General news

• Federal judge to deny Rep. Jody Hice's challenge to subpoena from Georgia DA in Trump election probe

  25-07-2022 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge in Atlanta said Monday that she will deny Republican Rep. Jody Hice's request to quash a subpoena to appear in front of a special grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
  
  Read more

• Profits Trump Going Green: ESG Funds Covertly Buying Oil Stocks as Green Agenda Creates Energy Shortage

  25-07-2022 23:45
  
  ESG-aimed investment funds – which gauge companies based on their environmental, social and governance performances – are quietly investing in oil company stocks.
  Why am I not surprised?
  There’s a lot of neo-feudal claptrap floating around about saving the planet by leaving oil in the ground, switching to electrified mass transit, getting rid of air conditioning and killing all the cows.
  In other words, let the peasants freeze/boil in the dark, squeeze together in mass-transit-
  
  Read more

• Police say they shot woman who fired shots into ceiling at Dallas Love Field

  25-07-2022 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  • Man taken into custody after reports of shots fired at multiple locations outside Vancouver with several victims
  
  Read more

• Watch: Safari Park Proposal Goes Wildly Wrong After a Giraffe Joins In, Leaves Woman in Neck Brace

  25-07-2022 23:12
  
  Viral footage on social media showed a giraffe headbutting a woman after her boyfriend asked her to marry him.
  A video that Montserrat Cox posted Wednesday on TikTok showed her and her boyfriend feeding giraffes at a safari park before he got down on his knee to propose to her.
  Just as he pulled out the ring to slide it on her finger, one of the giraffes the two had been feeding nudged Cox’s elbow.
  The animal then headbutted her, the video showed.
  “Had to wear a neck brace for the ne
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• 'WJ LIVE' EP 281 | Embarrassing Pence Rally Photos Show Trump's Same-Day Rally Was 20x Bigger

  25-07-2022 23:05
  
  Support the truth. Become a member of The Western Journal.
  The absurd scene created by Rep. Alexandra Occasio Cortez outside the Supreme Court exposes that Democrats are willing to fake anything to further their agenda.
  ► Click HERE to subscribe to “WJ Live” on YouTube: http://w-j.co/s/51c85
  ► Don’t miss an episode of “WJ Live”! Click HERE to get it delivered directly to your inbox: http://w-j.co/s/ef7f7
  Follow The Western Journal on
  
  Read more

• Ultra-fast delivery startups are struggling to survive

  25-07-2022 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  In early March, after two ultra-fast delivery startups shut down in New York City in a single week, a self-proclaimed pioneer in the space appeared to see an opportunity for some media attention.
  
  Read more

• Diapers cost families a fortune, but now some states will stop taxing them

  25-07-2022 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  Diapers are a notoriously large expense for caregivers of newborns, toddlers and adults suffering from incontinence.
  
  Read more

• Biden says he's 'feeling great' as Covid symptoms begin to wane

  25-07-2022 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden's Covid-19 symptoms have "almost completely resolved," his physician said in an update Monday, as the President continues to isolate at the White House.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Caught on Video: 3 Gunmen Burst in During Sermon, Rob NYC Bishop and His Wife in $400K Jewelry Heist

  25-07-2022 22:00
  
  A Brooklyn bishop and his wife, both wearing excessive bling, were robbed at gunpoint during a live-streamed church service Sunday morning. Three armed assailants reportedly stole over $400,000 worth of jewelry, New York City police said.
  Bishop Lamor Whitehead was interrupted in the middle of his sermon when three gunmen burst into the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries denominational church in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
  The livestream video captured the incident around 11:14 a.m., the New Y
  
  Read more

• DOJ accuses poultry processors of underpaying workers for decades

  25-07-2022 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Major US poultry processors engaged in a 20-year-long conspiracy to suppress worker pay, the Department of Justice alleged Monday.
  
