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Masks will once again be universally required on the House side of the Capitol amid the spread of the highly contagious delta variant, the Capitol physician announced late Tuesday night. The resumption of the House mask mandate — just over a month after it was lifted — comes after new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier Tuesday recommending that vaccinated people should wear masks in high-risk areas. "To be clear, for meetings in an enclosed US House of Representatives controlled space, masks are REQUIRED," a memo from the Capitol physician, Brian Monahan, states. Monahan said...

Over the past three decades a sizable majority of the ruling elites have been preoccupied with self-aggrandizement and cohabitation with the Communist Chinese, ignoring the gradual and now complete domination of many of the nation’s institutions, and most importantly the Democrat party, by American Marxists. After a premeditated fraudulent election underwritten by the same credulous elites, and with a witless marionette in the White House, these collectivists have been de facto governing the nation since January 20, 2021. The past six months have revealed that thanks to these Marxists’ mindless allegiance to failed ideology and breathtaking ignorance of the American...

Race/Ethnicity of People Fully Vaccinated Date generated: Wed Jul 28 2021 05:27:24 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Race/Ethnicity% Persons Fully Vaccinated# Persons Fully Vaccinated% US Population% Persons completed vaccination in Last 14 Days# Persons completed vaccination in Last 14Hispanic/Latino15.51596546317.228.9662309American Indian/Alaska Native Non_Hispanic0.99534050.8121865Asian Non_Hispanic6.364233865.86.7153537Black Non_Hispanic9924865112.412.6289465Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Non_Hispanic0.32952040.30.48887White Non_Hispanic59.96155937361.241.3946957Multiple/Other Non_Hispanic8.182997212.39.2209939Health Disparities: Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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A Milwaukee man has been sentenced to 205 years in prison for fatally shooting five members of his family and he offered no explanation for his actions, saying that he must have a lot of hate. Before receiving his sentence Tuesday, Christopher Stokes told the judge in Milwaukee County Circuit Court that he wasn't asking for leniency and that he deserved to be locked up. Stokes, 44, said he couldn't explain why he killed his family members. Killed were Teresa Thomas, 41, and her two children, 16-year-old Tiera Agee and 14-year-old Demetrius Thomas. Two others related to Stokes were also...

BERLIN -- Lottery officials say a woman in Germany carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realizing it was worth about 33 million euros ($39 million). Lotto Bayern said Wednesday that the 45-year-old woman was the sole winner of a draw on June 9, having correctly guessed seven fields on a German lottery ticket. It said she plans to use her lucky windfall to live a healthy life and do more for the environment.

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Tuesday on “The Five” that unvaccinated people who are not regularly tested were “arrogant” and “selfish.” Rivera said, “I think the vaccine is absolutely bulletproof against this disease. We had a lightning storm in Cleveland last night. It was as likely to get hit by one of those lightning bolts as to get this terrible disease if you are vaccinated. This is a disease of the unvaccinated.”

Border authorities stopped 188,829 attempted crossings in June, which was the highest this year Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered the state's National Guard members to assist the Department of Public Safety (DPS) in arresting illegal immigrants at the US.-Mexico border who break state laws. Abbott's order was included in a letter sent to Major Gen. Tracy R. Norris of the Texas Military Department. The order expands on Abbott's June disaster declaration, which directed the DPS to enforce all federal and state criminal laws, including those on criminal trespassing, smuggling, and human trafficking. That declaration had allowed the use...

State Rep. Jake Ellzey of Waxahachie beat fellow Republican Susan Wright on Tuesday to succeed her late husband, U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, R-Arlington, and pull off a major upset against a candidate backed by former President Donald Trump. With all precincts reporting Wednesday morning, Ellzey got 53% of the vote, while Susan Wright, a longtime GOP activist, received 47%, according to unofficial results.

SEWARD — More than two hours before Alaska swimmer Lydia Jacoby’s big race Monday night at the Tokyo Olympics, Susan Willet waited in her car outside the Alaska Railroad terminal. Like a lot of people in Seward, the 64-year-old has watched Jacoby emerge from local kid to a world-class athlete. She swims at the same pool where Jacoby has trained for years, and she wanted to be sure to get a good seat at the community watch party. Hundreds of residents gathered at the terminal to watch Jacoby compete in the 100-meter breaststroke. They streamed inside a little before the...

