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Fourteen people were shot, one fatally, Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was fatally shot in Wentworth Gardens. He was near the sidewalk about 1 p.m. in the 3800 block of South Wells Street when a vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said. The 27-year-old was struck in the head and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. A 9-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet near his home in Back of the Yards on the South Side. The shooting happened just before 7 p.m. in the 5400 block of...

If the politicians, media, and tech tyrants hadn’t acted so aggressively to silence discussions about COVID, the last year could have turned out very differently. Yesterday, Steve Karp MD, presented the facts of COVID as we know them, right here on American Thinker. His list included all the mind-boggling contradictions we’ve been fed for the last 17 months. My immediate reaction (besides thinking it was a very complete list) was that, if we had been able to have open, uncensored, lively scientific and public debate from the start, we wouldn’t be in such a muddle at this point. Furthermore, most...

President Joe Biden will embark on his first overseas trip Wednesday morning, seeking to reaffirm the United States’ standing on the world stage with familiar allies, and portray himself as the leader of the free world. “He's been getting ready for 50 years. He has been on the world stage. He's known a number of these leaders for decades, including President Putin, and including a number of the leaders he'll see at NATO and he'll see at the G7. Now, this is an important opportunity for him to see them in person, and there's nothing like face-to-face engagement in diplomacy,”...

Virginia Tech has announced COVID-19 vaccinations will be required for all students attending the school this fall. Exemptions will be in place for medical reasons and “sincerely held religious beliefs.” In a statement, Virginia Tech says, “During the past two semesters, we weathered significant surges in COVID-19 cases in Blacksburg. We did this through robust testing, self-quarantine, masking, and physical distancing. We must do everything possible to avoid repeating the challenges of the last 14 months, and to ensure that students who cannot be vaccinated are able to participate in campus life and in-person learning. It is essential that every...

As investigators pursue evidence that the COVID-19 virus may have originated in a Chinese research laboratory, many voters doubt that Dr. Anthony Fauci has told the truth about American funding of such research. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 40% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Fauci has told the truth about U.S. government funding for so-called “gain-of-function” virus research. Forty-six percent (46%) of voters believe Fauci has not told the truth about U.S. funding of such research, and 15% are not sure. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul last week said newly released emails show Fauci was...

Those who are Anti Gun or Anti 2nd Amendment seem to have a lot to say about the subject. This is our Top 10 List of the best mistakes anti-second amendment mistakes. God, family, and guns YouTube

A South Carolina judge on Tuesday refused to block two executions set for later this month as she considers a lawsuit over the state's new capital punishment law, which effectively forces condemned prisoners to choose to die by either the electric chair or firing squad. State Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman issued the decision to let the planned executions of Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens proceed after their attorneys had argued in court that the men should not be executed while the lawsuit is pending. The two "have little likelihood of success on the merits of their claim," Newman wrote. The...

@RandPaul objects to United States Innovation And Competition Act Of 2021: "This bills adds over $250B to our debt... There's nothing conservative about this bill. The bill is nothing more than a big government response that will make our country weaker, not stronger." Video...

The president of the Palestinian Authority reportedly greenlit a payment of $42,000 to a terrorist who stabbed two Israelis to death as part of the government’s policy of paying terrorists following the Biden administration’s $100 million aid package to the Gaza Strip. Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this week reportedly sent a district governor of Ramallah, Laila Ghannam, to personally deliver the cash to the family of Muhannad Al-Halabi, who was part of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The payment came "on behalf of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to ‘complete the payment of the cost’ of their home,...

Two people who have risen to the top of American politics show their dislike for this country. America welcomed Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia’s destructive civil wars. It gave her a place to live, an education, and a chance to sit in the most powerful governing body in the world, the United States Congress. Meanwhile, Anthony Blinken, a man of seemingly limited talent and ability, is now Secretary of State, with vast power over America’s foreign policy. Both, however, don't seem too fond of America. Omar’s disdain for America is separate from her equally openly expressed anti-Semitism. The fact...

