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The Ford F-150 Lightning, the electric iteration of America’s best-selling vehicle, was found to lose nearly a quarter of its range when carrying a load close to its maximum capacity according to tests performed by AAA. The Verge reports that it was recently discovered that when carrying a load close to its maximum capacity, the Ford F-150 Lightning, the electric version of America’s best-selling vehicle, lost nearly a quarter of its range. The F-150 Lightning has been marketed with towing and hauling capabilities at its core. It has a 98kWh battery for the standard version and a 131kWh battery for...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — A federal judge ordered Florida to stop enforcing its ban against providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender children for three families, according to newly-released court documents. On Tuesday, Judge Robert L. Hinkle, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, issued a preliminary injunction in favor of three families with transgender children in a lawsuit filed against dozens of Florida officials, including the Florida Surgeon General, the Florida Board of Medicine and its members, the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine and its members, the Florida Attorney General and Florida’s 20 State Attorneys. The...

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin dismissed Russia's claims to have inflicted heavy losses on Ukraine in the Donbas when Kyiv attempted offensive action. Prigozhin said the claims were "simply wild and absurd science fiction". But Russia's defence ministry doubled down on the claims on Tuesday, saying Ukraine suffered over 3,700 casualties. -snip- Speaking to state media, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu insisted that his forces had inflicted over 3,715 casualties on Ukraine during the attack and destroyed dozens of pieces of military equipment. "The attempts at an offensive have failed. The enemy has been halted. Russian soldiers and officers displayed courage...

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posed for a photo with a local chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 2020 A recently resurfaced photo of Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posing with a local chapter of the anti-Christian LGBTQ activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has lead to some sharp language between his campaign and that of his Republican challenger, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron. "This is just another example of how out of touch Andy Beshear is with our values. He’s the governor of Kentucky, not California," Cameron told Fox News Digital. "The fact that he would host...

On a recent afternoon, Rabbi Daniel Bogard, his wife and three children played football in the backyard of their St. Louis home — a place that carries 65 years of family memories. "My son sleeps in the same bedroom that I slept in, that my dad slept in," explained Bogard, whose children are the fifth generation of his family to call Missouri home. But today, Bogard says the state doesn't feel safe anymore "for people like my son." From a very young age, one of his twin daughters begged for boys' clothes and boys' toys. Then, one day came a...

I’m planning to buy @CNN or @FoxNews I’ll make it into a completely bipartisan news network.

May 4, 2023 (Twitter/Screenshot) New US report confirms Al Jazeera journalist’s death was an accident Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in May 2022 during an exchange of fire between the IDF and terrorists in Jenin. The report confirms earlier findings, says State Department spokesman. By JNS The U.S. Security Coordinator has submitted a new report on the killing of an Al Jazeera journalist in Jenin in May 2022, which is said to confirm the USSC’s previous finding that her death was unintentional. Shireen Abu Akleh was killed during an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen in Jenin.

Donald Trump hasn’t been known for his scrupulously correct use of language, but he now wants to police the use of “woke.” “I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear, ‘woke, woke, woke,’” he said the other day. “It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is.” Of course, Trump wasn’t randomly volunteering his equivalent of an elementary rule of usage from Strunk & White. His newfound disdain for the term “woke” has everything to do with his contest with Ron DeSantis for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. ***...

Woke Microsoft has added a Pride flag to the widgets board located on the taskbar of Windows 11 to demonstrate its allegiance to the LGBT agenda. Here’s how to disable it. GeekerMag reports that Microsoft has added a Pride flag to the widget board of its newest operating system, Windows 11, as a gesture of support for Pride Month. The decision appears to be an effort by Microsoft to display its commitment to diversity and inclusion. The company believes in the woke LGBT agenda to such a degree that it does give users the option to remove the pride flag...

Archbishop Cordileone vs. Sisters of Perpetual IndulgenceBy strongly condemning the growing anti-Catholicism around us, Archbishop Cordileone also rebukes the tepid response of many Catholic leaders and ordinary Catholics to this evil.Pentecostal fire still burns brightly in San Francisco. It blazes from the episcopal throne of Archbishop Cordileone, most recently in his exceptional editorial in the Wall Street Journal. He trumpets a sanguine defense of the Church, so unusual for his kind. But it is not the first time he has broken ranks with the greater number of his episcopal confreres (the Pelosi affair comes to mind). Not to put too...

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....