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A nonprofit group funded by Republican megadonor Peter Thiel appears to have donated $3 million to a group that has financed some left-leaning organizations and aligned with progressive elements of the Democratic Party, according to tax documents first reviewed by CNBC. The Thiel Foundation, a 501(c)(3) which the tech investor founded and funds entirely himself, gave the sum to the New Venture Fund in 2021, according to 990 tax forms. The New Venture Fund is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) group that for years has acted as a major funder for some groups aligned with the Democratic Party. It’s also known...

The U.N. atomic watchdog says its monitors at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant reported seeing anti-personnel mines around the site as Ukraine’s military pursues a counteroffensive against the Kremlin’s entrenched forces after 17 months of war. The International Atomic Energy Agency said its team observed the mines Sunday in a restricted area that is off-limits to the plant’s Ukrainian staff. The agency did not directly attribute the placement of the mines to the Russians but said its experts were told “it is a military decision, and in an area controlled by military.” “Having such explosives on the site is...

While James Brown was seen as the godfather of soul music, for many music critics Johnny Otis was considered the godfather of rhythm and blues. But what his many fans across the U.S.A. did not know was that he was actually a Greek-American. In his long career, Johnny Otis wore many hats, and he was a pioneer in many ways. He was a bandleader, talent scout, singer, drummer, church minister, journalist, television show host, and radio producer. Between 1950 and 1952, Johnny and his band recorded fifteen top 40 R&B hits. He discovered, produced, and promoted legends such as Etta...

In today's episode we go down the rabbit hole on all things dealing with Sound of Freedom, Tim Ballard, Angel Studios, Operation Underground Railroad, and reveal the truth about the FRAUDULANT activities connected to the Sound of Freedom and the people who funded it. We also bring Carlos Slim into the light and weigh all of the information before making the final judgment. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bXc2DpsVNa4 Run Time 12 m 9 s

In the latest sign of rising homophobia in different African countries, a Kenyan opposition MP is leading a campaign for parliament to further criminalise the country's small LGBTQ community.George Peter Kaluma's move comes after neighbouring Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejecting threats by US President Joe Biden to impose sanctions and travel restrictions on "anyone involved in serious human rights abuses". When I met Mr Kaluma - a member of veteran Kenyan opposition politician Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement - he was sitting behind his desk at his office in the capital Nairobi, proof-reading and making corrections to...

Self-proclaimed “Demon Buster” Florida Rep. Kimberly Daniels, D-Jacksonville, made controversial statements in the past that are now coming back to haunt her. Daniels, now a member of the African American History Task Force, is in the hot seat, along with the rest of the task force this week, regarding newly adopted standards for Black History education that some partisan politicians believe downplay the horrors of slavery. Daniels has tried to distance herself from the controversy and the DeSantis administration on the heels of Vice President Kamala Harris’s loud and inaccurate criticism. Still, past comments she’s made thanking God for slavery,...

Pope Francis' 'Zanchetta problem'The criminal conviction of Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta for the sexual abuse of seminarians has sent shock waves through the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Vatican. The conviction also raises questions about the credibility of Pope Francis, a close friend of Zanchetta, on handling abuse allegations. It could well cast a shadow over the pope’s signature reform effort, Vos estis lux mundi, promulgated in the wake of the Theodore McCarrick scandal.Bishop Zanchetta was sentenced to four years and six months in prison on Friday after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting two former adult seminarians. If...

It no longer appears to be alive.A Kentucky farmer shot and killed a mysterious creature he described as a chupacabra back in 2010, but sometimes the story resurfaces because the footage does show a very strange and not immediately identifiable animal. Whatever happened to the creature? The chupacabra is a cryptid originating in Mexican, South American, and Puerto Rican legend that translates to “goat sucker” by way of its hallmark association of draining the blood of livestock such as goats, sheep, cows, or chickens. The mythical critter of urban legend was popularly introduced to the North American audience via the...

1,400 pounds of cheese from Cooperstown Cheese Company, based in Milford, NY, have been recalled due to listeria concerns, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. The FDA issued a warning encompassing a number of the company’s cheeses that were purchased, sold and distributed through farmer’s markets, restaurants and retail stores from June 21, 2023 to July 10, 2023, over fears of listeria monocytogenes contamination. No illnesses have been reported as of Friday. Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The illness can be especially dangerous for pregnant women, as it affects...

A Wisconsin school district is being sued for keeping parents in the dark about a transgender-identifying teacher's male-to-female gender "transition," which elementary through high school students were informed of in class without prior parental notification. On the morning of June 5, the second-to-last day of the school year, all orchestra students at Northstar Middle School were required to report to the music room during homeroom period. There, the middle school students found orchestra teacher Jacob Puccio, a school counselor, and Eau Claire Area School District (ECASD)'s diversity, equity, and inclusion director, Dang Yang.