  Read more

• Sports Team Facing Full Revolt After Players Were Surprised with New 'Pride' Jerseys

  25-07-2022 21:34
  
  An Australian professional rugby team may have to play without seven of its teammates after it revealed plans to wear rainbow-clad “pride” jerseys without consulting the players.
  According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the Manly Sea Eagles of Australia’s National Rugby League released images of the jersey to the public on Monday, but it did not inform players about the jerseys beforehand. The team plans to have players wear the jerseys Thursday during its match against the Sydn
  
  Read more

• 'Stampede' Breaks Out After Gunfire at Dallas Love Field Airport, Suspect Shot by Police

  25-07-2022 21:07
  
  Police said a 37-year-old woman opened fire at Dallas Love Field airport around 11 a.m. local time Monday.
  Officers shot the suspect, who was taken to Parkland Hospital for treatment for wounds to her lower extremities. There were no other injuries.
  Dallas Chief of Police Eddie Garcia told reporters that the woman had been dropped off at the airport just before 11 a.m. and then went into a restroom in the terminal and changed clothes, KXAS-TV in Fort Worth, Texas, reported.
  She then exited the r
  
  Read more

• Expert Proved Biden's Treasury Secretary Dead Wrong on Inflation, His New Warning Shows She Can't See What's Coming

  25-07-2022 21:07
  
  For the Joe Biden presidency, it was a bad start. For the rest of the country, it’s likely to be a worse week — and November can’t come fast enough.
  In a pair of talk shows Sunday, Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Clinton administration secretary Larry Summers offered sharply different views on the shape of the American economy.
  One of them is likely to be proven right by the week’s end, and the smart money isn’t on Janet Yellen.
  On the normally Biden-frien
  
  Read more

• Los Angeles Residents May Soon Get Reconditioned Sewage Water When They Turn on the Faucet

  25-07-2022 20:39
  
  Officials and agencies in Los Angeles are examining how treated sewage water can be directly put into the drinking water system.
  “There’s been a health legacy where sanitary engineering practices and regulators considered sewage a waste, it was something to be avoided, something to be feared,” Brad Coffey of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California told Los Angeles Times.
  “Now that we have the technology … the public, the regulators, the scientific co
  
  Read more

• What Donald Trump refused to say on and around January 6 is more telling than what he did say

  25-07-2022 20:29 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump repeatedly refused to offer harsh and widespread condemnation of those who rioted at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, going against guidance from his aides -- and, at times, scripted words -- as he sought to navigate his way through a morass of his own creation.
  
  Read more

• Analysis: What Donald Trump refused to say on and around January 6 is more telling than what he did say

  25-07-2022 20:29 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump repeatedly refused to offer harsh and widespread condemnation of those who rioted at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, going against guidance from his aides -- and, at times, scripted words -- as he sought to navigate his way through a morass of his own creation.
  
  Read more

• Judge blocks Georgia DA from developing case against Republican state senator in Trump investigation

  25-07-2022 20:28 via cnn.com
  
  A Georgia judge on Monday blocked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from investigating Burt Jones, a Republican state senator, as part of the investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election in that state.
  
  Read more

• US Navy Officer Blacks Out After Medical Emergency, Now a Foreign Court Has Sentenced Him to Three Years in Prison

  25-07-2022 20:24
  
  A U.S. Navy officer is heading to a Japanese prison for a three-year sentence because a Japanese court would not accept his account of a May 2021 incident in which two pedestrians were killed.
  Lt. Ridge Alkonis was behind the wheel when he blacked out, according to CBS.
  Alkonis, and the U.S. Navy, said that altitude sickness led to him blacking out behind the wheel. The judge in the case did not accept that argument and ruled Alkonis dozed off. If Alkonis was tired, he should have pulled off the
  
  Read more

• Stocks are on track for the best month of the year — for now

  25-07-2022 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  The first half of 2022 was awful for stocks. But investors have seen a rebound in July and the markets are currently enjoying their best month of the year.
  
  Read more

• Stocks are on track for the best month of the year

  25-07-2022 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  The first half of 2022 was awful for stocks. But investors have seen a rebound in July and the markets are currently enjoying their best month of the year.
  
