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Drivers in the state of Washington are celebrating the official start of summer with an unwelcome sight: America’s most expensive gas prices. The average cost of regular gasoline in Washington state has jumped by 32 cents over the past month to $4.93 a gallon, according to AAA. That’s 7 cents ahead of California, which is notorious for its high prices for everything, especially fuel. It’s an unusual trend. California had held the unwanted title of America’s most expensive state for gas for roughly 95% of the time over the last few years, according to Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum...

Shocking video footage shows a Michigan cop punching a teenager in the face while booking him onto a suburban Detroit jail — then grabbing him by the hair and slamming his face into the floor. Warren police released the surveillance footage Tuesday while announcing that Officer Matthew Rodriguez, 48, had been suspended and charged with assault and willful neglect of duty, both misdemeanors. Police Commissioner William Dwyer called it “sad and upsetting to every member of this department.” “This is not what we do. This is not who we are,” he said, while praising two other officers for quickly reporting...

Where is the Ukrainian army’s 117th Mechanized Brigade? The answer to that question has implications for Ukraine’s 18-day-old southern counteroffensive, which has been making slow progress along several axes in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk Oblasts. Kyiv and its foreign allies spent months standing up, training and equipping nine new brigades specifically for the counteroffensive, plus additional brigades that would function as a reserve. But so far we’ve seen just three, maybe four, of the brigades in action alongside older Ukrainian formations. The 117th Mechanized Brigade is one of the missing brigades. Where the brigade is, and what it’s waiting for, could...

At the center of the Biden document cover-up is the question of who blocked the National Archives and Records Administration from informing the U.S. public about the classified records found in the president’s office in early November. The archives’ general counsel told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability that he couldn’t divulge that information, but GOP House leadership concluded that only Attorney General Merrick Garland or Biden himself could have given those orders.But there’s a third powerful name in play, this one from outside of the government: David Rubenstein. Co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm...

Four kids aged five to 10 have been taken into care after first responders found them hidden in a squalid Boston apartment surrounded by sex toys and drugs where a black trans woman was dead on the floor. Emergency services found the unidentified woman's body after an unconscious person report was made at 11am on Saturday morning. They were reportedly met by six men dressed as women, who were uncooperative and denied having children inside the home. The children were found jammed together in a cramped room, surrounded by filth and a stench permeating the air, hidden by an adult...

Since the beginning, every complex society has been based on a shared socio-cognitive operating system, a religion. Your religion says you must live a certain way. It tells you what is valuable and what is disgusting. It gives you your fundamental paradigm and ontology of belief through which you interpret the world. It tells you to read certain texts, listen to certain traditions of wise men, and meet with like-minded others at certain places and times. It tells you to avoid certain influences, and seek out others. It gives you techniques for structuring thought and mind and memory. When you...

Schoolchildren are being taught about anal sex and orgasms before they have reached puberty and set 'masturbation' as homework, secretive lesson plans reveal. Many teachers are 'indoctrinating' children with scientifically false claims about biological sex, presenting gender as fluid and furthering a narrative that people can be born in the wrong body. It comes as the NHS is facing a mass legal action from 1,000 families who claim their children were rushed into taking life-changing puberty blockers' by the Tavistock Centre. MailOnline has found graphic teaching material — including a sex manual for pre-teens — being taught to children in...

BOSTON (NewsNation) — The Horizon Arctic’s ROV discovered a “debris field” on the sea floor near the Titanic wreckage during a search effort Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The government agency said experts within the unified command were analyzing the information, but the debris has not yet been identified. A Coast Guard presser has been scheduled for 3 p.m. ET to discuss the findings.

A California mom has claimed her 19-year-old daughter was 'murdered by gender ideology' after the CPS removed her from her home because her parents didn't affirm her transgender identity. Abigail Martinez stood before the California Judiciary Senate last week to blame gender ideology for taking her daughter Yaeli's life. Yaeli Mozelle Galdamez died by suicide in September 2019, three years after CPS removed her from her mother's home. In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com in March 2022, Martinez accused her Los Angeles County school of encouraging Yaeli to take hormones and undergo gender reassignment surgery as a child, while failing...

A war of social media words between two of the world's richest tech tycoons escalated last night as Mark Zuckerberg agreed to a cage fight with Elon Musk. The Facebook founder, 39, posted on his Instagram stories 'Send me the location' sharing a screenshot of Musk's earlier tweet bragging: 'I'm up for a cage match if he is lol.' In response to a article by The Verge about the proposed bout between the two tech giants, Musk seemingly responded to Zuckerberg tweeting: 'Vegas Octagon'. The social media taunts - fittingly delivered on the respective platforms owned by the billionaires -...

