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The NBA is requiring that all teams play the national anthem before games "in keeping with longstanding league policy," just one day after Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told The Athletic the team decided not to play it at home games. NBA Chief Communications Officer Mike Bass released a statement on Wednesday, just a day after Cuban said he had no plans to play the national anthem at any future home games. Fox Bet "With NBA teams now in the process of welcoming back fans into their arenas, all teams will play the national anthem in keeping with longstanding league...

Today, a month after Joe Biden was declared to be our president, there are federal troops in Washington, DC. They were originally sent there to provide security during the sparsely attended Biden installation ceremony because those fearless defenders of freedom and eavesdroppers upon GOP presidential candidates named (at least) Trump, the FBI, claimed, without evidence, that there would be protesters in DC and around the nation, see The FBI Claims Armed Protesters Will ‘Storm’ State Capitols on Inauguration Day; Don’t Get Drawn Into This Nonsense. There aren’t just a few federal troops in DC. More troops were sent to DC...

News chief Jeff Zucker is sticking around for 10 months following a ratings boom, but as parent WarnerMedia embraces a streaming future, is a sale or spinoff in the works? Ending speculation about his future leading the news network, CNN president Jeff Zucker signed on to the daily editorial call Feb. 4 and made his intentions clear. “The truth is, back in November and December I had basically decided that it was time to move on,” Zucker said, sources say, adding that he’d since “had a change of heart.” He told his employees he would remain at the helm of...

Professor Dominic Dwyer, an Australian microbiologist and infectious disease expert who traveled with the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, said on Wednesday there is little evidence the Chinese coronavirus originated anywhere but China. Chinese scientists working with the W.H.O. team are pushing theories the disease might have originated somewhere else and traveled to China by way of imported food. Dwyer told Australia’s 9News there is “very limited” evidence to suggest the coronavirus came from anywhere but China. “There is some evidence but it’s not really very good,” he elaborated. “I think...

A surge in brutal attacks against Asian American seniors in the Bay Area, including one that resulted in the death of an 84-year-old Thai man, has left residents fearful and angry and activists - including Hollywood celebrities - demanding justice.

The sole U.S. member of the World Health Organization delegation investigating the origins of COVID-19 on the ground in China suggested Tuesday that American intelligence on the matter shouldn’t be trusted. Dr. Peter Daszak, who worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the outbreak, tweeted that he was “disappointed” after the State Department said it won’t take the WHO on its word alone after its delegation announced Tuesday it’s highly unlikely that COVID-19 could have accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday the State Department will not draw any conclusions on...

The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.Outbreaks of the new variants ... have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions within the United States, one federal official said.

I’ve said the U.S. is caught in a debt death trap. Monetary policy won’t get us out because the velocity of money, the rate at which money changes hands, is dropping. Printing more money alone will not change that. Fiscal policy won’t work either because of high debt ratios. At current debt-to-GDP ratios, each additional dollar spent yields less than a dollar of growth. But because it must be borrowed, it does add a dollar to the debt. Debt becomes an actual drag on growth. The ratio gets higher, and the situation grows more desperate. The economy barely grows at...

The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.

Tonight, we sit down with classicist and historian (Victor Davis Hanson) to discuss the rise of critical social justice and (woke) ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second (impeachment) trial of former President Donald Trump.“It’s like a public-shaming like the Communist Party used to make people wear dunce caps,” Hanson says.This is American Thought Leaders, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and the rest of his teammates celebrated their Super Bowl LV victory on Wednesday afternoon with a boat parade. At one point during the parade, Brady was captured launching the Lombardi Trophy from his boat to tight end Rob Gronkowski, who caught it with ease just like the two touchdown passes he caught on Sunday to help the Bucs win over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. Soon after a video surfaced of Brady being helped off the boat, which led to "Drunk Tom Brady" trending on social media. Brady himself decided...

