunday, Margaret Brennan interviewed Joe Biden’s Energy Security Coordinator Amos Hochstein about the trip to Saudi Arabia. Hochstein spun a lot, trying to make this disastrous, embarrassing trip a success. Nothing during this interview was honest. It was a propaganda moment with insufferable Margaret Brennan pretending she’s asking decisive questions. From this conversation, you’d never know Biden has dementia and has done nothing but hurt this country. Hochstein pretended there were accomplishments. We haven’t seen them yet, but he assures us they’re coming. He took credit for the cease-fire in Yemen that he had nothing to do with. Hochstein...

Trump-Endorsed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Trump-Endorsed State Senator Wendy Rogers totally triggered Biden endorser Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Senator John McCain, and sent her on an unhinged Twitter rant late last week. After randomly calling Kari a “bi*ch” for no reason, McCain continued her attacks by calling both of them, “hags.”Kari Lake always calls out the RINO McCain establishment in Arizona. Because of this, Meghan McCain, who can’t get over herself, hates her.The Fake News Media in Arizona was quick to defend Meghan McCain, claiming that this all stemmed from a Wendy Rogers tweet and attacking Kari...

President Joe Biden is facing bipartisan flack for his humiliating ‘fist bump’ with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, also known as MBS, during the course of his groveling to persuade the Middle Eastern nation to significanly increase its oil output. MBS smirked during bilateral talks on Friday in a knowing display of how embarrassing the U.S. president’s kow-towing was to the Saudis. “President Biden, is Saudi Arabia still a pariah?” a reporter shouted. The reporter was quickly ushered out of the room. Both President Biden and the Saudi crown prince ignored the question. Biden later dismissed a...

Firefighters doused the flames and pictures from the scene show the plane, a Fokker 50, upside down. It belonged to Jubba Airways and it was an internal flight from the city of Baidoa to the capital. The passengers and the crew were all rescued, according to the airport authorities who were quoted by state media. The cause of the crash is not yet clear.

We are going down this road, feeling bad. As The Fed Reserve prepares to raise their target rate in a week by 75 basis points to 2.50%, the NAHB Home Builder’s confidence index plunged. The 30-year mortgage rate is up 89% under Biden as his green energy fiasco is helping drive inflation to its highest level in 40 years leading The Fed to tighten its monetary policies. Meanwhile, Jerome Powell and The Fed are doing The Fed Rate Shake.

Joe Biden has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of his son’s business dealings or ever speaking to him about them. Yet over the years, evidence has surfaced that suggests Biden was a key power player in Hunter’s schemes. Now, according to Hunter Biden’s personal calendar, which was found on his abandoned laptop, we know that between 2008 and 2016, Hunter met with his dad at least 30 times at the White House or the vice president’s residence after returning home from overseas business trips. As The New York Post notes, these meetings “raise questions about whether Hunter was relaying messages...

The response will not please them: You’d think that Reddit, of all places, would understand the Streisand Effect, and the futility of censorship. But you’d think wrong. It’s sad, though, to see all the old bastions of Internet free speech taken over by officious woke pecksniffs.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warns humanity is choosing "collective suicide" with its failure to act on climate change. He warns that the global warming limit of 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) agreed to in the 2015 Pris climate accord was slipping further out of reach even as more people are being hit by extreme floods, droughts, storms and wildfires...

Gender activists argue scientists cannot know how an ancient individual identified themselves.

CHICAGO -- At least seven people were killed and 18 others have been wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend. Sunday morning, a 44-year-old man was found fatally shot in Roseland on the South Side. The man was found about 7:30 a.m. in the 10400-block of South Corliss Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Hours earlier, two men died during a shootout in Lawndale on the West Side. They were in a car going south in the 800-block of South Albany Avenue about 2:40 a.m. when a red SUV approached and someone...

Eating an egg every day in winter can help keep your vitamin D levels up, new research has found. As many as one in three Australian adults may have vitamin D deficiency. It can lead to fatigue, aches, muscle weakness, mood changes and an increased risk of contracting respiratory infections. "Vitamin D deficiency can have a negative impact on bone health as the key function of vitamin D is to promote calcium absorption," says research lead, Professor Robin Daly. "Vitamin D deficiency may also increase the risk of other non-skeletal diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, depression and Alzheimer's...

Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his plan to retire at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in a new interview published Monday, lamenting Americans were no longer listening to his recommendations on masking or vaccines. [cut] He predicted Republicans would start to investigate him if they take leadership in the House of Representatives in November, but insisted that was not why he planned to retire. “They’re going to try and come after me, anyway. I mean, probably less so if I’m not in the job,” Fauci said. He expressed regret Americans were no longer listening to his recommendations on masking...

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has already helped block one of former President Donald Trump’s allies from winning the Republican nomination for governor in a crucial battleground state. Now he’s hoping for a repeat in his own backyard. Ducey is part of a burgeoning effort among establishment Republicans to lift up little-known housing developer Karrin Taylor Robson against former television news anchor Kari Lake, who is backed by Trump. Other prominent Republicans, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, have also lined up behind Robson in recent days. On Monday, Robson’s campaign announced the endorsement of former Vice President Mike Pence,...

A $36 million Russian Su-34 bomber was reportedly shot down by Russia's own forces over Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, Ukrainian media outlets claimed on Monday. The jet was reportedly downed near Alchevsk, a city in the Luhansk region—one of the areas where the war is currently focused. Alchevsk is currently under the occupation of Moscow-backed separatist forces. Videos and images shared by the Strategic Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Telegram messaging app on Monday appear to show the charred remains of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber. -snip- "Russian invaders from the air defense shot down their own...