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Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk struck an upbeat note on inflation, saying the electric-vehicle maker was seeing a growing number of key input costs heading lower. "Inflation might be trending down," Mr. Musk tweeted late Thursday. "More Tesla commodity prices are trending down than up fwiw," he added.

Walmart has a new sales pitch for consumers contending with soaring prices: Buy used goods https://t.co/ed9uCwfeqF— Bloomberg Markets (@markets) July 29, 2022

The protest began at about noon, when approximately 25 protesters...gathered at Wilshire Boulevard and Ogden Street, the LAPD said in a news release. "[T]wo female protesters chained themselves to the light pole of an art exhibit, damaging the exhibit itself. One male protester threw an unknown red liquid substance on the art exhibit and surrounding area.” The protesters “refused to leave,” and after two dispersal orders were ignored between 3:25 p.m. and 4 p.m., officers arrested the two women and one man for felony vandalism...

My friends at CHD had Zogby do a poll which found that 10% of Americans regret taking the vaccine.So that’s around very 22M unhappy customer in just America alone.So what do we do about that?Well, we force kids, workers, and the military to take the jab through mandates and coercion, of course!That’s the best way to get higher adoption of a very defective product.The CDC lied to us. They said that severe adverse events were rare.More troubling of course is that we’ve clearly been lied to. We were told serious adverse events were “rare.”10% buyer’s remorse isn’t rare at all.And...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — America's GDP has fallen over the last two quarters, stoking fears of a possible recession due to the fact that America is now in a recession. When asked whether the U.S. is now in a recession, Biden answered that he wasn't qualified to answer, as he doesn't have a biology degree. "I don't know if we're in a recession, I'm not a biologist," said Biden to the bronze bust of Hugo Chávez in his office. "Leave that stuff to the experts, Jack! If you ask me, the economy should lose some weight, anyway. Too fat. We deserve...

A comprehensive new Oxford study has added to the growing body of research highlighting the health effects of alcohol. The large-scale genetic analysis suggests that alcohol consumption directly accelerates aging, by shortening telomeres. Alcohol is among the most widely used recreational drugs, so it’s extremely important to examine its health impacts. Unfortunately, various studies have revealed that alcohol permanently damages DNA, directly causes cancer, contributes to cognitive decline and early-onset dementia, and can shrink the brain to the equivalent of 10 years of aging. And now a new study has found more evidence that alcohol consumption can accelerate biological aging....

(Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday nominated a lawyer who represented the Mississippi clinic at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to become a federal appeals court judge. Biden's latest slate of nine new judicial nominees included Julie Rikelman, an abortion rights lawyer with the Center for Reproductive Rights whom the president picked to serve on the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Biden's latest nominees continued the White House's push to diversify the federal bench. They include Daniel Calabretta, a California state court judge nominated...

Bail reform, drugs on our streets, habitual violent offenders released. Under @AaronDFordNV Nevada has become one of the most dangerous States to live in. It’s time for Nevadans to make crime illegal again. Come November, vote #Chattah4Nevada pic.twitter.com/KPYnVh2kC2— Sigal Chattah (@Chattah4Nevada) July 28, 2022

(AP) - A right-wing lawyer who represented a church in a legal battle over Nevada’s COVID-19 restrictions has earned a chance to try to unseat the Democratic attorney general in November. Sigal Chattah beat another Las Vegas lawyer, Tisha Black, in Tuesday’s GOP primary. She’ll face an uphill battle in November against incumbent Aaron Ford.

Voters are making up their minds in Arizona statewide Republican primary races – and now they're looking less competitive. An Arizona Public Opinion Pulse poll conducted by OH Predictive Insights gives this impression. The pollster released the data on Friday that shows Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake with a commanding 18-point lead over Karrin Taylor Robson. The poll has Lake with 51% support and Robson at 33%. In this poll, 12% of voters say they still haven't made up their minds. Meanwhile, in early July, a poll conducted by the same pollster found a much more competitive race; it had...

