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The White House is being accused of removing from a readout of a call between French President Emmanuel Macron and President Joe Biden an impassioned plea from Macron calling on Biden to share in the “moral responsibility” of rescuing Afghan allies. What are the details? The French government on Friday published a readout of the
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CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, the network’s chief foreign correspondent, chose the consummate word to describe President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal as she waited to depart Kabul on Friday. What did Ward say? While waiting inside the Kabul airport compound for her flight to Qatar, Ward — who had become the face of on-the-ground reporting
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The United States Embassy in Kabul released an updated security alert Saturday that directly contradicts what President Joe Biden claimed about security at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, the location of American and allied evacuations from Afghanistan. What did Biden claim? During a press conference on Friday, Biden claimed the U.S. government has received “no
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We noted CNN reporter Clarissa Ward’s strange statement on Monday about the Taliban: “They’re chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.” Washington Times columnist Tim Young mocked this on Twitter: The Taliban are sooo “friendly” that the female CNN reporter went from dressing like a free woman to covered head to
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Actress Melissa Joan Hart said that the lack of a school mask mandate at her children’s schools likely led to her family contracting COVID-19. Hart made the comments in a video posted Wednesday to her 1.6 million followers on Instagram. “Hi, I never do videos but I thought that this was really important,” said the
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New York Times coronavirus reporter Apoorva Mandavilli offered yet another dubious piece of virus-related advice, suggesting in Thursday’s edition that wearing masks and avoiding company for the foreseeable future is somehow preferable to receiving a “booster shot” of a coronavirus vaccine: “Vaccines’ protection against virus infection is waning, C.D.C. studies suggest.”   Mandavilli found sources
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Almost 170 million Americans are now fully vaccinated against coronavirus, with about 200 million receiving at least one shot. As with any other vaccine, so-called “breakthrough cases” will occur, even as vaccines work as intended. Asymptomatic infections among non-vaccinated people also transpire, but evidence shows that illnesses tend to be less severe among those who
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A number of Twitter users pounced on CBS News in response to a tweet linking to an article titled, “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban.” Much attention has recently been focused on Afghanistan where the Taliban has seized control. The U.S. is currently scrambling to evacuate its citizens and others, and the Biden administration
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On Friday night, Twitter decided that, without warning, it would temporarily suspend Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to a screenshot from Pushaw, the ban will last 12 hours. Pushaw was suspended from the platform for twelve hours. Conservatives were quick to note the hypocrisy, stating that Twitter has not told Pushaw why she
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Mississippi public health officials warned the public against ingesting ivermectin, a drug meant for horses, to combat COVID-19 after a surge in poisoning calls involving the drug, The Hill reported. A letter from State Epidemiologist Paul Byers said that more than 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were related to the
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When she was named the new CEO of the Associated Press, Daisy Veerasingham claimed “The importance of AP as an unbiased, factual news source cannot be overstated – our journalism reaches more than half the world’s population every day.” But the AP isn’t unbiased on Ron DeSantis. The latest “scoop” by reporter Brendan Farrington went so
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Liberal political groups expressed their horror and shock at how close California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is to losing the recall election, according to recent polling. Their emotions were relayed in a conference call where liberal leaders begged for help from out-of-state organizations to shore up the effort to defeat the recall. The lead
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A proof of vaccination mandate in New York City requires certain establishments to make people furnish proof that they have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in order to enter. This applies to indoor dining at restaurants, indoor movie theaters, indoor gyms, and more. But in addition to the proof of vaccination requirement, people
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Despite the fact that we’re in the middle of a horrific fiasco in Afghanistan due to President Biden’s bungling, MSNBC would really rather talk about how awful Donald Trump is. On Thursday’s Deadline: White House, Wallace gave Donald Trump’s niece psychologist airtime to promote her latest Trump-bashing book that psychoanalyzes how he is still “traumatizing”
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A homeowner in Alabama was shot recently while defending his home against someone he thought to be an intruder — only it turned out the alleged assailant was his wife’s boyfriend, who had been secretly living inside his home for more than a year, according to police. The bizarre story unfolding in Creola, Alabama, has
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The Chicago cop who was shot and wounded at a traffic stop where Officer Ella French was murdered spoke out for the first time this week. Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., 39, thanked all those who supported him after he was shot, while his father slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for not standing up for the
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