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(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (J&J vaccine pause has been lifted - Cases now heading downward at the National level) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 290,685,655 (17,641,150 J&J) Administered: 225,640,460 (8,058,239 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 138,644,724 Fully Vaccinated: 93,078,040

Before Ohio House Republicans put the final touches on their version of the state budget approved this week, they stripped out many of Gov. Mike DeWine’s top priorities. It was just the latest example of the legislature’s lack of deference to DeWine, who’s ostensibly the leader of the state party and heading into what could be a tough re-election campaign year in 2022. DeWine had included in his budget proposal a package of legislation that he designed to reduce gun violence. The changes would have toughened reporting requirements for the system used to run background checks on gun buyers and...

Niece of Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb is found dead of a suspected heart attack days after receiving her second Pfizer vaccine Bernice Gibb Rhoades, 56, died of a suspected heart attack last Thursday Her husband Chino found her unconscious in bed at her home in Las Vegas It is the latest tragedy to his the Bee Gees, who had a string of number one hits Beri's mother Lesley Evans, 76, paid tribute to her 'beloved girl' today

Following the fatal great white shark attack where a woman died off Bailey Island in southern Maine this past year, the Maine Department of Marine Resources began working with the Atlantic Great White Shark Conservancy and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, to figure out approximately how many of the big fish there are and where they are within coastal Maine waters. For years now, the Atlantic Great White Shark Conservancy based in Chatham, Massachusetts, has tagged over 210 white sharks in the Cape Cod area. Tags pinned to white sharks then communicate with acoustic receivers moored in coastal waters,...

There is not going to be any funny business taking place with this audit. This amount of transparency is exactly how every election should take place. We reposted this video because many people have not watched it, and we need to ensure everyone is armed with the facts on how this is taking place.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has agreed to debate her on the economic policy behind the Green New Deal. Greene (R-Ga.) made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday, posting a photo of her speaking to Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the House floor with the message, “I’m glad I ran into you today @AOC to plan our debate about the Green New Deal.”

The Pentagon has updated the Joint Memorandum of Understanding that says the other participants – US, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, Denmark, Canada and Norway – will remain in the programme. Speaking to Turkey's Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, a US defense official said that according to the statement sent to Ankara, the Joint Memorandum of Understanding opened to participant countries' signature in 2006 and signed by Turkey on January 26, 2007, has been cancelled and Turkey was not included in the new agreement. The official did not share the channels used to notify Turkey. Turkey had joined the F-35 Joint Strike...

Out of all the things Washington Post “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler to fact-check he chose Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s grandfather. Kessler chose to fact-check the only black Republican senator’s grandfather’s history. Totally not a coincidence Kessler’s piece comes out the day after Scott was chosen to deliver the Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union. Scott has said his grandfather Artis Ware had to drop out of elementary school to pick cotton. He claimed his family went from “cotton to Congress.” You can watch the video of Scott explaining his family history at the bottom of...

High-end Chinese homemade counter-drone radar technologies are currently on display at the 9th World Radar Expo in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, addressing the threat posed by drones to both traditional and non-traditional security fields. The massive use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict last year has shown that more and more countries are equipped with stealth fighters, and anti-stealth and anti-UAV radars, which are in the spotlight of the Nanjing expo. YLC-48 portable multipurpose reconnaissance radar China's first portable phased array radar, the YLC-48 portable multipurpose reconnaissance radar is one example of such frontier...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said President Joe Biden's first 100 days 'have been impressive' and 'exceeded' the expectations of Democrat progressives. The New York congresswoman said during a virtual town hall meeting: 'The Biden administration and President Biden have definitely exceeded expectations that progressives had. 'I'll be frank, I think a lot of us expected a much more conservative administration.

The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office in Virginia released body camera footage and 911 audio Friday night of the recent officer-involved shooting of a 32-year-old Black man. The recordings appeared to show the deputy mistook a cordless house phone held by Isaiah Brown for a gun before the deputy shot him repeatedly.

Black-owned businesses trapped in the Minneapolis no-go zone where George Floyd was murdered by a police officer are pleading for, among other things, help from police, reports the New York Post: Black merchants near the once-thriving corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue said police have abandoned the blocked-off intersection, creating a dangerous autonomous zone that has seen crime spike and business evaporate. “The city left me in danger,” the owner of Smoke In The Pit restaurant told The Post Thursday. “They locked us up on here and left us behind,” said the merchant, who asked to be identified only...

