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The Biden Administration took control of a Texas rancher’s border land on Wednesday. The action followed a victory by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas against the family which has owned the land since 1760.

Having an underlying condition can strongly increase the risk of death from COVID-19, and about 85% of Angelenos who died from the virus had at least one comorbidity, which is the presence of one or more additional conditions... High blood pressure was the most common, seen in 52% of deaths. Another 41% of decedents had diabetes, and 26% had a cardiovascular disease other than hypertension... A neurologic disease was the fourth-leading preexisting condition, noted among 21% of those who died, and 16% had chronic renal disease...

How to Woke-Proof Your KidsYou must reach wokeness herd immunity.Whew, digging a 300 square-foot bunker suitable for young children is hard work. My back isn’t what it used to be. So far, we’re 50 feet down in the backyard and are about to pour 10-inch thick WiFi-proof concrete walls. The kids will have goldfish, coloring books, a Kindle that contains all of Western classical literature, Play-Doh, and a hose for drinking water. They’ll be lowered into the hole when they turn six, and we’ll let them climb out when they turn 18.We plan to tell any nosy neighbors that we...

Congresswoman Doris Matsui and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal have sent a letter to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, urging her to strictly enforce recently issued safety guidance under the Framework for Conditional Sailing Order (CSO) and immediately halt cruises if outbreaks occur onboard. They lawmakers said the premature resumption of cruise ship operations could threaten public safety and increase the spread of the coronavirus, "Given the potential for a large, virus spreading event on a cruise ship, the CDC appropriately issued its No-Sail Order to suspend cruise ship operations," they wrote in their...

One researcher thinks mollusks called chitons are more complex than they seemDo chitons have brains? What is a brain, anyway? With eight separate, flexible plates of shell held together by a skirt of muscle called a girdle, chitons look a bit like armored pebbles, ready for battle. The marine mollusks aren’t actually suited for action. They spend most of their time stuck in place, suctioned to rocks in the intertidal zone. While they’re clinging, their radula, a sort of tongue barbed with scores of sharp “teeth,” scrapes algae and other food from the surface. For chitons, that’s about as...

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said at a press conference Thursday he has not spoken with President Joe Biden since his inauguration. Biden, when he was elected and inaugurated, called for unity and bipartisanship. He has recently called for Republicans to negotiate with his administration and Democrats on a potential $2.5 trillion infrastructure package.

Privately and publicly, I have been so thankful and blessed that I have not contracted COVID-19 and continue to travel domestically and internationally in my TV broadcasting life, without any interruption. Of course, exercising wise judgement has been critical to my narrative, given that so many friends and colleagues were violently ill, and a few died from the virus. So many of us have decided to embrace freedom over fear as the CDC continues to warn us of the dangers of variants of the virus. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have constantly interviewed physicians, scientists and victims about...

Mike Pence has had a pacemaker implanted during a procedure in Indiana, the former VP’s office said Thursday. “I am grateful for the swift professionalism and care of the outstanding doctors, nurses and staff at Inova Heart and Vascular Institute,” the ex-veep said in the statement.

While on deployment in Iraq in 2007, retired Senior Chief Mike Day and his team set out on the crucial mission to locate a high-level al Qaeda terrorist cell in Anbar province. While running point on the raid, Day was the first to enter a small (12' x 12') room defended by (four) terrorists who opened fire. He managed to take one of them down as he started taking rounds himself. He kept firing, and dropped another terrorist who detonated a grenade as he went down. (after his rifle was shot from his hands, his thumb nearly severed)...the skilled operator...

The Biden administration declared a national emergency on Thursday, slapping sanctions on more than three dozen people in Russia and expelling 10 diplomats, in an about face after the US pulled back two warships heading to the Black Sea. President Biden reversed course on the warships just before his announcement of the fresh sanctions and after Russia warned the US ships to “stay away for their own good.” Biden on Tuesday had emphasized on a call with Russian President Vladmimr Putin “the United States’ unwavering commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,”

Ukraine warned Russia on Thursday that it will "suffer" if troops try to cross the border, further signaling a tense standoff between the two nations as Russia continues to amass the largest concentration of forces in the region in years. "If Russia crosses the red line, then it will have to suffer," Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday at a press conference with counterparts from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Bloomberg reported. "I hope that diplomatic efforts, including this visit, will help us to prevent that from happening. And, eventually, will help us to restore territorial integrity." he said. Kuleba's...

