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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says we should listen to Native Americans when it comes to renaming sports teams. But if we did, we wouldn’t be renaming any of them. President Joe Biden hosted the Atlanta Braves to celebrate their 2021 World Series championship while his administration scolded them for their name. When asked about the team name and the Braves' “tomahawk chop” celebration, Jean-Pierre said it’s “important” to have a conversation about renaming the team. Biden “has consistently emphasized that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,” Jean-Pierre said . “You hear that often from...

HAVERTOWN, Pa. (CBS) -- It's not just happening in the city. Groups of kids are causing havoc in Havertown. They're attacking other young people for no apparent reason, and they're creating a panic in the Delaware County town. Police are fed up, saying this will not be tolerated. They're increasing their patrols to track them down. CBS Philadelphia spoke with one parent whose son was attacked. In that incident, it was 10 teens on one, them delivering blows, punches and kicks. Police are working to identify the people responsible and promise arrests will be made. Groups of teens have created...

TRANSCRIPT OF MARK LEVIN'S MONOLOGUE "Electoral Deep Dive" Mark Levin took viewers on a deep dive on the political machinations the Democrats used prior to the 2020 election. While explaining the Constitution and the law, Levin pushed back at the claims of obstruction, conspiracy, and fake electors Democrat prosecutors are using to target and criminalize what Republicans did in the 2020 election. - Mark Levin pushed back at the "fake electors" charge. The legislature choose the electors according to the Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 2:"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a...

....the source of the sudden and puzzling collapse of heat that precedes disruptions that can damage doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion facilities. Researchers traced the collapse to the 3D disordering of the strong magnetic fields that bottle up the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels the reactions. The strong magnetic fields substitute in fusion facilities for the immense gravity that holds fusion reactions in place in celestial bodies. But when disordered by plasma instability in laboratory experiments the field lines allow the superhot plasma heat to rapidly escape confinement. Such million-degree heat crushes plasma particles together to release fusion energy and can...

At approximately 9:15 a.m. EDT on Tuesday morning, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission were secured inside the VAB after completing the four-mile journey from Launch Pad 39B. A short time later, at approximately 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, a fire alarm was triggered in the VAB. The notification came when an arc flash event occurred at a connector on an electrical panel in High Bay 3. A spark landed on a rope marking the boundary of the work area. As the rope began to smolder, workers pulled the alarm, and employees evacuated the...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — An election worker in the Grand Rapids area was charged with two crimes after a witness reported seeing him place a USB flash drive into an electronic poll book at the close of the Aug. 2 primary, authorities said Wednesday. The incident had no impact on election results in a Gaines Township precinct, though it was “extremely egregious and incredibly alarming,” Kent County Clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons said. “It is a violation of public trust and of the oath all election workers are required to take,” Lyons said. James Holkeboer was charged with using a...

A convicted bomber serving a life sentence for a deadly 2007 blast on the Las Vegas Strip escaped from a Nevada prison after reportedly leaving a dummy in his cell — and his absence was not discovered until days later. Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, 42, vanished from the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs on Friday night, the Nevada Department of Corrections confirmed. Officers at the medium-security prison didn’t realize the inmate was missing until a head count on Tuesday, at around 7 a.m., and they launched a search for him an hour later. Duarte-Herrera had created a dummy, possibly out...

Here is a brief summary of the Democrats’ history of racism and their obsession with abortion (a.k.a baby-killing), eugenics, etc. BEFORE YOU VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT BECAUSE OF ROE V WADE or “GOP RACISM,” WATCH THIS. Yesterday on his TV show ‘Life, Liberty and Levin,’ constitutional lawyer Mark Levin explained how the history of the Democrat Party is filled with racists, anti-Semites and a eugenics-supporting founder of Planned Parenthood.

He called it "the greatest miscarriage of medical science that we will see in our lifetime."Steve Kirsch19 hr agoExecutive summaryA highly respected cardiologist and expert in evidence-based medicine was prompted to take a critical look at the vaccine data after the unexpected death of his father 6 months after vaccination. He spent 6 months carefully studying the data and consulting with other top scientists. He’s now calling for a halt to the vaccines based on the data.He called it “the greatest miscarriage of medical science that we will see in our lifetime.”IntroductionCheck out this story in the Epoch Times about...

As we leave Bobryk near Kyiv, we see a crushed car. An ordinary vehicle is now a jumbled heap of metal. A crushed iron bug. A Russian tank drove over it. While the headman of the neighboring village was still in it. He managed to jump out a few seconds before impact, but easily might not have. Cars crushed by Russian tanks are a common sight in this war. Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel – each of these small towns has its own “car cemetery,” where you can see these heaps of crushed metal. Many have been shot or shelled. Sometimes with...

