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Novavax may jump ahead of AstraZeneca as the drugmaker most likely to get its COVID-19 vaccine approved next by the FDA, Politico reported April 27. Below are seven key details about Novavax and its COVID-19 vaccine: 1. Novavax, founded in 1987 and based in Gaithersburg, Md., has never brought a product to market. 2. The drugmaker's COVID-19 vaccine candidate is a subunit vaccine made of proteins resembling those on the surface of the novel coronavirus, which are meant to generate an immune response to the virus. It does not require ultracold storage, as do the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer...

Donald Trump is planning to bring back his famous “Make America Great Again” political rallies -- and they may happen much sooner than most expected. CNN reported Trump may resume his political rallies as soon as May.

The 1700s were a time of radical reform, and as the Enlightenment reached the shores of Denmark, it suddenly became possible to be a professed atheist and not lose your head. That is, of course, as long as you didn’t also try to usurp the crown, undermine the aristocracy, and agitate the commoners while you were at it. Struensee on this date in 1772. His friend and sometime cohort Enevold Brandt (Danish Wikipedia entry) was put on the block on the same day. Struensee was born in 1738 in present day Germany and educated in Prussia, a doctor by trade...

A New York Post reporter who authored a story falsely claiming that migrant children were being given copies of Vice President Kamala Harris' children's book announced on Tuesday that she'd been "ordered" to write the "incorrect" story and resigned from the paper. Earlier on Tuesday, the Post temporarily deleted Italiano's two stories on the topic and republished altered versions hours later with editor's notes. "An announcement: Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post," Laura Italiano tweeted on Tuesday evening. "The Kamala Harris story — an incorrect story I was ordered to write and...

White ESPN announcer Max Kellerman is suggesting NFL teams' scouts and top brass are racist when it comes to drafting a Black quarterback, despite some noting the top 4 highest-paid players are all Black quarterbacks. Kellerman said it is on his "radar" the projected top three picks in Thursday's NFL Draft are white quarterbacks, despite a pair of Black quarterback prospects being candidates to be drafted early, too. "I know it's on my radar," the "First Take" co-host said. "Sometimes quarterbacks rise, sometimes they fall, but what I've noticed, in recent years after decades of artificial barriers being put in...

Breaking: Maricopa County Judge denies Democrat's request to stop the election audit. The audit continues!— Maricopa Arizona Audit (@ArizonaAudit) April 28, 2021

The oldest-ever president is about to meet with the oldest living president. President Biden will meet with former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday as he marks his first 100 days in office with a trip to Georgia. Biden will meet with Carter, 96, and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, 93, in Plains, Ga., White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tweeted. The trip will follow Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night.

It seems there are many personal stories of vaccine injuries being shared throughout many threads across the platform by fellow Freepers. Let’s try to use this one thread to organize and analyze them. Perhaps the results will surprise people who fall on both sides of the aisle. Let’s not use this thread as a place to debate either side of whether people should be vaccinated or not. 1. Describe your close relationship with the person who had the side effects and/or symptoms from the vaccine - e.g. family member and/or personal friend (you must exclude people you don’t know personally...

A growing number of black leaders across the U.S. are backing the requirement of voter ID and rejecting President Joe Biden and other Democrats' claims that election integrity efforts like Georgia's voter ID law hearken back to the days of the "Jim Crow" era. Voters nationwide overwhelmingly support voter ID efforts. As CBN News reported, a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted earlier this month found 62 percent of Americans feel ID requirements don't discriminate. Democrats hold up the Georgia voting law as "exhibit A" in what they claim to be voter suppression. President Biden even called it "Jim Crow on steroids,"...

Can People In Hawaii Stop Wearing Masks Outdoors? Not Yet The CDC updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks outdoors except among crowds of strangers, but the state hasn’t changed its rules. Hawaii officials are reviewing whether to change local mask mandates after the easing of federal COVID-19 guidelines to suggest that fully vaccinated people may forgo face coverings in most outdoor scenarios. Hawaii currently requires that people cover their nose and mouth in public and when near people who don’t live with them, according to an emergency proclamation from Gov. David Ige aimed...

