Update: Here is a live feed of Christine Lagarde who now faces the unenvious task of explaining why she hiked 50bps at a time when Credit Suisse is on the verge of collapse and every incremental rate hike by the ECB makes keeping deposits at the bank that much more difficult

It’s almost spring cleaning time, but according to one college professor, cleaning your pantry is racist and sexist.

Two people were arrested and one police officer was injured Tuesday night after a mix of protesters and black-clad rioters clashed with authorities and damaged property at the University of California, Davis, in protest of a Turning Point USA event featuring Charlie Kirk.

A top Russian official claimed on Wednesday that the U.S. was “directly involved” in fighting the war in Ukraine after Russian pilots initiated a provocation against a U.S. drone operating over international waters this week that led to a collision and destruction of the drone.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration has demanded that a liberal school system cut ties with allegedly Chinese Communist Party-linked groups, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire.

A “Drag Story Hour” event hosted by New York Attorney General Letitia James will have some competition from Libs of TikTok.

coHealth Alliance, a New York City-based nonprofit that works internationally to prevent emerging diseases, has been scrutinized by Republican politicians for its relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, and research money in the years leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak.

EcoHealth is now back in the spotlight following a CBS News report stating they may have double billed for Wuhan projects through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

"What I've found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds. It is concerning, especially since it involves dangerous pathogens and risky research," Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator hired by Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, told the outlet.

China’s foreign minister on Thursday spoke by telephone with his Ukrainian counterpart as Beijing continues to signal its desire to play a part in ending that country’s war with Russia.

Qin Gang, the Chinese official, spoke with Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba, both governments confirmed.

Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kennedy (R-LA), and John Cornyn (R-TX) held a press conference on Thursday morning to introduce the Respect for the Second Amendment Act; the act as introduced is intended to “codify second amendment rights for law-abiding citizens.”

Graham shared the news on Twitter.

“With this bill, we are ensuring that the rights affirmed by the Supreme Court are part of the federal code – and preventing a future Supreme Court from reversing this decision.”

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and his panel of six renowned scholars take a deep dive into the Ten Commandments and relate them to important topics of today, including virtue signaling and the dangers of social media in the tenth episode of “Exodus,” released Wednesday on DailyWire+.

The number of January 6 prosecutions could double if a newly revealed prediction by the Justice Department comes true.

Senator Rand Paul stormed out of the Homeland Security Committee hearing, and suggested every Republican leave the meeting as well on Wednesday.

During the hearing, Paul (R-Ky.) butted heads with Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.) who serves as Chair on the committee, after Peters blocked each Republican amendment to the Fire Grants and Safety Act.

“We have what, unlimited second-degree amendments?” Paul said.

Peters then proceeded to tell Paul that he does not have jurisdiction to call an amendment up for a vote.

“You can’t call it up, senator, only the chair,” Peters said. “You weren’t recognized to call it for a vote. Only the chairman can do that. The chair can call up the amendments as the chair sees fit.”

“If this is the way you’re going to run the committee, I would suggest that Republicans leave,” the Republican Senator replied. “I don’t see why we should stick around if you’re going to make up the rules. I mean you’re going to offer up a third-degree amendment.”

Joe Rogan said on his podcast this week that he would not interview Russian President Vladimir Putin if Putin offered to fly him to Russia so the two could meet.

National Security Adviser to President Biden Jake Sullivan played a prominent role in plotting the September 26, 2022, sabotage against the Russo-European Nord Stream pipelines, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed. So, who is Jake Sullivan: “the cat’s meow,” “once-in-a-generation intellect,” or a reckless hawk?

“I have great respect for Hersh and his reporting and believe that Sullivan could certainly have been instrumental in pushing for and carrying out this deceitful campaign that likely has inflicted monumental damage on citizens worldwide while also sapping America’s remaining national prestige,” Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel told Sputnik.

In December 2021, Jake Sullivan, acting with Joe Biden’s blessing, convened men and women from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the State and Treasury Departments to come up with a plan on how to destruct Nord Stream 1 and 2 designed to pump Russian natural gas to Europe, according to Seymour Hersh’s recent bombshell.

In early 2022, the CIA told Sullivan that they knew how to blow up the pipelines. The group decided to keep the risky plot on a hush. The US Congress wasn’t informed. The US military and intelligence operatives did their best to conceal Washington’s role in the sabotage. As per the investigative journalist, the team had concerns about the legality of the plot and was well aware that it could quickly morph into a foreign policy nightmare.

Student-activists at the University of Pittsburgh are outraged that Daily Wire host Michael Knowles is scheduled to appear on campus and take part in a debate on transgenderism next month.

China has launched dozens of satellites in the past six months and the People's Liberation Army now has 347 orbiting craft that can gather intelligence on American armed forces, according to the head of the U.S. Space Force.

