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Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech said the United States needs to treat communist China as the threat it is by repelling its attempts to exploit American culture wars for its gain.

A year and a half ago, I was standing in the streets of Hong Kong, watching as a group of some of the bravest people Ive ever seen stared down the forces of communist wrath, Domenech said on his third night guest-hosting Fox News Primetime. I met and interviewed these young people barely old enough to buy a drink and talk to them about their tragic doomed, struggle against Beijing, trying to hold on to the Hong Kong they knew and loved.

The Chinese Communist Party, Domenech said, continued its power grab and crackdown through the COVID-19 panic, to the benefit of elites.

China made great use of this pandemic, which came from Wuhan and its not racist to say that. They cracked down on Hong Kong and brought these freedom-minded young people to their knees. And all the while, American interests from the NBA to Apple to Google to the Biden family were happy to look the other way, Domenech explained.

Domenech said other American corporations such as Disney are also guilty of putting their business interests with the communist regime before everything else.

You know all about the Disney corporations abundant ties the worst aspects of the Chinese regime. Meanwhile, Agnes Chow, the beautiful 23-year-old whose supporters call her the real Mulan, was willing to go to prison for her beliefs: a simple, straightforward idea that people are born with the right to be free, Domenech said.

Growing up, Domenech said he often saw the Soviet Union depicted as an evil empire, but communist China, despite its long list of human rights abuses and wrongs, does not receive the same treatment.

The Russians were bent on world domination and time and again on the silver screen, Americans would fight back against them, Where are such depictions of China today? he asked. The Chinese Communist Party subjugates its people. It has embarked on a mission of genocide against the Uyghur Muslims, it threatens Taiwan, it hacks our government, its a malevolent force in the world that humiliates our feckless bureaucrats by invoking the same arguments as critical race theorists.

Communist China, Domenech concluded, is run by deeply evil people who make the perfect villains.

But Hollywood doesnt show us that. Instead, they take the Taiwan flag off the Top Gun jacket. They depict Chinas beneficent friend in movies like The Martian. Even American directors like Michael Bay are compromised by trying to appeal to the Chinese market, Domenech continued. What this generation sees on the screen matters. The culture wars are real, but when it comes to China, it feels like only one nation is fighting them.

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NBC Nightly News deceptively edited the 911 call and footage of a fatal police-involved shooting in its Wednesday night segment to conceal that the teenage girl who was shot and killed was charging another girl with a knife.

In the original body camera video released shortly after the shooting, 16-year-old MaKhia Bryant is shown running at another girl with the deadly weapon. The officer responding to the scene can be heard calling for everyone to get down several times before he fired off four shots directed at Bryant.

The audio featured on one of NBCs most popular shows, however, omitted parts of the 911 call featuring frantic cries for help from people who claimed a girl was trying to stab us. Instead, NBC chose a quick audio clipping of someone saying, We need a police officer here now.

While other corporate media outlets made a point to note the knife in Bryants hand, sometimes zooming in and freezing the video where it showed her wielding the weapon, NBC simply glossed over it and merely stated that authorities claimed, She was threatening others with a knife.

Body camera footage shows a knife on the ground, NBC stated, showing a screenshot of a knife lying in the driveway at the scene.

NBCs unwillingness to feature all the evidence follows an evidenceless narrative created by media outlets, activists, and even the White House that this shooting was racially motivated.

She was a child, the White House said in a statement. We know that police violence disproportionately impacts black and Latino people and communities and that black women and girls, like black men and boys, experience higher rates of police violence.

Earlier this week, CBS News cropped body camera footage that showed a 13-year-old boy holding a gun before he was fatally shot by Chicago police in March. The video released this month appears to show Toledo holding a weapon moments before he was shot, but CBS News posted a clip to its website and Twitter page that cropped out parts of the footage that showed the teens alleged firearm.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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NBC Deceptively Edits 911 Call, Bodycam Video Of Police Shooting To Hide Teen Wielding Knife - The Federalist

New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is faced with another inquiry revealed this week by the New York Times, which reported on Monday that the state attorney generals office launched a probe into government resources used for his pandemic book on leadership.

The book, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, was published last fall as Cuomo took a nationwide victory lap to celebrate the glowing media coverage of his tenure despite the state leading with its COVID fatality rate while thousands died in nursing homes under the governors order to admit infected patients into long-term care facilities.

