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Moderna is set to ask the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to approve its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6 years old, a new report said. The drugmaker will make its formal request after a clinical trial showed its vaccine worked effectively in babies, toddlers and preschoolers, Politico reported, citing three sources with knowledge. Moderna still needs to file final datasets to the FDA that won’t be ready until May 4 for a completed application, Politico added.

Ukraine appears to have attempted to strike deeper into Russian territory overnight, although officials on both sides were being reticent about drone flights and explosions early Wednesday that were described by three local governors in Russia. A close adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assaults inside Russia near Ukraine’s eastern border were payback against launching pads for the invasion, but he stopped short of saying the Ukrainian military was responsible, attributing the attacks to “karma” instead. In Russia, three governors described incidents involving drones or blasts on their territories. An ammunition depot was set on fire...

The town of Clarksville, Indiana, is accused of unlawfully revoking a job offer to a qualified law officer after learning that he was HIV positive, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, which filed the lawsuit April 25. The lawsuit maintains that such HIV discrimination violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which considers HIV a disability. Title I of the ADA prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified individuals on the basis of disability. When the officer was offered the job in 2015, he had already been volunteering with the town’s police department for over a year...

A Chinese defense spokesperson on Thursday urged some Australian politicians to correct their "China threat" ideology and avoid further damage to China-Australia military relations. Regarding the development of another country as a security threat, some people in Australia have created and spread groundless fear, said Tan Kefei, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, at a regular press conference in response to recent statements from some Australian politicians. "Their actions will not only undermine regional security and stability, but also compromise their own images as well," Tan said. The military cooperation among the United States, Britain and Australia in highly...

A 15-year-old boy who was initially targeted by a false rumor that he was unvaccinated was bullied relentlessly until he took his own life in January, a lawsuit claims. The suit filed Monday against the Latin School of Chicago alleges administrators at the private college prep school — which charges more than $40,000 annually in tuition — committed “willful failure” to stop the incessant bullying, the Chicago Tribune reported. The Cook County filing named the school, several employees and parents of the alleged bullies as defendants. The late teen, identified as N.B. in the suit, transferred to the school due...

The US authorities are considering the possibility of transferring assets of the Bank of Russia frozen in the United States to Ukraine. This was stated by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at a hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee. The question now, Blinken said, is whether there are legal provisions in the US that allow forfeiture. This issue is being considered by the staff of the Ministry of Justice. "We're working very closely with the US Treasury and Justice Departments to explore how we can effectively freeze and seize assets," Blinken said. During the discussion of this issue, Senator...

- After decades of searching, one of Dorothy's dresses from the classic American film "The Wizard of Oz" has been located and is set to be auctioned off next month. The auction house said film studio MGM didn't keep records about the movie's costumes but five dresses have surfaced since the film was released in 1939. One was lost in a fire, leaving only four of the iconic blue and white gingham outfits.

Amid the meltdown of leftists canceling themselves following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the most extreme reactions came from the likes of MSNBC’s Joy Reid and ABC’s The View, where it was declared that Musk is a white supremacist who wants to see the return of segregation, as well as abuse of Jewish people and rampant misogyny against women. Perpetual race grifter Reid proclaimed that Musk “misses the old South Africa in the 80s. He wants that back,” adding “Elon Musk’s companies have a history of open racism.” She also charged that Musk’s “idea of freedom means freedom to be a...

The American deep state is letting everyone know that more attacks on the domestic food supply are soon to come. Following a wave of arson that saw numerous food processing plants in the United States burn to the ground or get crashed into by planes all at roughly the same time, the FBI’s Cyber Division published a notice explaining that the next phase of this engineered takedown involves cyberattacks. “Ransomware actors may be more likely to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons, disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and negatively impacting the food supply chain,” the FBI announced,...

Twitter didn’t have as many users as it thought — a predicament that may have encouraged the company to more seriously consider its acceptance of Elon Musk’s proposal to take the company private in a $44 billion deal. According to Twitter’s Q1 2022 earnings out this morning, the company admits it had been overcounting the number of users on its service for at least 3 years due to a technical error involving linked accounts. In its earnings release, Twitter explains that it launched an account linking feature in March 2019 which allowed users with more than one Twitter account to...

