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Dr. Rachel Levine will be the next U.S. assistant health secretary and she becomes the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Levine, Pennsylvania’s former health secretary. President Joe Biden named Levine as his nominee for the key post in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., voted against Levine’s confirmation, as he said he would. Toomey cited the number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes and also said her support for restrictions to curb the spread of the virus hurt the state’s...

Racism becomes focus of Catholic conference in WashingtonAfter he returned from Rome where Pope Francis elevated him to the College of Cardinals, children at Catholic schools in the Washington Archdiocese drew pictures of Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory wearing his new red hat.The nation's first African American cardinal smiled as he related how, at the bottom of one little girl's painting of him, she wrote, "Congratulations, Cardinal Gregory! You look like me, and I like that!"The cardinal told the story on March 20 in a question-and-answer session that followed his keynote at Nativity Church in Burke for a conference on how...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday declined to say why the White House fired staff for past marijuana use when Vice President Kamala Harris has talked openly about the fact that she too used to get high — referring instead to vague security service standards before growing visibly annoyed. The White House terminated at least five staffers for past marijuana use, Psaki disclosed last week in response to a report that “dozens” had been canned or given less severe discipline such as suspensions. Psaki said the firings were an “unfortunate conclusion” at her daily press briefing Wednesday

Fox’s Tucker Carlson announces "Tucker Carlson Today," a new show that will air during the day three times a week on Fox Nation, starting Monday

High-level members of the state Department of Health were directed last year by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker to conduct prioritized coronavirus testing on the governor's relatives as well as influential people with ties to the administration, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter. Members of Cuomo's family including his brother, his mother and at least one of his sisters were also tested by top health department officials — some several times, the sources said. The medical officials enlisted to do the testing, which often took place at private residences, included Dr....

Shares of one of the US companies have risen in price more than 50 times after statements of cooperation with Ukraine on the construction of renewable energy facilities in Chernobyl and the launch of a national operator of 5G communications. In Ukraine, the authorities claim that they do not know anything about such agreements, Radio Svoboda reports. At the same time, the US company announced that it is going to organize meetings for Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleh Urusky with representatives of SpaceX during his visit to the United States. Urusky denies such agreements, and the authorities organized meetings...

Pope Francis Appoints Juan Carlos Cruz to Pontifical Commission for Protecting Minors... Cruz later said in an interview that he had spoken about his homosexuality during his private meeting with the pope, and said that Francis had told him to accept himself and his same-sex attraction because God made him that way.Last week, before his appointment to the pontifical commission, Cruz spoke out in criticism of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith’s (CDF) ruling that the Catholic Church cannot give liturgical blessings of homosexual unions.

Joe Hoft of thegatewaypundit.com joins The Alex Jones Show to break down his exclusive report on the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. Video...

Coronavirus researchers are looking at fighting fire with fire. A new study published Tuesday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases suggests that the human rhinovirus, otherwise known as the “common cold,” helps block SARS-CoV-2 from replicating in the respiratory tract. Scientists at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) now believe that this natural immune response to the cold may also provide significant protections from COVID-19. Thus, those with both pathogens present in their body may be uniquely fortified against a deadlier coronavirus. The results have led researchers to believe that the beneficial viral interaction could help reduce...

Why did he choose that particular King Soopers supermarket? Let's look at some facts. and check out this article from the New York Post. pay careful attention to the picture of the home. In fact, let me make it easy.Now that we have this knowledge, we can do a google search for grocery stores that are closer to the shooters home and we see that there were plenty of other targets that were closer. There was, in fact, a King Soopers that was located only 5 minutes away from him. Why drive 20 minutes away when there's a similar store...

A beauty supply store owner in north Harris County was attacked inside of her store on St. Patrick’s Day, and the altercation was caught on surveillance video. Business owner Jung Kim said that she was punched in the face by a customer who hurled racial insults at her as she was pummeled. “You little Asian girl,” said Sung Jun Lee, the woman’s son. “That’s what she remembered.” The attack left Kim bloodied and bruised with a broken nose. Kim said the break is so bad that she needs surgery. The trouble started after Kim said she asked Keaundra Young, Daquiesha...

