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Fox News’ Chris Wallace confronts Lindsey Graham over opposition to Manchin’s voting rights bill By Jason Lemon Newsweek June 21, 2021 “As you know, the Constitution does provide for federal oversight of state elections. Here’s the practical question…If you kill—if Republicans vote, as it appears you’re going to, to kill the Manchin version of voting rights, you’ve already…voted to kill the bipartisan January 6th commission looking into the insurrection at the Capitol, do you run the risk that Manchin and a couple of other moderate senators say, ‘Look, bipartisanship isn’t working’?” “I hope not,” Graham responded. He touted…

Opinion: For Juneteenth, America needs a new flag that all of us can honor By Macy Gray MarketWatch June 21, 2021 The Confederate battle flag, which was crafted as a symbol of opposition to the abolishment of slavery, is just recently tired. We don’t see it much anymore. However, on the 6th, when the stormers rained on the nation’s most precious hut, waving Old Glory — the memo was received: the American flag is its replacement. President Biden, Madame Harris and members of Congress: the American flag has been hijacked as code for a specific belief. God bless…

ABC News June 21, 2021 Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy on Saturday came out with his first videos announcing his campaign to become governor of Idaho. “I’m running for governor because I’m sick and tired of all of this political garbage just like you are,” Bundy said in a nearly three-minute video on his campaign website. “I’m tired of our freedoms being taken from us, and I’m tired of the corruption that is rampant in our state government.” Bundy said he wants to defend Idaho from President “Joe Biden and those in the Deep State that control him” because they…

Autoblog June 21, 2021 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge on Friday said he won’t allow an Arkansas man arrested after he was photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot to travel for a classic-car swap meet. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper rejected the request by defendant Richard Barnett to loosen the restrictions on how far he can travel while he’s awaiting trial. Barnett is allowed to travel only up to 50 miles from his residence while he is on home detention awaiting trial. Barnett’s attorney…

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First on CNN: Biden administration moves to make gender confirmation surgery available through Veteran Affairs health care system By Ellie Kaufman CNN June 20, 2021 (CNN)Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough is moving to make gender confirmation surgery available to transgender veterans through Veterans Affairs health care coverage. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough speaks at a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on March 4, 2021, in Washington, DC. McDonough announced the move, plans of which were first reported by CNN, at a Pride event at the Orlando Vet Center in Florida…

TheBlaze June 20, 2021 Ty Smith — a black man who has two sons, 17 and 19 — absolutely annihilated critical race theory during his comments to an Illinois school board earlier this month, saying it will teach children of different races to “hate each other” and will reverse Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that all people may be judged by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin. What are the details? “You’re going to deliberately teach kids, ‘This white kid right here got it better than you because he white?'” Smith…

Dow plummets more than 500 points as volatility returns to stock market By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business CNN June 20, 2021 New York (CNN Business)Are the Wild West days of intense market volatility back on Wall Street? Stocks slid Friday after St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told CNBC he thinks the Fed should raise interest rates as soon as the end of next year. The Dow fell more than 530 points Friday, a drop of around 1.6%. It was a broad-based selloff, with all 30 Dow stocks finishing in the red. Intel (INTC), Goldman…

Singer Macy Gray argues US needs a ‘new flag’ to replace ‘tattered, dated, divisive’ Old Glory By Brie Stimson Fox News June 20, 2021 The American flag is “tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect” and needs to be updated, singer Macy Gray argued this week in an op-ed written for Juneteenth. But the piece, published Thursday by MarketWatch, received a quick rebuke from a few prominent conservatives. The five-time Grammy nominee’s article appeared the same day President Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the 1860s. Continue Reading…..

‘Forever Marilyn’ statue to face California protest as it moves to new home: report By Dom Calicchio Fox News June 19, 2021 The “Forever Marilyn” statue, which depicts the late actress Marilyn Monroe in one of her most famous on-screen moments, is scheduled to return to Palm Springs, California, on Sunday — but not everyone is happy about it. Protesters including those from the Women’s March LA Foundation are expected to show up to Sunday’s planned unveiling of the 26-foot-tall statue to express their displeasure, according to a report. Continue Reading…..