USA Today

Starting Friday, New Yorkers will be able to pull up a code on their cell phone or a printout to prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus that causes it.

The first-in-the-nation certification, called the Excelsior Pass, will be useful first at large-scale venues like Madison Square Garden, but next week will be accepted at dozens of event, arts and entertainment venues statewide. It already enables people to increase the size of a wedding party, or other catered event. Continue reading “New York launches nation’s first ‘vaccine passports.’ Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out.”

Gateway Pundit – by Brock Simmons

Despite city leaders and their enablers in the leftist dominated media continually make excuses for Portland’s rapid descent into third-world status, going so far as to post puff pieces claiming it’s not as bad as what some say and launching a “Be Here For Portland” PR blitz, the reality of Portland’s demise has now been preserved in a video showing just how downtown really looks in 2021. Homeless tents line the sidewalks, streets are full of trash and debris, blocks upon blocks of boarded up and abandoned buildings, and endless rows of graffiti greet visitors. Continue reading “How Far Has Portland Fallen? Video Shows Blight And Misery Of Downtown Full Of Homeless Camps And Abandoned Buildings After a Year of Riots”

Sac Bee

Washington was considered ground zero for COVID-19 in the U.S., and now 23 travelers from the state are being monitored for another deadly contagious virus: Ebola.

The travelers recently returned from the West African countries of Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo — where there are outbreaks of the deadly virus — according to a news release from the state’s Department of Health. Continue reading “23 travelers being monitored for Ebola after trip to Africa, Washington officials say”

NPR

February’s brutal winter storm exposed massive problems in Texas’ power and water systems. It also killed 111 people, according to numbers released Thursday by the Texas Department of State Health Services. That number almost doubles the earlier estimates of at least 57 fatalities as investigators confirmed the cause of more deaths.

The massive winter storm spread ice, snow and freezing temperatures over huge swaths of Texas, but power grid problems left millions weathering conditions in the dark in uninsulated homes, intensifying the storm’s deadliness. Continue reading “Texas Death Toll In February’s Winter Storm Nearly Doubles To 111”

NPR

Deadly tornadoes that ripped through Alabama throughout Thursday remain a significant threat to other Southern states as the sun rises on Friday.

At least five deaths and multiple injuries have been reported in Calhoun County, Ala., after a tornado hit the region, county coroner Pat Brown told NPR Thursday. Continue reading “Tornadoes Strike Alabama, Georgia Leaving At Least 5 Dead”

MSN

(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden set a goal of administering 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses by the end of April, doubling his target for his first 100 days in office.

The U.S. is on pace to meet the new goal, Biden said in opening remarks at his first formal news conference on Thursday.

“I know it’s ambitious,” Biden said at the White House. “I believe we can do it.” Continue reading “Biden DOUBLES vaccine goal to 200 million shots in first 100 days and will spend $3 billion to convince people to get inoculated amid rising infections”

Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) – Shoei Kisen, the Japanese owner of a container ship stuck in the Suez Canal that is holding up potentially billions of dollars of traded goods, apologized on Thursday and added that it was working towards a resolution of the situation.

It said getting the ship moving was “extremely difficult”, but that there were no injuries or oil spillage caused by it running aground. Continue reading “Japanese owner of container ship stuck in Suez Canal apologizes”

Investor’s Business Daily

The Ever Given remains stuck in the Suez Canal for a fourth day, blocking nearly $10 billion in goods and causing some ships to reroute around the Horn of Africa.

The container ship, which is longer than the Eiffel Tower, ran aground following a dust storm Tuesday. Over 200 ships are blocked from traversing the key waterway. Continue reading “The U.S. Navy May Get Sucked Into Suez Canal Debacle As New Threat Emerges”

Yahoo News

In the wake of two mass shootings in the U.S. in a single week, the White House said Friday that President Biden is prepared to issue executive orders to enact gun reform, circumventing the need for a divided Congress to pass legislation.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a briefing that she couldn’t offer an “exact time frame” on when those orders would move off Biden’s desk, but said they were “one of the levers that we can use … to help address the prevalence of gun violence and address community safety around the country.” Continue reading “White House says Biden is prepared to issue executive orders on guns”

CNBC

The  White House is weighing a variety of ways  — including a vehicle mileage tax — to finance what are expected to be multitrillion-dollar infrastructure proposals, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday.

Buttigieg, who spoke with CNBC’s Kayla Tausche, also contended that President Joe Biden’s forthcoming plans to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges and waterways would lead to a net gain for the U.S. taxpayer and not a net outlay. Continue reading “White House considers vehicle mileage tax to fund infrastructure, Buttigieg says”

KTLA

The Long Beach Fire Department responded to a fire at the city’s colorful Pride Lifeguard Tower early Tuesday and found it fully engulfed in flames, officials reported.

