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State Farm is evidently not satisfied with an emergency 17% rate hike for homeowners in California, and intends to ask for 11% more, adding up to a total of nearly 30% — despite failing its obligations to consumers. As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara granted State Farm’s requested rate hike, despite protests from residents affected by the recent California wildfires. Victims of both the Eaton and Palisades Fires have complained that State Farm engages in “lowballing” estimates of compensation for damages — a practice that, Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO) reported last week, the company...

A top Kremlin spokesman told reporters on Thursday that Russian leaders “absolutely agree” with the approach President Donald Trump is taking to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shortly after Trump excoriated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a social media post. Dictator Vladimir Putin’s top spokesman Dmitry Peskov praised Trump for discussing “peace as soon as possible” and called the relationship with the Trump administration a significant improvement from attempts to communicate with former President Joe Biden. Biden notoriously lifted critical Trump-era sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which would have been a massive revenue-generator for Russia, shortly before...

Less than a quarter of Americans are satisfied with President Joe Biden’s America, a Gallup poll found this week. Biden will depart the White House next month with Americans feeling very pessimistic about the direction of the nation. Americans voted in November for change, electing President-elect Donald Trump to lead the nation after years of managed decline. Under Biden’s leadership and his vow to unite the nation, America suffered the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal, soaring inflation, the weaponization of justice, the prosecution of political opponents, and a gridlocked Congress unable to solve the nation’s woes.

Feeling satisfied with your life? If you answer “no” then you have plenty of company. Less than half of Americans say they are “very satisfied” with the way things are going in their personal lives, a Gallup poll released Thursday revealed, with the disappointment level in Biden’s America hitting such a low figure for just the third time in more than two decades. The 47 percent of U.S. adults expressing high satisfaction with their lives has edged down three percentage points over the past year and is only one point higher than the 2011 record low for the trend under...

Those who consider themselves as “very right wing” are more likely to have a satisfactory sex life, according to a new European survey by YouGov that interviewed over 19,000 people. Just 66% of “left wing” Brits claimed to have a satisfactory sex life. This was significantly less than the 73% of Brits who considered themselves both “very right wing” and sexually satisfied, and the 70% who considered themselves “right wing” and satisfied. In Germany, 77% of those who considered themselves very right wing also claimed to be satisfied in bed, while 71% of very left wing people claimed to have...

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday he was very satisfied with Pentagon planning to counter the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.

AP ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan's leaders know what's at stake after the terror attack in Mumbai and have acknowledged their duty to evict terrorists and prevent future attacks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. "I found a Pakistani government that is focused on the threat and that understands its responsibilities to respond to terrorism and extremism wherever it is found," Rice said following sessions with the country's powerful army chief and civilian leaders.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Around the world, middle-aged and elderly men tend to be more satisfied with their sex lives than women in the same age group, a survey released on Wednesday said. Substantial majorities of people who are married or who have a partner remain sexually active throughout the second half of their lives, according to a survey of 27,500 people aged 40 to 80 in 29 countries. "There was very little effect of age on sexual well-being," though other factors such as health problems or depression had a substantial impact, said lead researcher Edward Laumann of the University of...

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Details About People Who Are 'very Satisfied' With Lives The Associated Press Published: Sep 23, 2004 Some demographics and details about people who describe themselves as "very satisfied" with their lives. Results come from polling conducted for the Associated Press by Ipsos-Public Affairs. The poll of 1,001 adults was taken Aug. 16-18 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, larger for subgroups. In general, how satisfied are you with the way things are going in your life at this time? Would you say .... -Very satisfied, 38 percent -Somewhat satisfied, 42 percent -Somewhat...