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People came to Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco Sunday for a “Drag Queen Bible Story Hour.” Organizers were hoping to provide a different perspective after some of the push back that has occurred around the country around drag performances. Reverend Victor Floyd said it was a first for the church. “We’re hoping to offer a little balance to all of the hateful rhetoric that is out in the country and especially from churches and politicians, who are using churches and using trans people and drag queens as their props,” he said. Floyd added that not everyone supported the church...

The superstar chef talks about his wild childhood, the greatest moment of his career, food snobbery, and the time he accidentally doused a customer in mustard.In his mind, Guy Fieri is still just 10 years old. He's the same kid whose parents received regular phone calls from the local bakery in Whittier, Calf., telling them their son had been hanging out all day convincing tourists to buy him cookies. He's the same kid who later got in trouble for selling Kool-Aid to those tourists. His dad wasn't mad about the entrepreneurial spirit of his son, but rather had spotted Fieri's...

GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie argued against bans on sex change treatments for minors, while a recent poll found that a majority of voters support restrictions on children receiving the life-altering procedures. During a segment on CNN's "State if the Union" Sunday, Christie was asked his thoughts on Republican governors placing more bans on gender reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers for minors in their states. "I don't think that the government should ever be stepping in to the place of the parents in helping to move their children through a process where those children are confused or concerned about their...

This needs more attention, China keeps telling lies and no one ever calls them out, everyone just goes with it and keeps investing! VIDEO AT LINK......................... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwattsupwiththat.com%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Budanov said there is currently "a certain threat" to the plant. He noted that by destroying the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam, the Russians also restrained the regular water access to the plant's coolers. "The worst thing is that Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was additionally mined during this time. It was the cooler that was mined. If they disable it by blowing it up, there is a high probability that there will be significant problems," Budanov added. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been under Russian occupation since March 4, 2022. It relies on water from the Kakhovka Reservoir to...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — New polling results are in … … the polling data in the U.S. Senate race with Elissa Slotkin, the Democratic frontrunner, shows she is tied with somebody who has not even formally announced their candidacy. James Craig, former Republican candidate for governor and former Detroit Police Chief, has not spent a dime in this race, but yet he’s at 39% and she’s at 40%. And in mid-Michigan, where Slotkin is a Congresswoman, she is actually losing to Craig: 37% for her, 44% for Craig. But in an equally interesting twist for Slotkin, she is leading Craig...

First Lady Jill Biden will host a meeting discussing the impact of the Supreme Court Dobbs decision and the overturning of Roe v. Wade on Tuesday. Jill Biden will be joined by Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Gender Policy Council Jennifer Klein at the White House in a discussion on the impact of Dobbs v. Jackson on abortion as the country approaches the one-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Donald Trump’s bid to force the recusal of the magistrate in his criminal “hush money” case should be tossed out as an improper bid “to select his own judge,” Manhattan prosecutors argue in new court papers. The 45th president earlier this month said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan should withdraw from overseeing the criminal case against him, claiming Merchan’s daughter’s company has a “political and financial interest” in the outcome. Lawyers for Trump, 77, also argued that Merchan should leave the case because of $35 in political contributions he made in the 2020 presidential election and because he urged...

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and an NBC News reporter had a tense interview published Monday that widely centered around his conspiratorial views on vaccines, with the reporter calling their encounter "unsettling." Described by NBC News' Brandy Zadrozny as "one of the world's foremost conspiracy theorists," Kennedy was pushed on why he was running as a Democrat given his appeal to some corners of the political right, why he touts the unfounded theory of childhood vaccinations being linked to autism and the longshot nature of his 2024 challenge to President Biden for the Democratic nomination.

