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The New York Times is now changing its tune as the narrative from the White House crumbles regarding Democrat President Joe Biden’s role in his family business. The NY Times is now claiming that it “has long been known” that the president “interacted” with his son Hunter Biden’s “business partners.” The gaslighting shift in position from the corporate media outlet comes after Hunter’s longtime friend and business partner Devon Archer gave an explosive whistleblowing testimony against the Bidens before Congress on Monday. Archer was called to testify before the House Oversight Committee on the Biden family business. He confirmed to...

Comedian Jim Gaffigan called President Biden a "compassionate father" while arguing that Donald Trump is the more corrupt politician, with his actions leaving "very little doubt" in Gaffigan's mind that Trump is the "most corrupt" high-ranking official. On episode #2014 of "The Joe Rogan Experience," Rogan hosted Gaffigan, who spoke about financial and political corruption and remarked that he felt Joe Biden's corruption paled in comparison to Trump's.

Investigative news outlet Project Veritas on Monday released an audio recording in which Ashley Biden appears to confirm her ownership and the authenticity of a diary that fell into the outlet's possession. Veritas first obtained the diary after tipsters called the outlet, claiming they obtained the diary and other materials that the president's daughter left in a room. They also claimed that the diary contained damaging allegations on the then-presidential candidate. While the outlet maintains that it obtained the diary through legal means and ultimately opted against publishing its contents, the Department of Justice investigated the matter on claims the...

A warmly funny drama from the director andstar of THE BUCKET LIST. Morgan Freeman plays anauthor whose drinking has sapped his will to write,until a beautiful single mother helps him find hismuse again.

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis is subverting faith to the all-consuming ideology of ‘climate change’The priority of Pope Francis appears clear: faith and the practice of religion must always remain subservient to the ideology of climate change rhetoric.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– A leading Vatican cardinal has highlighted the current inversion of priorities at the Vatican, positing religion at the service of measures to tackle “climate change” in a recent address.For many years, one of the central themes of Pope Francis’ has been issuing firm warnings about impending catastrophes if action is not taken on matters of the climate. Such arguments have...

Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Matthew 13:36–43Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus explains the parable of the weeds among the wheat. God’s word creates the Church, the community of those who strive to build up the kingdom. But this Church is never absolutely pure and untrammeled, for God’s ways are opposed by a spiritual power, an enemy. His task is to sow weeds among the wheat—clandestinely, quietly, unobtrusively.This sort of coming together of good and evil is to be expected.The Church will always be a place of saints and sinners, and the sinners will...

Sunlight beats down on a graveyard for dead solar panels in Yuma, Arizona, hundreds stacked in neat piles, waiting for their next life. The great majority of worn and damaged panels are still dumped in landfills. But with more and more piling up, many people know that needs to change. In this desert city where Arizona, California, Sonora and Baja California meet, North America’s first utility-scale solar panel recycling plant has opened to address what founders of We Recycle Solar call a “tsunami” of solar waste. Plans to address climate change rely on massively scaling up clean, solar electricity. The...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) fired back at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) after the 2024 presidential candidate attacked a state law Pitzker signed letting non-U.S. citizens apply to be police officers. “This man isn’t smart enough to be president,” Pritzker said of DeSantis on Monday, writing a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “I proudly signed the bill allowing legal permanent residents & DACA recipients in IL to serve their communities as police officers. Our military already does it & it’s the right thing to do—no matter what lies the right-wing spreads,” Pritzker continued.

[Catholic Caucus] Argentine archbishop slams Pope Francis, Abp. Fernández for ‘doctrinal relativism’Francis ‘persecutes and liquidates those who do not keep up with the doctrinal relativism professed by the Latin American (Argentinian, we should say) officialdom,’ Archbishop Hector Aguer said.Argentine Archbishop Hector Aguer has criticized Pope Francis and Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández for promoting “doctrinal relativism.” Aguer said in a letter translated and published by the Rorate Caeli blog that the Argentinians Francis and Fernández have “colonized papal Rome.” He wrote that Francis “persecutes and liquidates those who do not keep up with the doctrinal relativism professed by the Latin American...

