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NEW YORK — The euro has fallen below parity with the dollar, diving to its lowest level in 20 years and ending a one-to-one exchange rate with the U.S. currency. It's a psychological barrier in the markets. But psychology is important, and the euro's slide underlines the foreboding in the 19 European countries using the currency as they struggle with an energy crisis caused by Russia's war in Ukraine. Here's why the euro's slide is happening and what impact it could have: WHAT DOES EURO AND DOLLAR PARITY MEAN? It means the European and American currencies are worth the same...

Putin dies and goes to hell, but after a while, he is given a day off for good behavior. So he goes to Moscow, enters a bar, orders a drink, and asks the bartender: -Is Crimea ours? -Yes, it is. -And the Donbas? -Also ours. -And Kyiv? -We got that too. Satisfied, Putin drinks, and asks: -Thanks, how much do I owe you? -5 euros.

The online reviews site Yelp said Tuesday it is rolling out a new feature to protect users seeking abortions from being misled about anti-abortion pregnancy centers listed on its platform. Such centers are typically religiously affiliated and deter clients from having an abortion. On Tuesday, Yelp said it will place a consumer notice on the listings informing users that the centers “typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite.” Yelp’s move might put more pressure on Google to do something similar with listings on its site. Google did not immediately reply to a request for...

Explanation: Careful planning made this a nightscape to remember. First, the night itself was chosen to occur during the beginning of this year's Perseid Meteor Shower. Next, the time of night was chosen to be before the bright Moon would rise and dominate the night sky's brightness. The picturesque foreground was selected to be a rocky beach of the Mediterranean Sea in Le Dramont, France, with, at the time, île d’Or island situated near the ominously descending central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Once everything was set and with the weather cooperating, all of the frames for this seemingly...

York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) called Gov. Gregg Abbott (R-Tex) "hateful and anti-American for forcibly busing illegal border-crossers from his state to my City against their will. If they had wanted to come to New York they would've flown or sailed here. Busing them violates their constitutional rights as Americans." Abbott said "Mayor Adams is mistaken. Just like all the other illegal immigrants that the Biden Administration is busing or flying around the country, we are asking those stuck in Texas where they want to go. For the ones saying they want to go to New York--a sanctuary city,...

Joe Biden appears to be on vacation again. At least according to his public schedule, below, which reveals how the apparent President of the United States has had no public appointments nor work related events for the past seven days. Take a look for yourself

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South Carolina Democrats are defending a Republican lawmaker whose tearful comments in a committee hearing this week about an abortion law he had voted for went viral, earning scorn from liberals. Neal Collins, a state representative from the state's Upstate region, visibly fought back tears as he shared the story of how the 2021 "heartbeat" abortion law he'd supported led to a 19-year-old woman in his district nearly losing her uterus and facing the loss of her life weeks after enactment of the legislation. "That weighs on me," Collins said during the hearing. "I voted for that bill. These are...

SNIP: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, delivering swift verdicts in a plot that was broken up by the FBI and described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists. The result was a big victory for the U.S. Justice Department. A different jury just four months ago couldn’t reach unanimous decisions on Adam Fox or Barry Croft Jr. but acquitted two other men, a stunning conclusion that led to a second trial. Their arrests nearly two years ago came...

Gov. Kathy Hochul spent the last night before Election Day campaigning alongside Democrat Pat Ryan in a race that’s being viewed as a bellwether for which party will control the House after the midterms. Hochul for the second time in recent weeks used her platform to play into national party politics by attacking Florida, a strategy that signals Democrats are pulling out all the stops to maintain a majority in the House. “We're here to say the era of Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro – just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she...

