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Billionaire Bill Gates has bought a whopping 1.7 million shares of Anheuser-Busch, the anti-American umbrella company of Bud Light. Gates bought the Anheuser-Busch shares through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Gates’ shares have a market value of $95 million, according to TipRanks. The Microsoft founder’s investments come as Anheuser-Busch is still dealing with the fallout from its disastrous partnership with transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Is this another reason never to drink Bud Light Again? While Anheuser-Busch may be enjoying the influx of cash, the Bill Gates name being added to Bud Light, a brand that wants humans...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. James Martin says Christ raising Lazarus from dead is ‘invitation’ for ‘LGBTQ people’ to ‘come out’‘Coming out’ is ‘especially important for LGBTQ people,’ since it means to accept ‘the way that God made you,’ the heterodox Jesuit blasphemously said.In his recently published book, Father James Martin, SJ, has argued that Christ’s command for Lazarus to “come out” of the tomb is an “invitation” for individuals who identify as “LGBTQ” to “‘come out’ into the sunlight of God’s love.”Published by HarperCollins on September 5, Come Forth: The Promise of Jesus’s Greater Miracle is the latest book offering from...

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930’s, 40’s and50’s !! First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank-While they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs Covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads. As infants and children, we would ride...

A Florida man is facing federal criminal charges after he attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to England in a human-sized hamster wheel contraption, officials said. Ray "Reza" Baluchi was charged with obstruction of a boarding and violation of a captain of the port order, according to a criminal complaint. On Aug. 26, US Coast Guard officers stopped Baluchi after spotting him on his homemade vessel approximately 70 nautical miles east of Tybee Island, Georgia. It was then that he told officials he was headed to London, court documents said. Officers deemed his hamster wheel – which was...

New Covid boosters are set to be rolled out as early as next Wednesday — after tests showed they trigger protection against new variants. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mandy Cohen, is expected to sign off on the shots on September 13, making them available. CDC experts are yet to say who will be offered the updated vaccines, but the White House previously suggested they would be made available to all age groups. Only 17 percent of Americans have come forward to get a single updated booster since the two-dose regimen was expanded, amid growing...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that an important part of her job is the fact that she “may have to take over” if President Biden is unable to complete his term in office — and that she’s ready to do so if required. Harris was pressed on her readiness for the Oval Office during an overseas trip — after she initially tried to deflect a question about the 80-year-old Biden’s age by pointing to his legislative accomplishments. “Questions about the president’s age often go hand in hand with questions about how you would step in the role...

Transphobia, in basic terms, refers to any expression of fear or hatred directed toward folks who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming. Like other forms of discrimination and prejudice, transphobia often stems from a lack of understanding and insight around: what it means to be transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming the many careless actions and words that can cause harm While transphobia tends to decrease as awareness around gender increases, it remains a major problem in some communities. It doesn’t just cause distress by invalidating someone’s identity, though that’s harmful enough. It also often leads to hate speech, hate crimes,...

LOCAL NEWS New COVID subvariant identified in Delaware as cases continue to surge philadelphia BY STEPHANIE STAHL SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 / 9:15 PM / CBS PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A new COVID subvariant has been identified Tuesday for the first time in our area, in Delaware. This comes as cases are increasing now and also striking again in the White House. The First Lady has COVID, and the President has tested negative twice but will be wearing a mask when he's inside around people as a precaution. Doctors say because of her age 72, Jill Biden is at risk for...

LG&E and KU Energy LLC plans to move out of its Main Street office building, where it’s been for more than 30 years, according to Louisville Business First. The company, which is the primary provider of gas and electricity in Louisville, has plans to vacate its current headquarters on W. Main St., dubbed the LG&E Center. Natasha Collins, director of media relations with LG&E, said it will move to 820 W. Broadway, which currently operates as a business office for the company. The company took up 14 floors in the Main Street building, as well as a partially leased space...

JP: "In this video I share how my views on God and religion have changed over time."

