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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a monoclonal antibody cocktail as a measure to prevent infection in some groups of people who were exposed to the CCP virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19.The FDA on Friday announced that it had revised its emergency use authorization (EUA) for REGEN-COV, a treatment consisting of jointly administered casirivimab and imdevimab, expanding its use beyond just the treatment of patients who test positive for the virus.While the product remains authorized for treating confirmed COVID-19 patients over age 12 who are at high risk of severe illness, the agency said the drug combo...

It is no secret: California is an absolute disaster. Between the increasingly dangerous homeless situation and its accompanying rise in crime, and the continued failure of the state government to provide a modicum of return for the highest taxes in the nation, it is an outright miserable place to be. Coupled with the ridiculous, unscientific, and unconstitutional mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gavin Newsom has little reason to believe he should be anywhere near the Governor’s mansion. Recent polling conducted in the state suggests that California voters are increasingly in agreement with that sentiment.An Emerson Poll now out spells increasingly...

As we previously reported, Joe Biden announced that the CDC would be coming down with a new temporary eviction moratorium order.What was so stunning about Biden’s remarks is that he indicated he knew it was likely to not pass constitutional muster, his own advisors had said the day before that they didn’t have the legal authority, that they had “quadruple-checked it.” Yet he decided to do it anyway, caving under pressure from the progressives. But, in the process, he also said the quiet part out loud — that they were going to do it anyway even if it was unconstitutional...

At the medal ceremony for the badminton men’s doubles on Saturday, the winning players watched a flag being raised, but it was not their own. They sang as a song reverberated in the mostly empty venue, but it was not their anthem. For decades, politics has been getting in the way of Olympic glory for Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that China claims as its territory. Rather than using its formal name, the Republic of China, or even Taiwan, the island competes in international sporting events as Chinese Taipei, under a resolution passed by the International Olympic Committee. The terms prohibit...

Trump backed Mike Carey wins GOP primary in Ohio.

Get your shot! pic.twitter.com/bVgQmlOSph— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) August 2, 2021

Greg makes the case that this is a setup by the leftist DA

EVERETT, Wash — An Everett neighborhood is confused at the city’s priorities after a 7-year-old girl’s lemonade stand was shut down in Rucker Hill Park while complaints over a nearby homeless encampment have gone unaddressed. Every summer, Elsa LaMaine sets up her lemonade stand at Everett’s Rucker Hill Park. “It’s so much fun!” Elsa said. She sold drinks, treats and flowers at her stand until one day her business was shut down due to a complaint. “There was a wicked witch who called the ranger,” Elsa said. A park ranger showed up last Saturday and told Elsa and her grandmother,...

Genomics have been playing a vital role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, with global teams of researchers sequencing more than half a million genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus so far. These efforts generate vast amounts of data, which are daunting for researchers trying to track the most worrying mutations, especially those in the receptor binding domain of the spike protein that enables the virus to infiltrate cells. This is where computational scientists come to the fore. A team led by Intikhab Alam at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has developed an online system called...

A March 30th, 2021 press release published by BusinessWire.com reveals the story: INBRAIN Neuroelectronics Secures $17 Million in Series A Funding for First AI-Powered Graphene-Brain Interface Funding enables company to advance first-in-human studies for its flagship product, a less-invasive neuromodulation device for treating neurological conditions using artificial intelligence and graphene electrodes To be clear, we are not in any way claiming that INBRAIN is involved in covid vaccines. Rather, they state their technology is being used, “for treating epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.” The point of covering INBRAIN is to reveal that brain-controlling “biocircuits” based on graphene are, in fact, a...

Speaking to the MassesPope Francis' recent attack on the traditional Latin Mass and those who attend and offer it has produced quite the outcry around the world. Yet another example of the unintended Francis Effect, slapping around faithful Catholics has blown up in the face of the Vatican. When the Jesuit, left-wing America magazine and normally anti-TLM neoconservative George Weigel both voice public criticism of restricting the freedom to offer and attend Latin Masses, clearly the Vatican roll-out of Francis' hit-job can be considered a massive communications failure based on bad policy and poor planning.To that end, we all...

Masks at outdoor gatherings, 50% of public sector employees to work from home: here is the full list of Israel's latest COVID-19 restrictions. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Coronavirus Cabinet on Tuesday decided to enact a list of restrictions aimed at reducing the coronavirus infection rate across Israel. At the meeting, the Cabinet approved a list of guidelines, which will become mandatory beginning on Sunday August 8. 1. The Green Pass program will be expanded to include locations where less than 100 people gather, an it will apply to every age, including to children too young to receive...

In different areas, in different pockets and clusters of people, there may be other reasons why people labeled “COVID” are getting sick and dying. None of these deaths has anything to with a fake virus called SARS-Cov-2

All five GOP members of Iowa’s congressional delegation voted to certify President Joe Biden’s election on Jan. 6. They actually made history and Iowa unique that day. Only two states have multiple Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives with none voting to object — Iowa and Washington. Washington, of course, doesn’t have any GOP senators, whereas Grassley and Ernst are both Republicans. This means Iowa is the only state in the entire country with multiple Republicans in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to not have one single congressional representative object to the 2020 Presidential Election. Carlin is actually...

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the moratorium could stay in place until it expired, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned the ban could not be extended except by an act of Congress. Just two days before the expiration date, the Biden administration asked Congress to pass an emergency extension.

Turkey on Tuesday criticised a U.S. program to offer potential resettlement to Afghans who may be targets of Taliban violence due to their U.S. affiliations, saying the move would cause a “great migration crisis” in the region. The U.S. State Department on Monday announced a new program under which thousands more Afghans will have a chance to resettle as refugees in the United States. Afghans in the progam would have to make their own way to a third country, where they will wait 12 to 14 months for their application to be processed. A senior State Department official said Washington...

[Catholic Caucus] Now More Than Ever! Archbishop Schedules Roman Apostolic Mass at His CathedralSan Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone instituted a monthly Roman Mass at his Cathedral. It will be celebrated on the first Wednesday of the month at 3 p.m.The Mass will take place on the feast of St Dominic, August 4, and will be celebrated in the Dominican Rite.The Roman Mass was established as a response to “requests from the faithful" (= pastoral reasons) and an "overwhelming response" to a first Roman Mass which was celebrated in July in the cathedral.

The mayoral race in Sterling Heights pits an incumbent who left the GOP to vote for Joe Biden against a rival who organized rallies for Trump. They have two things in common: Both are running for mayor and running away from the state and national GOP. Sterling Heights’ Aug. 3 mayoral primary is about more than who leads Sterling Heights. It’s also shining a light on what it means to be a conservative in a Republican Party still dominated by Donald Trump. Last year Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor made national news — and not the good kind, for some...

The BLM mob came to menace the McCloskeys outside of their St. Louis mansion in June 2020, which prompted the couple to appear outside of their home with firearms. Mark McCloskey is now running for U.S. Senate on the promise of taking the fight to leftist thugs.

The world first learned of Sophie Zhang in September 2020, when BuzzFeed News obtained and published highlights from an abridged version of her nearly 8,000-word exit memo from Facebook. Before she was fired, Zhang was officially employed as a low-level data scientist at the company. But she had become consumed by a task she deemed more important: finding and taking down fake accounts and likes that were being used to sway elections globally. Her memo revealed that she’d identified dozens of countries, including India, Mexico, Afghanistan, and South Korea, where this type of abuse was enabling politicians to mislead the...