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A plan laid out by COVID-19 testing experts to manufacture and send over 700 million rapid COVID-19 at-home tests to Americans ahead of the holidays was turned down by President Joe Biden’s administration. A 10-page plan was presented by public health experts from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the COVID Collaborative, and the Rockefeller Foundation on a Zoom call with White House officials. But according to experts, in order to accomplish that, at least 732 million rapid at-home COVID-19 antigen tests needed to be produced per month and to be sent to American citizens ahead of the…

A recommendation of a posthumous pardon for George Floyd by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles was withdrawn along with 24 others, after finding procedural errors within its submission. The board will review the errors related to the applications, a spokesperson for Governor Greg Abbott’s office, Renae Eze said, adding that the governor “did not have the opportunity to consider it.” It would be only the second time since 2010 that a person in Texas had received a posthumous pardon from the governor. These are the eight Texas residents Abbott did grant pardons to: David Boyd Pool, 74, for…

The Yorktown Lighted Boat Parade contest was won by a boat with “Let’s go, Brandon” light signals, at least for a few hours. The winning boat also featured “FJB” in white lights, a reference to “F*** Joe Biden,” so the non-profit organization that sponsors the parade, the Yorktown Foundation, has disqualified the vessel shortly after the festive event. Walt Akers, a member of the Yorktown Foundation has apologized to the community and event sponsors for what he called “a huge mistake.” “We profoundly apologize for what happened, and we deeply regret that this happened at all. And we’re going to…

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ wife has been arrested on a domestic violence charge that the right-wing provocateur said originates from a “medication imbalance.” Erika Wulff Jones was taken into custody in an Austin jail by the sheriff’s deputies, and she is facing misdemeanor charges of assault causing bodily injury to a family member and resisting arrest, search or transport, as the jail records show. “It’s a private family matter that happened on Christmas Eve,” Alex Jones said after declining to say whether he’d been injured or to elaborate on what happened beyond that he believes it was related to his…

Candace Owens might have been caught off-guard when former President Donald Trump suggested that vaccines work and he’s gotten his booster shot. Owens is now carrying on by insulting his age of 75 and suggesting that he doesn’t know how to use the Internet for his own research, despite the fact that Trump is neither a medical or science professional, and likely is following the advice of his personal doctors. She said in a video: “People oftentimes forget that, like, how old Trump is… He comes from a generation — I’ve seen a lot of people who are older, have…

According to several White House officials, the relationships between teams are not at a very great level, and there have been sufferings from low morale in the first year of the Biden White House. Many aides are currently looking for an exit, creating the potential for higher-than-usual turnover at the beginning of the year, when aides feel they’ve been in the job long enough that it won’t look odd to depart. Politico reported: “A lot of the natural coordination that happens in a typically functioning White House has been lost, and there has been no proactive effort to make up…

Five suspects were arrested by the police in connection with the carjacking of Democratic Pennsylvania Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon. Reportedly, Scanlon was forced out of her car at gunpoint in FDR Park in Democrat-run Philadelphia, and the alleged robbers took several items, like government cell phones. A few hours after it was stolen, the blue Acura Scanlon was tracked and found five individuals inside the car, according to Delaware State Police. CBS reported: “The FBI charged Josiah Brown, 19, with carjacking and the use of a firearm in the carjacking. Police identified the juvenile suspects as a 14-year-old female and…

Former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the release of his White House papers to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Trump wants to override President Joe Biden’s decision to waive executive privilege over the documents, but Biden’s stance and Congress’s need for the documents combined to outweigh Trump’s claim of secrecy, as per a federal appeals court. This attack took place when Congress was meeting to certify Biden’s victory, and Trump and his allies have resisted the House select committee’s effort to investigate the attack and determine what kind of role the…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has revealed she is unvaccinated, but a further report now reveals she owns stock in three major vaccine companies. AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson are the stocks that Green holds each worth between $1,000 and $15,000. And even more US lawmakers held stock in vaccine makers as the pandemic raged in 2020. At least 13 senators and 35 US representatives held shares in Johnson & Johnson, 11 senators and 34 representatives held shares in Pfizer, and 2 representatives or their spouses held shares of Moderna. “I have an independent investment advisor that has full discretionary…

The House has interrogated dozens of witnesses and obtained the phone data of over 100 persons who attended the pro-Trump rally. Michael Flynn’s attempt to stop a possible House select committee subpoena for his phone records and avoid having to testify before the panel over the January 6 investigation was immediately dismissed in court, according to CNN. The verdict comes only one day after Flynn asked a federal judge in Florida for a temporary restraining order. It’s the first time the administration has acted quickly in response to a lawsuit filed by a House witness. Others resorted to court to…

