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A 12-year-old Texas boy who felt “sad and lonely” amid the coronavirus lockdown measures hanged himself, his father revealed in a report about the tragedy. Hayden Hunstable, of Aledo, took his own life three days before his 13th birthday in April 2020 because he didn’t know how to deal with the isolation and depression when the emerging disease caused a nationwide shutdown, the UK’s Metro reported. The boy’s 9-year-old sister, Kinlee, found him hanged in his bedroom, according to the outlet. Hayden’s heartbroken dad, Brad, 42, spoke to Metro to help prevent future suicides among the nation’s youth. “COVID killed...

U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah John Huber announced he will resign from his position, effective Feb. 28.The announcement, made Wednesday, came after Justice Department officials said they would ask U.S. attorneys who were appointed by former President Donald Trump to resign from their posts.

As he takes the green flag at Daytona on Sunday, by recognizing the gift of his second chance, Kyle Larson already stands as a winner in the race of life.As the NASCAR season kicks off with Sunday’s 63rd Daytona 500, two events will mark the “Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing.” First, as the event marks 20 years since the death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr., on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, many in the auto racing community have focused on how Earnhardt’s death helped revolutionize safety innovations over the past two decades.Another storyline represents a comeback story...

In new research published in Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, immunologist J. Bart Classen warns the mRNA technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines could create “new potential mechanisms” of adverse events that may take years to come to light.Back in 1999, leading U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official Dr. Peter Patriarca contended that modern advances in vaccine technology were rapidly “outpacing researchers’ ability to predict potential vaccine-related adverse events.” Patriarca mused that this could lead to “a situation of unforeseen and unpredictable vaccine outcomes.”In a new research article published in Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, veteran immunologist J....

Donald Trump was reportedly much more ill with Covid-19 in October than the White House publicly admitted at the time, with some officials concerned that he would need to be put on a ventilator. Trump experienced “extremely depressed blood oxygen levels” and a lung problem commonly associated with pneumonia caused by Covid-19, according to a report in the New York Times citing four people familiar with the former president’s condition. Trump was admitted to Walter Reed national military medical center for several days in early October after he tested positive for the virus, less than a month before the presidential...

The bravest person in Hollywood, by far, is Gina Carano. Unlike Chris Pratt, she does not apologize for water bottles. Instead she openly defies the expectation of putting pronouns in her bio and frequently posts dank memes. But Cancel Culture would mount a major offensive after she posted an image that compared our culture to the culture that cultivated the Holocaust. Although the below image is what got her terminated, it’s really her beliefs they hate.This image was rather tame. Basically, a culture that dehumanizes people will eventually exterminate these people systematically. The authorial intent was likely to point out...

The tumultuous wake of the crime of the millennium, aka the irrefutable theft of the 2020 Presidential election, has left millions of Americans outraged and incredulous. In a land where justice for all has been a daily pledge of its citizenry and politicians for decades on end, patriots find themselves supine and bewildered by a thickly woven mat of corruption, deftly yanked from beneath their feet. Could it be that those very same perpetrators are preparing to kick Americans while they’re down and spit on them for good measure, thus adding insult to injury in the form of impeachment fraud?All...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration has launched a formal review of the future of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, reviving the Obama-era goal of closing the controversial facility, a White House official said on Friday.

My Pillow has now been ditched by nearly 20 retailers after several vendors abruptly dropped the suddenly controversial bedding company last month, CEO Michael J. Lindell said Thursday.Several major sellers, including Kohl’s and Bed Bath & Beyond, previously confirmed they were cutting ties with My Pillow as its CEO faced scrutiny in the final days of the Trump administration.Less than a month later, Mr. Lindell said that a total of 18 companies have dropped My Pillow, including multiple online retailers and big-name brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S. and Canada.However, My Pillow products are still for sale on some of those...

I'm reading that silver is the way to go now for a hedge against inflation and am asking if anybody is aware of the best type of silver to purchase. Bars, coins, etc. I guess you just buy it and tuck it away for later use as barter?

I assured you that I would write this post. It's something that should be very fun for me, but I've made it obligatory. I said "It's one of my favorite stories ever." And then, fooling about in the comments:Every task seems like more fun than the subject I regard as the ripest of the week, Andrea, Jennifer, and The 2 Williams. What is wrong with me? I just got up to make my 5th cup of coffee! Did William Shakespeare drink coffee? Did William Faulkner?... "He didn't have coffee, he didn't have vanilla, he didn't have cocoa. Imagine writing Hamlet...

Hundreds of stories posted, dozens of categories, and not a single mention of the breaking news that Cuomo covered up the massive nursing home death conspiracy and withheld evidence and lied to all the world.

In a video conference call with Democratic leaders in New York, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa offered a stunning admission that Governor Cuomo’s administration lied about the actual COVID-19 death toll in the state’s nursing homes. The top aide apologized for the deception, saying that the Cuomo team was paralyzed with fear that the actual numbers would “be used against [them]” by federal prosecutors. ... But the admission is backfiring in a major way, and New York lawmakers are calling for Cuomo’s impeachment.

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The Wall A little history most people will never know. Interesting, and very moving, Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010. The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties. The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June...

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer. An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 "Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course," which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for "dismantling racism in mathematics." The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California's San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others. Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways "white supremacy...

By the end of the summer, the first unit in the U.S. Army could be equipped with a hypersonic weapon. While the Pentagon hasn’t announced which unit that will be, the Army has reportedly sent the unit equipment it will need to prepare for the rigorous training program required to operate the new platform.

"We put a hurting on the Sinaloa Cartel," DEA Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux said Thursday at a news conference held by federal prosecutors to announce multiple indictments and "breathtaking" drug seizures in the Bay Area. Federal prosecutors revealed the unsealing of 15 indictments against 44 individuals resulting from four separate investigations into the trafficking of illegal drugs to the Bay Area from Mexico, some of which allegedly originated with the international organized crime group known as the Sinaloa Cartel.

In the awful wake of an oil spill, it's typically the smallest of organisms who do most of the cleaning up. Surprisingly, scientists know very little about the tools these tiny clean-up crews have at their disposal. But now, thanks to a new study, researchers have uncovered a whole new cycle of natural hydrocarbon emissions and recycling facilitated by a diverse range of tiny organisms – which could help us better understand how some microbes have the power to clean up the mess an oil spill leaves in the ocean. "Just two types of marine cyanobacteria are adding up to...

Congressional Democrats are reportedly considering a back-up plan – a censure resolution against Donald Trump should this week’s impeachment trial result in acquittal for the former President. The resolution, according to McClatchy, would bar Trump “from holding future office over his role in the U.S. Capitol riot.” ... The Democrat attempt to censure Donald Trump – who is now a private citizen – would invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. It is a rarely cited Civil War-era provision that bars people from holding office if they “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or “given aid or comfort to the...