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The Primer in Zenless Zone Zero helps players progress by nudging them in the right direction and awarding incredibly useful currency along the way. This guide covers every Trial, mission, and reward, ensuring you don’t miss anything ZZZ has to offer. Table of contentsAll Primer missions and rewards in Zenless Zone ZeroPrimer Trial No.01Upgrade an Agent to Lv. 10Upgrade a W-Engine to Lv. 10Complete 1 Exploration and 1 Combat MissionGo to Waterfall Soup for some noodlesComplete the Main Commission “The Proxy and the Hare”Primer Trial No.02Go to Godfinger and play an arcade game onceDrink coffee at the Coff CafeHead to the HIA Club and complete 1 round of Combat SimulationPromote 1 Agent 1 timeModify any W-Engine oncePrimer Trial No.03Reach 400 Engagement in today’s ErrandsUpgrade two Agents to Lv. 20Upgrade two W-Engines to Lv. 20Complete the Main Chapter “Cat’s Lost and Found”Collect 3 medals on Sixth Street Officer Mewmew’s first page...

Sports games come and go so quickly in the video game industry that it’s hard to imagine getting excited over an annual release of Madden, NBA 2K, or EA Sports FC (the game formerly known as FIFA). It’s rare that a major player in the sports space does something new and exciting, and when that something involves something as beloved as the NCAA, it’s no surprise that EA Sports College Football 25 has received the buzz that it has during its launch window. College football video games have been gone since NCAA 14, and that decade-long absence has caused diehard fans to hold onto their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles just to have access to college football. If you’ve ever seen the sports section of a GameStop, then you know that older sports games are (almost literally) a dime a dozen since players always move on to the newest annual release. NCAA 14 has remained one of the most expensive used games in spite of this, priced almost as high as new AAA titles ...

The Conductor is weaving his web throughout Nessus, and Failsafe is ready to continue their research. So let’s drop onto the planet and look at our Destiny 2 A Rising Chorus Act II walkthrough, providing weekly updates with every step of the story. Table of contentsWeek 1 — A Distant ReplyStep 1: Complete Battleground Delve on NessusRecover Fallen DataBreach the Well of FlameEliminate Kalliks, Baron of House DuskEliminate Hypolydron, Captive MindStep 2: Extract Vex code mutations from Radiolite IncubatorsSteps 3, 4, & 5: Upgrade Failsafe and unlock a new research bayStep 6: Complete Battleground Conduit on NessusHack the ConfluxEliminate Kamarian, Radial OverseerStep 7: A message awaits you on the holoprojector in the H.E.L.M.Week 2 — Steps 8, 9, 10, & 11: Failsafe wishes to speak with you in the H.E.L.M.Harvest 10 Radiolite to gather the materials Failsafe requiresStep 12: Deploy 5 nanobots at the specified coordinatesStep 13: Deploy 3 nanobots at the specified co...

To earn a treasure trove of Pirates of the Caribbean items in Fortnite, players must complete various quests to prove their swashbucklin’ skills. From plundering gold to using a Ship in a Bottle, this guide covers every quest in Fortnite’s Cursed Sails event. Table of contentsHow to earn Map Pieces and Cursed Gold in FortnitePirate Code One QuestsWhere to find a Ship in A Bottle and how to destroy structures and objectsHow to walk the plankWhere to locate the Jar of Dirt and deliver to Jack Sparrow in FortniteHow to hit headshots or eliminate opponentsHow to an opponent with a single pistol shotHow to collect gold bars from eliminated playersHow to hit opponents with different weapon typesPirate Code Two QuestsHow to raise the flag on the Floating IslandHow to damage players that have damaged youHow to drink potions in different matchesWhere to find a Flint-Knock Pistol to damage opponents and travel distance from its knockbackHow to speak to character before taking dam...

The main grind of The First Descendant involves farming and opening Amorphous Material, which are essentially loot boxes that can drop upgrade materials and rare resources used to unlock new characters. The system can be confusing at first, but you’ll eventually get the hang of it and learn which numbers you need to farm. Table of ContentsHow to Get Amorphous Material Patterns in The First DescendantHow to Open Amorphous Material Pattern in The First DescendantAll Amorphous Material Pattern Locations in The First Descendant How to Get Amorphous Material Patterns in The First Descendant Amorphous Material Patterns are obtained as mission rewards in The First Descendant. Completing missions in each of the zones throughout the world of The First Descendant will reward you with specific Patterns, so you can target farm them to get the ones you need. You’ll likely amass quite a collection just by playing through the main campaign. How to Open Amorphous Material Patte...