The Times reported that Cuomo is accused of assigning junior staffers to edit early drafts, sit in on pitch meetings, and assist with minor tasks such as printing and delivering manuscripts to the governors mansion. Cuomo denied any of the work was substantial and claimed, according to the Times, that all was voluntary, while minor tasks might have been incidental. Cuomo received a seven-figure advance on the manifesto, according to the New York Post.

The book probe marks the fourth official inquiry facing the embattled governor, whose pandemic arc has taken Cuomo from corporate media-hailed hero of the Empire State to scandal-ridden emperor who now faces nearly a dozen allegations of sexual misconduct and manipulation of pandemic data to cover up failures in nursing homes.

After news began to surface that the Cuomo administration appeared to hide nearly 3,000 COVID-19 nursing home deaths from public view while hit with charges of sexual misconduct, Cuomos book publisher announced in March that the group would not reissue his manifesto in paperback and halted its promotion.

While New York reported just shy of 6,500 nursing home deaths from COVID-19 for much of the pandemic, New York Times reporting suggests the true toll exceeds 9,000. The FBI has launched a probe of the administrations handling of nursing homes.

The New York attorney generals office and the state legislature, in an impeachment inquiry, are also investigating allegations of sexual abuse.

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Another Cuomo Probe Investigates Use Of State Resources For His Book - The Federalist

An Oregon newspaper included the race of a white man who was fatally shot by police in its coverage, then clarified it felt his race was important in light of social unrest prompted by police shootings of Black people.

Recent shootings include Daunte Wright, who was killed by police in a Minneapolis suburb earlier this week, and two killings in Clark County in recent months, the newspaper explained, nodding to the fact that those fatal shootings sparked rioting, looting, and other destruction.

Hours after it was published, however, The Oregonian deleted the paragraph and the tweet quoting it after the paper claimed the original statement was poorly worded.

We included information in an earlier tweet about why we identified the victims race that was poorly worded. It was not intended to minimize what happened, only to provide context. We generally do not identify race in news stories but often do when reporting police shootings, the newspapers clarification tweet stated.

In the original story, The Oregonian reported that Portland police fatally shot a white male in his 30s on Friday morning after they received calls that someone at a public park had a gun. The mans race, the newspaper claimed, was important because of the current social climate. The new paragraph instead states that there have been several high profile fatal police shootings of Black men recently but the victim in this case was a white man in his 30s.

Despite The Oregonians attempts to frame the story by clarifying the mans race to avoid social unrest, crowds still gathered at the park on Friday to condemn the deadly shooting. Their cries for justice now, according to The Oregonian, were met with a dozen officers who had donned riot gear.

Police told protesters over a loudspeaker to leave the area or risk arrest, The Oregonian reported.

The race characterization by the newspaper also received backlash on social media by people who quickly saw the irony in the statement.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, author Claire Culwell joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss her new book Survivor: An Abortion Survivors Surprising Story Of Choosing Forgiveness And Finding Redemption and her journey to healing after discovering she survived an abortion her birth mother was forced to have.

I thought the people whove been affected by abortion are people that, you know, dont live in my neighborhood, arent in my family, dont go to my school, whatever it was, Culwell explained. I thought that would never be me and yet here I was learning that I had survived something that was meant to take my life and it was meant to happen to my body. And then, and knowing that this happens every single day across the country across the world to unborn children like my twin and like me.

Abortion, Culwell said, is something that every American should care about because it ultimately affects them.

Its horrific its shocking, its inhumane, it is something that every single American should care about, should be appalled with, because this has happened to our children because we are saying that their circumstances deem them unworthy, Culwell said. Its a horrific reality that were living in right now in our culture that is allowing this to happen.

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A Minnesota jury has found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. This means they claim to have concluded that they unanimously believe beyond a reasonable doubt that Chauvin caused Floyds death.

Given the circumstances of the trial, however, its extremely hard to believe the jury was solely concerned with either truth or justice. Its extremely hard, if not impossible, for any thinking person not to have a reasonable doubt about the outcome.

We know the judge in the case refused to sequester jurors from media coverage and outside influences during the trial, and that the pressure conveyed to them was beyond intense. It was made perfectly clear to them that the nation would be engulfed in flames if they expressed they did in fact have a reasonable doubt over whether Floyds death was Chauvins fault.