Dr. Anthony Fauci urged for Jesse Watters to be fired from Fox News during a CNN broadcast on Tuesday. Watters was supposedly using “dangerous” rhetoric towards Fauci and was encouraging students to ask tough questions to him and other public officials. Watters’ colleague, Greg Gutfeld, supported him, claiming that CNN refused to run the clip that proves that. Gutfeld believes that his Watters was only employing common metaphors in order to promote citizen journalism. In response, the network released a statement defending Watters, emphasizing that the host was obviously not being literal when criticizing Fauci. Gutfeld criticized CNN, particularly anchor…

Harvard professor Charles Lieber was found guilty of lying about his connections to China. The professor was convicted on six counts of lying related to his work at the Wuhan University of Technology. Lieber, a scientist in Harvard University’s chemistry and engineering departments, was first arrested in January 2020 by federal authorities and was charged with making false statements regarding his participation in a Chinese recruitment program that aims to foster foreign academic talent, called Thousand Talents Plan. But after his arrest, Lieber sued Harvard University, claiming the institution was obligated to cover his legal fees. The arrest was part…

Sen. Joe Manchin opposed President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan and Manchin’s political action committee saw a surge in corporate contributions. Manchin’s leadership PAC, Country Roads, has received 17 contributions from corporations in October and 19 in November. The White House donated about $550 billion to battle climate change by investing in green technologies. But Munchin, who is a conservative Democrat who has profited from his links to the coal industry, opposed key climate provisions in the legislation. American Express and Goldman Sachs, aerospace and defense leader Lockheed Martin, health insurance companies UnitedHealth Group and Blue Cross…

Senator Manchin has refused to support President Biden’s Build Back Better bill, placing it at great risk. Manchin stated that White House employees did “inexcusable” actions that led to his decision to openly oppose Biden’s proposal and not sign the $1.75 trillion bill. His choice drew widespread criticism, but Biden appears to be working to reconcile his differences with the senator. Reuters reported that Joe Biden had claimed on Tuesday that he and Joe Manchin were going to ‘get something done’ regarding the pending legislation that focuses on social spending and climate. Following his remarks on the pandemic at the…

Sen. Cotton penned an op-ed detailing his desire to recall, remove, and replace every prosecutor linked to George Soros. America has a problem with murder and drug overdose deaths and Cotton is getting fed up with it. This bad trend continues today and it is not distributed very equally, as it is focused in cities and localities where radical, left-wing, George Soros progressives have taken state and district attorney offices. And the result is that in every neighborhood under their charge crime is rising rapidly. Soros-linked prosecutors often appear soft on drug trafficking, shoplifting, and misdemeanors. This erroneous pressure from…

A report claims that over 1 million migrants illegally crossed into the five Texas-based sectors and were arrested by Border Patrol agents ever since President Joe Biden’s Inauguration. This is more than 100,000 migrant apprehensions per month and a nearly 375 percent increase over the same period in 2020. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, during the same 10-month period one year earlier, agents apprehended only 221,232 migrants in the same sectors. And these are only the official numbers, as they don’t include the hundreds of thousands of migrant “got-aways.” Earlier this year, Governor Greg Abbott began Operation…

A leading voice of House Democrats’ moderate wing, Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida, has announced that she won’t run for reelection in the 2022 elections, giving the Democratic Party another big loss. She said the reason is her family, as she wants to spend more time with them, which includes her two school-aged children. “It’s been a real honor for me to serve in Congress, but it does come at a personal sacrifice. My time away has been hard on my family and my kids and on me,” Murphy said. Her departure will happen after finishing her current term in…

Senator Joe Manchin’s unexpected lack of support for President Biden’s Build Back Better plan has sparked further speculation that he may depart the Democratic Party at some point. People close to Manchin tell Axios that if he leaves the Democratic Party, he’d rather go independent than become a Republican. According to “Fox News Sunday ” the senator’s decision just the day before Christmas appeared to be timed to have the biggest impact possible. Joe Manchin’s formal defection might make it even more difficult for Democrats to pass parts of the $1.75 trillion plan. President Joe Biden is now faced with…

Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar went on a vulgar rant as a response to fellow Democrat Joe Manchin’s announcement where he stated he wouldn’t vote to support President Joe Biden’s multi billion-dollar Build Back Better plan. Manchin emphasized his concern about inflation in an interview with Fox News, saying that it seemed to be affecting every West Virginian. He went on to say that many were struggling to get to work because of the high cost of gasoline and that additional expenses such as groceries and utility bills were further complicating their lives. According to his statement, those were the reasons…

Republican Ted Cruz had quite a message for President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, with the Texan Senator saying he wants to ‘stop every dumb*** thing’ they are doing. One thing in particular, is Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. Ted Cruz referred to it as “Build Back Broke” and slammed the bill as a disaster. Cruz made these comments while he was at an event called AmericaFest, saying specifically: “There are really three things I’m focused on right now in the Senate. Number one is leading the fight stop every dumb*** thing Biden and Pelosi and Schumer are doing.”…