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A trope of contemporary social commentary is that “science” has somehow become “politicized,” such that people no longer trust or believe what is presented as the scientific consensus on important social, political, and economic issues. The most salient example until recently was climate change, where various scientific professionals, associations, interest groups, and the like were portrayed as purely disinterested seekers of truth while disfavored outsiders were described as self-interested, ideological, or worse. The idea of scientists as a priestly caste, criticism of whom constitutes “science denial” or “spreading misinformation,” is of course central to the conventional narrative about of Covid-19....

This is the moment an Afghan comedian continued mocking the Taliban as fighters from the insurgent group dragged him away from his home before later executing him by firing squad. In a viral video filmed at the end of July, Nazar Mohammad, better known as Khasha Zwan, can be seen in the back of a car with an insurgent on either side of him - one of them brandishing a Kalashnikov machine gun. The brave comic - known for his TikTok videos - continues making jokes about the group, causing the Taliban fighter to his right to begin slapping him...

Over the last ten or 15 years, the Left has outmaneuvered its opposition on virtually every issue of national importance. Immigration, racial politics, the rights of sexual minorities—in all these cases and many more, the Left is able to redefine the political field along its own woke terms. Virtually every question in public life has been successfully cast as a question of dismantling white supremacy, with the sides drawn as starkly as possible. Immigration, housing policy, the staffing of symphony orchestras, minutiae of voting rules, the teaching of math—all these issues can be defined and dominated by reference to the...

A suspect who police say bludgeoned a New York City subway passenger with a hammer on Saturday, purportedly for looking at him 'the wrong way', has been arrested after allegedly stealing a chain from a teenage boy in a train station. Jamar Newton, 41, became the latest example of the city's failed bail reform push as the alleged serial menace was taken into custody in Manhattan on Sunday after committing a robbery on a subway platform, cops said. Newton was previously arrested in April on five misdemeanor charges, including menacing, petit larceny, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession...

There is no “neutrality” for American business. We either band together or get swept away by the woke tide. The substance of political discourse today rarely revolves around particular matters of policy: instead, public political debate consists of delegitimizing the other side. You and everyone else is called a fascist and a racist if you hold a position contrary to the ruling class. As I said a few years ago, what was at stake in nearly every attack on Trump was “not a normal matter of policy but the legitimacy of the Trump presidency itself and its power to set...

LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - An individual on a "no-fly" list has been flown from Afghanistan to the United Kingdom on a British military plane as part of evacuation efforts from Kabul airport, but is no longer considered a risk, the government said on Monday. The unidentified individual was flown into Birmingham in central England, Sky News had earlier reported, despite being in the watch list to prevent those considered to be suspected militants or to pose a security threat from travelling to Britain. "An individual was flagged to the Home Office as part of the rigorous checks process, involving...

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden Monday urged private companies to require their employees to get vaccinated against Covid, hours after the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's two-dose vaccine for people ages 16 and up. Speaking at the White House, Biden said he was calling on companies to "step up the vaccine requirements that will reach millions more people." The president had previously voiced his support for vaccine requirements in workplaces, but his message on Monday marked a more direct appeal to private employers to play a bigger role in boosting the vaccination rate in the U.S....

A group of moderate Democrats is clashing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over when to vote on a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill – potentially imperiling a key part of President Biden's legislative agenda. The House returned from its August recess this week and is holding a crucial procedural vote Monday night on rules for debate on three measures: the budget resolution that will serve as the blueprint for Democrats' tax and spending plan, the infrastructure bill and a separate voting-rights measure. But a coalition of nine centrist Democrats has been at an impasse with Pelosi and progressive lawmakers...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki grew visibly annoyed during the press briefing Monday when she was asked whether President Biden was aware that most of the criticism against the Afghanistan withdrawal was about Americans being "stranded" in Kabul. "Does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan? It's the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded. Does he have a sense of that?" Fox News' White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked. Psaki said it was "irresponsible" to say that...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has responded to a new wave of violently unruly behavior among airplane passengers by proposing $531,545 in civil penalties against 34 individuals who have disrupted flights with their shenanigans. The Unfriendly Skies: Since Jan. 1, the FAA has levied more than $1 million in fines against aggressive passengers. This year, the FAA has received approximately 3,889 reports of unruly behavior by passengers, including about 2,867 reports of passengers refusing to comply with the federal facemask mandate. The fines are part of the FAA’s Zero Tolerance campaign against unruly behavior on U.S. carriers....

U.S. airmen helped an Afghan woman give birth to a baby girl after going into labor during an evacuation flight en route to Germany, U.S. Air Mobility Command said. The command said in a statement Saturday that the mother went into labor and began experiencing complications due to low blood pressure on board a flight from "an intermediate staging base in the Middle East." The C-17 aircraft commander decided to descend in altitude to increase air pressure, which the command said "helped stabilize and save the mother's life." The plane landed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where airmen came...

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A liquor company CEO has been identified as the man who was allegedly high on acid when he plummeted to his death at Citi Field, police said. Ian Matthew Crystal died Friday after falling 30 to 50 feet during intermission at the Dead & Company show, an NYPD spokesman confirmed Monday. The 46-year-old Brooklyn resident was a co-founder of the New York-based Evolution Spirits, according to his LinkedIn page. Sources said Crystal allegedly took acid before the fatal plunge and had been drinking and smoking pot beforehand.

The leader of the far-right Proud Boys was sentenced Monday to more than five months in jail after admitting that he burned a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a historic Black church in Washington during a pro-Trump demonstration in December.Henry Tarrio, known to followers as Enrique, was arrested Jan. 4 in Washington on a warrant stemming from an incident on Dec. 12. The Proud Boys and other groups marched in a raucous rally through downtown. The banner was stolen from United Methodist Church, one of the oldest Black churches in Washington.Tarrio, 37, of Miami, also pleaded guilty to attempting...

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It’s being reported that the FDA is set to approve the Pfizer vaccine any time now. Have they investigated this? Or do they already know and just not care? “I’m actually been talking to a a whistleblower right now that’s yet to be named, who’s an insider at Pfizer, who called and was crying and said that 45,000 number I have documentation that and I haven’t seen it yet, so at this point in time, it’s still hearsay, that I’ve got documentation that that number is closer to 200,000 people that have died within a week or less of getting...

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President Joe Biden again walked away from White House reporters asking him questions about thousands of Americans still stranded in Afghanistan on Monday. The president delivered a speech at the White House about the coronavirus vaccine getting full approval from the Food and Drug Administration, urging everyone to get vaccinated. He did not mention the crisis in Afghanistan once in his speech and left without taking questions. “Do you know how many Americans are left in Afghanistan sir?” one reporter asked as Biden walked away. He did not stop to respond to the question.

U.S.—With hospitals inundated with car accident victims all year round, doctors have announced they are running out of compassion, especially since many of those victims didn't wear their seatbelts. "Listen—my job isn't just to have compassion and heal everyone who gets wheeled in here," said local surgeon Dr. Kilem. "My job is to make sure these people are living the way I want them to, and then decide who lives or dies based on that. This world has too many people in it anyway. Come to think about it, why did I become a doctor? Oh yeah—money." Doctors around the...