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A third of global glaciers located at World Heritage sites will disappear by 2050, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) warned on Thursday. Among the glaciers to vanish will be those at Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park and Mount Kilimanjaro, according to UNESCO. While those glaciers will melt regardless of efforts to limit temperature increases, it is possible to save the remaining two thirds of glaciers at these 50 sites, the organization stressed in a new report. But to do so, the authors cautioned, global heating must not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit,...

Trump filed the lawsuit against New York AG Letitia James Wednesday in Palm Beach County, Florida Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in Florida Wednesday against New York Attorney General Letitia James, whom he called "crooked and highly partisan" and claims is abusing her position to "recklessly injure" him, his family, and his business. He also claimed she was attributing to a "war of intimidation and harassment." "Today, I filed a lawsuit in Florida State Circuit Court against the corrupt Attorney General of New York State, Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James," Trump wrote in an email to his supporters. In the statement, Trump...

White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Thursday said that the U.S. is not in a recession and argued that the economy is strong following the Federal Reserve’s decision to again hike interest rates. “We are not in a recession. I want to be really, really clear on that,” Klain told MSNBC when asked what the White House is doing to prepare for a possible recession. He noted that the U.S. is seeing a 50-year low on unemployment overall and an all-time low on Hispanic unemployment, and that more jobs have been created under the two years of President...

Yesterday I attended a meet and greet Q&A, sponsored by a Veterans group, which featured: Abe Hamadah (AZ AG candidate), Blake Masters and Keri Lake. Some Comments:Abe Hamadeh - At 31 he is pretty young for the position he is aspiring to, but he is smart, articulate, comes across very well and has a big future ahead of him. He mentioned several areas of concern to him and to Arizonans: The Border, Care for Veterans and election integrity. Blake Masters -- To be honest I was not impressed with Masters prior to yesterday, I am now. He comes across far...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reacted to Elon Musk owning Twitter by saying that “one billionaire in a very dark room” could be making decisions about what people are seeing on the social media platform, “based on whatever is running around in the middle of his head.” Warren didn’t seem to share this concern about the leftists running Facebook and Google, who make decisions about what people see on the internet through extensive censorship operations. After being asked by The Late Show host Stephen Colbert to weigh in on Musk’s recent takeover of Twitter, Warren said, “I look at it this...

Religious Zionism MK Orit Strock says leftists, Arabs and members of the LGBT community should not fear the rise of the far right in this week’s election. “We’re not going to hammer anyone,” she says. “We will serve all citizens, including those who do not think like us and whose lifestyles are different.” However, she says her party will seek to “bring order to the public space,” in apparent reference to opposition to gay pride events. “Regardless of pride, there shouldn’t be marches of people walking down the street naked or half naked,” Strock says. “The problem is with years-long...

Collateral damage from hospitals cancelling and delaying treatment to focus on coronavirus blamed for mortality rate rise.. Excess deaths in England and Wales are currently running higher than in the main pandemic years of 2020 and 2021... Throughout October, there have been an average of 1,564 extra deaths per week, compared with a weekly average of just 315 in 2020 and 1,322 in 2021. ... EXCESS DEATHS ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING HIGHER THAN IN PANDEMIC YEARS ... The Government’s “stay at home, protect the NHS” message left many people who needed medical treatment unwilling to bother the health service, or afraid...

“When the federal statutes speak of ‘the election’… they plainly refer to the combined actions of voters and officials meant to make a final selection of an officeholder… By establishing a particular day as ‘the day’ on which these actions must take place, the statutes simply regulate the time of the election, a matter on which the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the final say.” Foster v. Love (1997) We will take a closer at this binding precedent below, but in preview, please understand that it emanates from a 9-0 decision of the United States Supreme Court, wherein the entire Court...

The federal government’s guidelines to counter “misinformation” and “disinformation” – what we might more accurately describe as Big Brother’s Playbook – has been released. The US government and its allies, including media gatekeepers and educational institutions and global corporations, have become the judges and juries of “misinformation.” And Big Tech is their executioner. According to recently-filed court documents in Missouri v. Biden that were made available by The Intercept (big hat tip to Lee Fang and Ken Klippenstein), “The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous.” We’ve highlighted the key points of...

Last October, Author Julie Powell Celebrated The Deaths Of Anti-Vaxxers: Now She’s Dead (Guess What The Cause Is)GabGettrTelegramTruthSocial SearchLoginPremium ContentShowsBermas LiveVideosNews and CommentaryOpinionHealthAboutContactSocialSupportShopOpinionLast October, Author Julie Powell Celebrated The Deaths Of Anti-Vaxxers: Now She’s Dead (Guess What The Cause Is)“I would argue that COVID does kill some of the right people. The anti-vaxxers/maskers are dying in legions. But yes. It’s a real shame about Kavanaugh.”By Gregory HoytNovember 2, 2022ShareShareShareShareShareTweetShareShareFlip ItComment PrintA 49-year-old author, who seemed to take delight in those who died from COVID while not having taken the jab, reportedly died this past October, with reports saying the author...

