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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) recently signed a new law that limits most car manufacturers from selling vehicles directly to the public, while providing advantages to EV makers such as Tesla, Lucid, Rivian, and Polestar. The legislation, set to be enforced from July 1, imposes obstacles for major car manufacturers, which are prohibited from bypassing independent dealerships and selling vehicles directly to...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—A second man has been found guilty in a shootout at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, that left one person dead and more than a dozen people injured. Terry Lorenzo Brown was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder, four counts of attempted second-degree murder and illegally possessing a firearm, KARE-TV reported. Prosecutors said Brown and Devondre Phillips began...

As mass shootings make headlines, one man who has spent years studying what it takes to get men to kill said it is clear that violent entertainment is a how-to manual for many killers. According to retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, violent media molds the character of its consumers just as military basic training conditions soldiers to kill....

NEW YORK—Wall Street closed out its best week since March with a quiet finish on Friday, and stocks drifted to modest losses. The S&P 500 fell 16.25 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,409.59 after wobbling through the day. It still closed out a fifth straight winning week for its longest such streak since November 2021, and it remains close to...

Democrats warn that Congress is still facing the threat of a shutdown at the end of the year, despite an agreement on the Federal budget. The agreement earlier this month between House Republicans and the Democrats was supposed to create a bipartisan framework for annual spending bills that would take a government shutdown off the table. Congress may have avoided...

Twitter owner Elon Musk has plans for his social media platform that extend far beyond social networking. In recent months, Musk has been outspoken about his intention to turn Twitter into “X,” an “everything app” that offers a variety of services—like messaging, networking, shopping, financial services, and more—in just one interface. His goal? Advancing civilization, of course. “X/Twitter is going...

Commentary On May 5, I attended the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) conference in Santa Clara, California. In my third installment about this conference, I’m going to talk about the class entitled “Parents in Transition, Clinical Considerations When Treating Parents of Gender Diverse Children,” presented by Linda K. Reeves, LMFT (she/her) WPATH GEI Certified Gender Specialist. Reeves introduced herself...

“What we found is the whole representation of what is happening is a lie … The U.S. government is representing to the public that this is a health event and the response to a health event. But in fact, … this is a military operation.” In this episode, I sit down with former pharmaceutical executive Sasha Latypova. She emerged from...

TikTok is under scrutiny by the U.S. government in light of national security concerns. An expert pointed out that the content hidden in TikTok’s terms of use and privacy policy is very concerning, that users who install the app voluntarily reveal everything about themselves and the information of those around them. “The cyber system in today’s world is so complex...

Huge changes are coming to the franchise business industry. None of it good. Commentary The promise of franchise businesses is that any schmuck with the money to buy one, the grit to do it, and the extraordinary work ethic required to run a business can be successful—and even become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. No highfalutin Ivy League college degree...

High mortgage rates and low inventory plague the housing market with prospective buyers showing high degrees of purchase reluctancy The number of homes for sale has declined from pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, with high mortgage rates discouraging prospective sellers from putting their properties on the market, said real estate brokerage Redfin. There are now 39 percent fewer homes for sale on...

Newly passed legislation that would ban ballot harvesting in Mississippi is being challenged in court by several civil rights organizations that claim it would harm minority voters and those with disabilities. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Mississippi Center for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU-MS, and Disability Rights Mississippi (DRMS) filed a federal lawsuit challenging S.B. 2358, legislation which would...

Taiwan’s government agreed Thursday to ease restrictions on imports of Canadian beef from cattle aged 30 months or older, granting Canadian beef exporters full access to the Taiwanese market. Taiwanese Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director Wu Shou-mei said the changes will take effect immediately, but six types of offal, including brains and eyes, will remain prohibited owing to safety...

JAKARTA—Short video app TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, said on Thursday it would invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia over the next few years, as it doubles down on the region amid intensifying global scrutiny over its data security. Southeast Asia, a region with a collective population of 630 million—half of them under 30—is one of TikTok’s biggest markets...

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that federal bankruptcy law supersedes Indian tribes’ sovereign immunity. An Indian tribe in Wisconsin had argued it could not be sued and that bankruptcy protections, such as the law’s automatic stay of collection efforts when an individual files for bankruptcy, did not operate to block its efforts to seek repayment of a debt from a...

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1669472439472988161?s=20 Tucker discusses Joe Biden's dictatorship of America. Tucker hits it out of the park yet again when talking about the wanna-be dictator. When the whole truth is finally revealed, the Biden family might eclipse the Clintons and even the Obamas as the most corrupt family in American politics. It would be hard to beat Barack and Michael Obama out...

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1668747661028081664?s=20 Tucker discusses what Joe Biden is doing but what no president has ever dared to do. He is using law enforcement to lock up his chief rival—that is happening right now. Anyone who denies it is happening is lying to you. Once again Tucker goes to the very heart of what we are truly up against. The DC UniParty...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a $116.5 billion state budget into law on June 15. He highlighted the budget’s environmental spending by signing it in Fort Pierce with a scenic view of the Indian River Lagoon as his backdrop. The budget earmarks $1.6 billion for water restoration in the Everglades and elsewhere, including $100 million for the lagoon, part of...

Commentary This year marked the 34th anniversary of the June 4th incident, a 1989 student-led demonstration in China that resulted in bloody suppression and massacre. Since then, the annual June 4th candlelight vigil has been part of Hong Kong’s history until 2020, when the national security law banned such national security-threatening activities. However, with the ongoing exodus of Hongkongers, the...

The U.S. electricity grid is critically dependent on extra-high-voltage transformers made in China, says Tommy Waller, President of the Center for Security Policy. An expert on the U.S. grid, Waller also stars in the documentary “Grid Down, Power Up.” What are the greatest problems facing America’s electrical grid? Why is the industry allowing these vulnerabilities to exist? And what happens...