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North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law on Friday, agreeing with minority voters that Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power. Two of the three trial judges declared the December 2018 law is unconstitutional, even though it was designed to implement a photo voter ID mandate added to the North Carolina Constitution in a referendum just weeks earlier. They said the law intentionally discriminates against Black voters, violating their equal protections. The law “was motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki is using a misleading argument about COVID-19 vaccination rates in Florida and Texas to justify the Biden administration’s decision to curb the supply of monoclonal antibodies — an effective treatment option for COVID-19 — being distributed to these states. The federal government has only recently decided to take over the distribution of the antibody treatments, which Florida governor Ron DeSantis was an early proponent of. Abruptly, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Tuesday that it would be cutting the supply provided to Florida. The administration “did not provide any...

hina sent seven coast guard ships, four outfitted with cannons, to the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands last month, in another instance of its willingness to use military might to outwear nations which dispute its territorial claims. This "extremely serious" incursion in the East China Sea drew Japanese ire, prompting Tokyo to register its protest with Beijing, reported Stars and Stripes. China has laid claim to the chain of uninhabited islands that lie 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo since the 1970s. Currently, Japan administers and controls the island, as part of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture. The flotilla was spotted near...

Texas law enforcement gives Fox News a helicopter ride to continue reporting over Del Rio about the immigrant invasion after the FAA banned their drone

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has sparked outrage after she was spotted partying maskless at a local night club with one of the Black Lives Matter co-founders in defiance of her own rules. Breed mandated last month that residents need to wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status, and the state's health department ordered that people dining and taking part in other indoor activities need to show proof of vaccination. But Breed disregarded her own rule and was seen partying at the Black Cat jazz nightclub along with BLM co-founder Alicia Garza on September 16. She was spotted taking...

States are putting caps on prices, and Semglee, the first interchangeable biosimilar in the United States, may exert some downward pressure. More than 30 million Americans have diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association, and many rely on insulin. But insulin prices have been rising in recent years, and that has put many people with diabetes at risk because the price leads to people skipping doses or not taking insulin altogether. The latest figures from the American Action Forum show that the price of insulin rose 14% a year, on average, between 2012 and 2018, and the past few years...

Jack Dwyer pursued a dream of getting back to the land by moving in 1972 to an idyllic, tree-studded parcel in Oregon with a creek running through it. “We were going to grow our own food. We were going to live righteously. We were going to grow organic,” Dwyer said. Over the decades that followed, he and his family did just that. But now, Deer Creek has run dry after several illegal marijuana grows cropped up in the neighborhood last spring, stealing water from both the stream and nearby aquifers and throwing Dwyer’s future in doubt. From dusty towns to...

MSNBC political commentator and author George Will said Friday on “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that former president Donald Trump demonstrated how rapidly one man with a “lack of conscience” can change the entire tone of public life for the worse. Mitchell said, “In your new book, you write that it has been well said that the United States is the only nation founded on a good idea, the proposition that people should be free to pursue happiness as they define it. In recent years, however, happiness has been elusive for this nation in which too many people think and act as...

As any casual observer could tell, the 2020 election was a mess. Now we have real data—from a federal agency, no less—that proves it. Based on data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an analysis by the Public Interest Legal Foundation shows almost 15 million mail ballots effectively disappeared after election officials gave them to the U.S. Postal Service to deliver to voters. Gone, like the Bermuda Triangle of the election. Some of the mail ballots may have ended up on the floors of apartment complexes. Some were sent to deceased registrants. Some went to addresses where the registrant no...

An army of child welfare advocates are striking back at those who are making claims that requiring children to wear masks in school during a pandemic is a form of child abuse. A statement issued by three dozen child welfare organizations and advocates said they are “deeply troubled by a growing chorus of Pennsylvanians, including some elected officials, who are equating child abuse with a child wearing a face covering intended to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.” It goes on to say such claims “brazenly diminish the harsh reality of child abuse” and shows “callous disregard” for the lifelong physical,...

