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Sen. Rand Paul wants to investigate origins of COVID-19

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul promised Saturday to wage a vigorous review into the origins of the coronavirus if Republicans retake the Senate and he lands a committee chairmanship.

WaPo: Trump’s border wall takes a grim toll as illegal immigrants hurt themselves trying to climb over it

Illegal immigrants are falling off of it after trying to climb it and ending up in U.S. hospitals.

DHS Spokesperson: Stop Ridiculing Kamala

BREITBART – President Joe Biden’s new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz argued online mockery of Vice President Kamala Harris and other women in public life was a threat to national security. “Platforms and governments aren’t doing enough,” she wrote on social media. “It’s time to act. Our national security and democracy are at stake.” The Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the new Disinformation Governance Board led by Jankowicz on Wednesday. Jankowicz argued that Congress should...

Okla. GOP Candidate: Fauci (If Convicted) Should Face Firing Squad

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Oklahoma GOP Chair John Bennett, who is running for Congress, stated that he believed Dr. Anthony Fauci should be tried for his crimes and executed by firing squad, BizPac Review reported. Oklahoma GOP Chair and candidate for Congress, John Bennett: “We should try Anthony Fauci and put him in front of a firing squad.” He added, “And for the Secret Service, if they’re listening, I’m not advocating we kill Anthony Fauci …...

Medical experts question Kamala Harris’ use of Pfizer pill for COVID treatment

NEW YORK POST – Vice President Kamala Harris has said she had “no symptoms” following her COVID-19 diagnosis — but some medical experts were left baffled after it was revealed she was taking an antiviral pill designed to treat patients with severe cases. Harris’ office announced Tuesday that the vice president was prescribed and had used Pfizer’s Paxlovid following a consultation with her doctors just hours after she tested positive for the virus. Paxlovid is designed...

State Firing Squad Makes Final Preparations

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It's unknown how long a stay will hold off the execution of Richard Bernard Moore — South Carolina's first-ever inmate to be put to death by a firing squad — as his attorneys pursue legal challenges. But the issuance of Moore's death warrant, initially planned to be carried out April 29, has renewed interest in how a state puts in motion its plans to shoot an inmate to death. The method...

Drug Overdose Deaths Are At A Record High. Here’s What The White House Plans To Do

NPR – In its first detailed plan to slow the rise in drug overdose deaths, the Biden administration is emphasizing harm reduction. That means increasing access to clean needles, fentanyl test strips and naloxone. Clean needles help reduce the spread of disease. Fentanyl test strips enable drug users to check if they are about to consume this powerful opioid that can shut down breathing in seconds. Naloxone is a drug that can rapidly reverse an...

Sex Assault Victims Sue FBI For $150 Million; Can They Do That?

DETROIT (AP) — Thirteen sexual assault victims of Larry Nassar are seeking $10 million each from the FBI, claiming a bungled investigation by agents led to more abuse by the sports doctor, lawyers said Thursday. It's an effort to make the government responsible for assaults that occurred after July 2015. The Justice Department's inspector general concluded that the FBI made fundamental errors when it became aware of allegations against Nassar that year. Nassar was a Michigan...

Justice Dept. to appeal order voiding travel mask mandate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge's order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs, officials said. The notice came minutes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Justice Department to appeal the decision handed down by a federal judge in Florida earlier this week. A notice of appeal was filed Wednesday in federal court in Tampa. The CDC...

CDC launches new forecasting center for infectious diseases

AP – A new U.S. government center aims to become the National Weather Service for infectious diseases — an early warning system to help guide the response to COVID-19 and future pandemics. The new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics launched Tuesday. Its leaders say predicting the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has been hampered by data-collection problems. In contrast, the United Kingdom uses regular population sampling with swab tests and blood draws...

Legal Marijuana Cuts RX Use

Access to marijuana via legalization lowers demand for expensive prescription medications through state Medicaid programs, according to a new study.

Older immigrants provided health care by Illinois

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WEHT) – The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (IDHFS) has launched the Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults program to provide health care coverage to undocumented immigrant adults and certain legal permanent residents aged 55 to 64. This program builds on the first-in-the-nation program Illinois launched in late 2020. Covered services include doctor and hospital visits, lab tests, physical and occupational therapy, mental health, substance abuse disorder services, dental and vision services and...

What the Vanity Fair Article on the COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Proved—and Didn’t Prove

FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION – I finally got around to reading that (long) Vanity Fair article on the origins of COVID-19 and DC corruption—and it's a doozy. Katherine Eban’s deep dive into the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance and its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a masterpiece of investigative journalism and reveals several bombshells about the risky research on coronaviruses the federal government was funding. Eban’s reporting draws on some 100,000 leaked documents that show...

Harris says White House will seek to ease Americans’ medical debt burden

"If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold." – Barack Obama, President’s weekly address, June 6, 2009: (CNN)The White House is seeking to help lessen Americans' medical debt burden, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Monday. In its latest effort to help people deal with increased costs amid...

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