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Republicans are blasting President Biden for leaving Washington for Asia on Wednesday without significant progress on debt limit negotiations, as the country inches toward a deadline on defaulting that could prove catastrophic on the financial system. Biden will be in Japan for this weekend’s Group of Seven (G-7) summit but has canceled the latter portion of his trip, which included stops in Papua New Guinea and Australia, to be back in the nation’s capital and resume talks with congressional leaders.

Miller Lite has hit back after the brewing giant was criticized for apologizing over its history of using bikini-clad women in their adverts. Molson Coors, which owns Miller Lite, was quick to defend its latest one-minute-and-30-second advertisement with comedian Ilana Glazer – with the tagline 'Bad $#!T to Good $#!T' The company released the campaign for Women's History Month in March, in which it bought up old marketing materials to turn them into compost, which could then be used to make fertilizer. But the footage has resurfaced and was criticized in the wake of Bud Light's disastrous campaign with trans...

Notre-Dame Cathedral reconstruction on track, French youth rebuild wayside "Calvaries" Deo Gratias!Remember where you were when you learned that Notre-Dame was in flames? Since then, a massive reconstruction project has been underway and is apparently on schedule. The head of the construction site, ex-general Jean-Louis Georgelin, sees great progress in construction:"Thanks to strict planning, we are confident and determined to make the Paris cathedral open to worship and the public again in December 2024."Examinations of the building's infrastructure have shown that the cathedral's walls have remained stable despite the major fire, as have most of the vaults. The stained glass...

'The Bachelor' franchise is aging up with its exciting new spinoff series. Here's all the scoop on 'The Golden Bachelor.' The Golden Bachelor is the next spinoff in The Bachelor franchise. The upcoming series was announced by ABC on May 16 and it will premiere in the fall. The Golden Bachelor will feature senior citizens, for the first time in the franchise’s history, with a male lead and female contestants. After over two decades, The Bachelor franchise is finally including older contestants and giving them a chance at finding love. We’ve got the latest updates on The Golden Bachelor below....

The Left got curb stomped in Philly. There little Marxist Canidate floped. The winner supports stop and frisk and more Police. The black areas flat out regected the left's canidate.

Explanation: Why would a small part of the Sun appear slightly dark? Visible is a close-up picture of sunspots, depressions on the Sun's surface that are slightly cooler and less bright than the rest of the Sun. The Sun's complex magnetic field creates these cool regions by inhibiting hot material from entering the spots. Sunspots can be larger than the Earth and typically last for about a week. Part of active region AR 3297 crossing the Sun in early May, the large lower sunspot is spanned by an impressive light bridge of hot and suspended solar gas. This high-resolution picture...

The city of New York has been struggling to contain the mass influx of illegal immigrants that are overwhelming the city's limited resources, and Mayor Eric Adams (D) is not being transparent on where they will be housed as he refuses to hold a public hearing on the issue. On Tuesday, Mayor Adams said that the crisis at the US-Mexico border caused by the Biden administration's lax immigration policies has had a significant impact on the city of New York, calling it a "burden" for New Yorkers, Fox News reports. "We are carrying this entire burden. This national problem is...

Wives rarely targeted in Mafia attacks, says policing expertThe daughter-in-law of Montreal Mafia member Moreno Gallo was killed in a targeted shooting in the parking lot of her beauty salon on Tuesday, Radio-Canada is reporting. Multiple sources tell Radio-Canada that a gunman shot Claudia Iacono five times at 4:30 p.m. after waiting for her to enter the parking lot of her beauty salon, Salon Deauville, in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. Montreal police say when they arrived on the scene, they found a woman with gunshot wounds inside her car. "When the victim was hit by bullets, her vehicle was in motion...

A railcar loaded with 30 tons of the chemical left Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12. The car was found to be empty after it arrived two weeks later at a rail stop in the Mojave Desert, according to a short incident report from the explosives firm that made the shipment. The company, Dyno Nobel, made the report May 10 to the federal National Response Center, or NRC. The report also appeared last week in an NRC database of California incidents managed by the state office of Emergency Services last Wednesday. … Dyno Nobel says it believes the material — transported...