A prominent Trump supporter has had bioterrorism charges dropped after an alleged political enemy attempted to have him thrown in prison for life for “forcefully” licking a ballot envelope at a polling location on election day. Keego Harbor, Mich. resident Peter Trzos, who was the alleged perpetrator of this COVID-19 bioterror envelope-licking attack, has had all of his charges dropped, his attorney Nicholas Somberg confirmed to Big League Politics. Right now, Trzos is considering suing city clerk Tammy Neeb, who made allegations against him that he believes are politically motivated and blatantly false. Trzos is weighing the option of holding...

-An eight-year-old Cocker Spaniel in Seoul was seen receiving a swab for COVID -South Korea has been conducting tests on pets showing coronavirus symptoms -Authorities have ordered pets to be quarantined for 14 days if they test positive -There is no evidence to suggest cats nor dogs can pass the virus on to humans PICTURED: The eight-year-old female Cocker Spaniel living in Seoul underwent the procedure after suffering a runny nose.She is pictured receiving a nasal swab from health workers today

BRING THE BOOK! “And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel” (Nehemiah 8:1).

Grass Roots Patriots need to rally and go to local party headquarters and offer to elect Representatives that will support Donald J. Trump, as Speaker of the House in 2022. When Joe Biden kicks the bucket after 21 months, Kamala Harris would be removed from office for corruption, Donald J. Trump would automatically become President. It would only take 10 new seats won in the election in the House for Republicans to allow this to become a possibility

A strong majority of U.S. voters believe COVID-19 was likely manufactured in a lab, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. Sixty-five percent of respondents believed it is "somewhat" or "very" likely" that the pandemic coronavirus emerged from a "bio research lab." Just 21% of voters doubted such a possibility. The remaining 14% were unsure. The responses come as a United Nations-backed group of researchers concludes its investigation into the originals of the coronavirus. That investigation concluded it's unlikely that the virus had escaped from a Chinese infectious disease laboratory just a few miles from...

Explanation: Why do stars twinkle? Our atmosphere is to blame as pockets of slightly off-temperature air, in constant motion, distort the light paths from distant astronomical objects. Atmospheric turbulence is a problem for astronomers because it blurs the images of the sources they want to study. The telescope featured in this image, located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, is equipped with four lasers to combat this turbulence. The lasers are tuned to a color that excites atoms floating high in Earth's atmosphere -- sodium left by passing meteors. These glowing sodium spots act as artificial stars whose twinkling is immediately recorded...

Returning those jobs to America, along with ending foreign wars and illegal immigration, was the core policy promise of Donald Trump’s presidency, and the source of his surprise victory in 2016. Trump was hardly the first to make the case that the corporate and political establishment’s trade relationship with China had sold out ordinary Americans. Former Democratic congressman and 1988 presidential candidate Richard Gephardt was the leading voice in an important but finally not very influential group of elected Democratic Party officials and policy experts who warned that trading with a state that employed slave labor would cost American jobs...

This ridiculous, sham trial has really nothing to do with the topics the lawyers are waxing eloquent about. Not really. No, this is about Good vs Evil. President Trump is merely the symbolic battlefield both sides are trampling to duke it out. It really has nothing to do with January 6th. Y'know, for a long time Good and Evil co-existed in America, more or less peacefully. Each side gracefully won sometimes, each side gracefully lost sometimes. Somehow it worked, more or less, peacefully. But ever since the ridiculously overdone voter fraud on November 3rd, November 4th, November 5th, November 6th...

Family sources tell us the mogul passed Wednesday morning in Los Angeles from heart failure. For nearly 50 years, Flynt's been one of the biggest names in the adult entertainment industry. He launched "Hustler" magazine in 1974, which brought him fame and fortune as it skyrocketed in popularity ... and also brought countless legal issues. Many of these First Amendment battles were chronicled in the Oscar-nominated 1996 film, "The People vs. Larry Flynt," starring Woody Harrelson. Getty Flynt's magazine and notoriety also led to him being shot in 1978 in a murder attempt by serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin. The...