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FILE - A biker stops to look at a pile of e-bikes in the aftermath of a fire in Chinatown, which authorities say started at an e-bike shop and spread to upper-floor apartments, Tuesday June 20, 2023, in New York. Federal officials are looking into cracking down on defective lithium-ion batteries that power hoverboards, scooters and motorized bicycles because of a rash of deadly fires caused by exploding batteries. The effort comes as New York City implements new laws meant to reduce the number of fires, injuries and deaths in a city where e-bikes have become ubiquitous. NEW YORK (AP)...

President Biden's Justice Department is facing heat over developments that transpired during Hunter Biden's first court appearance on Wednesday. Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart, and he pleaded "not guilty" as federal prosecutors confirmed he's still under federal investigation. The president's son was expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax as part of the plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge. Critics have since set their sights on the Justice Department following the development. Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation, said...

A master of war but a passionate advocate for peace, Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower stood in the shadow of the Capitol on January 20, 1953, and became the first president to draft and deliver his own prayer prior to taking the oath of office. In his pledge to preserve, defend, and protect the Constitution of the United States he invoked the Almighty to remind a national audience of the challenge before them and the responsibility of every elected official, regardless of party affiliation.

As bosses praise his 'genuine love for the brand' By His eye for youthful beauty is no secret. But now Leonardo DiCaprio can combine business with pleasure whenever he hotfoots it to London. In recent weeks, the Oscar winner, 48, has been repeatedly spotted at the trendy Chiltern Firehouse restaurant with Coventry-born supermodel Neelam Gill — who, incidentally, is the same age as 28-year-old model Gigi Hadid, with whom he was linked last year. But it’s not just a beautiful woman bringing him to the capital. I can reveal that the star, said to be worth £230million, has put a...

President Joe Biden’s dog, Commander, reportedly bit or attacked Secret Service agents as many as 10 times between the months of October 2022 and January 2023. One incident involving the dog reportedly required a hospital visit for the Secret Service agent, according to records from the Department of Homeland Security that were released following a FOIA request by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. Per the Associated Press: On Nov. 3, 2022, a Secret Service official emailed colleagues that Commander had bitten a uniformed officer twice — on the upper right arm and thigh. Staff from the White House medical...

CHICAGO — A man charged last month with committing a series of armed robberies in the Loop is now accused of committing even more holdups in the neighborhood, Chicago police said Wednesday. Jorge Gonzales, 23, has only lived in Chicago for about six months, officials say. But he’s making quite a splash if the allegations against him are true. Late last month, prosecutors said Gonzales and another man rode bikes from one robbery to another early on June 25 and ultimately carjacked a man. So far, Gonzales is the only person officials have charged. The June 25 spree began around...

Let’s say that Ruby Freeman is 100% innocent and did nothing wrong.That doesn’t change the following information.On the night of the election in November 2000, CBS News aired a TV report called “Pipe burst in Georgia delays vote counting.”You can watch it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25DAAHZdEwAlso on the night of the election, ABC News tweeted: “The election department sent the ballot counters at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta home at 10:30 p.m., Regina Waller, the Fulton County public affairs manager for elections, tells ABC News.”Here’s that tweet:https://twitter.com/abcpolitics/status/1323846118208376834NEW: The election department sent the ballot counters at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta home...

Are biblical creationists backward folk, doing their utmost to explain away allegedly powerful scientific evidences in favour of deep time, big bang, abiogenesis (life from non-life), and neo-Darwinian evolution? That is certainly the perception among many people. For example, Richard Dawkins couldn’t resist a dig at creationists in his most recent book, Flights of Fancy:“There are still some people who don’t believe in evolution, in spite of the overwhelming evidence in its favour. They want to believe that bird and bat wings, like plane wings, are produced by deliberate creative design: design by some kind of supernatural master engineer. They’re...

NBC News has been slammed online for a report about black people needing 'safe spaces' to enjoy outdoor activities. NBC BLK reporter Char Adams described in a recently-revived June essay several black-led outdoor groups working to 'provide safe spaces for black people to enjoy outdoor activities and dispel myths that the outdoors doesn't belong to us.' The report focused heavily on creating racially segregated 'safe spaces' so that black people can avoid 'harassment' and 'trauma' from white people who might fly 'Trump flags' at campsites. Adams explained that the groups were founded to combat racism from the Jim Crow Era...

A viral video blasting the Deep State, the indictment campaign against Donald Trump, and the state of U.S. election integrity has earned a hysterical reaction from RINO pollster and Biden family friend Frank Luntz, who called it “the most alarming political ad I’ve seen this year.”

