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The African Union's disease control body said on Thursday it had dropped plans to secure AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for its members from the Serum Institute of India, the world's biggest vaccine supplier, amid global shortfalls of the shot. AstraZeneca's $3 shot is by far the cheapest coronavirus vaccine launched so far, and the easiest to store and transport, making it well suited to developing countries. On Wednesday, European and British medicine regulators said they had found possible links between the vaccine and extremely rare cases of brain blood clots, while emphatically reaffirming its importance in mass vaccination against COVID-19. John...

Rochester police are investigating yet another homicide. It happened during a fight shortly after 1 a.m. near Monroe Avenue and Meigs Street. Witnesses heard several gunshots during some sort of fight. One person was killed and two people were wounded. It is the 19th homicide in the city this year.

Today, the massive USS Iowa (BB-61) calls the Port of Los Angeles home, where she is a museum ship and serves as a testament to the might of the United States Navy from World War II to the end of the Cold War. The largest and most powerful battleships built for the U.S. Navy, the Iowa-class were also the final battleships that entered service with the Navy. Unlike slower battleships of the era, this class was also designed to travel with a carrier force, and even be able to transit the Panama Canal, enabling the mighty warships to respond to...

Norway’s Prime Minister has been hit with a fine after she was caught breaching her own coronavirus restrictions while hosting a birthday party earlier this year. Prime Minister Erna Solberg was fined 20,000 Norwegian crowns ($2,346) after thirteen people attended her 60th birthday celebration in late February, violating COVID guidelines, The Independent reported Friday. Police chief Ole Saeverud said in a news conference the party broke the country’s ban on gatherings, which prohibit more than ten people at one event, according to the outlet. “It is therefore correct to issue a fine in order to uphold the general public’s trust...

On September 10, 2019, Chipman did an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the r/Politics subreddit.

Look, everyone in the country knows that Joe Biden has some form of “dementia.” They know, we know, and they know that we know, and we know that they know. Everyone knows. So, sitting around pretending like it’s not actually happening is pretty silly at this point. For heaven’s sake, other countries are calling it out, and they must think our media and celebrities are mindless zombies to just sit back and ignore it or call this madness a “childhood stutter.” Besides, Jimmy probably sees the comedy gold in covering Joe. However, the truth is, while some stuff is funny,...

Rochester News Layoffs Planned for GM Plant on Lexington Ave. in Rochester Apr 9, 2021 Layoffs are planned this summer at the General Motors plant on Lexington Avenue. Union representatives say 255 hourly and salary workers will lose their jobs in August. That's nearly one-third of the people working there. GM is now using an outside supplier for fuel injectors. And the union has been told if the plant doesn't get new work from GM, the plant will close in about a year and a half.

The man who killed one person and wounded five others in a shooting at a cabinetry business in Bryan, Texas, on Thursday afternoon was an employee, police say. Larry Winston Bollin, 27, was taken into police custody about two hours after the rampage and booked on a charge of murder, according to the Bryan Police Department. Investigators have yet to determine a motive, and the victims have not yet been identified. Two of the five people injured were in critical condition as of late Thursday, while three others were said to be in stable condition.

Rochester News Gates Carjacking Victim Identified, Police Confirm Car in Possession Apr 8, 2021 UPDATE: The victim of yesterday's carjacking homicide in Gates has been identified. 71-year-old Richard Sciascia of Irondequoit died when he shot during the incident on Buell Road. Gates Police confirm they have the black sedan they were looking for in connection with the homicide. A juvenile was taken into custody, but later released. Police are asking anyone with information to contact them. A police pursuit in Rochester may be connected to yesterday's homicide and attempted carjacking in Gates. Rochester police say a man was driving a...

