Month: April 2021

UK Carrier Strike Group to Embark on 6-month Indo-Pacific Deployment

Britain will send a Carrier Strike Group to the Indo-Pacific region next month in a massive show of force aimed at countering the security challenges posed by the Chinese regime. The Carrier Strike Group, which will be led by the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, will be the “largest concentration of maritime and air…


Tories Want More Hearings on Vance Allegations, Expected to Call Trudeau’s Top Aide

OTTAWA—The federal Conservatives are demanding more hearings after a parliamentary committee heard testimony last week suggesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff knew about a misconduct allegation against general Jonathan Vance. Members of the House of Commons defence committee are scheduled this week to finish a report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic…


Raffensperger: Fully Cooperating With Fulton County in Election Interference Probe

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his office is fully cooperating with a Fulton County investigation into potential election interference, pushing back against reports that investigators were dissatisfied with his office’s level of cooperation. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, in February opened a probe into efforts to influence the state’s 2020 election…


Raffensperger: Fully Cooperating With Fulton County District Attorney in Election Interference Probe

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his office is fully cooperating with a Fulton County probe into potential election interference, pushing back against reports that investigators were dissatisfied with the level of cooperation. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, in February opened a probe into attempts to influence the administration of the…


‘Ships of the Desert:’ Discovering the Wonders of Camels in India

The tension builds, as the afternoon sun fades—and the main event nears. The racers are readying their animals, preparing them for the mad dash ahead. Crunching through the dunes, I approach one, my reporter’s cap on and notepad in hand, to ask him about his hopes, strategy, and plans for the winnings, should he take…


Trump Donates to United Cajun Navy for Search and Rescue Mission

Former President Donald Trump recently made a donation to the United Cajun Navy, a nonprofit that spearheads search and rescue efforts across the nation, for its search and rescue mission for crewmembers of the Seacor Power. The group on Friday on social media confirmed Trump’s donation, thanking him. “We will bring every crewmember of the…


Artist Uses Driftwood to Create ‘Gnarly’ Sculptures That Seem to Have a Life of Their Own

Washington-based artist Jeffro Uitto has made a career of turning nature’s rubbish into art. Collecting pieces of driftwood he finds washed up along the shoreline, Uitto creates majestic composite sculptures of animals and other forms—some functional, some aesthetic—bringing new life to dead wood. The artist has been collecting driftwood since high school, with the varied, versatile material…


Dinesh D’Souza: Margaret Sanger’s Racist Legacy

Commentary In my movies, “Hillary’s America” and “Death of a Nation,” I portrayed Margaret Sanger, the founder and longtime leader of Planned Parenthood, as an out-and-out racist. My evidence for this was overwhelming: Sanger was never an advocate of birth control per se; she wanted birth control of the people she considered unwanted people in…


Mom Gives Birth to Angry-Faced Baby, Thankful She is Healthy After Oligohydramnios Diagnosis

A baby who defeated the odds to survive after she was born with no amniotic fluid delighted her mom with her angry face shortly after her birth. Now, the 21-month-old is a healthy, happy child but still continues to have a grumpy face. When Hollie Wallis was pregnant with Winter Josephine, she was in absolute disbelief as…


Incredible Pictures Show UK’s 2nd-Largest Secondhand Bookshop That Has 100,000 Books

A series of incredible pictures show one of the United Kingdom’s largest secondhand bookshops, which houses around 100,000 books inside an 18th-century church. Charles Leakey, 69, opened Leakey’s bookshop in 1979 after falling in love with a secondhand bookshop he worked at in Birmingham. The university graduate who studied history in college was an assistant…