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President Biden was set to speak with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) Monday afternoon as the Senate moderate continues to hold out against supporting President Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hopes to pass with only Democratic support in the coming weeks. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the scheduled call hours after CNN reported the two had talked last week, with Biden making clear that he needs Manchin’s vote to help the legislation over the finish line. According to the report, however, Manchin told the president that he is not ready...

The FDA is allegedly working with the USPS to hold packages containing Ivermectin at JFK, a port of entry for the drug from foreign sources. Aaron Siri posted a Nov. 10 letter using FDA Personal Importation policy to refuse delivery of the drug to a customer whose name is redacted on the letter.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block a New York regulation that requires health care workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine without any religious exemptions.The vaccine mandate for health care workers, which went into effect in August, allows only for medical exemptions but not religious ones. The Supreme Court turned away two applications from doctors and nurses in the state for injunctive relief to allow religious exemptions while litigation continues in the lower courts over the mandate's constitutionality.

Following the Dec. 6 CNN report exposing President Joe Biden for trying to influence media to spin economic coverage to his favor, many have followed his demands and twisted the news of rising inflation. Bloomberg News, CNN, New York Times economist Paul Krugman and others have done everything from praising inflation as a sign of a “really strong economy,” to dismissing its dangerous implications, to insulating Biden from responsibility. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that inflation spiked 6.8 percent in November on a year-over-year basis, which was the fastest rate in nearly 40 years.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on “Combating Gun Trafficking and Reducing Violence in Chicago.” As Senate Judiciary Chair, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin took the wheel … and tried to run over gun rights advocate and Heritage Foundation Legal Fellow Amy Swearer:

ransomnote: He speaks eloquently of freedom. He also has a distractingly pleasing voice to listen to, and speaks with command, particularly for one so young. For this reason, I recommend you watch the two minute video on Twitter, although the text is below, too. 1:34 PM · Dec 12, 2021·Twitter Web AppIn case the Tweet is deleted, the text of his statements are captured in the following gif.

Recently premiering on YouTube for World AIDS Day, 27000@25: When We Were Boys is an educational short film that tells the story of London’s 1996 Pride celebrations. At the event, 27,000 red balloons were released to represent the number of people living with HIV in England at the time. Now many are upset that the video was immediately age-restricted after its release, despite it not containing any content that violates YouTube’s community guidelines, according to PinkNews. HIV advocates argue that film is especially valuable to young people. When We Were Boys also stars It’s a Sin’s Nathaniel Hall (pictured above),...

An Idaho church has replaced a stained glass window of Robert E Lee, George Washington and Abe Lincoln with the country's first black Methodist bishop wearing an LGBTQ scarf. The late bishop Leontine Kelly, who passed away at age 92 in 2012, had lived in Richmond, Virginia with her family where monuments of former Confederate leaders, such as Lee, had lined Monument Avenue. The statue of Lee, a former Civil War general and slave owner, was later removed by the city on September 8. The call to remove the statue had been recommended by Governor Ralph Northam in June 2020...

Navy Cmdr. Lucian Kins was relieved from duty on Friday after he reportedly refused to get the COVID vaccine or take tests to prove he didn't have the virus Lt. Cmdr. Han Yi is temporarily serving as the USS Winston Churchill's executive officer until a permanent replacement is identified Kins, who was on track to become commander of the Churchill in the next year and a half, requested a religious exemption to the vaccine mandateHis religious waiver was denied and he is trying to appeal the decision To date, 2,705 sailors have submitted religious waivers but none were approvedIt remains...

The Washington Post reported that the unusual raids took place last June, in which seven soldiers were killed - including a colonel. Israel feared the Assad regime is trying to reproduce deadly nerve gases, years after it was forced to give up most of its chemical weapons stockpiles under US pressure. "This is a strategic weapon for the regime." Israel attacked chemical weapons production facilities in Syria last June, in unusual raids deep in the country, the Washington Post reported today (Monday). Fighter jets reportedly fired missiles at three military targets near Damascus and Homs, killing seven soldiers, including an...