  Read more

• Woman Who Scammed $400,000 in Homeless Veteran Plot Sentenced to Prison

  25-07-2022 19:54
  
  A woman who scammed thousands of unsuspecting people out of approximately $400,000 received her prison sentence in federal court Thursday.
  According to Fox News, 32-year-old Katelyn McClure of Bordentown, New Jersey, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison stemming from the scam she cooked up with her then-boyfriend Mark D’Amico in November 2017.
  The scam began when McClure and D’Amico started a GoFundMe campaign titled “Paying It Forward.” The couple claimed McCl
  
  Read more

• In Midst of Growing Food Crisis, Feds Suing Three of America's Biggest Chicken Companies

  25-07-2022 19:15
  
  Three of America’s largest poultry producers as well as a data consulting firm have agreed to a proposed settlement of $84.8 million as part of a Justice Department lawsuit that was filed Monday.
  The lawsuit and the proposed consent decree, filed in federal court, involve Cargill, Sanderson Farms and Wayne Farms, along with the data consulting company Webber, Meng, Sahl and Co. and its president, G. Jonathan Meng, according to a news release from the Justice Department.
  The action comes at
  
  Read more

• Opinion: As a Jewish American, I don't see the US quite the same way after Jan. 6

  25-07-2022 19:02 via cnn.com
  
  Each session of the House committee investigating the events of January 6 showed us just how far parts of the country have traveled, unbeknownst to most of us, down a road towards extremism, white nationalism and antisemitism.
  
  Read more

• Desperate Farmer Tears Through Field, Plows a Line Just Yards Away from Wildfire

  25-07-2022 18:56
  
  While a fire continued consuming a barley field in England this weekend, a brave farmer thought quickly on his feet to stop the spread.
  Bill Alexander took his tractor and plowed a line across his neighbor’s field to stop the wildfire. He drove several yards from the flames, which were heading toward homes.
  The fire burned almost 20 hectares, or about 49 acres, of land in Kent, England, around 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Metro reported.
  The dangerous encounter can be seen in a video filmed by BBC
  
  Read more

• Iran Says It Captured Israeli Mossad Agents, Claims They Were in the Middle of Explosive Operation

  25-07-2022 18:48
  
  Iran’s intelligence agency claimed to have arrested an Israeli spy network attempting to lay explosives at sensitive locations in Isfahan province, where the Natanz nuclear facility is located, state-run media reported Sunday.
  Operatives working for Mossad, Israel’s top foreign intelligence service, entered Iran from Kurdistan months ago after training and simulation in Africa, Iranian state-affiliated Nour News reported.
  Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence allegedly arrested the o
  
  Read more

• Indiana legislature convening special session to consider abortion ban

  25-07-2022 18:18 via cnn.com
  
  Indiana lawmakers are reconvening on Monday to consider more restrictions on abortion, the first state to hold a special session with the goal of potentially curtailing abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month.
  
  Read more

• Ultra-fast delivery was all the rage during the pandemic. Now these startups are trying to survive

  25-07-2022 18:02 via cnn.com
  
  In early March, after two ultra-fast delivery startups shut down in New York City in a single week, a self-proclaimed pioneer in the space appeared to see an opportunity for some media attention.
  
  Read more

• This delivery startup was valued at more than $11 billion. Then it slashed thousands of workers

  25-07-2022 18:02 via cnn.com
  
  In early March, after two ultra-fast delivery startups shut down in New York City in a single week, a self-proclaimed pioneer in the space appeared to see an opportunity for some media attention.
  
  Read more

• Biden's Covid-19 symptoms 'almost completely resolved,' doctor says

  25-07-2022 17:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden's Covid-19 symptoms have "almost completely resolved," his physician said in an update Monday, as the President continues to isolate at the White House.
  
  Read more

• Mystery Deepens: Something Was Supposed to Be Beneath Razed Georgia Guidestones, But Where Is It?

