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As we enter the Christmas season in earnest, with decorating, gift shopping, and other seasonal activities keeping us busy, we cannot help but notice the unprecedented level of inflation everywhere we go. There are several reasons for these three years of price hikes, of course. It’s not all caused entirely by a single issue. But there is one major cause that outshines the rest: the cost of diesel fuel. What, you don’t buy diesel, yourself? You don’t have to. In many ways, the American economy itself runs on diesel fuel. Transportation costs – inbound and outbound, raw materials and finished...

The 72nd Annual MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT will be broadcast LIVE from El Salvador on Saturday, November 18th on YouTube, Roku or Telemundo in the United States, starting at 8:00 PM ET. The pageant's owners, JKN Global Group, out of Thailand, just filed for bankruptcy last week. This year's pageant will go on as scheduled. I always watch this contest on Telemundo because Latin American countries take this pageant very seriously and do a great broadcasting the event. They even have a pre-show scheduled as well. Two trans women, Miss Portugal and Miss Netherlands, will be competing amongst the 84 candidates....

News report on the expected opening of Interstate 10.

@elonmusk As I said earlier this week, “decolonization”, “from the river to the sea” and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide. Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.

CAPTAIN Shane Murdock says the air industry is ‘poised on the precipice of disaster’. A pilot for more than 40 years and a qualified air accident investigator, he has found official data that back up his claim of impending global catastrophe. He adds: ‘When correlated, the data indicate there is an enormous problem that is having, and will have, a significant impact on aviation safety worldwide. There is enough evidence to be sending out red flags.’ There have been many tragedies this year. Phil Thomas, a young graduate of the Cadiz, Spain, flight training academy, fell ill and died suddenly...

A typo resulting in a multimillion dollar property value assessment error is expected to affect multiple taxing districts in Kootenai County and delay the distribution of property tax notices. County elected officials convened Thursday for a special meeting to address an overvalued lakefront property in the Rockford Bay Area. An assessor valuation amendment signed Oct. 24 by commissioners and Chief Deputy Assessor Ben Crotinger indicates the front footage of the parcel, was mistakenly entered by an appraiser as 6,966 feet instead of 69.66 feet. The error caused the property’s valuation to jump from $1.4 million in 2022 to $54.3 million...

Citigroup (C.N) employees expect announcements about management changes and layoffs on Monday in the next phase of the bank’s sweeping reorganization ... Employees are awaiting more details about the scale of layoffs at the bank, which employs 240,000 people worldwide. .... Last month, Citi announced plans to cut management layers from 13 to eight as part of its biggest overhaul in decades. In the two top layers of leadership, Citi reduced 15% of functional roles and eliminated 60 committees, ... The third-largest U.S. lender will also eliminate co-heads of divisions and regional roles, cut 50% of internal financial management reporting...

Here you go, you guys. After McCarthy promised but failed to do it, House Speaker Mike Johnson has released the January 6th tapes — all 44,000 hours of them!

Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake alleges in a brief recently filed in an appeals court that Maricopa County violated state law by falsely stating voting machines were certified prior to the 2022 gubernatorial election. The brief filed Tuesday by attorneys for Lake, who ran a unsuccessful bid last year for Arizona governor, alleges county officials cut the seals on hundreds of voting tabulators, took out memory cards and reformatted them and made sure the tabulators rejected votes on Election Day. You can read the brief here: File : Lake Appeal.pdf“Maricopa’s ‘nothing-to-see-here’ arguments continue its pattern of false statements to...

House Republicans have begun releasing thousands of hours of footage from inside the Capitol from Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building. “This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in announcing the website, where videos will be posted throughout the weekend.

The families of Russian men drafted under President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilization last year have planned mass protests demanding their return home, amid reports that soldiers are being prohibited from leaving the military. The soldiers' relatives published a manifesto on the Telegram channel The Way Home on November 12 demanding that their men be allowed home, and inviting Russians nationwide to participate in rallies on November 19. Since 2014, protesters in Russia have faced punishment for holding demonstrations without the permission of the authorities. The RAND Corporation, an American think tank and research institute, said in a report in June...