A social media influencer who extolled the virtues of a vegan diet of raw tropical fruit has died, reportedly of malnutrition, exhaustion and infections. Zhanna Samsonova, a Russian blogger who regularly posted about her extreme diet of raw tropical fruit on Instagram and TikTok, was living and working in south-east Asia. The 39-year-old claimed she had not drank water for six years, drinking fruit and vegetable juices instead. She regularly spoke of taking pride in the fact that people could not believe she was approaching her 40th birthday.

JPMorgan Chase handled more than $1.1 million in payments from Jeffrey Epstein to “girls or women” after the giant bank says it fired the sex offender as a client, a lawyer for the U.S. Virgin Islands told a judge Monday. Many of the girls or women had Eastern European surnames, the attorney, Linda Singer, wrote to Manhattan federal Judge Jed Rakoff.

The woman charged with drunkenly crashing into a golf cart, killing a just-married South Carolina bride, was visibly upset in court Tuesday as a judge refused to spring her from jail. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, breathed heavily and looked close to tears when she appeared at the proceedings via video. The New Jersey native was dressed in a striped prison jumpsuit as Circuit Judge Michael Nettles ruled that she will remain in custody while awaiting trial on a slew of charges related to the April 28 wreck that killed Samantha Miller, 34, and left the groom and two others seriously...

The police chief in a quiet seaside town hiresan ornery boat captain and a cocky young scientist to hunt down the shark that's preying on the locals. Starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary

New York Attorney General Letitia James and 20 other attorneys general have filed an amicus brief (pdf) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, urging a judge to reverse a lower court decision and allow Biden administration officials to continue to instruct social media companies on impermissible content. “An open dialogue between government officials and social media companies is critical to keeping Americans safe," stated Ms. James. The attorneys general say that states have taken actions similar to federal agencies, and are backing the Biden administration in their appeal. "Amici States, too, routinely engage with social-media companies...

When prominent conservatives called for a boycott of Bud Light earlier this month, after it partnered with transgender Tiktok influencer Dylan Mulvaney, former President Donald Trump remained uncharacteristically tight-lipped. … Indeed, Real Clear Politics noted that Trump is "MIA" on the boycott, ignoring repeated requests for comment from the outlet on the topic. … The Independent was the first to report on financial disclosures showing that Trump is an investor in the company that produces Bud Light. Trump's most recent 101-page disclosures form, which was filed with the Federal Election Commission on April 14, shows that Trump owns between $1...

Former President Donald Trump’s political action committee, which began last year with $105 million, now has less than $4 million left in its account after paying tens of millions of dollars in legal fees for Trump and his associates. The dwindling cash reserves in Trump’s PAC, called Save America, have fallen to such levels that the group has made the highly unusual request of a $60 million refund of a donation it had previously sent to a pro-Trump super PAC. This money had been intended for television commercials to help Trump’s candidacy, but as he is the dominant front-runner for...

The open source war is over, however much some want to continue soldiering on. Recently Meta (Facebook) released Llama 2, a powerful large language model (LLM) with more than 70 billion parameters. In the past, Meta had restricted use of its LLMs to research purposes, but with Llama 2, Meta opened it up; the only restriction is that it can’t be used for commercial purposes. Only a handful of companies have the computational horsepower to deploy it at scale (Google, Amazon, and very, very few others).This means, of course, it’s not “open source” according to the Open Source Definition (OSD),...

Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbley said he was “gonna have so much fun” gunning down his classmates the night before he killed four students and injured seven others, according to his recorded manifesto played in court Thursday. Relatives of Crumbley’s victims who attended the sentencing hearing heard audio of the killer chillingly declaring that he’d be the next school shooter and needed to “teach them a lesson” by carrying out the carnage at Oxford School. Crumbley, who has pleaded guilty to the massacre, made the shocking remarks in a manifesto he recorded the night before he went through with...

These are the shocking photos taken by investigators during the bust of an illegal biolab in a sleepy California town. Local and federal officials discovered a lab of horrors with suspicious links to China when they raided the unassuming warehouse in Reedley - home to just over 25,000 residents - in March.

Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to encourage the use of IPv6 instead.It is now four years since we officially ran out of IPv4 ranges to allocate, and since then, those wanting a new public IPv4 address have had to rely on address ranges being recovered, either from from organizations that close down or those that return addresses they no longer require as they migrate to IPv6.If Amazon's cloud division is to be believed, the difficulty in...