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The border crisis could reach new heights or largely remain unchanged if Vice President Kamala Harris ends up winning the presidential election on Nov. 5, border hawks warn. President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race Sunday and immediately endorsed Harris, making her the leading contender to snag the party’s delegates and the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. Harris’ past voting record in the Senate, comments she’s made about federal immigration authorities, and recent actions taken in the White House all signal a sharp pivot left if she were to win the election by defeating former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. “I would say more of the same or potentially even worse,” Eric Ruark, research director for NumbersUSA, a group that works toward limiting illegal immigration, said in a conversation with the Daily Caller News Foundation about possible border policy changes if Harris were to replace Biden. “Biden had a history of being at least rhetorically against illegal immigration.” “Harris has yet to come out and say, ‘It’s a crime and we need to enforce the law,’” Ruark said. “Clearly, she was tasked with addressing the border crisis by President Biden, and her approach was basically to say, ‘Don’t come.’ That was the extent of her policy approach.” NumbersUSA publishes “report cards” on every lawmaker in Congress, evaluating how each performs on immigration and other border security issues. During her short time in the Senate representing California before leaving for the White House, Harris earned a grade of F-, the lowest possible score. The then-senator earned failing grades for votes on immigration-related issues such as border security, interior enforcement, refugee management, and amnesty, according to NumbersUSA. NumbersUSA highlighted Harris’ 2019 co-sponsorship of the RAIDER Act, which would have blocked Trump’s construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, and her 2019 co-sponsorship of the FACE Act, which would have made it more difficult for Trump to continue to build the wall. The organization also graded her vote against the Secure and Protect Act which, it argues, would have positively reformed the so-called Flores Settlement Agreement. Other border hawks expressed trepidation over Harris’ enforcement record related to illegal immigration through U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Kamala Harris wasn’t just Biden’s Border Czar, she was his Abolish ICE Director—directing the agency in charge of enforcing our immigration laws to willfully violate them,” RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement, said. “Now that Biden is out of the picture, she is sure to return to some of the most insane anti-enforcement positions that we’ve ever seen from an elected official.” As illegal border crossings quickly climbed early in the Biden administration’s tenure, the president tapped Kamala to lead an effort to address the root causes of unlawful migration from Central America, a position many described as “border czar.” However, Border Patrol encounters with illegal aliens at the southern border went on to reach recording-setting levels, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. [Both ICE and CBP are part of the Department of Homeland Security.] Enforcement experts have noted that the root causes of illegal immigration remain unaddressed and lawmakers in Congress have sought to hold Harris specifically responsible for the ongoing border crisis. Harris also was heavily criticized for taking so long to visit the southern border. “The choice in November will now be even more clear—mass deportation or mass release of illegal aliens and violent criminals into American communities,” Hauman said. Harris compared ICE, a government agency, to the Ku Klux Klan during a November 2018 Senate confirmation hearing. She asked Ron Vitiello, then Trump’s nominee to lead the agency, if he knew there was a “perception” among Latino immigrants that ICE agents operate like Klan members. As a California senator, Harris also suggested during a June 2018 media interview that ICE essentially should be abolished and rebuilt again “from scratch.” Upon election to the White House, the Biden-Harris administration oversaw a monumental overhaul of Trump policies that beefed up border and interior enforcement. Biden took 89 executive actions that specifically reversed or began the process of reversing Trump’s immigration policies, according to an analysis by the Migration Policy Institute. The White House immediately halted construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and shuttered Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program, which had largely eliminated asylum fraud by keeping asylum-seekers in Mexico while their cases were adjudicated. The administration also attempted to enforce a 100-day moratorium on all deportations. To be successful in his reelection bid, Ruark said, the Republican nominee would need to do more than offer criticisms of Harris and instead put forward a policy platform on how his new administration would hit the ground running on Day One to “undo the damage” the Biden administration did to border security. In his Republican National Convention speech last week, Trump promised the “largest deportation operation” in the country’s history, completed construction of the border wall, and other hardline approaches to border security. One local leader near the southern border noted the incredible burden that Biden’s border crisis has placed on the district he represents. “Under Biden with the open border, we had over 150,000 people dropped in the streets here in San Diego County from a period of about eight or nine months,” San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, a Republican, said Monday. “It put pressure on our law enforcement, put pressure on our hospitals and shelters, and we bore all the burden of these people just freely and willingly able to cross the border,” Desmond said, noting that Biden had assigned Harris to address the crisis. “She has failed us on the border.” Desmond noted that the border crisis isn’t a “red or blue” issue, but something that’s been affecting everyone in his district, particularly those with homes near the border who’ve had to deal with a constant flow of asylum-seekers passing through their property. Since Biden withdrew from the race Sunday and endorsed Harris, a growing number of Democrat leaders have gotten in line behind the vice president’s fledgling candidacy, establishing her as the presumptive nominee before the DNC convenes Aug. 19 in Chicago. “What we’ve seen from her career in the Senate and the public statements she’s made, it would only get worse,” Ruark said of the border situation. “As bad as things are, they can get worse, and that’s something we should all realize.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post America’s Border Crisis Could Get Whole Lot Worse Under Kamala Harris, Experts Say appeared first on The Daily Signal.

