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Brian Cornell, the CEO of Target, thinks that a federal gas tax break is not the discount the U.S. citizens need. The gas price per gallon in the U.S. is currently around $5. A day after President Joe Biden suggested suspending the 18.4-cent-per-gallon fee, Cornell said at the Economic Club of New York, “It’s only going to fuel the demand.” “It’s doing nothing to increase supply, so that’s a temporary, almost a mini stimulus,” he added. Refineries have been running at full capacity to meet the never-ending demand for gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. The circumstances surrounding Russia’s invasion of…

The major US stock index gave up some of its early gains after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stated that the US central bank is “strongly committed” to lowering inflation. The energy sector of the S&P 500 fell by 4.2 percent. After Powell testified before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that higher rates are unpleasant but are the only tool the U.S. central bank has to limit inflation, the dollar dropped along with U.S. Treasury yields amid worries that the U.S. economy could enter a recession. “Like all Fed commentary, there are positives and negatives, but the overall message is…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Rachel Rodriguez had been arrested for her involvement in a voter fraud scheme. Rodriguez will face charges for illegal voting, fraud, unlawful assisting during the mail voting process, and unlawful possession of an official ballot, according to arrest warrants obtained by the KSAT 12 Defenders. Rodriguez was arrested on San Antonio’s East Side in January and later detained on the charges that had been filed in Kendall County. Prior to the 2020 election, Rodriguez was caught on camera in a Project Veritas video harvesting votes. A far-right activist group called Project Veritas uses…

Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is being harshly criticized by the Republican campaigns running to be the next governor of Michigan after she described women as “menstruating people” at a recent Zoom event. Whitmer was commenting on the proposed amendment that is supposed to protect the right to abortion for all Michigan citizens if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. GOP candidate for Michigan governor Kevin Rinke joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss why he is running to unseat Democrat Whitmer and the issues that matter to voters ahead of November. WATCH ‘Fox & Friends First’ report on Whitmer’s…

In an old episode of “The View,” Barbara Corcoran made a remark about Whoopi Goldberg’s pant size. Whoopi Goldberg claimed that she didn’t take it personally. “She doesn’t have to apologize, I know her,” Goldberg said in a recent video. “Barbara’s always been funny and weird and that’s who she is… it takes a lot more to offend me.” WATCH THE JOKE That triggered the audience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTnr4tweg-c The segment that attracted the most attention and criticism occurred during a show segment centered on “Shark Tank.” Namely, Emma Grede, the CEO of the clothing company Good American, will be the first…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backed Jessica Cisneros, a Texas congressional candidate, but she lost in a recount for her party’s nomination. After a close runoff election, Cisneros requested a recount. Cisneros faced incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas. Following the recounts, it was clear that Cuellar had not only won but also received more votes than was initially reported. Cuellar won by 289 votes, according to the recount committee for the Texas Democratic Party. “As I said on election night, ‘the margin will hold’ — and it has not only held but grown,” Cuellar said. He continued to say that he appreciates…

According to documents made public by Judicial Watch, West Point cadets are taught to examine society through the Marxist prism of critical race theory (CRT). More than 600 released records show presentation slides about things like white supremacy and queer theory. The documents were given to Judicial Watch only Only after Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense. One of the presentations mentions “whiteness” and notes that it’s “first necessary to address whiteness” and the “take-for-grantedness of whiteness” before someone could comprehend “racial inequality and slavery.” The document continues to define “whiteness” as “a location of…

In six of America’s major cities, violent crimes are on the rise and set to outpace the already historic levels of 2021 violent crime and it’s only June. This leads critics to believe that urban Americans must stop voting for failing Democrat leaders and finally begin voting for Republicans if they wish to see change. With the nation’s largest city leading the group, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Atlanta, and New York City are all on pace to break their 2021 levels of violent crime halfway through this year, according to crime data. Compared to the same time in…

A Boston College Center of Retirement Research study discovered significant differences in how older and younger baby boomers approach retirement savings. While older Americans are focused on making it last, new generations without traditional pensions will most likely outlive the funds in their 401 (k) accounts. The analysts contrasted the pace at which people with regular pensions and those with only 401(k) savings accounts were withdrawing their money. The majority of people currently fall into the 401 (k) category, despite the fact that most studies on how long retirees’ money last were focused on those with traditional pensions. “What most…

Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen in public protesting the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. She can be heard yelling for people to head "into the streets" in hopes of sparking a major outburst of protest in what many critics might consider an aggressive response. WATCH AOC CALL FOR ACTION: AOC used the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade to beg for donations to help women who wish to have abortions. She posted the following in a social media post. She said: "Now is the time to organize. New York is a legal abortion state, but…

