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The burning of a Quran outside a mosque in Sweden on one of the holiest days in Islam sparked outrage Wednesday in many Muslim countries and widespread condemnation of Swedish authorities. *** MORE

Joshua Miller, who serves as the Senate Democrat policy chairman, is accused of keying the vehicle that had been parked next to his own at the Garden City Center in Cranston, Rhode Island, on Thursday. The son of the car's owner immediately reported the incident to the police, stating that he heard a scratching noise and got out of the vehicle to see Miller holding a set of keys. When he confronted Miller about keying his vehicle, Miller simply denied it and walked away. That was until police arrived and charged Miller with a misdemeanor. The entire episode led to...

Bud Light has resorted to giving away free beer over the Fourth of July in a desperate bid to reclaim its dwindling market share after the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco. Although the promotion won't make a 15-pack of Bud Light completely free, customers can submit a rebate offer for $15 to make a big saving on a pack of cold refreshments this holiday weekend. The beers have to be purchased between June 15 and July 8 to be eligible and consumers will be reimbursed through a prepaid card. The rebate has to be submitted by July 22 and the card is...

Explanation: Monitoring 68 pulsars with very large radio telescopes, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has uncovered evidence for the gravitational wave (GW) background by carefully measuring slight shifts in the arrival times of pulses. These shifts are correlated between different pulsars in a way that indicates that they are caused by GWs. This GW background is likely due to hundreds of thousands or even millions of supermassive black hole binaries. Teams in Europe, Asia and Australia have also independently reported their results today. Previously, the LIGO and Virgo detectors have detected higher-frequency GWs from the merging...

Now the dust has settled, it’s clear that Fox News was far more important to Carlson than he was to Fox News — a result that might surprise the Tucker Stans, who insisted his departure was Fox’s death knell.

I live in Yakima, Washington. I just want to thank Jay Inslee, the Democrats and Rinos in the Legislature and all those liberals who voted for these imbeciles for passing Cap and Trade.In the last month or so, gas prices, here, have increased a dollar a gallon.I would greatly appreciate it if they all would shout from the rooftops how great their votes and policies are benefiting all of us. Thank you for your caring. (Sarcasm)

Whoopi Goldberg has slammed SCOTUS for outlawing race as a factor in college admissions - saying they've 'upset' the precedent. The View co-host, 67, said that if everyone was truly treated equally there would have never been a need for affirmative action in the first place. The Supreme Court banned colleges from using race as a factor when admitting students in a landmark ruling on affirmative action Thursday. The justices decided in a 6-3 vote that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)'s race-based affirmative action admissions policy is unconstitutional. Goldberg said on The View following the ruling:...

VIDEOA compilation of liberal meltdowns over the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Affirmative Action.

President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended affirmative action in college admissions - and said it is proof discrimination 'still exists in America'. 'This is not a normal court,' Biden said of the conservative-majority bench that ruled race-based admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) are unconstitutional. 'I know today's court decision is a severe disappointment to so many people, including me, but we cannot let the decision be a permanent setback,' he said in remarks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. In two rulings on Thursday, the...

WASHINGTON — President Biden implored colleges and universities Thursday to consider applicants’ socioeconomic status and their experience with overcoming adversity — including racial discrimination — after the Supreme Court ruled that race cannot be used to determine who is admitted. “Today I want to offer some guidance to our nation’s colleges,” Biden said at the White House shortly after the ruling. “What I propose for consideration is a new standard where colleges take into account the adversity a student has overcome when selecting among qualified applicants.” The Supreme Court ruled in lawsuits against Harvard University and the University of North...

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has slammed Bud Light for hiring her for their disastrous campaign – saying that they failed to 'publicly stand by' her after the backlash. The 26-year-old posted a video on Instagram addressing the debacle, which has seen Anheuser-Busch lose $20million in market cap value since the advert for March Madness. Speaking to her 1.8million followers, she said: 'I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me, but they never did. I've been scared to leave my house. 'For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse...

