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A majority of U.S. adults are concerned about the delta coronavirus variant but have not significantly changed their behavior because of it, according to the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index. The poll shows 84 percent of Americans have at least heard of the delta variant but only 1 in 10 being very familiar with the variant that has led to a global spike in cases. Overall, 72 percent of U.S. adults are concerned about the variant, with 36 percent extremely concerned and 36 percent somewhat concerned. The delta variant has increased cases around the world, with some countries putting new coronavirus restrictions...

Researchers have modified standard baking yeast to sense signs of gut inflammation and respond by secreting anti-inflammatory particlesknorre/Depositphotos VIEW 1 IMAGES Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital have engineered yeast used in baking, wine-making and brewing to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The bacteria has been modified to secrete an anti-inflammatory molecule in response to signs of gut inflammation and has proven effective in preclinical tests. Our gut microbiome is increasingly implicated in everything from cancer to neurodegenerative disease but it is still unclear exactly how we can translate these novel findings into clinical treatments. Fecal transplants are probably the...

“The Biden administration is spying on us,” Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News program Monday night. “We have confirmed that.”According to Tucker, two whistleblowers in the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading his text messages regarding a story on the January 6 Capitol riot.This is a serious allegation, and yet easy to believe. Very easy.It shouldn’t be. This is America, after all. The federal government wouldn’t do such a thing, would it?Articles from The Hill, Business Insider, and The Daily Beast, amongst others, attempted to dismiss the allegations. A quick search of social media shows exactly what you’d...

Dead men voting. Absentee ballots bought with cash. A burglary at campaign headquarters. Campaign workers arrested. It’s election time, and residents of southern Florida’s largest city are being asked to ignore a growing vote-fraud scandal and go to the polls again today to break a virtual dead heat between two mayoral candidates who have been slugging it out in a campaign certified as bizarre even by Miami standards. Late Wednesday, Dade State Atty. Kathy Fernandez Rundle announced that she would convene a grand jury investigation into allegations that fraudulent absentee ballots may have tainted last week’s election that led to...

SoundCloud has de-platformed journalist Andy Ngo's podcast "on the grounds of being dedicated to violating" the site's rules. However, the latest episode of the podcast was uploaded more than one year ago and there was no option in the notification email for Ngo to appeal or even seek further information. Ngo's podcast, "Things You Should Ngo," hosted heterodox ideas and stories. Ngo interviewed academics and thinkers from "the Intellectual Dark Web." Over the weekend, SoundCloud's Trust & Safety Team informed Ngo via email of the permanent ban for "violating" the site's Terms of Use and Community Guidelines, which state that...

On May 20, 2021, the state of Iowa passed a law "that requires all Iowa schools to lead the Pledge of Allegiance once a day in grades 1–12." Governor Nordman said:We don't pledge our allegiance to a government or a leader. We pledge our loyalty to an idea — the American idea. We pledge our loyalty to the greatest social experiment to ever happen on this planet. This is why I believe the Pledge of Allegiance is so important.However, the law also states: "A student shall not be compelled against the student's objection or those of a student's parent or...

Since 2018, when then-U.S. surgeon general Jerome Adams declared a youth vaping epidemic, America has been engaged in the great American vape debate. In the three years since the infamous shot heard round the anti-tobacco control world, states and localities and the federal government have pushed to restrict adult access to e-cigarettes through taxes, regulations, and some have supported all out prohibitions. Over the past week, two notable events took place in the debate. On Wednesday, June 23, U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL.) chaired a House Oversight subcommittee hearing titled “An Epidemic Continues: Youth Vaping in America.” On June 28,...

As if the Biden administration couldn't sink any lower than it already has, in comes White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki to dig the shambles deeper.According to Yahoo! Sports:Olympian Gwen Berry protested during the national anthem during the Olympic trials on Saturday when she turned away from the flag on the medal podium and held a t-shirt over her face.On Monday, the White House took notice.Press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Berry’s protest on Monday by a reporter, and while she said she hasn’t spoken with President Joe Biden about it specifically, Psaki defended the hammer thrower’s actions.“I know [Biden...

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...