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When I began working on this story, I didn’t feel that much sympathy for these parents. Some 18 million public school children have not set foot in a school in the past year. A study released in early December by McKinsey and Co. found that virtual learning hurt all students, but students of color the most: remote school set them back by three to five months in math, for example. Such numbers do not begin to capture the crippling effects, including suicidal ideation, that this past year has had on what experts are already calling a lost generation. The parents...

When the journalist Alexi McCammond was 17 years old, she wrote some tweets in the voice of an annoyed American adolescent — which is what she was. Little could she have known that almost a decade later, her skyrocketing journalism career would be suddenly imperiled because she used the word “Asian” in a slighting way in three of those tweets. But imperiled she is. And her story should be a reminder to everyone that whatever it is that causes people to dedicate themselves to Twitter, they are taking a huge and foolish risk with their potential futures. That risk is...

There is a huge layoff at the Huffington Post. Key writers — 47 US writers — were fired. The failing leftist blog pushed for Trump supporters to be de-platformed and de-banked. It doesn’t seem to have worked for them financially. BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday, three weeks after acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media in February. Hillary Frey, the executive editor, and Louise Roug, the executive editor for international, will be departing in the restructuring effort. HuffPost Canada will also shutter operations later this month. They say they are fast-tracking the path to profitability.

Government watchdog Judicial Watch wants to know more about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's behavior and actions on January 8, 2021, when she called General Mark Milley in an attempt to take away then President Trump's military authority. The group has issued a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Defense for details of the call.The lawsuit demands "any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the telephone call between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and General Mark Milley on or about January 8, 2021," and "any and all transcripts, recordings, and/or summaries of the call, as well as...

(...) As Piers Morgan has discovered, if you diss the patron saint of wokeness you’re in trouble. (...)

By now, you probably have a bucket list a mile long for what you want to do when it's finally safe. I will personally be posting up in my favorite dive bar, drinking many vodka sodas, and making everyone listen to The Boys Are Back In Town over and over. Dr. Anthony Fauci, however, has different post-pandemic dreams, and they include enjoying a beer and a hot dog at a baseball game. Dr. Fauci appeared on KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO in Los Angeles over the weekend and discussed everything from vaccine distribution to how to open schools safely. But the end...

The State Department on Tuesday designated two Iranians for their “involvement in gross violations of human rights”, The Hill reported. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that he was designating Ali Hemmatian and Masoud Safdari, two interrogators with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), for “their involvement in gross violations of human rights, namely the torture and/or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (CIDTP) of political prisoners and persons detained during protests in 2019 and 2020 in Iran.” The designation makes both Hemmatian and Safdari, as well as their immediate family members, ineligible for entry into...

haha ok, really?!? No one has bothered to post this for struggling newbies in DAX like me? In the words of our bumbling leader "C'mon Man!" Yeah ok, I get that DAX whizes probably figured this out on their first day but whatever. Thought I'd post this here, so maybe it'll show up on some search somewhere, and help a poor schlep like me out sometime, working through this for the last few WEEKS, going nowhere with this. (this is why I haven't posted anything about election irregularities by the way in recent weeks, been struggling with this dang WORK...

Journalists Andrew Kaczynski and Rachel Ensign endured a loss that no parent should ever have to on Christmas Eve when their 9-month-old daughter Francesca died of complications from a rare pediatric brain cancer. Prior to being diagnosed with Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor, Ensign told "The View" Tuesday that their daughter, lovingly called "Beans," was a "very healthy, happy, lively baby" until she began uncontrollably vomiting one night. A pediatric urgent care identified her symptoms as nothing more than a stomach bug, but parental instincts told Kaczynski and Ensign it "felt like it was more" than a stomach bug. When they...

Explanation: Is that a fossil? Looking through recent images of Mars taken by the new Perseverance rover may seem a bit like treasure hunting, with the possibility of fame coming to the first person to correctly identify a petrified bone, a rock imprinted by an ancient plant, or any clear indication that life once existed on Mars. Unfortunately, even though it is possible that something as spectacular as a skeleton could be identified, most exobiologists think it much more likely that biochemical remnants of ancient single-celled microbes could be found with Perseverance's chemical analyzers. A key reason is that multicellular...