A Washington Post/Monmouth University poll out Friday showed Haley at 18% of the vote among Republican primary voters, with Trump at 46%. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who has increasingly sparred with Haley in recent weeks — slipped to 7%, coming in fifth place behind former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (11%) and biotech mogul Vivek Ramaswamy (8%). Meanwhile, a CNN/University of New Hampshire poll of likely primary voters showed Trump with 42% support followed by Haley at 20%, then Christie (14%), DeSantis (9%) and Ramaswamy (8%).

Yes, tonight marks the forty-fifth anniversary of The Star Wars Holiday Special! A two-hour program so wildly WRONG and bewildering that it has never been broadcast again. George Lucas has publicly said that if he could, he would gather every copy of the special and set a torch to it.Here it is in almost pristine shape on YouTube. Do YOU have the stomach to watch two hours of Wookiee jabbering, Bea Arthur, weird acrobats, post-motorcycle accident Mark Hamil, Harvey Korman, Jefferson Starship, interstellar porn... well do ya??

Black women who reported experiencing racism may be at an increased risk of having a stroke, a new study finds. Participants who said they experienced racism in employment, housing and interactions with police had an estimated 38% higher chance of experiencing all types of strokes compared to Black women who didn’t perceive experiencing racism, the study found. The study, published under Boston University’s Black Women’s Health Study (BHWS), followed 48,375 Black women from 1997 to 2019 who were free of cardiovascular disease and cancer at the beginning of the study. Over the 22-year period, the study identified 1,664 cases of...

The nation's largest Christian university says it's fighting a $37.7 million fine brought by the federal government over allegations that it lied to students about the cost of its programs. Grand Canyon University, which enrolls more than 100,000 students mostly in online programs, said it's filing an appeal with the U.S. Education Department on Thursday. If it fails, the Phoenix-based school said it's prepared to file a federal lawsuit. In a 40-minute speech, university President Brian Mueller called the fine “ridiculous” and questioned whether the school is being targeted because of its faith affiliation. He noted that the nation's second-largest...

Yahweh is embedded in the DNA of every creation. DNA Christian author Steve Russell is sharing an interesting fact about our DNA of every creation. Did you know that the name of God is embedded in our every cell? There’s a code in our DNA that literally means Yahweh. “You know how an artist will sign their work so that in the future, it’s easy to see what the source of the work was,” Steve said. “So, in the human cells, in every human cell, there’s DNA. It’s a code that’s written in acid. ATCG is the name of the...

Joy Behar doesn’t necessarily believe people who say they love both Donald Trump and Jesus. In fact, on Thursday morning’s episode of “The View,” the ABC host argued that “that’s an oxymoron right there.” Behar’s sentiments came as she and her co-hosts were discussing Nikki Haley’s widely criticized proposal to force all social media accounts to be verified. During an interview with Fox News this week, the Republican presidential candidate called anonymous social media accounts a “national security threat” that she would address on “Day 1,” but was quickly dragged on social media for the idea (even by X owner...

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The studio is pulling ads as its 'Hunger Games' prequel hits theaters, while major advertisers Apple and IBM are also backing away from the platform.Major advertisers are pausing their ad campaigns on Elon Musk’s social media platform X. The film studio Lionsgate said Thursday that it would be pulling its ads from the platform, just as its Hunger Games prequel is hitting movie theaters. A spokesperson for Lionsgate confirmed the decision Friday. This follows in the wake of companies such as IBM and Apple pulling ads from the platform, in light of a new report from nonprofit Media Matters for...

Carjackings are on the rise in our nation’s capital. Leaders in the District have their hands tied trying to find a solution. Right now, the issue is glaring. Carjackings are up 104% in D.C., and police say that volume is overwhelming. Alarming statistics show more than 800 have occurred so far in 2023, compared to a little over 400 at the same time in 2022. Dowling told FOX 5 that there are often a lot of repeat offenders. D.C. police data reveals that 66% of arrests involve juveniles. The current D.C. law makes it difficult to hold young people accountable...