Unprincipled, octogenarian Scottish noble Simon Fraser,* Lord Lovat was on this date in 1747 the last to lose his head on Tower Hill. The Clan Fraser patriarch was an expert double-dealer from his youth in Restoration England — when he recruited a small regiment in nominal service to William and Mary but allegedly plotting to desert to the Stuarts at the opportune moment. That moment never came … and the Stuarts’ fruitless quest for it in the decades to come would eventually claim the Lord Lovat. But first up: a long life of opportunistic, frequently reprehensible political maneuvering. He kidnapped,...

Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) reacted to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) calling for more bipartisanship in response to the January 6 Capitol riot. Host John Berman asked Clyburn if he sees Manchin as an “obstacle” since his Democratic colleague will not support every piece of legislation that Democrats try to push through.

If Republicans were to get serious about ending special favors for corporations in general, it would be a positive development. To be clear, states and the federal government should keep taxes low and maintain reasonable and predictable regulations. But they should not provide special subsidies or tax carveouts to penalize or reward favored industries or businesses. They should not tempt rich owners of sports leagues with government funding for sports stadiums. Or lure Hollywood productions with special tax incentives. Or provide large companies with special tax breaks to get them to do business in their states. However, as tempting as...

Democrats who claim to stand with the Asian American community against hate crimes are the same ones who will vote to endanger victims.Two of California’s most progressive cities, Oakland and San Francisco, have seen a string of attacks against Asian Americans in recent months. For California Democrats, the response to this crime wave is not to punish criminals and protect law-abiding citizens, but to to the exact opposite.A controversial crime bill now going through the Democratic-led California legislature is seeking to decriminalize robbery from a felony to a misdemeanor. The bill is sponsored by Democrat Senator Nancy Skinner, whose district...

Sorry for the late post. I heard that the show was cancelled, but it did happen after all…thus the late post. It was a 1-hour Easter show. Some highlights: -Discussion of 4-part Bill Gates video covering Bill Gates false reputation as a software genius.-The Gates family has had three generations of formal involvement in the eugenics movement. -Some history of the eugenics movement and their ideas on genetic population improvement and population control. -Gates plans for vaccine tracking/human tagging. -Soros involvement. -Concept of brain-implanted microchips. Elitists may think immortality achievable by downloading their brain memories to a chip and implanting...

It’s a sunny day and you’re driving down a backcountry road far from any military bases. Out of nowhere, you spy several dozen adults in camouflage marching together as if they’re a military unit on patrol. That would be out of place enough by itself. Add to it that they appear to be clad in gear resembling that of another nation’s military. You’d probably grab your phone and capture video of the incident. Salt Spring Island is a sleepy resort island off the Vancouver coast in British Columbia, Canada. You can only get there by ferry or seaplane. In June...

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin may not escape prosecution for one of the three charges against him for causing the death of George Floyd, but contrary to public opinion, the case against him is not cut and dried. Though radio stations have solemnly gone quiet for nearly nine minutes to remind Americans of the time Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck, Black Lives Matter fire-setters and looters with their violent antifa allies burned parts of American cities in retaliation for his death, and cops were forced to kneel, it turns out there’s a lot we didn’t know about...

As an author, I have a love-hate relationship with Amazon. In the past, Amazon has inexplicably purged reviews from conservative books, including my own, without explanation.My book, The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama, is routinely targeted by the Left for bogus negative reviews. Roughly 25 percent of the book’s reviews have always been bogus one-star reviews that are not tagged as a “verified purchase” that simply accuse me of being racist, claim the book is poorly researched (it has over 1,000 endnotes), or involve some other attack. Since its original publication in 2016, the percentage of...

A man who served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit has received compensation from the state of North Carolina.Ronnie Long told The Charlotte Observer it's not nearly enough. Long received $750,000. It is by law the state's top compensation for victims of wrongful incarceration.

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(CNN)The number of new Covid-19 cases has plateaued at a "disturbingly high level," and the US is at risk from a new surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Wednesday. While lower than the peak earlier this year, there were still more than 61,000 new cases reported on Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And the lack of continued significant decreases in infections is a concern, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told CNN's Anderson Cooper, particularly given the spread of variants.