“People around me always saw me as a typical Harvard man,” Calvin Yang said. “It was like my dream.” His application was stellar: a GPA over 4.0, a 1550 on the SAT and two varsity sports. Yang had also founded a policy startup in Canada that helped pass landmark legislation aimed at tackling climate change, landing him a spot on Canada’s 30 under 30 list. He even co-organized what was called the largest climate protest in American history, attracting over 300,000 people. The 21-year-old did everything in his power to become the “Harvard man” he had always dreamed of being....

Mr. Neiberg's presentation to the National Security Seminar and the class of 2018 during their capstone week.Michael S. Neiberg - Why the US Entered the First World War and Why it Matters | 54:46USArmyWarCollege | 57.7K subscribers | 40,164 views | June 14, 2018

Did paganism survive all through the Middle Ages, as scholars once thought, remaining the religion of the common people, while the elite had embraced Christianity? Or did it die out earlier?This lecture will consider a broad range of evidence, including figures in seasonal folk rites, carvings in churches, the records of trials for witchcraft and a continuing veneration of natural places such as wells. It will also compare ancient paganism and medieval Christianity as successive religious systems.A lecture by Ronald Hutton recorded on 7 June 2023 at Barbican Centre, London.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from...

On a recent steamy Sunday afternoon, customers strolled through the aisles of Glenn Miller’s Beer & Soda Warehouse, where overhead fans circulated the hot air. People heading to picnics, graduation parties and other get-togethers in Lemoyne, a Pennsylvania community just across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, breezed into the store, passing myriad displays of beers, with cases of top brands stacked high. Next to 30-packs of Miller Lite, on sale for $24.99, sat a stack of Bud Light. A large banner above it noted that, after a rebate, a 30-pack cost a mere $8.99. Andy Wagner, the manager and an...

The Chinese-backed World “Health” Organization (WHO) was perfectly happy to let a deadly virus kill 7 million people worldwide. But heaven forbid people enjoy a Diet Coke. According to Reuters, the disgraced organization is set to declare aspartame, one of the world’s most common artificial sweeteners, a possible carcinogen (cancer risk) next month. As the Guardian notes, aspartame is used as a sweetener in thousands of products globally such as Coca-Cola diet sodas, Mars’ Extra chewing gum, some Snapple drinks, Mentos, and ice cream. Reuters says it will be listed in July as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” for the first...

A few months ago, I was summarily fired as an editor-in-chief of the kidney section of the most widely used medical reference. UpToDate is used by tens of thousands of physicians every day, helping them make the best and most timely decisions for patient care. Even as I was fired, UpToDate’s leadership team praised my work. So why did they fire me? Over the previous four years, I had publicly questioned the rise of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI, in health care, expressing particular concern about its ubiquity in medical schools. That included the institution where I taught and...

I am currently posting free excerpts from The ABCs of Survival: Safety Tips for Every Kid, Including Students with Special Needs (ADHD, Autism, Learning Disabilities, and More) (Educational Elephant’s Guide), at https://enjoyablelearning.substack.com.

Walgreens is set to shutter 150 stores after slashing its earnings forecast due to lessening demand for Covid-19 tests and vaccine shots. Shares in the pharmaceutical chain plummeted to $28.64 on Tuesday - their lowest level in more than 11 years - prompting drastic cost-cutting measures from executives. Last night the firm confirmed all the closures will take place by the end of August 2024. As of midday Thursday its shares were sitting at $28.59, down 30 percent from last year. Walgreens said it had been hit especially hard by the end of the pandemic which saw demand for its...

Right after Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman got a phone call. Whitman, a Republican, had endorsed Biden in the race against then-President Donald Trump. Now, the caller said, Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris wanted her cell number. No one ever called. Whitman was part of a cohort of prominent Republicans who broke with the party in 2020. Fed up with Trump, they gravitated to Biden’s campaign thinking he would be a unifying figure. Former Rep. Christopher Shays, a Republican from Connecticut, endorsed Biden in 2020 but says he is now...