The Pride Lifeguard Tower, which sat on the sand between 12th and 13th places, went in flames sometimes before midnight on Monday, officials said. The rainbow tower was painted by LGBTQ+ members of the Fire Department’s marine safety division in June 2020. In a statement posted on Twitter, the Fire Department said the rainbow tower symbolized “our strong support for the diversity within our ranks & community.” Continue reading “Long Beach’s colorful pride lifeguard tower burned down to the sand”

Here is the Lie:

Firearm retailers and wholesalers were happily enjoying their full inventory supply at the start of January 2020. No one expected their shelves to become empty by the end of the year in December.

Now, the unavailability of the ammunition is unfathomable for the consumers. The uncertainty of the pandemic, the conflicts over gun rights, presidential elections, and riots have led to the ammunition shortage. Continue reading “Ammunition Shortage: Lie and Truth”

Yahoo News

WARSAW (Reuters) – The world should be back to normal by the end of 2022 thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, Bill Gates said in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24.

“This is an incredible tragedy,” the Microsoft co-founder said on the pandemic, adding that the only good news was the access to vaccines. Continue reading “Bill Gates says world should be back to normal by end-2022 due to vaccines: Polish media”

The Denver Post, September 4, 2019

Customers who shop at Colorado’s 148 King Soopers and City Market stores are being asked to “no longer openly carry firearms” into the stores, echoing a move made by retail rival Walmart a day earlier.

In its announcement, Cincinnati-based Kroger, the parent company of King Soopers and City Market, said its request applies to anybody who shops in its stores with the exception of law enforcement officers.  Continue reading “Flashback 2019: King Soopers asks open-carry customers to leave guns at home”

Epoch Times – by Jack Phillips

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) were attacked with smoke bombs, bottles, and rocks on March 24 as they attempted to clear out a homeless encampment at a park, according to video footage and the LAPD.

“Two unlawful assemblies were declared and dispersal orders were issued at Santa Ynez Street and Glendale Blvd due to officers being assaulted with rocks, bottles, and smoke bombs. Fencing is being installed and police will be there overnight,” the LAPD wrote in a tweet on March 24, adding that officers attempted to clear out Echo Park.

Continue reading “LA Cops Attacked With “Rocks, Bottles, And Smoke Bombs” While Trying To Clear Out Homeless Camp”

Daily Mail

The influx of migrants illegally crossing into the United States is a result of single adults – men in particular – searching for work, according to an analysis of Customs and Border Patrol data.

Many migrants crossing the border are trying to take advantage of the easing pandemic restrictions in the country, seeking jobs picking produce, roofing, or even washing dishes, Border Patrol agents told the Wall Street Journal, based on what the migrants are telling them. Continue reading “Illegal immigration spike is set to be biggest in 20 years: 82% of apprehensions are single adults with lone men looking for work driving the flood”

Daily Mail

A Johns Hopkins professor has slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci for denying that the United States is approaching herd immunity amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Marty Makary, who is also a Fox News contributor, told Brian Kilmeade on Thursday that ‘it’s not healthy for a small group of people’ to be making all the health decisions for Americans. Continue reading “Johns Hopkins professor hits out at Dr. Fauci for denying the US is approaching herd immunity”

National Justice – by Eric Striker

As the nation mourns the deaths of 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado supermarket, the FBI is being mocked after reports emerged that the shooter was flagged as a threat to them.

The motives of 21-year-old Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa, a Middle Eastern beneficiary of the refugee resettlement program, are still not totally clear. Continue reading “Boulder Attack Is Seventh High Profile Mass Shooting Where Attacker Was Known To FBI Beforehand”

Natural News – by Lance D Johnson

Prominent vaccine injury lawyer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined up with Del Bigtree of the Informed Consent Action Network to hold the federal government accountable on the issue of vaccine safety.

In the 1970s and 1980s, there were mounting medical reports of vaccine injury occurring in children. The reactions were mild to severe and sometimes deadly. The reactions were often the result of a very reactive vaccine adjuvant that caused severe allergic reaction, seizures, or autoimmune conditions. The number of vaccine injuries was so compelling, the U.S. Congress took up the issue in the mid 1980s. Continue reading “Historic court case reveals that NO safety studies were conducted on any vaccine over thirty-two years, as was required by law”

ABC News

A quick end to traffic disruption in Egypt‘s Suez Canal was unlikely Thursday, with efforts to pull a stranded, massive ship yielding little progress and the head of a newly hired rescue team saying it can take “days to weeks” to re-float the vessel.

Ever Given, a 224,000-ton ship registered in Panama that is 400 meters long and 59 meters wide, has been stranded since Tuesday morning after running aground due to a “dust storm” and bad weather conditions, according to Egyptian officials. Continue reading “Moving stranded cargo ship in Suez Canal could ‘take weeks,’ salvage company says”