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Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 154,199,235 (4,219,800 J&J) Administered: 118,313,818 (2,025,349 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 77,230,061 Fully Vaccinated: 41,934,629

<p>Biden gets halfway up the steps before falling down three times, catching himself on the handrail, before finally finding his legs and continuing up the stairs. The stumbles were captured from multiple angles.</p><p>While excuses were made about how Biden's trips were not newsworthy, some pointed to how the media had a field day mocking former President Donald Trump slowly walking down a ramp at a graduation ceremony for West Point cadets. Those included in the jeering at Trump was then-candidate Joe Biden.</p>

It looks like the comeback of big-ship cruising in North America is, finally, at hand. Two of the world’s biggest cruise lines, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises, on Friday announced they would resume North America cruises in June with sailings out of the Bahamas and St. Martin, respectively. Royal Caribbean — the world’s largest cruise line — said it would begin seven-night sailings out of Nassau in the Bahamas on June 12 that will feature calls in the Bahamas and Mexico. The trips will take place on the line’s 3,807-passenger Adventure of the Seas — a ship that originally was...

Four strains belonging to the family of Methylobacteriaceae were isolated from different locations on the International Space Station (ISS) across two consecutive flights. Of these, three were identified as Gram-negative, rod-shaped, catalase-positive, oxidase-positive, motile bacteria, designated as IF7SW-B2T, IIF1SW-B5, and IIF4SW-B5, whereas the fourth was identified as Methylorubrum rhodesianum. The sequence similarity of these three ISS strains, designated as IF7SW-B2T, IIF1SW-B5, and IIF4SW-B5, was gyrB gene, with the closest being Methylobacterium indicum SE2.11T. Furthermore, the multi-locus sequence analysis placed these three ISS strains in the same clade of M. indicum. The average nucleotide identity (ANI) values of these three ISS...

With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, the Atlantic hurricane season is going through some changes with meteorologists ditching the Greek alphabet during busy years. But the Atlantic hurricane season will start this year on June 1 as traditionally scheduled, despite meteorologists discussing the idea of moving it to May 15. A special World Meteorological Organization committee Wednesday ended the use of Greek letters when the Atlantic runs out of the 21 names for the year, saying the practice was confusing and put too much focus on the Greek letter and not on the dangerous storm...

"The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that -- children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States. These are some of the most vulnerable migrants that ever attempt -- and many from around the world attempt -- to come to the United States. They’re among the most vulnerable. And the majority of these individuals rely -- we estimate between 75 and 80 percent -- rely on very dangerous, not-nice, human-smuggling networks that transport them through Central America and Mexico to...

Defendants Sprayed U.S. Capitol Officers B. Sicknick and C. Edwards, and Metropolitan Police Department Officer D. Chapman with a Chemical Substance WASHINGTON – A Pennsylvania and West Virginia man were arrested Sunday on criminal charges related to their alleged conspiring to injure officers and assaulting federal officers, among other charges. According to court documents, Julian Elie Khater, 32, of State College, Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, of Morgantown, West Virginia, were arrested on Sunday in connection with a complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., charging them with conspiring to injure officers and assaulting federal officers, among other...

Biden felt three times as he scaled the stairs to Air Force One today at Joint Base Andrews. Biden tried jogging up the stairs to board Air Force One en route to Atlanta and fell hard on his knee. At first Biden appeared to trip on a step and quickly caught himself. Biden tripped a second time and used his hand to break his fall but he couldn’t pull himself up. The third stumble took Biden out and he was completely down on his knees. After recovering, Biden appeared to take a moment to dust off his knee before finally...

Assailant Attacked Law Enforcement with Plank and Fire Extinguisher in Effort To Halt Certification of Presidential Election WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Florida man appeared today in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on charges stemming from his attack on law enforcement officers, as well as other crimes, during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 that disrupted a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming Presidential election results. Robert Scott Palmer, 53, of Largo, Florida, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating,...

VIDEOThe worst nightmare for David Hogg and his "business" partner would be to find out that a gun company now owns the "Good Pillow" name that they were hyping to the media last month without bothering to register it. A search reveals that a patent and trademark attorney, Ben Langlotz, representing the firearms industry registered the name "Good Pillow" on February 9, 2021 while Hogg was boasting to the world about how his non-existent company would put Mike Lindell's MyPillow out of business. David Hogg's Pillow Company Looks to Be DOA a Month After Media Hype THE GUN PATENT ATTORNEY

Meat In or Meat Out? Several rural Colorado communities reject Gov. Polis’ proclamation by: Lisa D'Souza Posted: Mar 19, 2021 WELD COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Saturday marks Colorado’s first ever “Meat Out Day”, a proclamation ushered in by Gov. Jared Polis to encourage people to explore the benefits of plant-based diets. But not everyone is happy about the concept. An estimated two dozen rural counties are rejecting the proclamation, celebrating “Meat In Day” instead. Weld Co. commissioners say they feel like the governor’s proclamation is an insult to Colorado’s ranchers and farmers, noting that Weld Co. brings in about $2...

