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President Biden spends almost as much time on R&R as he does running the country. The 81-year-old commander-in-chief has racked up 532 vacation days in less than four years — about 40% of the 1, 326 days he’s been in office. It would take the average American — who gets 11 days a year of vacation — approximately 48 years to accumulate that number of days off, according to shocking data compiled by the Republican National Committee. “The image of Biden fast asleep and lying flat on his back in his chair at the beach while America and the world...

President Joe Biden issued a statement Saturday evening that he had “worked tirelessly” to secure the release of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other murdered hostages, and claimed he would “keep working around the clock for a deal.” Biden has been on vacation for two weeks — first in Santa Barbara, California, and second in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. It is not clear how he would have been “working tirelessly” or “around the clock” while on vacation. His official statement follows, with emphasis added. Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by...

President Joe Biden appeared in public Wednesday for the first time in three days, joining his wife Jill Biden for a carefree day on the beach near their house in Rehoboth, Delaware. The first lady’s two sisters and her senior adviser Anthony Bernal joined them on the hot, sunny day, the Daily Mail reports. The group sat under two blue umbrellas. Some passers-by waved at them as they walked the beach and the president waved back as he sported colorful swim trunks, a white T-shirt and black cap, for his day of carefree relaxation. Biden, 81, arrived in Rehoboth Beach...

Nearly 50 percent of parents with children under 18 take on debt for Disney trips with in-park food and beverages the biggest drain on the family vacation budget, a survey shows. Financial website Lending Tree surveyed Americans about how vacationing at Disney World impacts their finances. It found some 24 percent of all Disney-goers have accrued debt during their trips, along with 45 percent of parents with children under the age of 18. The average amount of debt for those parents was $1,983, LendingTree said.

Over half of American voters won’t be taking a vacation this summer, and about three-fourths of those unable to take a fun break cited finances as their reason. Meanwhile, rising inflation, dropping real wages, and other disasters continue to plague Joe Biden’s economy. Many Americans increasingly are struggling just to meet basic expenses, and luxuries like vacations are growing more out of reach for the ordinary citizen. Of course, Joe Biden has continued to vacation at an unprecedented rate, but his administration is ensuring that Americans not part of the Democrat elite cannot enjoy the same privilege. The majority of...

Many Americans do not plan to enjoy a summer vacation in President Joe Biden’s America, a Fox News poll found in May, underscoring the economy as the number one 2024 issue for voters. The Fox News poll found: Of the 55 percent who are not taking a summer vacation, 73 percent do not have enough money to do so. Seventy-two percent said higher prices impact their summer plans. Fifteen percent do not have time and must remain focused on the daily grind. The last time a pollster asked Americans this question, in 2010, of those who were not going on...

Cities, towns and vacation spots across the American South are 'drowning' under rapidly rising tides that could soon put them underwater. Ocean levels are at least six inches higher than they were a decade ago along a swathe of the country from Texas to North Carolina. An overall rising ocean is coupled with vicious tidal events that wreak havoc and kill locals, especially when they coincide with storms. The problem is already affecting thousands of Americans living along the coast, and millions more across the US will feel it in the coming decades. Climate change is steadily raising sea levels...

A former sheriff from southern Indiana is facing 25 felony charges after allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on luxury purchases including vacations, vehicles and cigars. Jamey Noel, 52, along with his wife, Misty, 50, and daughter, Kasey Noel, 27, are charged with a spate of felonies for spending as much as $5million on the credit cards Jamey had opened in the name of the volunteer fire agency he ran, authorities said. The specific expenditures allegedly made by various members of the Noel family are nearly too numerous to count, but include $56,000 on luxury cigars, more than...

Hidden cameras are being found in hotel rooms, house rentals, cruise ships, and even airplane bathrooms, leaving many travelers to wonder: “Could a hidden camera be watching me?” Spycams, as they’re called, are getting smaller, harder to find and easier to buy. From alarm clocks to air fresheners, water bottles and toothbrush holders, cameras come embedded in common household items that seamlessly blend with home decor. They can be purchased in shops or online, and through retailers like Amazon and Walmart. And rather than having to retrieve the camera to obtain the recording, owners can stream live images straight to...

How much does it cost to break a record on Martha’s Vineyard? These days, it’s seven figures. There, a waterfront vacation rental home on Meneshma Pond has listed for a cool $1 million — specifically, a million bucks for just four weeks, The Post has learned. That princely sum makes it the highest-price offering of its kind to list on the island. Beyond the perks of 11 bedrooms and 13 baths sprawled across the main house and two additional guest residences, there are also luxury boats for the tenants to use during their stay. Thomas Wallace, of Wallace & Co....

