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No one is perfect, and that includes your spouse. And while everyone sometimes says things they regret, it’s important to be mindful of what you say to your spouse. If you’re not careful, some of the things you say can hurt their feelings and strain your relationship. This post will discuss some things you should never say to your spouse. Avoiding these phrases can help keep your relationship healthy and strong! 1 Understanding How To Speak To Your Spouse 2 Thing To Never Say To Your Spouse 3 “Calm Down” 4 “I Hate You” 5 “I Want A Divorce” 6...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday jumped into the 2024 presidential race, filing his official paperwork hours ahead of a planned launch event.

The owner of two major hotels in downtown San Francisco is preparing to give the properties up to foreclosure as the city’s downtown decline continues, with retail shops leaving the area amid crime and homelessness. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday: The owner of two of San Francisco’s biggest hotels — Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 — has stopped mortgage payments and plans to give up the two properties, in another sign of disinvestment in hard-hit downtown. Park Hotels & Resorts said Monday that it stopped making payments on a $725 million loan due in November and...

Every day, memories of World War II—its sights and sounds, its terrors and triumphs—disappear. Yielding to the inalterable process of aging, the men and women who fought and won the great conflict are now in their 90s or older. They are dying quickly—according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 167,284 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II are alive in 2022.

It's become an essential part of her shtick. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) likes to invoke the story of her Palestinian grandmother, who lives on the West Bank, where Tlaib insists she is being oppressed by her Israeli overlords. But it turns out her grandmother’s “oppression” — if indeed she is oppressed — is the result not of anything the Israelis do, but of what the Palestinian Authority does, for it is the PA that rules the village where her grandmother lives. More on the true travails of her grandmother, that have nothing to do with Israel, can be found here: “Rashida...

Explanation: It’s the end of a world as we know it. Specifically, the Sun-like star ZTF SLRN-2020 was seen eating one of its own planets. Although many a planet eventually dies by spiraling into their central star, the 2020 event, involving a Jupiter-like planet, was the first time it was seen directly. The star ZTF SLRN-2020 lies about 12,000 light years from the Sun toward the constellation of the Eagle (Aquila). In the featured animated illustration of the incident, the gas planet's atmosphere is first pictured being stripped away as it skims along the outskirts of the attracting star. Some...

Over the weekend, moderate Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (WV) suggested he was considering a third-party presidential run in 2024 because he believes that extremism is becoming a serious problem for both Democrats and Republicans. Manchin made his comments during an interview on Sunday with Fox News host Shannon Bream when asked about a new report from The New York Times about a self-described bipartisan group, “No Labels,” that wants a third-party presidential candidate in 2024. Manchin is at the top of the group’s list. ...

BREAKING: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) just sent a letter to the Deputy Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requesting a transcribed interview before the Committee related to ICE's failure to enforce federal immigration law during a period of skyrocketing illegal immigration. Read the letter: "The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of the Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law. Our oversight includes an examination of recent actions by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement...

Republicans in the California state legislature walked out of a ceremony honoring “Sister Roma” of the anti-Catholic group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the group mired in a controversy involving the L.A. Dodgers. Roma, whose real name is Michael Williams, is a man who dresses in drag as a Catholic nun. The group mocks Catholic beliefs as part of a performance repertoire expressing support for alternative sexual identities. As Breitbart News has reported, the Dodgers invited Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to the team’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride night on June 16, then uninvited them when Catholic groups complained, and re-invited them when...

Tighter lending standards from regional banks are making it harder for U.S. hotel developers to secure funding, slowing construction of new hotels at a time Americans' appetite for travel is ripe. Hotel developers, private equity firms, and general contractors told Reuters the financial stress on regional banks -- the largest lenders to hotels and other commercial real estate markets -- has forced developers to postpone projects or find other creative ways to raise capital. The hotel industry's predicament highlights the impact on the broader U.S. economy of the regional banking crisis, which resulted in the failure of three mid-sized U.S....