Roger Mudd, the longtime political correspondent and anchor for NBC and CBS who once stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president, has died. He was 93. CBS News says Mudd died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia. During more than 30 years on network television, starting with CBS in 1961, Mudd covered Congress, elections and political conventions and was a frequent anchor and contributor to various specials. His career coincided with the flowering of television news, the pre-cable, pre-Internet days when the big three networks and their powerhouse...

VIDEO AT LINKED ARTICLE President Joe Biden dropped in on the W.S. Jenks & Son hardware store in Washington DC for a brief visit and remarks on Tuesday afternoon. Biden spoke to the store owners about the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), an emergency fund that W.S. Jenks & Son applied for and received in February because it has fewer than 20 employees. The funding allowed employees at high risk for COVID-19 to stay home while still getting paid. Founded in 1866, W.S. Jenks & Son bills itself as “Washington’s oldest and most complete source for tools, hardware, machinery, lawn and...

A 48-year-old Amtrak worker has been arrested for allegedly stealing chainsaws and chainsaw parts valued at more than $50,000 from his employer and reselling them, mainly via an online auction service, federal prosecutors in New Jersey say. Jose Rodriguez, of Brick, faces one count of theft from an agency receiving federal funds and one count of theft of government property for the alleged years-long scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachel Honig said Tuesday. According to court papers, Rodriguez has been an Amtrak employee since October 2007, most recently as a senior engineer and repairman based out of a...

EXCLUSIVE - A grieving family who lost two elderly parents to coronavirus wants New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to apologize for his administration's underreported nursing home deaths. Cuomo's administration admitted in February that nursing home deaths had topped 15,000 — nearly 10,000 more than the state originally reported at the end of January — sparking criticism of the governor's March 25 directive ordering thousands of virus-infected seniors back into assisted-living facilities, nursing homes and other long-term care locations. "It is like their lives didn't matter," Mary Ann Boniello told Fox News. "He needs to apologize to all the families, be...

Donald Trump on Tuesday released a statement on the crisis at the border. Joe Biden reversed Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy, promised amnesty, and allowed unaccompanied migrant children into the US which caused a surge of illegal border crossings in the last several weeks. Biden is also flooding the US with Covid-infected illegal aliens. Several reporters asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about the border crisis and she spun like a top and passed the blame onto the DHS. Trump blasted the Democrats for destroying the country with dangerous open borders policies. “When I was President, our Southern border...

They can't say they weren't warned. Everyone in America knew where Joe Biden stood on abortion -- because he told them. In 13 debates, multiple campaign ads, and a Planned Parenthood townhall, no one had any doubt that if this man won the White House, his folksy faith talk would take a backseat to his political deal with the far-Left. If Evangelicals for Biden want to say they never saw this COVID bill and its abortion funding coming, then they were the only ones.

A female member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s staff has become the sixth woman to accuse him of inappropriate conduct, according to a report Tuesday. The woman told associates that Cuomo touched her inappropriately late last year inside the governor’s mansion after she was summoned there on official business, the Albany Times Union said. The Times Union said it was withholding her name because she couldn’t be reached for comment.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus lockdowns made California one of three states with the nation’s highest jumps in joblessness. Those pandemic policies are now the subject of a fierce national debate with the Golden State’s per capita rate of COVID cases similar to Florida’s, which imposed much lighter restrictions and began aggressively reopening last fall.While jobless claims skyrocketed across the country last year, the California agency charged with doling out unemployment insurance botched its job of getting federal checks into the hands of eligible workers. State officials estimate that nearly a quarter of the $122 billion in federal payments was squandered,...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Tuesday reports the First Family’s dog “Major” attacked an “unfamiliar person” but reassured Americans the dog would not be euthanized. “Major Biden is a member of the family, so I can assure you that,” Psaki said to a reporter who asked if she could assure that the dog would not be euthanized.

A major national supermarket chain, one of the Fortune 500 customers in Mainspring’s pilot program, has signed an agreement to expand deployment of Mainspring Linear Generators to power up to 30 grocery stores. Mainspring began shipping pilot units to multiple Fortune 500 customers in June 2020 and expects to begin commercial product shipments in mid-2021. ...Mainspring’s breakthrough technology, based on research originally conducted by the company’s co-founders in a thermodynamics laboratory at Stanford University, is designed to meet these demands by delivering dispatchable, fuel-flexible power that substantially reduces cost and carbon today, while accelerating the transition to the net-zero carbon...