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“The Delta variant is a game-changer,” said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said on Thursday. Ferrer announced that, as the Delta variant has become more prevalent in Los Angeles County, the percentage of infections happening among fully-vaccinated residents is also rising. In March, vaccinated people accounted for only 2% of all infections. In April that rose to 5%. In May, it was 11%. Stood at 20% in June. The rise coincides with the rise of the more transmissible Delta variant in the county, which now accounts for 84% of all variants recently identified. But, said Ferrer, there...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he may not be the best candidate for the 2022 midterms, ahead of what is expected to be a competitive Senate race in the Badger State. "I want to make sure that this U.S. Senate seat is retained in Republican hands," Johnson told conservative talk show host Lisa Boothe on Wednesday. "You see what the media’s doing to me. I may not be the best candidate. I wouldn’t run if I don’t think I could win if I don’t think I was the best person to be able to win," he continued. Johnson went on...

The University of Surrey has built an artificial intelligence (AI) model that identifies chemical compounds that promote healthy aging—paving the way towards pharmaceutical innovations that extend a person's lifespan. In a paper published by Scientific Reports, a team of chemists from Surrey built a machine learning model based on the information from the DrugAge database to predict whether a compound can extend the life of Caenorhabditis elegans—a translucent worm that shares a similar metabolism to humans. The worm's shorter lifespan gave the researchers the opportunity to see the impact of the chemical compounds. The AI singled out three compounds that...

Former Chi-Com General’s ‘Morning Star Ranch’ In Texas Has An Airstrip Next To A U.S. Air Force BaseShould nations let their enemies purchase land within their own borders? You’d likely give a resounding ‘no’ to this question, correct? And yet, a former Chinese general with alleged ties to Chinese concentration camps recently bought an airstrip in Texas. And this isn’t just some random ranch in the middle of nowhere. It is 200 square miles (130,000 acres) of land between one of the most active Air Force bases in the U.S. and the border of Mexico. As the world is being...

where can one find the website for the real usa inflation rate? in the past i have used google to find it, but now i apparently cannot do that any more (at least not easily). thanks.

A woman who was suspicious her online boyfriend of a year was Catfish because he never FaceTimed her. Esther, 21, a fashion student from Nottingham appeared on MTV's Catfish UK last night, after her best friend Anita contacted the show with suspicious about Theo, who met Esther on Instagram. Theo and Esther talk multiple times a day but have never FaceTimed or met in person, with Theo saying he can't meet because he's on business in Nigeria and ducking his girlfriend's calls. 'But he's always in a meeting, whenever I try to video-call he doesn't pick up. We were on...

Many parents were thrilled to have hundreds of dollars suddenly land in their bank accounts last week, as the Internal Revenue Service distributed the first of six monthly child tax credit payments. This is the first time the child tax credit is being paid out on a monthly basis. When lawmakers beefed up the credit as part of the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package in the spring, they opted to provide half of it this year to help parents with their monthly expenses, including housing, food, clothing and school supplies. Families will get the other half when they file...

In this May 17, 2019, file photo, Michael Drake answers questions during an interview in Columbus, Ohio. University of California regents on Thursday, July 22, will take up a multi-year tuition increase proposal that officials say is needed to keep campuses competitive, increase aid for low-income students and give families some financial predictability. The office of UC President Michael Drake said that an accompanying increase in financial aid would more than offset increases in tuition. Only students whose families earn $150,000 a year or more would benefit from keeping tuition flat, it said, whereas everyone else would benefit from...

This is a small clip on Tucker Carlson yesterday with Charlie Kirk. Make no mistake CNN is State Run news. Charlie Kirk was accidentally sent an email from CNN with this week’s talking points about “pushing the vaccine.”https://twitter.com/EdwinVcity/status/1418081485450616840

CNN — Mississippi's attorney general told the Supreme Court on Thursday that Roe v. Wade was "egregiously wrong" and should be overturned as she urged the justices to allow a controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect. "The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition" state Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the justices in a new brief, launching the opening salvo in the most important abortion-related dispute the court has heard in decades. Fitch said that the case for overruling Roe is "overwhelming." Roe v....

