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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…..

By Houston Keene Fox News June 19, 2021 Walter Shaub, the director of the United States Office of Government Ethics under President Obama, said the Biden administration is sending a “f— you” to ethics experts by hiring so many relatives of senior White House officials. Press secretary Jen Psaki, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, senior adviser Anita Dunn, White House counselor Steve Richetti, deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed and presidential personnel office director Cathy Russell each have at least one direct family member working for the Biden administration. Continue Reading…..

Analysis: Biden wooed many on his tour of Europe. It’ll take much more to fix the damage wrought by Trump By Analysis by Luke McGee and Nicole Gaouette CNN June 19, 2021 (CNN)Joe Biden’s first overseas trip as US President — a whistle-stop diplomatic tour of Europe — achieved its primary goal of signaling to America’s closest friends that it was ready once more to lead the Western alliance. Yet, while European leaders were delighted to see a US President extolling the values of multilateralism and Western stability, it’s going to take a lot more than a week-long…

Targeting Biden, Catholic Bishops Advance Controversial Communion Plan By Elizabeth Dias New York Times June 19, 2021 The Roman Catholic bishops of the United States, flouting a warning from the Vatican, have overwhelmingly voted to draft guidance on the sacrament of the Eucharist, advancing a push by conservative bishops to deny President Biden communion because of his support of abortion rights. The decision, made public on Friday afternoon, is aimed at the nation’s second Catholic president, perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief since Jimmy Carter, and exposes bitter divisions in American Catholicism. It capped three days…

News Break June 18, 2021 President Biden on Friday downplayed the possibility of Catholic bishops potentially barring him from receiving communion over his support for abortion rights. “That’s a private matter, and I don’t think that’s gonna happen,” Biden told reporters when asked about the debate within the Catholic church over the measure. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) earlier Friday voted to proceed with drafting a formal statement on the meaning of communion, which will include whether Biden and other politicians should be denied the rite based on their stance on abortion. Continue Reading…..

YouTube June 18, 2021 Do You Not Want To Be An Individual? Have Americans Given up on this idea. Plus it is time for federal judges to be elected not appointed, and the same can be said for all government organizations that have absolute power. With @Freedom Watch