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There’s no limit to the number of insurance-sponsored surgeries someone could haveThe Biden administration is pushing for more insurers, and thus anyone who buys their insurance, to cover transgender surgeries. Such genital, breast, and facial surgery, as well as hormone therapy and more, would be considered “medically necessary” for those wishing to identify with the other sex.Discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability is prohibited in federally funded health-care facilities under the Affordable Care Act, passed during the Obama administration. A proposed rule, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on January 5,...

Mathieu Fleury, the Ottawa City Councillor of Rideau-Vanier Ward, has today announced his support for the government to launch a legal challenge to seize the remaining GoFundMe donations that had been collected online.“This morning, I have asked the city manager and city solicitor to immediately launch court proceedings targeting the millions of dollars in funds frozen by @GoFundMe so Ottawa taxpayers are not left holding the bag for these protests,” Fleury tweeted.

My wife is a naturalized American citizen who seethes over illegal immigration. When we see the stories on FOX News that highlight the cancellation of our border under the Biden administration, she always asks why the GOP isn’t doing a blessed thing about it. Drawing on the recent news that we have followed on Power Line, Miranda Devine channels and amplifies my wife’s thoughts in the New York Post column “GOP can’t complain about Biden’s migrants when they’re not stepping in.” She writes: It’s all very well for Kevin McCarthy and other GOP members of Congress to rant on Fox...

@RepThomasMassie It’s deceptive for airlines to say “federal law requires” when informing passengers of a bureaucratic edict that was never voted on by a single lawmaker.

First signs of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, surfaced in Wuhan, Dec. 12, 2019. By December 2020, COVID-19 had reached every continent on the planet after the first cases were detected on Antarctica. Through entire COVID-19 endemic and pandemic, the remote island nation of Kiribati had managed to not have a single case of COVID-19 until Jan. 19, 2022. Kiribati is an isolated island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a population of roughly 122,000. Kiribati closed its borders 10 months ago, then reopened the country this month. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chartered a...

Elon Musk mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau amid this weekend's trucker protest against the Canadian federal government's vaccine mandate, calling Trudeau's administration the real "fringe minority." Replying to a video of Saturday's anti-vaccine protest in Ottawa, Musk tweeted: "It would appear that the so-called 'fringe minority' is actually the government." As the parade of trucks traveled across Canada to the nation's capital last week, Trudeau denounced the Freedom Convoy 2022, calling participants "small fringe minority who are on the way to Ottawa who are holding unacceptable views" at a press conference earlier in the week. Truckers had previously been...

TOKYO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Japanese trading and pharmaceutical company Kowa Co Ltd said on Monday anti-parasite drug ivermectin showed an “antiviral effect” against Omicron and other variants of coronavirus in joint non-clinical research. Kowa did not provide further details. The firm has been working with Kitasato University, a medical university in Tokyo. Clinical trials evaluating the drug, which is used to treat parasites in animals and humans, are ongoing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Moderna announced Monday that U.S. health regulators granted full approval to its COVID-19 vaccine, a shot that’s been given to tens of millions of Americans since its emergency authorization over a year ago. The action by the Food and Drug Administration means the agency has completed the same rigorous, time-consuming review of Moderna’s shot as dozens of other long-established vaccines. The decision was bolstered by real-world evidence from the more than 200 million doses administered in the U.S. since the FDA cleared the shot in December 2020. The FDA granted full approval of Pfizer’s vaccine last August....

Yet another example of the extreme centralisation of the wealth and power on Earth has surfaced in the case of Neil Young's 'spat' with Spotify as he attempted to have them censor Joe Rogan and free speech on the COVID19 topic. Turns out Pfizer may have had a direct hand in the decision for Young to say what he has said - how ironic for such a 'rebel'. Selling out and being the complete opposite of what you claim to be is nothing new - many of Earth's most prominent characters have, in truth, fit into this category in important...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NBA player Steph Curry and musical artists H.E.R. and Jennifer Lopez are among celebrities who have joined a national nonpartisan voting initiative launched by Michelle Obama as the effort gears up for the November congressional elections. “Are you ready for the midterm elections?” the former first lady asks in a video announcement Monday. H.E.R., Curry, Lopez, Becky G and Bretman Rock are the newest co-chairs of Obama’s When We All Vote initiative. They join Selena Gomez, Tom Hanks, Liza Koshy, Janelle Monae, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Paul, Megan Rapino, Shonda Rhimes, Kerry Washington and Rita Wilson. The volunteer...

