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<p>Buckle in, Arizona. The Legislature is about to take a turn to the right.</p><p>If that’s even possible.</p>

2022 U.S. Map & Case Count Updated July 25, 2022 Print Total confirmed monkeypox/orthopoxvirus cases: 3,487 *One Florida case is listed here but included in the United Kingdom case counts because the individual was tested while in the UK. Case Count by State of Residence Case Count by State: Alabama 5 Arizona 35 Arkansas 4 California 356 Colorado 53 Connecticut 22 Delaware 3 District Of Columbia 139 Florida 273 Georgia 268 Hawaii 10 Idaho 2 Illinois 344 Indiana 33 Iowa 7 Kansas 2 Kentucky 4 Louisiana 25 Maryland 87 Massachusetts 82 Michigan 24 Minnesota 20 Mississippi 1 Missouri 8 Nebraska...

A New York state law, signed by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is preventing the public release of the booking photo for a man accused of attempting to stab Rep. Lee Zeldin. In 2019, Cuomo sought to ban the public release of all booking photos, arrest records, names, and charges for suspects accused of crimes. The state’s Democrat-controlled legislature moved forward with a similar plan that prevents local and state police from releasing a suspect’s booking photo to the public unless it serves a law enforcement purpose. The law, which Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has never objected to, is now helping...

The CDC is investigating the first two cases of monkeypox that have been identified in children in the US. One case is a toddler who is a resident of California. The other is an infant who is not a US resident. Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid response coordinator, said the Biden administration is considering declaring monkeypox a public health emergency that will help unlock federal financial assistance in response to the outbreak. This comes after the WHO declared monkeypox a global health emergency on Saturday, as well as pressure from Congress and the first confirmed cases of monkeypox...

School and university students all over the world are planning to take school strikes one step further and occupy our campuses to demand the end of the fossil economy. Taking a lesson from student activists in the 1960s, the climate justice movement’s youth will shut down business as usual. Not because we don’t like learning, but because what we’ve learned already makes it clear that, without a dramatic break from this system, we cannot ensure a livable planet for our presents and futures. Why occupy? Because we’ve marched. We’ve launched petitions. We’ve written open letters. We’ve had meetings with governments,...

A veteran Communist Party of Britain member has been appointed chair of a World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) lead advisory group. Professor Susan Michie, director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, will head the W.H.O.’s Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health. The Times reports the UCL academic, who is a frequent contributor on the BBC and ITV, has been a member of the Communist Party of Britain for more than 40 years. Michie was propelled to public attention in 2021 when she said wearing masks and social distancing should continue for the “long...

Hulu, the Disney-backed streaming service, will not run political ads related to abortion, guns, and the Jan. 6 riot, all of which are crucial to Democrats’ midterm election messaging. Party leaders are, as The Washington Post reported, irate. Unlike television networks, Hulu is not limited by the 1934 Communications Act, which demands that broadcast networks give politicians the same level of access to airwaves. “Hulu’s censorship of the truth is outrageous, offensive, and another step down a dangerous path for our country,” executive directors of three Democratic committees said in a statement.

ENTEBBE, Uganda. July 26 (Interfax) - Moscow has never refused to negotiate with Kyiv, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "We have never refused to negotiate, because, as everyone is well aware, any fighting ultimately ends at the negotiating table," Lavrov said at a press conference in Uganda's capital Entebbe on Tuesday. "The United States, the United Kingdom, and a number of European countries have forbidden the Ukrainians from reaching an agreement" with Russia based on the proposals that were discussed in Istanbul, he said.

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...