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In a surprise to no one, the radical Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax school boards in Virginia are ignoring the state’s governor’s executive order to eliminate masks in their districts. Yesterday the new governor in Virginia signed an executive order eliminating mandatory face masks across the state like most sane states have recently done. Now WTOP reports: Virginia’s freshly inaugurated governor, Glenn Youngkin, signed executive orders removing school masking requirements across the state on Saturday afternoon. Since that moment, Arlington and Alexandria school systems have joined Fairfax County Public Schools in reminding families that masking policies remain in place. Youngkin’s list...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with his Russian counterpart in Switzerland this week as tensions between the U.S. and Russia escalate over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, the State Department said Tuesday. The State Department said Blinken will travel to Kyiv on Wednesday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, move on to Berlin and then meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva on Friday. The hastily arranged trip aims to show U.S. support for Ukraine and impress on Russia the need for de-escalation. White House press secretary Jen Psaki underscored the urgency. “We’re now at a...

Daniel Radcliffe is set to star as Grammy-winning musician ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic in the Roku original movie “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.” The film is Roku’s first original biopic and will be available to stream exclusively on The Roku Channel. The project is produced by Funny Or Die and Tango. Yankovic co-wrote the film’s script with Eric Appel, who is also set to direct the project. The official “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” synopsis from Roku reads: “The biopic holds nothing back, exploring every facet of Yankovic’s life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like ‘Eat It’...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County Health Director Dr. Raul Pino has been placed on administrative leave. Sources tell WFTV Pino was placed on paid administrative leave after he sent an email on Jan. 4 to Orange County Department of Health staff about employee COVID-19 vaccination rates. >>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE <<< READ: Orange County opening county-employee only COVID-19 testing site In it, he wrote, “I have a hard time understanding how we can be in public health and not practice it…” He wrote that he had an analyst run vaccination data for employees, and that out...

The 120-year-old crocodile is now on display at the schoolWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info A 120-year-old crocodile has been put on display at a Rhondda primary school after being discovered underneath the floorboards of a classroom. Pupils at Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Bodringallt, in Ystrad, arrived at school on Wednesday to see the giant saltwater crocodile, which was discovered by workmen in June 2019 when work...

ew vaccine mandates for truck drivers are likely to increase the cost of produce. The cost of transporting fruit from California and Arizona to Canada climbed 25% last week, the CEO of Canadawide Fruits, George Pitsikoulis, told Bloomberg on Monday. The Montreal-based executive pointed to a lack of truck drivers who are able to cross the border between the US and Canada due to a vaccine mandate that cuts US trucking capacity in half, according to data from the American Trucking Association. The group estimates that only about 50% to 60% of US truck drivers have been fully vaccinated. Stephen...

Video of a commercial (at link) down in Florida. Wait until the end.

The CDC report shows a peak of the 7 day moving average for daily new COVID cases on 13 January (796,965), and declines since then. All but a handful of individual States show their own peaks have occurred.

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw was caught on video snapping at a young girl at a Texas Tea Party event on Monday evening, earning furious heckling from GOP voters there. One angry audience member shouted that the girl was just 10 years old. She had asked the veteran-turned-lawmaker about recent comments he made suggesting Jesus Christ was not 'real' despite publicly declaring himself a devout Christian, during a question session at the at the Montgomery County Tea Party meeting. 'The important thing is that we societal hero archetypes that we look up to. Jesus is a hero archetype, Superman is a...

Two House Democrats on Tuesday said they will not seek reelection, bringing the number of Democratic retirements to 28. Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) announced his retirement in an op-ed in the Providence Journal. Langevin, 57, is the first quadriplegic elected to Congress and is currently serving his 11th term. “I have not come to this decision lightly, but it is time for me to chart a new course, which will allow me to stay closer to home and spend more time with my family and friends,” Langevin said in the op-ed. “And while I don’t know what’s next for me...

Record Snow Is Making Moose Cranky and Dangerous, Alaska Park Says. ‘Be Ready to Run’

UPDATE: JAN. 18 The driver, identified as 63-uyear-old Scott Brodie, was pronounced dead at the hospital on Saturday. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: SPOKANE, Wash - A couple is recovering after crashing into a moose on I-90 west of Spokane Wednesday night. Officials say the man and woman were badly hurt. They were flown to a hospital. Eastbound I-90 was closed for a short time but is now back open.

Failed Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke (D), who announced his bid for Texas governor in November, has raised $7.2 million since launching his campaign, he announced this week. According to O’Rourke’s team, “the 46-day fundraising haul is a record for a Democratic candidate in Texas,” the Hill reported, noting his haul stems from 115,600 contributions.

(CNSNews.com) – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee appeared to take a dig at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) on Monday when he asked how we can “expect to keep America-hating, anti-Semitic terrorists out of our synagogues when we can't even keep them out of Congress.” Huckabee was referencing the hostage standoff at a Jewish synagogue in Dallas, Texas, during which a terrorist took four people hostage before being killed. The FBI was criticized for saying that Malik Faisal Akram was “singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.” They said that Akram had spoken...

According to court documents, on May 28, 2020, Montez Terriel Lee, 26, along with others, broke into the Max It Pawn Shop on East Lake Street in Minneapolis. Surveillance video footage showed Lee pouring a fire accelerant around the pawn shop and lighting the accelerant on fire. The fire destroyed the building. A second video showed Lee standing in front of the burning pawn shop and Lee could be heard saying, “[expletive] this place. We’re gonna burn this [expletive] down.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrats have issued a dire warning to the American people that Republicans will steal the election in 2022 by blocking all Democrat efforts to steal the election. "Republicans want to destroy our democracy by stealing the election, just like Hitler," said Nancy Pelosi in a speech supporting the Voting Rights Act. "If Republicans are not stopped, they will block all our noble efforts to steal the election for ourselves, because Republicans are racist and want to bring back Jim Crow. We cannot allow that!" The crowd of enthusiastic school kids in the audience who had been bussed in for...

Hillary has set herself up in a zero-sum game with Joe Biden that no other Democrat is willing to pursue. With the rest of the Party and the hopefuls for 2024 reluctant to turn on Biden and afraid to confront the extreme left, Hillary is becoming the sole source supplier of such a position. She recognizes that no other prominent Democrat will be willing to take on the left because they all frightened of it. Whether they are senators and governors who will have to pass through primary elections to get renominated or potential presidential candidates who must win primaries...

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As winter bites, Europe is facing a gas shortage. A cold snap has coincided with lower volumes of gas exports from Russia, forcing a big spike in prices. Consumers and businesses across the continent are facing a steep increase in their bills, with governments scrambling to cushion the impact. And analysts warn it could soon get worse. Moscow plans to build a new pipeline to China, which could give Russia the power to sell gas to the highest bidder, pitting Chinese and European consumers against one another. Chinese economy From the frozen expanses of Siberia, Russia already is sending some...

The president of the Pennsylvania state Senate today called on leaders in the state House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner by launching an investigation of the "reform" D.A. who just last November, got reelected by a landslide to a second term. ---SNIP--- “His [Krasner's] decision to allow more and more criminals to walk free through plea deals and dismissed charges has created an environment in which Philadelphians are no longer safe in their own homes and communities," Corman wrote. In the four years that Krasner has served as D.A., the murder rate in Philadelphia...