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On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Ford Motor Company President and CEO Jim Farley argued that building up the electric vehicle charging infrastructure so people can go wherever they can with a gas-powered car will require retailers to put fast chargers in front of stores, which will require a change in building standards. Co-host Becky Quick asked, “[J]ust the idea of building up the infrastructure and making sure that you can go anywhere that you would with a gasoline-powered vehicle, how long do you think it takes before those problems are really resolved and you don’t run into snags...

...In Europe, it is generally accepted that fire was routinely exploited by hominins at least 350,000 years ago, with some suggestion of fire control being linked to the expansion of a particular stone tool technology known as the Acheulean... there is a concurrent rise in apparent prehistoric "fireplaces", or hearths, and burnt Acheulean artefacts, such as hand-axes made from flint and a sedimentary rock called chert, at lots of European sites dated between 450,000 and 250,000. Many of these also contain charred plant materials and bones...Before the new evidence, the oldest clear evidence of fire control in Europe came from...

Hollywood star Jane Fonda made the outrageous claim Friday that climate change is being caused exclusively by men, specifically white men, adding that “those men” must be arrested and jailed. She also blamed the “patriarchy” and “racism” for global warming. Speaking at a career retrospective at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Jane Fonda promoted her radical climate activism efforts, saying the world has “about seven, eight years” to cut fossil fuel consumption in half.

Shocking footage has revealed the scale of Philadelphia's untamed 'tranq' epidemic, which has transformed the city's streets into a drug-infested hellhole. The Kensington neighborhood - known as 'ground zero' for the city's drug crisis - is seen littered with zombie-like addicts, with many shamelessly shooting up in broad daylight. Gruesome scenes in the 'City of Brotherly Love' show droves of homeless addicts aimlessly staggering through the streets, surrounded by tents and scattered trash.

Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday issued five more vetoes, rejecting Republican-led bills that state officials warned would have undermined and overcomplicated elections in Arizona. With her five new vetoes, Hobbs has so far delivered 99 rejections in her first term as governor, the most of any of her predecessors. One of the vetoes, Senate Bill 1135, would ultimately have forced the state to withdraw from the Electronic Registration Information Center, a multistate coalition that helps states share and keep accurate voter registration rolls. Known as ERIC, the coalition has come under fire from far-right conspiracy theorists who baselessly contend it...

Former first lady Michelle Obama has come under intense scrutiny after her new “health drink” was found to not actually be all that healthy. According to a new Bloomberg report, Michelle Obama’s “Plezi Nutrition” brand of drinks wouldn’t be allowed in schools based on the very same school lunch regulations she championed during her time in the White House. Obama, who is credited as the co-founder and strategic partner with Plezi, is pushing these drinks as a healthier alternative to the various sodas, juices and sugary drinks that are all but unavoidable at the grocery store. Plezi’s first products to...

...in 2019 during the renovation of a structure in the Carmona municipality of Seville... a mausoleum from 2,000 years ago with eight niches... had never been looted. The remains of six members of a wealthy family were interred in the communal grave. And there were various offerings on them, one of which was a quartz container with “a solid mass inside.” They belonged to the niche of a woman in her 40s...One of the amphora’s unique features is that it was carved in quartz, a very hard, resistant, and unusual material......Professor of Organic Chemistry José Rafael Ruiz Arrebola... stresses that...

[H/T mountainlion]ransomnote: Steve Pieczenik @StevePieczenik posted the link to this PDF on Twitter.I tried searching for the book on the CIA.GOV website directly but it was not returned in the search results. Instead, the first search result included Dr. Coleman's defection and speculation that he was an alcoholic womanizer. Google and other sources list and link to the book on CIA.GOV. I haven't read the book yet; this isn't an endorsement. After watching the WEF, Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg 'elites' assemble to direct our lives, I'm curious to know more about those secret societies John F. Kennedy...

Iran exchanges heavy gunfire with Taliban on Afghan border, escalating tensions over water rights The Taliban and Iran have exchanged heavy gunfire on the Islamic Republic’s border with Afghanistan ByJON GAMBRELL Associated Press May 27, 2023, 5:58 AM Afghanistan This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo) The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The Taliban and Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic Republic's border with Afghanistan, killing and wounding troops while sharply escalating rising tensions between the two countries amid a dispute over water rights. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency quoted...

