The Olympic Games organisers did apologise after a sequence of the opening ceremony depicting Greek god Dionysus came under criticism by some Christian groups, including the Catholic Church in France, as it was perceived to be a parody of Leonardo da Vinciās painting āThe Last Supperā.
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A videocirculating on social media appears to show Democratic presidential candidate and current US Vice President, Kamala Harris, with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, posing for a selfie in front of a Revolutionary Communists of America poster.
But the Ā£400,000 figure is based on a report published by researchers at the University of Amsterdam which estimated that the net cost of āasylum migrationā to the Dutch treasury averages ā¬475,000 per immigrant (approximately Ā£400,000).
For the purposes of that scheme, weāve rated this claim as missing context because the post refers to the number of people in the UK who meet the official definition of economic inactivity, rather than being unemployed.
The Peopleās Voice article claims Pope Francis appointed Mr Schwab āuniversal bishopā because āhis plan to restore nature to its position of primacy in the world order means he is more relevant figure than Jesus Christ in 2024 [sic]ā.
On the campaign trail this summer, former President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubt on climate change by falsely claiming that the oceans will rise just āone-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.ā Heās previously used the same measurement over a period of 250 years.
Wheeler, for instance, said that the kit āhas everything that you or I will need to combat this lab-created virus that Iām sure the globalists are going to unleash on us,ā referring to H5N1 bird flu and listing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as components, while telling followers to buy it using her promo code.
āWhile the administration may be trumpeting this rule as a good thing for workers, that is a ruse,ā Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by labor unions, wrote in a statement issued the same day.
Trumpās proposal to end federal taxes on tips (which Vice President Kamala Harris later said she also supports) is aimed at benefiting mostly low-income workers, though some economists doubt it will work.
The late criminologist Richard Rosenfeld, who wrote about crime trends for the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice at the end of his long career in this field, told us in 2021 that presidents ācan facilitate a response,ā citing an initiative by Biden at the time to work with cities to reduce gun violence.
Meanwhile, an independent āafter-action reviewā commissioned by Minneapolis concluded that the delayed deployment of the state National Guard was at least partly the result of inexperienced city officials not following the proper protocols when Walz was first contacted about providing military assistance.
