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An electric vehicle ran out of juice on a road in West Virginia. Thankfully for the driver, there was an ironic group that came to the rescue – five coal miners. Randy Smith – a Republican member of the West Virginia Senate representing District 14 and a coal miner – shared an intriguing situation that happened on Friday. An electric car ran out of battery charge on U.S. 48, and stopped right in front of the Mettiki Coal access road in Tucker County. Luckily for the stranded driver from out of town, workers from the fossil fuel mine were ready...

Japan has protested to Russia over multinational military exercises being conducted on Russian-held islands claimed by Japan, and is seriously concerned about shooting drills by Russian and Chinese warships off Japan’s northern coast, an official said Monday. Beijing has been increasing its military cooperation with Moscow, and has been taking part in the multinational “Vostok 2020” drills since late August at a number of locations in Russia’s far east. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno criticized Russia for holding exercises on two of the four disputed islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories, in the Kuril chain off Japan’s northernmost...

At a national level there is a unique policy priority that almost every politician, on both sides, will avoid discussing. At a national level a single policy priority determines all other national policy outlooks. That policy is the national economic policy. The national economic policy of a presidential candidate determines all other national policies that flow from the presidential candidate. The national economic policy impacts the obvious policies like energy and trade, and also determines the lesser obvious policies like regulation and even foreign policy. It is specifically because a candidate’s national economic outlook impacts all other issues, that most...

Judge Aileen Cannon approved Trump's motion to appoint a special master The independent party would review for attorney client AND executive privilege Trump lawyers had made the demand in a filing in Florida Trump-appointed judge said order would not impact intelligence assessment Justice Department revealed extent of top secret materials found in raid 'Detailed Property Inventory' reveals agents seized ' approximately 11,000 documents and 1,800 other items' Materials include ‘medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information’

The Manhattan apartment and Southampton mansion of a Russian oligarch with close ties to President Vladimir Putin were raided by federal agents on Thursday, according to the FBI and a report. An FBI spokesperson confirmed agents “conducted law enforcement activity” at the Upper East Side high-rise and Long Island estate linked to billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, but declined to comment further. FBI officials and Homeland Security Investigation agents were seen carrying boxes out of Vekselberg’s 515 Park Ave. apartment building and his Southampton mansion at 19 Duck Pond Lane, according to NBC New York, which first reported the searches. The US...

Persistent COVID-19 symptoms could be keeping millions of Americans out of the workforce. Economists and policymakers have struggled to figure out why a much lower percentage of working-age adults are in the labor force than before the pandemic.

The gubernatorial race in New York is tightening, as Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee for governor, attempts to close the gap in his challenge of Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), a recent InsiderAdvantage/Trafalgar Group survey found. The survey asked respondents, “If the election for Governor were held today, for whom would you vote?”

President Joe Biden claimed in his speech attacking “MAGA Republicans” on Thursday that “today, COVID no longer controls our lives.” It is an attitude for which Biden and the media attacked Trump — though more have died from COVID-19 under Biden. In 2020, Trump was excoriated for telling America: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” He made that statement via his now-banned Twitter account as he prepared to check out of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center upon recovering from the coronavirus.

The message is clear. Those that acted responsibly are being penalized all because of President Biden’s vote-buying scheme. While some are praising President Biden’s announcement of up to $20,000 in student loan debt cancellation per recipient, for the overwhelming majority of Americans, the message is clear- do the right thing, work hard, play by the rules and get punished for it. This program is an insult to every parent who worked multiple jobs, sacrificed, and forwent vacations, just so their child could graduate from college debt free; to students who worked full-time so that they could pay for their college;...

California’s power grid will be pushed to near its limit Monday as the state wilts under a blistering and sustained heat wave. With millions of homes and businesses cranking air conditioners to cope with temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit, electricity use in the largest US state is forecast to hit 48.9 gigawatts Monday, the most since 2017. The state’s grid operator has asked residents to conserve as much as possible, warning the system could be short up to 4 gigawatts. “California has been ridiculously hot and will be hot for a good part of the week,” Bob Oravec, a senior...