Russia has warned Western supplies of weapons to Ukraine risk escalating the war to levels not seen so far. Andrei Kelin, Russia's ambassador to the UK, told the BBC his country had "enormous resources" and it was yet to "act very seriously". Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Kelin was also questioned on war crimes in Ukraine.

Ukraine has asked Germany to supply it with long-range Taurus cruise missiles capable of hitting Moscow. Volodymyr Zelensky requested the missiles, designed to destroy heavily fortified, “high-value” enemy targets, during his trip to Berlin earlier in May, according to German media. He reportedly used Ukraine’s supplies of Storm Shadow cruise missiles from Britain, which have a slightly shorter range of around 215 miles, to put pressure on Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor. Ukraine has used Storm Shadow to strike Russian supply depots and command posts deep behind the frontline in occupied territory since May.

North Korea offers freedom of religion to its citizens on paper but not in practice. It has imprisoned tens of thousands of Christians, according to a State Department report, citing NGO research. The recent report reveals executions and imprisonment for life for people caught with religious materials. North Korea is notorious for the cruelty it inflicts on people deemed undesirable by the state. In the Hermit Kingdom that prizes weaponry over its own people, many of whom are starving and live in abject poverty, tens of thousands of Christians are said to be languishing in prisons. A recently released Department...

President Trump just called Ron DeSantis a globalist. He’s 100% right. Here’s a long thread with everything i know so far to validate his point. 1. War DeSantis said Trump wasn’t tough enough on Russia and advocated for more lethal aid to Ukraine. He also voted to sanction Iran, Russia and North Korea while Trump opposed it. Earlier he wrote a joint letter to John Kerry, asking him to force Ukraine to join EU to fight against Russia. His former press secretary is a foreign agent who worked for a Zelensky official. He seemed to support a regime change in...

Last night I participated in a conversation. This article is written as an outcome of that conversation, as requested by those who participated. Essentially, the framework of the conversation, as I initially listened, is best described as a series of questions amid a group of smart intellectual types who are very understanding of the nature of our current situation. In various forms they were asking each other the same question. What happened in the last several years that caused Democrats, leftists and the traditional political left to switch positions on their advocacy? Liberalism literally went from railing against Big Govt,...

Think of it as a rare instance of cross-aisle consensus or else a sartorial trend gone badly wrong. But it did not go unnoticed when, in a photograph from the Oval Office posted to President Joe Biden’s account this week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, Senator Mitch McConnell and Representative Hakeem Jeffries were all captured wearing some variant of the dreaded footwear hybrid: the sneaker shoe. Weighing in on Twitter, cult men’s wear commentator Derek Guy (@dieworkwear) called out the footgear as a clear lapse in dignity, if not actual protocol. Why pay a visit to a sitting president...

Massive and ever-growing backlogs in NYC immigration courts mean migrants who want to become US citizens have to wait about three years to have their cases heard — and up to a decade to complete the entire process. At least 127,000 pending cases were mired in court at the start of the month and that number is expected to exponentially grow as the one-year deadline to file for asylum approaches for the more than 70,000 migrants who have arrived in New York City in recent months. The backlog is fueled by New York’s sanctuary city status — and asylum applicants...

The World Health Assembly is a meeting of over 190 WHO Member States where health decisions are made that impact the global population — including viewers like you. Valerie Borek and James Roguski have been watching this World Health Organization annual Switzerland meeting closely and have a lot to share. Join them on ‘Friday Roundtable’ as they look at critical points in this week-long event.

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Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump want to raise your taxes. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump want to watch transgenders have forcible sex with your children. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump would allow Zelenskyy to continue to ransack our wallets. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump want criminals running the streets of every major city in America. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump would ever pack the Supreme Court with liberals. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald Trump would ever allow Critical Race Theory or DEI to spread through our government like a cancer. Neither Ron DeSantis nor Donald...