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The migrant crisis has carried with it several deleterious issues for the country, one of which is the terrifying increase in overdose deaths due to fentanyl. New data confirms what many suspect about the rate of deaths the opioid has caused: Most of those who ingest the drug are not aware that they are ingesting it. This has led to tens of thousands of overdose deaths, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the Biden administration is still unable – or unwilling – to address the problem:More than 80% of New Yorkers who inject drugs test positive for the opioid fentanyl,...

SOUTH LOOP — A South Loop Walgreens has unveiled a renovated interior where most of the merchandise is kept away from customers — and some shoppers say the changes make them feel unwelcome. The new design at the Walgreens, 2 E. Roosevelt Road, places most of the merchandise in aisles behind staffed counters, with two interior aisles — covered by anti-theft detectors — where customers can browse and grab items themselves. The redesign was first reported by CWB. Customers walking in Thursday were greeted by an employee who directed them to a kiosk for digital shopping. A sign tells shoppers...

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday on a Fox News town hall that he told host Sean Hannity to stop joking about President Joe Biden’s cognitive capacity.Hannity said, “I have asked you repeatedly about what you think about Joe Biden’s cognitive state. I’ve asked you about – is he up to the job physically, mentally? You have been very reluctant to go there. I’m not reluctant. To me, would everyone agree with me this guy’s cognitively not there? I doubt he knows what day of the week it is today. That’s how bad I think it’s gotten for him. Why...

All-American college swimmer Riley Gaines, who has become an outspoken opponent of biological men being allowed to compete in women’s athletics, praised Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Friday as a leader “who knows how do to the right thing.” Gaines endorsed the Florida governor for president on Thursday and introduced him at a Friday night rally in Greenville, in the deep-red upstate region of South Carolina. Florida and South Carolina have both passed laws banning transgender women — biological men — from competing in women’s sports. South Carolina passed its law last month. Gaines said DeSantis “has tackled these...

A majority of Republicans believe former President Donald Trump has a better chance to win the 2024 general election than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a recent LX News/YouGov poll found.The survey asked respondents, “Which of these two Republicans do you think has the best chance of winning the 2024 general election for president,” giving them the option of Trump or DeSantis.Most Republicans, 59 percent, believe Trump has the best chance of winning the presidential election, followed by 27 percent who believe DeSantis has the best chance and 13 percent who remain unsure.A plurality of independents, 34 percent, also believe Trump...

Farmers in South Dakota are facing egregious intimidation tactics by a private company that wants to use eminent domain to confiscate valuable farmland for carbon-capture pipelines.Summit Carbon Solutions requested a restraining order against Brown County farmer Jerad Bossly. The company claims he threatened the lives of its representatives who showed up unannounced to survey his property, a farm that has been in his family for four generations. He told The New American that when they arrived, he was about 12 miles away, working in a field. His wife was home, recovering from gallbladder surgery, and was taking a shower when...

A Florida woman was shoplifting inside a retail store when she left two children unattended in a vehicle that burst into flames, police said. Alicia Moore, 24, an Orlando resident, is charged with aggravated child neglect and arson, FOX Orlando reported. On May 26, Moore parked her car outside a Dillard’s department store at the Oviedo Mall and left two children “who could not care for themselves” inside the vehicle, authorities said. She then went into the store and began shoplifting with a man, police said. After about an hour, Moore left the store and found her vehicle engulfed in...

Six women in Portland have been found dead in secluded, wooded areas in the last three months within 100 miles of each other, triggering fears that a serial killer may be in the area. The victims were all found in suspicious circumstances in discarded barns, on the side of the road, or hidden among bushes. The first victim was found on February 19, and the most recent was discovered on May 7. Police have only released the cause of one woman's death - she died as the result of blunt force trauma to the head and neck. The other women's...

Remember that old Gmail account you set up to collect spam a long time ago? It could get caught in a Google security purge of epic proportions. Learn why and when it's happening – and how to protect your Google emails, files, videos and more from disappearing into the digital ether.Gmail accounts and more on the chopping blockLast week, Google quietly posted a hugely consequential safety and security update to its company blog The Keyword. In the update, Google noted that their users crave safety and security, and that accounts unused for long periods of time are more likely to...