The Need for a Mandatory National Service Program By Steve Cohen April 2021 Proceedings Vol. 147/4/1,418 COMMENTARY FacebookTwitterRedditEmailShare COMMENTS The United States has a history of big, bold initiatives. Americans as individuals, however, have largely forgotten them. The New Deal is barely taught in school, most students do not understand why the United States fought World War II, and the Apollo space program might be remembered as an okay Tom Hanks film. Yet, big challenges and ideas have been at the core of American exceptionalism—itself a barely-remembered concept—since the founding of the Republic. Today, in the shadow of a devastating...

A violent black mob beat a disabled driver with a cane after he accidentally hit a car that was pulling donuts on a street in Los Angeles, the video originally posted on Instagram and removed shortly after shows. They were filmed squaring up to him even as he wailed ‘Sorry! Sorry!’ and ‘I’ll give you everything I got bro.’ His pleas ended up falling on deaf ears, with one man seen punching the terrified Honda driver in the face even after realizing he was disabled. The terrifying video has one moment of karmic justice. The video that we have a...

New footage published Saturday morning on Arab networks shows Arab youths violently attacking a Jewish man in the Shimon Hatzadik (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood of Jerusalem. As he attacked the Jew, the Arabs yelled out, "He's a Jew, he's a Jew!" On Friday night, dozens of Arabs threw stones and other objects at police officers, following the Friday prayers on the Temple Mount. The rioters damaged squad cars and fired fireworks at police forces in the area. One driver reported that stones were thrown at him as he drove in an Arab neighborhood in the city. .....

A Metropolitan police officer had a savage response to a heckler Friday asking if the officer would kill him “like Ma’Khia Bryant.” The heckler is heard asking officers, “Are ya’ll gonna kill me like Ma’Khia Bryant? F***?” The officer savagely responded, saying, “are you gonna try and stab somebody like her?” The video uploaded to Twitter has nearly 200,000 views. “No, but she called ya’ll for help. F*** is you talking about? Get your goofy a**, and you just said that on camera, this s*** going viral,” the disgruntled heckler responded....

Death is the separation of the body from the soul. Uncle Sin fathered it but Death was never God's original plan. Adam and Even were created to live but the Serpent loves Death and he slyly maneuvered Eve into embracing guaranteed rot. Satan is a crafty little devil, Rot-Monger, Death-Dealer, liar ~ and a murderer too. Satan and Death are ugly. And chilly. A human corpse feels cold and stiff like clay. Thanatos son of Nyx, life grubber, has no warm heart, and if you escape the crematorium the worms will eat you in spite of the formaldehyde. You'll not...

It has now been 30 days since President Joe Biden announced on March 24 that he would be tasking Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the charge in discovering the root causes of the migrant crisis, to both curb the current flow of the migrants and implement long-term strategies. "Today would be a good day for Vice President Harris to visit the southern border,("House Judiciary GOP tweeted) Friday.[snip]On April 14, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise said at a news conference, "If she's the vice president of the United States and the president put her in charge of this, Vice President...

Police in a Minneapolis suburb shot and killed a carjacker on Sunday after he initially fired multiple rounds at them. Black Lives Matter protesters then knelt for a moment of silence and gathered outside Gov. Tim Walz’s mansion soon after—but gave up and went elsewhere when they learned the carjacker was white. According to a press release from the Burnsville Police Department, the suspect was “believed to be a white male in his 20s” and later died at the Hennepin County Medical Center from his gunshot injuries. “Officers first encountered the suspect driving a vehicle with stolen plates which the...

On this date in 1655, Catholic forces under the Duke of Savoy carried out a notorious massacre of Waldensians* in the Piedmont. This interesting, excommunicate sect had persisted for centuries in those hard-to-reach places in Alpine foothills, intermittently ignored and hunted. After Martin Luther, many Protestants inclined to see them as a proto-Reformation movement, or even a counter-papal apostolic succession reaching back to ancient Christianity. At any rate, they sure weren’t Catholic. And our friend the Duke decided — perhaps piqued by the murder of a missionary Catholic priest, or for whatever other reason — to mount one of those...