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President Biden doesn’t trust some of the Secret Service agents around him and doesn’t believe certain details of the biting incident with his dog Major, according to a new book about the administration. Chris Whipple’s “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House” says Biden has trust issues with some agents, due in part to the fact that some agents are strong supporters of former President Trump. “A bigger problem was Biden’s discomfort with his Secret Service detail; some of them were MAGA sympathizers. He didn’t trust them,” Whipple wrote, according to a copy of the book obtained...

Trump: First of all, I think Kevin has really worked hard. I think perhaps most importantly, we’re playing a very dangerous game. We have a majority of literally a few votes. A few votes and you could end up with somebody just horrible. You could end up with a horrible speaker, including possibly a democrat speaker. So they’re playing a very dangerous game. ... Root: He's better than the worst case scenario, but you know that at times, McCarthy stabs you in the back? Trump: No of course he did. I understand that, I understand that. And if he does...

New Twitter boss Elon Musk revealed that former employees of the social media company managed a fawning Slack channel titled “Fauci Fan Club” — a reference to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Musk tweeted the claim in a thread that was highly critical of Fauci, who was accused by the mogul of lying about so-called “gain-of-function” research that some suggest may have played a role in the spread of the coronavirus. “Despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless had an internal Slack channel unironically called ‘Fauci Fan Club’,” Musk tweeted late Tuesday. He did not elaborate as...

China’s Orwellian social credit controls are in full force at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, where a New Jersey woman was removed from a Rockettes show after facial recognition tagged and ID’d her as an employee of a certain law firm. Security guards “knew my name before I told them,” Kelly Conlon said to NBC New York. “They knew the firm I was associated with before I told them. And they told me I was not allowed to be there.” ... Social credit schemes armed with facial recognition work just as instantly as unlocking an iPhone using Face ID....

The ASUS GeForce 710 2GB DDR3 EVO video card specs state "Digital Max Resolution 2560 x 1600", but ALSO state "Interface : Yes x 1 (Native DVI-D) / Yes x 1 (D-Sub) / Yes x 1 (Native HDMI 1.4b) / HDCP Support Yes (1.4)Well, the HDMI (which is what I'm "after", to hook up a 4k 43" TV), if said output is HDMI 1.4b, should support 4k video = 3840 x 2160 pixels resolution. Am I missing something here? Can this card give me a clean 4k output for displaying text (docs, spreadsheets) on this TV?

As the COVID-19 (CCP Virus) pandemic continues to spread in China with soaring numbers of cases and deaths, the United States and Germany have offered to provide vaccines to China to help it fight the scourge; but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has refused help, saying that China is handling the pandemic well. Critics have pointed out that accepting Western aid would expose the fallacies in the CCP’s propaganda about the superiority of its so-called “whole nation” system and “one-party governance” model. On Dec. 20, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a press conference that the United States...

A Louisiana convenience store worker was fired after a video went viral of her tossing a bucket of water on a homeless woman sitting outside the store in below-freezing temperatures. Video shows a female employee at the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge confronting a homeless woman who was sitting in front of the store on a brisk 26-degree day over the Christmas holiday weekend. “Move! Not telling y’all again. Move it!” the worker can be heard exclaiming in the video. “Clear the —- out!” Abdullah Mufahi, the store’s owner, fired the employee featured in the video within 24...

A 'gentle and kind' family doctor who was subjected to death threats from anti-vaxxers during the pandemic has died suddenly. Hong Kong-born Dr Wilson Chin, who broke down in tears describing the abuse he received running a Covid vaccination clinic on the Gold Coast, passed away shortly before Christmas. Dr Chin made headlines in January, 2022 when he described the impact of a false rumour, spread on social media, that two girls who fainted after treatment at Pacific Pines MedCentres, had in fact died. The rumour claimed two girls collapsed and began screaming. But Dr Chin told 9News at the...

Hamline University in Minnesota has reportedly declined to renew the contract of an art history professor because they showed two ancient art images depicting the Prophet Muhammad during an optional online class segment.

A homosexual federal judge has endorsed a Colorado state LGBT agenda point signed into law by a gay governor that imposes viewpoint discrimination on Christian counselors, threatening them with so-called "unprofessional conduct" charges if they encourage clients who want to rid themselves of same-sex attractions to do just that. They can, however, encourage clients to pursue homosexual behavior. It's part of a worldwide agenda against the fact that some people want to leave homosexuality, and, in fact, do. Such cases destroy the LGBT community's claim that people are "born" that way.

Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, may have been transgender, a New York Times (NYT) article claimed, drawing criticism from a political strategist who called it “historical vandalism.” Titled “Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man,” the NYT piece claims the famous author may have been non-binary or transgender. Peyton Thomas, the author of the story, identifies as transgender and claims Alcott might also have even been transgender.

Matt Gaetz sent a stern message to Kevin McCarthy while speaking at Turning Point USA’s SAS conference Tuesday. Rep. Gaetz (R-Fla.) told the crowds that all Republican members of Congress know that Rep. McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is running to be the House majority speaker, believes in nothing except money and power. Gaetz admitted while America’s laws and Republicans’ tactics should change, it is of the utmost importance that Republican leadership changes. “Our laws and our tactics must change. But some of our leaders must be changed too. Our ancestors, out of love of country, pledged their lives and their fortunes...

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he briefly talked about using the 25th Amendment to remove former President Trump from power during a discussion with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot. But Mnuchin, who served as Treasury secretary from the beginning of the Trump presidency to its end, said he did not seriously consider using the measure to remove Trump from office. “It came up very briefly in our conversation,” Mnuchin told the Jan. 6 committee in his deposition, released on Tuesday. “We both believed that the best outcome was a normal...

A former Microsoft technologist is behind bars after he plowed his car into a crowded Washington State supermarket on Friday night after alleging that he's being pursued by a murderous satanic cult. After crashing his car into the front of the Fred Meyer store in Everett 50 miles north of Seattle, Ronald Lewis, 57, covered himself in gasoline, police said. Lewis then sat in his car as responding officers tried to negotiate his surrender. That's when his car caught fire. Miraculously, Lewis escaped his car with very minor injuries. Although no official statement has been made by police regarding his...

Climate change -- and the drastic need to curb greenhouse gas emissions -- has been at the forefront of international conversation in 2022. Governments and businesses this past year have devoted more resources to getting countries to net-zero emissions by 2030 by enacting legislation to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage the use and development of renewable energy. This effort is to avoid the disastrous outcomes scientists have been predicting for decades about global warming. Despite those efforts, the impact of climate change was evident in the number of devastating natural disasters that plagued the planet this year, according...

Have you ever wondered why no pictures of Michelle Obama pregnant are available online? The right-wing conspiracies are, that there are no pictures of Michelle Obama pregnant at all. But the left wing thinks there are no pictures available because Michelle Obama wasn’t famous at the time she was pregnant. The Obamas weren’t a big deal at the time and paparazzi weren’t hunting them. One recent Twitter thread sparked a huge controversy! Former First Lady Michelle Obama has released a memoir in which she reveals difficulties with her marriage and pregnancy with her two daughters. In the book, Becoming, Mrs....

Center for Vaccine Development co-director Dr. Peter Hotez said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” many Americans needlessly lose their lives because they did not get a COVID vaccine. Anchor Peter Alexander said, “As we talk about vaccination right now, a new headline in The New York Times where they write, ‘COVID isn’t the only reason childhood vaccination rates are falling.’ It notes, among other things recent measles outbreak near Columbus, Ohio. In Rockland County, that’s just north of New York City. They saw polio cases go up just a matter of months ago. What concerns you most as it...

Notes from Erie County (Buffalo) New from 10:00 AM (12/28/2022): First, allow me to set the stage for non-locals: Two Press Conferences. First by Erie County executive Mark Polencars (D-White Guy), then by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown (D-Black Guy; looks great in a suit). See where this is going? Temps are rising. Both in the weather and the political halls of power. Death count now 35 and climbing (most in city of Buffalo - 26)Suburbs are open; city is not (that should tell you something – more on that later)Buffalo-Niagara Airport is back upBus and Rail up with limited service.The...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink agreed to coordinate investment in rebuilding Ukraine, Kyiv announced Wednesday following a meeting between the two men. A readout from the Ukrainian president’s official website said Zelenskyy and Fink had “agreed to focus in the near term on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country, channelling investment into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy.” BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory and the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy signed a memorandum of understanding in November, after Fink and Zelenskyy met in September to...

Musician Joseph "Jo Mersa" Marley, the grandson of reggae superstar Bob Marley, is dead at 31. The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, confirmed the news on his Twitter. He wrote in part, "My heartfelt sympathies to Joseph’s friends and associates and to the Reggae music fraternity and fans everywhere. His untimely passing at the young age of 31y.o. is a huge loss to the music as we look to the next generation." "May he find Eternal Peace as we mourn his loss during this season of goodwill when we celebrate with family and friends our love for each other."...