A former community college Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) director and tenured faculty member is suing her former employer for allegedly stunting her free speech and academic freedom, telling Newsweek: "They literally marginalized me as an individual." Tabia Lee, who is Black, was recently terminated from her position at De Anza Community College, located in Cupertino, California, as a full-time, tenured member after working in the education field for approximately two decades. A 53-page lawsuit filed July 10 claims that she encountered a hostile department "illegally targeting White people on the basis of race." It also says she was accused...

Moldova says it will expel 45 Russian diplomats and other embassy staff because of their "unfriendly actions". Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 the Moldovan government has accused Moscow of spying and backing opposition groups. On Tuesday, Moldova's foreign ministry voiced concern about a media report on new surveillance equipment installed on the Russian embassy roof and a neighbouring building used by Russia. The report came from Russian investigative media site Insider and Moldova's Jurnal TV channel. Announcing the expulsion on Wednesday, the ministry said it was prompted by "ongoing tensions and unfriendly actions" and the Russians...

During my time in law school, on rare occasions, a student would be called on and either hadn’t read the case material or was utterly clueless about what they’d read. On those occasions, the professor would either move on to another student and ask a second student to explain why the first student was mistaken. Or the professor would ridicule the student with something like: “That’s not remotely what the facts are. Did you read the case?”On Tuesday, Megyn Kelly had Dr. William B. Allen on as her lead guest. In 15 minutes, Dr. Allen took apart the nonsense disseminated...

Kevin Spacey grew up and went to high school only a few miles from me. As close in geography as we might have been, we might as well have been from different planets. He was a theater nerd. I wasn’t.Spacey went to work as an actor, and as his fame grew and roles increased, some of the friends I grew up with who were actors or were in “The Industry” knew him by reputation. He was someone to avoid if you were gay. Spacey, it seemed, had a reputation for being aggressive. Don’t take my word for it, Spacey has...

A man was filmed having a meltdown inside an Ohio Petco after learning the location had a gender-neutral bathroom. Posted to TikTok Sunday, the clip has since gone viral, and shows the unidentified man relentlessly tearing into staffers over the store policy. While arguing with employees, the disgruntled shopper is heard slamming the increasingly common concept as 'stupid', while demanding they relay his distaste to their corporate bosses. Ever-defiant, the workers refuse the citizen's request - and cheekily advise him to take up those talks himself. The man eventually leaves the store, set on the outskirts of Cleveland, without incident,...

American universities are rushing to offer degrees in DEI when major U.S. corporations are laying off DEI-focused employees.American universities and colleges are rushing to offer students degrees or certifications in so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) when major U.S. corporations are reportedly laying off DEI-focused senior officers and thousands of employees.In the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020, American companies were under tremendous pressure from various stakeholders to do more for social justice and racial diversity in the workplace. One of the most vocal stakeholders in the corporate world is Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock, a trillion-dollar...

I took a pretty liberal girl on a date to see William F. Buckley back in college, which would probably scandalize the current senior staff of his National Review, but I bet it would have made WFB smile. Buckley was also a graduate of the Army's former Ft. Benning School for Boys, but since his death, the Officer Candidate School has become Ft. Moore School for Boys, Girls, and Non-Binary Two-Spirits. This change for the worse is emblematic of how NR's conservatism has failed to conserve much of anything. In Buckley's absence, NR has tried to stand athwart history yelling,...

Earlier this month, talk show host and former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage wrote an editorial in The Telegraph titled, “After my banking travails, I fear Britain is lost,” detailing his nightmare experiences with NatWest, one of Britain’s biggest banks. Farage told the tale of his accounts being deleted and his friends, family, and business associates being harassed for their political beliefs.PJ Media’s Athena Thorne covered Farage’s allegations.He goes on to detail his financial ostracization as bank after bank refused to accept his business, and he gives examples of other politicians — always conservative — to whom it has also...

Joe Biden banked his entire COVID-19 strategy on mass vaccination — so much so that the administration attempted vaccine mandates and even pushed for children, who are largely not at risk from COVID, to get jabbed. He warned about the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and a “winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated” in an effort to scare the public into getting vaccinated, boosted, double-boosted, etc., etc. Side effects? Don’t worry about side effects; they’re rare, we were told. Despite concerns about an increased risk of myocarditis, we were assured by public health officials that the risk of...

It is a small study, but a very disturbing one. We keep being told that injury to the heart from the COVID vaccine is very rare, but a study done in Basel Switzerland indicates that the rate of subclinical myocarditis after the COVID vaccine is hardly rare at all. In fact, in a study with only 777 participants with a median age of 37--all medical professionals getting the COVID vaccine–the incidence of elevated cardiac enzymes 3 days after injection was pretty substantial, at almost 3%. The CDC did a study and from that, they claimed the rate was 0.001%, or...