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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Governor JB Pritzker kicked his re-election bid into full gear Tuesday. He spoke with ABC7 Political Reporter Craig Wall in a one-on-one interview about his record and why he wants another term. "You know, when I ran for governor four years ago, I wanted to tackle the big challenges facing our state, and of course, put Springfield back on the side of working families," Pritzker said. "So I'm running for reelection because there's so much more that we can do to help Illinoisans reach their full potential."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that a climate jobs proposal called the Civilian Climate Corps will be part of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that Senate Democrats plan to pass. The move reflects the high priority many Democratic activists place on climate change measures, even as businesses raise concerns about the financial cost of conversion to non-fossil fuels. The furthest-left lawmakers, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, have long pushed for the “Green New Deal,” which calls on the federal government to wean the United States from fossil fuels and curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions...

Bacteriophages on a bacterium. (Graham Beards/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) ================================================================================= Like the start of a horror movie, ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of now-melting permafrost: from incredibly preserved extinct megafauna like the woolly rhino, to the 40,000-year-old remains of a giant wolf, and bacteria over 750,000 years old. Not all of them are dead. Centuries-old moss was able to spring back to life in the warmth of the laboratory. So too, incredibly, were tiny 42,000-year-old roundworms. These fascinating glimpses of organisms from Earth's long distant past are revealing the history of ancient ecosystems, including details of the...

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wanted former President Donald Trump to go on a "thank you" tour of the nation during the 2020 presidential campaign, according to a new book released on Tuesday. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker make the claim in their book, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year. Christie, a Republican who led New Jersey from 2010 to 2018, was a close ally of Trump during his first presidential campaign and his time in the White House, endorsing him in February, 2016.

Arookie police officer in Glasgow, Scotland, was recently embarrassed to discover that the "drone" she thought was pursuing her on her way to a shopping center was actually just the planet Jupiter. Local news outlets report that the embarrassing mix-up has become the talk of her station. The Daily Record reported Saturday that the officer left her station around midnight Tuesday when she first saw the bright light she believed to be a drone. She attempted to "lose the drone" on her way to a local shopping center; however, she failed. Afraid, she eventually called the general complaints number for...

On July 12, 2016, The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that China had systematically violated essential provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or the UNCLOS, at the expense of the Philippines. China's violations included stealing resources from Manila's maritime Exclusive Economic Zone, or EEZ, and illegally encroaching on Filipino territory in the South China Sea, or SCS. UNCLOS codifies the geophysical conditions and legal precedents establishing sovereign control of territorial waters and rights in EEZs. It is dedicated to preventing and peacefully resolving disputes involving billions of dollars of maritime resources. In blunt...

Under the innocuous title of "infrastructure," a revamping of our society into a socialist state is hurtling through the Senate. A vote is expected as early as Wednesday on the first of two infrastructure bills that constitute a federal takeover of everything from child care to state transportation systems. While our highways could use some repair, these Democrat-written bills are about nearly everything other than highway funding. The $3.5 trillion Democratic version includes federally controlled universal preschool, taxpayer-subsidized child care, low-income housing, free community college and more leftist fake energy projects like clanky windmills. Child care, free indoctrination at community...

He says it will be a news aggregation type site focused on liberty issues. Site...

The Biden administration promoted a handbook urging teachers to 'disrupt Whiteness and other forms of oppression' in their Department of Education guidance on reopening schools, it has been revealed. The government document published this year linked to the Abolitionist Teaching Network's 'Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning' in a section describing how schools are a 'microcosm of society' and conversations essential to 'race and emotional learning' should be 'anchor tenets' in schools. The Department of Education handbook on how to welcome children back to classrooms following COVID states that schools have a share of $122 billion...

Video LinkDescription from site:"I was an F-16 pilot for 18 years and now use those skills analyzing Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. This video analyzes the three videos released by Jeremy Corbell - radar feed, thermal video, and optical video. Combined they make an amazing case that these are indeed objects that we currently can't explain or understand."

