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About 50,000 migrants who crossed the southern border illegally have now been released in the United States without a court date. Although they are told to report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office instead, just 13% have shown up so far, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The sizable numbers are a sign of just how overwhelmed some sectors of the U.S.-Mexico border continue to be: A single stretch covering the Rio Grande Valley had 20,000 apprehensions in a week. The figures also show the shortcomings of recent emergency decisions to release migrants. • It's unprecedented for agents to...

July 27 (UPI) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that vaccinated Americans again start wearing masks indoors, citing new scientific data on how the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters the Delta variant -- which is now the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States -- "behaves uniquely differently" compared to earlier strains. "The Delta variant is showing every day its willingness to outsmart us," she said. In "rare" cases in which a fully vaccinated person is infected with the variant, they may be able to spread the virus,...

National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins serves on the advisory board of a conference sponsored by a Chinese military-linked genomics firm, The National Pulse can reveal. The D.C.-based, health industry big-wig and boss to Anthony Fauci has even referred to the controversial company’s founder as a “friend”. The annual event in question – the International Conference on Genomics – is organized by BGI Genomics and the China National GeneBank. BGI Genomics has been flagged by U.S. intelligence officials for its robust efforts to “collect, store and exploit biometric information” on American citizens through COVID-19 test kits. According to...

The Colombian variant may sound like the next concern in the COVID-19 crisis, but in South Florida, it’s already here. Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Health, revealed that now 10% of COVID-positive patients whose results are being sequenced at the University of Miami’s pathology lab have a strain that originated out of Colombia. “And here’s a real shocking thing that’s spreading in Colombia quite a bit,” Migoya told Local 10 News. “And they haven’t seen it anywhere else outside of Colombia. Well, guess what? In the last week, 10% of our patients had the Colombian variant. Why? Because of the...

With a Central Valley health clinic as his backdrop, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill into law that will now give health care coverage for low-income people age 50 and older, including those who are living in the country without the proper documentation.

The CEO of multinational conglomerate Unilever, parent company of Ben & Jerry's, struggled to renounce the ice cream maker's anti-Semitism during a conference call with investors on Thursday. "Unilever remains fully committed to our business in Israel," CEO Alan Jope said in response to critics of Ben & Jerry's inflammatory decision to stop selling its products in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. "I can assure you it is not our intent to regularly visit matters of this, where sensitivity has been a long-standing issue for Ben & Jerry's." Sensitivity indeed. Earlier this week, the firm that became an international...

It is time to acknowledge and ugly truth. Kevin McCarthy has effectively resigned his position as Republican House Minority Leader. by allowing Nancy Pelosi to usurp his power to seat Republicans representatives on House committees. McCarthy should try to retain some dignity and resign as House Minority Leader and make way for someone that will fight for Americans like Rep. Jim Jordan. If GOP representatives are accepting appointments from Democrat Nancy Pelosi instead of Kevin McCarthy then McCarthy has demonstrably lost control of the Republicans in the House and he must resign. Kevin McCarthy has surrendered to Nancy Pelosi and,...

The White House on Tuesday struggled to explain why the Centers for Disease Control would announce new masking policies across the country, despite ongoing faith in the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines. “I know this is slightly awkward timing,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged at the beginning of the daily press briefing. The CDC scheduled a briefing on their new mask guidance for later in the afternoon.

Everything the global governments have done until now has not only failed to work, but has made the virus and the side effects worse. Is the same true for the vaccines? Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccines and a scientist with specialties in virology, joins us to discuss the concern of antibody-dependent disease enhancement. There is a real concern that vaccinating during a pandemic can produce antibodies that bind but do not block, resulting in even greater infection of those vaccinated. Worse, if this is indeed occurring, then Dr. Malone explains how a third dose will place people...

... The U.S. knows something about the research conducted at the WIV, because American taxpayer dollars helped fund it. This was the crux of last week’s dispute between Sen. Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci, who had cast doubt on the lab-leak hypothesis in the past. In their latest bout, the Kentucky Senator accused Dr. Fauci of lying to Congress, a federal crime, when he said this year that the National Institutes of Health had never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. The exchange descended into shouting. The reality is complicated. The NIH gave almost $600,000 to the WIV through a nonprofit...

