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Zhou Jiangyong, a former party secretary in China’s communist regime, pleaded guilty in an April 27 court hearing to crimes of collecting nearly 200 million yuan ($28.91 million) in bribes over some 20 years in his official roles. The verdict is set to be announced soon. Sacked in 2021 from his position as secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Zhou stands accused of “colluding with capital investors,” trading power for personal interest, family corruption, and illegal intervention in the economy, judiciary, and law enforcement. Zhou has long had a close association with Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese e-commerce...

Good food can be as delicious as fast food. It’s all about how you cook it! Knorr adds delicious flavors to nutritious food with our menu of Taste Combo recipes. Eating better just got tastier.

They Want A Fight So Let’s Give It To ’em! Written By Dave Workman It will have been one year on June 23 since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen and ever since, anti-gun Democrats have been acting like the decision never happened. A state House representative in Olympia, Wash. may have pegged the reason why during an interview with me back in January. His analysis was matter-of-fact, entirely sensible and a little scary. The $10,000 Secret The gun control crowd wants a fight. They are determined...

(Last Updated On: May 1, 2023) NATIONAL TRUFFLE DAY National Truffle Day on May 2 serves up a deliciously sweet treat and places the chocolate truffle in the spotlight. #NATIONALTRUFFLEDAY N. Petruccelli of Chambery, France is believed to be the inventor of the chocolate truffle in December 1895. Truffles became much more prevalent in 1902 after the Prestat Chocolate Shop opened in London. In fact, Prestat still sells “Napoleon III” truffles made to the original recipe. Traditionally, chocolatiers make this sweet confection with a chocolate ganache center coated in chocolate, icing, cocoa powder, chopped nuts, or coconut. Oftentimes, they may...

U.S.A. – In Italy, Andrea Papi, a young man running for exercise, was killed by an aggressive European brown bear. European brown bears are essentially the same species as American grizzly/brown bears. From Nature World News: Fear and rage spread throughout the area after Andrea Papi was fatally attacked by the aggressive bear while jogging above the town of Caldes in the Brenta Dolomites on the slopes of Mt. Peller. Papi is the first Italian reported to have died in the last few years at the hands of a bear. In Italy, bears are a protected species, and since they...

New research reveals that most child victims of gun violence are innocent bystandersby University of Missouri A University of Missouri School of Medicine researcher examining the circumstances behind pediatric firearm assaults found that most child shooting victims were shot outdoors for unknown reasons and were likely not intentionally targeted. Firearm injuries surpassed motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of child deaths in 2020. Assault has become the most common cause of firearm injury among American children and adolescents, surpassing firearm suicide and accidental firearm injuries. However, very little research exists examining the circumstances behind these pediatric assaults. A group...

Without Reagan the cold war would not have ended, but without Shultz, Reagan would not have ended the cold war.” This quotation of Mikhail Gorbachev – from the preface of In the Nation’s Service, a biography of George Shultz – now has a bittersweet taste. Reagan died in 2004, Shultz in 2021 (at 100) and Gorbachev in 2022. The cold war is having a renaissance that threatens the legacies of all three. Throughout the trial, Holmes has been living with her partner in a $135m estate in Silicon Valley. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes again delays start of 11-year prison term...

The US Border Patrol is readying for the largest illegal migrant surge at the southern border in US history next week. Joe Biden is lifting Title 42 – Already, 700,000 to One Million illegals have assembled at the border ready to surge across the US southern border. Joe Biden has opened the borders to millions of illegal invaders. Title 42 is expected to be lifted on May 10th. 22,000 apprehensions were recorded at the border in the last 72 hours. It is remarkable that the White House would attempt to make this false claim on the same day the US...

Lawmakers are considering sealing the governor’s travel records. Republicans say it’s about the governor’s safety and security while Democrats say it’s about the safety of the governor’s political ambitions. Lawmakers readied the bill Monday for a final vote on Tuesday. The bill would make all travel logs of the governor, the state’s cabinet members, legislative leaders, and the Chief Justice exempt from public record requests. Also, the bill is retroactive, meaning if signed into law any records regarding protection, travel, and potential threats in the past, present and future would be sealed. “That’s what the bill is about, safety and...

Ukraine's Ambassador to Ireland has called for people to boycott Jameson Irish Whiskey after the company decided to continue trade in Russia.Larysa Gerasko alleges that Jameson is playing a part in financing Russian aggression in Ukraine by resuming trade in Russia.

