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An MSNBC guest claimed Thursday on "The ReidOut" that supporters of the political slogan "Make America Great Again," a phrase coined by former President Donald Trump, want to "lynch or murder" Black People in the United States. Brittany Packnett Cunningham, a Missouri-based progressive political activist and host of the "Undistracted" podcast, joined Joy Reid’s show to discuss a new bill, SB666, which would revamp the state’s self-defense laws. Critics of the bill have dubbed it the "Make Murder Legal Act" and have argued that it will make criminal or civil prosecution of individuals who use deadly force difficult. An excerpt...

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President Biden on Friday said he was “proud” of the January jobs report while just one percent of Americans say the economy is in excellent shape. “This morning’s report caps off my first year as president, and over that period, our economy created 6.6 million jobs,” Biden proudly stated in the White House. “If you can’t remember any year when so many people went to work in this country, there’s a reason: it never happened.”

Even in death, the John McAfee saga grows stranger. More than seven months after he died in a Spanish jail, McAfee’s body remains in a prison morgue freezer somewhere in or near Barcelona. His daughter and ex-wife waged a legal fight over the body and a Spanish judge is continuing to conduct an investigation over the cause of his death. At the same time, the first of what is expected to be several attempts to detail the hard-to-believe exploits of the antivirus-software pioneer has arrived, a book whose contents are vigorously denied by McAfee’s family. It is unclear to those...

The White House on Friday claimed that President Joe Biden never supported coronavirus lockdowns, despite his endorsement of a national lockdown strategy during the 2020 campaign. “We’ve not been pro-lockdown; that has not been his agenda — most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous President,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during the daily briefing.

Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the Republican National Committee’s censure of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) shows the “Stalinesque” Republican Party has become an autocratic movement with the sole purpose of grabbing political power “at the cost of ending the American experiment.” Schmidt said, “This is a moment of, another moment of revelation of the Republican Party as an institution through its elected leaders revealing what it’s become. What it has become is an autocratic vehicle to advance an autocratic agenda that is controlled by Donald Trump in this country. There’s...

One commenter wrote, “As a Singaporean, this in no way resembles anything close to the chicken curry we eat in Singapore."While the topic of food can get pretty divisive among Singaporeans, one event has brought people together like never before – The New York Times’ Singaporean Chicken Curry recipe, which was uploaded on its recipes site, NYT Cooking, and on Instagram on Tuesday (Feb 1). The IG post was captioned “What we’re making for Lunar New Year” and came with a video of the dish being cooked by journalist Clarissa Wei, who adapted the recipe from Shila Das, described on...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge on Friday temporarily halted an executive order by Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin that allowed parents to opt out of school mask mandates for their children. The temporary restraining order means that mask mandates put in place by school boards may remain, at least for now. Arlington Circuit Court Judge Louise DiMatteo ruled in favor of seven school boards that filed a lawsuit challenging the governor’s order, one of the first actions Youngkin took after his inauguration Jan. 15. The judge found that the single issue before the court was whether Youngkin, through his...

Like “jumbo shrimp,” “proud New Jerseyan” or “Democratic-party moderate,” “vegan dining” is an obvious oxymoron. The vegan part of the dish is the garbage that’s left after you throw out the real food. You might as well be eating the wrapper your sandwich came in. When it comes to bean-sprout sundaes or celery burgers, put me down for a hearty “no thanks.” You eat what you want, though. Just don’t tell me what I can have. Is that so hard? Yet New York City public school students are being forced to go vegan on Fridays, thanks to our vegan mayor,...

Iconic American brands like Tiffany's and Cadillac continue to sponsor Californian skier Eileen Gu, the poster girl of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics despite her turning her back on Team USA to instead represent China and promote the Games for them worldwide. The 18-year-old was born and raised in San Francisco where she attended high school. She has also won a place to study at Stanford. Her mother Yan is a first-generation Chinese immigrant and her father, reportedly American, has never been publicly named. Despite competing as an American for most of her youth career in freestyle skiing, Gu will...

Former Vice President Mike Pence called out his former boss by name on Friday, saying that "President (Donald) Trump is wrong" in claiming that Pence had the right to overturn the 2020 election on January 6, 2021. Speaking at the Federalist Society Florida Chapters conference near Orlando, Pence delivered his strongest response yet to Trump's ongoing efforts to relitigate the 2020 presidential election, calling it "un-American" to suggest one person could have decided the outcome. Pence warned against conservatives who continue to insist the vice president can alter an election, and said it could be a problematic position for Republicans...