The entire bloody year of 2020, in which unprecedented and murderous riots swept the nation, was premised on the incident that led to this trial. At least 30 people died amid waves of riots that widely used Floyds death as the pretext. The Floyd riots have caused the most high-dollar damage in U.S. history, an estimated $2 billion.

The rioters violence against police, and elected officials willful endorsement of the rioters and failure to back law and order in response, helped cause a historic surge in homicides. As measured across 34 sampled cities, homicides surged 30 percent in 2020, causing an additional 1,200 dead. Thats just in 34 cities.

So, thanks to the anti-police unrest employed in the wake of Floyds death, thousands more people are now dead, and a disproportionate number of them are black. The riots unchecked anti-police violence metastasized in deadly crime. Anyone who lives in or near a city like these jurors do, especially those in the Twin Cities epicenter, is fully aware of this.

That was all before the verdict.During the Chauvin trial itself, hundreds of rioters smashed buildings and assaulted police nearby in the aftermath of another officer-involved shooting. Minneapolis police put up razor wire around their offices in preparation for the verdict announcement. So did police and cities across the nation.

National Guard troops were deployed in Minnesota and D.C. in anticipation of the verdict announcement.

The jurors knew that the media covering the trial and looking at their faces every day for three weeks knows who they are. An in-state newspaper even signaled to the jurors its willingness to expose them to the violent mobs roving Minnesota over the last year by publishing descriptions of the jurors in advance of the verdict. Those descriptions published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune contained age, race, location, profession, even immigration history.

You think jurors would have been willing to have themselves and their families go into witness protection to venture a reasonable doubt about Chauvins potential contribution to Floyds death? You think theyd be willing to trade their lives plus nationwide violence for one strangers? If you think that, you know nothing about human nature.

Officials from the local mayor all the way up to the president of the United States made it clear in widely reported news the jurors and all their family, friends, and neighbors could read and would have to live with for the rest of their lives that the only verdict they would accept was guilty. Democrat politicians openly called for violence if the jury did not decide as street thugs wished, and the Democrat Party which controls all levels of the national government at present, as well as controlling the state in which these jurors live backed them up.

Im very worried, Rep. Karen Bass said on CNNs State of the Union about the likelihood of violence across the nation should the jury vote the wrong way. I dont think anyone in Minneapolis, frankly, anyone in the United States or over a good part of the world would understand any other verdict other than guilty.

News that jurors, and their families they went home to at night, could read during the trial also told of a severed pigs head left at the former house of a witness who testified on behalf of Chauvin. The witnesss former house half a country away from the trial, in northern California was also doused in blood. And his former employer, a local police department, disavowed him over his testimony.

Everyone, including these jurors, knew exactly what would happen to them at the hands of mobs like this if they expressed a reasonable doubt about whether a man who died while overdosing and with a serious heart condition was actually killed by a police officer kneeling on him after he had struggled with police repeatedly. Reasonable doubts about whether the jurys decision was justice or politics seem fully justified.

The city government building where jurors heard the case was fortified like a military installation in an occupied country. Every day, they walked into this.

You cant tell me all of this didnt affect jurors psyche and ultimate decision. They would be superhuman or inhuman if it didnt. Yet those endorsing mob culture and vigilante justice for political ends are working hard to make it impossible to express such reasonable doubts, whether in a column or as a member of a murder jury.

Jurors are always human. There is always room for miscalculation, fear, and error. In this case, however, it is extremely clear that these human weaknesses were deliberately amplified to catastrophic proportions, all because of politics.

A fair trial might indeed have come to the same conclusion for Chauvin. But well never know, and never be able to trust this outcome, because Americas left purposefully made a fair trial impossible, all for political power.

They deliberately perverted justice in favor of violent mob rule to strengthen their political hand. They have done evil and called it justice. They have sown the wind, and the resulting whirlwind has still not fully hit our nation yet. But it will.

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In the current American crisis, the American people must take resolve from the American Founders who also faced a great crisis and triumphed, said Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech on his debut guest-hosting Fox News Primetime Monday.

I come to you now in the midst of another American crisis, one where we cannot afford to tolerate summer soldiers and sunshine patriots,' Domenech said. They like to call themselves happy warriors, but so often the only wars they want to fight are for lower capital gains taxes, tech deregulation, and, of course, paying for all those pricy ones overseas. As for the wars here at home, the ones that matter, over the very culture of the nation, when it comes to those, they fade away. Theyll leave those to you.