Federal investigators executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s apartment in Manhattan as part of an investigation involving dealings with Ukraine, according to a Wednesday report.While the warrant is not an explicit accusation of wrongdoing against Mr. Giuliani, it shows that the investigation has entered an aggressive new phase. To obtain a search warrant, investigators need to persuade a judge they have sufficient reason to believe that a crime was committed and that the search would turn up evidence of the crime.

President Joe Biden will deliver his first address to Congress on Wednesday evening, but only about 12.5 percent of the seats will be filled due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Two hundred people will attend Biden’s speech on Wednesday night, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has limited attendance.

Some parts of Democratic Twitter go nuts when it is pointed out that President Biden's 100-day job approval rating is the third-lowest of any president since World War II. (Only Donald Trump and Gerald Ford were lower.) All that matters to the most partisan Democrats, apparently, is that Biden's approval rating is higher than Trump's.But why is Biden's 100-day rating below so many other presidents? A chart of presidential 100-day ratings compiled by pollster Bill McInturff -- he is the Republican half of the team that polls for the Wall Street Journal and NBC News -- shows that polarization between...

To the Editor: I read with interest “Vaccines May Affect Women Differently” (news article, April 18). It fails to address what I consider some other important questions concerning weight, dosage and side effects. For example, does one size fit all? With regard to Covid vaccines, everyone gets the same dose, whether the patient is a 5-foot-2 woman weighing 105 pounds or a 6-foot-4 man weighing 210 pounds. And some individuals are more sensitive to medications than others, and are more likely to suffer side effects (including tinnitus, which I experienced). I believe in vaccines, and we all hope they are...

No one understood the dynamics of ideological persecution and the failure of society better than German pastor Martin Niemoller. In his famous post-World War II confessional speech, he said (in paraphrase): “First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the socialists, then the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist nor a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there...

Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) announced Wednesday he will run for U.S. Senate in North Carolina to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC). Budd, a gun store owner from Davie County, released a video of the announcement that detailed his positions on issues and prominently featured him campaigning alongside former President Donald Trump.

A 12-year-old in North Carolina used the downtime he had during the pandemic to take on a few extra classes in school. Now, one year later, Mike Wimmer, of Salisbury, is getting ready to graduate high school and college -- in the same week. Wimmer completed four years of school in one year -- two years of high school and a two-year associate's degree. He will graduate from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College on May 21, and from Concord Academy High School on May 28, where he is valedictorian. But this wasn't always Wimmer's plan, he said. The student was taking dual...

Last fall, California governor Gavin Newsom signed The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, a bill which, among other things, would “allow incarcerated transgender, non-binary and intersex people to be housed and searched in a manner consistent with their gender identity.” Since this law went into effect back in January, in a new case of “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” over 200 prisoners have requested to be transferred from men’s prisons into those detaining women. As of April 6th, not a single request has been denied.California’s Idiosyncrasies Could Become National LawImagine attempting to argue for this law 20 years ago. Imagine...

Last month, the cancel culture mob found a new target in Sharon Osbourne after she dared to defend her friend Piers Morgan from claims that he is racist simply for criticizing Meghan Markle. Now, Sharon’s daughter Kelly Osbourne is defiantly speaking out to say “f*** cancel culture.” Kelly’s comments contrast the ones made by LeVar Burton, who has become a frontrunner to be named host of “Jeopardy!”

Food website Epicurious will no longer publish beef recipes, citing the impact of raising and consuming cattle on climate change. Cutting out beef from one's diet is "a worthwhile first step" in cooking more sustainably, wrote Maggie Hoffman, senior editor at Epicurious and David Tamarkin, former digital director of Epicurious in a blog post Monday. Livestock accounts for nearly 15% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions — 41% of those emissions comes from beef, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Fossil fuels produce the pesticides and fertilizers used to grow the corn and soybeans consumed by...