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President Biden has gained notoriety for sharing imaginative stories, including a recent false claim about being at Ground Zero the day after the 9/11 attacks. CNN senior reporter and political fact-checker Daniel Dale pointed out that the President has a recurring pattern of either "inventing" or exaggerating stories from his own life.

President Joe Biden made a bizarre claim in a speech Friday that he'd taught political theory at an Ivy League university - despite only serving there as a visiting fellow and honorary professor. Biden, at 80, the nation's oldest-ever president, was speaking at Prince George Community College in Maryland Thursday for an economic address he meant to contrast what he calls 'Bidenomics' with the police of predecessor Donald Trump. At one point, however, the president turned his speech to a common theme, that Democracy is 'under attack' when he suddenly discussed his time at the University of Pennsylvania. 'We got...

President Joe Biden delivered remarks on the economy in Maryland today with Democrat Maryland Governor Wes Moore. During his speech, Biden made an odd remark about Moore, stating, “Gov, my problem is your biceps are a little small.” During another portion of Biden’s speech, the President began violently shouting, screaming at the top of his lungs as a vein appeared on his forehead. Biden seemed to lose his cool. He can be quoted as shouting, “Same exact drug, made by the same exact company!” The screaming seemed to come out of nowhere, and drew an audible gasp from the audience....

CNN — A new Covid-19 vaccine is available — and recommended — for everyone ages 6 months and older, and experts say it’s best to take advantage of the protection it provides sooner rather than later. The shot — greenlit by the US Food and Drug Administration and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week — is different than previous versions, with a formulation that’s been updated to target newer variants of the virus that are currently circulating.

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new children's book portrays former President Donald Trump as a valiant orange whose quest to "Make Fruitland Great Again" is thwarted by a "cheating" banana resembling President Joe Biden. Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, ... , co-authored the forthcoming book, The Legend of Naranja, with her husband Andrew Gamberzky. Luna was elected as Florida's first Mexican-American congresswoman last year following a successful Trump-endorsed campaign. The Legend of Naranja, described on its website as being "loosely inspired by the 2020 presidential race," casts Trump as "Naranja"—the Spanish word for "orange"—and Biden as "Señor Banana." The book also describes Trump,...

We have received Richmond papers as late as Sept. 11, from which we make up the following interesting summary: THE SIEGE OP FORT WAGNER. HIGHLY INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF THE BOMBARDMENT AND THE EVACUATION. From the Charleston Mercury Sept. 7. The dawn of Friday last revealed a large United States banner -- the hated flag of stars and stripes -- flaunting from a work of the enemy within one hundred and fifty yards of Wagner. On the same morning, which, from imperfect information, we, in our last issue, erroneously reported as comparatively quiet, the enemy opened, just before 5 o'clock, with...

Trump [has] refused to endorse a federal ban on abortion, allowing some top rivals to get to the right of him on an issue that animates many conservative activists. ... That tension underscores the new reality the GOP finds itself in more than a year into the post-Roe era. While top Republicans were long able to simply declare themselves opposed to abortion, they must now contend with more complicated questions — including when access should be banned and whether uniform standards might apply across the U.S., even in states where support for abortion rights runs deep. “There’s a wide variety...

Multiple students at a Florida high school are facing charges after fights broke out on the grounds on September 12. District spokesperson Corey Dierdorff confirmed that 14 students were involved in two brawls that broke out at Zephyrhills High School in Pasco County at lunch time. One brawl took place in the hallway and the other in the cafeteria. According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, 13 students are now facing charges which include battery and disruption of school function. The students could also face 'discipline' from the district. Cell phone videos of the fights were being heavily circulated on...

Furious conservatives have begun boycotting Dove after the soap brand hired a Black Lives Matter activist notorious for destroying a white student's life over a remark she later admitted she may have 'misheard.' Carole Thorpe, from Charlottesville in Virginia, shared a snap of three bars of Dove soap tossed in the trash on learning the Unilever-owned brand had joined forces with Zyahna Bryant to push a 'fat liberation' campaign. Sharing her horror at news of Bryant's glitzy Dove gig, Thorpe wrote: 'After hearing that Dove Beauty chose Zyahna Bryant -who ruined Morgan Bettinger's life - for their 'fat acceptance ambassador,'...

