France imposed a month-long lockdown on Paris and parts of the north after a faltering vaccine rollout and spread of highly contagious CCP virus variants forced President Emmanuel Macron to shift course. France reported 35,000 new cases on Thursday and there were more COVID-19 patients in intensive care in Paris than at the peak of […]
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DETROIT—A global semiconductor shortage and a February winter storm have combined to force Ford to build F-150 pickup trucks without some computers. The company says the pickups will be held at factories for “a number of weeks,” then shipped to dealers once computers are available and quality checks are done. The move is the latest
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Commentary “You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think,” then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 2013 upon Senate Democrats’ invoking the “nuclear option” to prevent Senate Republicans from filibustering all lower-court judicial nominations. And so it was: In 2017, facing fierce
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Zach Southall was bound for the wrong direction. It was the 1980s, and he was growing up in an apartment in Southern California packed with family members who were criminals and drug addicts. Between stints in jail, they would crash there with him and his mother. “That rubs off on you when you’re young,” he told The Epoch Times. “You learn bad lessons, like ‘You ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.’”
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A B.C. father who opposes his teenage child transitioning from female to male without his consent, was arrested this week for repeatedly speaking publicly about aspects of the case. A warrant was issued for the father’s arrest in early March after he allegedly violated court orders that restricted him from disclosing his own name as
A newly introduced bipartisan proposal would put cameras in the Supreme Court and require all open proceedings of the nation’s top court to be televised. The Cameras in the Courtroom Act would take sessions where members of the public are already allowed to observe in person and require their broadcast, enabling people offsite to watch
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Bill Wilson. Bob Smith. Some readers may recognize those names, but I suspect they are unfamiliar to many others. They are common names, unremarkable as a pair of old shoes. And yet those two men, though unknown to so many people, launched a program that has saved millions of lives over the last 85 years.
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A man was shot inside of a massage parlor in Seattle late Thursday, following a spate of massage parlor shootings in the Atlanta area earlier this week. The King County Sheriff’s Office said its Major Crimes Unit was investigating the shooting, which it described as a robbery. The male victim was transported to the hospital
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Ten Republican lawmakers have called for a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security to examine how the surge of illegal immigrants from south of the border may be impacting national security and the safety of Americans. Led by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the Republicans made the request in a March 18
The UK government is estimated to have borrowed £19.1 billion ($26.6 billion) last month, the highest for February since monthly records began in 1993. The borrowing figure is £17.6 billion ($24.5 billion), more than that of February 2020, according to new data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Friday. In February 2021,
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