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The nation's efforts to develop and stockpile key medicines for guarding against public health threats are underfunded by some $35 billion, the Biden administration warned Congress on Monday, forcing officials to make risky trade-offs that could leave the U.S. unprepared for the next emergency. Over the next five years, the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the U.S. will need $64 billion overall to fund the work of an array of agencies tasked with "medical countermeasures" for threats ranging from COVID-19 to nuclear attacks. That means, at funding levels that had been laid out by Congress last year,...

A former student who killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville had 'some resentment for having to go to that school', cops said as they try to pin down a motive. Nashville police chief John Drake said police are still investigating what drove the killer - who they named as Audrey Hale, 28 - to open fire on Monday morning at The Covenant School, where she used to be a student, before being shot dead by police. He said in an interview with NBC News that investigators believe the killer had 'some resentment for...

CNN is closing in on a deal that would bring broadcaster Gayle King to the network to host a show in prime time, according to multiple reports. King, 68, has served as a co-host of “CBS Mornings” for more than a decade and is reportedly in talks with CNN president Chris Licht about a weekly show that would debut this fall. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday the network is also in talks with basketball analyst Charles Barkley to appear on a show with King, citing people familiar with the conversations. King’s duties with CBS are not expected to...

Severe storms in the South that killed at least 21 people in Mississippi and Alabama highlight the dangers of being inside a mobile home or manufactured home during severe weather. Many of the dozens of homes destroyed in the storms were manufactured. In the hardest-hit community of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, 24% of housing units in the county are manufactured homes according to the Census Bureau. To really drive it home, the National Weather Service says you are 15-20% more likely to die in a manufactured home than a permanent home during severe weather. The danger is magnified in the southeastern...

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Historic agreement will diversify key supply chains and strengthen the U.S.-Japan bilateral economic and trade relationship WASHINGTON -- United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Japan’s Ambassador to the United States, Tomita Koji, today signed a critical minerals agreement (“Agreement Between the Government of Japan and the Government of the United States of America on Strengthening Critical Minerals Supply Chains”). The Agreement builds on the 2019 U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement and will strengthen and diversify critical minerals supply chains and promote the adoption of electric vehicle battery technologies. In particular, the Agreement memorializes the shared commitment of the United States and...

The South Atlantic Anomaly is a location in the southern Atlantic where the innermost portions of the natural zone of energetic charged particles encircling Earth, known as the Van Allen radiation belt, makes its closest approach to the planet. The resulting outflow of energized particles produces a higher yield of ionizing radiation detectable by satellites orbiting Earth. Our planet’s geomagnetic field undergoes constant changes that result from the activity occurring in the Earth’s core, which current models aren’t capable of easily predicting. Because of this, the World Magnetic Model can only offer a good estimate of the Earth’s geomagnetic activity...

This group of unhinged, ignorant leftists posted the most disgusting comments you have ever read. Their hate for people they know nothing about is terrifying. They want conservatives dead. Brought to light is the arrest of Stacey Lynn Stephens who walked into the capitol with her mother. She is pictured at the link. Another elderly harmless woman.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's chief prosecutor has argued for critical race theory ideology to be integrated into the criminal justice system as part of a "new paradigm of prosecution," while claiming criminals are not necessarily "bad dudes," Fox News Digital found. Chief Assistant District Attorney Meg Reiss was brought in to Bragg's office in January 2022. Reiss has repeatedly said she is trying to "actually change… an understanding that people have about prosecution," including their views about violence. "So one of the first things [to] do is change the language: ‘the bad dude.’ What does that mean? What are...

Shortly after an elderly man rescued a German shepherd/Labrador Retriever mix dog from a shelter, the dog returned the favor and saved his life. A month after adopting the dog from a U.K. animal rescue, Peter Bradley, of Dorset, England, took his new friend named Ruby out on a walk. But due to low blood sugar, Bradley fainted and fell to the ground and into an 8-foot-deep watery ditch. Ruby immediately understood what was going on and sprung into action by barking for attention.

Hallie Scruggs is a name I won't forget. I'll forget the name of the shooter quickly – just another person consumed by the evil of the human heart, bent on wanton destruction. But not Hallie's name. From the NY Post: Among the six victims shot and killed inside a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday was the young daughter of a local pastor, according to reports. Hallie Scruggs, one of three children slain in the sickening school shooting, was the 9-year-old child of Chad Scruggs, the senior pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church, the church confirmed to CBS News. The...

