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The theory that the coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China was dismissed as a “conspiracy” by National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins in April of last year, newly released emails show. The email from Collins to current White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and others is part of a tranche of more than 3,200 pages of emails obtained by Buzzfeed News and published Tuesday. On April 15, 2020, Fox News anchor Bret Baier reported that US officials were increasingly confident that the virus “likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory … not as a bioweapon but...

Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat, won a landslide victory in a special House election in New Mexico on Tuesday, claiming the seat previously held by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and easily turning back a Republican effort to make the race a referendum on rising crime in the Albuquerque-based district.

Eilat Mazar, an Israeli archaeologist who came under criticism by colleagues for her reliance on the Bible as a historical text, died May 25 at age 64.“I work with the Bible in one hand and the tools of excavation in the other,” Mazar once told the Jerusalem Post. “The Bible is the most important historical source and therefore deserves special attention.”Mazar, the granddaughter of Russian Israeli immigrant and prominent archaeologist Benjamin Mazar, began getting her fingers dirty at age 11, as the elder Mazar tried to get as many family members as he could to assist on digs. She went...

I declined to read the article from a week ago about the guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas being let off the hook with 'deferred prosecution', preferring to wait for more details.None were forthcoming.Then I clicked on a PopulistPress article and saw their photos: Natch. No further comment needed.

The Giants announced Tuesday they will become the first MLB team to incorporate Pride Month colors for the on-field hats and jerseys to honor the LGBTQ+ community. Pride Month hats and jerseys will be worn Saturday June 5 when the Giants play the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Giants' home jersey will feature a SF patch on the right sleeve that features the 11 colors of the new Pride logo. Their hats will have the same 11 colors -- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, light blue, pink and white -- inside their SF logo.

Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol in January, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility might save them, or at least engender some sympathy.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday shut down an attempt to treat the testimony of asylum-seekers as credible, siding with the federal government against people seeking refuge in the country. The court unanimously found that a previous ruling from the California-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had incorrectly ruled that in immigration cases, noncitizens' testimonies must be treated as credible or true. The court vacated the 9th Circuit's decision and sent it back to lower courts for further consideration... ...In both cases, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, the 9th Circuit was wrong to interfere because of a technical question....

Ireland has become the first EU country to formally designate Israeli settlement expansion as “annexation” of Palestinian land. The Irish parliament, the Dáil, said so in a motion passed unanimously on Wednesday (26 May). “The scale, pace, and strategic nature of Israel’s actions on settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about what is actually happening on the ground … it is de facto annexation,” Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney also told MPs in a debate on Tuesday prior to voting. “This is not something that I, or...

A man in eastern China has contracted what appears to be the first human case of H10N3, a type of avian influenza, according to Chinese regime officials.The 41-year-old man, who wasn’t identified, was hospitalized in late April with H10N3 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, located near Shanghai, according to China’s National Health Commission in a statement on its website.The commission stated that no other cases have been reported.“This infection is an accidental cross-species transmission,” its statement said, while also claiming that “the risk of large-scale transmission is low,” according to a Chinese-to-English translation.The agency stated that the man developed a fever...

As Anthony Fauci, the US’s leading infectious diseases official, grappled with the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, he was pulled in many directions.

As evidence mounts and even former naysayers begin to take more seriously the possibility (probability) that COVID-19 was intentionally created a the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the World Health Organization has announced it has created a new naming system for “the most troubling” COVID “variants of concern,” as well as the second-level “variants of interest” — to “avoid stigmatizing nations where they were first detected.”What’s in a name? WHO revising naming system for COVID variants to avoid stigmatizing nations where they were first spotted https://t.co/XLCr0zFD7w— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 1, 2021The WHO announced on Monday, as reported by CBS News,...

Does Joe Biden have it in for Kamala Harris?It would seem so. He seems intent upon assigning her jobs that are guaranteed to fail, based on how the Biden team approaches the questions.First, he assigned her responsibility for the border, as we reported, which is a complete and utter mess. Now, if they had just left President Donald Trump’s policies in place, they would have been in pretty good shape. But they blew all those up and created a disaster. Kamala, of course, did nothing to solve it. She didn’t even go to the border, that’s how interested she was...

The online retail giant Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday that it will stop requiring jobseekers to take a cannabis test in the US, in line with laws in a growing number of states. Amazon will continue to check for other drugs and will keep on screening people for job positions that are regulated by the Department of Transportation, according to the company’s consumer boss Dave Clark. “In the past, like many employers, we’ve disqualified people from working at Amazon if they tested positive for marijuana use,” Clark said. “However, given where state laws are moving across the US, we’ve changed...

The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday it has started an early stage clinical trial looking at what happens when an adult who is fully vaccinated with one type of Covid-19 vaccine, like Pfizer’s, is boosted with a different shot about three to four months later. The trial will include about 150 adults who have received one of the three Covid vaccine regimens currently available under the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization: Johnson & Johnson’s, Moderna’s or Pfizer’s. Federal health officials said people who have not yet received an authorized vaccine are also eligible to enroll in the...

In Part I of this analysis, I concluded there is a criminal conspiracy afoot among government, medical, media and corporate actors to convince, and if that fails force, every single American to be injected with the experimental, not-really-approved, mischaracterized and mislabeled COVID “vaccines.” Just one example of this has been the ruthless intimidation used to silence nurses who reported debilitating adverse vaccine reactions they experienced. In Part II, I conclude the COVID injections could soon kill more people than the virus itself – the treatment is worse, likely far worse, than the disease. 1) To comprehend what the vax cabal...

Prosecutors on Tuesday revealed that they want to drop the charges against a New York man who participated in the Jan. 6 demonstration at the Capitol.Christopher Kelly would be the first of more than 450 people who face charges in connection with the events of that day to have the charges dropped, according to the Washington Times.Kelly, of New City, N.Y., was charged on Jan. 20 based on information supplied by a confidential informant. He faced charges of unlawful entry, obstruction of an official proceeding, and other offenses.“The government and defense counsel have discussed the merits of the case, and...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

We’ve documented (read here & here) this spring of a “megadrought” sweeping through the western half of the country and could be one of the worst in decades. This is troubling news because major water reservoirs have already dropped to dangerously low levels, cutting off access to farmers. The latest US Drought Monitor map shows nearly the entire western half of the nation is experiencing some level of drought at this moment. Parts of the Southwest could be undergoing their second Dust Bowl as conditions continue to deteriorate. According to Reuters, for farmers like Joe Del Bosque, located in Firebaugh,...

This bill would have been very hard on the working class, says Tim Benson, a policy analyst at The Heartland Institute.“It might be hard for some people to believe, but California is the still the seventh-largest oil producing state in the country, and more than 150,000 Californians work in the industry,” Benson said. “Banning fracking would have put most of these people out of work.“Thanks to the state’s other ridiculous energy policies, California’s electricity prices are already 60 percent higher than the U.S. average and banning fracking would cause those costs to rise,” Benson said.Even some die-hard climate-alarmist California legislators...

Democrat Melanie Stansbury defeated her Republican opponent Mark Moores in the special election to represent New Mexico's 1st congressional district, a House seat vacated when Deb Haaland was confirmed as President Biden's Interior secretary, per AP. Why it matters: Stansbury's victory Tuesday night will grow Democrats' thin majority in the House to nine seats.