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Andy Slavitt is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acting administrator from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration. He was on the pandemic response team, which helps explain the terrible response out of the Biden administration. His judgment hasn’t gotten any better on the monkeypox issue. Slavitt tweeted, “The myth that sexual activity is the cause of monkeypox and that reducing it is a valid strategy for managing a disease does not, on its face, make...

NEW YORK — On the Thursday before Pride Weekend last month, hundreds of men dropped what they were doing and raced to a city-run health clinic in Manhattan. Finally, more than a month after monkeypox appeared in the city, a vaccine was being made available to sexually active gay and bisexual men, among whom the virus was rapidly spreading. But there was a catch: There were only 1,000 doses available. Within two hours, the only clinic offering the shots began turning people away. At that same moment, about 300,000 doses of a ready-to-use vaccine owned by the United States sat...

Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, who sponsored a bill to ban corporations from operating PACs, has repeatedly emphasized he does not and will not “take a dime of corporate PAC money.” However, Kelly’s campaign has raked in around $154,000 from Democratic PACs since March 2019 that have hauled in large sums from corporate PACs, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. “All he’s good at is raising money from Wall Street and Big Pharma executives,” Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters, who has led in recent Republican primary polls, told the DCNF when asked...

Copies of Richmond and Petersburgh papers to the 23d inst. are received, and we give from them various extracts of interest. The leading editorial in the Richmond Enquirer, of the 23d, is upon the pending exchange of prisoners. It says: "The basis of the exchange has been the cartel of 1812. This cartel marks an important era in this war. It is the acknowledgment of our quasi nationality. We are by it made belligerents, and the Government of the United States treats with the Government of the Confederate States through Commissioners." The Enquirer claims that one more Confederate victory will...

Former President Donald Trump would like to announce he will embark on another campaign for the White House as early as "today," according to his former campaign manager. Kellyanne Conway, who led Trump to victory in 2016 and then became his White House counselor, signaled to a 7News reporter that Trump is raring for a rematch against President Joe Biden in 2024, even as Trump faces multiple criminal investigations and a congressional inquiry into his actions with regard to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. "He would like to. He would like to announce today," Conway said with a smile before...

Former President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since he left office, delivering a speech at the America First Policy Institute's two-day summit. Trump's return to Washington comes amid the congressional investigation of the January 6, 2021, insurrection triggered by his denial of the 2020 election results, and as the former President teases a third run for the White House in 2024. Trump is set to speak Tuesday afternoon at the Marriott Marquis, where he'll deliver the keynote speech at a summit hosted by a non-profit that could effectively turn into the engine of...

Mayor Sylvester Turner, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and other health officials came together to give the public an update on the current monkeypox situation. HOUSTON — A public health emergency -- that's how Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner described the current status of monkeypox in the city. There are now 57 confirmed cases across the Houston area. On Monday, Turner, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and health officials came together to give the public an update on the current situation. “We are the fourth largest and the most diverse in the country and we need more vaccines,” Turner said. "The...

A man traveled more than 700 miles to his ex-wife’s Chicago home and shot her dead in a murder-suicide after she wrote about their relationship woes on TikTok, according to reports. Sania Khan, 29, and her former husband, Raheel Ahmad, 36, were both found with gunshot wounds to the head in her Windy City condo last week, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The pair were married less than a year and divorced in May. Ahmad, of Alpharetta, Georgia, traveled to Illinois last week before the violence exploded. Khan, a Pakistani American photographer, had frequently described the pressures she faced in...

A former U.S. congressman from Indiana, technology company executives, a man training to be an FBI agent, and an investment banker were among nine people charged in insider trading, with unsealing of indictments in New York City,. It was one of the most significant attacks by law enforcement on insider trading in a decade. A prosecutor and other federal officials pledged fresh enthusiasm for similar prosecutions in the future. . Stephen Buyer was accused of insider trading during the , April 2018 merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. An indictment identified him as misappropriating secrets learned as a consultant to make...

