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More than three-quarters of Americans still feel there’s at least some risk from the COVID-19 pandemic in attending July Fourth celebrations — with four in 10 believing the threat is moderate to high, according to a new poll. Some 77 percent of respondents in an Axios-Ipsos poll ranked the celebrations as posing at least a small risk, with less than a quarter — 23 percent — maintaining there was no risk at all.

A Los Angeles County employee was arrested Monday in the City of Industry on federal charges alleging she was among the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Lois Lynn McNicoll, 69, of San Clemente, a Department of Public Social Services employee, made her initial appearance in Los Angeles federal court following her arrest and was released on a $10,000 bond, according to FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. McNicoll is charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct...

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To: America’s Greatest Old Generals, And Their Sorry Modern Replacements... Milley is a political leader, not a military one, and he sees that buying into the left’s most sickening racial blood libels is a way to bolster his position and keep the military machine juiced to the maximum. Over the past several years, Milley has repeatedly disgraced himself with grossly political behavior. On January 6, Milley took park in a de facto coup against President Trump’s authority, bypassing the president’s commander-in-chief role to instead speak with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Vice President...

All politicians tell lies, but the Biden-Harris administration is taking lies to a new level. They now want us to disbelieve what we can see. To paraphrase a quote attributed to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, there are lies, damn lies ... and then there is Vice President Kamala Harris. More than 90 days after being tasked to stem the record flow of migrants into the U.S., Harris finally went to the southern border, falsely claiming, "We've made progress." She visited El Paso, Texas, while the real problem is in the Rio Grande Valley. Clearly, neither she nor...

First lady Jill Biden said Americans are able to “breathe” again because of how her husband handled the pandemic and got “shots in everybody’s arms” — but she neglected to mention the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, which provided those vaccines. “When I travel around the country now, I feel as though people can breathe again,” Biden said in a lengthy profile in Vogue accompanying her August cover.

Courts typically determine what company is a “monopoly,” and therefore deserves additional regulation, based on the standard of consumer harm. Unfortunately, two bills scheduled for a House floor vote this week would seek to change this standard in an attempt to break up big tech companies, but they would harm consumers rather than protect them. If enacted, they would lead to textbook cases of unintended negative consequences by reducing consumer choice, including making products and services more expensive and less accessible. After years of threats to break up Big Tech, Congress followed through earlier this month in the U.S. House,...

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Matthew 16:13–19 Friends, today’s Gospel spells out the importance of Peter’s confession. For it is upon this inspired confession that the Church is built. Not, mind you, on popular opinion, which is shifting and indecisive, and not on personal holiness, which is all too rare. It is built upon the inspired authority of Peter—and I say, "Thank God!" We make this troubling and extraordinary claim that it is through a special charism of the Spirit that Peter and his successors govern the Church. Now, I realize that I have many Protestant readers and...

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An American man who crashed a stolen lorry into a house before shooting two black bystanders was a suspected white supremacist, police say. Nathan Allen, 28, fatally shot retired policeman Dave Green and military veteran Ramona Cooper in Saturday afternoon's attack in Massachusetts. Investigators later found racist and anti-Semitic writings by Allen, who was shot dead by officers at the scene.

“CNN’s ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ has shed a staggering 75% of its audience since the liberal network experienced a January spike in viewers,” reports Fox News. Between May 31 and June 23, Tapper, a proven liar, and fabulist averaged only –LOL –708,000 viewers during his 4 p.m. ET hour. That’s down from 2.8 million in January.

WASHINGTON, Friday, June 28. SOLDIERS' LETTERS. A good deal of irregularity occurs in the prompt delivery of soldiers' letters here, for the reason that their friends neglect to be particular in the direction of them. All letters for the camps should be plainly addressed, giving the number of regiment, and the letter of company, with the State from which they come, to insure their reaching the destination intended. Col. STONE's command is still at Poolesville. The New-York Ninth Regiment is at Monocacy, below Frederick, Penn. The First New-Hampshire, Col. TAPPAN, guards the ferry opposite Leesburgh. There has been no disturbance...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Raleigh police are warning residents of a neighborhood in the northwest part of the city that there’s a highly venomous snake on the loose there. Police sent a release around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday warning that a zebra cobra, which is known to spit venom, was spotted on the porch of a home in the 7000-block of Sandringham Drive around 5:10 p.m. Monday.An animal control officer responded to the home after receiving a report regarding the snake, but the cobra was not found. According to authorities, the zebra cobra belongs to a resident of the neighborhood. Police...

