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Have you experienced a swollen lymph node in the arm where you received your COVID vaccine or booster shot? You're not alone. In fact, while you may not have experienced it with your initial doses of the vaccine, there's still a chance you could see it following a booster shot. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the vaccine side effect is actually more common with booster shots or additional doses than it is with initial doses of the COVID vaccines. But the CDC said it is not a side effect to worry about. "This swelling is a...

Sometime around dawn Tuesday, Sheridan Freeman was inside a home in West Pullman when there was gunfire and the 23-year-old was shot dead, becoming the 800th homicide victim recorded in Chicago this year.(snip) Shelton was killed on a block where there had been a shooting just the day before, in a neighborhood that is among the deadliest in Chicago despite being targeted for extra resources by City Hall. Police have released few details about Freeman’s death. He was shot around 6:30 a.m. inside a small wood frame home in the 12000 block of South Stewart Avenue, less than a mile...

@RepThomasMassieDid Feds incite protestors to trespass on Jan 6? In a DOJ oversight hearing, AG Garland refused to answer that question when I asked him. Now there are more questions. If the Jan 6 committee weren’t a farce, they’d be asking. @RepKinzinger @RepLizCheney [Links to Revolver News piece] @RepThomasMassieDid you notice the never-Trumpers and the media didn’t attack me as a conspiracy theorist for asking Merrick Garland this question? [Links to video featuring Epps] That’s because they’re terrified of what the answer could be. Their whole Jan 6th narrative would evaporate fast than the Russia-collusion-delusion.

Here we go, will she double down on the manchin attacks and lies?

TAMARAC, Fla. – Police have arrested a women they say was involved in a beauty supply store robbery that took place last week in Tamarac. Authorities arrested 18-year-old Eonie Jones on Friday. Her arrest comes five days after three women robbed the Beauty Plug supply store located at 6949 West Commercial Boulevard. The crime was captured on surveillance video. In the video, the three women can be seen walking into the store and collecting several items before one of the women pepper sprayed an employee. One of the women was holding a young child during the robbery while another appeared...

Nearly two thirds of boostered individuals reported concern about contracting the virus despite getting their shots, while only 12% of unvaccinated people said they were worried about catching COVID. A new poll has found that people who have been fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 are significantly more concerned about contracting COVID-19 than unvaccinated individuals, despite the measures taken ostensibly to protect themselves against illness. The independent poll, conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute in New Jersey and published December 15, suggests that people who are afraid of contracting a variant of COVID-19 do not have their fears assuaged...

A group of Republican lawmakers are backing 35 Navy service members who are suing the Pentagon and Navy over the military’s coronavirus vaccine mandate. The group of 47 lawmakers — 38 House Republicans and nine GOP senators — filed an amicus brief in a Texas federal court supporting the lawsuit, which seeks to enjoin the Pentagon from enforcing the mandate because it violates religious freedoms. “Plaintiffs’ religious liberty and the government’s asserted interest in protecting our service members from COVID-19 need not be in conflict, especially where, as here, the individuals seeking an exemption are willing to adopt non-vaccination measures...

Bloomberg news co-founder Matthew Winkler had arguably one of the most ridiculous takes on President Joe Biden’s performance on the economy yet. Winkler wrote a Dec. 20 op-ed with an outrageous headline, “Biden's Economic Performance Has Proved Unbeatable.” The piece read like a press release from the Biden White House itself. Winkler based his absurd assessment on 10 economic measures he spun to serve the pro-Biden narrative. Here was his hot take: “America’s economy improved more in Joe Biden's first 12 months than any president during the past 50 years notwithstanding the contrary media narrative contributing to dour public opinion.”...

What has the destruction of balsa trees in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest got to do with the wind power industry in Europe? As the international commitment to renewable energy has grown in recent years, the increase in wind farms has triggered a huge demand for balsa wood, leaving a trail of deforestation in its wake.

At the risk of spoiling a 50-year-old film, the most efficient way to introduce The Cowboys, a 1972 western produced and directed by Mark Rydell, is that it's the one where John Wayne gets killed. To be sure, Wayne died in more than just one film, but of the ten where he does, five of the deaths are offscreen and one of them is so early in his career that his unfortunate character doesn't even have a name (1933's Central Airport). But The Cowboys was notorious for Wayne's death, one full act before the film's finale, as it had been...

