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A new coronavirus descendant related to Delta, called AY.4.2, is being closely monitored by scientists in the US, UK, and Israel. AY.4.2 is still "very rare" in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "It is well below 0.05 percent of all our sequenced viruses, with less than 10 reported in our database so far," the CDC said in a statement sent to Insider on Wednesday. Meanwhile, AY.4, the parent lineage of the new variant, "represents around 11 percent of the Delta viruses in the United States," the CDC said. While many different AY lineages...

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo is blasting mask mandates for children in schools and argues the data to "support" the measures is "very weak.""In terms of the data that supports mask use in kids and mandates for masking kids, it is very weak and that's a fact," Ladapo told reporters this week. "There is a substantial gap between the quality of data out there supporting masking kids yielding any benefit for kids, whatsoever. Factual.""In Florida we are going to stay close to the data and we're going to let you know how we feel about the data. The data...

From the very beginning of his tenure at the White House, questions about how resident Biden’s Catholic faith square with most of his policy and personnel choices have been met with the response: “the President is a devout Catholic.” To paraphrase Inigo Montoya in the classic movie The Princess Bride: “You keep using that phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.” Few personnel choices stand out for their record of hostility towards the Catholics more than Beth Robinson, Joe Biden’s nominee to be a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second...

Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R), who serves on the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, said on Thursday that issuing a subpoena for former President Trump was not off the table with regard to his committee's investigations. "I think we can get to all the information we need without him, but I think we are certainly willing to do it. That's something I want to make clear is he's not off-limits," Kinzinger said in an appearance on MSNBC. "But I also think if we can get that information prior to him and obviously you recognize the second he's subpoenaed...

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) rose 80% on Thursday after the publicly listed shell company said it would merge with a business owned by former U.S. President Donald Trump to create a new social media app called TRUTH Social. The social network, formed by the deal with the Trump Media and Technology Group, said on Wednesday it plans a beta launch next month and full roll-out in the first quarter of 2022. Shares of Miami-based Digital World were up 80% to $17.83 on Thursday morning. In a press release, Trump said TRUTH Social would be launched after Twitter...

Sarah Davis, the daughter of late apologist Ravi Zacharias and former CEO of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM), has left the organization her father founded to launch a new apologetics ministry.The news elicited disappointment from one abuse survivor and two former RZIM employees, who believe Davis should be “disqualified” from leading a ministry.According to a report from investigative journalist Julie Roys, Davis filed articles of incorporation earlier this month with the state of Georgia for a nonprofit corporation titled Encounter, Inc. The organization has the stated mission of “carrying the Gospel invitation to individuals,” “engaging their questions” and “training and...

In April of 1775, confronted by a forthcoming uprising by the U.S. colonist, British General Thomas Gage made the decision to confiscate gun powder and weapons that were being stored in Concord, Massachusetts. However, his plan was thwarted when citizens learned of his intentions and the legend of Paul Revere was born. Gage according to the historical record, made his way to Concord with more than 600 British soldiers. By the next morning, British troops reached Lexington, where several dozen minutemen had gathered and a brief clash occurred which left eight Americans dead and many others wounded. When the British...

China’s government stripped Boston Celtics games from the internet in the country on Thursday, after outspoken Celtics player Enes Kanter called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “brutal dictator” and criticized Beijing’s autocratic policies in Tibet. There was no immediate comment from the NBA on the developments, which may mark a new friction point between Chinese authorities and the American sports league that draws billions of dollars of revenue from sales in China. NBA players and officials have generally steered clear of publicly criticizing China since an incident two years ago in which Beijing briefly stripped NBA games from Chinese television...

Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, is a man whose entire adult life has been guided by his personal Christian faith commitment. I’ve been in political campaigns “since I was old enough to get my nose up to the buffet line” (a quote from the campaign trail). For more than five decades, I have worked in the campaigns of many exemplary candidates; however, Glenn Youngkin is an exceptional candidate at an exceptional time in our nation’s history. I can tell you from my personal experiences and observations on the campaign trail, Glenn Youngkin is the real deal. Let me tell...

After spending several futile hours rummaging through media accounts and the United States Postal Service (USPS) website, I still had no answer to the question I set out to address: Are postal workers subject to a vaccine mandate? Wanting the straight skinny, I decided not to call USPS headquarters but to visit a facility and talk to the workers loading and unloading mail. To my good fortune I found a well-spoken, straightforward supervisor who told me, through his mask, what I wanted to know. "We are encouraged to get vaccinated, but we do not face a vaccine mandate like the...

