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Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday that a prison commission had designated him an extremist and a terrorist. Navalny said on Instagram that he had been summoned before a commission which voted unanimously in favor of the change of status.

With election day for the Virginia governorship just weeks away, the neck-in-neck race between former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and former Carlyle co-CEO Glenn Youngkin (R) is heating up. In the final days of the race, Frontiers of Freedom, a conservative policy advocacy group in Virginia, has made a major TV ad-buy in the DC-Northern Virginia market with a long-form ad that emphasizes McAuliffe's plans to undermine suburban family neighborhoods by building high density housing. According to Frontiers' ad, McAuliffe, as governor, would "override local zoning" ordinances in an effort to quickly build up "high-density, low-income housing" in single-family suburban...

This Sky News Australia special investigation into the origins of COVID-19 reveals what really happened in Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic. Award-winning journalist Sharri Markson spent more than a year investigating the potential leak of the virus from a top-secret laboratory in Wuhan. Ms Markson uncovered evidence of a widespread cover-up and unpacks the new theory that “patient zero” worked in the Wuhan lab. Sky News Australia anchor and Investigations Writer at The Australian, Sharri has been at the forefront of investigating the origins of COVID-19 since early in 2020 when the virus spread globally. Since that...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Biden has invited national hero "Brandon" to the White House to congratulate him on his smashing success at football games, NASCAR races, and even gatherings of New York City educators. "Wow, this Brandon must be quite a fella!" said President Biden after listening to another raucous chant. "For him to get crowds from all across this divided country to all be united together with such passion? I just can't believe that many people could all feel so strongly about one single man! We need a lot more Brandons in our country, I'll tell you that right now! Let's...

Hate Columbus, Hate AmericaWhat's today really about?I refuse to defend the personal virtue of Christopher Columbus. I reject outright the premise of the discussion, which is that if Columbus had behaved better, there would not be people tearing down his statues. There is no level of moral rectitude that would convince those people to stop, and so there is no historical crime they could dig out of the woodwork that would convince me to join them. The rightness or wrongness of this or that act on Columbus’s part is not the point for anybody involved in this debate. Discussion on...

From the end of 2019 to the middle of 2021 — the duration (so far) of the pandemic, more or less — the U.S. economy grew at an annualized pace of 0.6%. It doesn’t explain why California’s growth handily outpaced Florida’s, though, or why Washington grew fastest of all. The simplest explanation for all of this is that the West is where the tech industry is concentrated, and tech companies had a great pandemic. The increase in real GDP produced by the Far West’s information sector, which includes software, gaming and most internet enterprises, was greater than the region’s overall...

How the Regime Wrecked the Vaccine RolloutAn end to informed consentIn 2020, a consensus of public health experts said that “herd immunity”—the general resistance of a population to viral contagion—would be achieved when between 60 percent and 70 percent of the population have been infected. Since there was no vaccine then, the general understanding was that natural immunity through disease survival would be a significant factor. That changed in 2021, when all public health policy and all public discourse became focused entirely on the vaccine. Public health officials had managed public expectations around the need to achieve herd immunity at...

Peter MacDonald is one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers. The former chairman of the Navajo Nation recently sat down with VAntage Point staff to explain what made the “unbreakable” code so effective, and how it helped save lives and secure victory in the Pacific. “Without Navajo, Marines would never have taken the island of Iwo Jima,” he said. “That’s how critical Navajo Code was to the war in the Pacific.” The Unbreakable Code Code Talkers used native languages to send military messages before World War II. Choctaw, for example, was used during World War I. The Marine Corps,...

DES MOINES, IOWA – Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley cut straight to the chase when asked if he’d gladly accept the support of former President Trump as the longtime lawmaker from Iowa runs next year for an eighth six-year term in the Senate. "Anybody who’s got the approval rating of 91% of the Republicans in Iowa, you surely wouldn’t be stupid enough to turn down that help," Grassley told Fox News on Saturday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, minutes before Trump’s first rally in the Hawkeye State since last November’s election got underway.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Sunday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott responded to California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signing California’s Assembly Bill 1084 into state law — directing big retailers to maintain gender-neutral toy sections beginning in 2024. In a tweet, Abbott said: “California mandates gender-neutral toy aisles for large retailers. Not in Texas. In Texas, it is businesses — NOT government — that decide how they display their merchandise.” Under the bill, California retailers with 500 or more employees must display a “reasonable” selection of toys from its “boys” and “girls” sections into another non-gendered section, regardless of how those toys...

