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On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that counties showing substantial or high rates of COVID-19 transmission return to masking indoors, regardless of vaccination status. In Pennsylvania, most of the state is considered to be in either low or moderate transmission status as of July 25, with two counties showing high rates of transmission and five counties with substantial transmission. The high-rate counties are Crawford and Cameron counties, and the substantial-rate counties are Adams, Lawrence, Wyoming, Monroe and Northampton. The CDC determines the transmission rate by studying new cases per 100,000 people and the positivity rate of...

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a proponent of the coronavirus vaccine, said he will work to counter misinformation about the shots by mounting an ad blitz in his home state of Kentucky. ​”There is bad advice out there, you know. Apparently you see that all over the place: people practicing medicine without a license, giving bad advice. And that bad advice should be ignored,” McConnell told Reuters in an interview published Wednesday. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky on Tuesday issued new guidelines that call for even fully vaccinated people to wear masks indoors in areas where...

The Justice Department on Wednesday issued another warning aimed at states conducting or considering audits of ballots tallied in last year’s election, reminding election authorities that allowing ballots to be mishandled can violate federal law. While the Biden administration “guidance” document carries no formal legal weight and may not strike fear into local officials, the Justice Department used the release of the legal analysis to press their campaign of saber-rattling against Republican-led audits of the 2020 vote in Arizona and other states, as well as voting changes many GOP-controlled states are pursuing as part of purported anti-fraud efforts.

A derecho, otherwise known as a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm, is expected to traverse parts of the Midwest Wednesday night and early Thursday, according to The Weather Channel. Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, torrential rains, and flash floods. This one could wreak havoc in the areas shaded in purple below. What’s important to note is that this derecho is sweeping across the corn belt. A Moderate risk for severe weather remains forecast for much of the state of Wisconsin. Damaging winds (some 75+ mph) are the primary threat this afternoon and evening. Very large hail and a few...

Ryan Wrecker spent some of his morning trying to figure out what exactly President Joe Biden shouted at the press over the weekend. It sounds like he shouted, "my butt's been wiped.

KEY POINTS A 3,500-year-old clay tablet purchased by the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain for $1.6 million has been forfeited to the United States. The tablet was illegally transported to the U.S. in 2003 and 2014. In a complaint filed in May 2020, prosecutors said the 5-by-6-inch tablet is considered the property of the Iraqi government and should be returned. ========================================================================== A 3,500-year-old clay tablet purchased by the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain for $1.6 million has been forfeited to the United States. The tablet, which bears a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem considered...

“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." (John 3:8) In John 3:8, Jesus relates the moving of the wind to the moving of the spirit. Jesus always taught with parables, using physical things which God created. He spoke of sheep, wolves, crops, and many things the people understood and by them he expressed spiritual truths made manifest through God’s creation. We can understand spiritual things by our observations of physical and visible things. Invisible...

Meanwhile in Michigan: The FBI’s Whitmer Kidnapping Case Looks Like A Potemkin Terror Plot: With the help of snitches, the FBI rounded up some unemployed, homeless, mostly alone and angry loudmouths to build a fantasy football-style display of domestic terrorism fear-porn.The problem with the case is that it appears the FBI, through informants and undercover agents, hatched the kidnapping plot, served in the key leadership positions of the militia group, trained the militia members in military tactics, actively recruited participants, and funded much of the militia’s activities. Then, when various members of the Watchman militia became uncomfortable with the kidnapping...

Norway has taken over as the best place to be currently during the pandemic, bumping the United States from the top, according to a tool used by Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking tracks a country’s economic standing, vaccination coverage, quality of healthcare, mortality rate and easing of restrictions during the pandemic. Norway moved up the pack to the number one spot with an overall rating of 77.2. That is up ten spots from the last update of the chart.

America may have its first mixed-race vice president, its first African American secretary of defense and its first Latino and immigrant as secretary of homeland security, but the country has never been so racist. That, at least, is one of the disturbing conclusions being drawn from a new Gallup poll, which found that the share of Americans reporting that race relations are bad or “somewhat” bad has reached 57 percent — the highest it’s been in two decades. But are its findings really evidence of widespread racism in the US? Hardly. In fact, you need only look at the behavior...