During his opening monologue, Domenech compared the current American crisis to others our great nation has faced, and stated his belief that Americans can once again rise to the occasion amid great dangers and what appears to be small chance of success.

A nation isnt just a random group of people who happen to be in the same place at the same time. It has laws and borders and values. And it isnt born, it is made, he explained. The people who made America in the first place were a group of a little more than 2,000 patriots who crossed an icy Delaware River on Christmas night in 1776. They were down to the end, ravaged by a hard winter, deserted by friends, looking like just one more pathetic colonial rebellion put down by the mightiest empire in the world. And then Thomas Paine published the American crisis.

It was after George Washington read Thomas Paines words about the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot and fighting tyranny that he led the resolute charge that changed the world, Domenech noted.

The crisis we face today goes to the heart of what kind of nation we will be. As in 1776, it is a question of who rules. Is it the globalist tech oligarchs? Hollywood executives beholden to China? The race radicals who dominate our universities? A fundamentally anti-American media? The frail, feeble politicians and the Marxist children of the left? he asked. Or is it us, the American people, a great people, a free people, who above all care not for money or for power but for the nation we love.

The reason people should fight, Domenech said, is because the left is threatening to remove Americans abilities to govern themselves.

The forces arrayed against the survival of the United States of America foreign and domestic do not believe you have the capacity, the ability, or the right to govern yourselves, Domenech said. They work every day to scare you into silence indoctrinate your children, gaslight you with falsehoods, direct your future and stamp out your freedom.

The totalitarian left, Domenech continued, desires a national divorce.

They want racial strife that burns down your cities. They want envy and segregation and division that pays for their million dollars homes in Topanga Canyon. They want to demolish Mount Rushmore and make you pay for abortions and make your daughters compete in sports against men. They want to teach your children to hate cops, the anthem, the flag, and everything you were raised to love and respect. They want to destroy our great American experiment. A thriving, capitalist, multiethnic republic of God-fearing people for all time, Domenech said.

Yet Domenech believes the people who love America can still win.

We are on to them. We are not going to let them. And together we are going to show them what free people do, Domenech concluded.

Domenech guest-hosts Fox News Primetime at 7 p.m. EST every weeknight this week.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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Domenech: The Left Has Forced Another Crisis. Americans Will Crush It - The Federalist

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Senior Editor Christopher Bedford and Assistant Editor Kylee Zempel join Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the dangers of vaccine passports and how Republican politicians should react and respond to them.

Right now, its a mandate. You show your vaccine, you show your digital passport, you show that youre a citizen in good standing, Bedford said. This is the path to a social credit system: corporate government alliances that keep track of your history and do you do the right virtue signals. And its not going to stop with COVID.

Another reason I am skeptical is that this is not actually a COVID problem. This is a trajectory that we were on before, Zempel agreed.

If Republicans dont stand up to the corporations that will create these databases, Bedford said, Americans will risk losing their privacy and freedom.

These sissy Republicans who just grandstand and say I gave a speech against it, Im fine are not protecting their vulnerable citizens. And theyre falling back and saying, well, its small business and small business. But small businesses cant build this database. They cant do it.

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The Vaticans Pontifical Council for Culture is set to host Chelsea Clinton, Anthony Fauci, Deepak Chopra, and others for a May conference to explore the mind, body, and soul and its role in health care.

The Vatican Council for Culture and the Cura Foundation and the Science and Faith (STOQ) Foundation are partnering together tohostthe worlds leading physicians, scientists, leaders of faith, ethicists, patient advocates, policymakers, philanthropists and influencers to engage in powerful conversations on the latest breakthroughs in medicine, health care delivery and prevention.

Speakersfor the virtual conference are the worlds elites. Those picked to lecture on health and the soul include CEOs of large pharmaceutical companies, including Moderna and Pfizer, and former supermodel Cindy Crawford, English primatologist Jane Goodall, Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry, and CNNs chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Speaker Chelsea Clinton is a high-profile abortion advocate, like her mother and father, Hillary and Bill Clinton. Chelsealabelsthe pro-life movement as an anti-choice movement, and is an outspoken supporter of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the U.S.

In 2018, Chelsea spoke at a Rise up for Roe event in New York City, a meeting organized by theNational Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood to oppose Brett Kavanaughs confirmation to the Supreme Court. During her address, she glowinglycreditedlegal abortion for adding trillions of dollars to the U.S. economy.

