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U.S. Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine became the first openly transgender four-star officer in the uniformed services on Tuesday after she was sworn in as the first female four-star admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that Levine was ceremonially sworn in as a four-star admiral, making her the highest ranking official in the commissioned corps and leading 6,000 Public Health Service officers. The former Pennsylvania health secretary became the nation's highest-ranking openly transgender official in March after being nominated by President Biden.

The Maryland couple accused of attempting to pass secret Navy secrets to a foreign government were indicted by a Grand Jury Tuesday on national security charges. Jonathan and Diana Toebbe are both charged with one count of "Conspiracy to Communicate Restricted Data" and two counts of "Communication of Restricted Data," according to a Department of Justice press release Tuesday. According to the release, 42-year-old Jonathan Toebbe sold "Restricted Data" concerning the design of nuclear-powered waships for almost a year with the help of his 45-year-old wife, Diana Toebbe. The couple sold the data to someone they thought was a representative...

Three aging Air Force veterans came to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to again tell their strange and extraordinary stories. A fourth veteran was piped into the National Press Club conference by video feed from the Ozark Mountains in Missouri. Each veteran's story is different, but all share one central claim: In the 1960s, UFOs tampered with nuclear weapons managed by the Air Force, both terrifying and mystifying the airmen who experienced the encounters. Some remained silent for decades, they say. And none has captured the attention of Washington, even as reports of Navy encounters with unknown flying objects have splashed...

An antifa member who was at the CHAZ uprising was convicted in federal court for inciting comrades to shoot Trump supports at the Florida state Capitol. Daniel Alan Baker was sentenced to more than 3.5 years in federal prison last week.

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The expanding energy crisis is causing propane to rocket higher (read: here) as supplies dwindle to below seasonal levels as research firm IHS Markit Ltd. warns of “armageddon” during the Northern Hemisphere winter. IHS analyst Edgar Ang told attendees during a virtual presentation on Tuesday that US propane inventories are at a record low and will be extremely tight as cold weather is ahead. Mean temperatures in the Lower US 48 are expected to dip into the 60-55F range through the end of this month. Heating degree days are set to soar by month end, suggesting the heating season has...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an emergency appeal of vaccine requirements for Maine health care workers. The high court has previously rejected a challenge to a vaccine mandate for New York City teachers. Vaccine mandates have been challenged across the country over the pandemic. The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stop a state-imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers in Maine that's expected to take effect next week. The high court declined to hear an emergency appeal of the Maine vaccine requirement. The order was handed down by Justice Stephen Breyer, a Democratic appointee...

An opinion piece published in The Washington Post encourages Americans to not “rant” about the supply chain crisis and other economic troubles. As dozens of cargo ships coming from Asia remain stranded off the coast of California, social media users have been posting images of empty store shelves and expressing frustration that they are unable to make formerly routine purchases. However, Micheline Maynard — an author and contributing columnist for The Washington Post — told readers to not complain about the phenomenon. Across the country, Americans’ expectations of speedy service and easy access to consumer products have been crushed like...

Charlotte, NC — One would think that Dr. Robert Malone would be heralded by the mainstream narrative profiteers.After all, Malone is the inventor of the mRNA technology we’re all being told is our salivation from the scourge of COVID-19. As Life Site News reported, Malone invented mRNA jabs in the 1980s after discovering RNA transfection at the Salk Institute in San Diego.However, the inventor of the mRNA shots is now warning the public about the threats they pose, and for that he is being heavily censored.Summit News reported on recent comments from Malone, who was called a “terrorist” by Italian...

Students at a New Jersey school took part in a sit-in during school hours on Monday to protest the administration’s decision to change up the homecoming king and queen winners. Two female students were declared the winners of the titles of king and queen at Passaic County Technical Institute in Wayne, N.J., reported NorthJersey.com .

Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is trying to clarify a previous comment, in which he said that parents should not tell schools what to teach. The comment in question came on Sept. 28 during the final debate before the upcoming Nov. 2 election. When Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin pointed out that McAuliffe in 2016 vetoed a bill which would have given parents more control over what kind of books their kids are exposed to at school, the former governor responded that parents shouldn’t have “the right to veto books.” “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and...

