The Chinese Communist government on Monday attempted to hijack the prestige of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by holding a sideshow webinar at which hand-picked experts in “Living Buddha Reincarnation” agreed the next Dalai Lama should be selected by Beijing, rather than actual Tibetan Buddhists.
The Biden administration is signaling that it wants to blunt any rightward turn by Israel in the event that Benjamin Netanyahu returns to power, singling out one potential ally of the former prime minister as “a huge problem for us.”
As a major hurricane bears down on Florida, President Biden already has declared a state of emergency, which allows federal agencies to mobilize relief efforts. But he has not spoken to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential political rival.
Nor did the president speak to Mississippi’s Republican Gov. Tate Reeves when flooding caused the main water facility in the capital city, Jackson, to fail in late August. (But Biden did phone the Democrat mayor of Jackson.)
Seventy-one percent of employees are poorer under the weight of President Joe Biden’s inflation, up from 58 percent in February, a Bank of America-sponsored survey shows.
Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party that won the most votes in Italy’s national election, was preparing to be the country’s first woman premier on Monday. The center-right coalition leader is bound for office declaring “We defend God, country, and family” built on opposition to gender ideology and the LGBT lobby alongside support for strong borders and an end to limitless mass migration.
An FBI whistleblower warned that the bureau has been transformed from a law enforcement agency to an intelligence-gathering operation that spies on law-abiding Americans to help advance a political agenda and said thousands of agents and employees feel betrayed by the bureau’s leadership.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, on Wednesday took the dramatic step of filing a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and his three grown children, accusing them of undervaluing properties to gain better rates on loans, insurance policies, and taxes.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said Monday on FNC’s “The Five” that by sending migrants to northern cities, Govs. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Ron DeSantis (R-FL) exposed liberals’ “phony compassion.”
Gutfeld said, “What the Republicans did is they succeeded in doing what the Democrats and media always say they want, a conversation, right? Whenever we would talk about a policy and talk about law enforcement or justice, or we have to follow the rules, they’d go, we really need to have a conversation. So now you have a conversation. The only way you can get the conversation was to shame and expose the liberals for their phony compassion.”
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which has a well-documented history of targeting conservatives, granted tax-exempt status in April to a Soros-backed organization now accused of trying to pay an attorney to spread “fake news” about former President Donald Trump and “Trump Republicans.”
President Biden has issued nearly 100 executive orders, which will cost taxpayers up to $1.5 trillion, as the national debt nears $31 trillion, according to an expert.
The “thugs and tyrants” attacking the MAGA movement have awakened a “sleeping giant,” former President Donald Trump said during his Save America rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Saturday night.
“They have no idea of the sleeping giant that they have awoken,” Trump told the rally, which aired live on Newsmax. “The American people will never accept the corruption and the ruination of our beloved country, and that’s what they want to do.”
The U.S. Department of Defense said it was “reviewing” a “woke” diversity chief after Fox News Digital found that she posted disparaging posts about White people on Twitter.
The chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), Kelisa Wing, described herself on Twitter as a “woke administrator” and said she was “exhausted at these white folx in [professional development] sessions.”
The Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced on Monday that Yue Chen would serve as its chief climate risk officer.
“She will be able to tell banks that certain investments will be discouraged because they might pose a climate risk,” Furchtgott-Roth explained. “Say, for example, a bank wanted to lend money for a coal mine — she has the ability to advise OCC to downgrade that bank and say, ‘This is a risky investment.’ The OCC does have power over risky investments, but in the past climate change has not been looked on as a risk.”
A top Chinese official said that his country will continue its partnership with Russia in the hopes of creating a new international order that will rival western influence.
“The Chinese side is willing to work with the Russian side to continuously implement high-level strategic cooperation between the two countries, safeguard common interests and promote the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction,” Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committe Yang Jiechi said Monday, according to Bloomberg.