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A shooting in Baltimore, Maryland, early Sunday morning left dozens of people wounded and multiple fatalities. The incident happened during a gathering overnight in the Brooklyn Homes section of South Baltimore, according to Fox 45 Baltimore. Police officers and medical personnel responded to the scene in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue, Baltimore Police said. Witnesses told Fox 45 Baltimore they heard 20 to 30 shots fired.

Will there be any huge celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 2026, the 250th Anniversary?

President Joe Biden is to host the White House’s largest Pride celebration “in history”, reports have said. Thousands of people are set to attend an LGBTQ+ Pride event in the White House on Thursday, with the celebration hosted by Joe Biden set to be the largest of its kind “in history” for the White House. Biden is also reportedly set to announce a slew of new measures aimed at pushing transgenderism and other elements of progressive ideology.

The legacy celebration for the late Pastor Charles Stanley, held at First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, on April 23, 2023. Prominent Pastors Tony Evans and Chuck Swindoll, as well as former President Donald Trump, were among those who paid their respects to the late Pastor Charles Stanley at a legacy celebration held at his church on Sunday. The service was held at First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, where Stanley served as senior pastor for nearly 50 years, and featured several musical selections and messages of remembrance given in person and via video. Evans, the senior pastor of...

Five people were shot, two of them fatally, during a “Celebration of Life” event Saturday around 5:15 p.m. in St. Paul, Minnesota. FOX News reports one man died at the scene and another man died after being transported to the hospital. FOX 9 notes among the three living gunshot victims, one person is in critical condition, another person is stable, and one has non-life-threatening injuries.

What's the celebration all about in Minnesota? Did the Vikings win? Twins add a shortstop? The Wild on the road to the Stanley Cup? The answer is not about sports or a drop in crime rates in Minneapolis. The answer is a celebration about abortion, or "reproductive rights" as they call it these days. After Roe was overturned, we knew that states would decide the issue on their own. And so they did. Elections have consequences as we see in a 34-33 party-line vote. And in Minnesota they had a huge celebration to go with it. Not one Democrat had...

First lady Jill Biden imposed a strict “no dancing” rule on her husband after dragging President Biden up on stage during a Lunar New Year celebration at the White House Thursday night. The first couple had just finished watching a performance of a traditional Chinese lion dance from the front row in the East Room, when Jill took on the role of the MC and led her husband by the hand onstage. “Are we going to dance?” the 80-year-old commander-in-chief joked as he mounted a short flight of stairs. “No, you’re not going to dance, believe me,” Jill replied through...

President Joe Biden desecrated a celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, on Friday by repeating a proven lie known as the “fine people hoax,” falsely accusing his predecessor, Donald Trump, of praising neo-Nazis in Charlottesville in August 2017. In fact, as Breitbart News and others have demonstrated repeatedly, Trump said the neo-Nazis should be “condemned totally.” Biden made his remarks in front of a Jewish audience at what was billed as the first-ever White House gathering for Rosh Hashanah.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) defended the White House’s planned celebration of the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage on the same day as the August Consumer Price Index report (CPI) that showed inflation rose from July to August by saying they’ll celebrate that the bill does things “which, over the long term,” will reduce prices. Co-host Sandra Smith asked, “Likely, we’re going to see this White House pressed on what’s the celebration? 8.3% inflation today, 1.4% when President Biden took office. And this is an opportunity for Republicans to remind voters just...

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Tuesday slammed President Biden for throwing an “inflation reduction” celebration at the White House, even though annual inflation remains highly elevated at 8.3%. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) chastised Biden ahead of the lawn party after the release of data from August showed a drop in gasoline prices offset by continued 12-month jumps in the cost of food (13.5%), electricity (15.8%), rent (6.8%) and health insurance (24.3%). “You can’t make it up: Hours after this terrible inflation report, the White House is hosting an ‘inflation reduction’ celebration,” McConnell tweeted. “Democrats have spent our economy into...

The White House is planning a celebration of President Joe Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act” on Tuesday, even as consumer prices rose again in August, according to the latest numbers from the federal government. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index released Tuesday morning shows that inflation in August rose one-tenth of a percentage point from July and up 8.3 percent from the previous year.

It is now May 9, and the speculation about what Russian President Vladimir Putin will do on the occasion of the 2022 Victory Day Parade has been answered.Due to the war raging in Ukraine, a lot of SmartSet™ types had been speculating that Putin would use the Victory Day Parade as the catalyst to mobilize Russia for his war in Ukraine, if not declare war outright. Read my coverage of Putin’s possible courses of action at Tomorrow Is ‘Victory Day’ in Russia but Vladimir Putin Is Losing, So What Does He Offer Russia?.The preliminaries of the parade are in the...

In the days leading up to New Year’s Day, a growing number of cities and municipalities have decided to postpone festivities due to CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreaks despite milder symptoms and fewer hospitalizations than previously reported. The iconic New Year’s celebration in New York City will take place as planned but will be scaled back, said outgoing Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio last week. Masks will be required, as will proof of vaccination, and social distance measures will be enforced. Compared to last year, New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City were much more subdued, with only...

London’s famed New Year’s Eve celebration in Trafalgar Square has been canceled over Omicron. The planned massive party was called off by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who feared a major live event could be a super-spreader of the highly transmissible COVID-19 variant capable of overwhelming the UK’s National Health Service hospital system

Los Angeles' New Year’s Eve celebration is moving mostly online as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in L.A. County, The Associated Press reported. Organizers said on Monday that the planned New Year’s Eve party at Los Angeles’ Grand Park will not have an in-person audience and will be streamed online instead. The invite-only audience was going to include frontline workers and first responders.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce this week whether or not the famed New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square will be held, or if revelers will be permitted to gather publicly in the area, the Associated Press reported. The mayor has said that he will make a decision on the fate of the event by Christmas Day, as the omicron variant has sent case rates surging in the city.

Last Sunday on CBS, Anthony Fauci infamously declared Christmas gatherings an uncertainty; now the doctor is encouraging everyone to celebrate Halloween.In a Sunday interview with CNN, Fauci said that COVID-19 cases are headed in the “right direction” and that Americans should enjoy events like trick-or-treating later this month.Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview on Sunday that outdoor trick-or-treating is perfectly safe. While he still endorsed vaccinations for all who are eligible, he said Halloween was "a very important part of the year for children." https://t.co/vQTVv7r8hq— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 10, 2021“I think that, particularly if you’re vaccinated,...

Former President Barack Obama reportedly continued to celebrate his 60th birthday Sunday with a brunch gathering of his friends at a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard, marking the third straight day of pandemic partying for the Obamas. The Sunday brunch took place at a waterfront restaurant, with photographs showing Barack and Michelle Obama seated amid a crowd of friends, none of whom could be seen wearing masks as they socialized in close proximity, according to a report from the Daily Mail.

MAGA Trump 4th of July rally celebration, about to get underway...folks gathering early. Hope the weather holds up decently. Post your comments and photos!!! Go Trumpie!!!

President Joe Biden took a swipe at his foe from 13-years-ago Friday as he celebrated the passage of the “American Rescue Plan.” In the Rose Garden with congressional Democrats, Biden said he may appoint Vice President Kamala Harris to implement the $1.9 trillion behemoth spending bill.