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NC wastewater data shows increase in COVID, yet hospitalizations remain lowRALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina found more than double the amount of coronavirus in its wastewater last week when compared to week before, even though the state only saw a 24% increase in new cases. That means that more people are sick with COVID-19 than testing shows. Fewer people are getting tested for coronavirus and at-home coronavirus test are not required to be reported to the state. "You have to concede the numbers are a significant underestimate of the actual burden of COVID-19 in the community," said Cameron Wolfe, an...

Perhaps no group of people is more alarmed about Elon Musk’s plan to make Twitter a free speech free-for-all than those most likely to be targeted for harassment: women, racial minorities and other marginalized groups. They fear that a more hands-off approach to policing the platform will embolden purveyors of hate speech, bullying and disinformation to ratchet up their bad behavior — a possibility Musk has done little to dispel. Yet even those who have faced extreme harassment on Twitter say they are unlikely to quit the platform. Despite the negative psychological toll, they still place a high value on...

In a direct threat to the West Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged "lightning" fast strikes on any nation that "interferes" with Russia's war in Ukraine. "If anyone ventures to intervene from the outside and [pose] unacceptable threats of a strategic nature to Russia, they should know that our counter-retaliatory strikes will take place with lightning speed," he said.

The Biden administration is freaking out over the truth being exposed. They are now launching a “Disinformation Governance Board” to go after what they claim is misinformation. The group will be specifically focusing on irregular migration and Russia.

The company revealed that it has lost $660 million outfitting the next presidential jets—so far. Boeing should have rejected then-President Donald Trump’s proposed terms to build two new Air Force One aircraft, the company’s CEO said Wednesday. Dave Calhoun spoke Wednesday on the company’s quarterly earnings call, just hours after Boeing disclosed that it has lost $660 million transforming two 747 airliners into flying White Houses. “Air Force One I'm just going to call a very unique moment, a very unique negotiation, a very unique set of risks that Boeing probably shouldn't have taken,” Calhoun said. “But we are where...

Today I attended a meet and greet with Arizona AG candidate Abraham Hamadeh. Some comments: *** Son of Syrian Refugees, he seems like the real deal. Solid conservative, deep love for the country. He is young and I would expect has aspirations for higher office. Basd on what I heard, he would be a solid candidate for Governor in the future.*** He stated stromg respect for Trump and the "America First" policies Trump has pur forward.*** Also stated admiration for what Gov. Desantis has done in Florida. Specifically turning it from a purple state (Desantis won by less than 1%)...

'Petty, Greedy, Venal, Low Rent bulls--t is what it is,' Hunter Biden said about Clinton aides double dipping on salaries ========================================================================== Hunter Biden ripped former President Bill Clinton as an "a--hole" who "looks like s---" in a 2016 email exchange and took aim at multiple Clinton aides in 2015 emails with his longtime business partner Eric Schwerin and Delaware’s now-chief deputy attorney general, Alexander Mackler. In the April 8, 2016, exchange obtained by Fox News Digital, Schwerin shared a video clip of Clinton in an email thread with Hunter Biden and Mackler, who was deputy counsel to Vice President Joe...

Joe Scarborough, keep your hands off Holocaust Remembrance Day, and stop exploiting it for your cheap political purposes. Scarborough opened today's Morning Joe by noting that today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, then promptly moved to use it for his political ends. Scarborough twice sought to associate the Republican party with neo-fascism. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Boeing employees mocked federal rules, talked about deceiving regulators and joked about potential flaws in the 737 Max as it was being developed, according to over a hundred pages of internal messages delivered Thursday to congressional investigators. “I still haven’t been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year,” one of the employees said in messages from 2018, apparently in reference to interactions with the Federal Aviation Administration. The most damaging messages included conversations among Boeing pilots and other employees about software issues and other problems with flight simulators for the Max, a plane later involved in...

The Russian brigade accused of carrying out heinous war crimes against helpless civilians in Bucha has reportedly been attacked by Ukrainian drones and suffered 'heavy losses' in the Donbas, amid claims Vladimir Putin wants them to 'disappear'. Soldiers of the 64th Motorised Rifle Brigade of the 35th All-Russian Army, who Ukrainian authorities named as those responsible for torturing, raping and executing civilians on the outskirts of Kyiv, withdrew last month to Belarus and then Russia. -snip- Analysts say that Putin has deliberately sent them to the front lines in order to make them disappear so they could not never be...