Source: MSNBC/ScreenshotWhoever controls the narrative controls the world – Caitlin JohnstoneIn the late 19th century, the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov found that objects or events could trigger a conditioned response in canines. By simply ringing a bell, Pavlov could elicit a ‘psychic secretion,’ with the dogs salivating wildly.Fast forward one hundred and years, and vast swathes of society have been conditioned by the media. The mere utterance of words like ‘privilege,’ ‘masculinity,’ ‘equality,’ and ‘race’ make millions of people froth at the mouth. This is a very specific type of conditioning, very much a product of recent times, with the...

"The CDC told CNN on Thursday that there have been 5,800 breakthrough Covid cases, which represents only 0.007% of people who have been vaccinated." "More infectious Covid mutations could also necessitate regular boosters. “We may have cycles where we have to keep boosting people — either boosting them with the original vaccine, which gives you enough antibodies to spill over to the variants, or develop a vaccine that’s specific for one or more of the variants,” Fauci told MSNBC in March."

A Covid Death? The Bureaucracy DecidesInside America’s mortality misinformation crisis.I’m a former death certificate clerk. I’ve spent nearly 7 years in the funeral home industry and processed thousands of death certificates. I’m appalled that death certificate data is codified for use as our national mortality statistics.Aside from tracking age, gender, and place of death of the deceased, using death certificates for anything beyond closing bank accounts is a disservice to society. With the rare exception of a medical certifier who is especially conscientious and thorough in his certificate completion practices—or the special circumstances of car accidents, overdoses, and suicide and...

eth Watkins has been farming his family’s land in southern Iowa for decades, growing pasture for his cows as well as corn and other row crops. His great-grandfather founded the farm in 1848. “He came in with one of John Deere’s steel plows and pierced the prairie,” Watkins recounted. With its rolling hills and neat lines of corn stretching to the horizon, broken by clumps of trees, it’s a picturesque scene. But centuries of farming those hills have taken their toll on the soil. Now, farmers like Watkins are facing widespread soil degradation that can lower their crop yields and...

President Biden is ordering a new round of economic sanctions on Russia — a response in part to Moscow's election meddling and a Kremlin-linked computer breach that penetrated numerous U.S. government networks. White House press secretary Jen Psaki, speaking Thursday afternoon, said "our objective here is not to escalate, our objective is to impose costs for what we feel are unacceptable actions by the Russian government." The sanctions are also meant to impose a penalty over Russia's continued occupation of Crimea,

25 people were crammed into this SUV The authorities in Southern California were called to the scene of a devastating crash along a state highway early Tuesday morning, finding a dozen people dead, some of whom had been thrown from an S.U.V. from the force of a collision with a tractor-trailer. They found injured survivors wandering the site, and one victim died later at a hospital. Hours later, as helicopter footage showed the wreckage of the S.U.V. almost wrapped around the front of the truck, officials began to outline an account of what happened. On Wednesday, U.S. Border Patrol officials...

A Canadian Parliament member was caught stark naked in a virtual meeting of the House of Commons. William Amos, who has represented the Quebec district of Pontiac since 2015, appeared on the screens of his fellow lawmakers completely naked Wednesday. The pandemic has meant many Canadian lawmakers participate in sessions via video conference instead of in person. ... suggesting that parliamentary decorum requires male Parliament members to wear a jacket and tie — and a shirt, underwear and trousers.

CEO Albert Bourla said people will "likely" need a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated. His comments were made public Thursday but were taped April 1. He also said it's possible people will need to get vaccinated against the virus annually. "It is extremely important to suppress the pool of people that can be susceptible to the virus," he told CNBC's Bertha Coombs during an event with CVS Health.

While President Joe Biden's administration doesn't seem to need an excuse to spend money, two recurring arguments for his gigantic $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal are that our roads and bridges are "crumbling" and that modernization would generate economic growth and jobs -- hence its name, the American Jobs Plan. But none of this clever marketing makes any of these claims true. Let me start by pointing out that, to the extent that people think about roads and bridges when they hear the word "infrastructure," they should know that only $621 billion of the $2.3 trillion is for transportation -- and...