Living larvae inside the apparatus between fluidization experiments at Georgia Tech's School of Physics' Howey Physics building. Credit: Grace Cassidy, Georgia Tech Black soldier fly larvae devour food waste and other organic matter and are made of 60% protein, making them an attractive sustainable food source in agriculture. But increasingly, black soldier larvae are dying before they reach livestock facilities as animal feed. Georgia Tech researchers, recognizing the culprit is the collective heat generated when the maggots eat in crowded conditions, have found that delivering the right amount of airflow could help solve the overheating issue. Their findings were published...

The NBA has postponed two Chicago Bulls games this week amid a team-related COVID-19 outbreak. “The Chicago Bulls’ next two games — Tuesday, Dec. 14 against the Detroit Pistons and Thursday, Dec. 16 at Toronto — have been postponed,” the league said in a statement Monday. "Ten Bulls players, along with additional staff members, are currently in the NBA’s Health and Safety Protocols,” the league added. The minimum requirement for players to participate in a game is eight, ESPN noted.

American Voices host Alicia Menendez with a look at the comments made at the Supreme Court that have led many legal scholars to declare Justice Sonia Sotomayor the ‘conscious’ of the nation’s highest court.

The Health Ministry's vaccination committee recommended overnight into Monday against administering a fourth vaccination to the general population, including immunocompromised people. The committee also decided against recommending shortening the waiting time between the second and third shots. The booster shot is currently administered five months after receiving the second shot, and the committee was considering to shorten that period by two months. [cut] In the U.S., the CDC has already recommended a fourth dose for immunocompromised people in October. Meanwhile, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla warned last week that a fourth vaccine may be needed (by the general population) to battle...

In the wake of a devastating and deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky and a handful of other states, Democrats and mainstream media figures have returned to their old trick of standing atop life-altering tragedy to advance their partisan political agenda. As Rebecca reported, President Biden was asked about the storms and — despite admitting he couldn't give "a quantitative read" on what role climate change may have played — said "the fact is that we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming — everything. And, obviously, it has some impact here," he added. Except it's not...

Accidental science is the best. One of the greatest lifesaving drugs in history – penicillin – was discovered purely by accident, and such experiments truly show how intricate and unpredictable science is. So, when researchers from the University of Pennsylvania began their journey looking for a type 2 diabetes treatment and stumbled across a potentially incredible weight-loss treatment, needless to say, they were more than surprised. The researchers describe their new results in a paper in the journal Science, in which they applied a treatment to a group of lab mice in the pursuit of counteracting type 2 diabetes. Instead...

Former President Donald Trump was full of praise for terrorist-supporting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a recent interview — while claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not want to reach a peace deal. Axios’ Barak Ravid, who conducted the interview with Trump for a new book about Trump’s peace efforts, reported Monday:

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Isaiah 41:10 The Communist Party is attempting to terrorize America into becoming China complete with concentration camps. You will never have this reported on PravdABC since they want the dictatorship as much as the DNC does. This is a civil war gone hot between the Inner Circles of Moscow on the Potomac and Havana on the Hudson. This is the rich and powerful...

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and seek the world’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader said in a rare interview. Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also told The Associated Press that the Taliban government wants good relations with all countries and has no issue with the United States. He urged Washington and other nations to release upward of $10 billion in funds that were frozen when the Taliban took power...

Our predictions were right, just not nearly as accelerated as we expected. We’ve said for months that the Covid-19 “boosters” would accelerate from once a year to every six months, then three months, then monthly. It seems our bold prediction wasn’t nearly bold enough in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. JUST IN – Germany: "Booster" injections are now offered as early as 4 weeks after the last vaccination in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (RND) — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) December 13, 2021 Allowing for a mere four-week gap means their doctors and scientists aren’t seeing the “protection” they’d...