New York's top court on Wednesday rejected the congressional and state Senate maps drawn by the Democratic-led Legislature earlier this year as unconstitutional in a key victory for Republicans. The 4-3 ruling could upend the scheduled June party primaries and force lawmakers back to the drawing board to draw new maps. The court found "the enactment of the congressional and Senate maps by the legislature was procedurally unconstitutional, and the congressional map is also substantively unconstitutional as drawn with impermissible partisan purpose, leaving the state without constitutional district lines for use in the 2022 primary and general elections." The ruling...

The UK on Tuesday threatened to ban Twitter altogether and potentially jail Elon Musk if he violates their incoming "Online Safety Bill" by allowing free speech on his platform. The move came just hours after the EU threatened to ban Twitter entirely if Musk allows free speech on the platform and the US threatened to "reform" Section 230 to hold social media companies "accountable" for the "harms they cause." From CNBC: Britain's Online Safety Bill would make it mandatory for social media services to tackle both illegal posts as well as material that is "legal but harmful," a vague definition...

An elderly Slidell man has "significant" injuries after being attacked by a "vicious" squirrel Tuesday, police said. It's the second reported squirrel attack this year in Slidell, according to authorities. The 78-year-old man told authorities he was walking outside his home when the squirrel came from the direction of his roof and attacked him unprovoked. The squirrel "was eating his hand," according to a written statement from Slidell police about the 911 call. "The man was attempting to choke the squirrel, but was unable to obtain a good grip," police said. The man was still struggling with the animal when...

All those who are leaving Twitter because they will stop censoring people they disagree with, please leave... I do like a little censorship of all those parodies, constantly mocking me... Don't cry. We can join Truth Social...

A faculty job posting at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, says only applications from people who identify as "women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit" will be given due consideration.The position was first advertised on March 21 and is for a tenure-track assistant professor of environment who will also be a research chair for "Climate Change, Water or Future Cities.""This call is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit," the job posting said. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in "geography, earth and/or environmental science and sustainability, planning or a related discipline."The posting says the...

"What I found is we had 1,634 that were never put on the voter rolls, they were in the pending status, because they couldn't prove their citizenship," said Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. ============================================================================== Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his office is investigating ballot harvesting and the registration of noncitizens to vote, both of which he suggests may have been orchestrated by third-party organizations. His office did a citizenship audit of Georgia's voter rolls and found more than 1,600 noncitizens who tried registering to vote, Raffensperger told the John Solomon Reports podcast Tuesday. "[W]hat I found is...

John 3:16-21 Friends, today in the Gospel, Jesus delineates the nature of his mission: “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” In his passion to set right a disjointed universe, God broke open his own heart in love. The Father sent not simply a representative but his own Son into the dysfunction of the world, so that he might gather that world into the bliss of the divine life. God’s center—the love between the Father and the Son—is now offered as...

UPDATE: The April 27 ABC, CBS, NBC morning shows also skipped this latest bombshell. A bombshell report in the Daily Mail revealed that Joe Biden had agreed to pay his derelict son Hunter’s legal fees related to his business dealings with a Chinese government-controlled company. A stunning revelation that ties the President to his son’s rampant corruption after he claimed he's never discussed it with him. Despite this groundbreaking story, all three nightly newscasts decided to cover up for the Biden crime family and ignore the story. Instead, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, & NBC Nightly News decided...

The Next Ten BattlesIt is apparently much easier to tell the truth about state action the farther away it is from home. And hence even the New York Times seems alarmed at the covid lockdowns in Shanghai, and pretending as if nothing like that could happen here even though the whole practice of lockdown the world over was directly copied from the Wuhan model. “China is meddling with free enterprise as it hadn’t in decades,” says the paper. “The results are familiar to those old enough to remember: scarcity, and the rise of black markets.”The disruptions are especially difficult for...

The Biden administration quietly reversed a decision granting an energy utility company in Kentucky a federal permit to begin constructing a natural gas pipeline. The pipeline — which would transport natural gas to an under-serviced area south of Louisville, Kentucky — cannot be constructed pending further environmental review, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday. The USACE finalized the reversal on April 20, but the administration appears to have not issued any public announcement or press release about the action. “The Corps has suspended the Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP) verification previously...