Gen Z Conservative – Back in 2014, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Joe Biden was taken to the cleaners for what the joke-teller, Joel McHale indicated was his mental decline. It was pretty funny. Fortunately for us, the clip has resurfaced, so you can watch it here As you can hear in the video, McHale said: “The vice president isn’t here tonight. Not for security reasons. He just thought this event was being held at the...

Fear And Outrage Shakes Nursing Profession

Kaiser Health News – Emma Moore felt cornered. At a community health clinic in Portland, Oregon, the 29-year-old nurse practitioner said she felt overwhelmed and undertrained. Coronavirus patients flooded the clinic for two years, and Moore struggled to keep up. Then the stakes became clear. On March 25, about 2,400 miles away in a Tennessee courtroom, former nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of two felonies and facing eight years in prison for a fatal medication mistake. Like...

Washington Post slammed for referencing pregnant ‘people’ rather than women

Fox News – The Washington Post was mocked for referencing pregnant women as "pregnant people" in article published Thursday. The article is titled, "Pregnant people at much higher risk of breakthrough COVID, study shows" The piece reports on a new study that looked at whether specific co-morbidities could affect the risk of a vaccinated individual contracting COVID-19, also known as a breakthrough case. Reporters Amy Goldstein and Dan Keating used the term "pregnant people" throughout the article. "Pregnant...

Defrocked priest, 84, gets house arrest in altar boy rape case

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An 84-year-old defrocked priest was sentenced to five years of probation for lying to the FBI about whether he knew a former altar boy and his family. Robert Brennan, of Perryville, Maryland, was ordered to spend the first two years on house arrest. Under a plea agreement, he admitted he lied to the FBI when agents visited his home in 2019 as part of a broader federal probe of priest abuse in...

Covid Surge Hits China’s Economy Hard

BEIJING (AP) — About 16 million residents in Shanghai are being tested for the coronavirus during the second stage of the lockdown that shifted Friday to the western half of China's biggest city and financial capital. Meanwhile, residents of Shanghai's eastern districts who were supposed to be released from four days of isolation have been told their lockdowns could be extended if COVID-19 cases are found in their residential compounds. The lockdown in Shanghai, being done...

Ivermectin Does Not Reduce Risk of Covid Hospitalization, Large Study Finds

“At some point it will become a waste of resources to continue studying an unpromising approach ... ”

US airport security screening to become more gender-neutral

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral, with changes to scanners used for screening and the use of an "X" for travelers going through Precheck who do not identify as male or female, the Biden administration said Thursday. Transportation Security Administration officers will also receive new instructions on screening intended to make procedures less invasive, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. They are among a series of travel-security measures...

Foo Fighters’ Drummer Died With 10 Substances In System: Report

NBC NEWS – Colombian authorities on Saturday said Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins had 10 substances in his system when he was found dead in Bogotá on Friday. The office of the Attorney General of Colombia tweeted the update Saturday, saying a preliminary toxicology test found substances including opioids, benzodiazepines, tricyclic antidepressants, and THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana. The office did not rule on the cause of death, and said that investigation is ongoing and...

Microplastics Found in Human Blood

OTTAWA CITIZEN – Scientists have detected traces of micro plastics in human blood for the first time. “The big question is what is happening in our body?” asked professor Dick Vethaak, an ecotoxicologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in an interview with The Guardian. “Are the particles retained in the body? Are they transported to certain organs, such as getting past the blood-brain barrier?” And are these levels sufficiently high to trigger disease? We urgently need to...

Florida Man Dies After Hitting 11-foot Alligator

John Hopkins was driving on County Road 672 when he hit an 11-foot alligator.

Lead Exposure In Last Century Shrank IQ Scores

ScienceDaily – Researchers calculate that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood stole a collective 824 million IQ points from over 170 million Americans alive today, more than half of the population of the United States. In 1923, lead was first added to gasoline to help keep car engines healthy. However, automotive health came at the great expense of our own health and well-being. A new study calculates that exposure to car exhaust from...

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