Democrat Maxine Waters appears to suffer an angry meltdown after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Waters posted several messages on social media in response to the Supreme Court decision in conjunction with her public outcry. WATCH MAXINE WATERS FREAK OUT ON VIDEO: Waters posted the following messages on social media and they received very little support in the form of likes or retweets: “Today, I stand in solidarity with the 36 MILLION women being stripped of their right to decide what is best for themselves. We WILL keep fighting! This is only the beginning of an extreme Republican…

Kamala Harris has a low approval rating as vice president and her basketball skills are not much better. The vice president missed multiple shots before finally taking a hint from her husband to bend her knees, eventually making a shot and getting a sad applause from the crowd – as if sinking that shot like any third grader could do would make gas prices come back to normal. WATCH Kamala Harris be very bad at basketball on video: NY Post reported that she took at least five shots in a row that were all misses, and after that she finally…

Some critics on social media are accusing Dr. Oz of using former President Donald Trump to help him with the Republican Primary in Pennsylvania after the candidate dropped Trump from his campaign website. The Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat, Dr. Mehmet Oz, dropped any branding associated with the ex-President Donald Trump, whose support propelled him to victory in the primary election. Early this month, after a required recount started to show Oz winning, David McCormick, a former hedge fund businessman, and Bush administration official, conceded the close primary race to Oz, a television host and cardiologist. Trump was a…

A WNBA basketball pro athlete, who has been detained abroad since February, Brittney Griner tried to call her wife 11 times through the American embassy in Russia on their fourth anniversary, but nobody was there to patch her through. Cherelle Griner was set to speak to her wife from a Russian jail after four months of no communication, she said to the Associated Press. And things were set to change after getting approval from the Russian government to connect with her wife. But her wife’s lawyer came with some bad news for Cherelle Griner. The Phoenix Mercury center got a…

It was a weak week for the CNN network’s ratings, as it was the network’s lowest Friday in the key 25-54 age demographic since July 14th, 2000. A total day average of 60,000 demo viewers was brought in by CNN, which is just higher than the network’s 59,000 demo viewers in July 2000. WATCH CNN ratings nosedive by 90% on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts3-7mP2ZbI Bringing in 221,000 demo viewers and 1.56 million average total viewers, Fox News topped the ratings in the demo and in terms of total viewers on Friday. With 83,000 demo viewers and 818,000 average total viewers, MSNBC came…

Police said that two teenagers were shot and are dead after they forced their way into a home in East Hartford. The two teens entered the home and were shot in the living room, according to officials, and just after midnight, the police were called to the home. They have been identified by police as Isaiah Jose Lopez and Isaiah Miguel Nevarez, one of them was a 16-year-old from Hartford and the other was a 15-year-old from Meriden. Both teens were rushed to nearby hospitals where they were pronounced dead, the police said. Police said that the two teens physically…

The Women’s Leadership Forum fundraiser on May 25 and 26 with Vice President Kamala Harris, reportedly had to be rescheduled by the Democrat National Committee (DNC), for lack of ticket sales and faced backlash for high prices on photo-ops with the VP, Kamala Harris. “The event was rescheduled last minute for the autumn when the event is traditionally held after the event couldn’t sell enough tickets. When the invites were sent out on May 5, it was hyped as an incredible opportunity to mingle in person after two years of virtual events and meetings,” the report said, but turned out…

Former President Donald Trump’s commissioner of Customs and Border Protection told the local newspaper in El Paso, Texas that the new 30-foot high border wall’s steel beams were “impressive,” when he toured a stretch of it in August 2020. WATCH the news report video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDAZYDM4SHE “It really does, I think, physically represent exactly what we’ve been trying to do since Day One. That is to give Border Patrol increased operational capacity to do what they need to do to protect the country,” Commissioner Mark Morgan said. Nearly two years after, illegal border crossings are at an all-time high, while since…

Ex-president Donald Trump seems like he couldn’t care less about DeSantis’ if he planned to run for President in 2024, or at least it appears to be so. In an interview with The New Yorker, Trump clearly stated that he doesn’t care about Ron DeSantis nor is worried about his plans because he is sure that would beat him. WATCH the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptkkH42E0K8 “I don’t know if Ron is running, and I don’t ask him,” Trump said. “It’s his prerogative. I think I would win.” Trump’s self-assurance may stem from the fact that he has consistently outperformed DeSantis in polls.…

Former President Donald Trump was speaking during the American Freedom Tour when he openly mocked President Joe Biden’s failures in the White House. At one point Trump then mocked Biden falling off a bike, saying he hopes he’s OK, but then pledged to Americans that he will “never, ever ride a bicycle.” The audience laughed and it was caught on video. WATCH Trump say it: The video of Joe Biden falling off a bike took the Internet by storm after someone caught him falling during a ride in Delaware. Fox News had the story: “I’m good,” he said appearing in…