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The interior of the destroyed Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis on May 29, 2020. A year after the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd, some businesses are still trying to recover. Judy Griesedieck for MPR News 2020 Many stores and other businesses along a busy commercial corridor in south Minneapolis have not recovered one year after riots and looting. But some merchants have been able to leverage grants and other aid to keep going, and even expand.

This is the moment a furious Vladimir Putin was told that 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers had fought their way 'deep' inside Russian territory for the first time in the war. Earlier today, Putin declared that Ukraine carried out a 'large-scale provocation' following a daring surprise assault on Russia's border region of Kursk, which saw thousands evacuated. Now, it has been revealed by Russia's chief of the general staff General Valery Gerasimov that 1,000 troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine went on the offensive to seize a section of territory in the Sudzhinsky district of Kursk. In an emergency meeting with...

Long-time political commentator Chris Matthews said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Vice President Kamala Harris is a natural leader like John Wayne’s cowboy characters. Host Joe Scarborough asked, “What were your thoughts about the rally last night?” Matthews said, “Well, one was the strength of Kamala Harris. I mean, she came off as a leader. She owned that whole room. Her confidence level was through the roof.” He continued, “I said after Barack Obama spoke in Boston back in 2004, we saw the first black president. I think anything is possible in this campaign now, and she proved it...

Handing women a note on a piece of paper laced with drugs!................... . 1 Minute video at link.................

Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff cut checks to a progressive legal group that pushed to defund the police and make Washington, D.C., a permanent “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants, documents show. Legal Aid DC, a nonprofit organization in the district that works on housing law and represents low-income clients in other areas, received a $1,000 donation from Harris and Emhoff in 2023, according to a copy of their joint tax return. In 2021, the couple also directed $1,000 to Legal Aid DC, a Washington Examiner review of financial disclosures found. News of the donations, which have...

Robert Jenrick has been criticised by Muslim parliamentarians for saying police should “immediately arrest” any protesters shouting “Allahu Akbar”, the Arabic phrase which means God is great. The Tory leadership candidate was speaking on Sky News about the accusations that police have been treating far-right marches and violence more harshly than other protests. Jenrick said on Sky News he had been angered by the way that pro-Palestinian demonstrations had been policed. “I have been very critical of police in the past, particularly around the attitude of some police forces to the protests we saw since 7 October. “I thought it...

Wait! We thought it was those scary right-wing Christian nationalists who were dragging their religion into politics! So what the heck was Joe Scarborough up to on today's Morning Joe, when he echoed some Bible verses about the coming of Jesus, but invoked it to celebrate Democrats having a couple of good weeks in the presidential race? "Gene Robinson, before we get to the news of the day, behold, you bring tidings of good news to Democrats east, west, north, and south, for unto them is born the reason for exuberance." Get the rest of the story and view the...

Michael Yon, a war correspondent, author, photographer and Navy Seal, author, historian Matt Bracken come on the podcast to discuss the Israel, Iran, Houthis, unrest in the UK, illegals flowing all over the world, Trump assassination attempt much more. Video is 2:26:13. Bookmark and watch at your leisure. Always an interesting show.

A Minnesota man excited that his Cybertruck is raccoon proof has been teased mercilessly that the critters think his expensive EV is a dumpster. And Wyoming auto experts agree with the raccoons. ====================================================================== A Minnesota man posted photos of how his Cybertruck withstood an assault by raccoons. What people have been quick to point out is the critters think it looks like a dumpster. (Cowboy State Daily Staff) =================================================================== After raccoons tried unsuccessfully to break into the covered bed of a Minnesota man’s Cybertruck, he went online to brag the the vehicle had proven itself “raccoon-proof.” It didn’t take long...

It has to be affirmed at the outset that we cannot impose Christianity at the point of a sword. Our weapons are not carnal (2 Cor. 10:4-5). But our weapons are in fact mighty, and after they pull down strongholds, and a Christian consensus develops as a result of effective evangelism and church planting, we find that we still have these swords. What shall we do with them? So absolutely, swords do not create Christians. But can Christians create righteous swords? Can anything be done with these things? The issue is not whether swords can make men Christian. They cannot....