The 102-year-old Infinity Credit Union will stop handling coins at its five Maine locations on Sept. 1 as part of its merger with Deere Employees Credit Union in Illinois, becoming the first financial institution in the state to do so. The coins curtailment by Maine’s oldest credit union does not appear related to the shortage of them during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when business and bank closures slowed circulation. Deere said the change is to keep all of its credit unions, including the Infinity ones in Maine, under the same system focused on digital transactions. Infinity is the...

That’s the Biden administration’s explanation for why the president’s German shepherd Commander bit at least seven Secret Service members in recent months — sending one protection officer to the hospital. “The White House complex is a unique and often stressful environment for family pets, and the First Family is working through ways to make this situation better for everyone,” said Elizabeth Alexander, communications director for first lady Jill Biden, in a statement Tuesday. Commander, approximately 23 months old, replaced former first dog Major — another German shepherd who also bit many Secret Service members. Commander’s bites, first reported by The...

It turns out that Barack and Michelle Obama were on Martha’s Vineyard at the same time their personal chef drowned under mysterious circumstances. Obama’s office previously claimed that the former president and his wife were not present at the residence when Tafari drowned. Now they are altering the story to say they were indeed on the property.

Washington state's leader said voters must reject "climate deniers" like TrumpThe record-high temperatures recorded around the world show "the climate change bomb has gone off" and Americans must push "further and faster" for solutions -- including voting against "climate deniers" like former President Donald Trump -- Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday."What the scientific community is telling us now is that the Earth is screaming at us," Inslee said.In an interview with ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz, Inslee, one of the Democratic Party's loudest voices on addressing climate, spoke gravely about the threat of a changing world: "The fuse...

In its latest foray into the realm of historical falsification, the New York Times on Tuesday published a news analysis pinning the blame for World War II on the Soviet Union. The lengthy article authored by Andrew E. Kramer, entitled “A Current War Collides with the Past: Remnants of World War II in Ukraine,” makes no mention of either the Holocaust or the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet people.The article is only the latest historical lie by the Times in the service of the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine.From the war’s start, the Times has attempted to legitimize...

Hunter Biden's paintings have been bought by a top Democratic donor and the lawyer who has caught smoking a bong during a visit from the First Son last week, a bombshell new report has revealed. Despite a White House promise that all purchasers' identities would be kept a secret, two names have been revealed: Los Angeles-based real estate investor and Democratic donor Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali and Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris. In July 2022, eight months after Hunter's exhibition opened in New York City, Joe Biden appointed Naftali to the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. It's not clear...

All administrations search for a slogan to mobilize support and communicate with the public. For Donald Trump it was “Make America Great Again.” For Joe Biden it is “an economic policy for the middle class” — or, in shorthand, “Bidenomics.” Rooted in the philosophical foundation of the Democratic Party with its pro-labor, pro-union, Big Government orientation, Bidenomics is the polar opposite of the Reaganomics that President Biden and his acolytes increasingly lambast. While Reaganomics has been out of favor for some time now, since “trickle down” economics never panned out, the Reagan years are still hailed as one of the...

China’s foreign minister Qin Gang was removed from office on Tuesday, state media reported, after not being seen in the public eye for a month. There are reports of honey pots and sex slaves. A confidant of President Xi Jinping, he might have fallen from grace or was subject to an official investigation. According to WION News, the story going around is that he was caught in a honey pot scandal. He has disappeared from public life or just disappeared. “China’s top legislature voted to appoint Wang Yi as foreign minister… as it convened a session on Tuesday,” state media...

DeSantis, long considered former President Donald Trump's chief rival in the GOP's 2024 primary contest, has cut a third of his campaign staff — or 38 people, according to campaign aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal campaign strategy. "Following a top-to-bottom review of our organization, we have taken additional, aggressive steps to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden," DeSantis campaign manager Generra Peck said in a statement. "DeSantis is going to lead the Great American Comeback and we're ready to hit the ground...

Communist North Korea invited officials from its closest allies, China and Russia, to attend festivities marking the anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement scheduled for this Thursday — the first time Pyongyang has invited foreign dignitaries to the country since the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic began. The Korean War — which split the peninsula and pitted allies China and America against each other — has been technically ongoing since 1950, as neither side signed a peace agreement nor surrendered. The armistice agreement signed in 1953 ended active warfare, creating the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the Koreas and resulting in the...