DALLAS — The demonstrators came at night, chanting and blowing whistles outside the home of Mayor Eric Johnson, protesting in occasionally personal terms his staunch refusal to cut funding to the Dallas Police Department. “Defund! Reclaim! Reinvest!” about two dozen people called out from the darkened Dallas street. A few weeks later, the police chief resigned over her handling of large-scale protests. Then the City Council voted to cut how much money the department could use on overtime and hiring new officers. That was last year. This year has been very different. In cities across the U.S., police departments are...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Officials say there will be no charges filed against the deputies who fatally shot Winston Smith in June atop a Minneapolis parking ramp. On Monday, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office disseminated the review of the case by the Crow Wing County Attorney’s Office, which determined that the U.S. Marshal Task Force’s use of deadly force was lawful and “no criminal prosecution should be sought in this matter.” Last month, Crow Wing County Attorney Donald Ryan said he was reviewing the case because counties closer to the Twin Cities had conflicts. Ryan sent his findings to the Hennepin...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Portland police said officers responded to 13 shootings in a span of 28 hours over the weekend, which left one person dead and three others hurt. Police said in the east side of the city, five shots calls were taken in the span of about 3 hours. These shootings placed a significant strain on resources during that time. At one of the shootings, a sergeant was left to process one of the crime scenes alone, police said. At another crime scene, officers needed the help of community members to block traffic while they looked for and...

A 15-year-old was shot in the leg in North Philadelphia on Sunday night as he was leaving a vigil for a 13-year-old boy who was killed Friday morning, police said. At least 10 shots were fired just before 7 p.m. on the 2600 block of North 22nd Street, where dozens of people had gathered at 6 p.m. to release blue and white balloons in remembrance of a boy who was fatally shot Friday just blocks from his school.

The Maricopa County 2021 Local Election is already showing the same signs of mail-in voter fraud that occurred in the 2020 election. Arizona State Representative Travis Grantham reported that he has received a mail-in ballot for his sister who “hasn’t lived, voted or paid taxes here for 15 years.”. Liz Harris’s canvassing efforts found that this happens far too often to just be a coincidence. Grantham’s sister moved to California but she continues to receive ballots at her parents’ address. Rep. Grantham says that if mail-in voting is not cleaned up, it needs to be removed.

A Connecticut lawmaker compared Gov. Ned Lamont to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler over the state’s vaccine policy, saying “this is no longer land of the free.” State Rep. Anne Dauphinais, a vocal critic of Lamont, likened the Democrat to the genocidal dictator who killed millions of European Jews and others between 1933 and 1945 over Lamont’s COVID-19 vaccine policy for state employees, the Hartford Courant reported. “King Lamont aka Hitler dictating what we must inject into our bodies to feed our family!” Dauphinais wrote in a reply late Thursday to a Facebook post by CT News Junkie.

YouTube has officially attempted to de-platform me from their platform. They are claiming that we "encourage illegal activities" and will not be allowed to create new YouTube channels in the future either. It ultimately doesn't matter. Bitcoin is inevitable. I have received two emails from @YouTube . The first stated that the content, an interview on bitcoin, was harmful and dangerous (lol). They then stated that we would receive a strike, but then I received a second email saying the channel was being deleted seconds later.

While appearing on today’s episode of The View, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened up about former President Donald Trump‘s 2024 presidential prospects, saying, “If he wants to be the [Republican] nominee, he will be the nominee.” [cut] Clinton continued: “I think it says volumes about the Republican Party today that someone who has the record of attacking our own government, lying to people about the biggest health crisis that we’ve had in over 100 years, is considered the leader because they’re all afraid of the mob he has created, and keeps energized.” She noted that historically, demagogues arise...

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed several notable bills into law in recent days They include a bill that will see California public schools and colleges stocking their restrooms with free menstrual products In another 'woke' bill, large department stores must now display products including toys and toothbrushes in gender-neutral ways It does not completely outlaw traditional boys and girls sections at stores but says large stores must also have a gender neutral section to display On Saturday Newsom signed off on a new law banning gas-powered equipment that uses small off-road engines Gas-powered equipment includes generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers,...

Progressive push to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day continues Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., slammed Christopher Columbus as a "genocidal maniac" on his holiday Monday as progressives continue their push for the federal holiday to be officially replaced with Indigenous Peoples Day. "Today should just be #IndigenousPeopleDay," Velázquez tweeted. "And yet this day is still shared with a genocidal maniac. "We need to take this time to reflect on the brutal history of violence against Indigenous peoples in America and recognize that there is still a lot of work to repair this harm." ...