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Vice President Harris on Thursday announced a new rule to require financial institutions ensure that their home appraisal algorithms are not contributing to racial bias in home valuations. The rule, subject to a 60 day public comment period, aims to establish quality control standards to help ensure accuracy and fairness for Automated Valuation Models (AVM), the algorithmic models used to assess the value of homes. AVMs would have to adopt policies and safeguards to protect from data manipulation, avoid conflict of interest, and conduct random sample testing. Harris also announced actions to expand the ability of consumers appealing what they...

Drinking water contributes to all of the body systems and it is the healthiest drink. But what about those who find water’s taste boring and who need frequent trips to the bathroom?It is a well-known fact that drinking water contributes to all of the body's systems and it is the healthiest drink. After all, between 50-70% of the human body is made out of water. But what about those who find water’s taste boring and who need frequent trips to the bathroom, which is difficult for them? Drinking water has become a "badge of honor" among celebrities, with Jennifer Aniston...

The statue is featured in a Dutch exhibition that pairs Egyptian antiquities with works from Black culture.What did the ancient Egyptians look like? A new exhibition at National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands, has sparked controversy by including a contemporary artwork that appears to depict the Pharaoh Tutankhamun as Black. “Kemet: Egypt in Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul and Funk” pairs Egyptian antiquities from the museum’s collection with work inspired by ancient Egyptian culture by created by musicians of the African diaspora, including Miles Davis, Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, and Rihanna. The Leiden exhibition acknowledges that while generations of Black musicians...

A foreign-born ingrate recently addressed a graduation audience with a hateful diatribe against America. This time it wasn't Ilhan Omar. Fatima Mousa Mohammed, the valedictorian of the Class of 2023 at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) law school, used her speech to attack the law as a tool of “white supremacy,” and to attack Israel and the police. Mohammed praised CUNY for supposedly recognizing that “the law is a manifestation of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation and around the world.” The crowd then applauded. ... She described American society as...

Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox's Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. Vox published an interview by Matthews on May 30, 2023 with philosopher Peter Singer who is known as a father of the animal rights movement. Singer is possibly the most influencial philosopher of our day and, among other things, supports euthanasia and infanticide. Matthews states that the philosophy aspoused by Peter Singer has greatly affected him. I believe that people are too polite about Singer's philosophy. Singer has a eugenic philosophy and his writings are dangerous. Singer justifies that...

Findings offer important implications for areas of research such as healing wounds and depression Jo Cameron, 75, made headlines in 2019 when scientists announced that mutations in a previously unknown gene made her feel no pain, stress or fear. PA Soraya Ebrahimi author image May 23, 2023 Experts from University College London have discovered a rare genetic mutation that has allowed a woman to live her life almost pain-free and never feeling anxious or afraid. Scientists have found that mutations in the Faah-Out gene work at the molecular level enabling Jo Cameron, from Scotland, to not experience pain. The same...

Many people died after visiting King Tut's tomb in Egypt. What exactly happened, and how does it involve the Aspergillus fungus?The tomb of the 19-year-old pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt from 1323-1332 BCE was discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter and has since become one of Egypt's most popular archaeological attractions. Tourists from all over the world come to the Valley of the Kings on the Nile's west bank to see the tomb. To this day, it remains surprisingly intact, decorated with frescoes, statues and the gilded sarcophagus containing the original mummy of King Tut. But all of this beauty...

By most standards, 19-year-old Cindy Collins was a naïve college student when she faced an unplanned pregnancy. It was 1973 and she was unaware of anything outside her immediate sphere of daily living. She didn’t know much about the women’s movement or the effort to legalize abortion nationwide through legislation. “All I knew at the time was that I was confused and afraid,” Collins told Live Action News. “Here I was in a relationship with my first boyfriend and just a freshman in college. My roommate suggested I go to Planned Parenthood and they would help me.” A survivor of...

Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin has launched an appeal to Catholics to voluntarily forgo their Second Amendment rights by refusing to bear arms. “It’s true that we have a second amendment right to bear arms, but rights always involve responsibilities — in this case, the responsibility to protect the innocent and to secure public safety and good order,” the cardinal declares in a recent pastoral letter. “The mass shootings we are witnessing almost weekly now are a grave threat to the lives and well-being of all people.” In what he calls his “most challenging and controversial proposal,” Tobin urges “voluntary self-restraint”...

The Irish Hemochromatosis Association has called for a national strategy to diagnose and treat the blood condition hemochromatosis. Ireland has the highest incidence of hereditary hemochromatosis, sometimes called “The Celtic curse”. According to the IHA, 20,000 people have been diagnosed with the condition while at least another 20,000 are unaware that they have it. Hereditary hemochromatosis is an iron overload in the blood caused by a gene that is prevalent in fair-skinned people of Celtic and European origin. If left untreated, it can cause irreversible damage to organs of the body including the heart, pancreas and liver. Professor John Ryan,...

