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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed multiple bills on Monday that prohibit Chinese citizens from purchasing land in the state. In a news release, DeSantis signed bills SB 264, SB 846, and SB 258 into law, noting how he called on his state legislature last year to build upon its efforts to combat corporate espionage and higher education subterfuge carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its agents.

Update from Ukraine | The final preparation for the offensive | Tanks moved to the Frontlines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmWDgmHwJMA ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 438 – Summary May 7 , 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-438-summary/ *** Greatly appreciate the viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use on each Front map!

Legislators clapped politely at several moments in Governor Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address in January, but only one line got a 30-second standing ovation. “As a matter of fairness and social justice, I’m proposing a plan to peg the minimum wage to inflation. If costs go up, so will wages,” she said to loud and extended applause. “This important change will give over 900,000 minimum wage workers a lifeline.” New York’s final budget, approved this week, made good on the pledge. New York’s minimum wage — currently set at $15 in the New York City area, and $14.20...

President Joe Biden will veto the Republicans’ flagship border reform bill because it reduces the federal government’s ability to extract economic migrants from poor countries, according to a White House statement. The pending GOP border-protection bill is a “huge deal,” said Rosemary Jenks, a government relations director at NumbersUSA. “This is a [GOP] blueprint for 2025” if a Republican is elected to the White House, she added.

Assistant House Democrat leader Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), who also serves as President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign co-chair, said the president’s age is a “legitimate concern.” Clyburn reportedly speaks with the president regularly and has been credited for helping Biden win their party’s primary during the 2020 presidential election. His endorsement of Biden in the primary ultimately helped him over the finish line after suffering multiple early-state losses.

Ronald Reagan’s announcement of Candidacy for President of the United States on 11/13/1979

...had shared extremist beliefs with rants against Jews, women and racial minorities posted since September, as well as posts about struggling with mental health. Mauricio Garcia, 33, maintained a profile on the Russian social networking platform OK.ru, including posts referring to extremist online forums, such as 4chan, and content from white nationalists,...Many of his posts referred to his mental health.

ChatGPT encourages 'gender transitions' and 'emancipation' for 15-year-olds with conservative parents. (LifeSiteNews) — The era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is upon us, and the AI chatbot ChatGPT, released in November 2022, is one of the most-discussed technological developments in decades. AI is advancing so rapidly that many tech experts are calling on the industry to put a moratorium on further development in order to assess where this is heading, including Elon Musk and the “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google in order to warn the public about the dangers of AI. If you’re interested in understanding the...

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In the midst of Brett Favre's legal proceedings against Pat McAfee, the Hall of Fame quarterback finds himself in the news for different reasons altogether. Favre took to social media to voice support for political pundit Tucker Carlson, who had been dismissed by Fox News on April 24th. In his first tweet posted thus far in 2023, Favre implored fans to boycott the station until "they [Fox News] come to their senses and let the man speak." Favre posted his sentiments alongside a clip from The Megyn Kelly Show, in which an insinuation is made that Carlson had been silenced...

Florida authorities on Monday released video footage of a deadly police shooting that left a suspect with a lengthy criminal background dead and his hostage injured over the weekend. The shooting happened Sunday night when bondsmen were looking for 53-year-old Ronnie Clark for a warrant over his failure to appear in court on drug charges, Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons told reporters during a news conference. Clark had a long criminal history, with 58 felony convictions, and he was incarcerated three times.

After 9 months, Bloodbath Bakhmut is falling. Soon, scared, maimed and dying Ukrainian soldiers won’t have to scream in the “Meat Grinder”. Maybe Ukraine is falling. Russia stands on the dead, proud captor of buildings like holes and earth like charcoal. There's the possibility that I'm lying. After all, John Kirby, retired Admiral and ex-spokesperson for the Pentagon, and now spokesperson for the National Security Council, stated on May 2 that: "Russia's attempt at an offensive in the Donbas, largely through Bakhmut, has failed." In the words of the White House, "The National Security Council is the President's principal forum...

China’s foreign minister told the United States ambassador on Monday (May 8) that Washington is responsible for the downturn in relations between the two countries and must “reflect deeply” before ties can return to a healthy track, an official said. Qin Gang’s comments follow a suspension of serious dialogue on a range of issues between the world’s largest economies, increasingly at odds over tariffs, attempts by Washington to deprive China of cutting-edge technology, and China’s claims to self-governing Taiwan and large parts of the South and East China Seas. China's Foreign Ministry quoted Qin as telling Ambassador Nicolas Burns that...

Claims continue to be circulated on social media that there have been exponential increases in pilot deaths based on the Airline Pilot Magazine’s ‘In Memoriam’ section – these claims are false. However, what detailed analysis of the information does show, is a significant increase in deaths of younger pilots in 2021. The Airline Pilots Association (“ALPA”) is an organisation that represents more than 67,000 pilots at 39 US and Canadian airlines, making it the world’s largest airline pilot union. It publishes the monthly Airline Pilot Magazine. In every edition of its magazine, the Association includes a list of ALPA members...

The claim came from Kyiv government official Anton Gerashchenko The Kremlin has previously denied that Putin has a body double Ukraine claims Vladimir Putin will send a body double to host a huge military parade on Red Square on Tuesday due to a 'paranoid fear for his life'. The extraordinary claim came from Kyiv government official Anton Gerashchenko. 'Putin will not dare to appear at the parade on May 9, but will send a double,' he said. Rumours of Putin using doppelgängers - who have undergone plastic surgery to look like Putin - predate the war against Ukraine but have...

Medical freedom champion and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spelled out his governing priorities in a Tuesday interview, further carving out a reputation as a populist challenger to the political establishment. With the national Democratic Party having announced that it has “no plans to sponsor primary debates,” RFK Jr., attorney and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, is left to argue his case for presidential election on independent platforms like Freddie Sayers’ UnHerd. Kennedy explained to Sayers, who posed as a skeptic, how he intends to reclaim the interests of the American people in government affairs,...

Last week, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy visited Israel. McCarthy has yet to establish himself as a powerful force in Washington, in contrast to his Democratic predecessor Nancy Pelosi, or even his fellow Republican from a bygone era, Newt Gingrich. When he tried to get elected, the far-right wing of his party put him through a humiliating process that made Cersei Lannister's march of shame in Game of Thrones look like a lovely walk in the park. I hope that the humiliations he suffered at the hands of his fellow Republicans prepared him well for the...

Mortgage fees are changing under the new rules from the Biden administration’s Federal Housing Finance Agency. Because some borrowers with good credit may end up paying higher fees compared to those with lower credit scores, the change has sparked a discussion. Among the critics is Peter Schiff, CEO and chief global strategist at Euro Pacific Capital. During an interview posted on Schiff’s YouTube channel, the host shared his intention to buy a home but voiced concerns about getting punished if the plan goes through because of his good credit score. Schiff’s response was, “Just miss a few payments, screw up...

Hendry says a further decline in the M2 money supply, which in part tracks money in liquid checking accounts, could convince the US government to step in and prevent citizens from taking their capital out of the banking system. “Sometimes it’s kind of relevant to panic. I would recommend you panic… You’ve seen the biggest waterfall decline in M2 right now. M2 is deposits, not loans. That’s the deposits fleeing the system and going into money market funds. That could reach a crescendo where the Treasury and the Fed may have to come in and actually restrict your right as...