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In the spring of 1976, it looked like that year’s flu was the real thing. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, and rushed response led to a medical debacle that hasn’t gone away. “Some of the American public’s hesitance to embrace vaccines — the flu vaccine in particular — can be attributed to the long-lasting effects of a failed 1976 campaign to mass-vaccinate the public against a strain of the swine flu virus,” writes Rebecca Kreston for Discover. “This government-led campaign was widely viewed as a debacle and put an irreparable dent in future public health initiative, as well as negatively influenced...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that an "element of misogyny" undermines female presidential candidates following Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) withdrawal from the 2020 race. "I so wish that we had a woman president of the United States, and we came so close to doing that," Pelosi said at her weekly news conference. "I do think there's a certain element of misogyny." "Every time I get introduced as the most powerful woman, I almost cry, because I wish that were not true," she added. The first female Speaker said she believes that some of the sexist bias that women face...

The Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act, sponsored by state Sen. Paul Bailey and state Rep. Andy Holt, would establish a five-member review board for each public library to determine “whether any sexual material provided to the public by the public library is age-inappropriate sexual material.” Voters would elect the members. The board would hold public hearings, during which time “members of the community may present concerns to the board,” according to the bill’s text. The bill is HB 2721 in the House and SB2896 in the Senate. Holt said it would provide local control on controversial issues. “There haven’t...

On March 8, 2015, the President issued Executive Order 13692, declaring a national emergency with respect to the situation in Venezuela based on the Government of Venezuela’s erosion of human rights guarantees; persecution of political opponents; curtailment of press freedoms; use of violence and human rights violations and abuses in response to antigovernment protests; and arbitrary arrest and detention of antigovernment protestors, as well as the exacerbating presence of significant government corruption. On August 24, 2017, I issued Executive Order 13808 to take additional steps, with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692, to address serious abuses...

Bloomie establishes his own super-pac that will also take donations. He puts in 600 million dollars with 100 million going to Bidden and 500 million going to key House and Senate races where his millions can swing an election. Bidden is going to lose anyway but if Bloomie is smart he can make the Seante Democrat and keep The House Democrat. This way he can really play the spoiler for Trump and Trump's future judicial nominations including the Supreme Court. Just my thoughts after Bloomie's amazing win in Samoa. PLUS you better believe Bloomie is waiting in the wings in...

An American Airlines flight from Chicago to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday when an unidentified passenger tried to open an exit door. Multiple passengers, including two from North Texas, helped to subdue the man and prevent him from endangering the lives of everyone else on board AA Flight 2300. “Everyone who could get to the guy got to the guy to subdue him,” said DJ Mitchell, a BNSF Railways employee from the Dallas area, who was among those who held the man on the ground until the flight was able to divert and...

Both San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju and District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Thursday condemned the recent arrest of a man by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside of the Hall of Justice.

One man was stuck in possibly the last place anyone would have wanted to be with a storm approaching: 375 feet above the ground in a crane. Thankfully, although it was a little too close for comfort, the tornado was far enough away to not do any damage to the crane Nash was in, and he made it through just fine.

Hillary Clinton claims she is the 'the most investigated innocent person in America' in a new Hulu documentary about her life. The former Democratic Presidential candidate even went so far as to say she felt like she's been persecuted in an offhand remark while cameras were rolling. ... Others who were interviewed for the project provide more insight, like the New York Times chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, who says that Hillary is blinded by her belief that she is a 'righteous' person. ... The series also features a number of revealing anecdotes about the 2016 campaign. During a...

