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“We have members of Congress that want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday morning, dumping more gasoline on the political fire.

The Mature Fruits of Vatican IIWith his inauguration as President of the United States, Joe Biden solidified his standing as the world’s second most prominent nominal Catholic. He and the world’s most prominent nominal Catholic, Pope Francis, likely have many differing viewpoints but are united in their untiring dedication to misrepresenting unambiguous Catholic truth. In this regard, President Biden and Pope Francis are the mature fruits of Vatican II.Their fellow traveler, Cardinal Blase Cupich, rushed to the defense of President Biden after Archibishop Jose Gomez, president of the U.S.C.C.B., called out Biden’s longstanding positions on abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender....

-Severely raised the price of insulin -Deployed more troops to Iraq -Deployed more troops to Syria -Eliminated 70k jobs immediately -Cancelled permits for Keystone pipeline -Contradicted his fracking promise -Lost multiple union’s support 3 days after inauguration -Made the US no longer energy independent and back on foreign oil -Eliminated women’s sports -Eliminated the new tradition of donating the POTUS salary and instead will be enriching his family -Mandate to wear a mask at any federal facility which he already violated several times -Signed an expansion package to encourage government bloating -Gave access back to China to our power grids...

Anal swabs require inserting a cotton swab 3 to 5 centimetres (1.2 to 2.0 inch) into the anus and gently rotating it. Last week, a Beijing city official said that anal swabs were taken from over 1,000 teachers, staffers and students at a primary school in the city after an infection had been found. Their nose and throat swabs and serum samples were also collected for testing. Additional tests using anal swabs can avoid missing infections, as virus traces in faecal samples or anal swabs could remain detectable for a longer time than in samples taken from upper respiratory tract,...

Victoria “Tori” Rose Smith lived a tragically short life. Three years. That’s less than 200 weeks on this earth. She was a girly girl who sported oversized bows in her straw-blonde hair and a megawatt smile on her face. A great-aunt described the blue-eyed baby as “bubbly,” “sassy” and “full of life” despite bouncing around foster homes for much of her brief existence. Last week, authorities in South Carolina revealed that Tori had perished as result of multiple blunt-force injuries to her tiny head. She was beaten to death. Her adoptive parents, Ariel and Jerry “Austin” Robinson, are now charged...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted armed Republican members of Congress as the enemy within the House of Representatives on Thursday as lawmakers asked for additional funds for security amid increasing threats to their safety. "We will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives," she conceded at her press conference on Capitol Hill. Asked to specific who she meant by the enemy within, Pelosi forcefully responded, "It means that we have members of Congress who want to bring guns onto the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress."

Maricopa County in Arizona will carry out a comprehensive forensic audit of its voting systems to allay concerns raised by some constituents about the integrity of the November 2020 election. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at a meeting Wednesday to hire two independent companies to conduct an audit that will probe whether voting machines counted votes correctly, and whether they were tampered with or hacked in any way. The Republican-dominated board defended the accuracy of the county’s election results while expressing hope that a comprehensive equipment and software audit would dispel concerns that the results were inaccurate....

Researchers with the Fatty Acid Research Institute (FARI) and collaborators at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and in Orange County, CA, have published the first direct evidence that higher omega-3 blood levels may reduce risk for death from COVID-19 infection. The report was published in the journal Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids on January 20, 2021. There are several papers in the medical literature hypothesizing that omega-3 fatty acids should have beneficial effects in patients with COVID-19 infection, but up until now, there have been no published peer-reviewed studies supporting that hypothesis. This study included 100 patients admitted...

LONDON (Reuters) - Short-sellers are sitting on estimated losses of $70.87 billion from their short positions in U.S. companies so far this year, data from financial data analytics firm Ortex showed on Thursday. The hefty losses come as shares of highly-shorted GameStop jumped more than 1,000% in the past week without a clear business reason, forcing short-sellers to buy back into the stock to cover potential losses -- defined as a short-squeeze -- while retail investors then piled in to benefit from the surge. Chasing shorted companies became a trend among retail traders, rippling across U.S. markets and Europe. Ortex...

Political operatives are now attempting to flip the script on what it means to be a follower of Christ and are moving to disqualify morality right along with it.“Biden’s Catholic faith grounds his life and policies.” This is the text in the photo caption of a New York Times article by Elizabeth Dias. Entitled “In Biden’s Catholic Faith, an Ascendant Liberal Christianity”, the Dias applauds Biden for being “the most religiously observant president in over half a century.” The article showers Biden with praises and likens him to Jesus Christ himself for leading the charge in promoting an “ascendant liberal...

