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(CNN)The US could see about four times the current rate of Covid-19 cases in the next four to six weeks as the Delta variant spreads and the population hits a wall on vaccinations, the former CDC director told CNN. "We're heading into a rough time. It's likely, if our trajectory is similar to that in the United Kingdom, that we could see as many as 200,000 cases a day," Dr. Tom Frieden said, adding the US likely won't see the "horrific death tolls" of earlier in the pandemic thanks to the number of vulnerable people who are vaccinated. But, he...

An ESPN sportswriter has declared on live TV that seeing the American flag being waved at the Tokyo Olympics symbolizes the "rise of white supremacy." Speaking during an appearance on CBS on Monday, Bill Rhoden said people waving Old Glory at the Games in Japan reminds him of the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Dr. Turley discusses Simone Biles and the other woke members of the US women's gymnastics team. He also goes on to discuss why patriotism is important and why being woke leads to losing.

To have any chance of conquering Taiwan, China might need to transport as many as two million troops across the rough 100 miles of the Taiwan Strait and land them under fire at the island’s 14 potential invasion beaches or 10 major ports. That’s a lot of people—far, far more than the People’s Liberation Army Navy can haul in its 11 new amphibious ships. To transport the bulk of the invasion force, Beijing almost certainly would take up into naval service thousands of civilian ships. To that end, the Chinese Communist Party has created a legal and bureaucratic framework for...

Hong Kong markets continued selling off on Tuesday, extending losses from Monday. The broader Asia-Pacific markets, meanwhile, were mixed. The broader Hang Seng index in Hong Kong briefly fell more than 5% in Tuesday afternoon trade before paring some of those gains, eventually closing 4.22% lower at 25,086.43. The index has fallen more than 8% in just two days as regulatory fears surrounding China’s technology and private education sector weighed on investor sentiment. On Monday, it fell more than 4%. Hong Kong-listed shares of Chinese tech giant Tencent fell 8.98% while Alibaba dropped 6.35% and Meituan declined 17.66%. The Hang...

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Next year’s midterm elections will be as good to Republicans as the seminal 1994 vote, which gave the GOP unified control of Congress for the first time in more than 40 years, Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted Monday night. “I think there’s a tidal wave brewing,” Graham (R-SC) told Fox News’ “Hannity.” “I think this is going to be 1994 all over again. When you look at rampant inflation, out-of-control crime and a broken border and just [a] general lack of knowing what you’re doing, lack of competency … the Republican Party’s going to have a great comeback if we recruit...

All cancer is nasty, but some forms are nastier than others. Take glioblastoma, a thankfully rare form of tumor: It grows quickly and aggressively on the brain or brain stem, cannot be cured, and is almost always fatal. It's also hard to treat, requiring intensive radio and chemotherapy that patients are often unable to complete. But scientists may have just found a new method: a noninvasive cap that uses an oscillating magnetic field to shrink the tumor. The device was recently tested on a 53-year-old glioblastoma patient, whose tumor showed a remarkable 31 percent size reduction in a short time...

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) responded to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy calling her a “Pelosi Republican” in a video played Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told a reporter that Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (IL) are “Pelosi Republicans” for accepting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) invitation to participate in the select committee investigating the January 6, U.S. Capitol riot. In a video at the White House Rose Garden after the commemoration of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a reporter said, “Some Republicans have been saying — ” McCarthy interjected, “Some Republicans?” The...

The first person to be tried under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law was found guilty of secessionism and terrorism on Tuesday. The Hong Kong High Court handed down the verdict in the case of Tong Ying-kit, age 24. He’s accused of driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers while carrying a flag bearing the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” on July 1 last year, a day after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation on Hong Kong following months of anti-government protests in 2019. Tong’s defense lawyer has said it’s impossible to prove that...

WASHINGTON, Friday, July 26. The Postmaster-General and the Mexican Minister have concluded an arrangement for a mail between some point in the United States and Vera Cruz. The terms of a contract for transportation have also been arranged, and the whole matter virtually concluded. The following is an official list of the Killed, wounded and missing of the Thirty-eighth New-York Volunteers, Col. WARD. By the way, this Regiment and the Twenty-seventh, Col. SLOCUM, were quite as much in the fight as any other two regiments, the Zouaves, Sixty-ninth and Seventy-ninth not excepted: Wm. E. Straight, Orderly Sergeant, Company I. Samuel...

Anybody else not able to find Microsoft Outlook on Office365 this morning?

The fake news is disgusting. Watching them and the Democrat party hacks are suddenly BELIEVING COPS. First guy is pretending to cry. No one is going to question their testimony....because they're bashing purported (NOT PROVEN) supporters of Trump. Garbage.

Yesterday on Bannon's Warroom there was a Dr. speaking about experimental vaccines and how they caused Gulf War Syndrome. She even mentioned the chemical in the experimental anthrax vaccine that caused it. I did a little research and found: Pleaser Wiki. "In 1998, the Clinton administration required the inoculation of all military members with the anthrax vaccine known as Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA) and by the trade name BioThrax. In June 2001, the DoD halted vaccinations due to non-FDA approved changes in BioPort's manufacturing process." "Over 8 million doses of BioThrax were administered to over 2 million U.S. military personnel...

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Remains of the last person still listed as missing in the collapse of a Florida condominium tower on June 24 have been recovered and identified, bringing the final confirmed death toll to 98, Miami-Dade County officials said on Monday. Remains of the latest victim, Estelle Hedaya, 54, were found by search teams on July 20, and medical examiners had been working since then to positively identify her before making Monday's announcement, authorities said at a news conference. The Miami-Dade fire department's round-the-clock search for additional victims at the beachfront site of the Champlain Towers South condo, in the Miami suburb...

OSAGE BEACH, Mo.—The petite blonde bartender in ripped jean shorts bounced to each side of a square-shaped bar as women in bikinis and shirtless men lined up on a sweltering afternoon to order Bud Light, vodka and soda, and piles of nachos at this dockside retreat in the Lake of the Ozarks region. In a county designated a Covid hot spot, in a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the nation, and in a region where hospitals are nearing capacity as the Delta variant takes hold, Erin, a bartender at Backwater Jack’s, couldn’t be in a more...

The United States has a military, intelligence, and moral reason for American forces to remain in Afghanistan. The Taliban fighting the Afghan government is a declared enemy of the United States. Leaving Afghanistan ensures that the Taliban will take over most of Afghanistan, which sadly is happening at a quickening pace. A Taliban victory opens Afghanistan to be a hotbed of terrorism as it was after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and the United States and before the events of September 11, 2001. Secondly, American withdrawal from Afghanistan creates an intelligence vacuum. American ground forces and their intelligence allies...

The United States will not lift any existing travel restrictions “at this point” due to concerns over the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant and the rising number of U.S. coronavirus cases, the White House confirmed on Monday. The decision, which was first reported by Reuters, comes after a senior level White House meeting late on Friday. It means that the long-running travel restrictions that have barred much of the world’s population from the United States since 2020 will not be lifted in the short term. “Given where we are today … with the Delta variant, we will maintain existing travel...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Babysitter Terry McKirchy got a light sentence 36 years ago after pleading no contest to attempted murder for shaking 5-month-old Benjamin Dowling so severely that he suffered permanent brain damage — weekends in jail for three months and three years probation.But now McKirchy is facing a possible life sentence after a Florida medical examiner says Dowling succumbed to those injuries when he died in 2019 at the age of 35 after a life with severe mental and physical disabilities. Broward County grand jury recently indicted McKirchy, 59, with first-degree murder and she is now jailed near...