Scholars made significant advancements in understanding ancient Mesopotamian culture through the translation of 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets that interpret lunar eclipses as ominous signs, Live Science reported Tuesday. These tablets, which were discovered over a century ago and are now part of the British Museum’s collection, detail predictions of death, destruction and disease linked to specific celestial events, according to Live Science. The research, conducted by Andrew George, an emeritus professor of Babylonian at the University of London, and Junko Taniguchi, an independent researcher, was published in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 'A king will die': 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets...

Far-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman hailed Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision to add Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to the Democratic ticket — declaring in an enthusiastic video that their victory would give Americans “real freedom.” Bowman (D-NY) uploaded the gushing video as he was leaving Harris’ campaign rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, when she introduced Walz as her running mate just a few hours after announcing the surprising pick. Just leaving the Harris Walz rally! We're bringing JOY back into politics! This is all about centering education, working people, real freedom and love. Let's keep it going! pic.twitter.com/gEG3uHuVXz — Rep....

Republican VP nominee JD Vance delivers remarks from a campaign event in Detroit one day after Kamala Harris tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. #foxbusiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7JZoP4rMpQ

The Paris Olympics will be providing athletes with 300,000 condoms — enough for two per person for every day of the games. The condoms will be available in the Olympic Village this summer, returning to tradition after the International Olympic Committee issued an intimacy ban and social distancing orders for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The roughly 9,000 athletes will each also be supplied with a cardboard bed frame sturdy enough to support 550 lbs — or two adults. "It is very important that the conviviality here is something big," Laurent Michaud, director of the village,...

Politico and Bloomberg Opinion have just been exposed engaging in grotesque journalistic malfeasance just to suck up to the Biden-Harris White House. The Functional Government Initiative (FGI) unveiled another trove of documents of damning communications from 2022 through open records requests, giving MRC Business exclusive access. The documents reveal the extent to which the Biden-Harris Treasury Department had editorial influence over Politico and Bloomberg Opinion. A Politico reporter forwarded his pay-walled Politico Pro piece slapping down worries of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hiring 87,000 new employees to a Biden-Harris Treasury official who then edited some of the language used...

NEW: Axios is laying off 50 people across the company. CEO @JimVandeHei just sent out this note — which says the layoffs are because of “changes in the media business”

Mimicking a policy that the west once condemned Communist China for pursuing, authoritarians are now calling for X to be shut down completely in the UK to stop civil unrest. After the country was rocked by a series of riots over the past week in response to a 17-year-old son of Rwandan immigrants killing three little girls in Southport, the media and the political class blamed the anger on “misinformation” shared on X. In reality, the UK has been a boiling pot of resentment and rage over mass migration for years, with huge numbers continuing to arrive, putting massive strain...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ newly minted running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, “failed to act” during May 2020 riots in Minneapolis that burned over 1,000 businesses and a police station to the ground, a scathing state Senate report showed. The 60-year-old Democratic governor was accused by the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate’s Joint Transportation and Judiciary and Public Safety Committee of delaying the deployment of the National Guard, failing to coordinate with local police, downplaying the possibility of riots and allowing his adult daughter to access confidential information about law enforcement movements that put first responders at risk during the four days...

Longtime CNN host Chris Cillizza has broken from his media counterparts, calling attention to Vice President Kamala Harris‘ “basement strategy” following her newly announced running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Cillizza noted that Harris’ goal to bolster the Democrat ticket has come amid concerns about her apparent reluctance to engage directly with the media.

The wife of a Tory councillor has been arrested for racial hatred after saying rioters should set fire to all the migrant hotels. Lucie Connolly, who works as a childminder in Northamptonshire, concluded her vile tweet with the phrase: 'if that makes me racist, so be it.' She has since deleted her post and blamed it on 'a moment of extreme outrage and emotion' when she was acting on 'false and malicious' information. Her husband Raymond, who is vice chair of the committee on adult social care at West Northamptonshire Council, responded to the BBC by saying his wife is...