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Value deals for fast food favorites like the Popeyes Big Box Deal and Little Caesars’s Hot-N-Ready pizza are a thing of the past thanks to historic inflation during the first year of the Biden administration, NBC’s Today Show reported Tuesday.

“With fast food chains and restaurants facing higher costs across the board, one thing you’re probably seeing is that deals are not as cheap as they once were,” NBC correspondent Tom Costello said. Restaurants are raising wages to confront labor shortages and “those costs get passed down to all of us. … Especially for restaurants where the margins are already

President Joe Biden continues to exude weakness in the face of Russian aggression. On Monday, as Soviet strongman Vladimir Putin was massing troops on the Ukrainian border, the American president was groveling to a 34-year-old journalist he insulted at a press conference.

“What a stupid son of a bitch,” Biden grumped in response to a question from Peter Doocy, the White House correspondent for Fox News. Doocy had asked whether Biden viewed runaway inflation as a “political liability” heading into the 2022 midterm elections. The president responded that it was an “asset” and called for “more inflation.”

Biden could have

The Beijing Olympics will be the first to use completely fake snow to coat the mountain for competitions on its slopes.

China began preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics weeks ago, blanketing the slopes surrounding Zhangjiakou, according to Bloomberg. The nation hopes the games will put the struggling agricultural city on the map as a favored destination for vacationers. The region is dry, and the artificial snow required could fill as many as 800 Olympic-size swimming pools, straining already scarce resources.

U.S. politicians, sports pundits, and athletes have discouraged full participation in the Beijing Games. Longtime Olympics sportscaster Bob

The new progressive media outlet Grid, which has attracted press buzz and big-name talent, was developed by registered lobbyists for the United Arab Emirates with funding from UAE’s deputy prime minister, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Grid, which went live earlier this month and whose masthead boasts ABC News, Vox, and NPR alums and left-leaning blogger Matthew Yglesias as its editor-at-large, raised seed money from a holding company owned by Emirate royal Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates. Grid also consulted with a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm that

As reporters were herded out of the White House press room on Monday, President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic calling Fox News’s Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch.”

When asked whether inflation is a “political liability” for the 2022 midterms, the president responded, “No, it’s a great asset—more inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.”

Biden has become known for his quick temper, his public speaking gaffes, and his “epic tongue-lashings,” according to journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, who interviewed his 2020 campaign staff for their book, Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely

Censors in China have cut the ending of the movie Fight Club, according to Vice News.

David Fincher’s acclaimed 1999 cult film concludes with the protagonist watching bombs destroy the headquarters of major credit card companies, the culmination of a vast anarchist plan known as Project Mayhem. But in the Far East, Chinese moviegoers have lost the plot. When streamed on Tencent, the screen fades to black, and viewers are told police stopped the protagonist’s alter ego, Tyler Durden, before the bombs were set off.

“Through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan

President Joe Biden’s failure to nominate an ambassador to Ukraine more than a year into his presidency is raising concerns among U.S. officials and regional experts as Russia moves closer to launching a full-scale invasion.

“President Biden has undermined the U.S.-Ukraine relationship by failing to even nominate an ambassador to Ukraine—it is a dereliction of duty and contributes to the instability we’re seeing unfold today,” Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon.

Currently, the United States only has a deputy chief of mission in Kyiv, career foreign service

A former scholar at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft on Monday cheered on a Houthi missile attack launched against the United Arab Emirates’ capital city of Abu Dhabi.

“To be honest,” Sarah Leah Whitson tweeted, “it’s a miracle the United Arab Emirates has been immune to retaliatory Houthi attacks for the past seven years, sitting atop those easy-target glass highrises while raining death and destruction on Yemeni men, women, and children.” She emphasized a quote in the Wall Street Journal‘s article about the attack from Houthi deputy foreign minister Hussein al-Ezzi, who said the missile strike was

Congressional investigators say there is “substantial reason to believe” Illinois Democrat Marie Newman illegally bribed a potential primary opponent to keep him out of the race.

According to a House Office of Congressional Ethics report, Newman likely “promised federal employment to a primary opponent for the purpose of procuring political support,” a violation of federal law. The finding comes roughly seven months after Newman acknowledged in federal court that she signed a contract during her successful 2020 congressional campaign promising a six-figure job in her office to local Palestinian activist Iymen Chehade.

While Chehade claimed Newman offered him the

The Biden administration has yet to release December border crossing numbers that Customs and Border Protection has circulated internally for at least 10 days, raising concerns on Capitol Hill that the White House is concealing damaging information about the severity of the border crisis.

On Jan. 14, CBP submitted the December data in a court filing. Those data revealed 178,840 migrant apprehensions in December, an increase from 173,620 in November. A spokeswoman for CBP told the Washington Free Beacon the December numbers are “scheduled to be released soon,” although she did not answer why they were delayed.

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