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President Joe Biden has mistakenly said "Iraq" when meant "Ukraine" twice in the last day. On Tuesday night, he referred to the "onslaught on Iraq" at a fundraiser in Maryland. On Wednesday morning, he said Putin is "clearly losing the war in Iraq." On two separate occasions in the last 24 hours, President Joe Biden has mistakenly referred to Ukraine as "Iraq." On Wednesday morning, as Biden spoke with a group of reporters outside the White House before departing for Chicago, a reporter asked the president if he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin had been weakened by recent events in...

An armed Texas couple got into a shootout with two would-be robbers at a gas station Tuesday, wounding one of the suspects, according to police. The chaos erupted after a woman saw two men get out of separate cars with guns in the parking lot of the gas station in north Houston around 5:30 p.m., police told Fox 26. The woman, who was armed, called her husband, who was also packing heat, to alert him of the danger while he was inside the store, cops said. While the two suspects were trying to rob the place, one of the men...

The publisher of Sports Illustrated and dozens of other magazines is reportedly negotiating to sell a majority stake in the company to Group Black, an African American-owned investment firm, according to a report. Arena Group, whose portfolio of publications includes Men’s Journal, Parade Media, and TheStreet, is in talks with Group Black, whose media and entertainment holdings include Essence, Afropunk, AfrolandTV, and Crater, according to the Wall Street Journal. Group Black, which was founded in 2021 by African American entrepreneurs Travis Montaque, Richelieu Dennis and Bonin Bough, bills itself as a “collective” devoted to “build[ing] solutions that accelerate inclusive spending...

The Indiana man behind bars for allegedly killing two teenage girls on a hiking trail in 2017 admitted to the gruesome murders multiple times in prison phone calls to his wife and mother, documents released Wednesday reveal. Richard Allen allegedly told his wife, Kathy Allen, and his mother “no less than 5 times” that he was responsible for killing 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German after he found them hiking alone just outside their hometown of Delphi more than six years ago. In one April phone call, Kathy — who told reporters last week that her allegedly murderous husband...

inger Demi Lovato pushed back against the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade one year ago with a new song. On June 22, Lovato, 30, took to her Twitter page to promote her new song “Swine,” which advocates for abortion rights. “It’s been one year since the Supreme Court’s decision to dismantle the constitutional right to a safe abortion, and although the path forward will be challenging, we must continue to be united in our fight for reproductive justice,” she wrote in the caption of a snippet of her music video. Advertisement - story continues below Lovato, who...

Outgoing United States Ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, says he regrets a recent tweet in which he equated the murder of Israeli civilians by Arab terrorists to deaths caused in IDF anti-terror operations. "I screwed up," Nides told Israel Hayom's Ariel Kahana in an interview which will be published on Friday. "I had just returned from Los Angeles when I got word of the attack. I was shown a draft of a tweet, and I signed off on it. But it was a stupid thing to do," he recounted. .....

Donald Trump has announced a new campaign proposal on United States immigration — barring “communists” and “Marxists” from entering the country. The Republican former president, who is making another bid in 2024, on Saturday said he would use “Section 212 (f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act” to “order my government to deny entry to all communists and all Marxists.” The announcement was reminiscent of Trump’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries during his first term… […] He also said there needs to be a “new law” to address communists and Marxists who grew up in America, but...

Editor’s note: This article includes offensive and explicit content. (This means BARF ALERT) New York City held its 53rd Pride parade Sunday. Here are some of the scenes from that parade and related events shared on social media. 1. ‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Coming for Your Children.’ In a clip that has gone viral on Twitter, marchers at the New York City Drag March, which was held Friday, chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” One holds a sign that says, “Drag isn’t for CISsies.” NYC Drag Marchers chant “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for...

When Elon Musk was taking over Twitter, he styled himself a free speech warrior. He repeatedly promised that all speech protected by the First Amendment would be allowed on the platform. This was met with sheer delight from many conservatives, libertarians, and others on the right. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), for example, heralded Musk’s Twitter takeover as “one of the most significant developments for free speech in modern times.” Right-wing media stars like Ben Shapiro similarly celebrated the takeover. I myself was optimistic, although more cautiously so. Yet since actually assuming control of Twitter, Musk’s taken a decidedly different approach...

OAKLAND -- Domingo Germán tossed Major League Baseball's first perfect game since 2012 in the Yankees' 11-0 win over the A's on Wednesday night at the Coliseum. It was the fourth perfect game in franchise history, and the first since David Cone against the Expos in 1999. After allowing 17 runs (15 earned) over 5 1/3 innings in his previous two starts, Germán entered Wednesday with the potential to make the wrong kind of history by becoming just the fifth pitcher in franchise history to allow seven-plus runs in three straight games. Instead, Germán snapped a streak of another kind...