Ukrainian missiles struck one of the few bridges linking the Crimea Peninsula with the Ukrainian mainland early on Thursday, cutting one of the main supply routes for Russian occupation forces in southern Ukraine as Kyiv pushes to drive them out. Vladimir Saldo, the head of the Russian-installed administration in occupied parts of Ukraine's Kherson province, released video of himself on the Chonhar road bridge, where craters had been blasted through the asphalt. "Another meaningless act perpetrated by the Kyiv regime on orders from London. It solves nothing as far as the special military operation is concerned," he said, vowing to...

President Biden caused an awkward spectacle Thursday morning, putting his hand on his heart for the Indian national anthem as he welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House. The 80-year-old commander in chief rolled out the red carpet for Modi, who has served as India’s prime minister since 2014, as part of a state visit to bolster the Washington-New Delhi alliance amid mounting tensions with Russia and China. The two, joined by about 7,000 guests, were treated to music from the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and a multi-gun salute as they stood shoulder...

A debris field has been discovered within the search area by a remotely operated underwater vehicle near the Titanic, the US Coast Guard has said. The US Coast Guard had predicted that the air supply in the vessel would run out at 12.08pm UK time on Thursday. It disappeared on Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean, some 435 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, during an expedition dive to see the wreck of the Titanic. Ships, planes and underwater craft from multiple countries were deployed to the area with rescuers searching a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean more than twice the...

Of all the games one would expect to go woke, “Call of Duty” would likely be last on the list. But the long-running shooter series now serves LGBT masters. The firestorm began when Activision Blizzard, the company behind the “Call of Duty” games, demonstrated its far-left loyalty in a series of tweets released in early June. The gaming giant gleefully crowed about how it aimed “to foster an inclusive, supportive, and judgment-free environment,” and how it was “excited to be a part of the Los Angeles Pride Parade on June 11th.”

Matthew 6:7-15Friends, today’s Gospel gives us the Our Father. It asks that God’s will be done “on earth as it is in heaven,” but biblical cosmology sees these two realms as interpenetrating fields of force. Heaven, the arena of God and the angels, touches upon and calls out to earth, the arena of humans, animals, plants, and planets.Salvation, therefore, is a matter of the meeting of heaven and earth, so that God might reign as thoroughly here below as he does on high. Jesus’ great prayer, which is constantly on the lips of Christians, is distinctively Jewish in inspiration: “Thy...

Radio talk show hostess Kim Komando recently researched the shopping app Temu. She says her research set off some alarms and warns the public to be cautious if they are using this China-based company. Seemingly overnight, everyone’s talking about Temu (pronounced “tee-moo”), an online shopping app that boasts deals that seem too good to be true, like $17 wireless earbuds, $1 “gold” necklaces, and $23 wedding dresses. Over 50 million Americans have downloaded Temu since it launched state-side in September 2022, after it gained traction with expensive Super Bowl ads promising to let you “shop like a billionaire.” Today, Temu...

"The first submarine didn't work, then a dive at 1,600 meters had to be abandoned." ********************************************************* While an international effort is underway to rescue those on board the Titanic-exploring submersible that has been lost at sea, a German adventurer, who once went on the same exploration, called the voyage a "suicide mission," as officials race against time before the vessel loses its oxygen supply. Arthur Loibl, 60, told the German outlet Bild that he went on the voyage in August of 2021 and immediately noticed a slew of concerning "red flags." VIDEO AT LINK........... "I was incredibly lucky back then,"...

... and claim they both have freak mutation to prove Covid was NOT engineered in a lab But independent UK and US experts say the scientists conclusions are flawed China has discovered two new coronaviruses lurking in bats – and state-funded virologists are parading them as proof Covid did not leak from a lab. Both pathogens harbour the same genetic quirk believed to make the pandemic-causing strain so infectious. Until SARS-CoV-2 spawned in China towards the end of 2019, no sarbecoviruses (the virus family it belongs to) had even been found to have a 'furin cleavage site'. Experts argued this...

In a high-profile public spat with little precedence between the airframe and engine giants, Pratt & Whitney executives are formally accusing Lockheed Martin of prioritizing its own bottom line by seeking an adaptive engine solution for the Joint Strike Fighter.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in a video statement after he was censured by Congress fantasized it was House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) being censured, not him. Schiff said after the vote to censure him passed, the subject of censure — him, in this case — is supposed to go to the bottom of the House floor, or well, to be reprimanded by members of Congress. “Something very surprising happened. After the vote passed, all of a sudden, Democratic members moved down into the well,” he said. “What happened is, it seemed like 200 of my Democratic colleagues filled the well....