TONIGHT on “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dive into the half-hearted attempts to revivify Vice President Kamala Harris into a leader, instead of the deeply controversial and lackluster prosecutor, senator, and vice president her legacy has defined. U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns before an expected bipartisan impeachment vote in the Senate—could Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas be next? Jim Pfaff, president of The Conservative Caucus, joins us to deliver his thoughts on the viability of a Harris presidential campaign and his advice for the Trump/Vance campaign. We air our interview from the floor of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee with Attorney General Todd Rokita of Indiana delving into his record and how liberal media outlets covered it. Lastly, we cut through the weedy nightmare of breaking news and faking news in the modern era of “social media first” coverage with news aggregator RawsAlerts.Catch the LIVE radio show and livestream weeknights at 7 p.m. ET on The Daily Signal’s YouTube, X, or Facebook. The post WATCH: ‘Cringemala Harris’ – The Tony Kinnett Cast Ep. 142 appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The United States is a republic with decision-making power held by elected legislators representing the people. Yet many of the biggest decisions affecting the lives of Americans are made by unelected bureaucrats.In recent years, we have seen the administrative state going to levels never seen before, making decisions that Congress never told bureaucrats to make. This includes the Biden administration continuing its student loan forgiveness efforts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule to help kill off gas-powered cars. The EPA car rule helps illustrate the extent of the problems. It’s a shocking attack on freedom to try and limit what cars people can drive, and it’s ludicrously expensive. The agency’s projected compliance cost of the rule is a whopping $760 billion. To put this cost in context, the projected cost of the 2009 stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was $787 billion.Therefore, the EPA, without Congress speaking on whether it wants the agency to impose such a major change in policy, is imposing compliance costs in this one rule roughly equivalent to the cost of one of the biggest pieces of legislation passed by Congress in our history. The modern administrative state has been a serious problem long before the Biden administration, though. It has undermined our republican form of government with executive branch bureaucrats often serving as the prime decision-makers rather than our elected representatives. Early 20th-century progressive leaders like President Woodrow Wilson who helped assemble the administrative state were bent on advancing executive branch expertise and power. In fact, Wilson himself had a shocking disdain for voters and specific groups of citizens.Our country is looking more like the nation envisioned by Wilson and less like the republic envisioned by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. Therefore, we must restore representative government. And reform must start with Congress, which created the agencies and the rulemaking process in the first place.Reform is never easy. Plenty of people want to keep power within the agencies and give them a blank regulatory check to aid the ideological ambitions of those who seek greater governmental control. However, one important solution isn’t difficult: Congress should establish in law some boundaries for agency power. For example, Congress should prohibit agencies from issuing rules outside their demonstrated regulatory expertise, unless clearly authorized to do so. After all, one of the biggest justifications for agency rulemaking is the alleged expertise of agencies. If they don’t have the expertise on certain issues, then it follows that Congress didn’t want them to promulgate rules on those matters.That’s common sense, as are many other boundaries. For example, absent clear authority from Congress, it would be absurd to think lawmakers wanted agencies to equate shutting down businesses with regulating them, as the EPA is doing with its new power plant rule. The rule is creating infeasible requirements that necessarily will lead to plant closures.It would also defy common sense to think Congress, without saying so clearly, is OK with an agency banning or limiting the availability of certain types of goods, such as cars; reshaping an entire industry; or doing an end-run around Congress because it’s tired of waiting on legislators to pass a law. Therefore, legislators should make it clear that such rules are prohibited unless clearly authorized by law. It’s helpful that the judicial branch has recently put some limits on agency rulemaking power. In Loper Bright v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court got rid of what was known as the Chevron doctrine, which was a judicial creation that required courts to give deference to agencies’ often expansive interpretations of ambiguous laws they administer. This helped to make it easier for agencies to achieve their policy objectives by favoring bureaucrats over the people challenging the agencies in court.Now that this favoritism is gone, it should make it tougher for agencies. However, make no mistake, it won’t stop sweeping and egregious rules, in part because legislation often provides vague or general authority to agencies that they can take advantage of, even if it is obviously inconsistent with congressional intent.More relevant to putting a stop to sweeping rules is the “major questions” doctrine. The Supreme Court has said there are “extraordinary cases … in which the ‘history and the breadth of the authority that [the agency] has asserted,’ and the ‘economic and political significance’ of that assertion, provide a ‘reason to hesitate before concluding that Congress’ meant to confer such authority.” In these instances, an agency must have a “‘clear congressional authorization’ for the power it claims.” Even with the existence of the major questions doctrine, new legislation from Congress is required because a congressionally passed law can provide clear prohibitions of agency actions and far more comprehensive protection from agency abuses than the judicial branch. Statutory language should serve as a first line of defense against agencies ignoring the will of Congress and, thereby, the will of the voters. When asked what kind of nation the Framers of the Constitution created, Benjamin Franklin answered, “A republic, if you can keep it.”If we are going to keep our republic, then we need Congress to step up with major reforms to stop the abuses of the administrative state. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Overreaching Power of the Bureaucracy Is Destroying Our Representative Government appeared first on The Daily Signal.