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A number of White House staffers were fired or demoted for past marijuana use — regardless of whether those employees had been in one of the 14 states where the drug is legal, according to a report. The Biden Administration had required workers to disclose past marijuana use on a background check form, but told some new hires that it would “overlook” those who answered yes, the Daily Beast reported. Despite this, White House Director of Management and Administration Anne Filipic reportedly led a series of one-on-one calls with staffers this month, asking those who admitted to past marijuana use...

Former President George W. Bush recounted his reaction to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in an interview released Thursday, saying that he was "disgusted" by what transpired. In an interview recorded Feb. 24 with The Texas Tribune that is part of the SXSW 2021 online festival, Bush said that the events of the day left him "disgusted." The former president participated in the event to promote his new book, "Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants." "I can't remember what I was doing, but ... I was sick to my stomach ... to see our nation's Capitol being stormed...

On March 16, President Joe Biden was walking to an awaiting helicopter on the White House grounds when he stopped briefly to talk to a group of reporters, some holding boom mics. "Do you have any plans to travel to the southern border?" a reporter asked. "Not at the moment," Biden said. He answers another question about COVID-19 vaccines and then walks on. The moment is unremarkable, unless you’ve been misled to believe the whole thing is a fraud — that the interview was fake and the president was acting in front of a green screen. A YouTube video that...

“An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity” (Proverbs 19:28).

With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken root and worsened. Weather service and agriculture officials warned of possible water use cutbacks in California and the Southwest, increased wildfires, low levels in key reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell and damage to wheat crops. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s official spring outlook Thursday sees an expanding drought with a drier than normal April, May and June for a large swath of the country from Louisiana...

The French capital Paris is set to go into a month-long Covid lockdown as the country fears a third wave. Another 15 departments in the country will also be placed under the same measures from midnight on Friday. These measures will not be as strict as the previous lockdown, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, with people allowed to exercise outdoors. France has recorded more than 35,000 new infections within the past 24 hours. Mr Castex said a "third wave" of infections in the country was looking increasingly likely. The situation in Paris is particularly worrying with 1,200 people in intensive...

LONDON (Reuters) - Securities settlement for Irish assets worth more than 100 billion euros ($119 billion) has left London for the European Union in the latest adjustment in markets to Brexit. Pan-European exchange Euronext, which runs the Irish stock exchange, said on Thursday it had completed the migration of securities settlement for 50 Irish companies from Crest in London to Euroclear Bank in Brussels from March 15.

"I've created controversy before so I'm used to it, you know, the degree of outrage was a little more than I'm used to but I have experience," Ho added, "white supremacy is not on the rise" but nationalism is, which he called a "reasonable response to globalism."

The first woman to publicly accuse Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment claimed he once boorishly joked that he would “mount” her if he were a dog, a new report said. Lindsey Boylan, a former aide to the governor, revealed Cuomo’s creepy remark in a lengthy interview with The New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow, telling him that Cuomo made the gross joke in 2018 after a meeting at the Governor’s mansion.

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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) touted on Thursday the need for Congress to pass voting rights legislation as a number of Republican-run states, including Georgia, eye restrictions to the ballot box. “It is almost impossible to overstate how important this really is. We are at an inflection point. This is a moral moment in America, a defining moment in our history. Voting rights is not just one issue alongside other issues. It is about who we say we are, it is about our covenant with one another as an American people,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And so we’ve got...

House Democrats voted unanimously Wednesday, along with four Republicans, to "resuscitate" the ERA, even though the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who long advocated the plan, admitted it was dead and gone. "This was ERA’s poorest showing in the House in 50 years," said Douglas D. Johnson, senior policy advisor to the National Right to Life Committee and director of its ERA Project. "Only 52% of voting House members supported ERA today, compared to 94% in 1971, and 56% in 2020. Today’s tally was 62 votes below the two-thirds margin that the Constitution requires to perform grown-up constitutional amending, as...

The wrist device is capable of reading neurological signals sent from a users’ brain down to their hands. It could theoretically read these signals to get a sense of what a user wants to do and replicate the action in a virtual or augmented reality environment. The Facebook researchers demonstrated “force” actions where a user could pinch with their fingers in real life to hold and control virtual, far-away objects in augmented reality. The name of the action is a reference to the Star Wars franchise where certain characters can use the Force to control and move people or objects...

It comes weeks after the country’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that its drivers were workers, not independent contractors. While the decision applied to a small group of drivers, thousands more have taken action against the company. And experts have warned it could have major implications for the broader gig economy. For Dan Ives, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, the move represents a “gut punch” for Uber’s prospects in the U.K. “We believe the company will reduce its footprint of drivers and ridesharing by roughly 30% over the next 12 to 18 months,” Ives told CNBC via...

Emails reveal the strategy behind the new regulation to come. President Biden wants Congress to pass climate legislation, but that faces political obstacles. No worries - state Democratic Attorneys General are conspiring with green groups on a regulatory Plan B.

* Google plans to open new offices in Houston and Portland, CEO Sundar Pichai said Thursday. * Google unveiled plans to spend $7 billion on offices and data centers across 19 states. * Pichai said the expansions would create at least 10,000 new full-time jobs in the US this year. Google plans to ramp up its real estate by investing more than $7 billion in offices and data centers across 19 states, despite the growing momentum for companies to let employees work from home permanently The tech giant's investment plans, announced Thursday, include spending more than $1 billion in the...

Now, in a new study published in the journal Science Robotics, researchers led by ICREA Research Professor Samuel Sánchez and his team "Smart Nano-Bio-Devices" at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), together with the group Radiochemistry & Nuclear Imaging Lab from CIC biomaGUNE lead by Jordi Llop and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), have managed to observe in vivo the collective behavior of a large number of autonomous nanorobots inside the bladder of living mice using radioactive isotope labeling. "The fact of having been able to see how nanorobots move together, like a swarm, and of following them...

Trump voters are more likely to trust doctors than politicians when it comes to the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccine, but don't want to hear from White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, pollster Frank Luntz told "Special Report." Luntz told host Bret Baier he conducted a focus group last weekend with 19 Trump voters from across the nation, most of whom expressed "real concern, doubt, if not distrust of Anthony Fauci and what he has to say." "I have tuned him out, frankly, I have no opinion anymore," respondent Doug from California told Luntz. Other members of the...

Powerful panel discussion regarding Constitutional rights, will of the people, church responsibility, etc. Link to Panel