American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy, Clinton stated. The net, new entrance of women that is not disconnected from the fact thatRoebecame the law of the land in January of 1973.

Chelsea is also Vice President of the Clinton Foundation, an organization riddled withcontroversy and corruption,and asupporterof global pro-abortion initiatives.

The Catholic Church publicly professes that life begins at conception andabortionis a case of direct killing of an innocent human being a violation of the rights of the youngest members of our society and the human family.

In fact, the Catholic Church has been a leading advocate for the right to life forhundreds of years.Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law, reads the Catholic Catechism.

There is no mention of Clintons anti-life stance on the Vaticans website, she is simply identified as vice chair, Clinton Foundation. The Church is actively elevating Clinton, who vocally advocates for a practice that harms mothers and kills innocent children, as an authority on the mind, body, and soul.

The conference will take place May 6-8, and will be moderated by renowned journalists, who will explore the role of religion, faith and spirituality, and the interplay of the mind, body, and soul and, ultimately, search for areas of convergence between the humanities and the natural sciences.

The renowned journalists include Katie Couric, Richard Lui, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Amy Robach, Robin Roberts, and Meredith Vieira.

Together we will focus on advances in medical innovation and the creation of healthier communities and seek to catalyze new, interdisciplinary approaches and partnerships to improve health and wellbeing, as well as understand human uniqueness, the Vatican said.

Evita Duffy is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at the University of Chicago, where she studies American History. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1

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The Michelin Guide added six DC restaurants to its latest Bib Gourmand list, which recognizes more moderately priced destinations. The new additions include bakery/restaurant Elle, soul food staple Hitching Post, Hong Kong-inspired Queens English, Malaysian newcomer Makan, Karma Modern Indian, and all-day Dupont Circle spot Residents Caf & Bar.

Ten* restaurants were taken off this listincluding Ambar, Tiger Fork, and Suprabringing the total number of Bib Gourmands in DC down from 44 to 40. Meanwhile, several restaurants that have closed permanently or since the start of the pandemic, such as Hanumanh, Hazel, and China Chilcano remain on the list. *UPDATE: About three hours after list was released, Michelin sent an email saying Federalist Pig was mistakenly excluded from the Bib Gourmands due to a technical error. So, actually, only nine restaurants were taken off the list, bringing the total to 41.

Bib Gourmands must offer standout food at a good value, which for Michelin translates to $40 for two courses and a glass of wine or dessert (not including tax or tip).

The list of starred DC restaurants will be released on Thursday.

Over the past year, most restaurant critics paused reviews, or at the very least doling out stars, as the industry grappled with government restrictions, massive unemployment, upended business models, and other crippling effects of the pandemic. But the Michelin guide charged forward. Through it all, its criteria has remained the same. Anonymous inspectors continued to look for quality of ingredients, cooking technique, consistency, value, and the chefs personality expressed in the cuisine. Michelin has never officially factored in servicein its ratings.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, inspection teams have stayed in close contact with chefs and continue to monitor local safety guidelines to determine an appropriate time to return to their fieldwork, Michelin Public Relations Lauren McClure told Washingtonian last August as inspections got underway. Our inspection team is fully committed to support and promote restaurants by being flexible, respectful and realistic as recovery takes shape.

Michelin has previously released its DC guide in the fall, but it was pushed back about six months due to the pandemic.

Heres the full list of Bib Gourmand winners:

American SonAstoria DCBidwellCaneChercherChina ChilcanoChloeDasEll (NEW)Fancy RadishFederalist PigHanumanhHazelHitching Post (NEW)Ivy City SmokehouseJaleoKaliwaKarma Modern Indian (NEW)Laos in TownLapisMakan (NEW)MakettoNapoli Pasta BarOttoman TavernaOyamelPearl Dive Oyster PalacePrimroseQueens English (NEW)Residents Cafe & Bar (NEW)SababaSfoglinaStellina PizzeriaSuccotashTaqueria HabaneroThe Red HenThip KhaoTimber Pizza CoToki UndergroundUnconventional DinerZaytinyaZenebech

Restaurants removed from the list:

AmbarJoselitos Casa de ComidasMilliesMolaRoyalSpoken EnglishSupraTiger ForkWhaleys

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Jessica Sidman covers the people and trends behind D.C.s food and drink scene. Before joining Washingtonian in July 2016, she was Food Editor and Young & Hungry columnist at Washington City Paper. She is a Colorado native and University of Pennsylvania grad.

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