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A George Floyd mural in Toledo, Ohio, was destroyed by what witnesses say was a lightning strike, police told WTVG-TV. What are the details? The building wall upon which the mural was painted collapsed, the station said, adding that WTVG's Doppler radar showed a lightning strike around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the block where the building — which used to house the Mugshots Bar — is located. In the aftermath, the station said Toledo police were seen outside the building and setting up tape around the pile of bricks upon which the artwork was crafted. The building itself is structurally...

Joe Biden wasn’t kidding. When his spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the Biden administration would send people door-to-door to convince people to get the COVID shot, there was a chill sent down the spines of freedom-loving Americans everywhere. Many people took it as a threat.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made another attempt to convince Americans that rising crime in New York City and elsewhere in the country is a non-issue over the weekend while alleging those pointing to the violence in America's streets are engaging in "hysteria.""We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases" in crime, Ocasio-Cortez admitted before saying "any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much. But I also want to make sure that this hysteria — you know that this doesn't drive a hysteria — and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions...

Gwen Berry, an American who qualified for this summer’s Olympics, turned away from the American flag when the National Anthem played. She even claimed she was “set up” by being on the podium when the Star Spangled Banner began. Berry placed third in the hammer throw at the US Olympic trials. She will be heading to Tokyo to represent the very country she is protesting. She has a history of disrespect during the National Anthem and it appears she will be taking that same approach to Tokyo.

"I miss when we had a President who didn’t single out six year olds and compliment their legs while giving speeches," GOP Rep. Lauren Bobert tweeted. President Biden drew wrath on social media responding to comments he made about a little girl's appearance and demeanor. "I love those barrettes in your hair, man. I tell you what — and look at her; she looks like she’s 19 years old, sitting there with her — like a little lady with her legs crossed," Biden said during a Friday event on a Virginia military base, according to the White House transcript. The...

She's keeping score on all the ones who aren't fawning over her. Like Nixon, Kamala Harris has an enemies list. It comprises media characters who "don't fully understand her or appreciate her life experience," writes Edward-Isaac Dovere in the Atlantic Monthly, noting her self-absorption. Instead of going to the border, or doing her job as vice president, seems she's replaced concerns about her home decorating with seething about reporters who don't gush as enthusiastically about her as she'd like them to, and like Nixon, or Hillary Clinton, she's keeping score. The Washington Free Beacon's Andrew Stiles writes: According to Dovere's...

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who describes herself as a “trained Marxist” while also owning four homes in high-end neighborhoods worth more than $3.2 million, celebrated comparisons of the American left-wing movement to the deadly Chinese Cultural Revolution orchestrated by Mao Zedong. In a 2010 video of a United States Social Forum panel on “Transformative Organizing Theory” unearthed by the National Pulse, Cullors shares a story of a young activist in Arizona who showed interest in a left-wing book Cullors was promoting and compared it to Mao’s “Little Red Book.” “He grabbed the book,” Cullors said, referring to “The...

Gracie Laney thought she was going to win her heat in the 4x200 meter relay last weekend in Logan, Utah. The Logan High School senior was all alone in the final stretch on the track while anchoring her relay team. The win was hers. What she didn’t account for, however, was a late entry into the race. A dog, after breaking away from her owners who were sitting on a hill, sprinted down onto the track and quickly claimed the race for herself in hilarious fashion.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied efforts to require former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to face a deposition over her unsecured email setup while she served in the Obama administration. In an unsigned order issued with no comment, the justices denied an appeal from the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, mainly keeping in place a federal appeals court ruling from last August which stated that Clinton could not be forced to sit for a deposition. Judicial Watch had wanted to depose Clinton, her aide Cheryl Mills, and other State Department employees over Clinton’s use of an unsecured personal...

Democrats are in power – jihad returns. According to a White House source, Al-Issa “had “ISIS sympathies.” The Democrats will use this to seize guns from law abiding citizens but there will be no hearings on jihadic doctrine or the religious motivation behind the global jihad. The police officer Aliwi killed had seven children. The Democrats will use this to seize guns from law abiding citizens but there will be no hearings on jihadic doctrine or the religious motivation behind the global jihad. The police officer Aliwi killed had seven children.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/437677/live-tsunami-alert-issued-after-7-point-4-quake-near-the-kermadec-islands From Radio New Zealand: A tsunami warning has been issued after a 8.0 magnitude quake near the Kermadec Islands. It is the third earthquake this morning following a 7.4 quake near the Kermadec Islands earlier, and a 7.1 quake off New Zealand's east coast. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says people in the East Coast of the North Island from the Bay of Islands to Whangārei, from Matata to Tolaga Bay including Whakatāne and Opotiki and Great Barrier Island must move immediately to higher ground.

Martha: You know, what is your big picture look at this? These six books that have been banned. When you go through the images and I’ll put a couple up to look at, some people find them offensive. Stereotypical. Leo Terrell: I come from this as a public school teacher that read those books as a student, a young boy that read those books. As a civil rights attorney. The images reflect the time in which the books were written, in the 20s and the 30s. I am not offended by those pictures because it talks about the evolution of...