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Nearly 2,900 unaccompanied minors tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival at U.S. government shelters over the past year — including around 300 currently in the system — a Department of Health and Human Services official tells Axios. The big picture: The numbers highlight the staggering challenges in trying to manage a child migration crisis during a pandemic, while weighing human rights and child welfare concerns against immigration laws. Details: Of the unaccompanied children currently in shelters, only about 3% are currently in isolation after testing positive when they arrived, according to the latest statistics provided to Axios. * About 7.4%...

Americans hate woke culture, as I noted in these pages not too long ago. Black, white, Republican and Democrat, a large majority of Americans oppose it. Even people like former President Barack Obama, Bill Maher and ultra-liberal comedienne Sarah Silverman hate it (Maher calls it “Stalinist”). But it keeps going. Why is that? And what can you do about it — especially if you or someone you are close to comes under attack? In short, it keeps going because it’s easy and fun — and you have to make it less so. Lesson one: Don’t panic — and don’t give...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan has begun mass production of a long-range missile and is developing three other models, a senior official said on Thursday, in a rare admission of efforts to develop strike capacity amid growing Chinese pressure. China, which claims democratic Taiwan as its own territory, has stepped up military activity near the island, as it tries to force the government in Taipei to accept Beijing's claims of sovereignty. Taiwan's armed forces, dwarfed by China's, are in the midst of a modernisation programme to offer a more effective deterrent, including the ability to hit back at bases deep within...

(CNN)President Joe Biden held the first formal news conference of his presidency on Thursday, taking questions in the East Room of the White House on immigration, foreign policy, the Senate filibuster, his political future and other subjects. Here is a fact check of some of the claims he made. Here's a look at our recent fact checks. Migrant families and the border Defending his approach to migration at the southern border, Biden claimed that "we're sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming." Facts First: This was not true in February, the last month for which we...

"For the few that can maneuver social media with the grace of Cox or Andrew Yang or Justin Amash, keep it up — and stay out of needless battles (with political opponents or trees). For everyone else, just leave it up to the communications team."

The folks who like to claim they are the “party of science” seem to have a problem with some basic scientific concepts, particularly when it comes to biology. The basic principle that women and men should have equal rights under the law has evolved from that for some Democrats to come to mean men and women are the same thing or there is no difference. That’s just biological and anatomical nonsense. But listen to Joe Biden, the guy who has his hands on our nuclear codes, a frightening thought. BIDEN: "There's not a single thing a man can do that...

The Larsens’ bodies were discovered by a snowplow driver working for Caltrans on Highway 395 early in the morning of Nov. 9, after the area’s first major snowfall of the season. The couple was found on the highway’s shoulder about 10 miles north of Bridgeport, not far from the Nevada border, where officials say they had no known connection. The location is about a six-hour drive from Los Angeles. Authorities have yet to release a cause of death for the pair. It’s still unclear whether the Larsens died by the highway or if their bodies were dumped there. Other than...

Georgia Republicans have passed sweeping changes to voting laws that have liberal activists crying foul.SB 202 requires identification requirements for mail-in ballots. It also narrows the window of time for requesting an absentee ballot. In a move that should make Democrat opponents happy, the bill also expands weekend voting, allowing for two extra days of Sunday voting as any county sees fit.As Politico reports, dropboxes for ballots will be much more limited in both location and time to access:It also restricts the use of drop boxes in the state, mandating that each county have at least one drop box but...

Nike has long been accused of turning a blind eye to China’s terrible human rights record, at best, while being super woke in the United States.The sporting goods giant posted a statement questioning and distancing itself from China’s alleged (by the BBC and Reuters) use of forced labor in concentration camps to pick the cotton used in textiles by Nike and other brands. That statement is being met in China with a much more extreme reaction than Nike probably expected.Chinese fans are up in arms after Nike said it would not use cotton from China’s disputed Xinjiang region, and some...

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A pneumologist has been cleared of suspicion of “malpractice” by the Bihor Medical College in Romania after having been summoned on Monday to present her personal method for treating COVID-19 patients, which she claims has already allowed her to cure up to 1,000 patients. Flavia Groșan, from Oradea near the Hungarian border, has been vocal in the Romanian media regarding her choice not to apply official protocols to treat COVID-19 patients at all stages of the illness, instead approaching the disease as an “atypical pneumonia.” She even went so far as to say that huge mistakes are being made in...

Research shows reduced measures of wrinkle severity and improved pigment intensity in postmenopausal women with Fitzpatrick skin types I-II who ate almonds as a daily snackNew research suggests that there may be more than one reason to add almonds to your daily skincare routine. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis1 found that eating almonds daily in place of typical calorie-matched snacks improved measures of both wrinkle severity and skin pigmentation in postmenopausal women. The study was funded by the Almond Board of California and confirms and expands upon findings in a 2019 study.2 A new...

Well, now we know why Democrat strategists were more than happy to let Joe Biden sit in his basement during the campaign, and kept him away from the press for the first 64 days in office – and it’s definitely not the coronavirus. Biden was almost 15 minutes late to his own very first “formal press conference” since taking office. He dodged questions, spouted platitudes and talking points, went off on tangents at times while getting angry and uttering what may have sounded like threats at others.

When Trump rose to power as the leader of the right, I could not help but remember Simon bar Kochba who led the final revolt of the Jews against their globalist rulers: the Romans. Bar Kochba was a strong charismatic man; a natural leader who captured the heart and soul of the Jewish people. An alpha-male who as a leader gained somewhat of a superhuman aura about him. After a number of stunning victories against the Romans, Rabbi Akiva declared bar Kochba the Messiah (anointed one) and the Jewish people elevated him to that level. At that point Christians outright...

President Joe Biden signed the SAVE LIVES Act into law today, expanding VA’s legal authority to provide COVID-19 vaccines to all Veterans, regardless of their VA health care enrollment status, as well as Veteran spouses, caregivers and some beneficiaries. The SAVE LIVES Act removed some of the legal limits on the medical care VA can provide to Veterans, based on health care eligibility and priority groups. The expanded authority depends on readily available COVID-19 vaccine supply and requires VA to continue to prioritize vaccinations and healthcare delivery for our nation’s Veterans enrolled in VA care. “The SAVE LIVES Act increases...

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), Matt Watkins, Tim Harmsen of the Military Arms Channel, and GOA’s Texas Director, Rachel Malone, defeated the bump stock ban in the Sixth Circuit Court of appeals.According to the government, “the term ‘machinegun’ means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any combination of parts designed and...

A team used ground-penetrating radar to identify the outlines of a defensive outpost at the St. Mary’s settlementArchaeologists in Maryland have discovered the remains of St. Mary’s Fort, a structure built in 1634 by the first English colonists to reach the western side of the Chesapeake Bay. As the Maryland State Archives note, the defensive garrison served as an outpost for St. Mary’s, the first permanent European settlement in Maryland and the fourth in British North America.Travis Parno, director of research and collections at preservation organization and living history museum Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC), announced the find on Monday,...

"Gov. Brian Kemp has signed Georgia's omnibus voting bill into law. "With Senate Bill 202, Georgia will take another step toward ensuring our elections are secure, accessible, and fair," he said." 6 months too late and of course we'll have to bounce his worthless butt out of office along with the Lt Governor and the Sec of State Ratburger. I'm glad to see Stacy Abrams election fraud machine looks to have been stopped. Several more states to go to ensure the Steal can't happen again.

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