Capitol Police and local law enforcement leaders sought to project confidence on Friday ahead of a planned demonstration that authorities say has been accompanied by intelligence indicating the potential for violence. The so-called “Justice for J6” rally on Saturday is being held by supporters of people arrested for crimes related to the violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. "We are planning for a safe event tomorrow. But there have been some threats of violence associated with the events for tomorrow. We have a strong plan in place to ensure that it remains peaceful and that if violence does...

...They could also further politicize the military. New revelations showing how Gen. Mark A. Milley, the nation’s top military officer, quietly maneuvered to check President Donald Trump reveal the lengths that top officials went to prevent potentially rash action, but the disclosures also threaten to thrust the military deeper into the partisan fray, former officials said.A series of dramatic inside-the-room accounts, including one in which the chairman of the Joint Chiefs promised to alert China’s top officer if Trump was preparing to launch an attack, provides new insight into military leaders’ response to the previous administration’s fraught final period.

There could not possibly be a clearer example of how much the American ruling class is drunk on power and of how little it cares for any and all obstacles standing in the way of its accumulation and exercise of that power. It also just so happens that, in this instance, those obstacles take the form of the quintessential defining feature of what usually separates a democracy or a republican form of governance from a dictatorship: ultimate civilian control of the military. In undermining that ultimate civilian control, Milley and his apologists are playing with fire. How bitterly ironic, too,...

1 Summary 2 mRNA COVID-19 Injection Made Delta Variant More Infectious 3 Immune Escape: How the Injections Could Make Variants Worse 4 Mass Vaccination Driving Vaccine-Resistant Mutants 5 Mu, Lambda Variants Showing Resistance 6 Is Natural Immunity Superior for Variants?A group of Japanese researchers released research (read below) showing that the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant “is poised to acquire complete resistance” to existing COVID-19 jabs. When four common mutations were introduced to the Delta variant, Pfizer’s mRNA injection enhanced its infectivity, causing it to become resistant. A Delta variant with three mutations has already emerged, which suggests it’s only a matter...

Vogue has released a fawning video of socialist firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her enormous glam squad revealing how they put together the now-infamous 'Tax the rich' dress for her controversial Met Gala appearance. AOC was coy about her controversial appearance at the ultra-elite Met Gala before DailyMail.com revealed that she and her boyfriend Riley Roberts had their $35,000-a-head tickets comped by the museum. However, this new video shows that Vogue and AOC were partners in the controversy. The magazine posted a 10-minute video late Thursday night documenting the Democratic congresswoman's preparations for fashion's big night out.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the Jan. 6th Capitol riot an 'assault from within' during remarks in London, where she compared the events to the Sept. 11th attacks days after the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Speaking at Chatham House, the London-based think tank Friday, Pelosi described the riot not as a failing of democracy but of former President Donald Trump. She said both events were 'assaults' she termed 'horrible,' crediting social media companies and Trump with fueling the Capitol riot on the day Congress met to count electoral college votes.

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On Thursday we learned that the Durham probe, the investigation into the origins of the FBI's counter-intelligence probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election long touted by Donald Trump and his fellow conservatives as the investigation that would blow the lid off Democratic malfeasance, had got its man. Was it John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman? Or former FBI Director James Comey? Or Barack Obama? Um, no. It was instead a cybersecurity lawyer named Michael Sussmann, who was indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI's general counsel about who he was working for. (Sussmann said he wasn't working on...

The rate of inflation in the U.S. rose again in July and drove the increase over the past year to a 30-year high, pointing to new problems for businesses and consumers as the economy recovers from the pandemic. Consumers who were lucky enough to keep their jobs, are unlikely to have gotten a raise over the last year, so the inflation spike can essentially be seen as a wage decrease. Some people even calling this a “tax” on Americans, low income earners being the hardest hit. The Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index rose 0.4% in August, according to the federal...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed was seen partying and singing maskless in a nightclub with a Black Lives Matter co-founder, breaking her city's mask mandate.