"MOSCOW, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it would insist that Western governments respect a 1999 agreement that no country can strengthen its own security at the expense of others, an issue it argues is at the heart of the Ukraine crisis. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he raised the matter in a conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and that Blinken accepted the need to discuss it further."

The Mars program is being held up (and costing way too much) for two reasons: 1. Enviro-wackos in NASA who have enough influence to demand redundant sterile systems on the spacecraft to MAKE SURE we do not send a harmful microbe to Mars on the trip. Never mind that the atmosphere there would kill said microorganisms, negating any gratitude from anything on Mars for the effort to prevent exposing it/them. 2. Many of the parts and assemblies, by demand from the racially pure leftists involved in the project, must be ordered from women/minority/approved (not white male) companies and that is...

I hope America’s foreign policy wizards (Biden, Harris and Blinken) weren’t relying on the Russian Ruble staying pulverized, because the Ruble (relative to King Dollar) has regained all its losses. On the other hand, the Japanese Yen and Chinese Yuan have crashed harder than Biden’s popularity. Perhaps Biden, Harris and Blinken think Putin is a pasta sauce.

Don’t call it a pivot, exactly — but it’s a fascinating journey, nonetheless. Umaro Foods, which is set to release a seaweed-based bacon replacement, entered the world as Trophic. The firm, which is now technically a subsidiary of the former, was formed to compete for the $100 million Carbon Removal XPrize. The organization managed to land a $5 million prize, due in part to research Beth Zotter had begun in 2010. This part of the story is familiar at least: With no clear commercial path forward, the firm had to rethink things. Given the the generally horrifying trajectory the planet...

Wednesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) argued now that the Mueller probe was in the rear-view mirror, more and more was come to light about the 2016 Clinton campaign and had left him questioning what the special counsel investigation led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller had missed. According to the South Carolina Republican lawmaker, a “refund” was warranted on the Mueller investigation.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken appeared to contradict one of his top deputies in an exchange with Sen. Rand Paul before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, re-igniting questions about the Biden administration’s diplomatic strategy in the months leading up to Russia’s illegal and aggressive war on Ukraine. Of course, the media chatter surrounding yesterday’s hearing largely ignored the latest evidence that U.S. diplomats missed a potential opportunity to prevent Russia’s war, focusing instead on conflating Paul’s attempts to explain Russia’s actions with efforts to justify them. I’d encourage you to watch their full exchange. Sen. Paul opened his comments...

When you hear ‘8 percent inflation’ bandied about but feel certain your costs are rising at a far higher rate, you’re not crazy. The Labor Department’s March inflation numbers released this month skyrocketed past February’s, hitting a 12-month increase of 8.5 percent and the steepest annual increase since 1981. That’s no small figure, but most Americans know the inflation they encounter at the grocery store checkout, the gas pump, the car lot, and the leasing office is far higher than that. Just look at basic items like groceries and gas, and you’ll see how much higher those necessities are climbing...

Twitter could be gaining millions in quarterly ad revenue from an influx of conservative Twitter users in the days after Elon Musk’s takeover bid, data of followers of major partisan accounts suggests, more than offsetting potential losses from an exodus of left-leaning accounts amid concerns over the billionaire’s approach to free speech and censorship on the platform. Key Facts Two days following the announcement of Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on Monday, leading conservative accounts gained an average of 17,229 followers while leading liberal ones lost 6,062 followers, according to data from analytics tool Social Blade analyzed by The Verge. The...

Americans woke up Thursday morning to an economy that unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter. The ABC, CBS and NBC morning news shows ignored the story. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released a report at 8:30 a.m. revealing that U.S. GDP contracted at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the first quarter. Bloomberg News reported that the terrible news followed a “6.9% pace of growth at the end of 2021.” The median forecast for economists surveyed by Bloomberg was a 1 percent increase, meaning that expectations were off by a sizable 2.4 percentage points. Janney Chief Fixed Income...

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