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House Democrats on Wednesday formally introduced a procedural resolution referred to as a “discharge petition” in an effort to try and force a floor vote on a U.S. debt limit increase without needing the approval of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). The discharge petition was introduced at 10 a.m. as part of a clandestine scheme that had been quietly set in motion since...

Australian farmland values rose for the ninth consecutive year in 2022 due to strong demand and robust performance of the agriculture sector. According to the latest report by Rural Bank, which specialises in financial services for farmers, the national median price of Australian farmland jumped 20 percent to $8,506 (US$5,652) per hectare in the past year. In contrast, the average...

Commentary Art is the highest form of human expression; that is, art is most effective in evoking and exploring expressions intrinsic to the human experience. There can be no room for what you might call fake art, art that is, at its heart, inauthentic. I examined authenticity in my Honour’s thesis, and submit that authentic art is, in both conception...

Australian banks launched a new digital platform on May 16 to help stop customers from losing money to scammers. The new Fraud Reporting Exchange (FRX) platform will facilitate a “close to real time” reporting of fraudulent payments to another bank, thus increasing the chances of freezing and recovering money that has been transferred to scammers. Banking Association (ABA) Chief Executive...

News analysis While it’s bad enough the debunked dossier the FBI used to spy on the Trump campaign was paid for by the Clinton campaign and authored by a foreign FBI informant and his carousing researcher, the newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham strongly suggests a top Justice Department official and his wife had an early hand in...

“This happened in a red enclave, in a red hamlet, in a red town, in a red county. I need these people to understand that this could happen anywhere.” New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz was a self-described “New York supremacist,” having spent all of her life in the Big Apple. But she uprooted her family to Florida after the...

Industrialist Elon Musk has criticized work-from-home arrangements, claiming it was unfair to employees who cannot access such options while at the same time being less productive compared to working from an office. “The laptop class is living in la la land,” Musk said in an interview with CNBC on May 16. The billionaire insisted that it was wrong for some...

A Maryland public school board said it is filing a legal claim against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, for negatively affecting the mental health of young students. Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) filed a nearly 200-page lawsuit against the social media companies for allegedly targeting children with apps that were designed to be addictive, reported Fox Business. School administrators...

Elon Musk compared controversial billionaire Democratic donor George Soros to “X-Men” supervillain “Magneto” in a series of tweets on May 15, just days after Soros’s firm disclosed having sold off its stake in Tesla. “Soros reminds me of Magneto,” the Twitter owner wrote, referring to the Marvel comic villain who is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. He added that Hungarian-born investor Soros, 92, “wants to erode...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has filed for divorce from her husband, Jayson Boebert. The 36-year-old Republican who represents Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District announced the news in a statement on May 16, The Colorado Sun reported. Boebert cited “irreconcilable differences” as reasoning for the separation. “It is with a heavy weight on my heart that I have filed for divorce from my...

Home Depot’s revenue during the first quarter fell short of expectations and the company on Tuesday cut its annual sales forecast and projected a decline in profit for the first time since 2009. Shares of the nation’s largest home improvement chain tumbled about 4 percent, while those in rival Lowe’s dropped nearly 3 percent. For the three months that ended April...

Commentary Integral to the integrity of our society, based as it is on the rule of law, is the behaviour and competence of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Revelations and accusations about the behaviour of the Australian Capital Territory’s DPP should send alarm bells ringing for all Australians. His behaviour and professionalism have come under some close scrutiny at...

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is pushing back against Facts First USA’s call for an investigation into Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), describing the liberal advocacy group’s efforts as “theatrics” meant to intimidate. “Dark money organizations are attempting to intimidate congressional investigators who are shining a light on the Biden family’s shady business schemes,” a House Oversight Committee spokesperson...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced articles of impeachment against Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray. “Director Wray has failed to uphold his oath and has instead overseen a denigration of the principles of our democratic republic by utilizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Federal police force to punish or intimidate anyone who questions or opposes the...

The FBI as an institution “should not have existed in the first place” and should be shut down, says entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for president as a Republican in 2024. “What we learned here is this was intentional, all the way down. They knew it was based on fraudulent premises. And yet they went on this hoax of...

Commentary On the same day the Durham report was released, revealing there was never any substance behind the Trump-Russia collusion story despite the media obsessing over it for two years, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger ironically wrote about the importance of an unbiased press. In his piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, he strongly advocates that the New York...

Wholesale gasoline for June delivery rose 1 cent $2.48 a gallon. June heating oil fell 2 cents to $2.36 a gallon. June natural gas was unchanged at $2.38 per 1,000 cubic feet. Gold for June delivery fell $29.70 to $1,993 an ounce. Silver for July delivery fell 40 cents to $23.89 an ounce and July copper fell 8 cents to...

An unnamed Afghan on the terror watchlist was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 10 at the U.S.-Mexico border near Otay Mesa in Southern California, when trying to enter with a group of migrants. San Diego Supervisor Jim Desmond said the incident was a “stark remind” that the federal government should be doing more to maintain a secure border....

“Looking at the data from a totality of sources, I mean, the signals were absolutely alarming … You saw a failed medical experiment being covered up on a global scale,” says Dr. Pierre Kory. We discuss the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, what Dr. Kory describes as a decades-long war on repurposed drugs, and the information warfare tactics that have been deployed...

President Joe Biden’s choice to head the U.S. National Institutes of Health has hauled in hundreds of millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in recent years, raising concerns about whether she’d serve the public independently. Dr. Monica Bertagnolli received $247 million in research funding from Pfizer from 2016 to 2021, according to disclosures filed Open Payments, a government-run...