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The real version of the story As the article notes and as others have noted, hohos are using robots to try to extinguish fires and clean up the mess at these kinzhal vs patriot sites since no humans are volunteering to go near the places ("...I got enough health problems without glowing in the dark...").....

The IRS picked the day a bombshell report was released outlining how liberals weaponized the federal government to attempt to destroy Donald Trump to fire its agents who were pursuing Hunter Biden for possible tax evasion. According to The Washington Examiner, the IRS axed the entire team that was looking into President Joe Biden’s son for lying about his income taxes.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has donated $10,000 to Daniel Penny’s legal fund after the ex-Marine was charged last week over Jordan Neely’s subway chokehold death. The GOP 2024 hopeful forked over the money late Sunday as contributions to Penny’s defense inched closer to an eye-popping $2 million. “Just donated. More of us should. We must restore the rule of law in America,” the 37-year-old tech entrepreneur tweeted in response to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who encouraged his followers to “show this Marine … America’s got his back.” Ramaswamy is one of tens of thousands of supporters who have pitched...

Matt Dugan received more than $700,000 in backing from Soros A left-wing Pittsburgh district attorney candidate supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars from financier George Soros emerged victorious from Tuesday's Democratic primary. Public defender Matt Dugan defeated Allegheny County DA Stephen Zappala, a 26-year veteran of the post, 56% to 46%, to become the Democratic nominee, according to election results. Zappala said he plans on running as a Republican in the November election. "I apologize to my friends and supporters that we didn't have a stronger showing this evening. But I tell you what, if we stick around to...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the attack by unknown assailants on a U.S. convoy in Nigeria, which left four people dead, including two staff members of the U.S. Consulate in the country. “We do not yet know the motive for the attack, but we have no indications at this time that it was targeted against our Mission,” Blinken said in a statement. “We condemn in the strongest terms this attack. We will work closely with our Nigerian law enforcement colleagues in seeking to bring those responsible to justice.”

A historic 17th century Catholic church was damaged in an arson attack Monday in central Mexico, the latest in an alarming rise in violence targeting churches and pro-life organizations across the world. ACI Prensa reports the Diocese of Irapuato in Guanajuato, Mexico said the fire was set deliberately at Santiaguito (St. James) Church sometime between 1:04 a.m. and 1:26 a.m., and the suspect is male. “The diocesan Church of Irapuato vigorously condemns this sacrilege, and we ask the corresponding authorities to find those responsible,” Father Efrén Silva Plascencia, spokesman for the diocese, said in a statement. Silva said the fire...

32,755,145 views May 21, 2019 You're watching the official music video for the original "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn from his self-titled debut album (Atlantic - 1991). "Walking in Memphis" spent 23 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991, and has since been covered by Cher and Lonestar, among others.

LifeSiteNews) — Adults seeking to groom children into the LGBT lifestyle just got a helping hand from Target, the Minnesota-based retailer that 10 years ago became one of the first corporations to embrace the woke agenda. The superstore recently introduced a line of rainbow-themed clothing for teenagers and babies ahead of so-called Pride Month, which the company has celebrated every June since 2013. Among the most controversial items listed on the company’s website is a onesie designed for an infant. Target first caved to the gay agenda after pop star Lady Gaga ended her deal with them in 2011 after...

Scientists are conducting a long-term experiment on evolution in the lab, to investigate how single-celled organisms could evolve into multicellular lifeforms. After thousands of generations, their yeast grew 20,000 times bigger and 10,000 times tougher. The idea of an evolutionary “missing link” usually conjures images of a hairy ape-like hominid, but there are actually much more profound missing links in the chain. One of the biggest gaps sits between single-celled and multicellular organisms, which marks a key step in the development of complex life on Earth. Now, scientists from Georgia Tech have reported the first results of an experiment that...

A number of House Democrats led by Rep. Cori Bush introduced a resolution Thursday to reignite a push for federal reparations that would amount to over half the U.S. GDP. The resolution states that the U.S. has a 'legal and moral' obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of black people and calls for $14 trillion to be paid - 'at least the amount of the black white wealth gap,' Bush told DailyMail.com in a press conference.