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New York Times White House correspondent Annie Karni defended the super-spreader event telling CNN hack Jim Acosta, “Other people said this is really being overblown. They’re following all the safety precautions. People are going to sporting events bigger than this. This is going to be safe. This is a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd. And this is just about optics. It’s not about safety.”

Former President Barack Obama was seen dancing without a face covering at his weekend 60th birthday bash in his luxury home in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The 44th president was captured in now-deleted footage posted by singer-songwriter Erykah Badu grooving beside other maskless attendees on what appeared to be a stage while loud music blared on Saturday. Obama, in white jeans, is seen embracing a woman in front of a crowd in the footage. Rapper Trap Beckham and manager TJ Chapman, both of whom were attendees of the event, also snapped a series of photographs capturing bottles of top-shelf alcohol, cigars,...

Is there something strange in the water? First we had Politico on Thursday declaring that "Biden's Vision for the border has gone bust" and then on Friday CNN New Day anchor Brianna Keilar has similarly slammed the border crises by talking about "Biden's immigrations plans being derailed" by "reality." It wasn't only Keilar that noted the border disaster but also correspondent Priscilla Alvarez.The chryon was even bleak: "Biden immigration plans crumble, border crisis remains". Crisis!

In its apparent desperation to fashion an immigration strategy that will impose order on increasingly out-of-control migration, the Biden administration has unleashed a torrent of words and goals untethered to specific policies and timetables. To date, on immigration, officials have effectively reversed and rolled back some of the Trump administration’s most pernicious policies, but without a clear road map to address the immediate crisis — a decades-high surge in illegal border-crossing — or the long-term challenge driving migration: dysfunction, disorder and decay in Central America.

Daily Covid-19 cases in the US moved above 100,000 a day for the first time since February, higher than the levels of last summer when vaccines were not available, and came as health officials sounded alarm over lagging rates of vaccination driving the surge of the infectious Delta variant. The seven-day average of hospital admissions has also increased more than 40% from the week before, with health workers describing frustration and exhaustion as hospitals in Covid hotspots were again overwhelmed with patients, almost 20 months into the pandemic in the US. “As we look at our hospitalizations and as we...

At least 233 staffers at a pair of San Francisco hospitals have tested positive for COVID-19, the majority of whom were fully vaccinated but became infected with the delta variant. Fifty-five cases were discovered among staff members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital as of July 31, Cristina Padilla, a public relations officer at the hospital, told The Hill. Of those who tested positive, roughly 75 to 80 percent were fully vaccinated, according to The New York Times. More than 7,000 staff members reportedly work at the facility. The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, said 183 staff...

Three more Border Patrol Agents working at the Eagle Pass, Texas, processing center tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, according to a source working under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The agents were assigned to process migrants apprehended in the Del Rio Sector in a soft-sided structure that is currently holding double its rated capacity. The total number of Border Patrol agents, according to the source, reached six since Thursday. In addition, at least one Texas Army National Guard soldier working in Eagle Pass also tested positive for the virus. The source, speaking on the condition...

President Joe Biden’s administration is not disclosing whether or not the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is testing border crossers for the Chinese coronavirus even as the federal government increases vaccine, lockdown, and masking pressure on American citizens, the GOP Doctors Caucus writes. In a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, shared with Breitbart News, Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) and others with the GOP Doctors Caucus are requesting information on whether border crossers are tested for coronavirus before they are released into the United States interior.

The great thing about COVID, I like to quip, is that has abolished death from old age. Also the flu. That malady typically claims 30,000 to 40,000 scalps per annum in the US, many more in a bad year. How many flu deaths were there last season? According to the Scientific American, 700. Find yourself in a motorcycle accident suffering the inconvenience of losing your cerebellum and all that other gooey stuff spread like jam over the interstate? Don’t worry. The medics will find an intact nostril and will determine that you tested ‘positive for COVID’. What remains of you...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has requested a meeting with President Biden to discuss the rising numbers of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border, in a letter sent on Friday. Why it matters: Biden is facing criticism from the right and the left as agency actions and media reports reveal spiking numbers of migrant children overwhelming parts of the U.S. immigration system. Recent data shows an average of 321 kids being referred to migrant shelters each day, as Axios reported.