As Europe struggles with a "third wave" of COVID infections that's forcing more governments to reimpose at least some lockdown measures, the US is finding that the number of newly confirmed cases is climbing again, with some of the biggest week-over-week increases seen in states that had been praised for their vaccination diligence.Source: AxiosThe US is adding roughly 55K new cases per day, a level that it has plateaued over the past months (though deaths have continued to move lower). Yesterday, health authorities counted 56.9K new case, and 1,052 deaths.COVID cases are spiking in 13 states over the past week....

Held gun to victim’s head – threatened to kill herDENVER – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced that Ramon Uziel Hernandez-Perez, 33, was sentenced to 12 years (144 months) in federal prison for his role in the armed robberies of two Denver food service businesses, including a food truck. According to the facts in the plea agreement and court documents, Hernandez-Perez robbed a food truck operating in the parking lot of the 707 Flea Market on N. Federal Boulevard on September 26, 2019. At around 7:00 p.m., Hernandez-Perez parked his Ford Mustang in the parking...

Pressure is building on Democrats to ditch the filibuster to pass a long list of party agenda items that Republicans oppose. Democrats hope to pass a trio of amnesty bills, major election reform legislation, and a massive infrastructure bill paid for with tax increases. While Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the White House, their agenda could be thwarted by the GOP. Few Republicans are likely to get behind the legislation Democrats are proposing, which means Senate passage remains unlikely unless Democrats either change the bills to accommodate the GOP or find a way to eliminate the 60-vote threshold...

Assistant U. S. Attorneys Tim Coughlin (619) 546- 6768, Victor White (619) 546-8439 and Blair Perez (619) 546-7963NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – March 17, 2021SAN DIEGO – Federal officials are asking for the public’s help in identifying the smugglers whose actions led to the deaths of 13 Mexican and Guatemalan nationals in a crash of an overloaded vehicle on March 2 near Holtville, California.The tip line number is (760) 335-5343.U.S. Border Patrol was notified of the crash by the California Highway Patrol at about 6:30 a.m. on March 2. In a subsequent review of border surveillance camera footage, Border Patrol agents...

....The Biden administration is the equivalent of one of those cartoons of a bunch of kids standing on each other’s shoulders while draped in a trenchcoat so they can all pretend to be one adult. The illusion holds up until they try to walk. The Biden illusion holds up as long as all the various parts of the administration are busy dealing with their own problems, but when there’s a national or international crisis, then it becomes obvious that no one is making the overall decisions and no one knows how to do it. Biden’s people are doing plenty of...

The judge overseeing the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd said Friday that he’ll allow the jury to hear some evidence about a prior arrest in which Floyd was found with drugs.Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill partially granted a defense motion to allow evidence of Floyd’s arrest in Minneapolis in May 2019, just over a year before his death.A lawyer defending former officer Derek Chauvin argued this week that he should be allowed to bring up the arrest in an effort to show jurors that Floyd was partly to blame for his own...

NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – March 15, 2021SAN DIEGO – Neil Edwin Valera, a U.S. citizen who resided in Tijuana, was sentenced in federal court today to five years in prison in connection with the deaths of three Chinese migrants, including a mother and her 15-year-old son, who were found in the trunk of Valera’s BMW two days after he crossed into the United States through the San Ysidro Port of Entry in the same car.Valera, a truck driver from El Paso, Texas, pleaded guilty in February 2020 to Encouraging Aliens to Enter Resulting in Death and Bringing in Aliens without...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated K-12 school distancing guidelines to reflect that they can safely reopen while maintaining 3 feet of space between students as long as there is universal mask use. However, in communities where coronavirus transmission is high, the agency recommends middle school and high school students be at least 6 feet apart "if cohorting is not possible."

The Sons of Liberty flag is very meaningful to us, as it’s the flag that inspired the backdrop of our logo. Its origins go back to 1765, when a secretive group of patriots known as “the Loyal Nine” was formed – the group behind the original Boston Tea Party. The flag was then known as “the Rebellious Stripes” and it was banned by the British king, the highest endorsement the Crown could give. The Sons of Liberty Symbol: The Rebellious Stripes Flag The Sons of Liberty were perhaps the most radical group of American patriots during the pre-Revolutionary period, but...