Labor Day marks the start of election season, but with New Jersey Republicans eager to try to take back control of at least one of the houses of the Legislature for the first time in two decades, campaigning in some districts is well underway. Election Day is Nov. 7. In the 16th District in central Jersey, the Democratic ticket of Sen. Andrew Zwicker, Assemblyman Roy Freiman and Mitchelle Drulis sent out their first general election mailer before Labor Day, proclaiming they “fight for the issues that matter most to you and your family’s future.” They also slammed their Republican challengers...

He was so desperate to flee you'd have thought Will Smith was there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just when you thought the world couldn’t possibly get any stranger, the Burning Man festival has been placed on lockdown with nobody allowed to enter or leave after inclement weather turned the entire event in a sludgy pool of knee-deep mud. Of course, celebrities can always find a way to flee, but Chris Rock achieved it in the most unexpected of fashions. In another sentence that sounds ridiculous when you see it, the actor and comedian ended up walking for five miles through the goop with...

Burning Man is supposed to arrive and disappear like the desert breeze. Near the end of every summer, attendees of the multiday mega-festival venture to the Nevada wilderness. Their motto: “Leave no trace.” This year, thousands got stuck in the mud instead after about a half an inch of rain hit what is normally the driest state in the nation. Instead of leaving no trace, many self-described “burners” abandoned bicycles and vehicles on the drenched, muddy Black Rock Desert. Once an underground carnival for free spirits, Burning Man today is famous as a party spot for Hollywood stars, Silicon Valley...

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said the lengthy sentences handed down to Jan. 6 defendants “should be a warning” to former President Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election case. In an interview on CNN, Michael Cohen, who served as former President Trump’s fixer, warned that the 18 other defendants in the Georgia case are likely to face prison sentences that are “equally as painful” as that of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio.

Thanks to Bidenomics, code for massive Federal spending on green energy initiatives and payoffs fo large donors, we have agonizing inflation and consumers are borrowing more and more to cope with inflation. And with the increased use of debt comes …. drumroll … delinquenices! Let’s start with mortgage loans, the overall delinquency rate is 63bps, near record lows, likely due to the huge home appreciation of the last few years which padded the equity cushion for most homeowners. Even the youngest cohort (18-29 years old) has a delinquency rate only 30bps higher than the aggregate. Unlike the 2007-2011 period, the...

GENEVA — Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Last month was not only the hottest August scientists ever recorded by far with modern equipment, it was also the second hottest month measured, behind only July 2023, WMO and the European climate service Copernicus announced Wednesday.

Former NFL wide receiver Mike Williams reportedly died on Tuesday at the age of 36. Spectrum News in Buffalo reports that Williams was working at a construction site when he suffered injuries in an accident. Williams, a Buffalo native, attended Syracuse University, and as a true freshman in 2006, he led the team with 461 receiving yards. He was an all-Big East selection the following season, but was suspended for the 2008 season for academic reasons.

Archaeologists discovered, well-preserved brain and skin remnants of two individuals dating to the Bronze Age during excavations at Tavşanlı Höyük (Tavşanlı Mound) in western Türkiye’s Kütahya province...The excavations of the mound, which spans an area of 45 hectares, are carried out by the Archeology Department of Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University. A team of 25 local and foreign experts accompanies the research carried out under the chairmanship of Professor Erkan Fidan.According to experts, the discovery was noteworthy because it was the first time that skin remains had been found during archaeological excavations in Türkiye, whereas brain remains had only been found...

The Department of Defense has identified the remains of a World War II soldier who went missing in 1944. The remains were confirmed to be 2nd Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., a Tuskegee airman of the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, in the European Theater. The DOD offered his history noting, “On Oct. 19, Brewer departed Ramitelli Air Base, Italy, as one of 57 fighters assigned to escort bombers to their targets in Regensburg, Germany.” “While enroute to their targets, the bomber group encountered heavy cloud cover over the Udine area of Italy, which forced several escort fighters to...

Doc-No-Go. New York City Comptroller Brad Lander rejected the city’s no-bid $432 million migrant housing and care contract with a medical services provider Wednesday — citing the company’s lack of expertise and other controversies. “My office did not make this decision lightly. After a careful review, we are declining to approve this contract due to numerous outstanding concerns,” Lander said in a statement about his decision to return the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s nine-figure deal with DocGo. There is “little evidence” to suggest that DocGo — formerly known as Rapid Reliable Testing NY LLC — had the experience...