Gen. Chance Saltzman told senators that Beijing was the 'most immediate threat' to U.S. operations as it develops lasers to disrupt satellite sensors, electronic warfare jammers and even builds craft that could grab and move rival orbiting platforms out of position.

It is all part of its plan for a fully modernized, world-class military designed to achieve China's 'Space Dream' of being the most powerful nation in space by 2045, he said. 

Webmaster addition: As a side note, the US is developing these same capabilities going back to Reagan's "Star Wars" project!

The Biden administration demanded that ByteDance, the Chinese technology firm which controls social media platform TikTok, sell the vertical video application or face a possible ban in the United States.

“Geraldo still doesn’t get it — after 50 years in journalism you have to assume he simply doesn’t want to get it,” Michael Caputo responded, and a number of others quickly followed suit.

They pointed to the 2020 presidential election — and the fact that multiple outlets and social media platforms had actively suppressed The New York Post’s bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s now-infamous laptop. Many of them argued that he hadn’t really been investigated until after the election was over, when other outlets slowly began to concede that the laptop was real and did, in fact, belong to the younger Biden.

But it was The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway who did exactly as Rivera asked — she “put up” multiple crimes that may have occurred — and she may have given him more than he bargained for.

“Setting aside the gun crimes, prostitution crimes, drug crimes, tax crimes, bribery receipts, foreign agent shenanigans, money laundering, pay-for-play, and kid-glove treatment from the corrupt and politicized FBI and DOJ, this is a really astute observation,” Hemingway tweeted.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed the Biden administration’s bailout of Silicon Valley Bank this week, warning that it will incentivize future bad behavior from banks.

DeSantis continues to attack the leftist agenda.

He recently made headlines for wanting to eliminate Critical Race Theory from educational curriculums and started probing what colleges do regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. After he sent a request for information regarding staff, courses, and activities that fall into the DEI category, most people were curious. Now, we know what DeSantis was planning.

A new bill, called HB 99, seeks to restructure higher learning by eliminating those courses. It has passed the House and now moves on to be heard in the Florida Senate.

The new CEO of failed Silicon Valley Bank is a familiar name to many in Charlotte’s banking community — Tim Mayopoulos was fired as general counsel of Bank of America in 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis and escorted out of the office by an HR representative.

The Silicon Valley Bank failure was the second-largest in U.S. history.

The FDIC closed Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, started a new bank called Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, and named Mayopoulos as CEO on Monday.

 French President Emmanuel Macron imposed a highly unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 on Thursday by shunning parliament and invoking a special constitutional power.

Lawmakers were shouting, their voices shaking with emotion as Macron made the risky move, which is expected to trigger quick motions of no-confidence in his government. Riot police vans zoomed by outside the National Assembly, their sirens wailing.

The proposed pension changes have prompted major strikes and protests across the country since January. Macron, who made it the flagship of his second term, argued the reform is needed to keep the pension system from diving into deficit as France’s population ages and life expectancy lengthens.

Amid its worst ratings in over a decade, CNN recently sought to reinvent its primetime strategy. But that gambit to boost viewership looks like it has failed.

More than a year after firing its most-watched anchor Chris Cuomo over an ethics scandal involving his disgraced ex-governor brother, the cable-news pioneer has struggled to find a permanent replacement in the 9 p.m. time slot. Last month, the network decided to fill the pivotal hour with town-hall events and specials focusing on hot-button news topics, as well as interviews with prominent politicians and celebrities.

Since implementing that formula late last month, however, CNN has yet to see viewers embrace the new direction. In fact, CNN’s primetime specials have attracted a smaller audience than the network’s regular programming in that same time slot this year.

Since the start of the year, CNN has averaged 679,000 total viewers in the 9 p.m. time slot whenever Anderson Cooper, whose nightly program airs at 8 p.m., has anchored the hour. Prior to Cuomo’s move to primetime a few years ago, Anderson Cooper 360 was a two-hour news show. Additionally, 7 p.m. CNN anchor Erin Burnett has averaged an overall audience of 567,000 when filling in during the primetime slot. Cooper also has averaged 159,000 viewers in the key advertising 25-54 demographic during his 9 p.m. broadcasts, while Burnett has pulled in 114,000 in the demo.

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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched a new initiative with 18 other states on Thursday to fight back against President Joe Biden’s woke environmental, social, corporate governance (ESG) agenda.

A parole board is currently deciding whether Bronson, who changed his name to Charles Salvador in 2014, should be released after spending nearly 50 years behind bars. He is currently serving a life sentence after numerous bouts with prisoners and prison guards while serving time on a robbery charge from 1988.

Podcast host Joe Rogan warned this week that far-left woke initiatives were really shams that political elites use to force people to submit to their ideological wills.

Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified to Congress on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security does not have operational control of the U.S. southern border under President Joe Biden, a claim that is directly at odds with a statement from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

When Biden took office he revoked a Trump-era executive order aimed at banning TikTok.