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President Joe Biden’s administration has ordered 14 additional states to stop using a COVID-19 treatment made by GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said March 30 it has paused shipments of the drug, sotrovimab, to the states, bringing the total number of states that are no longer receiving doses to 22. The states are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin in the midwest; Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state in the west; and Alaska and Hawaii. Previously, eight states in the northeast U.S. stopped receiving shipments of sotrovimab. The U.S. government purchased...

A National Institutes for Health (NIH) spokesperson is disputing a nonprofit watchdog group’s claim that the agency “deleted” genetic sequencing data on the CCP virus from a Chinese lab, but the same official acknowledged the data was “suppressed.” “The headline says the sequences were deleted which is inaccurate. They were not deleted. This is a really important point, and I’ve highlighted what did happen from what we provided to you earlier this week,” NIH Media Branch Chief Amanda Fine told The Epoch Times in a March 31 email. Fine was referring to a March 29 Epoch Times story headlined “NIH...

California is experiencing one of the driest starts to spring in decades, data showed Friday, and absent a heavy dose of April and May showers the state’s drought will deepen and that could lead to stricter rules on water use and another devastating wildfire season. New readings showed the water in California’s mountain snowpack sat at 38% of average. That’s the lowest mark since the end of the last drought in 2015; only twice since 1988 has the level been lower. State officials highlighted the severity of the dismal water numbers as they stood at a snow measuring station south...

The signal detected by Kepler (l) and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. (The University of Manchester) An exoplanet a whopping 17,000 light-years from Earth has been found hiding in data collected by the now-retired Kepler Space Telescope. It's the most distant world ever picked up by the planet-hunting observatory, twice the distance of its previous record. Fascinatingly, the exoplanet is almost an exact twin of Jupiter – of similar mass, and orbiting at almost the same distance as Jupiter's distance from the Sun. Named K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, it represents the first exoplanet confirmed from a 2016 data run that detected 27 possible objects using...

At Carlow University recently, attendees were taught a lesson in death-to-self. The Catholic college’s Atkins Center for Ethics welcomed speaker Miguel De La Torre.

President Joe Biden bent down on one knee for a photo with Navy sailors after commissioning the USS Delaware submarine. The president and his wife First Lady Jill Biden appeared at the commissioning ceremony in Delaware on Saturday.

With an energy cost crisis now striking Europe and to a lesser extent the U.S., some cracks have begun to appear in the “net zero” utopian dreams being pursued almost universally by Western politicians. Nevertheless, at this writing, the rapid elimination of use of fossil fuels, supposedly to fight “climate change,” remains official government policy throughout Europe, at the federal level in the U.S., in most blue American states, and as well in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Here in the U.S., although President Biden has ordered some temporary measures like release of some oil from the nation’s strategic reserves,...

The Musk buy comes less than two weeks after Musk criticized the company, polling people on Twitter about whether Twitter adheres to free speech principles.

Hunter Biden won’t like the interview his father’s chief of staff Ron Klain did with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. Asked about the Delaware investigation into the president’s son’s business affairs, Klain threw Hunter and his uncle Jim Biden under the bus. “The president is confident that his family did the right thing. But, again, I want to just be really clear, these are actions by Hunter and his brother. They’re private matters. They don’t involve the president. And they certainly are something that no one at the White House is involved in.” This is the party line, parroted by...

As if the border crisis isn’t damaging enough, with 2.5 million illegal migrants having crossed into the United States since Joe Biden took office, now the administration is going to make it exponentially worse by unwinding the last Trump-era ­restriction. The Title 42 policy, implemented by the Trump administration during the pandemic to allow border officials to quickly expel migrants on public health grounds, will be terminated next month, the CDC announced Friday. Title 42 was the last tool that border officials had to stem the flow of illegal migration from more than 150 countries across the southern border. Now...

In the twisted world of the rich and powerful, sexual predators like former film producer Harvey Weinstein and “Financier” Jeffrey Epstein were able to commit and/or coordinate heinous sexual crimes for decades, and out in the open to a degree. Alleged sex trafficker Epstein’s accusers are insisting the billionaire’s private paradise of Little St James in the US Virgin Islands was a center of an international sex trafficking ring. The New York Times obtained more than 2,000 pages of Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) records just days before Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is set to start trial...

Three Republican states have sued the Biden administration to prevent the repeal of the Title 42 policy, a public-health measure that has allowed U.S. border agents to immediately expel illegal border crossers. The suit claims that the administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act when terminating the policy. Attorneys general Mark Brnovich of Arizona and Eric Schmitt of Missouri, along with Louisiana solicitor general Elizabeth Murrill, signed on to the suit. “This suit challenges an imminent, man-made, self-inflicted calamity: the abrupt elimination of the only safety valve preventing this Administration’s disastrous border policies from devolving into an unmitigated chaos and catastrophe,”...

Biden says killings in Bucha are "outrageous," calls for war crimes trial against Putin

President Joe Biden said Monday that evidence needs to be gathered to put Russian leader Vladimir Putin on trial for war crimes related to his nation’s invasion of Ukraine. “He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin, on the heels of reports of mass killings of civilians by Russian troops in the town of Bucha, northwest of Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv. “This guy is brutal,” Biden said. “He should be held accountable.”

Ukrainian forces have claimed to have downed a Russian jet worth £38million as they continue to defend their country from Vladimir Putin's invasion. Images released by Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sunday showed the burning remains of an Su-35 fighter shot down near the city of Izyum, in the Kharkiv region. It is believed to be the first Su-35 which the Ukrainian forces have shot down since Putin ordered his troops to invade on 24 February. Video of a Russian soldier reported to be the pilot was shared on social media, showing him kneeling near the burning wreckage, although this was...

A North Carolina medical student is no longer working directly with patients after she suggested on Twitter that she intentionally stuck a patient twice with a needle for mocking her pronoun pin. "The student is not involved in patient care activities at this time," Wake Forest School of Medicine spokeswoman Paula Faria told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" producer Gregg Re, according to his Twitter feed. The fourth-year medical student, Kychelle Del Rosario, came under fire after complaining in a tweet about a patient's response to her she/her pronoun pin. "I had a patient I was doing a blood draw on see...

In keeping with the Liberal mantra of “never letting a good crisis go to waste,” President Joe Biden did not even wait for the bodies to be cleared from the street in Sacramento following a shooting that left six dead before calling for sweeping new gun laws.“Ban ghost guns,” said President Biden in a White House statement released even as police in California’s capital continued their hunt for at least two suspected gunmen. “Require background checks for all gun sales. Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Repeal gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability.”The call for Congress to act sounds tough and...

Anyone still interested in the Fast and Furious franchise gets what they deserve: Another Vin Diesel lesson on color-blind racial brotherhood, another chain of mindless action sequences

"You've read about the "knockout game" in US inner cities. You most likely wouldn't think that a bunch of fat old white guys would have their own version of something like that, but they do; it's called "ECONOMIC SANCTIONS" and, prior to now at least, it has been knocking out entire nations and not individuals. But, as in the case of the street thug who tries to play knockout with somebody like Rocky Marciano or Mike Tyson, they have finally tried their sanctions game on the wrong nation and the wrong leader."

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) stops by Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the latest developments with Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell. Johnson says it’s the “most corruption I’ve ever seen in the United States federal government.” Segment...