Don’t you wish we had Byron Donalds as House Speaker? Instead we got Kevin McCarthy who got outwitted by Joe Biden in the debt negotiations, not Donalds who is declaring a Constitutional crisis because of the FBI acting as a rogue agency above the law. A sickening thing happened at the Capitol today when a children's choir was shut down for signing the National Anthem. Jamiee Mitchell, founder of Gays Against Groomers, explains why she’s moving to Florida despite liberals saying it’s homophobic. She also humors Owen Shroyer in a Trump versus DeSantis debate. Did China hit Guam with...

Chicago's wealthiest citizens are investing millions in its poorest neighborhoods in an attempt to help solve the city's spiraling crime crisis. Billionaire businessman James Crown, who leads the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, has made it his goal to make Chicago 'the Safest Big City in America.' The tycoon, whose family was ranked the 34th richest in America by Forbes in 2020 with an estimated worth of $10.2 billion, plans to leverage his national influence and work with other businessmen to combat crime in the murder capitol of the U.S. Crown introduced his crime-fighting plan Thursday, announcing...

The Django Unchained star is said to be “partially paralyzed and blind,” in addition to a series of other complications after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, Hollywood journalist A.J. Benza claimed after speaking to a source close to Foxx.

On Wednesday [May 31, 2023], Russia's defense ministry said it had "destroyed" the Ukrainian ship Yuri Olefirenko in a "high-precision strike." The vessel was taken out on May 29 in the southern Ukrainian port of Odesa, Russia said in an operational update.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin saying the US will not stand for 'coercion and bullying' from China... US politics the Republican National Committee setting rules for the first debate among presidential contenders... In Canada a convicted serial killer moved from a high security prison to a medium security facility... A federal judge in Miami giving a life sentence to Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar... Fitch Ratings keeping the credit rating of the United States on "Ratings Watch Negative". This follows the bipartisan deal in Washington for the federal government to spend more money...Joe Biden speaking at 7 pm this evening to...

A Yale University building under construction in New Haven, Connecticut partially collapsed on Friday and left eight people injured with two of them in critical condition. The collapse happened at an apartment block on Lafayette Street at around 12.30pm when crews were pouring concrete. Part of the second floor fell into the first floor and into the basement at the building site where 36 people were working. It left eight construction workers injured with six of them pulled out of the building by first responders and the other two were able to escape on their own. New Haven Fire Department...

...EDWARD LUCE: ...what would happen if Trump won, first of all, in Ukraine? What would happen to the Ukraine situation? HILLARY CLINTON: Look, if Trump wins, ...If in some scenario that were to happen, it would be the end of democracy in the United States, it would be the end of Ukraine. It would become a --you know, he will pull us out of NATO if he wins again. And just like he pulled us out of the Iran deal, he pulled us out of the Paris Accords. He will pull us out of NATO. ... -- and remember, the...

A San Francisco store owner has slammed the Dem-led city's officials for failing to control its out-of-control crime wave, after a gang of thieves smashed into his tobacco shop and stole $100,000 in goods and cash. Storeowner Zaid, an immigrant from Afghanistan, said lawmakers 'need to get a grip' on the city, feeling it has become 'worse than Afghanistan or Iraq'. 'At least in Afghanistan the Taliban will cut your hand off and people are afraid to commit such a crime,' he added to Fox News. His remarks come as the West Coast metro continues to spiral into lawlessness, with...

On this date in 1666, the pastor Andreas Koch suffered the pains of standing up against witch hunts in his town of Lemgo: Koch himself was beheaded as a wizard. Lemgo recorded a busy witch-hunt record with an estimated 250 cases in the 16th and 17th centuries. But the bulk of those cases came surprisingly late — from 1653 to 1681, the period after the Thirty Years’ War witch-smelling acme. As we’ve seen before in these grim annals, elites were not safe from the Hexenverfolgung; this, perhaps, is the reason that even we latter-day seculars still have such a visceral...

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