A DoorDash driver shot a McDonald's employee after an argument at the store's drive-thru Monday evening, the Baton Rouge Police Department said. Officers responded around 8:15 p.m. Monday to a shooting at the McDonald's on Greenwell Springs Road, BRPD spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola said. They found one of the store's employees suffering from a leg injury, possibly from shrapnel in the shooting, Coppola said. Coppola said the spat started with a disagreement at the restaurant's drive-thru window, which involved a DoorDash driver who was angry with the contents of an order they were trying to fill. The driver pulled around...

More Afghan refugees are heading to Asheville. Nearly 100 are expected to arrive within the next month. The refugees will arrive very quickly, starting next Tuesday. Caption: Asheville area agencies prepare to help nearly 100 Afghan refugees expected next week "It's going to be fast and furious," said Laura Collins, who is coordinating the effort with Lutheran Services of the Carolinas Refugee and Immigrant Services.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was the latest Democrat officeholder to flout the “science!” on mask mandates when he was photographed sans mask at the Rams-49ers playoff game, accompanied by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and San Francisco Mayor London Breed. It wasn’t the first time Newsom demonstrated that Covid rules are only for pleb workers, small business owners, and children, and not for their lordships in public office and high society. In November 2020, when the rest of the state was being told to lock down and shut up, it was revealed that Newsom and a dozen other unmasked guests...

ORLANDO, Fla. (WESH)— Two people have been arrested for the death of a grandfather who deputies say was killed outside a CVS. Javonne Marece White, 19, and Jasmine Yvonne Munro, 25, are facing charges of felony first-degree murder and carjacking. Deputies say 78-year-old Uken Cummings was gunned down in broad daylight Sunday, Jan. 30, in the CVS parking lot on Silver Star Road after picking up his medication. They say Cummings was returning to his car when he was confronted by two suspects who shot him and stole his car. The suspects are accused of also running over Cummings before...

Insiders with the Liberal Party and Prime Minister’s Office have revealed that Justin Trudeau is showing extreme worry over the ongoing truckers’ convoy protest.Speaking with Elect Conservatives on the condition that they both remain unnamed, the party sources revealed that the government is gravely concerned about the ongoing protests in Ottawa and across the country.“This is all new territory for them, and not something they ever saw coming,” said one party insider. “They figured that these COVID measures would continue as long as needed, but yeah, it was a shock to the system when they saw the convoy and the...

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to decline across the United States. As of February 2, 2022, cases are down 53.1% from their peak on January 15. Reported Cases: As of February 2, 2022, the current 7-day moving average of daily new cases (378,015) decreased 37.6% compared with the previous (605,735). Variants: Omicron predicted to be 99.9%, and Delta to be 0.1%... the proportion of BA.2 (sub-variant of Omicron) in the United States is less than 1%; however, the proportion of BA.2 has been steadily increasing. New Hospital Admissions: The current 7-day daily average for January 26–February 1, 2022, was...

[Catholic Caucus] The strategy of slow strangulation: Will the new Mass be required of old-rite priests and communities? “Hit It, Hit It Dead!”Michael CharlierMeanwhile, observers of the Roman scene are seeing a bit more clearly how the imposition of Pope Paul VI’s missal as the “sole lex orandi” of the Roman Rite is to be accomplished.The promulgation phase of TC in 2021 was very much characterized by the grobian nature of the Pope and his advisors from Sant’Anselmo, who would have preferred to complete the transition to the Novus Ordo by yesterday and then to have excluded the (according...

The Vatican opened its first embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday. Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the Substitute (Sostituto) of the Vatican Secretariat of State, traveled to Abu Dhabi to inaugurate the diplomatic post on the Arabian Peninsula. “The presence of this new apostolic nunciature is a further sign of the Holy Father’s solicitude and concern for all the people in this land,” Peña Parra said at the opening on Feb. 4. “It is Pope Francis’ sincere desire that this edifice will assist the papal representative in carrying out his mission to the United Arab Emirates and to...

A new bill, meant to increase trust in elections, would direct the Idaho secretary of state’s office to audit elections in randomly selected precincts around the state. The bill comes amid persistent, unfounded election fraud claims after the 2020 presidential election. Former President Donald Trump and his supporters, including an Idaho House member who’s campaigning to be the state’s top election official, continue to cast doubt on the validity of the 2020 election, in Idaho and elsewhere. The bill would create a system of random audits following general and primary elections. The policy is meant to, first, identify election issues,...