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Labour’s Sadiq Khan has said he was “disappointed” that the national government did not mandate continued mask-wearing on public transport after the London mayor ordered travellers to continue to cover their faces on Transport for London (TfL) services after ‘Freedom Day’. While most of England is free to abandon masks for shopping and travel on public systems, London’s Mayor Khan tweeted out reminders that “face coverings are compulsory on TfL” as he launched the “Welcome back London” campaign to woo people onto buses and the Tube again.

On May 21, federal health officials testified before Congress that only 60% of their employees had received the COVID vaccine.Federal health officials testified at a Senate committee hearing that about 60% of their employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19 so farThere are three COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S. that have all received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. More than 279 million vaccine doses had been administered in the U.S. and 60.5% of adults had received at least one shot as of May 21.That was almost exactly the same vaccination rate as that of the public...

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Germany has made a big deal about how global warming is the reason behind the region's catastrophic floods.According to NBC News:"The German language hardly knows any words for the devastation that has been caused here," [Chancellor Angela Merkel] said.She said the force of the storms suggested that they had "something to do with climate change," adding, "We have to hurry, we have to get faster in the fight against climate change."She also palled it up with Joe Biden on climate change just a few days ago:While in the United States, the chancellor and President Biden signed a pact that included...

Morning Joe's opening segment today consisted of one long complaint about the unvaccinated hordes that are going to make us all have to mask up again. Mika Brzezinski condescended to the Americans of Walmart, saying they would be "fighting over whether or not they have to wear their masks." Brzezinski reported that five Texas Democrats in D.C. tested positive over the weekend, but Morning Joe suppressed the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris had a "routine appointment" on Sunday morning at Walter Reed Hospital. Substitute co-host Jonathan Lemire (from AP) dutifully passed along the claim from Harris's office that she...

It is the name for perhaps the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed – certainly by a private company. Once it has wormed its way on to your phone, without you noticing, it can turn it into a 24-hour surveillance device. It can copy messages you send or receive, harvest your photos and record your calls. It might secretly film you through your phone’s camera, or activate the microphone to record your conversations. It can potentially pinpoint where you are, where you’ve been, and who you’ve met. Pegasus is the hacking software – or spyware – that is developed,...

Former President Trump urged all Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine in a Fox News exclusive interview on Tuesday, touting its efficacy as both "a safe vaccine" and "something that works."

(CNN) - Arizona's Senate held a Thursday briefing on the ongoing Republican-initiated "audit" of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, where Joe Biden outperformed Donald Trump by enough of a margin to win the state. The review is being conducted by Cyber Ninjas, a cybersecurity firm that has no experience in election auditing. And the company's chief executive officer, Doug Logan, made some Thursday claims that were immediately called into question by the county and independent experts. Logan said that door-to-door questioning of Maricopa County voters is the "one way" the auditors could determine whether what they are seeing in...

So now @Marvel's latest attempt to sell comic books makes Captain America turn against US forces and side with the communists during the Vietnam War? In Fantastic Four: Life Story #2, written by Mark Russell with art by Sean Izaakse and colors by Nolan Woodard, Captain America attacks American soldiers in an effort to free communist prisoners held by the US.

Bill Burr slammed CNN and Joe Biden on his recent podcast. The comedian, who is never concerned with being politically correct, said the network is a “f–king treasonous un-American pieces of s–t” that can’t stop talking about President Trump because Joe Biden is a “bore.” Burr has a weekly podcast on Thursdays. He doesn’t hold back his feelings on the topics of the day and last Thursday, he aimed his fire at CNN.

Opinions expressed in this article don't necessarily reflect the views of ScienceAlert editorial staff. ================================================================================== Haruko Obokata published two papers in January 2014 that described how regular blood cells could be turned into pluripotent stem cells. At the time, this was a coup – it dramatically simplified a previously complicated process and opened up new vistas of medical and biological research, while neatly sidestepping the bioethical considerations of using human embryos to harvest stem cells. Moreover, the process for this was straightforward, and involved applying a weak acid solution or mechanical pressure – oddly similar to how you'd clean a...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski on Monday tore into former President Donald Trump and his “evil” media allies for having created a deadly cult regarding the coronavirus. Brzezinski pushed back against allowing disinformation about vaccines to spread on the “Wild West” that is Facebook. She emphasized the importance of not allowing the likes of Trump and his allies to sow doubt about vaccines and weaponizing opposition to the vaccine.

VIDEOThe mainstream media has gone into a frenzy reporting on General Mark Milley's claims about a supposed "coup" in the wake of the 2020 election. One of Milley's claims was a conversation he supposedly had on the topic with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Army-Navy game. So why didn't all these meeting outlets slobbering over the Milley story check with Meadows about Milley's claim? Probably because they feared that Meadows would inconveniently contradict the narrative they are trying to promote. If that was their fear they were right because Meadows did indeed call BS on Milley's...

What better time to push through amnesty for potentially millions of illegal immigrants than during the Biden border crisis? As tone-deaf as the plan is, that is exactly what Senate Democrats are planning to do in the $3.5T infrastructure bill. A decision has not been made on the numbers yet but Senator Dick Durbin, the Senate Democratic Whip, confirmed this week that it will happen. Democrats will try to push through immigration reform in the budget process.

A comprehensive analysis of adverse events during clinical trials and over the course of mass vaccinations with the Sputnik V vaccine coronavirus showed that there were no cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). All vaccines based on adenoviral vector platform are different and not directly comparable. In particular, AstraZeneca’s ChAdOx1-S vaccine uses chimpanzee adenovirus to deliver the antigen, consisting of S-protein combined with leader sequence of tissue-type plasminogen activator. The vaccine from Johnson&Johnson uses human adenovirus serotype Ad26 and full-length S-protein stabilized by mutations. In addition, it is produced using the PER.C6 cell line (embryonic retinal cells), which is...

Georgia's Speaker of the House David Ralston is demanding an investigation to "determine if any irregularities or willful fraud occurred" in the state's largest metropolis last November, saying recent revelations about problems with vote counting in Fulton County merit an independent probe.Ralston sent a letter late last week to Fulton County election officials requesting that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation be allowed to conduct the investigation.The request comes after Just the News reported last month that an independent observer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger noted two dozen pages of irregularities in the Atlanta vote counting center last Nov....

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Young North Koreans have been warned they must follow traditional lifestyles and adhere to the country's dialect. The secluded state's official newspaper made the demand in a column as Pyongyang tries to eradicate cultural influences from South Korea. Kim Jong Un's regime is particularly focused on the speaking habits of millennials, with some mimicking their neighbours by referring to their husbands as "oppa" - a term that means "older brother". The Rodong Sinmun newspaper said North Korea's standard language is superior and young people must use it correctly - all while ensuring their clothes, hairstyle, music preferences and dancing styles...

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump accused Sen. Ted Cruz of election fraud, described him as “very unstable,” accused his father of aiding in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his insulted his wife. For all his embarrassment, Cruz (and the rest of the GOP field) got crushed by Trump in the primary, and then he shamelessly groveled and worked to get the man who called his wife ugly elected to the presidency. That, apparently, is Ted Cruz’s idea of “fun.” Cruz was asked in a Thursday interview whether he was thinking about another run for president and...