Opened in 1969 as a base load power plant designed to provide electricity to large areas of Pennsylvania and New York, the Homer City Generating Station in Indiana County is shutting its doors. Part of a nationwide trend, Homer City could not compete with cheaper Marcellus Shale gas and more efficient combined-cycle power plants. Coal fired power generates about 196 gigawatts of energy today, down from 313 GW in 2005, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. Although coal at one point provided the majority of power in the U.S., it now generates about 20%. Natural gas generation today produces...

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Tucker covers the Hunter Biden plea deal

Statement fron Weiss on Hunter Biden plea agreement. NOTE paragraph 5. “David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, made the announcement. The investigation is ongoing.”

Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith is overseeing the current investigation into and indictment of Donald Trump. But as USA Today reported, Smith “built [his] reputation” in his previous role overseeing the prosecution of former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). And according to Renzi himself, in exclusive comments to PJ Media, there’s evidence tying Smith to illegal wiretaps, jury influencing, payoffs for false testimony, and other highly questionable behavior. The newly published allegations led Donald Trump to call Smith “deranged.” Renzi was convicted on bribery and extortion charges, to which he pleaded “not guilty,” and was later given a full presidential...

TAIPEI — Secretary of State Antony Blinken sparked controversy this weekend by voicing opposition to Taiwan independence. In response, Taiwan is kicking itself for not bribing the Bidens as was done by Ukraine and others. By clarifying its stance on Taiwan, the Biden Administration has drawn a hard line against China, forcing the Communist country to keep doing whatever it wants to do without any repercussions. "With a going rate of $5 million per Biden, it would have been a steal," said Taiwan's Foreign Minister while downing another shot of Kaoliang. "I'm soooo stupid!"

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent adamance about Ukrainian forces’ early success in the country’s highly anticipated counteroffensive is clashing with mounting evidence that Russia’s invading forces are taking new ground. “We have no lost positions,” Zelenskyy stressed in his nightly video address on Sunday. “In some areas, our warriors are moving forward. In some areas, they are defending their positions and resisting the occupiers' assaults and intensified attacks.” But, he concluded, “We have no lost positions. Only liberated ones. They have only losses.” Zelenskyy’s positive assessment aligns with the need of any embattled government to maintain national morale and to affirm...

Over 10,000 categories of nearly 1.6 million adverse events – many of them serious and debilitating – brought to you by Pfizer! You might not have heard it in the news, but in recent months, Pfizer’s pharmacovigilance documents requested by the European Union’s drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency, have been released. They show that Pfizer knew about a sickening level of injury early on. An August 2022 document shows that the company already had observed the following scope of vaccine injury: 508,351 individual case reports of adverse events containing 1,597,673 events; One-third of the AEs were classified as serious,...

Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said Tuesday on “CBS Mornings” that former President Donald Trump admitted to obstruction of justice during a Fox News interview with Bret Baier. Christie said, “Last night he said the reason he didn’t give the documents back was because he’s just so very busy and he didn’t have time to respond to a grand jury subpoena because he needed to get his golf shirts and pants out of the box. I mean, does anybody in America believe this?” He continued, “I think the problem is going to...

Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, has reached a tentative deal with the U.S. attorney in Delaware, agreeing to enter guilty pleas to two misdemeanor tax charges and admitting to felony gun possession, according to a Justice Department filing. Weiss' office said in the statement Tuesday morning that the investigation is ongoing. Earlier in the day, Chris Clark, an attorney for Hunter Biden, said in a statement to CBS News, "it is my understanding that the five-year investigation into Hunter is resolved."

Modelo Especial overtook Bud Light as the top-selling beer in the U.S. in May as Bud Light sales were crushed by a boycott over the brand’s relationship with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. But who owns Modelo Especial? Many of those supporting the boycott have voiced concerns that the Mexican beer brand might be owned Anheuser-Busch, the company that makes Bud Light and is part of an international conglomerate called AB InvBev. Fortunately for Americans pushing back against Bud Light’s transgender influencer ties, Modelo Especial is not owned by Anheuser-Busch and sales of the Mexican brand here in the U.S. do...