Month: February 2022

Poison Control Centers Warn About Toxic Chemical in At-Home COVID-19 Test Kits

Some at-home rapid COVID-19 tests contain a toxic chemical that may be harmful to both children and adults, according to health officials. The Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center reported an uptick in accidental exposures to a possibly toxic substance in at-home COVID-19 test kits, according to a blog post. Meanwhile, the National Poison Control…


Poison Control Centers Warn About on Toxic Chemical in At-home COVID-19 Test Kits

Some at-home rapid COVID-19 tests contain a toxic chemical that may be harmful to both children and adults, according to health officials. The Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center reported an uptick in accidental exposures to a possibly toxic substance in at-home COVID-19 test kits, according to a blog post. Meanwhile, the National Poison Control…


Poison Control Center Warns About on Toxic Chemical in At-home COVID-19 Test Kits

Some at-home rapid COVID-19 tests contain a toxic chemical that may be harmful to both children and adults, according to health officials with the National Capital Poison Center. “It is important to know that the extraction vial in many rapid antigen kits includes the chemical sodium azide as a preservative agent,” the center said in…


Poison Control Center Issues Warning on Toxic Chemical in At-home COVID-19 Test Kits

Some at-home rapid COVID-19 tests contain a toxic chemical that may be harmful to both children and adults, according to health officials with the National Capital Poison Center. “It is important to know that the extraction vial in many rapid antigen kits includes the chemical sodium azide as a preservative agent,” the Center said in…


Alberta to Lift ‘Vast Majority’ of COVID-19 Restrictions on March 1

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said the province is ready to move on to the next phase of its reopening plan on March 1, as the numbers of COVID-19 transmissions and hospitalizations “continue to decline rapidly.” “With these promising trends, we are in a position to safely move to Step 2 of our path back to normal and remove the vast…


Trumps Rocks the House to End the Best CPAC in the Worst of Times

Commentary Who says we don’t live in an age of miracles? Donald Trump was scheduled to begin his wrap-up speech at CPAC 2022 at 7 p.m. on Feb. 26 and he actually began at 7:10. (I checked my watch with incredulity!) But, in truth, it wasn’t the age of miracles.  It was the age of Biden,…


Federal Judge Rules Against High School’s ‘Patently Unconstitutional’ Racial Admission Policy

A federal judge has ruled against an elite Virginia high school’s revised admissions policy pushing for “racial equity,” judging it discriminatory against Asian American students. The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ), which focuses on the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), is a Governor’s School in the Fairfax County…


Federal Court Rules Against High School’s ‘Patently Unconstitutional’ Racial Admission Policy

A U.S. federal court has ruled against Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s (TJ) revised admission policy pushing for “racial equity,” judging it discriminatory against Asian-American students. TJ, which focuses on the STEM fields, is an elite Governor’s School in Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) system. It requires prospective students to go…


‘All About Money’: GOP Lawmaker Slams US Corporations For Aligning with CCP’s Values

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) said he has “tremendous concerns” that American corporations have aligned themselves with the values of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “You see some companies that tout all this social justice here in the United States, but they certainly turned their eye towards China,” said Wenstrup. “It’s all about money,” he said….


EU Bans Russian State Media Outlets, All Russian Flights

The European Union will shut down the bloc’s airspace to all Russian planes and will ban Russian state media outlets Russia Today and Sputnik, according to the head of the European Commission The EU will be closed down to Russia-controlled, owned, or registered aircraft, including the “private jets of oligarchs,” said European Commission President Ursula von…