Hillary Clinton, 74, said that she started wearing her infamous pantsuits in the 1990s after a Brazilian company used the image of her in a skirt for a suggestive lingerie advertisement. 'I was sitting on a couch and the press was let in, there were a bunch of them shooting up,' Clinton recounted on Sunday to CBS News host Norah O'Donnell when describing the moment the image was captured when she was still first lady. 'All of a sudden, the White House gets alerted to these billboards that show me sitting down with — I thought my legs [were] together,...

This is the astonishing moment three elephants wandered around the corridors of an Indian hospital. Footage which went viral on September 3 shows the animals inside Binnaguri army camp hospital in West Bengal. In the video, one of the elephants comes through a door backwards, squeezing their big body into the corridor. It stood in the corridor for a little while without moving, while amazed staff took pictures. Watching from a distance, one of the employees shouted 'woah, woah!' as the elephant squeezed into a doorway. He continued to shout 'woah!' as another two elephants appeared and followed the first...

In a CDC survey of over 13,000 children, more than 55 percent of the subjects between the ages of 6 months and two years had a “systemic reaction” in response to their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC said on Sept. 1. A systemic reaction is a response beyond the injection site. The CDC said almost 60 percent had a systemic reaction to the second dose of the Moderna vaccine. While the most common systemic reactions were fatigue, fever, irritability, and crying, parents of more than 6 percent of the children in the study said...

A recent event in West Virginia was dripping with irony. Apparently, tourists traveling from DC in an electric powered vehicle (EV) laughed as they passed gas stations until they ran out of juice 170 miles into their journey. Ironically, their trip abruptly ended ended at the entrance to a coal mine. The DC folks in the dead EV stopped laughing and had to be rescued. 5 heroic coal miners pushed the dead vehicle to their plant to be re-charged and saved the day. Recently, our crack Commander-in-Chief set a goal of 50 percent of new car sales will be electric...

If 2016 was the year white liberals started rating non-whites more warmly than whites, 2020 was the year they started.. a) rating whites as more violent than blacks rating whites as less intelligent than blacks

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Rich countries said they will spend about $25 billion by 2025 to boost Africa’s efforts to adapt to climate change as the continent continues to struggle with drought, cyclones and extreme heat, according to officials at a summit in Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Monday. If the funds promised at the Rotterdam summit are delivered, the decades-old goal will finally be achieved but African nations warn this will not be enough. “Africa does not have the resources to tackle climate change,” Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, told the summit. “The continent only receives...

PARIS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - France will send gas to Germany if needed while Germany stands ready to provide it with electricity, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, saying this showcased European solidarity in the face of the energy crisis stemming from the war in Ukraine. European gas prices surged, share prices slid and the euro sank on Monday after Russia stopped pumping gas via a major supply route, in another warning to the 27-nation EU as it scrambled to respond to the crisis ahead of winter. "Germany needs our gas and we need power from the rest of Europe,...

A government-appointed council could increase wages for California’s estimated half-million fast food workers to as much as $22 an hour starting next year, under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday. The law, known as the Fast Act, will establish a first-in-the-nation state council tasked with setting minimum wage standards in California for the entire industry, which relies heavily on the franchise business model and which labor advocates claim has long been plagued with wage theft and other worker abuses. Passing the measure was a top lobbying priority for state and national leaders of the Service Employees International...

I wish that Democrats would answer my question: Why are Democrats funding student debt forgiveness with money from innocent taxpayers, instead of with money from the fraudulent colleges that sold worthless degrees?By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)September 5, 2022I’m against student debt forgiveness. But since it is happening, I have one question:Why are Democrats funding student debt forgiveness with money from innocent taxpayers, instead of with money from the fraudulent colleges that sold worthless degrees?According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 1980 and 2020, regular inflation has caused average prices to increase by 228%. However, during...

Russia has begun recruiting sick and injured soldiers from hospital to replace its losses, according to Ukraine.The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine's Facebook page provided an update on the ongoing conflict between the country and Russia on Monday. In the update, Ukraine highlighted recent attacks by Russian forces and said they had been firing on both military and civilian infrastructure. It also said, Russia was continuing with "forced mobilization" for areas it occupied in Ukraine.