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Eric Adams, Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, speaks during a campaign appearance in Brooklyn, New York. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Eric Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president and ex-cop who has surpassed Andrew Yang to become the front-runner in the New York City mayoral race (whose Democratic Party primary takes place June 22), is looking like
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Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg admitted that the tech giant’s “fact-checkers” employed to weed out “fake news” from the platform could be biased. Facebook reportedly uses 80 different organizations across the world to flag misinformation. The Daily Mail obtained minutes from a meeting between Clegg and a Brussels power-breaker where the former revealed he questions
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(Brian Snyder/Reuters) What if one of your top stars helps his powerful brother cover up a botched COVID response by obsequiously kibbitzing around with him during the outbreak of the deadliest pandemic in a century rather than asking useful questions, as Chris Cuomo did with his brother, New York governor Andrew Cuomo? What if Andrew
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Environmentalists demonstration near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, during the 2015 World Climate Change Conference. (Mal Langsdon/Reuters) It is hard to deny that certain forms of environmentalism, often (but certainly not exclusively) when climate change is involved, take on strong religious characteristics, frequently of a distinctly millenarian nature. However hard it may be to
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On March 21, 2020, President Donald Trump tweeted out a plea to the CDC and FDA to allow doctors to treat COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZT). Both are cheap and effective medications that the medical community had decades of experience using for various illnesses. Recently, another study demonstrated increased survival rates when
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NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Wikimedia Commons) Here is tax-subsidized National Public Radio: CaPitAliSm bReEds InNovAtiOnhttps://t.co/nQVknVo1ms — NPR (@NPR) June 10, 2021 Now, the piece itself is a benign story about stiletto-heeled Crocs, a collaboration between the Colorado company and Balenciaga. Many contemporary journalists like to blame capitalism for all the alleged frivolousness and wastefulness
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Amuse Me, Eurotrash Oval Office occupier Joe Biden’s trip to Cornhole, England or something has given the sputtering leftist rump kissers in the mainstream media a chance to fall back on one of their favorite idiotic narratives: the world loves our presidents when they’re Democrats, and hates them when they’re Republican. Democrats are all Euro-fetishists,
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Today, Blue Origin concluded the online auction for the very first seat on New Shepard with a winning bid of $28 million. Nearly 7,600 people registered to bid from 159 countries. The winning bidder will fly to space on New Shepard’s first human flight on July 20, and will join Blue Origin founder, Jeff Bezos, and his brother, Mark. The winning bid amount will be donated to
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Ibram X. Kendi on CBS This Morning in 2019. (CBS This Morning/via YouTube) So are we doing the thing where we are pretending that curriculum, instruction, and materials can’t be determined by school boards and state legislatures and should be left to radical education consultants who are hired by bureaucrats? What is popularly known as
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(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) On June 11, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee announced it would be hiring Guidepost Solutions to conduct an independent review of its handling of sexual-abuse allegations. This move came after SBC Executive Committee President and CEO Ronnie Floyd announced on June 10 his support for an independent investigation of allegations that
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This week, three members of an 11 member FDA advisory committee of experts resigned in protest over the FDA’s approval of Aduhelm (aducanumab) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. These resignations are extremely unusual, but in this case, understandable. Aduhelm was approved by the agency despite the fact that both pivotal trials were stopped early because
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Researchers work at the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen, southern China April 23, 2012 (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Insider has a noteworthy report on Amazon’s use of COVID-testing kits from BGI Genomics, a Chinese genome-sequencing firm that U.S. intelligence officials have flagged as potentially sharing Americans’ genetic information with Beijing: Amazon’s recent work with Chinese firm BGI
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The Food and Drug Administration has ordered Johnson & Johnson to dispose of 60 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine following concerns of possible contamination, the New York Times reported. The doses, produced in a Baltimore factory operated by Emergent BioSolutions, had been undergoing review after a contamination incident affected more than 100 million doses
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A view of the Interstate 81 freeway in Syracuse, N.Y., April 28, 2021. (Zoe Davis/Reuters) Representative Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) has some solid ideas about what an infrastructure bill should look like. A sampling: On his second day in office, President Biden repealed the Trump-era “One Federal Decision” executive order designed to speed up the
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