Being a conservative on today’s public college campuses isn’t for the faint of heart. The students who survive the machete-wielding feminists and the professors encouraging the killing of “transphobe[es]” still have to sit through endless hours of leftist indoctrination. And in some cases, pay extra for it! At Michigan State University, it wasn’t enough that conservatives had to listen to their marketing professor’s abortion extremism — they were forced to finance it. In a story that one attorney calls one of the worst instances of classroom abuse he’s seen, a member of the marketing faculty, Amy Wisner, was charging students...

Rendering was published in Italian science journal this weekScientists from Australia, Italy and Brazil have digitally rendered King Tutankhamun’s face, the first time this has been done. The boy king ascended to the throne of Egypt aged nine as one of the rulers of the 18th dynasty, until he died aged 19. The researchers, whose efforts to reconstruct King Tutankhamun's face encountered several obstacles, such as access to his skull, eventually published their findings in a new study in the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology. The team used computer-generated models supplemented with pre-recorded measurements of King Tutankhamun's remains to...

Sanctions against Russia are the success story of the advanced democracies. Vladimir Putin’s ability to wage military war against Ukraine, geo-ideological war against the liberal world, is being ground down systematically with each month. Earnings from Russia’s oil and gas exports fell 52pc over the first four months of this year, and hydrocarbon rent is what funds two-fifths of the Kremlin’s budget. Last year, Putin had no difficulty financing his invasion from the windfall gains of the energy price spike, caused in large part by his own actions. He raise pensions by 10pc and scatter enough money to shield Russia’s...

A Nebraska pro-life group has revoked its endorsement of a Republican senator who was responsible for killing the heartbeat law that would have saved thousands of babies from abortions. As LifeNews reported, Nebraska State Senator Merv Riepe has no apologies for killing the pro-life bill even after he co-sponsored it and appeared at a pro-life rally to supoort it. “I don’t answer to them,” Riepe said of the pro-life Republicans throughout the Cornhusker state who are upset he co-sponsored the ban and then sold out women and unborn children by abstaining from voting for it. But pro-life voters care about...

Pat McAfee couldn’t foresee his audience hating the move to ESPN … really? As McAfee’s eponymous show transitions to becoming part of the Worldwide Leader in Woke, the ex-NFL player wonders why so many people are mad at the move. After all, for a show that prides itself in saying whatever the (eff) they want on the radio, moving to one of the most censored platforms in sports perhaps doesn’t come off as the brightest idea. But money talks. On Thursday’s episode of “The Pat McAfee Show,” the host gave his thoughts on the backlash he’s received for deciding to...

Nobody seriously doubts anymore that the world is warming, and that consequently climate everywhere is changing. But what might not be so well known is that global warming has caused something quite remarkable to occur in the middle of the North Atlantic. It has resulted in a huge area of cooling in the ocean to the south and east of Greenland, and off to the west of Ireland. Since the Atlantic Ocean and what happens there is the key determinant of the weather in Ireland, there is no question that this cooling phenomenon is already having a big influence on...

An immense catalog of photos from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were published Thursday on a new website, as the first son faces ongoing investigations into his overseas business affairs and potential tax and gun crimes. Nearly 10,000 photos taken between 2008 and 2019 will be hosted at BidenLaptopMedia.com after a former Trump White House aide apparently spent months scanning the digital archive, redacting some images and publishing the rest. “The number one thing we’re about … is truth and transparency,” Garrett Ziegler, who founded the nonprofit Marco Polo, told Fox News. Among the redacted pictures are those that display private...

Dr. Gal Luft Credit: Forum for Global Studies Gal Luft, the missing whistleblower in the Biden Crime Family corruption investigation, is now speaking out. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Luft vanished from Cyprus in April under mysterious circumstances. He is now living as a fugitive in undisclosed foreign location. Luft was an adviser to CEFC China Energy (CEFC), a business conglomerate with extremely close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. He served alongside Hunter Biden. CEFC Energy paid Hunter approximately $5 million in 2017 alone to secure energy deals in the United States according to the Washington Free Beacon....

Bay Village priest faces backlash after he discusses LGBTQ controversy during Sunday sermonCLEVELAND, Ohio – A Bay Village priest is facing backlash after saying the church is “under attack” and referencing a pro-LGBTQ nonprofit in a sermon Sunday.The Mass was interrupted when someone stood up and challenged the issue. Later, police were called to an incident outside of the house of worship.During a service at St. Raphael Parish, the Rev. Timothy W. Gareau, the church’s pastor, referenced the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being awarded the Community Hero Award by the Los Angeles Dodgers for service to the LGBTQ community.“Look at...

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