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The cost of a dozen eggs has now surpassed the price of a pound of beef, marking the first time that’s happened since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping data in 1980. The average price of a dozen large Grade A eggs ran at $4.82 in January 2023, while a pound of ground beef was $4.64. In January 2022, eggs were $1.93, and beef was $4.77, but egg prices have soared by 70% in the last year alone. Farm Action, a farmer-led advocacy group, says the “real culprit” behind sky-high prices is a “collusive scheme” among top U.S....

Two academics at Stanford University secured the $250 million bond on behalf of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried ahead of his trial, court documents revealed on Wednesday. Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty last month to eight charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission through campaign finance violations. His cryptocurrency empire collapsed at the end of last year after users and investors learned that FTX had improperly commingled funds with sister trading company Alameda Research. Mark Cohen, a lawyer for Bankman-Fried who previously defended Jeffrey Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell,...

CNN's Don Lemon has apologized for saying presidential candidate Nikki Haley shouldn't promote competency tests for elderly politicians because she was 'past her prime' as a woman.

Crypto markets rose on Thursday, shrugging off a tougher regulatory stance from the U.S. government. Bitcoin gained 4.07% to $24,984.27 at around 11:56 a.m. ET while ether was up 3.84% at $1,723.04, according to Coin Metrics. There are ” increasing signs that the market bottomed last November and has turned bullish,” Vijay Ayyar, vice president of corporate development and international at crypto exchange Luno, told CNBC. Crypto markets were on edge earlier this week following increased regulatory scrutiny from U.S. authorities on digital currencies. On Monday, the New York State Department of Financial Services told Paxos to stop minting new...

ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) – A convicted male rapist who underwent transgender surgery to appear as a female has been moved to a female prison with mothers and children. Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson tweeted news about the move stating it was “utterly – even demonically – mad.” The prisoner, Adam Laboucan, brutally raped a three-month-old infant while a teenager and allegedly drowned a toddler. He was convicted and sentenced when he was 17 years old in 1999. He was only convicted for his sexual assault of an infant because the drowning would have occurred when he was under 12, and...

Updated February 16, 2023 at 1:04 PM ET The derailment of a train carrying hazardous materials near a town in Ohio earlier this month has prompted environmental concerns and chemical fears for residents — even as state officials work to reassure them. "From the very start of this, we have taken every step possible to assure that people's safety was first and foremost," Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, the director of the Ohio Department of Health, said at a Tuesday press conference. And as authorities work to assess the damage and investigate the derailment, more information has emerged this week about the...

ABC’s, CBS’s and NBC’s premature abandonment of coverage of the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio may have been a gambit to protect the leftist pro-environment, social, governance (ESG) standard giants tied to the incident. A recent MRC study revealed that the Big Three broadcast network’s morning and evening news shows all but dropped coverage of the Ohio disaster once residents were permitted to return home Feb. 8. Between the incident’s genesis on Feb. 3 and the evacuation order for East Palestine being lifted on Feb. 8, all six shows fell just shy of spending a combined 30 minutes on...

Unvaccinated New York City teachers were reportedly “flagged” and their fingerprints sent to the FBI, according to an affidavit filed in federal court last week. In the New Yorkers for Religious Liberty Inc. v. The City of New York appeals hearing, challenging the now-rescinded vaccine mandate for city employees, plaintiff’s attorney John Burch said that “flagged” teachers were labeled with “problem codes” that impact their ability to get another job. The allegations were based on a June 2022 affidavit written by Betsy Combier, president of the due process advocacy group Advocatz, detailing how the New York City Department of Education...

The Catholic bishops of New Mexico implored Christians to pray for their state as satanic groups and pro-abortion lawmakers work to expand the killing of unborn babies in abortions. The Catholic news site Crux reports Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester, Las Cruces Bishop Peter Baldacchino, Gallup Bishop James Wall and other Catholic leaders issued the statement Tuesday in response to news that The Satanic Temple plans to open an abortion facility in their state. The satanic group believes aborting unborn babies is a religious “ritual” and compares it to communion or baptism for Christians. “The last thing we need in...

Priests for Life leader Frank Pavone shared news about another pro-life advocate being assaulted on a city sidewalk recently, the latest in growing reports of violence targeting the pro-life movement. On Monday, Pavone posted a short video on Twitter showing a man in a Ninja Turtle T-shirt being asked about his pro-abortion views. Pavone said the man later attacked the pro-life advocate who was filming him. The video begins with the pro-life advocate acknowledging that the man was willing to talk about his abortion views on camera. “How would you defend the pro-choice side? Why is it good to kill...

