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President Joe Biden is redirecting his focus on Monday from Afghanistan to House Democrats who are threatening to block House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) budget resolution for the “infrastructure” spending spree. “We expect to see the president personally get involved today by calling Democratic lawmakers, according to sources,” Punchbowl News reported about the nearly $5 trillion infrastructure battle, which the administration is desperate to pass in the wake of high crime, inflation, border crossings, and now the failed Afghan evacuation.

The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. The widely anticipated decision replaces the emergency use authorization granted by the agency last December. This is the first COVID-19 vaccine to be subject to a full review by the U.S. regulator and to get an approval that puts the vaccine on par with other marketed vaccines. The full approval could make it easier for employers, the military and universities to mandate vaccination and may reassure some people who are hesitant about the vaccine. "While this and other vaccines have met the FDA's rigorous, scientific standards for emergency use...

Witnesses are getting antsy with special counsel John Durham 's criminal inquiry into the opening and conduct of the Russia investigation. Last week, nearly seven months into the Biden administration, reports said the federal prosecutor had presented evidence before a grand jury , a sign he is considering more criminal charges beyond the one brought against former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to altering an email about a Trump campaign aide who was under government surveillance. Adding another layer to the public's understanding of the politically charged review, the Washington Post reported some private chatter about Attorney General Merrick...

Manchin warns House Democrats: 'Terrible message' to delay bipartisan infrastructure bill © Greg Nash Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is leaning on House Democrats to speed up consideration of the roughly $1 trillion Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill, endorsing an effort by a band of moderates who are in a standoff with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Manchin, in a statement, noted the Senate passed the bipartisan bill before Democrats approved a budget blueprint that allows them to try to pass a $3.5 trillion spending plan later this year without GOP support. "The House should put politics aside and do the same. With...

Troops from NATO member states, including the U.S., U.K. and France, are all working in Kabul to remove citizens and Afghans eligible for resettlement out of the country. But there isn’t a coordinated effort between the allies to communicate with the Taliban or ensure people get to the Hamid Karzai International Airport safely, Pentagon officials acknowledged on Thursday.Taliban fighters have set up a series of checkpoints on roads leading up to the airport to the north of Kabul, where people eligible for safe passage under a deal worked out between the U.S. and Taliban leaders is not being honored, according...

Jenifer Griffin is reporting and questioning John Kirby about British commander being shut out of negotiAtions.

Eating fructose appears to alter cells in the digestive tract in a way that enables it to take in more nutrients. These changes could help to explain the well-known link between rising fructose consumption around the world and increased rates of obesity and certain cancers. The research focused on the effect of a high-fructose diet on villi, the thin, hairlike structures that line the inside of the small intestine. Villi expand the surface area of the gut and help the body to absorb nutrients, including dietary fats, from food as it passes through the digestive tract. The study found that...

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Even if you don't go to Facebook, this video is shockingly important!! Maybe it's just a joke about nothing, but I don't think so. I think our "government" is ready to starve a lot of people to keep its power. Am I over-reacting? What do you all think? If you think this is real, please spread the word in every way possible.

Current and former political, military and intelligence officials are trying to pin responsibility for the catastrophe in Afghanistan on everyone but themselves. Some say what happened was inevitable. One retired senior military commander said we should have built the Afghan security forces to look more like the Taliban. President Biden blamed the Afghans as well as his predecessor. Such statements are infuriating.snip The fall of Afghanistan is, more than anything else, the result of U.S. political-military arrogance and incompetence at the senior levels over the past 20 years. Blaming the Afghans and claiming that only a political solution could bring...

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California's third most populous city has renamed a section of a prominent street "Barack Obama Boulevard." The boulevard through downtown San Jose is the first street in the Bay Area to be named for the nation's first Black president after four years of planning, FOX 2 of the Bay Area reported. "We always felt like it was going to happen because there was bipartisan support," Alex Shoor, who proposed the idea in 2017, told The Mercury News. "San Jose is a progressive, open-minded city. Most of us want to grow up in a country where any one of our children...

On Sunday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Dr. Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the FDA’s decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer’s application for full approval of its Covid-19 vaccine. “I see no need to rush the FDA approval process for any of the three Covid-19 vaccines,” the senator wrote. “Expediting the process appears to only serve the political...

18 stories... Here is one: Man says his brother, a conservative talk radio host who died of COVID, wishes he got vaccine The brother of Nashville radio personality Phil Valentine shared with WWTN-FM on July 23 that his anti-vaccine brother was on supplemental oxygen and urged people to get the shot. “First of all, he's regretful that he wasn't a more vocal advocate of the vaccination,” Mark Valentine said of his brother, according to the Associated Press. “For those listening, I know if he were able to tell you this, he would tell you, ‘Go get vaccinated. Quit worrying about...

Police on Sunday arrested a man accused of attacking another man with a hammer in a Manhattan subway station, causing the victim to fall onto the tracks, according to the NYPD. Cops arrested Jamar Newton, 41, around 8:45 p.m. on charges including assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. Authorities said the Brooklyn man engaged in a verbal dispute with a 44-year-old man at the Union Square station along the N and R lines, just after 9 p.m. Saturday. WATCH (warning: graphic video) Video below: Twitter Link** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and...

CBS News just proved how far down the whirlpool of nonsense it’s willing to go. The outlet actually blamed climate change for Afghanistan’s terrorism outbreak following President Joe Biden’s massive foreign policy failure. CBS News climate and energy reporter Cara Korte wrote an absurd story headlined: “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban.” She decried that “Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change,” before making the wild connection that “the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.” But CBS News was singing a different tune 6 years ago when...

People with mentally stimulating jobs have a lower risk of dementia in old age than those with non-stimulating jobs, finds a study published by The BMJ today. One possible explanation is that mental stimulation is linked to lower levels of certain proteins that may prevent brain cells forming new connections (processes called axonogenesis and synaptogenesis). Cognitive stimulation is assumed to prevent or postpone the onset of dementia. But trial results have varied and most recent long term studies have suggested that leisure time cognitive activity does not reduce risk of dementia. Exposure to cognitive stimulation at work typically lasts considerably...

3.5 trillion price tag of a party-line spending plan Democrats are assembling to secure much of President Joe Biden's economic agenda. It may compel Democrats to dramatically scale back their ambitions in order to get her support. House Democrats over the party-line budget plan. Those Democrats are threatening to withhold support from the budget blueprint unless a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that recently passed the Senate reaches Biden's desk first. Sinema had previously indicated she would not back a $3.5 trillion plan, which could pave the way for Medicare's expansion, initiatives to combat the climate crisis, set up affordable childcare...

Kyrsten Sinema still opposes her party's plans for a $3.5 trillion, party-line spending bill. And she’s not up for a negotiation about it. Note: Sinema is one of my Senators and might be one of the few true Blue Dog senators left in America. Manchin is possibly another. If more dem senators were like Sinema we would not have 90% of the problems we have in America today. JMHO.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby says the US military will now require all service members to be vaccinated against Covid-19 following the FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine