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The Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature joined several other states in passing a bill Saturday that would keep males who identify as females from playing in women and girls’ sports. However, the GOP reportedly does not have the two-thirds majority needed to override “an almost certain-veto” from Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly, the Associated Press reported. Kelly, who…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has no plans to rehire the 1,000+ city workers who lost their jobs for refusing to abide by the city’s vaccine mandate, yet he is providing a vaccine exemption for athletes and performers in the city. Adams made the announcement on Thursday, exempting athletes and performers from…

Officials in Boston, Massachusetts, announced their decision to lift the city’s health emergency declaration, but they will continue to force children to wear masks in school for the time being. The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) made the announcement Wednesday, lifting the declaration, which has remained in place for nearly two years. “In the early stages…

CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner said Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead” Florida’s surgeon general Joseph Ladapo was “disgraceful” after he announced healthy kids should not get COVID-19 vaccine. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “So Florida’s Department of Health released new guidelines Tuesday that said healthy children in Florida, age 5-17, do not need to…

March 08, 2022 4:29 PM ET A 328 million-year-old ancestor of the vampire squid was named after President Joe Biden, Gizmodo reported Tuesday.The vampire squid’s ancestor had 10 arms and was named Syllipsimopodi bideni, according to Gizmodo. The name was chosen because the research team submitted a paper on the species shortly after Biden’s inauguration.…

HAGERSTOWN, Maryland — “The People’s Convoy” continues to grow at the Hagerstown Speedway, about 70 miles outside Washington, DC. The convoy, which started in Adelanto, California, started arriving in Maryland in the afternoon March 4 and is set to add to their ranks. They are protesting the federal coronavirus mandates and seeking the rescission of…

The New York Times hyped up two new preprint studies claiming COVID-19 originated from a Wuhan wet market, but the article and the papers it was about weren’t well-received by much of the scientific community.The NYT article cites the two studies as a “significant salvo in the debate” about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic,…

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is one of several Republican congressmembers who have taken issue with President Joe Biden’s State of the Union attendance rules and made the decision not to go to the event because of them. Speaking to Breitbart News in an interview on Tuesday hours before the address was scheduled to begin, Roy…

Dr. Ben Carson, a pediatric neurologist and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump administration, said children who have been forced to mask for more than two years because of the coronavirus will suffer consequences. “You look at the mask-wearing, particularly at a young age when you’re trying to develop your sociological…

The indoor use of face masks is no longer required, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday, just before President Biden’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday. Without a change in the science of coronavirus transmission, the CDC lowered the bar and put forth new guidance that places more than half of…