President Biden will send 1,500 US soldiers to the US-Mexico border in anticipation of the end of Title 42, the public health policy that has allowed authorities to turn back millions of asylum seekers. The active-duty Army units will focus on data entry, warehouse support and other administrative tasks so Border Patrol agents can devote their resources to stemming the expected tide of tens of thousands of migrants at the US-Mexico border when Title 42 ends May 11. The deployment was first reported by Fox News. The service members would be armed but only permitted to use their weapons for...

Senator Joe Manchin introduced a new bill on Tuesday aimed at accelerating the permitting process for oil, gas, renewables, mineral extraction, and power transmission projects to address domestic energy security.The Democratic Senator of coal and natural gas-producing West Virginia has been working for months to garner support from both sides of the aisle for a permitting reform that would shorten the timelines for permitting all types of American energy and mineral infrastructure without bypassing environmental laws or community input. Permitting reform legislation has failed in recent months, also because critics and some Democrats have accused Senator Manchin of basically giving...

Rep. Lois Frankel sold her First Republic Bank stock weeks before bank's collapse Florida Democratic representative Lois Frankel is capitalizing on First Republic Bank's collapse and subsequent buyout by JP Morgan Chase & Co, according to congressional financial disclosures reported on by Newsweek. Frankel sold her stock in the San Francisco-based bank on March 16, weeks before the value of its shares dropped 75 percent and U.S. regulators seized the failing bank's assets, Newsweek reported. A few days later, on March 22, Frankel bought stock in JP Morgan Chase & Co, which on Monday bought most of First Republic Bank's...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) scolded Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts at a hearing Tuesday for what he called the court’s “oblivious” response to the “obvious” ethical conflicts facing its members. He chastised the high court for not adopting the same judicial code of conduct binding every other federal court and warned it had undermined public confidence in the court. “The highest court in the land shouldn’t have the lowest ethical standards. That reality is driving a crisis in public confidence in the Supreme Court. The status quo must change,” the majority whip said in his opening...

Great news America... Novak Djokovic (should he wish to) will be able to enter the US and compete in this year's US Open tennis tournament.The reason - simple - after 3 years of increasingly obvious 'science', The White House announced the U.S. would be ending the requirement for non-U.S. citizens to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of entering the country.The vaccine requirements will end May 11, when the Biden administration is officially declaring an end to the public health emergency.“While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees...

Did you notice that what should have been an obvious moral victory for the right a few weeks ago—when a transgender lunatic in Tennessee murdered six Christians—became instead, a civil rights triumph for the far left?Instead of seeing headlines afterward like, “Left-wing terror targets innocent people for their religious beliefs during an apparent left-wing hate crime,” we got headlines about the racist Tennessee Republicans who expelled two black state representatives.Color revolutions have finally come to the United States, courtesy of our leaders. The target is clear: weak red state governments, which are going to be toppled, one by one.

USAA posted a loss last year for the first time since 1923 — the year after the company was founded — as high inflation pushed up the cost to repair and replace cars, more drivers returned to the roads, investment returns fell and natural disasters barreled through communities. The San Antonio-based insurance and financial services company reported a loss of $1.3 billion in 2022, down from a profit of $3.3 billion in 2021. For its customers, that meant heftier premiums. ~snip~ USAA paid out nearly $2.5 billion for losses suffered during more than 60 major catastrophes in 2022, including Hurricane...

Last week, Otto, my beloved English bulldog, died. He died as he lived -- peacefully. His presence in our home for 12 years was an unmitigated joy. He also, amazingly, became the best-known dog in America through sheer happenstance; he was on camera during almost all of my nearly 300 weekly Fireside Chats for PragerU and became the hero of a series of PragerU books for children. Moreover, as I have often noted, none of this fame went to his head. The sadness I feel at Otto's death and the outpouring of condolence messages to my wife and me have...

Border Patrol agents in the southern border have seen an increase in encounters with undocumented migrants attempting to cross the border ahead of the expiration of the pandemic-era immigration policy Title 42. Title 42 was implemented in March 2020 to allow border patrol agents to quickly expel undocumented migrants without allowing them to apply for asylum in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The policy is set to end this month on May 11, after which asylum seekers will no longer be deported back to their home countries. The Department of Homeland Security is expecting between 13,000...

As the subject of deliverance and demons has come front and center in recent days, I wanted to state clearly what I do and do not believe, in keeping with the views I have held for decades. To help simplify the discussion, I’ll answer a series of common questions. (For those who don’t believe in the spiritual realm at all, this article will strike you as either exceedingly odd, exceedingly irrelevant, or exceedingly foolish. If so, I’d encourage to you check out C. S. Lewis’s little book, Screwtape Letters.)1. Can a Christian be demon possessed? Certainly not. A Christian (in...