A hateful attacker hurled anti-gay slurs on a Manhattan subway before knifing a straphanger, slicing his chest, cops said Tuesday. The 29-year-old victim was on a northbound 2 train near West 34th Street and Seventh Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Monday when a man sitting across from him began shouting homophobic statements at passengers, according to police. He then allegedly addressed the victim directly and said, “Yo big ass want to sit down with your legs crossed, f—-t.” An argument ensued and spilled onto the northbound platform, where the suspect stabbed the victim with an unknown object before taking off, cops...

As indefensible as Berry's behavior was to those of sound mind, for me her pathetic attempt at self-promotion raised a more pressing question. Blacks disrespecting America, our flag and our national anthem certainly predates the Obama woman and the "Benghazi traitor" she calls a husband refusing to salute the flag as the world watched. The primary supposed reasoning behind the complaint and said behavior is always based upon the alleged injustice endured by black people. But, what goes unaddressed is: What if these people who base their entire value system upon being a crayon color really had it bad? To...

Editor’s note: TPG’s Gene Sloan is sailing on Celebrity Edge as a guest of Celebrity Cruises. TPG paid for all his travel to and from the ship. The opinions expressed below are entirely his and weren’t subject to review by Celebrity. Did the 15-month-long shutdown of cruising in North America really happen? From where I’m sitting right now, along the pool deck of Celebrity Cruises‘ 2,918-passenger Celebrity Edge, it all seems like a dream. The pool and lounge chairs around me are full of sun worshippers making the most of a sunny sea day. There’s a guitarist belting out Jimmy...

The Pacific Northwest is experiencing a multi-day heat wave that we said last week would be “historic.” The unrelenting triple-digit temperatures shattered records across the region and have stressed out power grids where rolling blackouts have been reported. Bloomberg reports Avista Corporation, which supplies electricity to 340,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers, triggered its first rolling blackout across its grid after it became overloaded Monday evening. Rotating outages first hit 9,300 customers late Monday and could expand as temperatures remain well above average through July 4. Avista was the first major utility to report rolling blackouts in the Northwest region,...

The far left has pretty much gained control of all major urban areas in the United States with predictable results: high crime, economic stagnation, and filthy crumbling infrastructure. The big problem the left has is that it takes more than control of urban areas to achieve political supremacy, and that is their goal. With that in mind, extremist movements, aided by the leftist media, have set their sights on grabbing power in rural communities.

Chris Christie book 'Republican Rescue' slated for fall release © Getty Images Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) new book, “Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden,” is set to be released on Nov. 16. The book is being published by Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster, according to The Associated Press. Threshold said the book, in which Christie addresses his fellow Republicans, is “a timely and urgent guide to moving the party forward,” according to the AP.

“Saratoga Springs in not immune to the increased violence we have seen in the Capital Region, New York state and throughout the country," Catone said, in an event that served as both a public meeting and press conference at City Hall. "Saratoga Springs is no longer the small city in the country where you can escape the big-city problems of violence.”It's time for the silent majority we have heard about to stand up and be heard. ... If you continue to push a narrative of lies and misinformation, if you continue to divide this police department and this community because...

Experts suggest vulnerability of south Florida to rising seas could lead to destabilization of further buildingsThe shocking collapse of a 12-storey building in the Miami area last week has raised questions as to the role played by the climate crisis, and whether the severe vulnerability of south Florida to the rising seas may lead to the destabilization of further buildings in the future.The exact cause of the disaster that befell the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside on Thursday has yet to be fully determined, although a 2018 engineering report on the structure warned of “significant cracks and breaks in...