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A California man whose brother was killed by an illegal immigrant slammed the Biden administration for refusing to admit that there is a crisis at the southern border and said the situation is getting worse by the minute. "If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it’s not a cow, it’s a duck," Jody Jones said. "So don’t sit there and tell me there’s not a crisis down at the border, because there is." During an appearance on "Fox & Friends," Jones said that the influx of migrants is "destroying" communities in California, with border crossings in the...

Kieran Bhattacharya's First Amendment lawsuit can proceed, a court said. Kieran Bhattacharya is a student at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine. On October 25, 2018, he attended a panel discussion on the subject of microaggressions. Dissatisfied with the definition of a microaggression offered by the presenter—Beverly Cowell Adams, an assistant dean—Bhattacharya raised his hand. Within a few weeks, as a result of the fallout from Bhattacharya's question about microagressions, the administration had branded him a threat to the university and banned him from campus. He is now suing UVA for violating his First Amendment rights, and a...

A video posted to TikTok helped a California woman reunite a couple with a GoPro camera that spent nearly four years underwater after being lost at a waterfall. Rio Villa said she and her boyfriend were visiting Three Sisters Falls on April 3 when they found a GoPro camera wedged between the water and some rocks under a waterfall. Villa posted a video to TikTok showing footage from the camera depicting a couple exploring San Diego. "Oh yeah, even GoPro commented, they were like 'hey San Diegans like help them find the owners,'" Villa told KFMB-TV. The couple from the...

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Ukraine's military on Friday said it would not launch an offensive against pro-Russia separatists controlling two regions in the country's east, as fears grow of a major escalation in the long-running conflict. "The liberation of the temporarily occupied territories by force will inevitably lead to the death of a large number of civilians and casualties among the military, which is unacceptable for Ukraine," Ruslan Khomchak, chief of the general staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said in a statement. The Russian buildup has become the latest point of friction in icy relations between Moscow and US President Joe Biden's administration,...

Racism isn’t just immoral, it’s also an “epidemic” and a public-health threat for the CDC to address. That’s according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who vowed in a Thursday statement to spend more in non-White areas to counter that threat.

Plenty of unapproved, dubious, or downright dangerous COVID-19 treatments have come and gone over the past year, but the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come out with a refresher warning after a number of people have fallen sick using horse deworming drugs to treat COVID-19. The drug is ivermectin, a cheap and widely available medication used to treat parasite infestations. In humans, it’s used to treat head lice and scabies, as well as roundworms, and it’s also widely used on animals to treat parasitic worms. However, the products used to treat humans are different from the ones used...

A growing number of clinics nationwide offering COVID-19 vaccines have paused operations this week after "adverse reactions" were reported by people who received the Johnson & Johnson jab. Federal health officials have been evaluating incidents in Georgia, Iowa, Colorado and North Carolina, but have not "found any reason for concern." On Thursday evening, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed the vaccine lot at the latest site to report reactions, the PNC Arena clinic in Wake County, North Carolina, after 18 people had reactions during the required post-vaccination monitoring period earlier in the day. Out of more than...

Shipments of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine are expected to be down by 80 percent nationwide next week as the company struggles with manufacturing problems, the Biden Administration reported Friday. Just 700,000 doses have been allocated, compared to the 4.9 million doses that were distributed across the country this week,White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients confirmed. Johnson & Johnson will be delivering fewer vaccine doses next week, but Zients did not say how many although he insisted the company expects to be able to deliver 8 million doses per week by the end of April. Zients also said...

TUCSON, Ariz., April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- More than a dozen countries worldwide temporarily stopped administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, notes the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), because of deaths from blood clotting disorders, with either clots or excessive bleeding. Some patients experienced the extremely rare event of clots in the veins that drain blood from the brain (venous sinus thrombosis). Most countries resumed use after a short pause, when the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said the shot isn't associated with an increase in the overall risk of developing blood clots, and the benefits of using the vaccine...

The Biden administration has taken the first step towards packing the U.S. Supreme Court with more radical justices. “President Biden will issue an executive order Friday to form a commission to study reforms to the United States Supreme Court,” Fox News reported. “The 36-member commission will be bipartisan and will hold public meetings to evaluate court reforms, the report continued. “The new panel will have 180 days from the first meeting to complete its report of recommendations.” Biden had promised to form the commission in October after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death amid a public fight over expanding the size...

