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Miami residents are up in arms over a pilot program to build an encampment for homeless people on a secluded beach that’s just a stone’s throw away from an exclusive island that was once home to Oprah Winfrey, Derek Jeter, and Mel Brooks. Miami-Dade County’s seventh district sparked anger after it quietly approved a plan to build between 50 and 100 miniature houses in the North Point Park section of Virginia Key Beach. Residents are upset over the plan for a variety of reasons, according to reports. Environmentalists believe the encampment will destroy the island’s fragile ecosystem, while recreational enthusiasts...

Did evil scientists intentionally release monkeypox? Fourteen percent of respondents to a survey by University of Pennsylvania researchers think so. Another 10% think the virus was intentionally spread to "deflect attention from the failures of the Biden administration," and 5% said getting a COVID-19 vaccine increases their chance of contracting monkeypox. Many more survey respondents said they weren't sure if these conspiracy theories were true—but they also couldn't flatly dismiss them. The findings by scientists at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania point to a worrying trend: People are increasingly aware of monkeypox, but they're also...

New Mexico’s ranking in overall child well-being slipped from 49th to 50th, according to the Kids Count Data Book for 2022. “The COVID pandemic caused major challenges for families that blunted the progress New Mexico had been making to improve child well-being,” said Amber Wallin, executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children, which manages the state’s Kids Count program. More importantly, and on a positive note, the data book also shows that New Mexico “has seen consistent improvement over time in most indicators,” she said. Comparing rankings from one year to the next often results in an incomplete picture,...

Roger Waters engaged in a heated argument on TV, challenging a reporter’s position on world politics and war – but adding it had been a “pleasure” to debate with him. CNN’s Michael Smerconish appeared to have set out to push Waters into controversial territory, although the musician is well-known for happily going there anyway. The interview – which can be seen below – began with a question about the introduction to Waters’ This is Not a Drill shows, where he tells the audience: “If you’re one of those ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Roger’s politics’ people, you...

Roger Waters has clarified some of the messaging presented on his current This Is Not a Drill Tour, which includes an image of President Joe Biden with the words "War Criminal" and "just getting started ..." projected to the audience. He addressed the image during an interview with CNN’s Michael Smerconish, saying that President Biden is "fueling the fire in Ukraine." He added: "That is a huge crime. Why won't the United States of America encourage Zelenskyy, the President [of Ukraine] to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war that's killing — we don't know how many Ukrainians...

NEW YORK (AP) — Axios Media is being acquired by Cox Enterprises, which said Monday that it plans to push the online news provider into new markets while broadening its coverage. Axios, citing sources, reported that the deal is worth $525 million. Cox, a conglomerate whose other media companies include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Dayton Daily News, first became an investor in Axios last year. Axios, based in Virginia, was launched in 2017 and is known for brief, bullet-pointed stories. The company also publishes daily and weekly newsletters that are targeted to specific industries.

CBS News has sensationally censored its own documentary after the film exposed how only 30% of weapons funding provided by the US makes it to the front lines. (snip) “Since that time, Ohman says delivery has improved. Additionally, the U.S. military has confirmed that defense attaché Brigadier General Garrick M. Harmon arrived in Kyiv in August for arms control and monitoring.”

The funding will be sent to the Ukraine government in tranches. It will start with a $3 billion transfer in August, the USAID stated. Earlier funding amounted to $1.3 billion in June followed by $1.7 billion in July, as per USAID’s statement. The funds are to help the Ukrainian government to maintain its primary functions. These include social and financial assistance for the underprivileged population, persons with disabilities, and internally displaced persons, as the Russia-Ukraine war goes on.

When the remains of a 15th Century abbot were carried to their final resting place in St Albans Cathedral on Saturday, five years after he was found in an unmarked grave, it begged the question, how exactly do you recommit the body of a Benedictine Abbot some 600 years after his death?It was during the building of the cathedral's new welcome centre in 2017 that an unearthed skeleton was later found to be that of Abbot John of Wheathampstead.Called to lead the church twice - from 1420 to 1440 and then from 1451 to his death in 1465 - he...

The luxury FBI Gulfstream Wray uses was recorded on Flightradar24 making the one hour and 12 minute flight later that afternoon to bucolic Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, which happens to be a favorite summer destination since his childhood." Chris Wray cut off U.S. Senators to "catch a flight" which turned out to be taking his taxpayer-paid G5 to a weekend vacation. ... When is enough finally enough? Miranda Devine: Christopher Wray's disingenuous testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, before he left early on the FBI's private Gulfstream 550 jet, speaks volumes about the need to defund the FBI...

