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President Biden on Tuesday responded to reports that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was possibly sending migrants from Texas to Delaware by quipping that the governor ought to stop by himself. “He should come visit. We have a beautiful shoreline,” Biden told reporters. The White House said earlier on Tuesday that the administration is coordinating with state officials and local service providers in Delaware to ensure they are prepared to welcome migrant families upon their arrival. Biden noted differences between his and the previous administration’s strategy along the southern border in defending his policies.

The (energy) industry is “feasting on hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies and windfall profits while household budgets shrink and our planet burns”, António Guterres told world leaders in New York. Record profits enjoyed by fossil fuel firms at a time of high energy costs and a cost of living crisis have prompted calls in many countries for leaders to impose a one-off tax on the extra income. Money raised should be used to help people struggling with rising food and energy bills, as well as to compensate countries suffering the most severe effects of climate change, the secretary-general...

Speaking from New York where she is attending the United Nations, new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss heavily hinted there would be tax cuts coming this week, and that these were being done to grow the economy, not please people with ideological opposition to tax cuts. Tax cuts help generate economic growth, the Prime Minister said on Tuesday, as she makes her first official trip abroad as leader to the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York. Speaking about the government’s emergency budget being presented to the Commons on Friday, PM Liz Truss strongly implied that tax cuts would be...

Justice Department leadership has "weaponized" the DOJ and the FBI "like never has happened in the United States" before, former President Donald Trump, speaking out about his first visit to his Mar-a-Lago home after it was searched almost two months ago, said in an exclusive interview with Newsmax on Tuesday.And, Trump told Newsmax's "Wake Up America," he had conversations about releasing the video footage of the raid and said it resembled a "military coup.""They would rather not have me [release the footage] because of the safety of the FBI agents that swarmed the place," Trump said. "I don't think they...

"Taxing companies when you want them to increase production is clearly not helpful," he said. He speculated investors were holding back due to the "fear factor" of today's macroeconomic climate, but more investment now was critical for the supply situation to improve, especially since energy industry experts say it takes around three to four years for new investment to have an impact on production

Yes, oil prices are slightly down, but that is only because Joe Biden continues to dip into the dwindling supply in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. So you can expect the average price at the pump, which even as it now stands is still much higher than you paid before Biden’s ascent, to spike again. While it would run counter to the environmental partners of the administration, the solution would be to extract more energy from the land under our feet. That means drilling for natural gas and oil. And if one believes the mainstream media, one would think that the...

A community is mourning the loss of an 18-year-old man from Grace City, North Dakota, as investigators look into what lead up to a deadly crash. Foster County Deputies were called to a hit-and-run that happened in an alleyway near Johnston Street and Jones Avenue in McHenry, ND. Court documents say at 2:35 Sunday morning, 41-year-old Shannon Brandt called 911 to report that he had hit a pedestrian because he was threatening him. Brandt told State Radio that the pedestrian was part of a Republican extremist group and that he was afraid they were “coming to get him.” The pedestrian...

MCHENRY, N.D. — According to court papers, it was not an accident but apparently a politically motivated attack.The fatal vehicle-pedestrian incident happened early Sunday morning, Sept. 18, in McHenry, North Dakota, about 120 miles northwest of Fargo and 54 miles north of Jamestown. (snip) Court papers show Brandt called 911 around 2:30 a.m. Sunday and told the 911 dispatcher that he just hit Ellingson, claiming the teen was part of a Republican extremist group and was calling people to come get Brandt after a political argument.

RGA Nevada PAC, an affiliate of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), released an advertisement hammering Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s (D) record ahead of the November gubernatorial election. The television advertisement, titled “Sweetheart Deals,” reportedly has more than $1 million behind it and launches Monday. “Pay-to-play politician Steve Sisolak gifts donors with government contracts…even ones whose COVID tests failed ninety six percent of the time. And Sisolak’s wife took a two hundred and fifty grand, no-bid contract from his cronies while he was governor,” the advertisement states. “Nevadans are still struggling from Sisolak’s lockdowns. Gas, rent, and groceries are crushing their...

CHICAGO - A voter opinion survey done for Republican Darren Bailey's campaign shows Gov. JB Pritzker with a lead. But it's closer than the landslide, 16 percentage points, Democrat Pritzker won by four years ago. Celebrating an endorsement Monday from the Laborers International Union, Gov. Pritzker recalled how in 2018 he defeated Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner by a margin of 55 percent to 39 percent. CHICAGO - A voter opinion survey done for Republican Darren Bailey's campaign shows Gov. JB Pritzker with a lead. But it's closer than the landslide, 16 percentage points, Democrat Pritzker won by four years ago....

