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Senate Republicans are threatening they will attempt a takeover of the Senate agenda by forcing votes on issues ranging from the Keystone XL pipeline to abortion rules to a U.S-Mexico border wall if Democrats weaken the filibuster. Republicans are also looking at smaller bills such as a proposal to prohibit the administration from imposing a fracking ban by executive order, a prohibition on the IRS implementing new reporting on banks to disclose individuals’ banking activity and mandatory detention for illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes.

Although he's now one of the most lauded comedians in Hollywood, Larry David never saw himself becoming a writer or a comedian. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 1970, he was lost and had little direction from his parents, who wanted him to take a job as a mailman. The future writer for "Saturday Night Live," co-creator of "Seinfeld" and creator of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" joined the Army Reserve for one very important reason: to avoid going to Vietnam. He regretted it almost immediately. He had never held a weapon, and he was terrible at push-ups and sit-ups....

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on the constitutionality of President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for private businesses and federal contractors, countries in Europe that have already implemented wide spread vaccine passports are feeling the heat from citizens. Widespread protests against medical apartheid already implemented from Germany to France, where French President Emmanuel Macron said he wants to "piss off" the unvaccinated and eliminate them from public life, have become a regular occurrence. Germany: France: Austria: Italy: Belgium: Czech Republic: Meanwhile up north in Canada, people are also taking to the streets.

Dozens of hospitals in New York have been ordered to stop elective surgeries due to low bed capacity. The New York State Department of Health made the announcement on Saturday, which ordered 40 hospitals, mainly in the central and western regions, to stop non-essential, non-urgent elective surgeries after meeting the state's threshold for low-capacity facilities. The order means that impacted hospitals must turn away these types of procedures for a minimum of two weeks. "We will use every available tool to help ensure that hospitals can manage the COVID-19 winter surge," Acting State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said.

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[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider Calls on Pope Francis to Rescind Traditionis CustodesROME, January 10, 2022 – Bishop Athanasius Schneider is inviting Pope Francis to “rescind” the canonical provisions contained in Traditionis Custodes and in the Responsa ad dubia issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW) just before Christmas. The auxiliary bishop of St. Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, is also calling on his brother bishops to voice “publicly and frankly” their “deep concerns” about these documents, in keeping with the parrhesia and “sensitivity” of synodality.Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowIn a reflection titled, “The Duty...

Key Takeaways: 1- The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday in two cases on an emergency basis. 2- No provision in the Occupational Safety and Health Act authorizes OSHA to make medical decisions for employees by coercing them to be vaccinated. 3- The court will likely issue an order in the two cases in the very near future either halting the vaccination mandate or allowing them to go forward. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday in two cases on an emergency basis. Both cases involve lawsuits stemming from the Biden administration’s attempt to expand vaccination of Americans in light...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Democratic lawmakers on Monday to alter Senate rules so that it could "protect Americans' right to vote." Quoting the president who signed the Voting Rights Act, she tweeted: "'The right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless,' Lyndon B. Johnson said. ‘It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.’" She added: "It's time Senate Democrats adjust the rules to protect Americans' right to vote."

A pilot for a major airline estimated that 80 percent of his fellow pilots will refuse to take a COVID vaccine booster if it’s mandated, telling tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch that they will quit before they take the jab again. During an interview with Kirsch, Latane Campbell, who has 34 years of experience flying in the military and for a commercial airline, shared his perspective on the experimental vaccines, mandates, masking, and how this is going to end. Kirsch, the executive director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, has been a leading voice promoting repurposed drugs to treat COVID, and...

Even without the majority of positive results coming from at-home, rapid COVID-19 testing, Santa Cruz County broke its own record for active known cases Monday.

The Partnership for New York City, the Big Apple’s largest business advocacy organization, will meet with progressive Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg to voice their concerns over details of his stay-out-of-jail free card for criminals. Some members of the group are so angered by Bragg’s new policies that they are also discussing efforts to recall the newly elected prosecutor, The Post has learned. The meeting was prompted as complaints from city business leaders poured into the office of Kathryn Wylde, the Partnership’s CEO, beginning last week after a memo from Bragg’s office outlined his new, hyper-lenient policies for prosecutors seeking incarcerations.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) confirmed Monday that he plans to remove three high-profile Democrats from their committee positions if Republicans take back the chamber this November and he wins the Speaker’s gavel the following January. In an interview with Breitbart, McCarthy vowed to kick Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) off the House Intelligence Committee, as well as remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee

Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake. Another 32 were injured in the accident in the south-east of the country. Video circulating online shows the moment the rock detaches from the cliff face as onlookers try to yell warnings to the boats beneath. At least one of the boats appears to have sunk, while others managed to escape from the huge wave the falling rock created. The collapse at 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) followed days of rain in Minas Gerais state, which had made the cliffs more susceptible...

As a kid growing up, I would watch as my parents watched Walter Cronkite on CBS Evening News, and listen to his calm, steady and measured cadence when reading the news. Cronkite was a welcomed and reassuring figure during times of war, presidential assassinations and other crisis. They called him the ‘most trusted man in America’, but there’s more to that story. Walter Cronkite was also a One World Government globalist who desired to be under the yoke of the United Nations and…well, in his own words when he said, “join me, I’m glad to sit here at the right...

A medical examiner announced on Monday that foul play or drugs were not involved in the death of 65-year-old Bob Saget. The District Nine Medical Examiner’s Office in Orlando, Fla., said an autopsy was performed on Monday morning after Saget's death in a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton on Sunday night, according to NBC News. The initial report found "no evidence of drug use or foul play," though the final results of the autopsy could take up to three months.

Betty White died after suffering a stroke, according to the “Golden Girls” star’s death certificate. The document from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health lists White’s cause of death as a cerebrovascular accident, TMZ first reported on Monday. The cerebrovascular accident, the medical term for a stroke, happened six days before White died at 99 on Dec. 31. The legendary performer — who maintained a dedicated fanbase throughout her more than seven-decade career — was weeks away from her 100th birthday when she died at her Los Angeles home.

s a Russia-led military alliance moved to quell violent unrest that has consumed Kazakhstan, China has also offered to provide security assistance to stamp out what officials from all three countries have claimed to be acts of terrorism backed from abroad. Coming at a time when Beijing and Moscow are growing closer than ever, they also spoke directly about the events rapidly unfolding in a nation which they both border. Days after the six-nation Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) answered Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's plea for help to quell nationwide unrest that began as protests against rising energy prices and...

for me. Clay Aiken campaign ad for North Carolina seat in congress If at first you don’t succeed, try again eight years later. Singer-songwriter Clay Aiken, best known for finishing second on “American Idol” nearly two decades ago, ​announced Monday that he would run for Congress as a Democrat for a second time after being soundly beaten in a 2014 House race.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) office said it would be “catastrophic” if Republicans take the House in 2022 and remove him from the intelligence committee, as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Breitbart News he would do in an exclusive interview published Monday.

Appearing on the Fox News Channel, Gristedes CEO John Catsimatidis warned of a possible shortage of meat and eggs as a growing number of Omicron coronavirus variant cases puts pressure on the supply chain in the United States.