  25-07-2022 17:04
  
  The Georgia Guidestones: They were a strange, cryptic roadside attraction that some called the “American Stonehenge” and others claimed were satanic. They are no more, thanks to an unknown vandal setting off a bomb at the base of the attraction in northeastern Georgia.
  However, there was a silver lining in the fact the attraction was destroyed. You see, the unknown individual who commissioned the project in rural Elbert County allegedly had left a time capsule behind. Now that the mo
  
  Read more

• 'Titanic' Actor David Warner Dead at 80

  25-07-2022 16:59
  
  David Warner, a versatile British actor whose roles ranged from Shakespearean tragedies to sci-fi cult classics, has died. He was 80.
  Warner’s family said he died from a cancer-related illness on Sunday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for entertainers in London.
  Often cast as a villain, Warner had roles in the 1971 psychological thriller “Straw Dogs,” the 1976 horror classic “The Omen,” the 1979 time-travel adventure “Time After Time” — he was
  
  Read more

• China Issues Gravest Warning Over Pelosi Trip to Taiwan, Air Raid Sirens Howl as Island's Military Mobilizes

  25-07-2022 16:55
  
  China fired a new volley Monday in the war of words over a potential trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
  And on the ground on the island, officials are preparing for something even more serious.
  On both sides of the Pacific, the pressure is mounting.
  According to Fox News, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian doubled down on the Beijing government’s vocal opposition to the planned visit by Pelosi.
  “The Chinese side has made it clear to the U.S. on many occasions t
  
  Read more

• White House downplays recession fears ahead of upcoming GDP report

  25-07-2022 16:29 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden's advisers are downplaying recession fears ahead of a highly anticipated report that could show the economy shrinking for a second consecutive quarter.
  
  Read more

• After Transforming Himself Into 'Alien' with Amputations, Tattoos and Implants, Man Hits Problem of Intergalactic Proportions

  25-07-2022 16:25
  
  After a multitude of tattoos, amputations and surgeries to turn himself into something resembling a “black alien,” a French man says he’s run into a bit of a problem: Not a whole lot of people in his part of the galaxy want to give him work.
  According to Indy100, a publication associated with the U.K. Independent, Anthony Loffredo has what we’d consider to be the modern version of fame and self-realization.
  Instagram followers: 1.2 million. The 34-year-old has manufacture
  
  Read more

• Boeing defense workers set to go on strike

  25-07-2022 16:19 via cnn.com
  
  Workers at Boeing's defense plants in the St. Louis area are threatening to go on strike next week after union members rejected the company's final contract offer.
  
  Read more

• China's response to Pelosi's potential Taiwan visit could be 'unprecedented' but military conflict unlikely, experts say

  25-07-2022 15:50 via cnn.com
  
  The United States is no stranger to China's angry responses over its support for Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
  
  Read more

• Segregation, historic racism made 'the only sport that can save your life' less accessible for Black communities

  25-07-2022 15:49 via cnn.com
  
  Omie Dale has fond memories of splashing in the sea as a child, of racing through water parks and swimming in backwaters and rivers.
  
  Read more

• Segregation and historic racism has made 'the only sport that can save your life' less accessible for Black communities

  25-07-2022 15:49 via cnn.com
  
  Omie Dale has fond memories of splashing in the sea as a child, of racing through water parks and swimming in backwaters and rivers.
  
  Read more

• RuPaul Savages Biden on Kimmel's Show, Runs Brutal Satire Video of Confused President

  25-07-2022 15:41
  
  Jimmy Kimmel may be away from his eponymous late-night show for a summer break, but it still bears his name, no matter who the guest host is.
  That’s what made its mockery of President Joe Biden’s confused remarks, all in the light of his recent COVID-19 diagnosis, even more shocking. And hilarious.
  In a spoof video of what the president would sound like if he were announcing the infection via a paid political advertisement, “your pal Joey Sack-a-nickels” tells America he
  
  Read more

• Bodycam footage suggests embattled chief was at center of Uvalde shooting response

  25-07-2022 15:39 via cnn.com
  
  • Video investigation: Uvalde police chief says he wasn't in command, but bodycam footage suggests otherwise
  