[Catholic Caucus] Definition of a Liar: "What Was False Yesterday Can Be True Today" - Presiding BishopIt is human nature to seek continuity but the shortest definition of religion is "interruption".This nonsense was uttered by presiding Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg in a September 27 sermon to the German Bishops' Conference. Strangely, no one laughed. At the same time, he knocked Ratzinger's hermeneutics of continuity into the dustbin. According to Thomas Aquinas, religion consists in giving God the worship that is due to him, the source of all being.For the confused bishop, "all-too-certainly asserted continuities, i.e. seamless connections along the...

But the CDC says the opposite: that it will protect your baby. They are lying to you once again. They have NO risk-benefit study that was ever done. The CDC is totally irresponsible in their advice.Steve Kirsch10 hr agoExecutive summaryThe data says not to breastfeed: it has killed or seriously injured infants.But the CDC, without any study whatsoever on the all-cause risk-benefit, says it’s fine. They are irresponsible and wrong.IntroductionIf you received the COVID vaccine and are breastfeeding your baby, you should stop breastfeeding immediately and read this story now: This story appeared on September 20, 2022. It was ignored...

• Russia has been implicated in the attack, though the Kremlin are denying it and the reasons behind such a move remain unclear • The volatility is creating a perfect backdrop for an increase in clean energy, and we’ve created a way for investors to use AI to take advantage of the opportunity The green energy revolution With all this madness going on in the background, the push towards green energy has been growing steam. Everyone has known for a while now that we need to begin to bring more diversity into our energy grid. These latest problems have highlighted...

It’s with regret and some trepidation that I take issue on a legal matter with someone whom I like and respect as much as I do Andy McCarthy, the prominent legal affairs commentator and contributor to many publications, websites, and television programs. But like many other intelligent and otherwise convivial people I know, he’s unfortunately incapable of speaking or writing rationally about Donald Trump. McCarthy has a particularly baneful influence on the discussion of Trump-related issues because he naturally brings to it the gravitas of his legal expertise and apparently authoritative articulation. But this is the same McCarthy who wrote...

March 31, 2022 went down in history as the point of no return in the war. It was on this day that the city of Bucha, in Kyiv region, was liberated from the Russian invaders. At the same time, the world was shaken by the terrible footage of Russian crimes: hundreds of bodies of civilians brutally killed and tortured by the Russian occupiers, known as the Bucha Massacre. It was a shock that the next day, April 1, 2022, Russian invaders captured the city of Izyum, which is in Kharkiv region. The city used to be unremarkable and unknown to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that it would be "in no-one's interest" if attacks or acts of sabotage caused gas leaks detected in the Nord Stream gas pipelines amid an energy standoff between Europe and Russia over gas supplies.Both Moscow and Western European capitals have expressed concern over the multiple leaks spewing gas into the sea, which occurred as Russia has slashed gas deliveries to Europe after the West imposed sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine."There are initial reports indicating that this may be the result of an attack or some kind of...

But we have another more permanent inflation problem. It was first described in a famous article by economist William Baumol in the American Economic Review in 1967. Baumol noted that productivity, measured as the amount of “stuff” that could be produced per worker in a given time, varies across sectors. In those that produce physical output — whether cars, wheat, toilet seats or whatever — productivity has risen consistently, driven by technical innovations and the increasing use of machines in production. In contrast, in services such as producing educated students, staging arts performances and designing government policies, productivity growth has...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) this week sharply dismissed establishment media attempts to politicize Hurricane Ian...

Ukrainian troops are encircling Russian forces in Lyman, an occupied town in the northeast of the country, as Kyiv presses on with its counteroffensive to recapture seized territory. Maps detailing Ukrainian advance in the region amid a continued counteroffensive show its forces moving north across the Siverskyi Donets river from areas east and west of town, and east across the Oskil river from positions north of Lyman. The British Defense Ministry assessed on Wednesday that over the last few days, Ukraine has pressed its offensive operations in the northeast of the country. Its units advanced on at least two axes...

In September, The New York Times published an extensive report that said 97 lawmakers or their family members traded financial assets in the past three years that could be conflicts of interest. Pelosi — whose husband, Paul Pelosi, is a venture capitalist — was at first against the idea of a ban on lawmaker stock trading, but ultimately endorsed the push in February. A bipartisan group of House lawmakers put the topic back in the news earlier this month when it penned a letter to leadership asking for a vote on a bill reforming lawmaker stock trading. Earlier this month,...