Month: April 2021

Lanny Davis Registers as Foreign Agent for Ukrainian Oligarch Facing Bribery Charges

Lanny Davis, a Democratic public relations guru with longstanding ties to the Clintons, has signed a $75,000 monthly contract to help drop a federal case against a Ukrainian oligarch who faces bribery charges in the U.S. Dmitry Firtash, one of Ukraine’s richest men, hired Davis’s firm to help “correct the public record” regarding the federal…


Fullerton Advances Proposed Ban on Unoccupied Short-Term Rentals 

Fullerton city council is moving to tighten its existing short term rental (STR) rules by forbidding the practice in cases where the homeowner is not present during the rental period. During its April 20 meeting, council moved to prohibit whole-house STRs with a 3-2 vote. It will conduct a second reading of the amended ordinance during its next meeting. “It’s…


Xi to Attend Biden’s Climate Change Summit in First Meeting of Two Leaders

BEIJING—Chinese leader Xi Jinping will attend a U.S.-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two leaders since the advent of the new U.S. administration. Biden has invited dozens of world leaders to join the two-day virtual summit starting on Thursday, after bringing the…


Man Dies in Homeless Encampment Fire

The homeless community is on edge after a man died during an April 20 fire at an Anaheim homeless encampment. “The homeless community is shook up,” Zach Southall, managing director of Charity on Wheels, told The Epoch Times. “We all immediately thought back to April of last year when a homeless man was intentionally set on fire.”…


Deep Dive (April 21): National Debt Hits $123 Trillion, $800,000 per Taxpayer: Study

A new report found America’s national debt now exceeds $123 trillion. That’s four times the U.S. Treasury Department’s figure of $28 trillion. What does that mean in terms of taxpayer dollars? The $123 trillion figure means close to $800,000 per taxpayer, while the official figure of $28 trillion means around $180,000 per taxpayer. As to…


Spreading Kindness: From Pizza Box Beginning to Big Idea  

For Costa Mesa High School junior, Rebekah Robeck, kindness is more than a concept, it’s a way of living each day, and she’s made it her mission to spread her good-natured message to schools all over the state. As on-campus classes resume in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District April 26, plans are being set to…


FBI Designated 2017 Baseball Field Shooting as ‘Suicide by Cop’: Congress Members

The FBI in 2017 reportedly told members of Congress that a man who tried gunning them down was engaging in a “suicide by cop.” James Hodgkinson attacked a group of members playing in a charity baseball game in Washington that year, firing over 100 rounds before being shot by law enforcement officers. But FBI agents told…


Must-Follow Steps When You’re Out of a Job

These days, it’s practically inevitable that you or someone close to you will face a period of unemployment. Consider these practical tips while dealing with the financial and emotional toll of leaving one job and searching for another. Don’t Take It Personally Losing a job can cause shame, humiliation, and embarrassment. You may feel depressed…


BLM Co-founder Purchases $1.4 Million Home in a 0.4 Percent Black Population Community | Larry Elder

Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Blacks Lives Matter and a self-claimed “trained Marxist “, appears to be doing quite well for herself. Last year, she signed a major Hollywood production deal. The value of the deal remains undisclosed. But the Cullors just purchased a $1.4 million home in Topanga Canyon California with a white population…


Conservative Black Leaders Call Attacks on New Georgia Voting Reform Law ‘Misinformation’

A group of 21 black leaders defended Georgia’s recently passed voting law in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members on Tuesday, calling the criticism of such laws a campaign to sow division and misinformation as part of a broader agenda by the Democrats to nationalize voting laws. “It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law…