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RFK, Jr. Walks Back Anti-Vax Extremism

AP – Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years. Kennedy's comments, made at a Washington rally on Sunday put on by his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, were widely condemned as offensive, outrageous and historically ignorant....

CDC Director Has Rankled Many

NEW YORK (AP) — From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top U.S. public health agency has been criticized as too slow to collect and act on new information. Now, increasingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also being criticized for moving too fast. One year into Dr. Rochelle Walensky's tenure as director, her bid to make the CDC more agile is being challenged by political pressures, vocal scientists and the changing virus...

What Dog Owners Still Don’t Get About Leash Laws

Pet Dog Rescued From Frozen River by New York Firefighters After It Chased Geese Onto Ice NEWSWEEK – A pet dog had to be rescued from a frozen river in Plainville, New York, after it chasing geese out onto the ice and getting stuck. Images taken at the scene of the rescue on Thursday (January 13) and posted by Plainville Fire Department to Facebook showed the small dog, reportedly a Shih Tzu, standing out in the...

White House Insists ‘No Red Flags’ over Texas Synagogue Terrorist

(Headline USA) The al-Qaeda-loving British national who took four Jewish people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death was checked against law enforcement databases before entering the U.S. but raised no red flags, the White House said. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, arrived in the U.S. at Kennedy Airport in New York on a tourist visa about two weeks ago, officials said. He spent time in Dallas-area homeless shelters...

ARRESTED AT OLIVE GARDEN: Vaccine Enforcement Gone WAY Too Far?

Headline USA – New York City police this week were once again arresting citizens who dared defy the draconian vaccine mandates that require health passports to simply enjoy a meal or a night out in the Big Apple. A group of anti-forced-vax protestors tried to order food at an Olive Garden restaurant in Times Square, but were refused service when they failed to produce the requisite vaccine passport, according to The Blaze. Under the city’s restrictive...

Jury Orders Cracker Barrel To Pay $9.4 Million In Personal Injury Case

(CNN) A jury in Marion County, Tennessee, ordered Cracker Barrel to pay a man $9.4 million after it found the company at fault for serving him a glass filled with a chemical instead of water. "The jury returned a verdict for compensatory damages of $4.3 million in just 30 minutes, and awarded punitive damages of $5 million after only 10 minutes of additional deliberation," Plaintiff William Cronnon's attorney Thomas Greer said. Cracker Barrel said it was...

RIP Country Music Hall of Famer Ralph Emery, 88

ROLLING STONE – Ralph Emery, a radio and TV personality whose steady voice and buttoned-up likeness were synonymous with country music, has died. According to a statement from his family, Emery died Saturday at a Nashville hospital. He was 88. Along with being a DJ at Nashville radio stations like WSIX and the legendary WSM, the home of the Grand Ole Opry, Emery became the face of The Nashville Network (TNN). From 1983 until 1993,...

Biden Presidency Crumbling Over Failed Covid Policies

WASHINGTON (AP) — He was supposed to break through the congressional logjam. End the pandemic. Get the economy back on track. Days before he hits his one-year mark in office, a torrent of bad news is gnawing at the foundational rationale of President Joe Biden's presidency: that he could get the job done. In the space of a week, Biden has been confronted by record inflation, COVID-19 testing shortages and school disruptions, and the second big...

‘What A Moron, J—- C—–‘: Fauci Caught On Hot Mic

VIDEO: At 3:50, Fauci calls Republican senator a 'moron' under his breath during tense hearing | Via CNN/YouTube WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert, angrily accused a senator Tuesday of making false accusations that are leading to threats against him -- all to raise political cash. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has repeatedly said Fauci lies about the pandemic and in a hearing Tuesday also claimed that he...

Military Documents Suggest Fauci Lied Under Oath to Congress

New documents released by Project Veritas help shed light on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s role in funding bat virus research in Wuhan and undermine Dr. Anthony Fauci’s sworn testimony that he did not oversee research that contributed to the pandemic.

UK’s Johnson Faces Lockdown-Breach Claims Over Boozy Party

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a wave of public and political outrage on Tuesday over allegations that he and his staff flouted coronavirus lockdown rules by holding a garden party in 2020 while Britons were barred by law from mingling outside the home. Opposition politicians called for a police investigation after broadcaster ITV published a leaked email invitation to "socially distanced drinks" in the garden of the prime minister's Downing Street...

Anti-Vaccine Protesters Rally in Europe as Restrictions Tighten

THE NEW YORK TIMES, JAN 10, 2021 Cities across Germany braced for major protests against coronavirus restrictions on Monday, and a tough new vaccine requirement came into force in Italy as governments across Europe continued to tighten their rules in a struggle to contain the Omicron variant. The developments in two nations where cases are rising fast — up 91 percent over the past two weeks in Germany, and more than 300 percent over the same...

No Jab, No Booze: This Vaccine Mandate Is Working

NEWSWEEK A new COVID-19 vaccine requirement in Canada is having a significant impact, according to recent vaccination rates. The province of Quebec instituted a rule on Thursday requiring proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for residents seeking to buy alcohol or marijuana. Marijuana was legalized at the national level in Canada in October 2018 after the passage of the Cannabis Act. In the wake of this new rule, first-dose vaccination appointments in Quebec quadrupled in the course...

SoCal Deputy DA Dies Of COVID-19

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) Orange County Deputy District Attorney Kelly Ernby, who ran for state Assembly as a Republican and had recently been vocal about her opposition to California’s vaccine mandates, has died a week after telling friends she was sick with COVID-19. Ernby’s death was reported Monday by the Orange County Register, which didn’t say when she died. She was 46. “I lost a dear friend to Covid complications. You’ve been nothing but an inspiration...

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