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We've always pushed for General Motors to succeed with EVs. In fact, if you know anything about InsideEVs' history, you know that we got our start due in part to a loyal group of Chevrolet Volt owners, and several of us still own GM EVs. That said, GM has been talking up its massive EV future for years, though it doesn't yet have a whole lot to show. According to CEO Mary Barra, that's all about to come to an end, and rather quickly. General Motors has big plans to invest a ton of money into the segment. Just last...

Meet Donald Trump, the constitutional scholar. The twice-impeached former president is claiming that the bipartisan effort to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 proves that ex-Vice President Mike Pence had the legal right to overturn the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost. “If the Vice President (Mike Pence) had “absolutely no right” to change the Presidential Election results in the Senate ... how come the Democrats and RINO Republicans are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not allow the Vice President to change the results of the election?” Trump asked. Without providing any facts or legal...

REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — A revived Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. court is reviled by immigration advocates and repudiated by the Biden administration, which acted under a judge’s order. Asylum hopeful Alexander Sánchez of Venezuela has a more favorable view. “There is no other way to cross legally and, for that reason, I think it’s good,” he said at a migrant shelter in Reynosa, a Mexican border city where he has been living for nine months with his wife and their 5-year-old daughter. The Biden administration has declined to say how many asylum-seekers...

Alumni have been making their voices heard over the past few months. After seeing the alarming direction that their alma maters are taking, alumni at institutions such as Davidson College, the University of Virginia, and Washington & Lee have decided to unite around the principles of free speech, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity. These alumni groups aren’t working in isolation, they are part of a national organization called the Alumni Free Speech Alliance (AFSA). UNC-Chapel Hill is the latest group to join AFSA. The UNC Free Speech Alliance is an alumni-led, independent organization dedicated to free speech, diversity of opinion,...

The first congressional candidate in history to be banned from virtually all social media writes a compelling tale of modern American politics.. That’s not appropriate here!” chided an audibly nervous Minnesota congressman Tom Emmer, 60, at a recent National Republican Congressional Committee donor retreat in Key Biscayne, Florida. Emmer’s composure faltered when he was asked from the floor why a selection of 10 congressional seats targeted in the 2022 midterm elections did not include any of those held by the 10 Republican representatives who voted to impeach President Trump in 2021, seven of whom are still delusional enough to seek...

The Democratic National Committee announced it hit new fundraising highs, raking in $10.7 million in December and $157 million in 2021. Both figures are records for the committee in a non-presidential election year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting the ruling leader of Qatar at the White House on Monday as he looks for the gas-rich nation to step up once again to help the West as it faces the prospect of a European energy crunch if Russia invades Ukraine. Qatar is already producing at full capacity with much of its supply under contract to Asia. Even if some Pacific allies of the U.S. — including India, Japan and South Korea — are persuaded to divert some LNG orders it has contracted to Europe, it will only have a small impact...

Dozens of handguns and shotguns were among items stolen by thieves who raided cargo containers aboard trains near downtown Los Angeles for months, authorities said. Only a handful of the 82 guns known to have been stolen from trains passing through Lincoln Heights have been recovered.

Police in Canada’s capital are investigating possible criminal charges after anti-vaccine protesters urinated and danced on the National War Memorial — and others were spotted carrying swastika flags.Thousands of protesters descended on Ottawa on Saturday and Sunday to decry Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates, as well as masks and lock downs.Videos emerged of protesters dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial, while others desecrated a number of other monuments in the city.