I saw reports this morning of how Senator Rand Paul called out Dr. Fauci for his refusal to own up to funding (through his National Institute of Health) gain-of-function research at Wuhan lab, which appears to have been the origin of the COVID pandemic. I also saw that a Washington Post reporter, Josh Rogin, admitted that Sen. Paul was telling the truth. Sen. Paul also said that he would send a letter to the Department of Justice asking them for a criminal referral for Fauci lying to Congress. The senator is a brave man for taking on the COVID mafia–it...

DETAILSRANK: CAPTAIN (RANK AT TIME OF PRESENTATION: MAJOR; HIGHEST RANK: COLONEL)CONFLICT/ERA: VIETNAM WARUNIT/COMMAND: COMPANY K, 3D BATTALION, 4TH MARINES, 3D MARINE DIVISION (REIN) FMFMILITARY SERVICE BRANCH: U.S. MARINE CORPSMEDAL OF HONOR ACTION DATE:JULY 15 - 18, 1966MEDAL OF HONOR ACTION PLACE:REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM CITATIONFor conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. On 15 July, during Operation Hastings, Company K was landed in an enemy-infested jungle area to establish a blocking position at a major enemy trail network. Shortly after landing, the company encountered a reinforced enemy platoon in a well-organized,...

Did Dr. Fauci lie to Congress? That’s what Senator Rand Paul wants to know. Paul joins me for an exclusive interview to break down his concerns about the “expert” class’s dishonesty on masks, COVID origins, “gain of function” research, and more. Video...

On January 29 of 2018 the NIH lifted the funding pause for gain of function research. This is a video of Fauci discussing resumed gain of function research, funded through a program called P3 CO.

Two women and a man were chatting in the area when a Dodge Avenger reversed and stopped near where the group was gathered, video released by the LAPD shows. Two men got out of a Dodge Avenger and confronted the man while holding a handgun. The women who were talking to the would-be victim ran away when the gun was displayed, the video shows. The two men who confronted the would-be victim were shot, but their injuries were not life-threatening, police said. Police are asking for help finding the man who fired the weapon and the driver who got away.

A California couple whose gender reveal party set off a wildfire last year has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a firefighter was killed trying to put the fire out. San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson announced Tuesday that the couple pleaded not guilty the day before. The Hill reports that the fire started on September 5th of last year, when the couple held a gender reveal party at El Dorado Ranch Park, at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains. But a smoke-generating device set the surrounding dry grass ablaze,...

This official says "even if you run into your next door neighbor at the supermarket, do not start a conversation, even if you are wearing a mask." Considering who follows the advice of the establishment, I hope this advice is introduced in the states as well.

A Chinese national was sentenced Wednesday to three years and six months in federal prison for conspiring to submit false export information through the federal government’s Automated Export System and to export maritime raiding craft and engines to China fraudulently, and attempting to export that equipment fraudulently in violation of U.S. law. As part of his plea agreement, he agreed to the administrative forfeiture of $114,834.27, the amount caused to be wired to a U.S. manufacturer to purchase the raiding craft and engines.Ge Songtao, 51, of Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2020. According to court...

A RORATE CÆLI Editorial: Bishops should dispense priests and faithful from the horrors of Traditionis Custodes immediately *Approved by a Doctor of Canon Law.We at Rorate Caeli are gratified and edified by the generous paternal and pastoral approach that many bishops, particularly those in the Anglo-French sphere, have taken as a response to the horror that is “Traditionis Custodes”. To those good shepherds who read this we express, from the depths of our souls, our heartfelt gratitude. In a time when anger and sadness try to push their way into our hearts and disturb our peace your actions, correct and...

A Mississippi pharmacist pleaded guilty today for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE and private insurance companies by paying kickbacks to distributors for the referral of medically unnecessary compounded prescription medications that were ultimately dispensed by his pharmacies. The conduct allegedly resulted in more than $180 million in fraudulent billings, including more than $50 million paid by federal healthcare programs. According to court documents, David “Jason” Rutland, 42, of Bolton, a pharmacist and co-owner of various compounding pharmacies, admitted that he participated in a scheme to defraud TRICARE and other health care benefit programs by distributing medically...