The state Senate voted 18-13 to pass the joint resolution on Tuesday, deeming the Democratic governor’s emergency health orders “unlawful.” The bill applies not only to Evers’ most recent declaration last week, but to “all actions of the governor and all emergency orders” issued throughout the pandemic, including the statewide …
Read More »Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell tries playing the RACE CARD, says grand jury that indicted her was TOO WHITE
Lawyers for Maxwell, who is white, argued in court filings on Monday that because she was indicted by a grand jury in White Plains, New York, rather than Manhattan, the jury pool had a lower proportion of blacks and Hispanics than the community where she allegedly committed the crimes in …
Read More »Biden vows to procure vaccines for 300 million Americans by summer, but says masks ‘best defense’ against Covid-19 for now
The president said on Tuesday that he directed his Covid-19 response coordinator, Jeff Zients, to begin working with Pfizer and Moderna for the purchases, hoping to boost the country’s total vaccine supply from 400 million to 600 million shots by summertime. “We believe we’ll soon be able to confirm the …
Read More »Penn State dental school declares war on anti-LGBTQ bias with new fund
The school’s new LGBTQ+ Fund has been launched with a $50,000 gift from an alumnus, who was not identified in last week’s news release celebrating its establishment. The fund has “the goal of identifying LGBTQ+ based biases in the dental profession and ways to dispel them.” While dental care is …
Read More »Putin submits bill to ratify 5-year extension of New START as last-minute deal with US is expected to rescue nuclear treaty
The draft text reveals that the two countries have “agreed in principle” to preserve the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, placing no conditions on the five-year extension. The eleventh-hour deal to revive New START was discussed during a Tuesday phone call between Putin and US President Joe Biden, a conversation …
Read More »Rand Paul says Trump impeachment case is ‘DEAD ON ARRIVAL’ after 45 senators support his motion to declare trial unconstitutional
The Senate voted 55-45 on Tuesday to set aside Paul’s motion to short-circuit the trial before it even starts on the basis that the Constitution doesn’t provide jurisdiction for impeaching a president who’s no longer in office. It would take a two-thirds Senate majority, or as many as 67 votes, …
Read More »US judge derails Biden’s vaunted 100-day deportation freeze after Texas sues
US District Judge Drew Tipton blocked the deportation freeze for 14 days after the state of Texas sued to stop it from taking effect. The two parties have until January 28 to set a re-hearing date. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared victory upon hearing the news, posting on Twitter …
Read More »Biden to make ban on oil & gas drilling on federal property PERMANENT, media reports say
The new president will sign an order and announce a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal land and water on Wednesday, according to an AP report published on Tuesday. Though the Biden administration has not confirmed or denied the report, the order is likely to go ahead, …
Read More »Northeast coast of US hit with massive internet outage, from Boston to DC
Downdetector, a website that tracks reports of outages, showed widespread issues with Verizon, Google, Zoom, YouTube, Slack, Amazon Web Services and others shortly before noon on Tuesday. On Twitter, Verizon customer support blamed the outage on a “fiber cut in Brooklyn” and said it could not provide an estimated time to …
Read More »Kellyanne Conway accused of posting topless photo of 16-year-old daughter online
Claudia Conway has a notoriously tumultuous relationship with her mother, judging by her content uploaded to social media over the past several months, with the teenager previously publicly accusing her mother of being “physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive.” A nude photo of Claudia was published on the Fleets section of …
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