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Ever since voters passed Measure 109 in 2020, dozens of entrepreneurs have helped shape Oregon’s emerging legal psilocybin economy. These are people who see their role in bringing psychedelics to the public not so much as a job but a higher calling. Here are nine early participants who span the gamut from spore to trip. Retreat center visionary Mike Arnold has big plans for a former Seventh-day Adventist boarding school in Gaston, Oregon: “the biggest psychedelic retreat center on planet Earth,” he said.

The Viking Neptune transformed into a cross-continental petri dish as more than 100 passengers onboard the cruise ship fell ill with the highly contagious norovirus this month. In a Tuesday update, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 110 cruisers — more than 13% of the ship's 838 passengers — were affected by the gastrointestinal virus during the vessel's two-week trip from Iceland to New York, which ended Tuesday.

Karolis Chvedukas, a Lithuanian soccer player who played for multiple clubs, died at age 32. The Lithuanian Football Association confirmed Monday that Chvedukas passed unexpectedly of unspecified causes. "The Lithuanian Football Federation, on behalf of the entire community, expresses its deepest condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased in this difficult hour," they said in a statement.

A prosecutor on the team that struck a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden worked just years ago for a longtime Biden family friend who did business with the embattled first son, raising potential concerns about an investigation that has already been marred by whistleblower allegations of political favoritism. Derek Hines, a special assistant U.S. attorney on the Hunter Biden case, was special counsel to former FBI director Louis Freeh at Freeh's private consulting firm from August 2013 to February 2015, according to Hines's LinkedIn profile. Freeh has extensive ties to the Biden family. He was recruited by Hunter Biden in...

This is the big one. The Economic Policy is the distinct and singular policy at the core of Make America Great Again. The MAGA coalition is centered around the principles of America First economics, and Ron DeSantis has just admitted he does not support them. CTH has long warned about Ron DeSantis’ economic policy being driven by the donors who fund him. When he was in congress, DeSantis voted in support of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for President Obama, and DeSantis voted in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement (TPP). These are the trade policies supported by the Club...

On this date in 1890, an affectionate married couple hanged together in Elko, Nevada, for a murder they insisted they had not authored. We obtain this headline and the associated (nationally circulated) story from the San Diego Union of June 26, 1890. [Associated Press Dispatches.] ELKO, Nev., June 20. — Elko is in a ferment of excitement, many parties pouring in to witness the execution of the Potts family for the murder of Miles Fawcett in January, 1888. Over sixteen women have already applied for permits to witness the execution, which were refused. The conduct of Mrs. Potts during the...

French President Emmanuel Macron hopes to attend a BRICS summit scheduled for August, his foreign minister said Tuesday, a meeting to which Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been invited. Foreign minister Catherine Colonna said she had informed summit hosts South Africa Pretoria of Macron’s “interest” in attending as an observer at the summit of a bloc which groups Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

<p>James O’Keefe and O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday dropped their biggest story yet.</p><p>OMG released footage of a BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay spilling the beans on the company’s world impact.</p><p>BlackRock is one of the largest (manages $20 trillion) and most powerful (and dangerous) asset and investment managers in the world.</p>

A 54-year-old Missouri man died Thursday after he contracted a flesh-eating bacterium from eating raw oysters, officials say. The man, whom officials are not publicly identifying, became infected after he ate oysters he bought from The Fruit Stand & Seafood in the St. Louis suburb of Manchester, the St. Louis County Public Health Department announced Friday The bacterium, Vibrio vulnificus, is typically contracted by consuming raw or undercooked oysters and other shellfish. Symptoms of vibriosis, the disease it causes, include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever and chills. Death is rare after having contacted vibriosis, and it typically occurs in people...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are seeking vulnerabilities in Russian defenses with the aim to collapse the frontline – just as they did during the Kharkiv operation in the fall of 2022 – according to Margo Grosberg, commander of the Estonian Defense Forces' intelligence center.Only a third of the Ukrainian forces trained in the West have been deployed to the fight, Grosberg stated in an interview Estonian news outlet ERR on June 20.He noted that the counteroffensive from the Ukrainian military is taking place in the areas of Bakhmut, southern Donetsk Oblast, and Zaporizhzhya Oblast. The majority of territories liberated by...