Trump is on now but Brett Baier and Martha Macallum are doing a total hit job. How the heck can they each ask a question about Schumer attacking the Supreme Court - and turn it into anti Trump questions? And the first question from a "Trump supporter" was asking Trump to be more civil. Gee, Democrats don't get questioned this way

Adding another arrow to her quiver of crazy, radical feminist commentator and occasional New York Times columnist Jill Filipovic took to social media to disparage most of the remaining Democratic presidential field. No, not because they embody some of the worst values in human history, but because each of their skin tones is white and they each (except for one) have male genitalia. Your team was supposed to be the woke one, Jill. What on earth happened? Joking aside, Filipovic shared her racist and sexist opinion to Twitter on Monday, March 2, following the news that another one of the...

Hillary Clinton will be a guest on the Tonight Show this evening, and she’s teasing her appearance this way: You'll have to watch @FallonTonight to find out what's in the bag.

This is sheer conjecture on my part, but I’m betting that some evenings Ariane de Vogue dresses up as Ruth Bader-Ginsburg and cross-examines her cats. What else can a CNN Supreme Court Reporter and RGB fangirl do until somebody starts a lefty political version of Comi Con? (Insert your own Bernie Sanders rally joke here.) Well, she can write worshipful accounts of her Earth Mother-Law Giver swatting away the pathetic assertions of inferior beings, like March 5’s “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dominates in abortion case.” Here’s de Vogue’s lede: If there is any question whether 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...

Andrew Yang's still got his eye on the White House ... because he'd be stoked to be Joe Biden's vice president. The former presidential hopeful joined us on "TMZ Live" Thursday and we asked if he'd say yes to an offer to be Biden's running mate if Joe's the nominee. Andrew tells us he'd jump at the chance, and thinks he could bring a lot to the table. The way Andrew sees it, he could help Biden in some areas where he could be lacking ... namely, appealing to younger voters. Andrew says the Yang Gang makes him feel young,...

The typically outspoken hosts of The View couldn’t bring themselves to condemn Democrat minority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, after he publicly threatened two Supreme Court justices during a pro-abortion rally, Wednesday. In fact, the only real opinion that was shared was defending Schumer’s shocking words. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg set the dismissive tone from the start, claiming the backlash to Schumer’s words was a “distraction”: “So, is this all a distraction from the fact that a major abortion rights case is being heard right now?” she asked. Former 2020 Democrat candidate Andrew Yang was a guest co-host and the first to...

Longtime CNN analyst Roland Martin, a fervent supporter of the Obamas, showed up on MSNBC on Saturday morning touting a sweater he found in Ghana and trashing all white conservative evangelical Trump backers as "Christian frauds." MSNBC host Ali Velshi brought Roland on to discuss the South Carolina primary. “You are a man of faith,” Velshi touted, “and one of the issues in the last several years has been Donald Trump has been viewed as an object of suspicion by some people of faith… How do Democrats who are trying to court particularly the black religious vote deal with this?”...

Everyone knows that Sen. Charles Schumer went off the rails by threatening two sitting Supreme Court Justices because he believes they will vote against an upcoming abortion-rights case. But little attention has been given to the hysterical reaction of two members of “The Squad”: Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Pressley said that “reproductive justice is racial justice.” This is the kind of statement we would expect from the Klan. We would not expect this from a black woman. Blacks, who are 13% of the population, account for 36% of all abortions. Pressley needs to explain why this is...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s recent call for Chief Justice John Roberts to publicly rebuke President Trump for supposedly interfering with the judiciary backfired when Roberts condemned Schumer this week for threatening two of Roberts’ fellow justices.

Kimberly Gardner made history in 2016, roaring to an election victory as St. Louis city’s first African-American chief prosecutor on a campaign funded heavily by the liberal mega-donor George Soros. Four years later, she finds herself under investigation and her chief investigator already indicted for a prosecution gone bad, one that forced Missouri’s Republican governor to resign in what some now believe may have been a political attack. Gardner, a Democrat and the city’s circuit attorney, was forced in 2018 to withdraw her indictment accusing Gov. Eric Greitens of felony invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a picture of his...

The creation of a chimeric SARS-like virus has scientists discussing the risks of gain-of-function research. Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine.The results demonstrate the ability...