[H/T AMorePerfectUnion] The latest filings by Special Counsel John Durham reveal that lawyers for the Hillary Clinton Campaign now represent Christopher Steele primary subsource Igor Danchenko. In doing so, Durham reveals something else: that the Hillary Clinton Campaign and multiple former employees of the Hillary Clinton Campaign are under investigation.Let’s walk through the latest developments. BackgroundIgor Danchenko, the primary subsource of Christopher Steele, was arrested on November 3, 2021 for giving multiple false statements to federal officials during his 2017 interviews with the FBI. These included lies about Danchenko’s sources, his travels to Russia, and his falsified contacts with Sergei...

Former President Donald Trump said Sunday that China should pay reparations for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Trump, a leading figure within the GOP, told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that the communist regime should be held responsible for its role in helping spread the coronavirus. “China has to pay, they have to do something,” said Mr. Trump. “They have to pay reparations and China doesn’t have the money to pay those reparations.” The former president argued that if the worldwide damage of the coronavirus was properly estimated, China would likely owe upwards of $60 trillion. “I believe that...

The province of New Brunswick backtracked on an aspect of its COVID-19 ‘winter plan’ which compelled grocery stores to either enforce social distancing or require all patrons to be ‘fully vaccinated.’. Unvaccinated Canadians in New Brunswick are now allowed to access all grocery stores again, after intense pressure from the public led the government to retract its policy leaving it up to businesses how to treat people who refuse the abortion-tainted COVID shot. On Friday, the province of New Brunswick backtracked on an aspect of its COVID-19 “winter plan” which compelled grocery stores to either enforce social distancing or require...

In an exclusive interview, Attorney Thomas Renz said a leaked Pfizer document lists herpes as an “Adverse Events Of Special Interest” connected to a covid-19 vaccine. Renz is the lead Attorney in several major cases brought in Ohio, New Mexico, Maine, and Nationally against the CDC, DHHS, Biden and Fauci, regarding forced vaccine mandates, big tech censorship, the COVID-19 lockdowns, hospital murders, mask mandates, business closures, false PCR data, fraudulent death numbers and more. NORTHWESTERN OHIO – Attorney Thomas Renz says leaked Pfizer documents list Herpes as one of the Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) connected to the pharmaceutical...

Former President Donald Trump urged his supporters on Sunday to get a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine to protect themselves against the Omicron variant, telling them they're "playing right into their hands" by doubting the vaccines. ... "Look, we did something that was historic," he said. "We saved tens of millions of lives worldwide. We, together, all of us, not me." ... "I think this would have been the Spanish Flu of 1917, where up to 100 million people died," he said. "This was going to ravage the country far beyond what it is right now."

MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota jury on Monday began deliberating manslaughter charges in the trial against former Minneapolis-area police officer Kim Potter for shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright in April 2021. The 12-person jury – made up of six men and six women – heard instructions from Judge Regina Chu on Monday morning, followed by the closing arguments from Assistant District Attorney Erin Eldridge, for the prosecution, and defense attorney Earl Gray. The state's rebuttal was presented by prosecutor Matthew Frank. During deliberations, the jury will be sequestered to a local hotel, and will only be allowed to contact family....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) parried accusations of corruption in her stock market dealings by claiming "it's all part of a free market. Members of Congress are as free as anybody else to buy and sell stocks. The only extra requirement we have is periodically reporting these transactions." Scrutiny of Pelosi's transaction reports showed a remarkable record of timely purchases of stocks that rose in value after certain pieces of legislation were enacted. In spirit, at least, such transactions seem to violate insider-trading regulations—something that Martha Stewart ran afoul of and spent five months in jail for in 2004. Pelosi...

Los Angeles' New Year’s Eve celebration is moving mostly online as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in L.A. County, The Associated Press reported. Organizers said on Monday that the planned New Year’s Eve party at Los Angeles’ Grand Park will not have an in-person audience and will be streamed online instead. The invite-only audience was going to include frontline workers and first responders.

Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that it was “frustrating” that Republican lawmakers are not wearing masks while reacting to Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) testing positive for coronavirus. Mitchell said, “Very briefly, we’ve heard now that Senators Warren and Booker both have had breakthrough cases. Have you heard of any more cases, and what concerns do you have about the way — the protections against COVID in the Senate as you’ve all been working together so closely?”

Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter took the stand in her own defense on Friday, telling jurors her account of what happened on April 11. Potter said, after Officer Anthony Luckey told Daunte Wright not to tense up, the stop "just went chaotic." Potter then said she saw fear in Sgt. Mychal Johnson's face like "nothing I've seen before" and then didn't realize she'd shot Wright until Wright yelled he'd been shot. Potter cried as she discussed Wright's shooting and as the state later played segments of her body camera video. She also was asked if she would've pulled...