A Walgreens in Dallas is quietly housing a transgender clinic where patients can go get referrals for transgender transition hormones like testosterone. Then they can stroll out of the clinic into the pharmacy and get their prescriptions filled. Walgreens has sparked backlash from its customers for offering to dispense abortion drugs “in any jurisdiction where it is legally permissible to do so” and for offering to pay for employee abortion travel. The corporation has a 100% score from the Human Rights Campaign, which means its internal policies are pretty much as far left as modern-day corporations can be. Even so,...

The C.I.A.’s concerns were not unwarranted. In 2019, the Russians undertook an elaborate operation to find Mr. Poteyev, forcing a scientist from Oaxaca, Mexico, to help. The scientist, Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, was an unlikely spy. He studied microbiology in Kazan, Russia, and later earned a doctorate in the subject from the University of Giessen in Germany. He was a source of pride for his family, with a history of charitable work and no criminal past. But the Russians used Mr. Fuentes’s partner as leverage. He had two wives: a Russian living in Germany and another in Mexico. In 2019,...

IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley on Wednesday appeared on Fox News to discuss Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal and DOJ corruption with host Bret Baier. Shapley told Bret Baier that Hunter Biden received around $8.3 million from China (Chinese energy firm CEFC), Ukraine, and Romania between 2014-2019. “Based on all the financial records that we did find, they’ve been analyzed – it was around $8.3 million he [Hunter] received,” Shapley said. “From who?” Bret Baier asked. “They came from China – from CEFC – came from Ukraine, and from Romania,” Shapley said. “And even the Burisma money…the 2014 and 2015 taxes years...

Wagner Group mercenaries appeared ready to clash with Russian soldiers defending Moscow from a sudden armed rebellion over the weekend. Hail-mary negotiations, mediated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, stopped the potential bloodshed in the capital. Lukashenko, a second-rate dictator and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has since seized on the opportunity to boast about how he saved Moscow from the mutiny — "humiliating" the Russian leader for being unable to do this himself, war experts say. After Wagner fighters captured the southern city of Rostov-on-Don early Saturday, they continued north toward Moscow as the city prepared its defenses...

Sources close to former President Trump say he has a plan for keeping Congress from ever again forcing him into “disgraceful” and “ridiculous” spending situations. If he returns to the White House, Trump will seek to resurrect authority that Congress stripped from the presidency almost a half century ago. What President Nixon squandered, his campaign promises, Trump will restore, namely the impoundment power. “A lot of you,” the former president told a New Hampshire crowd Thursday, “don't know what that is.” Indeed, few now remember it. Impoundment, if restored, would allow a president, in theory, to simply refuse to spend...

A New Jersey man is facing a fine of $32,000 for cutting down thirty-two of his neighbor's trees to improve the view from his $1.75m mansion of New York City's skyline. Grant Haber is said to have violated local legislation in the town of Kinnelon, New Jersey, that requires a permit to be acquired before removing trees. Haber is alleged to have hired individuals to cut down 32 mature trees on his neighbor Samih Shinway's property in order to get a better view of New York City. Pictures show the extensive mess left by those hired to take out the...

The harder Democrats hit Donald J. Trump, the higher his poll numbers go. On June 8, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal indictment against Trump for allegedly mishandling classified records. But rather than sandbag Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 37 charges pumped helium into the reelection odds of America’s 45th president. Trump’s Poll Numbers Rise Despite Indictment Ten days later, ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl was astonished to see Trump rising in public opinion after becoming the first former president to face federal prosecution. “A poll from Quinnipiac on a possible Biden/Trump matchup puts Biden at 48 percent,...

LGBTQ activists have defended a video of drag queens chanting 'we're coming for your children' during a Pride parade in New York City. The video of the incident sparked widespread revulsion online - but prominent allies within the community have now said that it was taken out of context. Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the NYC Drag March, defended the words that were chanted in the city over the weekend by crowds of people, including a topless woman. He told NBC: 'It's all just words. It's all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.' Griffin said he himself...

The long ordeal of Pride Month is almost at a close, but this festival would not be truly complete without prominent figures advancing the argument for child sexualization. Adults exposing themselves to random children on the street is de jure illegal; those who do so are criminals who should receive a prison sentence and a spot on the sex offender registry. ... Police now stand idly by as grown men enthusiastically display themselves to the public while confused children look on, hoping that some adult will recognize the absurdity of the situation. Officers ignore the law, knowing better than to...

A trans woman intentionally burnt her own penis in a desperate attempt to get it removed. The 57-year-old, from Australia, was born a man but felt that she had been living in the wrong body. The unidentified woman only sought medical help seven days after suffering a self-inflicted chemical burn injury. Doctors who shared her tale in a medical journal did not reveal how it happened. Gender-affirming surgery, which can involve removing the penis, is currently not covered by Medicare, Australia's national public health insurance. Instead, patients must seek costly private ops. While some local health authorities do provide clinics...