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Law enforcement officials with the Orlando Police Department evacuated a parking garage at the Universal Orlando CityWalk late Saturday due to what they said was a fight involving “several juveniles.”

Taiwan’s “Han Kuang Exercise” is a yearly exercise to prepare for a possible Chinese invasion by the People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China. The annual military exercise is carried out by the Republic of China Armed Forces in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu. Taiwan’s Ministry of Defence shared an official video of the second day of the Han Kuang Exercise.

The news breaks after the first lady experienced a series of embarrassing incidents in her official position. On July 12, LaRosa had to apologize for the first lady’s embarrassing speech to the Latino community, after she compared them to breakfast tacos. On July 16, Jill Biden complained she and the president had to deal with multiple crises since taking office, instead of focusing on their planned agenda items. “He had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do, but every time you turned around, he had to address the problems of the moment,” she said. On July...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Foundation, created with wealth generated from the oil industry more than a century ago, plans to make the fight against climate change central to all of its work, including its operations and investments. In a public letter released Tuesday, foundation president, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, acknowledged the “irony” that his organization’s founder John D. Rockefeller “made his fortune by fueling a growing United States with carbon.” Speaking to The Associated Press in advance of the announcement, Shah said that all institutions that benefited from the development driven by fossil fuels have a responsibility to...

A friend sent this and I found it to be hilarious so I thought it warranted sharing. It uses humor to completely demonstrate the identity dysphoria in our country…

The Chinese military will not sit back if U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan, a Chinese defense spokesperson warned on Tuesday. Tan Kefei, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, made the remarks in response to a press inquiry regarding the issue. China demands that the United States honor its promise that it would not support "Taiwan independence," Tan said, adding that if the U.S. side insists on making the visit, the Chinese military will take strong actions to thwart any external interference or "Taiwan independence" separatist scheme, and will be resolute in safeguarding China's national...

The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) website’s biography section now prominently features three biological males who live and dress as females.

Washington (AFP) – Surging inflation and severe slowdowns in the United States and China prompted the IMF Tuesday to downgrade its outlook for the global economy this year and next, while warning that the situation could get much worse. "The outlook has darkened significantly since April," said IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas. "The world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession, only two years after the last one." "The world's three largest economies, the United States, China and the euro area are stalling with important consequences for the global outlook," he said at a briefing. In...

... Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the ISS, which has been in orbit since 1998. "Of course, we will fulfil all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made," Yury Borisov, who was appointed Roscosmos chief in mid-July, told Putin. "I think that by this time we will start putting together a Russian orbital station," Borisov added, calling it the space programme's main "priority". "Good," Putin replied in comments released by the Kremlin. ...

New home sales in the United States shrank 8.1% from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 590,000 in June of 2022, well below market expectations of 660,000. It is the lowest reading since April of 2020, as the housing market is cooling due to a rise in mortgage costs. Sales fell in the West (-36.7%), the Northeast (-5.3%) and the South (-2%) but rose in the Midwest (42.3%)

Lynda Zamora Wilson is a retired US Air Force officer with a PhD in Economics, an MS in Mathematics, MA in International Economics, and an MA in Education. She was a senior economist at the Pentagon and an f-22 Flight Test Analyst. Earlier this year Lynda jumped into the Republican primary race against incumbent state Senator Paul Lundeen. ... Paul Lundeen, the GOP Minority Whip, is known as a RINO and Lynda Zamora Lundeen was new to politics. Lynda was a grassroots favorite. Via Colorado Politics — In April at the Colorado State Republican Party assembly Lynda Zamora Wilson won...

My fiancée was texting one of her best friends the other night, who told her she’d recently made salisbury steak for dinner. Huh. Salisbury steak. I hadn’t thought of Salisbury steak in years, and the only time I’d really had it was from a frozen microwaveable tray when I was a kid. It didn’t even occur to me that people made Salisbury steak from scratch. But when you think about it, Salisbury steak is essentially just hamburger patties in brown gravy, sometimes with mushrooms. I thought, “Wait. Why am I not making this too?”A few nights later I went to...

After a months-long battle led by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the City Council last week rejected an alderman’s proposal to give drivers a 10 mph buffer before the city’s prolific speed cameras issue citations. The threshold used to be 10 mph, but at Lightfoot’s request, the council reduced it to 6 mph during the 2021 budget season. She claimed that the change was necessary to make roads safer. Critics argued that she was looking for more money to help balance the city’s budget. But it turns out that two of the police-driven SUVs that currently shuttle Lightfoot around town have...

In her bid for another term, Marilyn Mosby placed third in the party’s primary election last week.

American investors routinely squabble over whether Democrats or Republicans are “better” for stocks and the economy. But this is mostly theater. Their big concern is big, controversial, economically significant legislation. Active governments brew uncertainty, which stocks hate. Businesses have a harder time planning, knowing rules likely change unpredictably.

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Andy Slavitt is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acting administrator from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration. He was on the pandemic response team, which helps explain the terrible response out of the Biden administration. His judgment hasn’t gotten any better on the monkeypox issue. Slavitt tweeted, “The myth that sexual activity is the cause of monkeypox and that reducing it is a valid strategy for managing a disease does not, on its face, make...

NEW YORK — On the Thursday before Pride Weekend last month, hundreds of men dropped what they were doing and raced to a city-run health clinic in Manhattan. Finally, more than a month after monkeypox appeared in the city, a vaccine was being made available to sexually active gay and bisexual men, among whom the virus was rapidly spreading. But there was a catch: There were only 1,000 doses available. Within two hours, the only clinic offering the shots began turning people away. At that same moment, about 300,000 doses of a ready-to-use vaccine owned by the United States sat...

Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, who sponsored a bill to ban corporations from operating PACs, has repeatedly emphasized he does not and will not “take a dime of corporate PAC money.” However, Kelly’s campaign has raked in around $154,000 from Democratic PACs since March 2019 that have hauled in large sums from corporate PACs, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. “All he’s good at is raising money from Wall Street and Big Pharma executives,” Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters, who has led in recent Republican primary polls, told the DCNF when asked...