Republican Senate candidate for the state of Nevada, Adam Laxalt has called out the incumbent Democrat, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, for backing President Biden’s far-left FCC nominee Gigi Sohn. Laxalt challenged Cortez Masto to make a choice: stop the Senate confirmation of Sohn as FCC commissioner, or reveal herself to be a supporter of an anti-police radical. “Gigi Sohn, who has a long history of displaying anti-police sentiment, is Biden’s latest nominee for the FCC Commission,” said Laxalt. “My opponent, [Masto] is the deciding vote who can stop this. I am calling on her to stand with law enforcement, not...

A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling ordering the Republican National Committee to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, poking the Democrat-led investigation for vacillating on key issues and acknowledging there were "important and unsettled constitutional questions" about whether the panel is lawfully constituted. The U.S. Circuit Court for Appeals or the District of Columbia said it was dismissing the case because the Jan. 6 committee withdrew the subpoena to the RNC seeking records of its dealings with a digital fund-raising vendor Salesforce. "The RNC's appeal has become moot," the appeals court ruled...

Americans will suffer this winter season regarding heating and electric bills as other costs continue to rise. “The average household will pay about 17% more this winter to heat their property, reaching a 10-year high of about $1,200 per home, according to a forecast from the nonprofit National Energy Assistance Directors Association,” CBS News reported Monday.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) argued that blue states have shared the burden of people coming into the U.S. through the border because it’s “nothing new that there is migration into states like Delaware, blue states. This has been going on for a very long time.” Particularly in the southern part of Delaware, and it’s “not new for there to be new Americans or new immigrants into places like the beach resorts in southern Delaware.” Host Peter Alexander asked, “Right now, we’re hearing from the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the...

The head of mobility services for German electronics giant Robert Bosch GmbH has warned the electric vehicle industry of the reliance on battery cells and possible shortages in the future. Bloomberg reports that Markus Heyn, the head of mobility services for Bosch, has warned the electric vehicle industry over its overreliance on a single fuel source — battery cells — as Europe’s energy crisis worsens. Heyn, who’s also a board member of the auto parts giant, told the Monday edition of the Stuttgarter Zeitung: “We’re currently seeing the consequences of the gas shortage for Germany and Europe because we prepared...

TOPICS:James Webb Space TelescopeNASA Webb MIRI Spectroscopy Animation James Webb Space Telescope MIRI Spectroscopy Animation: The beam of light coming from the telescope is then shown in deep blue entering the instrument through the pick-off mirror located at the top of the instrument and acting like a periscope. Then, a series of mirrors redirect the light toward the bottom of the instruments where a set of 4 spectroscopic modules are located. Once there, the beam of light is divided by optical elements called dichroics in 4 beams corresponding to different parts of the mid-infrared region. Each beam enters its own...

At least eight people were hospitalized Tuesday as a residential building in Chicago collapsed after a massive explosion. Law enforcement and first responders were sent to the four-story apartment building in the city’s South Austin neighborhood shortly before 9:30am on Tuesday morning after an explosion caused the roof to collapse, ABC News reported. Three of those involved in the “mass casualty” event are in serious condition. One of the injured was in a building on the opposite side of the street when the explosion occurred, WGN9 noted. Ten ambulances arrived at the scene, transporting six men and two women to...

Frank Carone, Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ chief of staff, announced his upcoming resignation Monday amid questions about whether his recent cruise in France was taxpayer-funded, according to The New York Times. Carone told administration officials he would resign by the end of the year, according to the NYT, only hours after Adams refused to answer questions about Carone’s recent European travel. Carone spent some time on a Norwegian cruise in Normandy last month as part of the administration’s research into possibly housing migrants on cruise ships. Carone, who has served as Adams’ chief of staff since January,...

Much has been said in the media about the Jackson water crisis by reporters who are experts on everything and knowledgeable about nothing. They blame the flooding of the O.B. Curtis plant, white flight, racism, and a mean ole legislature that refuses to help Jackson. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba wasn't about to discourage such tales of woe as he sought to avoid any responsibility for the catastrophe that happened on his watch. Well, perhaps it's time to tell the real story of how the Jackson water treatment system fell apart, media be damned..... Following the money tells a different...

Tuesday, federal officials announced charges against nearly four dozen people in connection to a massive COVID-related fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program. U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said 47 people have been charged in connection to a $250 million scheme connected to Feeding Our Future. Luger called Tuesday’s announcement the “first wave of charges” and noted three of the 47 are expected to plead guilty in the near future. They face charges ranging from conspiracy, wire fraud, bribery and money laundering. “This was a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” Luger said. “These defendants exploited a program designed to...