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The Biden administration on Thursday announced a program to provide free Covid vaccines to uninsured Americans through December 2024 after the federal government’s supply of shots runs out this fall. Those free shots, which the government is purchasing at a discount, will be available to the uninsured at pharmacies and 64 state and local health departments. The Health and Human Services Department also is hoping that vaccine makers will donate shots to pharmacies as part of the program. There are between 25 to 30 million uninsured adults in the United States and other Americans whose insurance will not cover free...

A New York court ordered new congressional maps be redrawn ahead of the 2024 midterms, siding with Democrats salivating at the chance to overturn several embarrassing losses last November. The Appellate court reversed a lower court on Thursday and ordered the state’s redistricting commission to start work on new proposed state congressional lines impacting 26 House seats. “We’re looking forward to getting back to work,” said Karen Blatt, the commission’s Democratic co-executive director. “And we’re looking forward to working with our Republican side as well. If the congressional districts revert to the lines drawn in 2022, it would also seriously...

Bryan Johnson takes 61 pills every day, and eats 70 pounds of vegetables every month. He wakes up at 4:30 a.m. and goes to bed at 8:30 p.m. Every hour of his day is regimented by an algorithm built from rigorous bodily monitoring and the science of over 2,000 academic publications. The 45-year-old American tech entrepreneur spends around $2 million a year to halt his body’s aging process and has a team of doctors constantly studying him as he works out and finishes the “protocols” or activities of his intense schedule.

From Taco Bell testing a vegan Crunchwrap to McDonald’s trying out plant-based McNuggets, going meatless is all the rage in the fast food world. And while Burger King's American restaurants have offered Impossible Whoppers for years, a new international product is also getting in on the act. Just not at all in the way you might expect. This week, Burger King Thailand unveiled a meatless burger. No, not a veggie burger. A literal meatless burger known as the “real cheeseburger,” made with 20 slices of American cheese on a bun. And nothing else. The menu item dropped on Sunday, July...

The largest public school district in Washington State is referring students in the district to free "gender-affirming care." The Nova Wellness Center and the Meany Health Center offer "gender reaffirming care," including hormone-blocking medications and referrals for sex change surgeries, which are available to middle and high school students in Seattle Public Schools (SPS). According to documents obtained by Parents Defending Education (PDE), the health centers are operated by Country Doctor Community Health Centers (CDCHC) which offers “no cost comprehensive, trauma-informed, and gender-affirming care, conveniently at the school.” As stated on its website, CDCHC provides services to "transgender, non-binary, and...

“Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III,” former President Donald Trump said in a statement released Tuesday, calling to “immediately end the bloodshed in Ukraine” and for a return “to a focus on America’s vital interest.”Trump reacted to the Biden administration’s recent decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, despite President Joe Biden admitting that “we’re low on [them].”“It took me a while to be convinced to do it. But the main thing is, they either have the weapons to stop the Russians now…keep them from stopping the Ukrainian offensive through these areas, or they...

The hard-edged, profane TV show 'South Park' had predicted a scenario like this one day, airing a storyline in which a man pays for a sex change and then insists on his right to an abortion. — The sinister filmmaker John Waters, known for his transgressive cult films, once encapsulated the centrality of abortion to progressivism in a single quote. “Sometimes I wish I was a woman,” he said, “just so I could have an abortion.” This sort of nakedly pro-abortion sentiment is not as rare as some readers might assume. As a pro-life activist, I’ve heard flippant feminists and...

Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion about lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic with Institute for Progress founder Alec Stapp. The COVID-19 pandemic and the government's response to it cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars and resulted in a major hit to global freedom. What should governments, private companies, and individuals do differently next time disaster strikes? Alec Stapp, co-founder of the Institute for Progress, has assembled a team devoted to analyzing and applying the lessons of the pandemic. The institute has published papers arguing that Operation Warp Speed was a...