It's called the Mission Creek strand and it runs from around Indio, through Desert Hot Springs and into the San Bernardino Mountains. "Higher slip rates on faults mean more risk," said Morgan Page, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena and one of the developers of the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast. Page was not associated with the recent study. "It means stress is accumulating faster on that fault and you would need basically either more earthquakes or larger earthquakes over centuries to relieve that stress." All of which means that this particular strand on the San Andreas...

UPDATE 3/24 1520 EST – CDMedia has examined additional receipts found in trash receptacles outside Dekalb County election facilities after the Biden inauguration. The document found (in original article below) which shows Democrat-controlled county ordered 25 million voter registration applications for a population of less than one million seems to be valid. We found other receipts from counties with populations of the same order of magnitude and the order procedure, and discount codes used are the same. See Below. CDMedia called Dekalb County director of Voter Registration and Elections Erica Hamilton and asked her if the Nov 11th, 2020 receipt...

Global circulation of influenza viruses, 2018-2021 (WHO FluNet) Why has the flu disappeared since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic?In 2020, after the global coronavirus pandemic began, influenza viruses mysteriously disappeared from global circulation (see WHO FluNet chart above). Some skeptics suspected that influenza was simply reclassified as covid, while many journalists and ‘fact checkers’ claimed influenza was suppressed by face masks and lockdowns.But influenza has not been reclassified as covid, and influenza viruses have disappeared even in countries without face masks and lockdowns (e.g. Sweden), while they did not disappear during previous flu epidemics and pandemics, despite face masks,...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida woman who was reported missing on March 3 was rescued from a storm drain Tuesday, authorities said. The unidentified woman, believed to be in her 40s, was found naked and trapped in a storm drain in Delray Beach. Someone passing by heard her cries for help and called 911, officials said. Firefighters responded and removed the storm grate, lowered down a ladder and lifted the woman to safety. “She was unable to stand up,” Delray Beach Fire Rescue spokeswoman Dani Moschella told WPLG. “She didn’t have any clothes on. She was very dirty....

Biden in all his glory at a press conference today with "president" harris. This guy needs a translator to decode his word salad esp starting at about 1:40. Geeze this is painful to watch.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed a bill on Tuesday requiring porn filters on cellphones and tablets, The Associated Press reports. The bill, H.B. 72, is aimed at establishing filter requirements and enforcement for tablets and smartphones activated in the state on or after Jan. 1 of the year the measure takes effect, according to its text. Manufacturers that don’t abide by the law could face fines of $10 for each violation with a cap of $500. At least five other states have to pass the measure for it to take effect, however. A spokesperson for Cox previously told the...

From cash-less concessions to advance-purchase of parking, the experience at Dodger Stadium will be decidedly different under guidelines announced by the team today as it prepares to welcome back fans during the Covid-19 pandemic. Thanks to revised state guidelines, fans will be permitted to attend outdoor sporting events in California beginning April 1, just in time for baseball season. The Dodger home opener is scheduled for April 9. Los Angeles County is currently in the Red tier of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy, which sets rules for businesses and activities during the pandemic. In the red tier, Dodger...

The U.S. Senate voted 52 to 48 Wednesday to confirm Pennsylvania Health Secretary Richard “Rachel” Levine, a man “identifying” as a woman, to be assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Biden administration. Every Democrat voted in favor of Levine, joined by liberal, pro-abortion Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. Conservative critics have argued that, as a so-called “trans woman” who endorses and promotes the notion that individuals can change their “gender identity” at will, Levine lacks the medical credibility and objectivity to be entrusted with hot-button transgender...

Students accuse professor of racism for criticizing antiracism “Would I please resign? No. Nope. Not a chance. Never gonna happen. No way. Haven’t even thought about it. Not for a second. No.” That was the definitive answer that Aaron Kindsvatter, a professor of counseling at the University of Vermont, has given to those on campus who are demanding he leave it. The professor made the statement in response to a petition titled “Demand the Immediate Resignation of UVM Asst Prof Aaron Kindsvatter.” The activists are upset that Kindsvatter recently made a video that argues antiracism efforts on campus in effect...