Description 'Ron DeSavage': DeSantis blasts liberal media in new 'Top Gov' Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has excoriated the liberal corporate media in a new Top Gun-inspired political ad ahead of the gubernatorial midterm election in November. In 2018, Mr DeSantis defeated Democrat Andrew Gillum by less than half a percentage point. Since then, his staunchly conservative agenda has seen him rise among the top of the ranks as a potential GOP presidential candidate for 2024. The Florida primaries are underway and Mr DeSantis remains the sole Republican candidate. The Democrat race is a hotly contested battle between congressman Charlie Crist,...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. "A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the path. It was trampled, and the birds of the...

Around 40% of people with monkeypox are living with HIV, but the proportion can be substantially higher in some areas, according to recent reports on the ongoing global outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the British HIV Association (BHIVA) recently issued new guidance for the prevention and treatment of monkeypox in people with HIV.

Massachusetts voters will now be getting a chance to decide if those illegally living in Massachusetts should be given licenses. A group of citizens has gotten 50,617 signatures verified, over the 40,000 required to put the law on the ballot in November. The bill, the “Work and Family Mobility Act,” was initially vetoed by Governor Charlie Baker — but Democrats overrode his veto. The Epoch Times reported: A group of citizens opposed to a new state law that puts driver’s licenses in the hands of people living illegally in Massachusetts has collected enough signatures to potentially overturn the measure. Jim...

WASHINGTON — Documents found in 15 boxes that former President Donald Trump turned over from his Mar-a-Lago property in January were marked classified at a level suggesting they contained some of the government’s most sensitive secrets. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) informed Trump's lawyers about the discovery in a May letter. The Archives then "informed the Department of Justice about that discovery, which prompted the department to ask the president to request that NARA provide the FBI with access to the boxes at issue so that the FBI and others in the intelligence community could examine them," the...

The Chinese regime leveraged its propaganda in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic to spread its totalitarian ideologies to the West, according to former Hong Kong Apple Daily columnist Simon Lee. “When COVID started, China [was] concerned only on one thing—how can they capitalize on this crisis to show the world that China’s system is superior to the rest of the world,” Lee recently told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. Lee singled out how the regime highlighted its capability to build a quarantine hospital in a week, “then they propagandized the achievement as ‘this is the Chinese efficiency.’” The Chinese Communist...

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has vowed to do “whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office” — including possibly embarking on a White House bid of her own. “It is something that I am thinking about,” Cheney said last week. Yet a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that if Cheney were to run for president as an independent in 2024, she could actually do the opposite. She could single-handedly swing the election to Trump. The survey of 1,563 U.S. adults was conducted from Aug. 18 to 22 — immediately after Cheney lost last...

In a scathing op-ed, the wife of a slain black St. Louis police captain accused the Black Lives Matter movement and other progressive activists such as Vice President Kamala Harris of dividing America, blasting them as “supervillains.” Ann Dorn, a retired sergeant from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and widow of Capt. David Dorn, wrote in the op-ed published with Fox News Tuesday that her husband’s death was the product of Democrats and left-wing activists pushing an anti-law enforcement sentiment across the country. “Ultimately, David was murdered because the people who are supposed to protect our streets — active-duty...

The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT) is under construction on a plateau in Sichuan province, southwest China. When completed, it will consist of 313 dishes, each with a diameter of 19.7 feet (6 meters), forming a circle with a circumference of 1.95 miles (3.14 kilometers). The telescope array will image the sun in radio waves to study coronal mass ejections (CMEs), large eruptions of charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere, the corona. The project also includes the Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph for monitoring solar activity, which is being constructed (opens in new tab)in Inner Mongolia. The radioheliograph will consist of...

Indian External Affairs Minister (EAM) Jaishankar predicted that the Asian Century will arrive upon his country and China finally resolving their border disputes, which Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin agreed with shortly thereafter. These two multipolar Great Powers are the world’s largest developing countries and are therefore capable of significantly influencing the global systemic transition to multipolarity. It therefore follows that maintaining stable relations and comprehensively building upon progress in this respect is among their most important grand strategic priorities. To this end, it’s absolutely imperative that no third parties meddle in this very sensitive issue. The declining American...