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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie believes he is the man to match former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary field, asserting that the former president has “never run against somebody from New Jersey who understands what the New York thing is” and declaring that Trump “knows” that Christie is aware of “what his game is.”Speaking to the New York Times, Christie, who was head of his state during the “BridgeGate” scandal, told the outlet that Trump is one of the “most unskilled politicians I’ve ever met.”“I don’t think he’s ever gone up against somebody who knows how to...

Over the last year, a record number of people have moved to Florida. Specifically, in 2022 over 400,000 people migrated to the sunshine state. And statistics show that more high earners moved to Florida between 2019-2020 than any other state. Moreover, a recent study indicated that someone who earns in the high six figures and then moves to Florida from cities like New York City and San Francisco could save as much as $200,000 per year in taxes. However, one millionaire is swimming against the tide of this trend. He decided to move from Florida, (typically thought of as a...

Here are two articles from NYT about how #JoeBiden’s crime bill hurt black people. #HunterBiden smoked crack. Why did Hunter Biden get an exemption from Joe Biden's crime bill? https://tinyurl.com/476f28us https://tinyurl.com/4m4uwaxr #whiteprivilege #racism

Researchers in Japan are currently working on a medication that would allow people to grow a new set of teeth, with a clinical trial slated for July 2024.

A Baptist church in Texas is apologizing for comments about slavery made by a relative of the scandal-plagued Duggar family during a guest sermon in which he quoted a Bible verse about repentance. Mike Keller, father of Anna Duggar of reality TV’s Duggar family, made the controversial comments during a June 25 Sunday School lesson at Fairpark Baptist Church in Fort Worth. A clip of the sermon — which has since gone viral — showed Keller comparing the political protests of the current era with slavery. As part of a message on 2 Chronicles 7, in which God promises to...

Countries belonging to the United Nations’s shipping agency reached an agreement Friday to reach net zero emissions from shipping by midcentury. In the announcement, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said the deal will set a target of net zero by 2050 from shipping among its 175 countries, “taking into account different international circumstances.” Maritime shipping comprises about 3 percent of global carbon emissions. The agreement is “not the end goal, [but] it is in many ways a starting point for the work that needs to intensify even more over the years and decades ahead of us,” IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim...

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As details emerge about Madonna’s recent health scare, some sources are saying the Queen of Pop was far worse off than was originally acknowledged and that she had a “brush with death.” A spokesman for the 64-year-old star announced last week that she had been hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a New York City hospital after she was discovered “unresponsive” on June 24. However, an exclusive report by RadarOnline claimed Madonna had to be “brought back from the dead” with a Narcan injection when she was found. Narcan is a brand name for a generic drug known as...

Livin’ la vida Biden! The Biden Administration has got a line on you! Unfortunately that line is choking America’s middle class and low wages workers with inflation and rising interest rates. Auto loan rates are now up to 7.65%, a gut-wrenching 166% increase under Bidenomics. Average monthly payments also reached a new record of $733. That compares with $730 in the first quarter and $678 in the second quarter of 2022. Buyers were financed with an average APR of around 7.1%, the highest since the fourth quarter of 2007. 2 out of every 3 consumers who agreed to a $1,000+...

Stone tools found in the Philippines show microscopic evidence of some of Southeast Asia’s oldest plant technology, dating back 33,000 to 39,000 years ago.Unlike stone tools, prehistoric technology that uses plant fibres (like textiles and woven baskets) rarely survive very long in the archaeological record before breaking down. This is especially true in the tropics.In Southeast Asia, the oldest artefacts known to date made from plant fibres are about 8,000 years old...Stone tools found in Tabon Cave on the Philippine island of Palawan, are nearly 40,000 years old. Etched onto their hard surfaces are the microscopic marks of damage produced...

I’m not saying Hunter Biden snorted cocaine at the White House but if he did, I would expect it to look exactly like this.

Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food—and now there's new evidence they did so long before scientists was previously thought.Published in Quaternary Science Reviews, an Italian-led study of five ancient grindstones from around 39,000 to 43,000 years ago shows that milling for food dates back to the transitional period between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens...The Neanderthal-to-Homo sapiens period was characterized by the coexistence of the Late Mousterian (Neanderthal), Uluzzian and Protoaurignacian (H. sapiens) techno-complexes in the northwest and southwest of present-day Italy.The grindstones come from...

World's richest man pledges allegiance to socialism, alongside other billionaires Elon Musk, cisgender slur demarcator and world’s richest man, runs a little car company called Tesla. Tesla sells cars in China, where the EV market has seen months of constant price cuts as part of an ongoing war for sales numbers. But now, thanks to a letter from China’s government, that price war may be over — all in the name of socialism. Or, thanks to Musk, it may not be going anywhere. Earlier this week, Tesla signed on to a letter from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information...

The Chinese government propaganda outlet Global Times mocked the ongoing mystery of the discovery of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House in a column Thursday, calling America generally “drug-infested” and condemning reports that law enforcement may not be able to identify the cocaine’s owner as “ridiculous.” The state outlet also used the scandal as an attempt to absolve the Chinese Communist Party of its substantial role in global fentanyl trafficking and the ongoing opioid crisis in America. For years, law enforcement officials have accused China of selling precursor substances to Mexican drug cartels later used to make...

There’s absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex. No chance that would make it past the mag/security checkpoints. Family bypasses those.

Crusius pleaded guilty in February after federal prosecutors took the death penalty off the table. But Texas prosecutors have said they will try to put Crusius on death row when he stands trial in state court. That trial date has not yet been set. Joe Spencer, Crusius’ attorney, told the judge before the sentencing that his client has a “broken brain.” “Patrick’s thinking is at odds with reality … resulting in delusional thinking,” Spencer said.

CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer just can’t seem to ever catch a break in his favor. He made yet another premature prediction that ended up crashing and burning just hours later. Cramer predicted during the July 6 edition of his show that “red-hot” numbers by the Bureau of Labor Statistics were set to drop following ADP Research Institute’s recent report suggesting 497,000 private sector jobs were added to the economy in June. The BLS numbers were supposedly going to be “more impactful than ever,” chimed Cramer. “I think we’re going to see a smoking hot [BLS] jobs number and...

Full title: Woke confectioners Ben & Jerry's on a losing streak after anti-American July 4 post: Parent company loses $2B, Indian chief demands land under its HQ The woke ice cream company Ben & Jerry's scorned the United States on July 4, telling Americans their country "exists on stolen Indigenous land" and to return it. Patriots and prospective customers did not take too kindly to the confectioners' latest anti-American outburst, with some committing to giving the company the "Bud Light" treatment.

<p>President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI—under its fourth consecutive weaponized director—are in danger of subverting the American system of law.</p><p>They are in various ways undermining the tradition of self-reported income tax computation and voluntary compliance.</p>

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts present at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have in recent days and weeks inspected parts of the facility – including some sections of the perimeter of the large cooling pond – and have also conducted regular walkdowns across the site, so far without observing any visible indications of mines or explosives, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. The IAEA experts have requested additional access that is necessary to confirm the absence of mines or explosives at the site, Director General Grossi said. In particular, access to the rooftops of reactor units 3...