Vatican: The Art of Stroking the Red Dragon Across the Scales The meeting organized between Pope Francis and 22 leading religious leaders, who came to Rome to discuss ecology a few days before the opening of COP26, once again demonstrated how much the provisional agreement between the Holy See and China remains at the heart of the present pontificate.Tienzin Gyatzo, the 14th Dalai Lama, was not among the 22 religious leaders gathered at the invitation of the host of St. Martha’s house to talk about ecology, a few days before the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26),...

Howard Stern is again on the warpath against people who oppose his vaccination ideals, especially NBA player Kyrie Irving who Stern is now calling the “top idiot in the world.” Stern, who now hosts a Sirius program, finally returned from another vacation and immediately went on the attack against the 29-year-old Brooklyn Nets star for refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine. Stern led by saying that Irving is “the biggest idiot in the country right now,” Outkick noted. “Talk about stupid, there’s some people who are willing to walk away from millions of dollars and not get vaccinated,” Stern blathered...

If we keep going down this path, soon we won’t have much of a “middle class” at all. When I first started writing about the economy many years ago, I often wrote about the tens of millions of “working poor” Americans that were enduring so many hardships. But at this point most of the nation now falls into the “working poor” category. That isn’t because wages haven’t been going up. Little by little, wages have been incrementally rising year after year, but meanwhile the cost of living has been absolutely soaring. Paychecks have not even come close to keeping up...

The CIA’s Iran chief, described by his colleagues as “legendary,” is being forced to retire as the center he oversees is folded back into the agency’s larger Middle East division, according to former CIA officials. “They decided not to extend him again,” said a former senior CIA official. “It was basically, ‘Look, you’re not going to go any higher, we need new thinking, we need new people,’ and so they eased him out. He didn’t volunteer.” Even so, D’Andrea was “probably the most lethal leader in the U.S. government for his tenure,” said a former senior CIA official. “He was...

New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene passed a resolution Monday declaring racism “a public health crisis.” The resolution was passed by an 11-member board of health, made up of appointees who were largely chosen by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to the New York Post. The resolution asks the Health Department to expand its anti-racism work and requires it to create priorities for a racially just recovery from COVID-19,” the department of health’s website said. “It also includes other requirements to address this public health crisis in the short and long term. The Director...

When it comes to science and medicine, transparency is everything. Scientific discourse requires all parties to be informed, and dissenting opinions, even if they are in the minority, need to be heard. In medicine, how can people make the right decision for themselves if they aren’t given all of the relevant information? According to the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, transparency apparently is not important in either of these areas. In fact, OSHA believes that transparency and telling the truth are a hindrance to the common good. While the agency has issued guidance requiring employers to “record...

About 4,500 Chicago police officers didn't report their vaccination status by Oct. 15 as mandated by the city, officials said Monday. That means roughly 35% of the city's 12,770 police officers could be placed on no-pay status in the foreseeable future. The Chicago Police Department had the lowest response rate of any department in the city, but of the about 64% who did report, the majority of officers say they are vaccinated, according to data released by the city. Specifically, 6,894 indicated being vaccinated while 1,333 reported they have not. Those who said they are not vaccinated are required to...

A 21-year-old woman in Oklahoma has been found guilty of first-degree manslaughter after suffering a miscarriage last year. On Oct. 5, Brittney Poolaw was sentenced to four years in prison for her 2020 miscarriage. An autopsy on the unborn child revealed it had died at 17 weeks gestation. Prosecutors on the case blamed Poolaw’s miscarriage on her drug use. However, some advocates for the mother, such as the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, have argued that her conviction is not in line with the law. “Oklahoma’s murder and manslaughter laws do not apply to miscarriages, which are pregnancy losses that...

Okay, not the election you might be thinking of but the point is how is it okay for liberals to claim that elections of the past were stolen and suffer no consequences yet the mere hint that the 2020 election was stolen means you are subject to Social Media punishment and lectured about “THE BIG LIE?”