CNN’s heavily promoted town hall event with President Biden failed to resonate with Americans on Wednesday night, as it got thumped by Fox News and even finished with a smaller audience than MSNBC. The CNN Biden town hall, moderated by Don Lemon, averaged only 1.5 million viewers from 8-9:30 p.m. ET, while Fox News averaged 2.7 million viewers during the same time period. MSNBC averaged 1.6 million sets of eyeballs, which pushed CNN’s chat with the president to last place among relevant cable news stations. Fox News beat CNN by a staggering 83 percent during the Biden town hall with...

@JohnStossel The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it protects us from"hate groups". But it's a scam... a money grabbing slander machine: Video...

Conservative radio host Larry Elder is leading the field of candidates running to remove California Gov. Gavin Newsom from office by way of a recall election scheduled to take place on Sept. 14, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The Inside California Politics and Emerson College poll found California voters favored Elder by 10 points when asked which of the recall candidates they planned to support. peaking with KRON-TV Wednesday evening, Elder said he announced his candidacy earlier this month, and has thus not been a candidate in the race to recall Newsom for long. Elder credited his public...

CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen said she was "disappointed" by President Joe Biden's performance in a Wednesday town hall when it came to his answers on questions concerning the coronavirus and vaccines. Discussing the CNN town hall with a panel immediately following the event, Wen felt Biden wasn't "meeting the realities of what's happening on the ground" concerning the virus, that some of his answers to questions were "irresponsible," and that he "led people astray" when he claimed vaccinated people were "well-protected" against the Delta variant of the virus. "I was actually disappointed by President Biden’s … answers tonight...

While polls conducted earlier this year found a consistent 36 percent of registered voters in California supported removing Newsom from office, the new poll from Inside California Politics and Emerson College said that number has now jumped to 43 percent.

We finally have a new poll of the Gavin Newsom recall election in California, and it shows a tightening race with some big warning signs for the governor. The last high quality polls that were released in May showed opposition to the recall beating support for the recall by double digits, but a new poll released by Emerson College and Nexstar Media's Inside California Politics on Thursday shows a closer race. The biggest red flag for Newsom was the poll's question, "Regardless of the recall effort, would you vote to re-elect Gov. Newsom in 2022 or do you think it...

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Listen live at the link below. Jesse's show is now on over 200 radio stations across the nation, replacing Buck Sexton. Yes, we deeply miss Rush, but if you give Jesse a listen, you'll find him to be a very intelligent, refreshing, naturally funny truth teller.Jesse is a former Marine, husband and father of two young boys who lives in the Houston area. He's a self-deprecating historyphile with an infectious laugh. His time slot is later in the day, when many are getting off work and doing dinner, and if you can't listen...

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (KABC) -- Los Angeles County is now seeing its highest daily COVID-19 case count since mid-February. The county health department reported 2,767 new cases on Thursday. That's up 80% in just one week - and 20 times as high as the figure from a month earlier. The new case count has now exceeded 1,000 for 14 straight days, while it was well below 200 per day in mid-June. The county has now reported more than 1.27 million cases since the start of the pandemic. Hospitalizations also continue to rise, jumping from 585 on Tuesday to 645 on...

Joe Biden on Thursday delivered a speech in the East Room of the White House before he signed the “Crime Victims Fund Act.” Biden said he was the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee 150 years ago. "Way back 150 years ago when I was chairman of the Judiciary Committee we spent a lot of time…” said Biden. ...... Snip...... Earlier this year Joe Biden lost his train of thought and said he came to the senate 120 years ago.

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (New Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths continue rising - Vaccinations around the recent normal of about 600K/day) Administered: 339,763,765 (13,126,443 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 187,216,168 Fully Vaccinated: 162,174,165