  Read more

• As Americans Continue to Suffer at the Pump, Biden Sends Infuriating Series of Self-Congratulatory Tweets

  25-07-2022 15:25
  
  When President Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, Americans were paying less than $3 a gallon for gas.
  The numbers seem almost impossible to remember now, but according to Energy Information Administration data, the national average price of a gallon of gasoline was only $2.42.
  Now, with the national average of a price of a gallon of gas at $4.36, according to AAA, Biden is spiking the football.
  In a series of tweets sent between Friday and Sunday, the president patted himself on the back
  
  Read more

• Is This the Most Plainspoken Sheriff in America? He Calls Suspect 'Oxygen-Stealer and a Scumbag,' Then Gets Even More Blunt

  25-07-2022 15:03
  
  The tough-talking sheriff of Lee County, Florida, is making headlines for his no-nonsense approach to crimefighting.
  When a naked man threatened a deputy with a knife after causing a domestic disturbance in May, the SWAT team quickly intervened and apprehended the suspect.
  Shortly afterward, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno held a news conference in the suspect’s driveway, The Associated Press reported on Saturday.
  “He’s an oxygen-stealer and a scumbag, and I’m glad he&
  
  Read more

• Tesla subpoenaed over Elon Musk's tweets ... again

  25-07-2022 15:00 via cnn.com
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission apparently isn't done with Elon Musk and his tweets quite yet.
  
  Read more

• Dr. Birx's Bombshell Vaccine Admission: I Knew Vaccines Wouldn't Protect Against Infection

  25-07-2022 14:27
  
  Former White House COVID response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx has admitted that she knew COVID-19 vaccines would not prevent infection.
  During the administration of President Joe Biden, intense pressure has been put on individuals to be vaccinated against the coronavirus on the grounds that they were group responsible for spreading the virus — a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” as Biden has put it.
  That philosophy underpinned vaccine mandates supported by the Biden administrati
  
  Read more

• Why these 'unretirees' went back to work

  25-07-2022 14:26 via cnn.com
  
  In 2020, Joe DiPastena felt confident enough to retire earlier than planned. But by 2022, he was having second thoughts.
  
  Read more

• Bad Move: Chess-Playing Robot Seizes and Breaks 7-Year-Old Opponent's Finger

  25-07-2022 13:20
  
  A chess-playing robot last week broke the finger of a 7-year-old opponent during a chess match that was part of the Moscow Open, according to news reports.
  “The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the Russian news agency TASS, according to the U.K. Guardian.
  “This is, of course, bad,” he said, adding that the robots had played many other competitors without such an incident.
  Video of the incident Tuesday sh
  
  Read more

• New York bishop and his wife robbed in $400K jewelry heist during live-streamed service

  25-07-2022 11:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Brooklyn bishop and his wife were robbed in the middle of a live-streamed service Sunday, with the assailants making off with around $400,000 worth of jewelry.
  
  Read more

• CNN exclusive: FBI probe found Chinese-made equipment on US soil can intercept highly restricted airwaves used by the military

  25-07-2022 11:15 via cnn.com
  
  On paper, it looked like a fantastic deal. In 2017, the Chinese government was offering to spend $100 million to build an ornate Chinese garden at the National Arboretum in Washington DC. Complete with temples, pavilions and a 70-foot white pagoda, the project thrilled local officials, who hoped it would attract thousands of tourists every year.      
  
  Read more

• Journalist describes harrowing experience reporting in Afghanistan

  25-07-2022 11:09 via cnn.com
  
  Columnist Lynne O'Donnell, who recently returned to Afghanistan, says she was detained and punished for her past reporting. "They'd look at each other and say, 'She knows her crimes,' and then they took me away," she says.
  
  Read more

• Hong Kong’s phone-obsessed pedestrians get some extra help at the crosswalk

  25-07-2022 10:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  A device being tested in Hong Kong projects a red light onto the ground to remind pedestrians to stop while the “Don’t Walk” signal is engaged.
  
  Read more

Follow @GeneralNewsUS on Twitter!