Given all the hard-edged news stories on FR every day, it's time for a little bit different news story. These two look like they have switched teams aren't available any longer. If you look for pictures, Miss Puerto Rico might be the man of the couple but who knows, except lipstick lesbian comes to mind.

Twelve days of early voting in the books, and I think it’s safe to say now after years f watching these numbers/trends: The Dems are in trouble in Nevada. The reason is simple: Mail is way down in Clark County from 2020, and the numbers are just not big enough to boost the Clark firewall after the GOP wins in-person early voting every day. Large (relatively speaking) in-person turnouts on Wednesday in both urban counties, which helped the GOP hold its own amid a still-lagging mail turnout. Clark was a combined plus 1,000 ballots for the Dems, who lost a...

The mother of the Capitol Police officer who died the day after the January 6 riot is featured in a political ad where she blames “people like” Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake for her son’s death, but in response, Lake offered her empathy. In the ad, funded by the Republican Accountability Project, Gladys Sicknick calls Lake “very dangerous for our country” and directly blamed “people like” Lake for her son Brian’s death. Sicknick died a day after the riot, and his death was ultimately determined to be from natural causes as he suffered a series of strokes. A CBS...

Election officials in some of the most closely watched jurisdictions across the country say they are bracing for a new wave of conspiracy-fueled threats — even as they remain confident in their ability to do their jobs under heightened scrutiny. In interviews with a dozen local election officials in the swing states of Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona, most expressed concern that the election denialism and conspiracy theories they have spent the last two years combating have already taken on new life, fueling isolated yet alarming incidents at drop box locations in Arizona and Pennsylvania, for example. Those...

A homeless Florida man in bloody clothes was arrested Tuesday after stabbing a hiker who befriended him on a trail for "unknown reasons," authorities said. The stabbing happened on the Florida Natural Scenic Trail in Crestview after the hiker and his wife set up camp and met the homeless man, who was later identified as 37-year-old Jonathan Davis, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said. Davis stabbed the 45-year-old hiker, who was visiting from Ohio, in the abdomen and left the area, according to authorities. Investigators said it was unclear what led to the attack. The hiker’s wife trekked to an...

The New York Police Department has identified 28-year-old Juan Velez, a Manhattan resident, as the man who hurled a wrench into Dolan’s residence at the historic Fifth Avenue cathedral just before 12:25 p.m. Friday. Investigators have also linked Velez to two similar hate crime attacks on Manhattan houses of worship, the NYPD said. The first incident occurred at about 12:25 p.m. Friday at St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Dolan and other members of the clergy reside, around the heavily trafficked intersection of East 50th Street and Fifth Avenue, police said.

Venerable columnist George Will begged Democrats Wednesday not to allow President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris to seek the White House in 2024, warning that nominating either would “insult and imperil the nation.” “​​Biden is not just past his prime; even adequacy is in his past,” Will wrote in the Washington Post. ​The 81-year-old Will​, a longtime Republican who left the party in 2016 after Donald Trump won its presidential nomination, voted for Biden in 2020, and describes himself as “unaffiliated,” said the president’s false statement last month that the student loan forgiveness plan was passed by Congress marked...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a landmark bipartisan agreement, both Republican and Democrat leaders have agreed to accept the results of the 2022 election and not claim everything was rigged — as long as their side wins. "I am proud that we can come together around the shared principle that we should not undermine American faith in our elections unless we lose," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. "If we can't agree to that, democracy is finished. It's also finished if we lose due to a rigged election. But we won't call it a 'rigged election.' Unless we lose. Then we...

NBCUniversal’s CNBC has canceled “The News with Shepard Smith,” its primetime general news show, to refocus on business and market coverage. The network announced the news Thursday in an e-mail to CNBC employees. Smith will be leaving the network later this month, according to a person familiar with the matter. CNBC will replace Smith’s primetime show with markets coverage until a new live show focusing on business news launches in 2023. “After spending time with many of you and closely reviewing the various aspects of our business, I believe we must prioritize and focus on our core strengths of business...

We look back on the primitive people of the past and sneer at their bizarre and monstrous atrocities – and rightly so. Even the civilized Romans recorded horrible acts by their elite – Emperor Elagabalus allegedly wanted to castrate himself and do some more cutting in order to become a Romanette, while Nero sliced the bologna off his boyfriend, a kid who was unlucky enough to resemble Nero’s dead wife. But here’s the thing – the Romans themselves wrote about this stuff recognizing that it was an atrocity. The Romans at least has a bit of moral clarity. But our...