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The White House was visited again by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, for the unveiling of their official portraits, reviving the bipartisan tradition that stalled under the Trump administration. During the official visit, President Joe Biden celebrated the former first couple at a ceremony in the East Room, saying: “Barack and Michelle, welcome home.” Since 1965, the White House Historical Association has facilitated acquiring portraits of presidents and first ladies. According to the association, most presidents and first ladies select artists before they leave office. The portraits are displayed in the White House, once completed.…

Wilson Hospital School in Ireland decided to suspend one of its teachers because he refused to use the pronoun “they” when speaking to a certain student. Enoch Burke was arrested and urged to undergo a disciplinary process. Namely, the student identifies as transgender, and Burke believes that that is against Christian beliefs. The court imposed a temporary barring order, but Burke returned to the school nevertheless, and he was caught and taken to prison. “I am a teacher and I don’t want to go to prison,” Burke said regarding the incident. “I want to be in my classroom today, that’s…

A number of Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, have called on Netflix to remove what they consider to be “offensive content.” The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, which includes Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, initially made the call to ban the streaming of movies and TV shows featuring same-gender relationships or interactions, such as between two biological men or two biological women. Egypt was quick to follow suit, releasing its own statement. According to the Gulf Cooperation Council, the offending programs “contravene Islamic societal values and principles.” Egypt went…

The excuse used by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in his attempt to renege on his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter due to an excessive number of bots is gaining momentum. First came the claims of the Twitter whistleblower. Then, Robert Iger, who served as the CEO of The Walt Disney Company between 2005 and 2020, came out with more details. He revealed that Disney determined that a large proportion of Twitter users were “not real” when the entertainment giant considered purchasing the social network in 2016. Bots are a piece of important information mentioned by Iger, something that he…

Amid a fusillade of false claims, an email sent up a flare, which was sent from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues in 2020. “Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air,” the producer warned after she spread election conspiracy theories. He continued: “She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump’s lies that the election had been stolen from him.” The email’s existence is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it. Fox News has declined comment. In broadcasting…

American actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn are no longer allowed to enter Russia after being added to the “stop list” by Kremlin officials. They join A-list celebrities, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, and fellow Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia and a few Western countries have been throwing rounds of sanctions at each other. Similar restrictions have been imposed on oligarchs connected to Vladimir Putin in the West. The list features names like Gina Raimondo, US Commerce Secretary, as well as six US senators and four…

The national Black Lives Matter group leader has been accused of stealing more than $10 million from the charity’s donors. The BLM Global Network Foundation and its board secretary, Shalomyah Bowers were accused by Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a nonprofit group that represents local BLM chapters across the country in a lawsuit of fraudulently siphoning over $10 million in “fees” to Bowers’s consulting firm. Bowers treated the BLM Global Network Foundation as his “personal piggy bank” and has acted as a “rogue administrator” and “middle man turned usurper,” says the lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The…

The CATO Institute has once again named Florida as the most economically free state in the nation. For the past few years, Florida has ranked first in the CATO’s Freedom in the 50 States assessment of economic and personal freedom. This ranking is determined by economic freedom. Individuals in Florida are not subject to a state income tax, according to CATO’s ranking analysis. “Florida’s state-level tax collections are more than 1.5 standard deviations below the national average, whereas its local tax collections are a little lower than average,” the organization noted. “Florida’s fiscal decentralization does not offer a great deal…

In what a top US commander called a “flagrant” and “unwarranted” incident, the US Navy blocked an Iranian ship from taking an American marine drone in the Persian Gulf. According to a press announcement from US Naval Forces Central Command, as US forces in the area were crossing international waters, they noticed the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps support ship Shahid Baziar. Baziar was hauling the unmanned surface vessel Saildrone Explorer. The USS Thunderbolt, a US Navy coastal patrol ship, was “operating nearby and immediately responded,” the Navy stated. US soldiers in the vicinity directly engaged with the Iranians to…

Bill Clinton was spotted next to Dr. Ruth during a Serena Williams tennis match. While Serena was the star to be watched, Clinton caught everyone’s attention due to his interesting company. Namely, the 76-year-old politician was accompanied by Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a therapist who focuses on, well, you know what. A 94-year-old therapist and ton Clinton engaged in extensive conversation during the game, frequently chuckling, joking, and nodding to one another. Dr. Ruth appeared to playfully slap Clinton on the face at one point. “Who knows what they’re talking about?” said ESPN analyst and ex-tennis player John McEnroe as the…

