Britney Spears is potentially finally set to be freed today from the conservatorship that has controlled her life for more than 13 years. A hearing in the high-profile case is due to take place in Los Angeles this afternoon – later this evening UK time – and after years of legal battles both public and
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Dr. Robert Califf testifies during his nomination hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee November 17, 2015 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images President Joe Biden is expected to pick Robert Califf to serve as the chief of the Food and Drug Administration, NBC News reported Friday, citing people familiar
The inflation crisis has gotten so bad that multiple liberal outlets are now admitting that it spells disaster for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. CNBC published an eye-opening piece headlined, “Inflation has taken away all the wage gains for workers and then some.” The story analyzed that “Real average hourly earnings when accounting for inflation,
An analysis by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank run jointly by the left-wing Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, shows that 20-30 percent of Middle-Class families will pay more in taxes in 2022 if Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion spending boondoggle passes. It’s not a lot more — a $100 increase over last
For more than a half century, the post-1960s Democratic Party has employed a strategy of using Critical Theory and Identity Politics to foment an intense loathing of Republicans. The success of that strategy was illustrated by an angry liberal voter in the lead-up to the 2020 elections. With white hot hatred oozing from every fiber
A woman receives a coronavirus vaccination, at Jordan Downs in Los Angeles, Calif., March 10, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) ABC News asks, “Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country. So why are cases surging?” Vaccination prevents severe reactions, not infections. A high vaccination rate should reduce deaths and hospitalizations and other severe reactions, but
Few people are as immunocompromised and vulnerable to COVID as solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs). Those are the people whom the medical establishment suggests should get shots and boosters early and often — even if they have to “mix and match” different variations of the shots. However, given the fact that these people are also
Wendy Rittenhouse, mother of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse — who is on trial for fatally shooting two men during Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots — says that President Joe Biden “defamed” her son by suggesting that the teen was a white supremacist. The Kenosha riots erupted following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. During Wednesday’s proceedings, a tearful
On Friday, National Review’s Washington Correspondent John McCormack reported on a truly desperate attempt by CNN to smear the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial as racist: “Here’s a headline from a CNN ‘news’ story: ‘Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse trial makes inappropriate Asian food joke.’” The NR piece highlighted a passage from the absurd CNN
With permission by Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsNovember 10, 2021 In January 2017, Igor Danchenko, a primary source for the Steele dossier, told FBI officials in a debriefing that one of his sources for derogatory information about Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia was merely an anonymous voice on the other end of a phone call that
(Mint Images/Getty Images ) In just three weeks, on December 1, 2021, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case will be the first frontal challenge to America’s abortion regime in a generation. The seven justices who, in 1973, joined the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade
China has reportedly tested a new strategic weapon: a fractional orbital bombardment system armed with a hypersonic glide vehicle. What exactly does this weapon do and what is the threat to the United States? Peter Brookes, a senior research fellow focusing on weapons of mass destruction and counterproliferation at The Heritage Foundation, joins “The Daily
In this article FB If the goal was to get people talking about Iceland, a new tourism video is more than succeeding. A video published yesterday by Inspired by Iceland, a marketing campaign for Icelandic tourism, takes aim at a Mark Zuckerberg video released in October announcing Facebook’s name change to Meta. In it,
An Olympic gold medallist has said she was pepper-sprayed in a racist attack while waiting for an Uber with a group of friends. Sunisa ‘Suni’ Lee said she experienced the attack recently, as she opened up about the ordeal in an interview with PopSugar. Lee became the first Asian-American woman to win Olympic gold in
In 1958, British sociologist Michael Young coined the term “meritocracy” in his satirical novel, called “The Rise of the Meritocracy.” Its point was simple: When intelligence and effort are selected by any society as the basis for success or failure, those with such merit begin to comprise their own class. That class hardens into an
Joe Biden had every reason to expect pushback when he announced a federal vaccine mandate on private companies with 100+ employees, and he got it. Republican governors and attorneys general promised to fight the mandate in court, and they have. As a result, the mandate was temporarily blocked by the U.S. Court of Appeals for
Median home prices surged in the third quarter of 2021 in almost every housing market in the U.S., the National Association of Realtors said in a report Wednesday. The median price of a single-family home increased in 182 out of the 183 markets tracked by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Prices grew by 10%
A giant baby balloon inflated by Climate Change activists at Glasgow Green as the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, November 8, 2021. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) Imagine being so monomaniacally obsessed with climate and so cynical about life in general as to reduce all the potential of a child to its carbon
Mike Rowe said that the massive worker shortage undermining America’s economic recovery is due to people looking down on jobs involving hard work. The former “Dirty Jobs” star made his comments on Fox News on Thursday. “There’s something in us, it’s the fault in our stars, you know, where we begin to resent the very
KISS rockstar Gene Simmons is not mincing words when it comes to those who remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, calling them “an enemy.” “If you’re willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy,” Simmons declared during an appearance on the Rock N Roll Channel on TalkShopLive. “Stay away from evil people who don’t care
Just when you thought the liberal media couldn’t go any lower, they find a way to careen over the edge. That was the case Thursday on MSNBC’s The ReidOut as host Joy Reid and former RNC chairman Michael Steele decried calls to remove sexually graphic material from schools, seemingly siding with pornography under the guise
Ed Durr, the New Jersey Republican truck driver who shocked the country earlier this month by defeating a powerful Democrat incumbent, appeared on the Tucker Carlson show this week and told a very funny story. He was recounting the phone call he had with the Democrat he defeated and he even had Tucker Carlson laughing.
Outgoing President Donald Trump looks on at the end of his speech during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 presidential election results by Congress in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) A federal appeals court temporarily blocked the release of former president Donald Trump’s White House records pertaining to his activities
James Lednicky, a student at Arizona State University, joined the Veterans Heritage Project because he wanted to learn more about the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. He was matched with a Vietnam veteran, retired Lt. Col. Fred Shirley, and was tasked with documenting Shirley’s story. Lednicky says he was a little nervous
Stock futures moved slightly higher on Thursday evening as Wall Street looked to end the week on a positive note after a historic inflation report. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked up 40 points. Those for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 each added 0.1%. The move in futures comes after
A 22-year-old woman has become the ninth person to die from a crowd surge at the Astroworld festival in Houston during a performance by rapper Travis Scott. Bharti Shahani, a college senior, died on Wednesday, attorney James Lassiter announced. “Bharti was a shining star in the community,” he told a news conference. “She was a
The United States government is warning against rules the European Union has drafted that could risk companies’ intellectual property and trade secrets. According to Reuters, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) sets out a list of things companies can and cannot do that would be enforced by a fine of up to 10% of global turnover.
In 2020, many believed that Joe Biden was more of a Trojan Horse than the candidate Democrats actually wanted. After twice electing Barack Obama, was the Democratic Party really excited about voting for another old white guy? Establishment Democrats likely understood that Biden was a means to an end—someone “electable” compared to the radicals who
Officials asked U.S. citizens to make plans to leave Haiti because of increased gang violence and kidnappings, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti announced on Wednesday. The embassy warned of widespread fuel shortages impacting basic and emergency services across Haiti, according to the State Department. U.S. citizens were encouraged to purchase commercial flights out of the
In response to Democrats’ Spending Bill Breaks Biden’s Tax Pledge, Analysis Finds Phil notes that the Tax Policy Center, a project of the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, finds that the House Democrats’ reconciliation bill would violate Biden’s pledge that no one earning less than $400,000 would see his taxes increase by a