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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Tuesday met with US electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Beijing.... This is Musk's first visit to China in three years. While it is not immediately clear the specific schedule of the billionaire's China visit, media reports suggested that Musk will visit Tesla's Shanghai factory and seek to deal with issues including intensified competition with Chinese EV manufacturers. Musk has changed his dismissive attitude toward Chinese EV giant BYD, calling it "highly competitive" now, according to media reports. Another important background of Musk's visit to China is that...

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and franchise cornerstone Clayton Kershaw announced he is resurrecting a team-sponsored Christian Faith and Family Day in a direct response to the club’s Pride Night inclusion of the charitable group of performance artists known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

The long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive will force a “withdrawal” of Russian forces, Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov claimed in an interview on Tuesday. Ukraine’s Defence Minister said that the continued objective of his embattled government is to “liberate the occupied territories” including the breakaway Donbas areas of Luhansk and Donetsk, both of which have self-declared to be independent Republics aligned with Moscow, and the Crimean peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 under the watch of the Obama administration.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced Tuesday he will move forward with holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress. The top GOP lawmaker announced in an afternoon statement that the bureau failed to comply with his subpoena requesting documentation believed to contain allegations of a criminal “bribery” scheme involving President Joe Biden. “Today, the FBI informed the Committee that it will not provide the unclassified documents subpoenaed by the Committee,” Comer said. “The FBI’s decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructionist and unacceptable.” Though Comer noted that he has a...

At least 330 COVID-19-related medical papers have been retracted since the coronavirus pandemic began, oftentimes for scientific errors or ethical shortcomings, according to watchdog Retraction Watch. Many of the papers were published in smaller, less influential publications, although a number were published in the highly-prestigious Lancet and other influential journals like Science. The topics covered in the papers ranged from alternative proposed COVID-19 treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to false COVID-19 side effects. One example of a U-turn from researchers occurred at the University of Manchester, where researchers two years ago asserted that hearing loss could be a result of...

Bud Light’s bleeding isn’t even close to being over. The beer brand under Anheuser-Busch has been getting torched ever since the Dylan Mulvaney collaboration, and it’s been nearly two months since the ill-advised March Madness promo. Now, the latest sales data is in, and the numbers are absolutely brutal for the once-popular brand. Data from Bump Williams Consulting and Nielsen IQ provided to Newsweek shows sales by volume are down 29.5% for the week ending May 20 compared to last year. Sales are down 25.7% for revenue compared to the same time window. No matter how you slice the data,...

Japan was the first country to break its silence after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Tokyo said of the Kuril Islands that it was “completely unacceptable that the Northern Territories have yet to be returned since the Soviet Union’s illegal occupation of them 77 years ago”. That annexation saw the expulsion of Japanese people from the southern islands, and since then, the countries have failed to reach a compromise. Talks broke down when Putin showed he was not willing to share lands but only to gain new ones. Then China started drawing maps marking part of Siberia and...

Scientists reveal the potential for massive, and potentially destructive, eruptions from the sun. On May 1, 2019, the star next door erupted. In a matter of seconds, Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun, got thousands of times brighter than usual — up to 14,000 times brighter in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum. The radiation burst was strong enough to split any water molecules that might exist on the temperate, Earth-sized planet orbiting that star; repeated blasts of that magnitude might have stripped the planet of any atmosphere. It would be bad news if the Earth’s sun ever...

Tara Reade, a former Senate aide who accused President Joe Biden of sexual assault, announced Tuesday she defected to Russia. The shocking confession was made during a Russian state press conference, where Reade was sitting next to alleged Kremlin spy—and pal—Maria Butina. Reade told the pro-Putin press the “very difficult” decision to move came after the realization that she no longer feels safe in Biden's America. “I'm still kind of in a daze a bit but I feel very good,” Reade told Sputnik. “I feel very surrounded by protection and safety. And I just really so appreciate Maria [Butina] and...

Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had destroyed what it described as Ukraine's "last warship" two days ago in the port of Odesa in a missile strike, though there was no immediate comment from Kyiv on the fate of the vessel. "The last warship of the Ukrainian navy, the Yuriy Olefirenko, was destroyed at a warship mooring in the port of Odesa," Defence Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a daily briefing on the war. He said the vessel had been hit with "high-precision weapons" - a phrase he uses to mean missiles - on May 29,...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 10 At the Home of Martha and Mary 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” 41 “Martha,...