An undiscovered pituitary gland tumor has turned a woman into a giant at nearly seven feet tall - leaving her towering over her family and her husband. Aspiring model Elisane Silva, 26, from Salinopolis, Brazil, has been dubbed 'Brazil's Tallest Woman' due to her standing at six feet eight inches. She is the tallest member of her family and towers over her husband, Francinaldo Da Silva Carvalho, 31, who is just five-foot-four. 'Since I was 10 years old, I always noticed that there wasn't something quite right as I was the only one in my family and class that stood...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has quietly begun efforts to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, using an under-the-radar approach to minimize political blowback and to try to make at least some progress in resolving a long-standing legal and human rights morass before the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. After initial plans for a more aggressive push to close the facility — including rebuffed attempts to recruit a special envoy to oversee the strategy — the White House changed course, sources said. The administration has opted to wait before it reaches out...

Maya Wiley, the progressive left's new poster child, is a mass of contradictions. Republicans call it hypocrisy. The 57-year-old lives in a $2.75million, 4,000-sq-ft house in Brooklyn. Her husband Harlan Mandel, 58, is CEO of a multimillion dollar investment fund. She wants to defund the police but she and her neighbors pay for private security for their wealthy area.

The government needs to drop this. Now. Federal prosecutors are saying the unrest on January 6 resulted in "approximately $1,495,326.55 damage to the United States Capitol." The figure was disclosed last week in a plea agreement with one of the January 6 defendants. What's notable about the $1.5 million is how remarkably small it is. The government can misplace that much on a National Science Foundation study of lizards walking on treadmills. In 2017, then–former vice president Joe Biden paid $2.7 million for his Delaware North Shore beach house, or $1.2 million less than estimated repairs to the Capitol from...

The Oxford student who tabled the motion to remove an 'unwelcoming' portrait of the Queen from Magdalen College's common room is a privately educated American post grad, it can be revealed today - as MPs lined up to condemn the move. Matthew Katzman, a lecturer in computer science and the son of a top lawyer from Maryland on the US east coast - where his family live in a £4million mansion - brought forward the measure to 'cancel' the Queen in his role as president of Magdalen's Middle Common Room (MCR), which is made up of graduates. The 25-year-old, who...

Dr. Fauci has a lot of explaining to do. Throughout the past 16 months of COVID, we have been told to follow the science. How has that worked out? We have heeded each word of the guru of science, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Pied Piper of the Chinese coronavirus, who has graced magazine covers and spend more time being interviewed on cable news shows and emailing social media titans than researching the pandemic he has been managing. It turns out he has been leading the world down a pathway of deceit, deception, and ruin. Mask science doesn’t add up. Neither...

The Georgia Star News did not independently confirm that Fulton County GOP officials will, in fact, hold the election Saturday. The party’s website and social media pages did not specify when or if they scheduled the election. Acting Chair Betsy Shaw Kramer said on the Fulton County GOP’s Facebook page that “arrangements for secure, electronic voting are being made and will be disseminated immediately when they are finalized.” Kramer, however, told The Star News Tuesday she could not say when party officials will hold the election. “I am not involved in setting this up, so I am unable to comment,”...

It's hard to find someone more obsessed with and tortured by the issue of race. In an interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Monday on CNN, Barack Obama showed once again how well he has mastered the art of sanctimony. "You would think with all the public policy debates that are taking place right now that the Republican Party would be engaged in a significant debate about how are we going to deal with the economy and what are we going to do about climate change?" Obama said to Cooper. He added, "Lo and behold, the single most important issue...

Rachel Crothers was found out after bragging about hiding the weapon during a prison A university student hid a gun in a plant pot filled with cement for a drug dealer she developed "feelings" for. Rachel Crothers buried the semi-automatic Grand Power 9mm weapon in a container topped with a rhubarb plant in her student accommodation in Cathays. Cardiff Crown Court heard the 22-year-old's actions came after friend and drug dealer Alfie Larkin fired the gun at the motorhome of an "organised crime gang". Last week Larkin was handed a 17-year extended sentence for shooting at vehicles on Greenway Road...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Wren Williams, an attorney who worked on former President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful Wisconsin recount, has ousted long-serving incumbent Del. Charles Poindexter in a Republican primary for the Virginia House of Delegates. Williams’ victory in Tuesday’s nominating contest will bring to an end Poindexter’s representation of the ultraconservative 9th House District, which covers parts of Franklin, Patrick and Henry counties south of Roanoke. Williams will face Bridgette Craighead in November, when Republicans will be trying to wrest control of the state House back from Democrats. During the race, Williams characterized Poindexter as a career politician and criticized...