Clip of the message from Jim Caviezel that follows the screening of Sound of Freedom. All rights belong to the film creators, Angel Studios

An outspoken liberal bishop of The United Methodist Church will face a church trial next month centered on two unspecified complaints against her that led to a suspension. UMC Bishop Minerva Carcaño of the San Francisco Episcopal Area was placed on leave last year when two complaints were received by the Western Jurisdiction of Bishops. Bishop Dottie Escobedo-Frank, president of the Western Jurisdiction College of Bishops, released a statement Wednesday providing additional details about the upcoming trial. The trial for Carcaño will occur Aug. 21-25, with First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, California, serving as the venue and retired Bishop...

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has imposed a discovery order on the state’s House of Representatives, demanding they reveal they basis for the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton. The order came mere hours after The National Pulse pressed the matter in a scathing piece of analysis by Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam.It has been almost two months since the impeachment vote, but the House has still told neither Paxton nor the Texas voting public why they voted to impeach him, or what evidence they have against him.Acting in his capacity as President of the Senate and Presiding Officer of the Court...

Stephen Meyer who has a PhD from Oxford in the philosophy of science and has written multiple science based books on Christian apologetics, sits down for an interview with Joe Rogan. Can’t wait to listen to this.

n July 2022 the UN General Secretary and Turkey brokered a deal with the Russian Federation under which the Ukraine would be allowed to export grain by shipping it from Ukraine through the Black Sea to other countries. A second part of that agreement included the relief of sanctions that block or hinder Russian export of grain and fertilizer. The deal came to pass after Ukraine had falsely claimed that Russia had mined the sea route to Ukrainian ports. The mines had been laid by Ukraine: On Friday, the Ukrainian foreign ministry official said Ukraine had placed some mines. "We...

Andrew Tate imprisoned in Romania because he allegedly convinced girls to do Tik Tok videos and then stole the money from their Tik Tok accounts. This, they are calling "Human Traficking".

In 1937, during a holiday to the coast of Cornwall, London music critic and composer Roderick"Rick" Fitzgerald and his sister, Pamela fall in love with Windward House, an abandoned seaside home, and buy it at an unusually low price from Commander Beech.

Suumit Shah, a 31-year-old CEO of an e-commerce platform called Dukaan based in India, is getting torn to shreds online for firing 90 percent of the company's customer support staff after arguing that an AI chatbot had outperformed them. It was an unusually callous announcement that clearly didn't sit well with plenty of netizens, as Insider reports. "We had to layoff [sic] 90 percent of our support team because of this AI chatbot," he tweeted. "Tough? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely." In a lengthy Twitter thread laden with screenshots from action movies such as "iRobot" and "Limitless," Shah argued that response times...

Maybelline is under fire again for hiring a bearded makeup artist to star in its latest ad — just weeks after the brand fielded calls for boycotts over tapping Dylan Mulvaney to promote its concealer. Maybelline — the world’s largest cosmetics brand — posted an Amazon Prime Day advert, and it stars mustachioed, bearded and bald influencer Ryan Vita. In the ad, Vita sports a full face of makeup and a beaded barette in his beard while applying bright pink shades of Maybellie’s “Super Stay” liquid lipstick.

A federal judge on Monday turned down a Justice Department request to temporarily pause an order that blocks top Biden administration officials and several agencies from contacting social media companies, rejecting the government's claims that the injunction was too broad and threatened to chill lawful conduct. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, appointed to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump, reiterated in a 13-page ruling denying the Justice Department's request for a stay that Missouri and Louisiana were likely to succeed on the merits of their case against the Biden administration. "Although this Preliminary Injunction involves numerous agencies, it...

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry lashed out at House lawmakers during a committee hearing on Thursday over the criticisms of his use of a private jet that has emitted hundreds of metric tons of carbon, even as he battles climate change. "I just don't agree with your facts, which began with the presentation of one of the most outrageously persistent lies that I hear, which is this private jet," Kerry said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. "We don't own a private jet. I don't own a private jet.

A New Mexico State University soccer player preparing for her junior year at the school died suddenly just days after her 20th birthday. Thalia Chaverria was found unresponsive in her New Mexico home Monday morning and pronounced dead by emergency responders. She turned 20 on July 2 and was set to begin her junior year at New Mexico State and her third season playing as a defender for the Aggies women’s soccer team.