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What unifies our team at Xbox is the desire to make gaming a place where everyone feels welcome to play. One of the ways we can help members of LGBTQIA+ communities to feel invited to play is through increased visibility & representation in video games. Representation is a vast and multifaceted topic: it can mean more LGBTQIA+ characters, more story moments featuring LGBTQIA+ themes, or even creating worlds LGBTQIA+ players can feel at home in. For us, it includes empowering our LGBTQIA+ team members to create the kinds of change they’re hoping to see in our games and in the...

Equity is one of those quirky words that has numerous meanings .... The Biden administration is unable to enact legislation that will assure its vision of equity. Instead, it relies on the dictate of executive order and bureaucratic malfeasance to push its vision of systematic equity into American culture. ... In search of equity, liberals ignore justice. Democrat district attorneys all over the country downplay criminal behavior because they consider crime the result of a plethora of inequities encountered by law-breakers. They ignore the fact that criminal behavior is a choice made to damage or harm others. Liberals refuse to...

California and Texas ranked highest on the United States Postal Service’s annual list of states with the most dog bites against its employees, the USPS announced. The report calls attention to the aggressive dog behavior mail carriers often face as the USPS kicks off National Dog Bite Awareness Week. In 2022, California had the highest number of dog bites with 675. Texas and New York were not far behind with 404 and 321 bites, respectively, the Postal Service reported. “When our mail carriers are bitten, it is usually a ‘good dog’ that had not previously behaved in a menacing way,”...

The first round of June's three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,555, will be sent out in 11 days, according to the Social Security Administration's schedule.

Supporters of the so-called Clean Slate Act rallied for its passage on Saturday in the waning days of the legislative session. The closely watched bill would seal most criminal records in New York state after a certain window of time. At a rally in the South Bronx, lawmakers and advocates made a final entreaty for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to secure its passage in that chamber. The legislative session in Albany ends on June 8, and while lawmakers say they’re hopeful for its passage, they’ve so far been tight-lipped on the holdup. “We all know it’s all the right thing...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Strive Asset Management Co-Founder and former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks said that asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard impose things like ESG and DEI onto companies because the asset firms are pressured into doing so by government officials. Frericks said, “You take a look at BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, they manage $20 trillion worth of capital, but it’s not their own money. This is the money that everyday citizens, firefighters, police officers, doctors, who generally have their money either [in] 401ks or, in a lot of cases,...

Horrific health details have been revealed regarding Jamie Foxx’s mysterious medical state. 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.

Battle of Midway, (June 3–6, 1942), World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft. The Midway Islands were claimed for the United States on July 5, 1859, by Capt. N.C. Brooks. The coral atoll—consisting of Eastern Island and the larger Sand Island to the west—has a total land area of just 2.4 square miles (6.2 square km). Midway was formally annexed by the U.S. in 1867. A coal depot was established for transpacific steamers, but it was never used. It was World War II which conclusively demonstrated the strategic importance of Midway. In 1940 the U.S. Navy began...

The lawmaker leading the investigation into security failures that occurred at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot says his team has identified “people of interest” who may have played a role in suppressing intelligence that forewarned of violence that fateful day. In a wide-ranging interview, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., confirmed earlier reporting by Just the News that the Capitol Police intelligence unit had received days and weeks in advance a significant amount of detailed intelligence that identified specific extremist groups that planned to commit violence on Jan. 6, 2021, and some of the tactics they planned to use....

….. We live in a state of de facto war. Whether we like it or not, it’s happening,” Gladkov said on the Rossiya 24 television channel. Asked what can be done to increase public security in the Russian border regions, he said one option is “to attach Kharkov to Belgorod Region. This is the best way to solve the issue of the shelling of Belgorod Region.” That was a public, political challenge to the Kremlin. It was polite compared to those who use other names when they mean to criticize Putin’s conduct of the war. Governor Gladkov is a southerner...

TMZ were the first to report word of Jacky Oh’s passing, claiming that the television personality had passed away in Miami. At the time of writing her cause of death remains unknown, though several outlets say she was in Miami for a “mommy makeover”.

The writings of the historian Plutarch form a significant portion of our information concerning the rise of the Roman Republic, and its eventual end. In one of those texts, Plutarch's "Lives", he recounts something rather strange--the appearance in the sky of a bright flash of light and, apparently, a cylindrical object whose color is "like molten silver". What exactly was he describing? Was it a UFO, as some people (apparently including at least professional scholars) believe? Or something else?Did Ancient Romans See a UFO? I A strange account from Plutarch | 5:57The Historian's Craft | 74.2K subscribers | 31K views...

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Driving up to Seattle came up on a Tesla camping in the fast lane doing around seventy when traffic was going between 75-80 and passing both of us on the right. Rather than moving over he stayed there expecting everyone to slow down and likely saving his charge to make sure he made the 175 miles he had to make. When a gap appeared and passing him on the right, I took a look over to see a guy driving alone...

Whether the US and China are in fact slouching towards a new “Cold War” or not, one thing is certain: commerce between them is still hotter than ever. In the 10 years since Xi Jinping took power as China’s leader, trade volumes between the world’s top two economies have continued to grow. The same is true of Chinese trade with key US allies like the EU and, to a lesser extent, Japan. In fact, US-China trade has continued to rise despite the Great US-China Trade War of 2018-2020, when the Trump administration and Beijing slapped tariffs on some $730 billion...

The BBC has been accused of trying to cover up an interview with influencer Andrew Tate, which has been blocked from being viewed by UK-based YouTube users, after receiving criticism for apparent bias and for heavily editing the video.

Eager to better the world, Soros began deploying his fortune to advance freedom and prosperity throughout the world. What began during the Cold War with assistance to dissident movements, like Poland’s Solidarity and Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77, was later followed by opening business schools in the postcommunist world and financing infrastructure projects in the Third World.

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Over 4,000 people were baptized at Pirate Cove in Southern California last weekend as 280 churches celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Jesus Movement. Oceans Church, a ministry located in Orange County, organized Baptize So Cal, an event advertised as “the largest water baptism in history.” Over 8,000 people watched as 4,166 people declared their faith in Jesus. “What an amazing and historic day,” West Coast Life Church pastor Ray Gene Wilson said. “Thousands baptized at Pirates Cove, God is moving in California.” The event was organized to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Jesus Movement, which was ignited by...

Judging people by the color of their skin is in fashion once again. Now, South African leaders hope to allow access to water based on the color of people’s skin. We can’t criticize them since Joe Biden openly pushes systemic racism into every government agency and education with little pushback. From the DA: Under the ANC’s new water race quotas, applicants that use more than 250 000 m3 or withdraw more than a set minimum amount from streams need to meet strict racial quotas in order to get access to water – the single most critical resource required for life,...

The steamship Columbia, Capt. BARTON, from New-Orleans, May 28, and steamship George Cromwell, Capt. POST, May 27, arrived yesterday morning. At 3 1/2 o'clock of the 28th, the Columbia passed barks Alice Provost and Scandinavian at anchor at Southwest Pass. On Saturday, 30th, at 2 P.M., off Sand Key, passed steamship Star of the South, from New-Orleans, 27th, going to Key West. On Friday, May 29, off Tortugas, the George Cromwell exchanged signals with steamship Geo, Washington, for New-Orleans. The Era of the 27th says: "We have authentic information which enables us to state that the forces of Major-Gen. BANKS...