Around 300 anti-vaccine passport protesters stormed the town hall of Chambéry, denouncing French measures to implement a vaccine passport. The group had gathered in front of the courthouse at around 2 p.m. on Wednesday before heading for the town hall.

Major General Patrick Donahoe posted what he called a "Public Service Announcement," telling people to "Block and report the trolls and the disinformation tinfoil hat team." A Major General, in the US Army has called for people to "block and report" those they disagree with on Twitter. Major General Patrick Donahoe posted what he called a "Public Service Announcement," telling people to "Block and report the trolls and the disinformation tinfoil hat team." Pushback on Twitter was swift and fierce. Human Events' Jack Posobiec noted that Donahoe "couldn't even win a Twitter war..." and in fact, he couldn't. Glenn Greenwald...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has put Ben & Jerry’s and its British manufacturer Unilever on a state watch list for its decision to stop the sale of its products in “disputed territories” in and around Israel. The move to take a pro-Palestinian stance led DeSantis to send a letter on Thursday to the State Board of Administration to ask it to “immediately place Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever on the Continued Examination Companies that Boycott Israel List.” The list is part of a state law passed in 2016 that gives companies 90 days to “cease the boycott of Israel...

A Miami intensive care unit is overflowing with unvaccinated COVID-19 patients, a local CBS affiliate reported on Tuesday. Jackson Memorial Hospital’s ICU Nurse Manager Alix Zacharski told the CBS News affiliate that the "fourth wave" of the virus isn’t going well for them, calling it "the unvaccinated pandemic." “All of them are unvaccinated,” Zacharski said of the COVID-19 patients in the unit. “We’re full. All the patients that are currently here, six of them are under 60 years old.”

A study published in the Nature science journal found that heavy wildfire smoke could be linked to an increase in COVID-19 cases. Researchers looked at Washoe County in northern Nevada, which saw a simultaneous increase in COVID-19 cases while also being exposed to wildfire smoke last year. “We had a unique situation here in Reno last year where we were exposed to wildfire smoke more often than many other areas, including the Bay Area,” Gai Elhanan, co-lead author of the study, told the Reno Gazette Journal.

The third time was not the charm for a man who washed up on a beach in Florida in a "bubble" as he attempted to walk on water to New York for charity. Reza Baluchi, 49, made it about 25 miles into his journey in his hydro pod, which resembles a hamster wheel installed with flotation devices, before returning to shore in St. Augustine, according to The New York Times. Fully stocked for a three-week trip, he reportedly found a day after his departure that his backup GPS device and charging cables were missing, forcing him to return to land....

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A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found successful entrepreneurs realize just 3 per cent of the value of what they produce, while consumers reap the rest, either directly through employment or by social benefit. "If there is a CEO who creates value for shareholders and wealth for the economy, the value they create is so much greater than their compensation," said Sydney Finkelstein, author of "Superbosses" and a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Given the blame directed at America's millionaire class for inequality, the U.S. economic meltdown and our slow recovery, Fox...

The recent spike in COVID-19 cases in California and across the country from the highly infectious delta variant “is an alarming new factor that we must consider as we look to maintain the health and well-being of students, employees and visitors to our campuses this fall," CSU Chancellor Joseph I. Castro said.Students and staff will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before accessing any California State University campus facilities, the nation’s biggest four-year college system said on Tuesday. The CSU system previously said it was planning to require vaccinations and that a formal mandate would depend on when the...

Image showing counter-propagating high-intensity lasers producing gamma radiation. (Toma Toncian) ============================================================================= A new study by scientists has demonstrated how researchers may be able to create an accelerating jet of antimatter from light. A team of physicists has shown that high-intensity lasers can be used to generate colliding gamma photons – the most energetic wavelengths of light – to produce electron-positron pairs. This, they say, could help us understand the environments around some of the Universe's most extreme objects: neutron stars. The process of creating a matter-antimatter pair of particles – an electron and a positron – from photons is called...