The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards night was marked by a political statement made by the songstress Lizzo. She used her winner’s speech to claim that laws in the U.S. were “oppressing us.” Lizzo, 34, won in several categories at the awards, with one being Video for Good for her hit About Damn Time. The “Good as Hell” singer admitted she didn’t know what the “music video for good” award meant. But she said that she was grateful for the votes of her fans who helped her win the trophy. “B****! Thank you so much, thank you to Christian [Breslauer],…

Famous singer Mariah Carey called out Meghan Markle for being a diva and it got heated. After Mariah Carey accused Meghan Markle of “diva moments,” the Duchess of Suss-x and her “Archetypes” podcast listeners — “started to sweat.” The 53-year-old Carey interrupted when the 41-year-old Markle told her guest that she does not personally “connect to” the “diva … persona.” “You give us diva moments sometimes, Meghan. Don’t act like [you don’t],” said the singer. “What kind of diva moments did I give you?” Asked the “Suits” alum and appeared flustered. Saying she “didn’t mean” anything by the comment and…

Several 2024 presidential polls conducted by Emerson College reveal that ex-President Donald Trump could win against President Joe Biden in some very important states. According to a poll, Trump leads Biden by five points in Georgia. Six hundred potential general election voters participated in the survey, which had a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points. Georgia was won by Biden in 2020 and by Trump in 2016. The winning margin for Biden in Georgia was less than 12,000 votes. According to a recent poll, Trump leads Biden by 14 points in Ohio. The margin of error for the…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was ripped by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for suggesting at a rally earlier this month that Empire State conservatives should take a hike. DeSantis said at an unrelated press conference: “You have the governor of New York saying all Republicans need to get on a bus and leave the state and come to Florida.” “Who would say something so ridiculous? To say if you don’t agree with me then you don’t even have a right to be here,” he added. Hochul sparked controversy by saying political opponents like Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin ought…

Catholic mass was canceled at the NY State fair and shall return. The New York State Fair will be returning the traditional Roman Catholic Mass after what the fair’s interim director admitted was a “hiccup” that led to its previous cancellation. For nearly 50 years, the Mass has been held each Sunday during the fair. But after the parish that holds it was told by a fair official earlier in the year that it “could not be accommodated,” the Mass did not happen. Rev. Joseph Clemente at St. Marianne Cope Church in Solvay was reached out by interim 2022 Fair…

Pennsylvania Democrats John Fetterman and Josh Shapiro were possibly mixed up by President Joe Biden during a rally in which he urged attendees to vote for both candidates. Biden said to the crowd at Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania: “Folks, do me a favor. Presumptuous of me to say that, but think about doing me a favor…. Please, please elect the Attorney General to the Senate. Elect that big ol’ boy to be governor,” Biden said. Although Shapiro, the state attorney general, and Fetterman, the lieutenant governor, were intended to be endorsed by Biden for governor and senator respectively,…

Luke Bell, a 32-year-old country singer, was found dead in Tucson, Arizona. He was reported missing for seven days before his body was discovered near the place where he went missing. The Tucson Police Department, as well as one of Bell’s friends, Matt Kinman, confirmed the tragic news. Authorities said the cause of death is still unknown, and the investigation is ongoing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx74aUyhEY0 Bell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and recently, according to Saving Country Music, his “mental state took a turn for the worse.” After the tragic news was announced, Bell’s colleagues began paying tribute to him on social…

White House press secretary Jean-Pierre was mocked on social media after accidentally saying “We have created nearly ten thousand million jobs since President Biden took office.” That number is clearly incorrect, but she met the face of fury in the social media comment section. WATCH HER MISTAKE ON VIDEO: The number Jean-Pierre may have meant to say was 315,00. According to an NPR report, the government suggests that amount of jobs was created in August of 2022. “Employers added 315,000 jobs in August, according to a report from the Labor Department. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% from 3.5%…

President Biden was criticized by John Avlon, CNN’s senior political analyst, for calling the Republican Party “semi-fascist.” This criticism comes as CNN executives allegedly pressure the network’s hosts to concentrate on unbiased news reporting. “The term semi-fascist is not helpful,” Avlon said on CNN’s “New Day.” “It’s not befitting the office of president.” “You can absolutely call out the dangers to our democracy, but it makes obviously perfect sense for someone like Sen. Hassan, because look, in New Hampshire, more than 40% of registered voters are independent,” Avlon noted. “Another 30-and-change are Republicans. Democrats are the third category among registered…

The FBI is being sued by the last surviving member of legendary rock band, The Monkees, for full access to the agency’s file on the legendary rock ‘n’ roll band. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by George Michael Dolenz, Jr., better known by his stage name, Micky Dolenz. Over a decade was needed for this litigation to come after the FBI’s partial file on the band was released and posted on the agency’s website in 2011. In the document dated July 26, 1967, “The television show…