WASHINGTON — If it’s Friday. ... The University of Michigan releases its Consumer Sentiment Index. ... Senate Republicans tank a bill aimed at helping veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. ... The House passes the computer-chip bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk for his signature. ... Next week features big primaries in Arizona, Michigan, Missouri and Washington state, plus that constitutional amendment referendum on abortion in Kansas. ... And farewell NBC’s Pete Williams; we are going to miss you! But first: If Republicans blow their chance to win control of the U.S. Senate — in this political environment —...

MEMORIAL OF SAINTS MARTHA, MARY, AND LAZARUS JOHN 11:19–27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” Jesus came primarily as a warrior whose final enemy is death. It is easy to domesticate Jesus, presenting him as a kindly moral teacher. But that is not how the Gospels present him. He is a cosmic warrior who has come to do battle with those forces that keep us from being fully alive. Throughout the Gospels,...

Just hours ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Asia, Chinese state media has threatened to shoot down her plane and U.S. military pilots escorting her. The threat comes 24-hours after President Joe Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping for two hours on a call from the White House. The communist government’s readout of the conversation also included a threat in response to Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan.

U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore, an Obama appointee, issued a temporary restraining order against Superior, Colorado’s ban on “assault weapons.” The judge cited the Supreme Court’s New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen ruling extensively in one of the first significant decisions since the landmark case. “In its simplest terms, the Second and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit governments from preventing ‘law abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms,'” Moore said of the Court’s conclusion in Bruen. Employing the test created in Bruen, he ruled the town’s ban is unconstitutional. “The conduct...

An elderly couple, who were both widowed, had been going out with each other for a long time. Urged on by their friends, they decided it was finally time to get married. Before the wedding, they went out to dinner and had a long conversation regarding how their marriage might work. They discussed finances, living arrangements and so on. Finally, the old gentleman decided it was time to broach the subject of their physical relationship. 'How do you feel about sex?' he asked, rather tentatively. 'I would like it infrequently' she replied. The old gentleman sat quietly for a moment,...

I can't say, with certainty, that this video has or has not been doctored orr when it was recorded. But if it's real, than there is a definite problem.

Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake continues to hold her strong double-digit lead in the Arizona Gubernatorial Primary election, according to another new poll conducted from July 18th to July 20th.The Primary election is one week from today, on Tuesday, August 2nd.This poll was conducted before Lake gave a major speech at President Trump’s Save America rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona, last Friday.The Gateway Pundit reported that President Trump told the thousands of Arizona Patriots that Kari “will be one of the fiercest voices in the country standing up against Joe Biden’s Open Borders catastrophe—and she will do whatever it takes to protect...

NASA's image of vortex-like swirls that represent giant storms on Jupiter. JunoCam's recent image of the incredibly huge storms decorating Jupiter's north pole region. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Brian Swift Our solar system's citrus-colored gas giant, Jupiter, is no stranger to chaos. And earlier this month, NASA's Juno mission captured a mesmerizing snap to prove that point. During the probe's 43rd close flyby of the enormous planet, its JunoCam instrument caught sight of watercolor vortices near the north pole. These hypnotic views are deceptively stunning -- they are of hurricane wind patterns that can reach over 30 miles (48 kilometers)...

As was the case when we launched the forecast a month ago, the Deluxe version of FiveThirtyEight’s midterm model still rates the battle for control of the Senate as a “toss-up.” But within that category there’s been modest, but consistent movement toward Democrats. Their chances of winning the Senate now stand at 55 percent. That’s up from 47 percent from forecast launch on June 30. It’s also up from 40 percent in a retroactive forecast dated back to June 1.

Facing a growing threat from China, the Navy envisions drone ships keeping an electronic eye on enemy forces across the vast Pacific Ocean, extending the reach of firepower, and keeping sailors out of harm's way. The Navy is speeding development of those robotic ships as an affordable way to keep pace with China's growing fleet while vowing not to repeat costly shipbuilding blunders from recent years. The four largest drone ships are being used together this summer during a multination naval exercise in the Pacific Ocean. Other smaller waterborne drones are already being deployed by the Navy’s 5th Fleet in...