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The top Republicans on two influential Senate committees on Wednesday demanded the U.S. Justice Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence turn over any intelligence and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act evidence they possess about three Chinese figures reportedly tied to President Biden's family. In the letter addressed to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., asked for "all intelligence records" including "all FISA-derived information" related to Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong and Chi Ping Ho. Grassley is the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, while Johnson...

Explanation: To play on Carl Sagan’s famous words "If you wish to make black hole jets, you must first create magnetic fields." The featured image represents the detected intrinsic spin direction (polarization) of radio waves. The polarizationi is produced by the powerful magnetic field surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of elliptical galaxy M87. The radio waves were detected by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which combines data from radio telescopes distributed worldwide. The polarization structure, mapped using computer generated flow lines, is overlaid on EHT’s famous black hole image, first published in 2019. The full 3-D magnetic...

Only the right can meme. My attempt for another Biden Meme.

Francis Peddles Myth of Climate MigrationScientists contest 'self-perpetuating false claims' of climate displacementVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is hyping the hotly contested hypothesis of "mass climate migration" despite recent scientific studies categorically stating that the claim is "without empirical scientific basis" and the product of a "self-referencing narrative."Cartoon depicting Francis' climate-change alarmism In his preface to the Pastoral Guidelines on Climate Displaced People (PGDCP) published Tuesday, Francis notes that "the huge and increasing numbers displaced by climate crises are fast becoming a great emergency of our age, visible almost nightly on our screens, and demanding global responses."The PGDCP calls...

Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in that age group before they head back to school in the fall. Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at higher risk from the coronavirus. Pfizer's vaccine is authorized for ages 16 and older. But vaccinating children of all ages will be critical to stopping the pandemic - and helping schools, at least the upper grades, start to look a little more normal after months of disruption. In a study...

Workers at a Baltimore plant manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines accidentally conflated the vaccines’ ingredients several weeks ago, ruining about 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and forcing regulators to delay authorization of the plant’s production lines. The plant is run by Emergent BioSolutions, a manufacturing partner to both Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca. Federal officials attributed the mistake to human error. The mixup has halted future shipments of Johnson & Johnson doses in the United States while the Food and Drug Administration investigates. Johnson & Johnson has moved to strengthen its control over Emergent BioSolutions’ work to avoid...

Last June, as part of the response to the pandemic, President Trump imposed a ban on new H1-B visas. For those not familiar, that program allows employers to bring skilled, nonimmigrant workers into the country to fill jobs that the employer allegedly can’t fill with citizens. It was a sensible decision, both in terms of preventing additional COVID cases from arriving on our shores and the fact that so many people were unemployed that employers shouldn’t have had any trouble finding workers to fill their ranks here at home. But for some reason, according to one source who spoke to...

State prosecutors in Manhattan investigating former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization have subpoenaed the personal bank records of the company’s chief financial officer and are questioning gifts he and his family received from Mr. Trump, according to people with knowledge of the matter.In recent weeks, the prosecutors have trained their focus on the executive, Allen H. Weisselberg, in what appears to be a determined effort to gain his cooperation. Mr. Weisselberg, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, has overseen the Trump Organization’s finances for decades and may hold the key to any possible criminal case in...

Ki Young Ju, chief executive of on-chain insights platform CryptoQuant, says that it’s time to go all-in on Bitcoin. In a new tweet, Ki Young Ju tells his 124,600 followers that he believes the time has come for him to put all his chips into the world’s largest cryptocurrency. To support his bullish call, Ki Young Ju points to the correlation between the price of Bitcoin and the stablecoins ratio, a metric that divides BTC reserves by all stablecoin reserves stored in exchanges. According to the CryptoQuant executive, a plummeting stablecoin ratio indicates that Bitcoin and the broader crypto market...

An alleged leader of the Aryan Brotherhood neo-Nazi prison gang is suing California officials — after his requests for vegetarian meals behind bars were “ignored,” according to reports Wednesday. Ronald Yandell, 58 — a Sacramento Main Jail inmate who faces the death sentence — claims his first amendment rights were violated when prison officials failed to provide him with meat-less meals “for religious reasons,” according to a lawsuit reported by the Mercury News. Yandell, who is serving a life sentence in connection with a 2001 double homicide, requested the special vegetarian grub on March 8, 2020, and March 20, 2020,...

As 2020 election fraud deniers react hysterically to Georgia’s election reforms, we should remember the grave and proud Iraqi women who voted for the first tine after the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein was deposed. They risked their lives to vote in person and proudly held up their purple fingers marked with indelible ink to show they had voted and keeping them from voting more than once. No mail-in or absentee ballots for them And they didn’t need bottled water to vote. Reciting his caretaker’s talking points, Joe Biden hysterically attacked Georgia’s election reform law bt painting a picture of voters...

JOE Biden stumbled and almost fell over again while boarding Air Force One two weeks after his slip-up. New footage shows the president, 78, tripping as he walked up the stairs to the aircraft in the rain today. He was traveling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to push his new $2 trillion spending package. After Biden gained his footing, he looked a little wobbly as he made his way to the top. WATCH: Linkhis was almost the second time in two weeks that the president took a tumble on the steps. On March 19, Biden tripped a total of three times as...

The University of Winchester has unveiled its almost £24,000 statue of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, angering staff who have faced years of cutbacks. The £23,760 ($32,700) bronze monument to the teenager, who was elevated to international prominence by global leaders after she began skipping classes at her publicly-funded school on Fridays to protest a perceived lack of action on climate change, was slammed as a “vanity project” by staff at the university. The Winchester branch of the University and College Union (UCU) said that although it “supports the role that Thunberg has played globally… This money should have been...

Finally, we have some great news to share! The Republican Senate in Arizona made the courageous decision patriots around the country have been hoping for. These Republicans decided upon the team who will be performing the upcoming audit in Maricopa County and it’s an excellent list of entities.

The dispute in Congress over Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District race is now officially over. Democrat nominee Rita Hart, who took her case to the Democrat-controlled House in December, instead of the courts, after losing the election by 6 votes to her Republican opponent, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, released a statement on Twitter just minutes ago declaring that she was withdrawing her petition to the House Administration Committee because she couldn’t effectively combat the wave of negative PR she and her fellow Democrats brought on themselves over the issue: “After many conversations with people I trust about the future of this contest, I...

France will widen strict lockdown restrictions - which have already been in place in several areas including Paris - to the whole country to combat a third wave of coronavirus sweeping Europe. In a televised address to the nation, President Emmanuel Macron said the measures will come into effect on Saturday and be in place for at least a month.

NBC News anchor Lester Holt received praise from liberal media figures after saying reporters don’t need to hear both sides of a story before determining the "truth." "I think it’s become clear that fairness is overrated ... the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in," Holt said on Tuesday night while accepting an award at the 45th Murrow Symposium. Lester Holt feels "the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in." Lester Holt...

WASHINGTON — Justices across the ideological spectrum teamed up during Supreme Court oral arguments on Wednesday to voice skepticism about the N.C.A.A.’s position that it could bar relatively modest payments to student-athletes in the name of amateurism despite the antitrust laws. But some of the same justices also seemed worried about opening the floodgates to further challenges.

Rep. Matt Gaetz possesses text message screenshots, an email, and a typed document that purportedly support his claims that a federal investigation into his relationship with a 17-year-old is related to an extortion scheme against him. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the Justice Department is investing whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid her to travel with him. Gaetz has called the report "totally false." Gaetz told Axios that his lawyers told him that he "was not a target but a subject of an investigation regarding sexual conduct with women." The Florida Republican...