Joe Biden, who has spent a ridiculous amount of time on vacation over the last few years, recently blasted House Republicans for scheduling a two week recess. Biden doesn’t worry when he does incredibly hypocritical things like this because he knows no one is going to call him out on it. Who would challenge him? Someone in the media? Laughable. Also, he has no shame. FOX News reports:

President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — the two officials with National Command Authority, or the authority to give military orders — were both out of office on New Year’s Day, raising questions as to who exactly would be in charge in the case of a military emergency. Biden began his vacation to the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday, December 27, 2023, and headed back to Washington on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. He was scheduled to leave St. Croix around 5:45 p.m. Eastern. By then, his defense secretary had — unbeknownst to him — already been hospitalized since...

President Joe Biden returned from a seven-day holiday beach break in St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, on Tuesday sporting a bright red sun-kissed face and neck as a personal legacy of the trip. The sun exposure comes just nine months after the octogenarian had surgery to remove a cancerous skin lesion from his chest. As Breitbart News reported, Biden’s lesion was basal cell carcinoma, a common skin cancer that does not tend to spread.

President Joe Biden escaped the confines of the White House and the travails of high office for a host of other diversions in 2023, spending more than a third of the past year ensconced at a getaway spot, a report Monday details. According to the New York Post, peripatetic Biden could be found on his absences from Washington, DC, at either one of his Delaware residences, a posh vacation site or Camp David, according to a review of public records by the outlet.

President Joe Biden reportedly took his 418th vacation day on Wednesday to travel to the U.S. Virgin Islands for New Year’s. Biden had already spent 417 days (39 percent of his presidency) on vacation, according to the Republican National Committee’s Vacation Tracker. Biden’s “vacation” days include 100 of the 135 weekends in one of his two Delaware homes, at Camp David, or in Democrat billionaires’ mansions. Biden flew to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands with several family members, though the White House refused to say how many members would join Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden.

All eyes are on Capitol Hill, watching as Congress gets closer and closer to failing to fund the federal government, forcing a shutdown. Shutting down the government could have big reverberations across the country — and significant consequences for the people who live and work and visit the nation's capital. Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia combined have about 400,000 federal workers, plus hundreds of thousands of military service members and government contractors. The region's growth and competitiveness have long been tied to the federal government.

San Francisco has hired a tourism official to encourage travelers to visit the 'the city by the bay' as it battles rampant crime, homeless and drugs crisis. Josh Beck will be the new president and CEO of The San Francisco Travel Association, and the person that the city's tourism bureau and marketing organization is looking at in hopes of bringing SanFran back to the bustling vacation hub it once was. Beck, who is currently head of Destination Toronto, will begin his new post on October 30, replacing former head Joe D'Alessandro, who headed the travel organization for nearly two decades...

Joe Biden on Sunday hobbled over to reporters posted up on King Charles Avenue outside of St. Edmond Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware to explain why he’s always at the beach. Biden has spent more than a solid year on vacation without visitor logs. He spent virtually the entire month of August snoozing at the beach and hiding away in Lake Tahoe. Biden came up with a new excuse for his non-stop holiday in Rehoboth Beach: He has no ‘home’ to go to. “Oh, and by the way, the reason why I’m here today, just for one day –...

He’s the American Idle. The 24/7 grind of the White House has been anything but for President Biden, who has devoted more days to downtime than any of his recent predecessors, according to an analysis of press-pool reports. This Labor Day weekend, Biden once again plans to be 10 toes up at his Rehoboth Beach summer home — after a short trip to Florida to view Hurricane Idalia’s wreckage. As of last Sunday, Biden has spent all or part of 382 of his presidency’s 957 days – or 40% — on personal overnight trips away from the White House, putting...

A WOMAN used post-it notes to expose her cheating boyfriend while documenting their nine-week vacation in Europe. The anonymous girlfriend posted her videos on TikTok under the username @iknow_girl and went viral with her story. She began uploading the videos detailing her story on July 31, as she set about exposing her then-boyfriend to social media. But she did so in a rather unique way. In every video she'd hold up a post-it note in front of her posing boyfriend in the background, detailing their romance. She signed everyone with the hashtag "I know", to confirm that she knew of...