Category: AMERICA

CDC Met With Big Tech Officials in Bid to Tackle COVID-19 Misinformation, Emails Show

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met with executives from Big Tech companies in an effort to cut down on narratives deemed by officials as COVID-19 misinformation, according to newly released emails. The CDC hosted meetings on May 14 and May 28 in 2021, with slides outlining what the government agency described…


Okefenokee Swamp Lures You in With Its Peaceful, Haunting Beauty

By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service Call it what you will — primordial, mystifying, daunting, backwater or, above all, magnificent in that swamp sort of way — the Okefenokee Swamp is one of Georgia’s most beloved treasures. Covering some 700 square miles in southeastern Georgia and the very northern reaches of Florida, the…


Top Former Rhode Island Health Official Unaware of Key Studies on Masking, Child Transmission

The doctor who headed the Rhode Island Department of Health and recommended mask mandates be imposed during the pandemic was unaware of recent studies that indicate masking is not effective and that children are not major drivers of COVID-19 transmission. Dr. James McDonald, who stepped down as interim health director on June 25 but remains employed…


Judge Orders Air Force Not to Punish Members Seeking Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Air Force officials were ordered on July 27 not to discipline airmen who are seeking religious exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. U.S. District Judge Matthew McFarland, a Trump appointee, entered a preliminary injunction against the force. McFarland two weeks earlier issued a temporary restraining order. He asked the military to make its case…


One Fourth of NYC Commuters May Not Return to Public Transit Post-COVID-19

A new study has concluded that over one fourth of commuters who frequently used the New York City subway system prior to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic may never return, threatening funding for the troubled transit system and forcing managers to consider rate hikes to compensate for the budgetary shortfalls. A new analysis…


Jan. 6 Prisoner Simone Gold Claims She Rejected Romantic Date From Judge, Alleges Bias

A prominent critic of COVID-19 vaccines, Dr. Simone Gold, is claiming personal bias from the judge who sentenced her to 60 days in federal prison for entering the Capitol building on Jan 6. Gold personally knew Christopher Cooper—the judge presiding over her case—and says that she had previously declined a date with him while they…


Fauci Claims He Never Recommended COVID-19 Lockdowns

White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci claimed Monday that he never recommended “locking anything down” when pressed about what he would do differently regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. “First of all, I didn’t recommend locking anything down,” Fauci replied during an interview published by The Hill’s “Rising” program on Monday, suggesting it had been a recommendation…


Biden Makes First Public Appearance After Testing Negative for COVID-19

President Joe Biden on July 27 exited isolation after testing negative for COVID-19 and spoke to reporters at the White House. “I’ve just tested negative for COVID-19 after isolating for five days,” Biden said at an event in the White House’s Rose Garden Washington, his first public in-person appearance since testing positive on July 21. Biden, 79, who…


Biden Tests Negative for COVID-19, to Leave ‘Strict Isolation’

President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 after being in isolation for five days, according to his physician. Now, the president will discontinue his isolation starting Wednesday, White House Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote in a letter (pdf). It came after Biden, who has received two booster doses, took one antigen test on Tuesday and the other…


Senator Asks CDC to Clear Up Conflicting Statements on Vaccine Safety Research

A U.S. senator is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to clear up conflicting statements on whether a specific method of COVID-19 vaccine safety research is being conducted. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asked CDC Director Rochelle Walensky for details after The Epoch Times reported that Dr. John Su, a CDC doctor, claimed that…