Some officials are questioning whether an emergency should be declared for a virus that has yet to kill a single American The Biden administration reportedly plans to name a monkeypox coordinator, as the virus continues to spread across the U.S. and grows into a global public health emergency. The plan was first reported by The Washington Post, based on information from unnamed sources. The administration is still debating whether to declare the virus a public health emergency, amid over 3,400 confirmed cases across the United States. Over 18,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported worldwide, with the U.S. having the...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

In CCTV footage uploaded to Twitter on Friday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijiang, the man is seen on the phone on July 19 as he runs to the front of the building and briefly slips. He then looks up and catches the rapidly falling toddler in his arms. The video cuts to CCTV footage of the building and shows the 3-year-old girl sliding out the window and quickly tumbling down. The man told Chinese media that he heard a bang coming from the top of the apartment building and looked up to see the small toddler. tumble out...

Sir Mick Jagger Born Michael Philip Jagger 26 July 1943 Dartford, Kent, England Education Dartford Grammar School Alma mater University of London; London School of Economics and Political Science Occupation Singer Songwriter Years active 1960–present Spouse(s) Bianca de Macias (m. 1971; div. 1978) Jerry Hall (m. 1990; ann. 1999) Partner(s) Chrissie Shrimpton (esp. 1963; sep. 1966) Marianne Faithfull (esp. 1966; sep. 1969) Marsha Hunt (esp. 1969; sep. 1971) Luciana Gimenez (esp. 1998; sep. 1999) Sophie Dahl (esp. 2000; sep. 2001) L'Wren Scott (esp. 2001; d. 2014) Melanie Hamrick (esp. 2014) Children 8; including Jade, Elizabeth, and Georgia May Relatives Chris...

“Suppose they gave a war and no one came.” That was a slogan of the 1960s anti-war movement. Now it’s becoming a reality. The U.S. military is facing recruiting nightmare, and Republican lawmakers place the blame on the Biden Administration's vaccine mandates.

The truth has become hate speech on Twitter. There are no conversations anymore," Moms for Liberty's Tiffany Justice told The Post Millennial. ... Twitter has been on a banning spree, suspending or banning accounts that call out "grooming" behavior on the site. Author and mathematician James Lindsay was banned for saying "ok, groomer," YouTuber Tim Pool was locked out of his account for saying "Twitter actively protects and supports pedophilia," and now Moms for Liberty has been suspended, pending appeal, for speaking against the medical gender transition of children. ... The truth has become hate speech on Twitter. There are...

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee addressed members of the House Monday when she called for the creation of a commission to study and develop “reparations proposals” to address “246 years of slavery.” “I rise today to promote the commission to study slavery and develop reparation proposals as a way of redress, repair and restoration for the 246 years of slavery. I think it is an important […] moment for the country to pause,” said the Congresswoman. VIDEO AT LINK................... Watch Jackson Lee’s comments above.

Grassley just dropped a bombshell. According to a report from CBS News, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says several “highly credible” sources from within the FBI have contacted him suggesting Hunter Biden was strategically protected from negative media attention. There was a concerted effort to bury negative stories. “The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation,” GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 25. “The volume and consistency of...

After nearly 40 years, the beloved Choco Taco has been discontinued by Klondike. The company says a spike in demand for different Klondike products led to the difficult decision to stop making the taco-shaped frozen treat.

Pocono NASCAR Cup Series winner Denny Hamlin and second-place finisher Kyle Busch were disqualified Sunday after their cars failed post-race inspections. "There was some issues discovered that affect aero in the vehicle," said Brad Moran, managing director of the NASCAR Cup Series, widely considered the top auto race league. "There really was no reason why there was some material that was somewhere it shouldn't have been. And that does basically come down to a DQ." Hamlin was the first Cup winner to be disqualified since April 17, 1960, when Emanuel Zervakis' victory at Wilson Speedway in North Carolina was thrown...

Asked if he could go back to March of 2020 and start over with the pandemic response, Dr. Fauci admitted that mistakes were made in his and the CDC's response to COVID's initial spread but refused blame for collateral damage caused by public health officials. What he did admit? That masking and social distancing restrictions should have been "much, much more stringent" than they were. "If I knew in 2020 what I know now, we would do a lot differently," he said during an interview on HillTV's Rising. "We were not sure of a number of things," Fauci admitted, despite...