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Chinese state media is playing up a conspiracy theory about the novel coronavirus' origins while also questioning the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine's safety in older people.

Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump nears, including ominous chatter about killing legislators or attacking them outside of the U.S. Capitol, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.

Complaint accuses ex-mayor of having ‘manufactured and disseminated’ conspiracy theory related to voting machines....more rust-coloured sweat trickles down Giuliani's temples

A newspaper reporter was writing a feature story about prison life and was interviewing one of the prisoners. "Do you watch much television here?"

"Only the daytime shows," the inmate said. "At night we're locked in our cells and don't see any television."

"That's too bad," the reporter said, "But I do think it is nice that the warden lets you watch it in the daytime."
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"What do you mean, nice?" the inmate said. "That's part of the punishment."
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) wasted no time in responding to Vice President Kamala Harris after she issued a statement to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the woeful Supreme Court decision making abortion legal across the nation.

“On the 48th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we recommit ourselves to ensuring that everyone has access to care – including reproductive health care – no matter their income, race, zip code, health insurance status, or immigration status,” Harris tweeted.
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The wording of Harris’s post irked Lee, who replied, “Abortion isn’t healthcare.”

The governor invited his Twitter followers to commemorate the Roe v. Wade anniversary by donating $48 to the Tennessee-based pregnancy-support organization Hope Clinic.

Lee has been one of the state leaders at the forefront of the anti-abortion movement; last summer, he signed into law a bill that would have made Tennessee the home of some of the most significant restrictions against the procedure. If it had been allowed to stand, the law would have banned any abortions in cases when the fetal heartbeat can be detected in addition to other, common-sense protections.

The law, however, was challenged in court and blocked by a federal judge shortly after Lee signed it.

As for the new administration, they made it clear on Friday that they intend to not only protect Roe v. Wade but codify the ruling into federal law.

“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe,” the White House said in a statement. “In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack.”

These efforts have the full support of Planned Parenthood, of course. In a statement of her own on the anniversary, the organization’s president, Alexis McGill Johnson, said that Americans need more and better access to abortion.

“Nearly half a century later, abortion is a right in name only for millions of people across the country,” McGill Johnson said. “As reproductive justice organizations have said for years, Roe is the floor, not the ceiling. Without access to abortion, this right is meaningless. Now is the time for President Biden and our elected officials in states across the country to take necessary and immediate action to ensure that everyone, no matter their race, income, or ZIP code, has access to safe and legal abortion.”

We have no doubt that it will be one of the new president’s most essential priorities. No doubt at all.
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CLAIM: The Ku Klux Klan was formed by the Democratic Party.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The Ku Klux Klan was not formed by the Democratic Party.

THE FACTS: The Klan first emerged after the Civil War in an effort to intimidate Southern blacks to stay out of politics and to exploit their labor. It was created in Pulaski, Tennessee, by Confederate veterans: Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe. Mark Pitcavage, senior fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, told The Associated Press that it was originally designed “purely for entertainment, with no political motivations.”
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Pitcavage said members engaged in social antics that grew to incorporate cruel pranks. The Klan gradually took on a political tone and by 1867 it began engaging in violent acts. According to Pitcavage, many KKK members were Democrats since the Whig Party had died out and white Southerners disliked the Republican party. He says, though, that the Klan was not started by the Democratic Party “ nor did it have ideological motives until later.”

By the 1870s the Klan had died out since white Southerners had retaken control of state governments “through their campaigns of violence and intimidation.” When a new Klan emerged in the 1910s, it attracted members from both parties, as well as members affiliated with no parties.
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JAILED hate preacher Abu Hamza claims he is losing his sight, in his latest bid to return to Britain. The hook-handed cleric, 62, told a court he has “untreated vision decay”, possibly linked to Co…
He hates our country, detests our morals and openly preaches death to non Muslims.
I say let him in lol he’s just what we need

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Fauci said that wearing two face masks “likely” provides more protection than wearing just one mask.

“Because, I mean, this is a physical covering to prevent droplets and virus to get in,” Fauci told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on Monday. “So, if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on — it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective, and that’s the reason why you see people either double-masking or doing a version of an N95.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that masks be worn in public areas, gatherings, and “anywhere they will be around other people.” The CDC has also advised that the masks have two or more layers of breathable fabric, but it has not sent out guidance on wearing two masks.

Some have resisted the guidance on masks, however, with it becoming a political issue over the last year in the form of protests and videos showing fights break out in stores over mask use.
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Here is the latest from Hunter Biden’s laptop. Hunter Biden drafted a letter to his ex-wife that he kept on his laptop.  In this letter Hunter claimed his ex was drinking wine and smoking pot with friends, including “at Camp David with Michele”. Hunter Biden is a tortured soul.  He has longtime problems with alcohol…

The Prime Minister yesterday said he wanted 'maximum possible protection against reinfection from abroad' to prevent new coronavirus variants jeopardising the vaccination programme.

For an all-new trailer for History Channel's Assembly Required, hosts and former Home Improvement co-stars Tim Allen and Richard Karn reunited.

Two new faces are stirring up trouble on Big Sky: Ted Levine (Monk) has joined the ABC drama in the series-regular role of Horst Kleinsasser, a “once-powerful man [who] has suffered a stroke and can only whisper, and knows he has to pass the ranch throne on to one of his children,” our sister site Deadline reports.
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Additionally, Kyle Schmid (Six, Being Human) will recur as John Wayne Kleinsasser, who “has used his father’s illness to grab the reins of the ranch and steer it away from his brother Blake, the eldest son who turned his back on the family years ago.”
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The Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to lawsuits over whether Donald Trump illegally profited off his presidency, saying the cases are moot now that Trump is no longer in office.

The high court’s action was the first in an expected steady stream of orders and rulings on pending lawsuits involving Trump now that his presidency has ended. Some orders may result in dismissals of cases since Trump is no longer president. In other cases, proceedings that had been delayed because Trump was in the White House could resume and their pace even quicken.
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The justices threw out Trump’s challenge to lower court rulings that had allowed lawsuits to go forward alleging that he violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause by accepting payments from foreign and domestic officials who stay at the Trump International Hotel and patronize other businesses owned by the former president and his family.

The high court also ordered the lower court rulings thrown out as well and directed appeals courts in New York and Richmond, Va., to dismiss the suits as moot now that Trump is no longer in office.
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