President Biden delivers remarks on the downing of unidentified aerial objects last weekend, as well as the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of North Carolina last week.

Now it is the government's own numbers that show Joe Biden is misleading the American public when he boasts that he made a huge reduction in the nation's budget deficit. Biden repeatedly has claimed he has reduced the budget deficit by a trillion dollars – more than anyone else ever

Disturbing new research indicates more than one third of Americans are okay with selecting and destroying their children as embryos based on DNA tests that predict their likelihood of being smart enough to attend a top-tier college. A new opinion poll published in the journal Science asked Americans about testing embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF), an infertility treatment that involves creating embryos outside the womb before implanting them in the mother’s uterus. Often, embryos are destroyed in the process, even though they already are unique human beings at the earliest stage of life. According to MIT Technology Review, the...

Liberal activists are targeting Nikki Haley with false claims about her real name and claiming she is trying to hide behind her race "to fit in" and "kowtowing" to "white folks." SNIP Haley has for years faced attacks for not using her first name, but she has gone by her middle name, Nikki, since she was a child. In 2021, PolitiFact called the assertion that Haley "whitewashed" her name a "pants-on-fire" falsehood. SNIP After Haley announced her presidential bid, journalists from prominent media outlets such as CNN, ABC and MSNBC quickly launched a wave of attacks against her — including...

Donald Trump was a great if imperfect president. By the third year of his presidency, the country was flourishing. The economy was roaring, jobs were up, incomes were up, gas prices were down, and America & Americans were doing fairly well. But then a funny thing happened on the way to the election. The swamp struck back via Covid and the George Floyd protests. Neither of those was of Trump’s making, but both were utilized by Democrats to steal the election. The Democrats didn’t create Covid or put Floyd in the morgue, but they used the lockdowns and the riots...

Nikki Haley's presidential run doesn't appear to be keeping her fellow South Carolinian, Sen. Tim Scott, from considering his own campaign for the GOP nomination in 2024. "I bet there’s room for three or four. Certainly, there’s room for two," Scott said in a radio interview Thursday morning when host Joey Hudson on WGTK-FM asked whether there’s room for both Haley and Scott in a 2024 GOP presidential field. [cut] Scott will be in Charleston on Thursday to deliver a speech on Black History Month as he begins a listening tour

A Montana Democrat lawmaker recently proposed a bill that would allow pregnant mothers to abort their unborn babies for “religious freedom” reasons even if state law limits or bans abortions. Newsweek reports Montana House Bill 471 is a project of state Rep. Ed Stafman, a Democrat and a Jewish rabbi who believes the law should respect “divergent and deeply held” beliefs about “when human life begins, bodily autonomy and when abortion is allowable.” In other words, individuals should get to decide when their unborn babies’ lives are valuable and when they are disposable, not the law. Stafman’s bill would amend...

SCREENSHOTS AT LINK............... A newly uncovered calendar notation on the Biden Laptop indicates Hunter Biden joined his business partner Devon Archer in a meeting with his father in then Vice President Joe Biden’s West Wing office on April 16th, 2014, something the Bidens and Archers have always denied. And while there’s a special counsel looking into Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, this meeting constitutes malfeasance in office, an impeachable offense. Here’s a screenshot of the calendar I viewed after my friends at Marco Polo exported Hunter Biden’s daily calendar from the Laptop to me. The notation is “Meet Devon...

As Ohio continues to investigate the damage caused by a Norfolk Southern derailing earlier this month, another train carrying hazardous materials derails, this time outside Detroit, Michigan. Fox News reports that a train, which had one car of hazardous materials, derailed on Thursday (February 16th) in Van Bure Township, Michigan. The cause of the incident is not known and there were no injuries. Authorities also confirmed that this is not considered a hazmat situation. It was further reported that at least six cars were seen off the track. The roads are to remain closed while the investigation is ongoing. Michigan...

It’s a long and twisting saga that has lasted years. It involves a lawsuit, a stolen car and a polarizing point of view. And it’s all over a Hawaii license plate. The City and County of Honolulu approved a set of specialty Hawaii license plates in January 2021 bearing the letters “FCKBLM,” an acronym that can be read as “F—k Black Lives Matter,” referring to the social movement. Since then, Honolulu has tried to reclaim the two license plates because of the expletive, but its owner refused to return them. Seven months after issuing the plate, the county contacted the...