Most of us are familiar with the term “sleeper cell”–referring to agents who are “embedded” into an area or country, where they live quietly and under the radar until it’s time for them to act, such as committing a terrorist attack. Decades ago, I began to notice what I’d call “sleeper people.” I distinctly remember seeing Rosie O’Donnell on the cover of a popular magazine while standing in line at the supermarket. She had just co-starred in a movie called A League of Her Own with Madonna and Tom Hanks. I realized right then and there that certain people are...

Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday released a list of seven items they said were hidden in President Joe Biden’s spending agenda — items they called part of a “socialist wish-list.” Democrats in the House and Senate have thus far failed to come together to pass Biden’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill. They are also at an impasse over what was originally a $3.5 trillion, 10-year budget to expand the welfare state called the Build Back Better Act. If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and the president get their way, the country...

They say you shouldn’t read the New York Times because you won’t get any good news. I disagree. You just have to read between the lines, so to speak. The GREAT news today is that at least 12 House Democrats will retire because they surmise that their party will lose the majority next year. “The quickening pace of Democratic retirements in the House may be the clearest indication yet that the party’s hopes of maintaining its narrow majority are fading amid President Biden’s sagging approval ratings, ongoing legislative struggles and the prospect of redrawn congressional districts that will put some...

President Joe Biden revisited his love of trains during a trip to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, promising to get millions of vehicles off the roads. “We will take literally millions of automobiles off the road,” Biden boasted, arguing that more high-speed trains like the ones constructed in China would make trains more attractive.

resident Biden and Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe share much in common: the same far-left agenda reflective of a small segment of the electorate and an arrogant assumption that they may rule imperiously and hypocritically, well beyond constitutional limits and without accountability. Biden has refused to answer all but a smattering of soft ball questions concerning his controversial and consequential acts. Despite breaking the back of the fossil fuel industry; removing immigration limits to flood the nation with sex traffickers, drug traffickers, criminal gangs, and illegal aliens; leaving behind in Afghanistan Americans, Afghan allies, and $80 billion in munitions; kowtowing...

The Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center’s Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project held its annual Truth and Transformation Conference Friday, and it was about as cheerful an affair as you would expect. According to the Harvard Crimson, the thunderingly surprising conclusion of the panel was that “nonprofit leaders and activists argued that non-government agencies and individuals ought to take bold action to promote equity.” This bold action, according to one panelist, must include working toward ensuring “equality of outcomes.” The only kind of institution that could possibly ensure any kind of equality of outcome, such as universal employment and a universal...

It was nine months this week that Joe Biden became president. To say the least, it's been a mess and getting messier, from inflation to supply chain issues to a lawless border and the President dropping dramatically in polls.Nevertheless, they can't contain their enthusiasm over at NPR. They can't stop telling us that history was made this week: Dr. Rachel Levine is once again making history, becoming the first openly transgender four-star officer to serve in any of the country's eight uniformed services.During a ceremony Tuesday, Levine was sworn in as an admiral -- the highest-ranking official of the U.S....

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) is a group of distinguished and courageous doctors who are working to inform the public about the efficacy of early treatment of COVID, particularly with ivermectin and neutraceuticals.Without exaggeration, the treatments advicated by the FLCCC have saved millions of lives. See, for example, the stunning benefits of the use of ivermectin in the Indian state of Uttar Pradash.Recently, I received the following news from the FLCCC:To our dedicated supporters:We must be making an impact, because Big Tech is coming after our small and mighty nonprofit with all that they have. ...Today, an...

10/21/2021: US Covid Deaths Reach 732k, 400k under Trump, 332k under Biden. Deaths under Biden on pace to exceed Trump by end of the year... Lets remember that the FDA refused to approve vaccines before the election because that would have helped Trump.

As a former Nebraska attorney general, I have generally declined to comment on legal opinions issued by my successors. However, the recent opinion concerning ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as off-label medicines for the treatment of COVID-19 is extraordinary. Moreover, it addresses an issue that potentially affects every Nebraskan who becomes infected with COVID-19, so that it deserves to be highlighted. The issue, as stated by the current attorney general, is "whether it would be deemed unlawful or otherwise subject to discipline ... for an appropriately licensed health care provider, once informed patient consent has been appropriately obtained, to prescribe ivermectin [or]...