Chinese state media are touting the China-Central Asia Summit, held on Thursday and Friday in the historic northwestern Chinese city of Xi’an, as a counter to the Group of Seven (G7) gathering of democracies in Japan this weekend, and a sharp contrast between China offering stability and financial support to its clients while U.S. President Joe Biden abandons America’s allies in the Pacific.

 On Thursday, MSNBC host Chris Hayes said on his show “All In” that he believed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was infringing on the freedoms of families with a Florida law banning sex change therapy for minors.

 Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), who has been leading debt ceiling talks, said on Friday that Republicans would “pause” talks with the Biden White House on debt ceiling negotiations.

 A New York City healthcare worker* is still being smeared by the corporate media as a racist “Karen” over an incident involving a bike rental and a black teen.

 Democrats called into question the credibility of Republican witnesses during a contentious congressional hearing Thursday aimed at examining allegations of wrongdoing within the FBI.

Russia has implemented a travel restriction by banning the entry of 500 US nationals, including former President Barack Obama. AFP News Agency reported the news Friday afternoon on Twitter.

Conflicting interests and differing political ideologies have contributed to an increasingly challenging environment between the US and Russia. The ban on Obama’s entry into Russia can be interpreted as a symbolic action, reflecting Russia’s disapproval of certain policies pursued during his presidency, as well as Biden’s.

An upstate printer has once again screwed up downstate election materials, this time by mailing registration cards to Nassau County’s nearly 1 million voters — identifying them all as Democrats.

“It’s a terrible error. People are upset. People are angry. There is a lot of confusion,” GOP County Executive Bruce Blakeman seethed at a Tuesday press conference.

Democrats make up about 40 percent of the county’s 972,000 voters, according to state Board of Election records from February.

On Thursday, the Pentagon revealed that a multi-billion dollar accounting error had been discovered in records pertaining to the United States' shipments of weapons to Ukraine.

As a result, that money is still available for the Defense Department to use to send more weapons to the war-torn nation, and since the amount was technically already given the green light by Congress, no additional approval from lawmakers is necessary.

 A popular fertility tracking app, Premom, is facing allegations of unlawfully sharing sensitive health data of its users with third-party advertisers including Google and Chinese companies, according to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

 Twitter blew up on Wednesday after images surfaced online of Adidas using a male model to promote a new women’s swimsuit, with many blasting the move as “gross” and  “disgusting.”

 George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley ripped into The Washington Post over a post-Durham defense of the Trump/Russia collusion narrative, accusing the author of reaching a “new level of denial.”

 German gun manufacturer Heckler & Koch addressed a controversy on social media after the person running their Twitter account defended a pro-feminism Miller Lite ad.

 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stepped between two of her colleagues on Wednesday, telling Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) that it wasn’t “worth it” to continue arguing with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Now that at least 230 million Americans have already gotten at least two doses of a Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is changing the rules on a whim to only require one mRNA injection, period, with no additional boosters.

The most high-profile Ukrainian “terrorist acts” in Russia were carried out with the assistance of Washington, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, has claimed.

Speaking at a government meeting on Friday, Patrushev said that Russia has information that “the murders of Darya Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky, the bombing of Zakhar Prilepin’s car, the explosion at the Crimean Bridge,” the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, and other “terrorists acts” were “planned and carried out under the coordination of US special services”.

Those attacks were “accompanied by an information campaign prepared in advance in Washington and London, designed to destabilize the social and political situation, [and to] undermine the constitutional foundations and sovereignty of Russia,” the security chief stressed.

President Joe Biden held a virtual meeting on the debt crisis on Friday morning as fears of a U.S. default loom over the G7 summit and the clocks tick toward America being unable to pay its bills. 

Biden's call came after Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday tried to step in to the negotiations but struggled with voice problems on a zoom call with leaders.

The president, surrounded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jen O'Malley Dillon held a 20-30 minute zoom call with his negotiating team back in Washington, where it was late Thursday night.

Biden requested the update, the White House said, and was told 'steady progress' is being made. Harris was not pictured on the call in a photo tweeted out by the White House.

 WIRED Magazine took a beating on social media for a Thursday puff piece on U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

 Members of the House Freedom Caucus took a hardline position on Thursday against an increase in the debt ceiling divorced from meaningful reforms to the federal budget.

 The country’s largest children’s hospital performs sex change procedures on children as young as 11, according to a new report.

 Wendy’s announced on Thursday that the company will test a robotic system to deliver orders underground from its kitchens to distinct parking spots outside of its restaurants, a move which comes as the food services sector turns toward automation in response to labor shortages.

A woman of color in her sixties, unnamed for her protection, told reporters this week that U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Daniel Penny, who forcibly restrained thirty-year-old Jordan Neely in a chokehold leading to his death, is a hero.

According to Fox News, Neely, who suffered from mental illness, stepped onto the northbound F Train the afternoon of May 1st and began to scream and threaten his fellow passengers. The woman, a New Yorker for five decades, explained,

"I’m sitting on a train reading my book, and, all of a sudden, I hear someone spewing this rhetoric. He said, ‘I don’t care if I have to kill an F, I will. I’ll go to jail, I’ll take a bullet.’"

"He’s a hero. It was self-defense, and I believe in my heart that he saved a lot of people that day that could have gotten hurt."

 Disney World announced it is shutting down an immersive Star Wars luxury hotel that opened in March 2022.

A new Indiana law will bring absentee voting requirements in line with the standards for in-person voting.

Under House Bill 1334, Hoosiers wanting to vote by mail must include proof of identification when they request a ballot. According to a release from the bill’s author, state Rep. Tim Wesco, R-Osceola, an applicant can submit the last four digits of the Social Security number and another number, such as their driver’s license or state-issued identification card. Voters can also submit a scan of their license or ID card.

Previously, Hoosiers only needed to sign absentee ballots, with county elections officials checking those signatures with ones on file to determine if they matched.

Small farms are significant emitters of nitrogen, according to Biden’s “climate czar” John Kerry who is pushing for the U.S. federal government to crack down on farming in America to combat “global warming.”

Kerry insists that the United States must massively reduce farming to meet the radical “green agenda” goals laid out by World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations (UN).

According to the former Secretary of State, the world can’t tackle climate change without first addressing the agriculture sector’s emissions – and farmers in the US are front and center of his plans.

Webmaster addition: Just like the Netherlands! And N2O is the new villain, even though it's safe enough to be used as the propellant in canned whipped cream!

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an emergency alert as cases of deadly myocarditis are soaring in babies.

According to the alert from the WHO, the United Kingdom is suffering a huge spike in “unusual” heart failure among infants.

There was an “increase in severe myocarditis in neonates associated with enterovirus infection in Wales” between June 2022 and March 2023, the alert reveals.

The WHO notes that one baby has died from myocarditis so far, which the United Nations health agency describes as “unusual.”

 A Louisiana police detective said race motivated two black suspects to kill a white handyman last month.

 A Democrat-linked polling group is “keeping quiet” about its findings from a survey that shows Americans oppose transgender procedures on children, a new report claims.

 A former FBI official claimed the bureau denied Boston Field Office agents access to 11,000 hours of U.S. Capitol video footage on January 6 out of fear it would reveal the identities of possible undercover officers and confidential informants present at the riot.