Joy Behar, one of the squawking magpies on ABC’s The View, wants to punish Americans who refuse to get the China Virus vaccine. Joy Behar: "The next step is THREATS for the unvaxed." pic.twitter.com/xd85OgEYrH — 🇺🇸 Lowkey Rey 2.0 🇺🇸 (@AtlRey) July 27, 2021 “I just saw this morning that the CDC is now saying that even vaccinated people should be wearing masks indoor which I have been doing when I go to the supermarket, et cetera. Here is the thing about mandates, we have given them lottery tickets, we have given people incentives all over the place, football tickets,...

Even after the USS Missouri (BB-63) was officially decommissioned in 1992, the “battleship retirement debate” continued – with some military pundits arguing that the old battlewagons were still the best way to provide fire support for amphibious assaults as well as to other troops near shorelines. A counterargument was made that smaller warships such as the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers could provide similar support fire from vastly smaller platforms, while close air support fighters and even advanced missile systems can do the job that was once the domain of the battlewagons.

What's the point of being vaccinated with an experimental agent that has not been FDA-approved if we are still being bullied into covering our faces? Someone ought to remind Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer at Public Health — Seattle & King County, in Washington State, not only that masks do not pass muster, but that he, along with colleagues in public health, has lost credibility. Still, with the alleged rise of the COVID-19 delta variant, panic-prone Duchin — on Friday — urged all residents above the age of five to mask up in indoor public settings again — notwithstanding vaccination...

Capitol police are telling this panel of Trump-hating members of Congress what they want to hear. One of the witnesses at yesterday’s January 6 "hearing," Sgt. Aquilino Gonnell of the Capitol Police, seemed to threaten Donald Trump. He blamed Trump for creating the situation at the Capitol, adding that he would like to "to go to his house and do the same to him. He would like to go to Trump's house and do the same to him." He made this comment during colloquy with Republican turncoat Liz Cheney. Gonnell further told this select committee that "instead of sending in...

Those who wish to disarm other people have a disconnect with reality. They refuse to believe some things are not possible. This creates problems. One of the reasons people push to disarm others is they refuse to arm themselves. Having made that decision, or, having had that decision made for them; they personally see no cost to their disarming of others.Disarm that guy over there. He is not me. It doesn’t hurt me.This is how ideologues who refuse to accept reality get elected again and again. Consider Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator from New York. From the nydailynews.com:A measure to create...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) took a shot at former President Trump’s role in stoking violence on Jan. 6 during a select panel's first hearing, asking officers giving testimony to weigh in on his comments calling the rioters part of a “loving” crowd. “When you think about that and share with us the vivid memory of the cruelty and the violence of the assault that day and then you hear former President Trump say quote ‘It was a loving crowd. There was a lot of love in the crowd,’ how does that make you feel?” Cheney asked U.S. Capitol Police Officer...

Professors at America's top medical schools are being bullied into teaching students that biological sex is a construct and are apologizing for using the terms 'male' and 'female', students say. Reporter Katie Herzog spoke with one student at a med school in the University of California system who says instructors are too scared to acknowledge the existence of two different sexes because it 'can be considered transphobic.' The student - identified only as Lauren - shared her story with Herzog in an article published on Bari Weiss's Substack blog on Tuesday. 'I think there's a small percentage of instructors who...

A 1936 novel by America's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is strikingly prophetic now. Sinclair Lewis’s novel of 1935, It Can’t Happen Here, was published amid the rise of fascism in Europe. The book is about the political career of fictional Buzz Windrip, who is elected President in 1936, defeating FDR with a campaign promising a return to traditional values, drastic social and economic reforms (he promises every American $5k). Once elected, he becomes a totalitarian tyrant complete with his own paramilitary force called the Minute Men! Windrip is Lewis’s version of an American Hitler and/or Mussolini....

...and the public is being kept in the dark about it. Is the Joe Biden administration serious about COVID? Doesn't look like it. Fox News, citing a local incident in La Joya, Texas, found that the Border Patrol is releasing COVID-infected illegals into Texas communities to spread the disease. That's a curious thing given that Biden drew headlines for supposedly keeping Title 42 in place, which would require the Border Patrol to instantly expel migrants based on COVID concerns. Based on this kind of news, the order is de facto rescinded whether Biden says so or not. In this Texas...

If killing freedom is the cost of survival, the cure is worse than the disease. As purportedly "free" countries all over the world get their tyrannical freak on by insisting that every citizen be jabbed with an experimental pharmaceutical cocktail or face the wrath of the Leviathan, I am reminded of a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, in which he remarked: "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive." Jefferson's point was that ordinary citizens represent a necessary check on the natural abuses of government...