At an event last week, a businessman suddenly pulled out his phone to show me his experience in a driverless taxi in downtown Beijing. In the video, a robotaxi impressively navigated a turn across several lanes of a busy road. Needless to say, the autonomous fleets roaming around an increasing number of Chinese cities are electric. The lasting impression, for him at least, was how far China has pulled ahead in the future of transport. Those at the Munich motor show last week came to a similar conclusion. Germany’s biennial celebration of its own automotive prowess was dominated by Chinese...

A homeowner shot a home intruder a second time after the intruder appeared to taunt the owner over the first gunshot wound he sustained, Georgia police said. Fayette County Sheriff Barry Babb told WAGA-TV that the incident unfolded at a residence on Thursday when the homeowner called police about an intruder. At the same time, the home's alarm company was alerting the police about an intruder.

Days after calling TikTok “digital fentanyl,” Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramasamy has joined the platform. “I’m officially on TikTok, we’re going to be on here a lot,” said Ramaswamy in his inaugural video. Just five days earlier, during a town hall in Okoboji, Iowa, Ramaswamy was singing a different tune. Describing the threat posed by China, which has been one of the key themes of his presidential campaign, Ramaswamy said, “This is Xi Jinping’s bet — you’re addicted to me.” “You’re addicted to the fentanyl that I’m pumping across their southern border. You’re addicted to the digital fentanyl that I’m...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump for claiming he doesn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation that the former president awarded him. “It literally says President Trump awards commendation. Is this the immaculate commendation or something like that? Did this just happen out of thin air?” DeSantis said in a radio interview with Jimmy Failla on “FOX Across America.” ... In January 19, 2021, Trump awarded Fauci and 51 other people who served on the Operation Warp Speed task force during the Covid-19 pandemic presidential commendations. “Give me a break, people need to take responsibility for...

The Dominican Republic had already begun building a wall at its border with Haiti. Then it cracked down on immigration, deporting tens of thousands of Haitians back to their impoverished and gang-ravaged country.Now it’s closing the border entirely. President Luis Abinader announced the Dominican Republic will shut all of its land, air and sea frontiers with Haiti starting Friday morning, amid a festering dispute over Haiti’s plans to construct a canal off a river that separates the two countries. The announcement Thursday afternoon significantly escalates tensions between the two nations, which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola and a long...

I want to thank the versatile governor of New Mexico, whose name I don’t care about, for being a communist and a fascist all at once. Now that may seem strange, coming from somebody who actually believes in freedom and actually defended it for 27 years, but I want you to hear me out. She may be an aspiring dictator and a mid-wit Karen brimming over with Xanax wishes and Chardonnay dreams, but she’s providing us with a valuable opportunity that we should take full advantage of. She has decreed that the constitutional right to keep and bear arms must...

The former county clerk in Kentucky who stood by her Christian convictions refusing to grant a marriage license to two men ordered to... North Korean Kim Jong-Un continuing his visit to Russia. Kim's train arriving early Friday morning at Komsomolsk on Amur in the Far East... Interest rates raised by the European Central Bank to four percent... In Brazil today the first court sentencing for a protester involved in the January 9th incidents at government buildings that resembled those of January 6th, 2021 at the United States Capitol... Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, indicted on three federal firearms charges... In...

On certain nights, behind some of your favorite restaurants, roving groups of dog owners set their posse of pooches loose on urban rodents. The sound of a rat screaming in the jaws of a terrier is the same sound that a stuffed squeaky toy makes. It seems so obvious. Of course the toys sound that way, because that sound awakens something deep in a docile dog’s neurons that says: Shake it. Shake it till it’s dead. It’s Saturday night. Flavia and Jigs, a duo of mother-daughter border terriers, are shaking a rat. It is already dead. On one side of...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) campaign is firing back on a report Thursday that DeSantis, as governor-elect, took multiple undisclosed private flights, claiming it “sounds like more Trump-legacy media collusion.” “It’s apparent the legacy media realizes that Ron DeSantis has the best chance to beat Joe Biden and the Democrats.” An investigation by The Washington Post, published Thursday, found DeSantis apparently took at least six undisclosed trips on private jets and accepted lodging and dining from wealthy donors in late 2018. The Post reported the trips took place between DeSantis’s November election and inauguration but were not reported as gifts...