The 22-year-old student whose startup landed a controversial deal with the city of Philadelphia to distribute COVID-19 vaccines admitted Thursday that he took some doses home with him — and injected his pals. Andrei Doroshin — whose Philly Fighting COVID group administered city-issued vaccines before being booted when it emerged that it had changed its status from non-profit to for-profit — made the stunning admission on NBC’s “Today” show.

The Chinese defense ministry has come out with some of Beijing's bluntest language yet on Taiwan, warning Taipei on Thursday that "independence means war." The remarks by Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian came after China ramped up its military presence in the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, flying a total of 28 Chinese warplanes—including heavy bombers—into the southwestern corner of Taiwan's air defense identification zone. One warplane was sent into the ADIZ on Monday and there have been four incursions on each of the past three days, according to Taiwan's defense ministry. The ministry in Taipei declined to...

Samantha Tan celebrates with her Abu Dhabi 6 Hour Race trophy at Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. South China Morning Post Chinese-Canadian professional racing driver Samantha Tan could not have dreamed up a better start to 2021. The 23-year-old returned victorious from the United Arab Emirates last weekend after making history as the first Asian woman and part of the first Canadian team to win the Dubai 24 Hour Race, and the first woman to win the Abu Dhabi 6 Hour Race in her GT4 class. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories...

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Amazon has asked federal regulators to block a number of shareholder proposals that strike at the heart of many recent criticisms of the Seattle-based commerce behemoth, including its stances on curbing hate speech and offensive content, diversity in hiring, workplace conditions for hourly warehouse employees and its surveillance technologies. If granted, Amazon’s requests would mean shareholders would not have an opportunity to vote on those proposals at the company’s shareholder meeting this year, where they would likely be rejected regardless. Last year, none of a dozen shareholder proposals was approved. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declined to comment Wednesday...

FBI: Bank robber arrested after giving teller his state ID for “withdrawal” January 27, 2021 CWBChicago Citywide Edner Flores | CPD A Chicago man is facing federal bank robbery charges after he allegedly complied with the teller’s request to see his ID during a hold-up this week. According to an FBI agent’s complaint, the robber wrote “$10,000” “No die packs” and “armed” on a deposit slip and handed it to a teller at PNC Bank, 3337 West North Avenue in Humboldt Park, around 11:45 a.m. Monday. The teller tripped a silent alarm and then told the robber that he needed...

Eduardo Cabana was released from a Miami-Dade jail on Monday, his birthday. The problem: The Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department now says he was freed “in error” and it needs to find him. Cabana, who just turned 52, was in jail on charges of including obstruction by a disguised person, shooting or throwing a deadly missile and criminal mischief. He also was arrested on a probation warrant and was to be held without bond, records show. He was a minimum custody level inmate, police said. A corrections spokesman said Wednesday Cabana was released from Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center....

After a chaotic four years, President Biden wants to voters to believe he’s governing as a unifier while actually governing as a hard partisan. For Democrats, that tension doesn’t pose much of a dilemma because the corporate press will uncritically permit Biden to sell his leftism as unification. It’s false advertising. Biden set the tone for his term with a milquetoast inaugural address that pledged to “lower the temperature.” For many in this exhausted and divided nation, that was probably a welcome message. But it’s merely cosmetic and Biden proved that right away. Among his flurry of executive orders were...

Trading app Robinhood on Thursday restricted buying or trading in GameStop stock along with several other formerly obscure stocks that are spiking following a scramble of social media driven trading activity this week. The popular stock market app informed users that they could close out positions on the highly volatile stocks but could not purchase additional shares.

The Biden Administration announced its plan to return to an Obama-era initiative to put Harriet Tubman’s face on the U.S. $20 bill. Her image would replace Andrew Jackson, the notoriously racist President, known both for owning hundreds of slaves and for his brutal and genocidal policy of Indian removal. Based on current designs, a statue of Jackson would remain on the back of the bill, while Harriet Tubman would grace the front. Many Americans, across the racial spectrum, are excited about this tribute to Tubman.~~~SNIP~~~Putting Tubman on legal tender, when slaves in the U.S. were treated as fungible commodities is...