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Delta Variant of COVID-19: Fully Vaccinated People Can Contract The New Variant And Spread It Further, Lancet Study Confirms

Vaccinated People Easily Transmit COVID-19 Delta Variant in Households: UK Study

Tiki-Torch Wielding Virginia Dems Caught Faking White Supremacist Photo Op to Smear Glenn Youngkin

Meat and mental health: A meta-analysis of meat consumption, depression, and anxiety

Study: 87% of excess lung cancer risk eliminated if smokers quit before age 45

McDonald’s Does Exactly What Anyone Who Understands Economics Said Would Happen

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‘Humans are a mistake’: Why more young women are getting sterilized

Citing Climate, New York Nixes Two Natural Gas Power Plant Plans

De Blasio pushing forward with legalized heroin injection sites for New York City

Ocean carriers with lingering cargo will initially be charged $100 per container, with daily incremental increases

Chinese Coal Prices Plunge After Beijing Imposes Price Caps

China’s Latest Energy Crunch: Diesel Rationing

Here’s the FBI’s Internal Guide for Getting Data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon

UKRAINE’S DRONE STRIKE IN DONBASS CAN SPARK A TURKISH – RUSSIAN ESCALATION

Gut check: Pelosi schedules Rules Committee hearing tomorrow on reconciliation package that, er, still doesn’t exist

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Business groups ask Biden to delay vaccine mandate until after the holidays

Biggest issue from my perspective is that what is aimed at Billionaires does not stay aimed at Billionaires. The Billionaire Tax: The Worst Tax Idea Ever?

Shippers Find New Supply-Chain Hurdles at Alternate Ports

Loudoun County Students Walk Out of Class in Protest

Turkish media erupts with news of Iran spy arrests — three weeks late

Democrats say GOP lawmakers implicated in Jan. 6 should be expelled

In one of nature’s unexpected bounties, a harmless food-grade solvent has been used to extract highly sought rare-earth metals from coal ash

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Refiners Suffer From Record High Natural Gas Prices

Why the Great Power Governments Are Cracking Down on Big Tech

China warns of further spread in latest COVID-19 flare-up

Novel approach to treating type 2 diabetes shows prolonged normal blood sugar levels after a single one-time procedure

When the media’s credibility collapsed, the New York Times led the way

I am not sure about this, but I do agree with the general question of why we don’t have more people putting feet on the ground to report on this. The Last Days of The Romanovs at the Port of Los Angeles (and Where Is Everybody?)

California Families Hire Private Security as Crime Tsunami Overwhelms Local Police

Attack at Al-Tanf Garrison

Sudan’s military seizes control in coup

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What America’s Supply-Chain Backlog Looks Like Up Close

How recent vaccine mandate laws have upended my family’s life

China’s Power Crisis Could Have A Massive Impact On Aluminum Supply

A Worrisome Peek Inside Yale Law’s Diversity Bureaucracy

Masks significantly reduced virus transmission when worn by both the case-patient and the contact, but SARs for each group were higher than anticipated. This finding suggests that quarantine after COVID-19 exposure is beneficial even if parties wore masks.

Democrats narrow scope of IRS proposal amid GOP attacks

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The Slippery Dutch Slope from Drug Tolerance to Drug Terror

The Car Shortage Is About To Get A Whole Lot Worse

Anhydrous Breaks $800 Per Ton as Fertilizer Prices Soar

A Brazilian congressional panel is set to recommend that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity,” asserting that he intentionally let the coronavirus rip through the country and kill hundreds of thousands in a failed bid to achieve herd immunity and revive Latin America’s largest economy.

Antarctica Chills with Coldest Winter on Record

NIH Contradicts Fauci, Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab

IMDB just got caught with its pants down. Social media is noticing that they changed the Fauci film 1.6 audience score to 5.8, but they neglected to change the demographic data or the raw distribution, so it looks like they just faked the top-line number.

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New York’s proposed Green Amendment could usher in “vigilante regulation through litigation.”

IRS Raises Snooping Threshold: It’s Still Snooping

Gulf Coast welders dying from anthrax-like disease, researchers say

I guess this answers the question about what was causing all the Southwest Airline delays.

Police say hospital discharged seriously ill man, left him on the street

Why Isn’t Russia Sending More Gas To Europe?

‘I DON’T KNOW THAT I WOULD EVEN CALL IT METH ANYMORE’

Former Pa. health secretary became nation’s highest-ranking openly transgender official in March

Boris Johnson is facing calls to enact “David’s law” to crack down on social media abuse of public figures and end online anonymity in the wake of the killing of Sir David Amess…While police are investigating whether there are any links to Islamist extremism and have not connected the killing to the targeting of MPs online, allies of Amess said he had voiced growing concern about threats and toxicity within public discourse as they demanded a crackdown…

When you don’t know the context of these video’s, it is hard to say if they really are about what the text says. But these are going to make the rounds so you might as well see them here first.

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Edit: Forgot to hit publish last night.

Long-Term NAEP Scores for 13-Year-Olds Drop for First Time Since Testing Began in 1970s — ‘A Matter for National Concern,’ Experts Say

Parts Shortage Stalls US Auto Repair Business
Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night

Things Are Getting Messy In Draghi’s Italy

‘Self-serving garbage.’ Wildfire experts escalate fight over saving California forests

Report: As Power Crisis Worsens, India Presses Qatar for Delayed LNG Cargoes

New rule to require IRS tax on cash app business transactions

There Are Americans Still Stuck in Afghanistan

China’s Claim That Its Fractional Orbital Bombardment System Was A Spaceplane Test Doesn’t Add Up

China’s Coal And Power Crisis Hits Global Economy