📕 A public library in Boise, Idaho, has welcomed home an overdue book that was last checked out 111 years ago. Library officials said it was returned anonymously.

The children’s book, “New Chronicles of Rebecca” by Kate Douglas Wiggin, was reportedly borrowed in 1910 from the city’s Carnegie Public Library.

“Books may be kept two weeks without renewal”, an old pocket inside says.

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💎 Hunter Biden received a 3.16-carat diamond worth $80,000 from Ye Jianming, the ex-chairman of the now-bankrupt energy giant CEFC with ties to Beijing, as a gift to seal a lucrative deal he inked with the son of then-US Vice President Joe Biden, according to Miranda Devine's upcoming book called "Laptop from Hell".

One of his former associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, believes that Hunter brought Chairman Ye to meet Joe Biden at a party. There is no indication of any such meeting on the laptop, but Hunter had a pattern of introducing business associates to Joe when they came to DC

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🏫 A New Jersey school district is planning to rename one of its schools named after former President Woodrow Wilson due to what critics say is his legacy of racism.

🗣 “Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time. He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice,” university President Christopher L. Eisgruber said.

Woodrow Wilson High School has a history of more than 90 years.

😕 No school name is safe these days

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The Fake News Media cannot stand the fact that so many people in our Country know the truth, that the 2020 Election was rigged and stolen, yet almost every article written contains the words the “Big Lie” or “unsubstantiated facts,” etc., always trying to demean the real results. I am willing to challenge the heads of the various papers or even far left politicians, who have perpetuated the Real Big Lie, which is voter irregularities and fraud on a massive and determinative scale. This includes members of the highly partisan Unselect Committee of Democrats who refuse to delve into what caused the January 6th protest—it was the Fake Election results! While I am willing to do it, they will never agree because they cannot argue that facts in states including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, and others such as New Mexico, where the Democrat Secretary of State changed the voting laws without legislative approval just prior to the Election, making it virtually impossible for the Republican presidential candidate to win. If anyone would like a public debate on the facts, not the fiction, please let me know. It will be a ratings bonanza for television!

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has tried to dig himself out of the hole of claiming roads are racist.

🗣 "I’m still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a White and a Black neighborhood, or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach... was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices," he said.

🧐 What's next, criticizing the game of chess?

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Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey has decided not to run for governor of Texas despite a poll by the Dallas Morning News indicating that he would beat incumbent Republican Greg Abbott by eight points in a head-to-head fight.

❓ What could be his reason for not running? The impact of political campaigning on his acting projects or personal reasons?

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🇺🇸 🦠 US top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci predicts that it will take about 2 weeks to get full data on the new coronavirus strain, Omicron. Fauci told US President Joe Biden on Sunday that, for now, existing vaccines should protect against severe infection.

🇺🇸 ✍️📃 Former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has sued the Defense Department, accusing Pentagon officials of blocking parts of his memoir A Sacred Oath, due to be published in May 2022.

❗️Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Khatibzadeh says Tehran will not hold bilateral talks with US delegation in Vienna nuclear talks

⚡️ Germany rejects sanctions policy on Nord Stream 2 amid tensions with US

⚡️ 'Washington must stop': Moscow vows to respond to upcoming expulsion of Russian diplomats from US

Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell starts today in a Manhattan federal court.

▪️Merriam-Webster has declared "vaccine" the word of the year.

▪️A ninth child has reportedly been discharged from a hospital after sustaining injuries in the Waukesha Christmas parade attack; seven children are still recovering.

▪️The WHO has recommended that countries be ready to boost anti-pandemic measures.

▪️Students at Arizona State University are demanding the administration "withdraw" Kyle Rittenhouse, calling him a "murderer".

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👀 Today begins the trial of actor Jussie Smollett, who VP Kamala Harris supported after “an attempted modern day lynching”.

This was, of course, before he was indicted for staging a fake hate crime assault on himself.

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🧑‍⚖️ People are gathering outside a Manhattan federal court, where the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is set to begin.

Jeffrey Epstein's "madam", charged with trafficking underage girls between 1994 and 2004, has pleaded not guilty on all charges.

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⚡️ Jack Dorsey expected to step down as Twitter CEO, media claims

⚡️ Twitter shares jump more than 10% on report Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO

⚡️Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal to replace Jack Dorsey as CEO, company statement says