A new coronavirus passport app on a phone screen in Copenhagen, Denmark May 28, 2021. (Signe Goldmann/Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters) Israel has scrapped its vaccine passport system, Green Pass, and removed most of its remaining COVID restrictions this week. Reports are that the U.K.’s government is likely to junk its plan for vaccine passports shortly. That
Month: June 2021
A former Republican congresswoman joked about former President Donald Trump and he responded in a scathing statement blasting her and “other RINO losers.” Barbara Comstock, formerly a U.S. representative for Virginia, said on Sunday that most Republicans would be happy to distance themselves from the former president. “I understand Republicans want to get away from
A Southern California teenager is receiving global attention after video went viral showing her shoving a mama bear off a wall using her bare hands as the predator threatened her dogs. What are the details? Hailey Morinico, 17, was captured on video rushing to save her family’s four pet dogs as a mother bear with
On Tuesday, ABC News (along with CBS and NBC) celebrated Texas Democrats who decided to pull a stunt and walk out of their session to block the passage of an election integrity bill. But after praising their side for using “the one tool that they had left,” as congressional correspondent Rachel Scott put it, they
When President Joe Biden released his plan in February to tackle gun violence, he also announced the nomination of David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF. Chipman’s nomination as ATF director raised immediate concerns from Second Amendment advocates, many of whom see it as a slap in the
Employees at the Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA in the city of Lapa, Parana state, Brazil, March 21, 2017 (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters) Bloomberg: A cyberattack on JBS SA, the largest meat producer globally, has forced the shutdown of some of world’s largest slaughterhouses, and there are signs that the closures are spreading. JBS’s five biggest beef plants in
By John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations – published with permission In the map here, the blue isn’t for America’s Democratic Party. Rather, it’s for European countries that require voter photo IDs, which Democrats oppose in the U.S. The exception is Britain (green), which plans to require IDs for all elections, while Denmark (light blue) requires
In this article AMC MUDS Noam Galai | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Mudrick Capital sold all of its stock in AMC Entertainment, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. On Tuesday, AMC had disclosed the $230.5 million investment in a securities filing posted before the opening bell. Shares of the company rose
Hundreds of people gathered outside a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the deadliest racist massacre in the US – and President Joe Biden is set to honour the victims later today. The Tulsa race massacre took place between 31 May and 1 June 1921, when white residents in Tulsa’s Greenwood
Forbes magazine has become a shill for President Joe Biden’s administration, and the liberal media are eating it up. Forbes featured an image of Vice President Kamala Harris on the cover of its new 50-Over-50 “inclusive capitalism” issue promoting an essay she wrote for the magazine. The headline of the essay reeked of liberal propaganda:
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The IRS is late on issuing refunds for millions of Americans this year. In April, the IRS moved 29 million returns to manual processing with 6 million returns “in suspension”. Millions of Americans are waiting for their tax refunds. This continues a trend started last year when the IRS shut down their offices during the
(Tyrone Siu/Reuters) The United States Embassy to the Holy See today has a rainbow flag to mark Gay Pride month: The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See celebrates #PrideMonth with the Pride flag on display during the month of June. The United States respects the dignity and equality of LGBTQI+ people. LGBTQI+ rights are human
Children’s show “Blue’s Clues & You” released an LGBTQ-themed video on its YouTube channel showing an animated drag queen singing to kids about “two daddies,” “two mommies,” as well as “trans,” “nonbinary,” and “pan” family members to mark the start of Pride Month. What are the details? The drag queen in the video is an
Progressive activists and several Democratic senators are throwing a tantrum and yet again are demanding an end to the filibuster after Republicans blocked a bill last week to create a “9/11-style” commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), like an exhausted parent, is telling them
Another favorite kids show for the last generation of youngsters is falling victim to yet more militant wokeness. Last month, Entertainment Weekly finally unveiled the new, LGBTQ-as-hell characters from its upcoming Proud Family reboot. Yes, the show now has an interracial gay dad couple, who, might we add, are the proud parents of another new
The effort to curb illegal immigration in his Arizona border jurisdiction has deteriorated dramatically since President Joe Biden took office, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels says. “When President Biden declared the southwest border a nonemergency, it stopped the physical barrier going up, it stopped all infrastructure completion, it stopped the subterraneal technology, it froze that
(Pixabay) To date, Congress has passed four COVID-relief bills: the CARES Act, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Response and Relief Act, and the American Rescue Plan. President Trump signed the first three, President Biden the last. Combined, these bills sent about $900 billion to lower-level governments, primarily states and localities. A new study
North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson was recently interviewed on Newsmax and spoke about the far left concept of Critical Race Theory being pushed in many American schools. Robinson suggested that Critical Race Theory has much in common with the teachings of the KKK, and he is right. Critical Race Theory teaches that a person’s
In this article NIO XPEV A Xpeng P7 electric car is on display during the 18th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition at China Import and Export Fair Complex on November 20, 2020 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Chinese electric car company Nio saw deliveries
The media’s derangement over the former president is still alive, even as some reporters this week admitted their own bias against the president prevented them from fairly reporting on the coronavirus pandemic origins. ABC News’ Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl gave the most mockable but truthful admission on this front, while on ABC’s political roundtable,
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President Biden, the First Lady, the Vice President, the Second Gentleman, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff participate in a Wreath-Laying Ceremony. President Biden delivers the Memorial Day Address at the 153rd National Memorial Day Observance; the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Behind a section of graves at Quantico National Cemetery in Virginia, excavation is visible for an expansion of the cemetery on Memorial Day, May 31, 2021. (Dominic Pino / National Review) Triangle, Va. — “In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” In Virginia forests, it’s a bit different. Unlike
A Dallas mall erupted in chaos after loud bangs were heard and people shouted that there was an active shooter inside. Police later determined it had been a person banging a skateboard on the floor. Dallas Police Chief Eddie García told reporters in a media briefing on Monday that officers had responded to calls about
Four bystanders came to the aid of a female Asian police officer who was attacked by a homeless man in San Francisco’s Chinatown and it was all caught on surveillance video. The video from an altercation Friday shows the officer approach the man who allegedly made racially motivated threats to people in the area. He
There’s been no shortage of celebrities giving their obnoxious, hateful, and ignorant opinions lately, so now it’s Barbra Streisand’s turn to get in on the action. In this case, it’s yet another awful take on the voting laws. On May 29, the notable singer/actress took part the National Democratic Redistricting Committee’s fundraising email to protest
Workers transport soil containing rare-earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China, in 2010. (Stringer/Reuters) A new report sounds the alarm on the mismatch between policies forcing an energy transition and the availability of the critical minerals that would make it feasible. While Joe Biden was out for a spin in
America’s 40th president, Ronald Reagan, spoke at the Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in 1986. The speech reminds all us Americans to be thankful for the valor of others and how Memorial Day will always be a time to remember the “splendor or America” and never forget those who have made the ultimate sacrifice
R.Tsubin | Moment | Getty Images The Biden administration wants to get tougher on tax cheats — and cryptocurrency is an area of interest. Virtual currencies like bitcoin and ethereum, which are collectively valued around $2 trillion, offer investors a way to shield income from tax authorities. In that way, the crypto economy contributes to