“The past is not dead, in fact, it is not even past.” - William Faulkner The axiom underlying the statement the past is not past is the reality that regardless of cultures, circumstances, or even time, the natural tendencies and impulses which are the motivators driving civilizations do not change. What follows from one generation to the next since the beginning of world history, is essentially the same plot with a variety of nuances in different settings with different characters—from Babylon to Alexandria, to Rome, to Berlin, among others—and finally, to Washington DC, is driven by internal forces, both spiritual...

The recommendation comes after a review by the UK drugs regulator found that by the end of March 79 people had suffered rare blood clots after vaccination - 19 of whom had died. The regulator said this was not proof the jab had caused the clots. But it said the link was getting firmer. Nearly two-thirds of the cases of rare clots were seen in women. Anyone who suffers symptoms such as a persistent headache, blurred vision or confusion for four days or more after vaccination or who experience unusual skin bruising, shortness of breath or chest pain are being...

President and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. Chip Bergh said Friday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that his company is advocating for so-called gun control because “gun violence is ripping this country apart.” Bergh said, “I’ve been a CEO now for about ten years. I can tell you that over that 10-year period of time, the role has changed dramatically. You know, the business roundtable, talk about stakeholder management and ensuring that we’re driving value for all stakeholders. I have a large employee base globally. I’ve got communities where we work and serve the communities. So we’ve got a broad range...

France on Friday said under 55s who received a first injection of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should be given a jab from a different producer for their second dose, a ruling affecting more than 500,000 people. Officials in France initially said that those given the AstraZeneca jab in a first dose should go ahead with the second jab. But the HAS said that those aged under 55 who had been given the AstraZeneca as their first dose would now get the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine as their second course. France has been injecting health workers as a priority group meaning...

(CNN) -- Pfizer on Friday asked the FDA for an amendment to its emergency use authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine to expand its use in people ages 12-15 in the United States. The pharmaceutical company said in a statement it will seek similar rulings by other authorities around the world in coming days. "These requests are based on data from the pivotal Phase 3 trial in adolescents 12 to 15 years of age with or without prior evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, which demonstrated 100 percent efficacy and robust antibody response after vaccination with the COVID-19 Vaccine," Pfizer said in a...

In recent days, dozens of corporate CEOs have joined Democrat politicians in publicly condemning election integrity legislation, mischaracterizing election reforms as “voter suppression.” Big corporations have been pushed to the forefront of the Democrat-led alliance of left-wing and “racial justice” activists, labor unions, the business lobby, and anti-Trump Republicans, who are working openly to promote their interests by demonizing GOP-priority voting legislation. But the anti-election integrity alliance says public statements aren’t enough. Employing a strategy called “activist stewardship,” Democrats’ union-activist allies have organized state treasurers and public pension fund managers to leverage their power as shareholders to coerce more action...

The Black Lives Matter movement is not only anti-police, anti-white, anti-capitalist but also proudly neo-Marxist. Patrisse Cullors is an American artist and activist. Cullors is an advocate for prison abolition in Los Angeles and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. She also identifies as a queer activist. That’s what the mainstream media and the Wikipedia page will tell you but what was a huge secret since the BLM movement was founded now is out. She confirmed last year what anyone who’s read their work knows: they’re proudly Marxists. Video: YouTube LinkIt seems that BLM supporters got played. According...

"The book is brilliant, very easily read," says Morten Jødal, Climate Realists chairman of the board. Mr. Wrightstone’s rebuttal has been published in Norwegian newspapers, and distribution of the book to mayors will proceed in a few weeks, reports Mr. Jødal, a biologist and author of Environmental Myths, another book that critiques the global warming fraud. Formerly head of the University of Oslo’s Center for Environment and Development, Mr. Jødal says, "Slowly, slowly I realized that the environmental movement is not competent. I started waking up to the fact that many environmental crises being described do not exist." Why would...

Daily injections of insulin are a hassle for the hundreds of millions of people with diabetes. An oral pill would be much easier to swallow (pun intended), and now researchers from New York University Abu Dhabi have developed a new method for packing insulin into capsules that can survive the trip through the stomach to the bloodstream, and only release their payload when it’s needed. Diabetes is characterized by inconsistent levels of insulin, a hormone that regulates glucose levels in the blood. Normally the condition is managed with regular subcutaneous injections, but they can be difficult for patients to self-administer,...