Modern social democratic parties in the United Kingdom are “programmed by Greta Thunberg” when discussing policies on climate change, says Former Labor MP Michael Danby. “You can’t say we’re not going to have any further drilling of north sea oil if that benefits people in Scotland and the UK,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “We hope that the winter won’t be as cold as it’s been in the past, next winter – they had a good one this year in the UK.”

The World Bank said Tuesday that global economic growth has slowed sharply in the face of higher interest rates, chronic inflation and continued fallout from the banking crisis. The world economy is expected to expand just 2.1% this year, after growing 3.1% in 2022, the Washington-based institution said in its semiannual Global Economic Prospects report released Tuesday. Advanced economies, including the U.S., are projected to also cool to a growth rate of just 0.7% this year – a marked drop from the 2.6% rate recorded in 2022 and one of the weakest growth rates in the last five decades, according...

There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our solar system stacks up against 10 of them. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Anew NASA animation puts the size of 10 supermassive black holes into perspective — by showing how some of them simply dwarf our entire solar system. Black holes: Black holes are points in space where gravity is so strong, even light can’t escape its pull. The point of no return around a black hole is called its “event horizon,” and while we can’t see anything inside it, we can learn...

On Sunday, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley declared that protecting the integrity of women’s sports is the women’s issue of our time. On Monday’s edition of The 11th Hour on MSNBC, host Stephanie Ruhle welcomed two men to proclaim that Haley “should be ashamed of herself” and that the real women’s issue of our time is abortion. Haley also declared that there was a connection between high suicide rates among teenage girls and the movement to allow males to compete against them. After some discussion on how the data does not support that thesis, the conversation moved to the issue...

Surveillance video caught a man being pepper sprayed in an attack in his Fullerton garage over the weekend an hour before a similar incident in Rowland Heights.

Pope says religions must give a ‘solid foundation’ for UN’s pro-abortion Sustainable Development GoalsVATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Recently released transcripts from a 2019 Vatican conference have highlighted the Vatican’s and Pope Francis’ personal commitment to use religions as a “solid foundation” for the U.N.’s pro-contraception Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The transcripts come as the Vatican is also issuing a fresh push to make the good of the family part of the same pro-abortion SDGs. “The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, approved by more than 190 nations in September 2015, were a great step forward for global dialogue, marking...

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed a bill to legalize assisted suicide Monday, saying there are better options for suffering patients than killing them. The anti-life legislation, state Senate Bill 239, would have allowed doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients diagnosed with a terminal condition to commit suicide. The bill passed the state Senate by one vote in April and the Assembly by four votes in May. It appears unlikely that the Democrat-controlled legislature has enough votes to override the governor’s veto. In his veto message, Lombardo said he did not feel comfortable signing a bill to legalize the killing...

The window has closed to prevent the melting of summer Arctic Sea ice due to human-caused climate change, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The research indicates that even under a scenario where carbon emissions are sharply curtailed, the Arctic will be “practically” ice-free in September by the middle of the 21st century. The study’s projection goes even further than the warning issued in 2021 by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which determined there is still a chance to save the summer ice in a scenario where warming is kept below...

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Fox News barred content that reflected negatively on vaccines to appease its big-money advertisers in the pharmaceutical industry. During a June 5 Twitter Spaces interview with the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, Kennedy disclosed that he approached former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in 2016 about doing a story on the mercury content in vaccines but was shut down. “He said that any of his hosts who allowed me on TV to talk about this, that he would be forced to fire them,” Kennedy recalled. “And he said that 75 percent of his...

Former President Trump unleashed a torrent of angry social media posts Tuesday about the investigations into his conduct, the day after his lawyers met with Justice Department (DOJ) officials. Trump posted several times on Truth Social, levying claims that he is being politically targeted and offering up misleading comparisons between his own case and President Biden’s when it comes to handling classified material. “The Marxists and Fascists in the DOJ & FBI are going after me at a level and speed never seen before in our Country, and I did nothing wrong,” he wrote in one post. “Joe Biden kept...