ATF agent James Burk showed up to question a home owner about a shotgun he owns. The home owner then called the local police, who arrested the ATF agent.

A Florida homeowner shot a naked, mud-covered man who had allegedly broken into his house Wednesday morning. In a Thursday interview with WJAX-TV, William Kerr said that he had been heading to his office after his wife had started preparing to head out for an appointment, when he spotted the intruder. “I got the door open about a foot, and I see this guy standing there. He’s got my rifle … BB rifle – he’s standing there with the rifle like this, the butt facing me, and he’s fixing to clock me,” Kerr said, recollecting the moment when he first...

GOP legislators must use Congress’ budget power to block President Joe Biden’s invited “invasion” if they win the 2022 election, former President Donald Trump told a political event on Saturday.“We must stop the invasion at our southern border,” Trump said to loud applause at a CPAC event in Texas. He then described the solution to Biden’s determined effort to spike migration above the annual limits set by Congress in 1990:Republicans in Congress musy make clear that on their watch not a single penny of taxpayer money will go to funding Joe Biden’s open border agenda. It’s a sick agenda. It’s...

A man calls Pizza hut to order a pizza... CALLER: Is this Pizza Hut? GOOGLE: No sir, it's Google Pizza. CALLER: I must have dialed a wrong number, sorry. GOOGLE: No sir, Google bought Pizza Hut last month. CALLER: OK. I would like to order a pizza. GOOGLE: Do you want your usual, sir? CALLER: My usual? You know me? GOOGLE: According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meatballs on a thick crust. CALLER: Super! That’s what I’ll have. GOOGLE: May I...

Michael Yon, a photojournalist specializing in war and a retired U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, warned Jordan Peterson of a growing “triangle of death” driven by globalist machinations: pandemics, famines, and wars.In an interview with Peterson published last week, Yon used a neologism he coined — "PanFaWar" — synthesizing "pandemic," "famine,” and "war" into one term. The three phenomena, he said, are mutually reinforcing and often occur as a package."Let's talk about PanFaWar: pandemic, famine, war," Yon stated. "The triangle of death. They always go together. If you get a big war or a big pandemic or a big famine,...

Travelers looking to book a cruise will no longer have to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 on Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH) as it has changed the requirements for boarding its ships. The cruise line announced changes to its COVID policies on Monday, with Frank Del Rio, president and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, saying in a statement that the decision would make "it simpler and easier for our loyal guests to cruise on our three best-in-class brands." Norwegian operates its namesake cruise brand as well as Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. Changes to the sailing requirements now...

Crime victims are pushing back against a cadre of prosecutors ushered into office with help from billionaire activist George Soros , as criminals are believed to have free rein to terrorize major cities. The latest voice in this chorus is Terri O’Connor, whose Philadelphia police officer husband was shot to death in 2020 while serving a search warrant. James O’Connor would still be alive if not for the policies of District Attorney Larry Krasner, who allows criminals back on the street without jail time, Terri told Fox News . “They had lengthy criminal records for guns, shootings, murders. I could...

This week, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declared monkeypox to be "a critical health emergency. Right now the United States has more confirmed cases of this disease than any country in the world. There is no known cure and we only have 600,000 doses of a vaccine that may help reduce the chances of coming down with the disease. By declaring this emergency the government will be empowered to take the strong measures it deems necessary to stop the spread of this terrible disease. This will include any necessary lockdowns, mandatory inoculations, or population density thinning activities the...

MEMORIAL OF SAINT DOMINIC, PRIEST MATTHEW 17:22–27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus prophesies his Crucifixion and Resurrection: "The Son of Man is to be handed over to men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day." What enabled the first Christians to hold up the cross, to sing its praises, to wear it as a decoration, is the fact that God raised up and ratified precisely this crucified Jesus. "You killed him, but God raised him up." Therefore, God was involved in this terrible thing; God was there, working out his salvific purposes. But...

The media is out to try and astroturf a primary to make it look like the Republican Party is as disunified as the Democrats. But Ron is not running. Quick prediction. If Trump decides to run, he will effectively ignore any potential GOP field if possible. If he doesn't have anyone who is polling in at least in the low double digit range, he will effectively ignore them and refuse to even campaign against them. He'll make a speech and say look, I'm going to get the nomination. I'm not going to waste my time on you. The Dems can't...