The right to keep and bear arms necessarily includes the right to obtain arms. Arms can be obtained in several ways. Those include: making your own arms; buying your arms from someone else; having your arms given to you; finding arms that have been lost or discarded; and stealing arms that belong to someone else.The most common method of obtaining arms is to buy them. The right to buy arms is clearly included in the right to keep and bear arms as an ancillary right necessary to maintain the right to keep and bear them. Ancillary rights necessary to preserve...

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 30. A special to the Bulletin, dated Cincinnati, May 30, says: "A dispatch received from the Lower Mississippi via Memphis, (date not given.) says there had been no fighting at Vicksburgh since last Monday. Most of the river batteries had been silenced, but the most dangerous ones were yet in operation, and the gunboats were shelling them. It is reported that Col. DALLINA and Adjutant HAMMOCK, of the Eighty-first Illinois, have been killed." ST. LOUIS, Friday, May 29. Mr. S.C. SCOTT, the well-known river man, arrived to-night, from Young's Point Sunday last. He has been with GRANT's...

Wednesday 31 May 2023The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary FeastMartyr Petronilla on the right, leading a young woman named Veneranda into the garden of Paradise Domitilla Catacomb, 4th Century, RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First readingZephaniah 3:14-18 ©The Lord, the king of Israel, is in your midstShout for joy, daughter of Zion,Israel, shout aloud!Rejoice, exult with all your heart,daughter of Jerusalem!The Lord has repealed your sentence;he has driven your enemies away.The Lord, the king of Israel, is in your midst;you have no more evil to fear.When that day comes, word will come to Jerusalem:Zion, have no fear,do not...

Under Biden, the US economy is a land of confusion. Under Biden’s Reign of Error, Mortgage Purchase Demand is down -44%, Refi Demand is down -87%, and Mortgage Rates are UP 106%. Mortgage applications (demand) decreased 3.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending May 26, 2023. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 3.7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index decreased 5 percent compared with the previous week. The...

"The names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax-gatherer; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Him" (Matt. 10:2-4). In God’s hands you can be a precious and effective instrument. The story is told of a great concert violinist who wanted to prove a point, so he rented a music hall and announced that he would play a concert on a $20,000...

As the Los Angeles Dodgers continue to face backlash over their hosting of a far-left and anti-Christian drag queen group, the team has announced its intentions to bring back its “Christian Faith and Family Day” in an attempt to placate angry fans. As reported by the New York Post, the Christian-themed event on July 30th was promoted by the team’s star pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who said on Twitter that the event would be “bigger and better than it was before COVID.” The team is facing a boycott after it had announced its plans for “Pride Night,” a celebration of homosexuality,...

Take a final ride on Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdom! Splash Mountain originally opened at Disneyland in 1989 then at Disney World on October 2nd, 1992. This Disney log flume ride is known for its iconic 50-foot plunge down the BIG DROP and is one of the fastest rides at Walt Disney World! January 22nd marks the last day Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdon in Walt Disney World will be open. The Disney ride is closing to begin its transformation into Tiana's Bayou Adventure which is set to open in 2024

Russia supports Kosovo's Serbian population and believes their legal rights and interests must be protected, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Peskov also said Moscow was following with concern the unrest in Kosovo, which has increased sharply since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the country's northern Serb-majority area after votes last month. "We support Serbia and the Serbs unconditionally... We consider that all legal rights and interests of the Kosovo Serbs must be observed," Peskov told a daily news briefing, adding that there must be no room for "provocative actions". Serbs refused to take part in the local...

Target Corporation (TGT) - Get Free Report has decided to remove merchandise from its upcoming LGBQT Pride collection because of objections from right wing critics. Fortunately, retailers have lots of experience getting rid of unsold apparel, whether by selling to off-price retailers like T.J. Maxx or Marshalls, both owned by TJX Companies Inc. (TJX) - Get Free Report, or just relegating clothing to landfills, which is not really good for the environment. In Target’s case, the retailer will most likely -- and very quietly -- donate the merchandise to charities or foundations, possibly aligned with LGBTQ+ causes. “I'm guessing that...