Today is the centennial of the electrocution of Floyd Allen, the wealthy patriarch of a Virginia clan, and his son Claude — for an astounding shootout right in the Carroll County (Va.) courthouse. Before the unpleasantness, Allen was for Carroll County gentleman farmer, prosperous shopkeep, moonshine-distiller, and political operator. He was also a guy with a violent reputation. That’s him on the right, but maybe you want to picture an Old Dominion Don Corleone instead. “The worst man of the clan,” said a local judge who suspected that Allen had dodged other brushes with the law by intimidating witnesses. “Overbearing,...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie boasted to an audience in New Hampshire this week that unlike other potential 2024 presidential candidates, he is not afraid of standing up to ex-President Donald Trump. Christie, speaking at St Anselm College in Goffstown on Monday, burnished his credentials for opposing Trump by referring to his exchange with Sen. Marco Rubio during a presidential debate in February 2016, when he assailed the Florida Republican as an inexperienced politician. When Rubio stumbled over an answer and repeated himself twice, Christie said sarcastically, “There it is — the memorized 25-second speech.” Christie, who ended up...

The India-based Megh Updates platform, one of the world’s largest online informational platforms in terms of views, has stated that BRICS countries have officially overtaken G7 in share of world PPP GDP, and that this trend can be expected to continue. The BRICS currently include Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, while the G7 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the European Union. The BRICS is also expanding – Bangladesh, Egypt and the UAE have all just joined the BRICS New Development Bank, with numerous other countries poised to...

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has released the body-worn camera footage of the heroic officers who took down 28-year-old transgender shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a former Covenant School student who went by the trans name "Aiden." In the six-minute video posted to YouTube, two points-of-view are compiled, showing the perspectives of Officer Rex Engelbert, a four-year MNPD veteran, and Officer Michael Collazo, a nine-year MNPD veteran, the officers credited with fatally shooting Hale: In the second-floor common area, a team of responding officers encountered Hale firing through a window at arriving police cars. A map and writings, including a "manifesto,"...

In recent days, Biden administration officials have repeatedly warned Israel to “de-escalate” its actions against Palestinian Arab terrorists because Ramadan has begun. According to U.S. officials, Israel should stop pursuing terrorists into Palestinian Authority territory in the weeks ahead, because Israelis should not be killing Muslims during this month-long Muslim religious holiday. But how did the Biden administration mark the start of Ramadan this past week? By killing Muslims. Last Thursday—the first full day of Ramadan—a strike by an Iranian drone in northeast Syria killed an American contractor and wounded six other Americans. In view of the administration’s concern about...

Climate alarmists have found something else to blame on climate change, namely allergies and breathing ailments. According to a March 27 article in Bloomberg, a warming climate “is causing a lengthier pollen season, worsening allergies and respiratory conditions.” “This really shows another marker of how climate change could be influencing people’s daily lives,” said Allison Steiner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan.

Transgender Nashville school shooter with 'high-functioning autism,' Audrey Hale, 28, has been seen talking about her 'growth as an artist' as police reveal she'd drawn a cartoon-like massacre manifesto detailing her twisted plan. Hale shot and killed three nine-year-old students and three staff members at The Covenant School in Green Hills on Monday in what police are calling a 'targeted attack.' Eerie footage of Hale's college graduation and a short interview of the art school's senior portfolio show reveal the deranged killer portraying a seemingly happy persona as she talked about her 'growth as an artist.' The 28-year-old was seen...

It’s no secret many on the left love to politicize tragedies, but the reaction from some to Monday’s deadly shooting at a Christian school in Nashville has reached a whole new level of malevolent.

Nashville Police have this morning released bodycam footage from yesterday's school shooting which left six people dead, including three nine-year-old children. The footage shows heroic police officer Rex Englebert taking shooter Audrey Hale out within five minutes of arriving at the school, and 14 minutes after the first 911 call came in. Hale was standing in front of a large window on a second floor atrium of The Covenant School by the time police entered the building. When they arrived at the scene, a woman standing outside the school directed the officers on where to go. A panicked male staff...