Month: June 2021

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 20, 2021. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters) Axios has an item on the emerging GOP 2022 strategy that is what any rational person would think the 2022 strategy should be (although Trump has different ideas): Republicans, defined by one thing and one
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The manhunt to find the shooter of 26-year-old Daytona Police Officer Jason Raynor has ended.29-year-old Othal Wallace was captured on Saturday morning near Atlanta. Othal Wallace shot Officer Raynor in the head as the Daytona officer approached Wallace in his vehicle on Wednesday night. Advertisement – story continues below The police captured Wallace in a
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Remember “Republicans pounced?” It has been used so much for the past few years that it has become a laughable cliché that has even earned an entry in the Urban Dictionary: Republicans pounce! A headline in a newspaper or other article that describes Republicans (or other right-leaning individuals) attacking a Democrat (or other left-leaning individual)
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A growing movement of local governments and communities across the United States is beginning to grapple with an unfortunate realization: The highway boom of the 1950s and ’60s produced a massive amount of infrastructure that seems to have done more harm than good. “Highways radically reshaped cities, destroying dense downtown neighborhoods, dividing many Black communities
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The highly anticipated U.S. intelligence report on UFOs was released on Friday, but offered few answers to sightings of mysterious unidentified aerial phenomena. The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally made public its preliminary assessment on UAPs, which revealed the U.S. government reported 144 incidents of UFOs spotted between November 2004 to
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Dismissing conservative concerns about wokeness is nothing new for NBC “comedian” Seth Meyers, but in his attempt to dismiss criticism of Critical Race Theory on Friday’s edition of Late Night, Meyers crossed the line from ridicule to spreading verifiably false information.  Meyers alleged that CRT is conservatives’ “latest astroturfed moral panic.” According to Meyers, CRT is ”A field of academic study,
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Attorney general William Barr sits with President Trump during a White House meeting in Washington, D.C., September 23, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Former attorney general William Barr reportedly said that he knew all along that former President Trump’s claims of election fraud were “bulls**t,” according to a new book. ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl
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The social cost of carbon is a climate economics construct used to quantify the damages associated with carbon dioxide emissions. The Biden administration wants to use the social cost of carbon in public policy to justify its regulatory agenda. The administration recently invited the public to comment on the Interagency Working Group’s interim technical support document
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If you’re a self-styled “social advocate,” the last thing you’re going to do is blame the current crime surge on the criminals. Instead, appearing on Tiffany Cross’s MSNBC show this morning, former LAPD cop Cheryl Dorsey blamed . . . the police, calling them “butt-hurt” and “cowardly.” Why, in Dorsey’s view, are police “butt-hurt?” Because,
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The Make-a-Wish Foundation, the organization that creates “life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses,” announced that the nonprofit will only grant wishes to terminally ill children and their participating family members if they are all vaccinated against COVID-19. The announcement was made by Make-a-Wish president and CEO Richard Davis in a video that went viral
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A woman reportedly embarked on a racist rant against a black woman and her children while they were inside a Brooklyn, New York, pizzeria, the New York Daily News reports. What are the details? Authorities say that an unnamed suspect reportedly approached the mom, her 5-month-old infant, and her 4-year-old son and began hurling insults
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Former president Donald Trump at a rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio, June 26, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Wellington, Ohio — In his first campaign-style rally since leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump was not willing to let the 2020 election go. Trump called that election “the scam of the century
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According to reports, President Trump has opened an account on Rumble. RT News reports: Former President Donald Trump has opened an account on Rumble, a rival video platform to YouTube. Trump remains blacklisted by every major social media outlet after his supporters rioted on Capitol Hill in January. An account named ‘Donald J. Trump’ appeared on Rumble
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A view of the site during a rescue operation of a 12-storey Champlain Tower partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, United States, on June 25, 2021. Stringer | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Nearly three years before a Florida condo tower collapsed, an engineer warned that the building’s failed waterproofing of its pool deck was causing
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Engineers warned about structural damage to a Miami apartment block three years before its collapse, it has emerged. The Champlain Towers South building in Surfside collapsed on Thursday, killing four people and prompting a search and rescue operation for the 159 people missing. And concern about building safety has prompted an audit, which will take
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