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During an interview with The New York Times‘ “Sway” podcast released on Monday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said that if the city’s daily case rate is consistently over 200 cases per day, “we’re not only going to look at a mask mandate, but we’re going to look back at other tools that we’ve been compelled to use.” Lightfoot said, [relevant remarks begin around 9:40] “Well, look, if we get back into an area where we feel like we’re in a red zone, which we are working very hard to make sure that our daily case rate is below 200,...

The Kansas City Chiefs are retiring its horse mascot, saying the time has come to put Warpaint out to pasture. NFL fans won’t see the team’s longtime mare mascot at Arrowhead Stadium during the upcoming season, team president Mark Donovan told reporters Monday. “We feel like it’s time to retire Warpaint,” Donovan said at Missouri Western State University, the Kansas City Star reported. “A lot of reasons for that, but we feel like it’s the right thing to do. Warpaint won’t be running at Arrowhead anymore.”

It turns out novelist Peter Benchley, director Steven Spielberg and the “Jaws” book and movie were right – you don’t want to go swimming off the coast of Massachusetts. According to the latest reports, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is now considered to be the shark capital of the world as the U.S. has overtaken Australia for the dubious ‘country with the most shark attacks’ honor. Forget the “We’re #1” chants and the boat – we’re gonna need a bigger warning sign. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity App (you knew there was an app for this) shows 50 great whites off...

It took me 3 hours to finally hear this on a replay of a news conference on Fox news. How many Freeper's have dramatically altered their life to work on mindfulness? Am I uniquely naïve for wondering this?

Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Tuesday’s broadcast of “America Reports” that today’s testimony from Capitol Police officers to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was “damning.” Baier said, “I watched every minute of this. If you were watching, you saw compelling, at times damning, emotional testimony from these four officers who fought the line to try to protect the Capitol and the lawmakers inside. For anybody watching who looked at that and looked at the videos and their testimony about that day and thought it was not violent, I think that was...

Authorities said a man wearing a yellow dress who had just been released from Western State Hospital first stole a school bus and later drove a piece of heavy equipment through the home of his estranged wife. Employees of Osprey Rafting on Saturday said they saw a man wearing a yellow dress drive away in the company’s yellow school bus from an area east of Leavenworth on SR 2 around 7:40 p.m. Chelan County sheriff’s deputies responded and found the bus heading eastbound. Deputies said the driver ran a red light near Monitor and they tried to pull the driver...

California Democrats fret a tsunami of voter discontent and lackluster turnout could sink Gov. Gavin Newsom even as Republicans worry he could survive a Sept. 14 recall in a photo finish because of decent approval ratings and an uninspiring field of GOP opponents. More than a coronavirus resurgence and frustrating reimplementation of mask mandates in some corners of California, Newsom is under political pressure from rampant homelessness and rising crime — issues polling “off the charts” with voters across the state. The $262 billion state budget Newsom promoted as proof California is “roaring back” from the pandemic did little to...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to activate his Democratic base to save his job, according to the first major poll since the recall candidate field was certified last week. A tally from the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies released Tuesday shows a tightening California race three weeks before voters receive mail ballots in the recall election targeting Newsom. The Democratic governor would defeat the recall by a narrow 3-point margin, the poll suggests, with 50 percent of the most likely voters saying they would retain Newsom versus 47 percent saying they would replace him.

The former editor of the Drudge Report, Joseph Curl, announced Tuesday the launch of Off The Press, a conservative-oriented aggregator that he says will have a "fearless attitude" toward covering "everything for those who devour news all day." Curl says the marketplace is ripe for a premier, 24/7 news aggregator that consumers can trust, with the Drudge Report having become just another echo chamber for the mainstream media. "Now more than ever, keeping up with the most important stories is a battle," Curl says. "With social media deluging everyone with endless posts on their news feeds, the internet needs an...

To prevent further spread of the Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance on Tuesday to recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors when in areas with "substantial" and "high" transmission of Covid-19, which includes nearly two-thirds of all US counties. "In recent days I have seen new scientific data from recent outbreak investigations showing that the Delta variant behaves uniquely differently from past strains of the virus that cause Covid-19," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told a media briefing on Tuesday.

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Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales discusses new state and federal policies aimed at stemming the flow of illegal immigration at the southern border.

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.