WILMINGTON, DE — A brief commotion arose outside the Delaware District Court today, as Hunter Biden was seen trying to weigh large quantities of crack cocaine on the scales held by a statue of Lady Justice. A crowd began to form around the courthouse statute as more and more bystanders stopped to watch Hunter toss plastic bags full of a white substance onto the scales. "Do these scales actually move?" they heard Hunter asking his Secret Service detail. Several witnesses began to ask questions before being shooed away by Secret Service agents who assured them "It's baking soda. Mr. Biden...

Denver, Colo., Jun 16, 2023 / 14:21 pm A California restaurant had an individual impersonate a priest to encourage employees to confess their “sins” against their employer, but the man has no links with the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, a diocese spokesman said. “Our own investigation found no evidence of any connection between the Diocese of Sacramento and the alleged priest in this matter,” Bryan J. Visitacion, director of media and communications for the Diocese of Sacramento, told CNA on Friday. “While we don’t know who the person in question was, we are completely confident he was not a priest...

The Foreign Ministry has changed the national flag to the colors of homosexuals. Photo: MFA TwitterOn June 15, 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine changed the yellow and blue colors of the national flag to LGBT colors on Twitter. The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accompanied this with the inscription “Equality for all. Pride 2023".People responded to such an event in the comments ambiguously. There are positive reviews from LGBT supporters, but the reaction of most Ukrainians and representatives of other countries is negative. “Another reason why you should and will lose. You are promoting...

As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has pursued enemies abroad, his intelligence operatives now appear prepared to cross a line that they previously avoided: trying to kill a valuable informant for the U.S. government on American soil. The clandestine operation, seeking to eliminate a C.I.A. informant in Miami who had been a high-ranking Russian intelligence official more than a decade earlier, represented a brazen expansion of Mr. Putin’s campaign of targeted assassinations. It also signaled a dangerous low point even between intelligence services that have long had a strained history. “The red lines are long gone for Putin,” said...

On Tuesday, a Catholic school in Maine and parents who would like to send their children to that school under Maine's tuition payment program for students from districts without public high schools filed suit in a Maine federal district court challenging new restrictions which the Maine legislature imposed on schools participating in the tuition payment program. The complaint (full text) in St. Dominic Academy v. Makin, (D ME, filed 6/13/2023), contends that the legislature enacted the new provisions to exclude religious schools after the U.S. Supreme Court in Carson v. Makin invalidated a requirement that participating schools be nonsectarian. The...

The Pope’s June 14 address to the committee failed to mention Jesus Christ. Its only reference to God was a claim that peace is His ‘dream for humanity.’VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has issued a message to a special session of the United Nations Security Council convened to promote the “human fraternity” the Pontiff espouses. In a special meeting June 14, the U.N. Security Council members met specifically to discuss “the values of human fraternity in promoting and sustaining peace,” and did so by “building on” the 2019 Abu Dhabi document on human fraternity, which Francis drew up with...

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WASHINGTON — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Tuesday that he read two additional FBI informant files related to an alleged $10 million bribery scheme involving President Biden and first son Hunter Biden — but that more than half of the content was redacted. Comer (R-Ky.) said that it was “a total waste of my time” to review FD-1023 files provided by the FBI at a secure reading room at the Capitol because the March and December 2017 files were so heavily blacked out.

Southerner orders for two Brits visiting Waffle House for the first time ever

Four children living in squalid conditions while being hidden from first responders were found in an apartment filled with “alcohol, drugs, sex toys” and a dead man, according to an incident report and outraged officials. “This is sickening,” said At-Large City Councilor Michael Flaherty. “I was informed by people at the scene that there were drugs, alcohol, sex toys all around the apartment as well as a dead body on the floor.” That fire department report, obtained by the Herald and confirmed by police response, states that a BFD crew was sent to Old Colony Avenue Saturday morning for a...