Throughout our ongoing struggles with China, one key battle appears to have already been won by our adversary: the battle for arts and entertainment. Boasting a population of over 1.4 billion people, many of whom have the financial means to pay for and consume a wide variety of forms of entertainment, their market share for
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Joe Biden’s poll numbers are still going down and he just crossed into dangerous polling territory for a president. Real Clear Politics tracks all of the major polls and averages them. Media and people in politics pay close attention to the poll average as a barometer of the president’s approval. Biden’s average has now dropped
Power lines and wind turbines at a wind and solar energy storage and transmission power station of the State Grid Corporation of China in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China, March 18, 2016. (Jason Lee/Reuters) To be sure, China may be evolving into a fascist state (albeit one with Chinese characteristics), and there’s the little matter of
Medic with face mask. Haris Mulaosmanovic / EyeEm | EyeEm | Getty Images Aside from the obvious physical impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, health professionals have told CNBC that many people are struggling with the immense emotional and societal changes it has brought and, what’s more, are finding it hard to adapt to a “new
Novak Djokovic has been included on the tournament entry list for the upcoming Indian Wells Masters – a competition that requires players to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The men’s tennis number one was deported from Australia last month, causing him to miss out on the Australian Open, after having his visa revoked twice due to
24-hours after NewsBusters reported that the broadcast evening newscasts ignored a Washington Post story detailing an internal Army report on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, ABC and CBS were still tight-lipped about how the report blames White House and State Department officials for hindering the evacuation efforts. NBC Nightly News was the lone broadcast newscast
Regardless of what you believe about the 2020 election, Joe Biden wouldn’t be president today if not for COVID. In fact, according to Seth Masket of FiveThirtyEight, “had there been no pandemic, [Trump] may have still lost the popular vote, but considering how close the election was, he may have had a decent chance of winning
Summary: President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing, deliver a speech on healthcare costs, and meet with Democrats to discuss the Supreme Court nomination process. Live stream links will activate as streams become available ALL TIMES EST 9:30 AM Recieve daily briefing 10:45 AM Depart White House en route to Brandy Station, Virginia 11:15 AM
As I discussed in August, the case of Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer presents a dilemma for baseball: Bauer roughed up a woman, but it appeared that the violence was part of a consensual agreement to rough, violent sex. He has now been cleared by a criminal investigation. That means that baseball, and the Dodgers, have
An all-boys Catholic high school in Massachusetts apologized for observing Black History Month by serving fried chicken to the students. “We are deeply troubled and disheartened by our failure in this instance and take full responsibility for it,” read a statement from Jacob Conca, head of Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood. “I offer my
Bob Saget’s family has released a statement saying that authorities determined that the man’s death was the consequence of trauma to his head. “The authorities have determined that Bob passed from head trauma. They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep,”
Apparently, if you use the wrong color emoji when texting your friends and family you are a racist. At least according to Alejandra Marquez, Janse Patrick Jarenwattananon, and Asma Khalid at the taxpayer-funded NPR (yes it took three of them to write an article on racist emojis). In a piece titled “Which skin color emoji should
Amid new information on its inner workings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing a credibility problem for its COVID-19 response, a leader of the House’s GOP Doctors Caucus told The Daily Signal. “The American people don’t do well with being told ‘Because I told you so,’ which has, unfortunately, been the Biden
Are you tired of debating with your liberal friends and family on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine? Informed Choice Australia made a list of ‘peer-reviewed’ medical papers submitted to various medical journals, showing extensive evidence of adverse events in the COVID-19 vaccines. The list only includes the studies made up to January 20 concerning
Central American migrants are escorted out of private land as they are detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico in La Joya, Texas, April 27, 2021. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) Two watchdog groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services for records
In this article PTON In this photo illustration the Peloton Interactive logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images Peloton held a virtual all-hands meeting Wednesday that was meant to introduce its new CEO, Barry McCarthy. Instead, a conversation between McCarthy and former CEO John Foley was abruptly cut
A British air passenger has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in business class on a transatlantic overnight flight. The alleged victim, also understood to be British, said she was attacked while others slept on the flight from Newark, New Jersey, to London. She complained to United Airlines staff who called ahead to
A new Gallup poll shows the cratering view the American people have taken of the U.S. economy under President Joe Biden. The Big Three evening news networks buried it for nearly a week. The results of the Gallup survey — released Feb. 2 — of 811 U.S. adults found that a mere 33 percent are
Change is in the air. On Monday, Delaware Gov. John Carney announced that his state’s indoor mask mandate would end Friday, and school mask mandates would follow on March 31. The same day, Oregon health officials announced that the state’s indoor mask mandate would expire on March 31, and Ned Lamont, the governor of Connecticut, announced
Sweden halted its COVID-19 testing regime on Wednesday, even for those who are showing symptoms of infection, as many European countries end pandemic restrictions, the Associated Press reported. The country’s mobile city-square tent sites, drive-in swab centers and home-delivered tests, which each provided key data to track the virus’ spread, have ended, the AP reported.
Steel pipes to be exported are seen at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, May 31, 2018. (China Daily via Reuters ) From Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics: Two years ago, President Donald Trump signed what he called a “historical trade deal” with China that committed China to purchase $200 billion of
When world-famous singer Adele was named artist of the year at Tuesday’s Brit Awards — which for the first time ditched male and female categories in favor of gender-neutral prizes — she seemed quite relaxed and admitted she wasn’t expecting it. With that, Adele tossed off a casual confession in the wake of her win:
A bipartisan bill to make masks optional in all of Virginia’s K-12 schools passed Wednesday with three Democrats joining Republicans to codify GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order. The bill now heads to the state House of Delegates, where Republicans have the majority, and it is expected to pass. The Senate voted 21 to 17
On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe swooned over failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as co-host Mika Brzezinski excitedly announced the 2016 sore loser would getting a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for “advancing the cause of women and fighting for gender equity” at an International Women’s Day summit in March. The leftist anchor also giddily announced that
Up to 226 forgivable loans totaling more than $36 million were given to labor unions and related organizations that weren’t eligible to receive the loans, according to a new report by the Freedom Foundation, a free market conservative think tank. The loans were administered by the Small Business Administration through the Paycheck Protection Program, which
TikTok is cracking down on “hate” which apparently includes “misgendering” or “dead naming” transgender people. “Dead naming” is when you use the name a transgender person was given by their parents at birth and “misgendering” is when you use the gender that they were born with. The platform also has a new feature to allow
Arizona Democratic senator Mark Kelly was already facing a tough reelection in November, and Chuck Schumer’s decision to turn Arizona’s senior Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema into a villain may have made things a bit tougher for Kelly: When Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer held a doomed vote last month to override the rules regarding the
In this article PTON Barry McCarthy, chief financial officer at Spotify, attend annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 11, 2018 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Peloton‘s new CEO, Barry McCarthy, is telling remaining staff that he’s “here for the comeback story.” In an email sent to Peloton employees late
SpaceX has confirmed that a geomagnetic storm destroyed most of the Starlink satellites it launched last Friday. Elon Musk’s company said that 40 of its 49 satellites were going to fall back to Earth – though they are designed to burn up on re-entry – after a space storm “significantly impacted” them. They were part
Anyone under 30 today has no idea what it was like to live in America during the Cold War, and that includes the reflexive tendency of liberals and leftists to insist repeatedly that we really shouldn’t lecture the authoritarians in the Soviet Union or China for gross abuses of human rights, because the United States