Beijing regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and has held 20 naval exercises involving elements of island capture in the first half of 2021 Chinese embassy in the UK urges London to respect that China’s sovereignty, rights and interests in the South China Sea have historical and legal basis The Chinese military has conducted a drill featuring assault landing and island control, according to state media. Photo: CCTV The Chinese military has conducted yet another drill featuring assault landing and island-control exercises, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday, continuing its training to boost soldiers’ combat readiness in case of insurgency...

Where did all the flu go?I don’t know, it just disappeared, like ‘poof’Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades.Experts say that measures put in place to fend off the coronavirus — mask wearing, social distancing and virtual schooling [ed. I read that ‘virtue signaling’ which makes more sense] — were a big factor in preventing a “twindemic” of flu and COVID-19. A push to get more people vaccinated against flu probably helped, too, as did fewer people traveling, they say.Another possible explanation: The coronavirus has essentially muscled...

I understand that they (medical industry) must be able to see virus differences under electron microscopes, but I'm curious how it is possible to determine tens of thousands cases. Does anyone understand the science for determining the variants of local viruses?

Gay Pride Month may have ended in June but Disney’s push to indoctrinate your children with LGBT propaganda has just begun. It’s new movie, Jungle Cruise, features a scene in which the actor Jack Whitehall’s character comes out as gay. During an interview Whitehall told reporters that he is “proud” and hopes that this scene means a lot to the “LGBTQ kids.” In 2019 Disney placed one of its “first” openly gay characters into a children's television show called Andi Mack. It has been a downward spiral since then with seven different films featuring LGBT characters in the past two...

With so many “rules” around who can talk about what and when, reading Black Victim to Black Victor was incredibly refreshing in its no holds barred approach to any and all subject matters. You will find few accounts more honest and personal than this as he takes you on his intimate and international journey from victimhood to being a victor. “Why am I told to distrust the white man when I couldn’t even depend on my black father?”

Mayor de Blasio’s putting his money where his mouth is. Hizzoner announced Wednesday that his administration will pay New Yorkers $100 to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at any city-run immunization sites as the virus continues to surge in the Big Apple. The cash incentive will start Friday and is aimed at turning the tide on a slowdown in vaccinations, de Blasio said in his daily briefing. “When you get your first dose you will get a $100 incentive,” the mayor said. “Can’t get better than that.”

Amber English won the third gold of the Games for the US shooting team, who back home have joined forces with an ultra-conservative college Amber English won the women’s skeet gold medal on Monday and Vincent Hancock triumphed in the men’s event, a day after Will Shaner was victorious in the men’s 10-metre air rifle. All set Olympic record scores. The US is indeed the all-time medal leader, with roughly as many gold medals as the next three countries (China, Russia and Italy) combined. But Ginny Thrasher’s first-day success in the 10-metre air rifle was the US’s only shooting gold...

Just 13 percent of the roughly 50,000 illegal immigrants released in the US without a court date — and ordered to report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — have bothered to show up, a new report said. The illegal immigrants were given a list of addresses and contacts for ICE offices across the country and directed to report to one of them in the expectation that they would appear after reaching their destination to seek work permits, Axios reported on Tuesday. Just 6,700 migrants who arrived in the US between mid-March and mid-July showed up at ICE offices as of...

Alex Jones covers reports based out of Denmark and France, where people are being held against their will, their only crime being Un-vaccinated. Video...

New Jersey Crazy Law It is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season. You may not slurp your soup. If you have been convicted of driving while intoxicated, you may never again apply for personalized license plates. It is against the law to "frown" at a police officer. On a highway you can not park under a bridge. Car dealerships are forbidden from opening on Sunday. You cannot pump your own gas. All gas stations are full service and full service only. Automobiles are not to pass horse drawn carriages on the street. It is...