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President Joe Biden acknowledged during a press conference in Brussels on Thursday that food shortages will hit the world as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine. “It’s going to be real,” Biden said when asked about discussions with world leaders about food shortages.

Pistachios in California, citrus in Florida, hotels, retail malls and mobile home parks across 18 states. And, let’s not forget, the former site of The Patriot-News in downtown Harrisburg. Pennsylvania taxpayers own all this and more thanks to several decades’ worth of investments made by the Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS), the pension fund that safeguards the retirements of some 500,000 educators statewide. The pension fund reported $1.2 billion in directly-owned real estate investments nationwide through the start of this year, a figure that — according to internal documents — includes various costs, including “site development” at the former...

Explosive new details are emerging from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop that indicate President Biden met with his son’s billionaire business partners over a “flippin gigantic” business deal. According to the Daily Mail, in 2014, the then-vice president entertained Hunter Biden’s business associates in the vice president’s office at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco were both present at the meeting. Joe Biden also flew Hunter Biden and his then-business partner Jeff Cooper to Mexico City on Air Force 2 in 2016. They met with Aleman’s son regarding a “flippin gigantic” business deal....