The more sedentary lifestyles children experienced during the pandemic have resulted in substantial weight gain. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined the weight of over 432,000 persons age 2-19 from March 2020 to November 2020. It found that the rate of increase of body mass index among that cohort … Continued
The Pentagon’s top officer met with his Russian counterpart in the Finnish capital Wednesday amid American and allied efforts to find ways to fight terrorism after the departure of U.S. and allied troops from Afghanistan last month. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley met here with Chief of Russian General … Continued
Congress should require a new investigation by the State Department’s arms compliance office into the possible role of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report by two former State Department officials says. The Biden administration earlier this year canceled a probe begun under President Trump into the virus’s … Continued
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) on Tuesday likened President Joe Biden’s recently announced COVID-19 vaccine mandates to “modern-day segregation,” saying that they should be “rescinded” as they infringe upon the personal liberties of Americans. During an appearance on Newsmax, the Republican lawmaker was pressed by host Chris Salcedo about a viral video that showed a scuffle between a hostess … Continued
Four Republican senators on Tuesday introduced a bill that would prevent the Department of Defense from dishonorably discharging service members who have opted to hold back from getting a COVID-19 vaccine. The Senate bill, introduced by Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), is called the COVID-19 Vaccine Dishonorable Discharge Prevention … Continued
The UK’s hope to reach a bilateral trade deal with the United States in the near future has been further diminished by U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday. The president issued a fresh warning about the Northern Ireland Protocol ahead of a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the … Continued
The United States has reached an agreement with Pfizer to buy an additional 500 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to donate to various countries, according to the Biden administration. President Joe Biden plans to announce the agreement Wednesday, a senior administration official told reporters on a call on Sept. 21. “President Biden will announce that the … Continued
President Joe Biden will take a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine on camera, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday. Psaki was responding to a question about how soon Biden, 78, would get his booster shot, which would be the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA-based vaccine. “He will do so, and he will do so on camera. I don’t … Continued
The Department of Defense will be replacing its Defense Travel System (DTS) with a contemporary travel management system. “My Travel” is going to take over the DTS, which was created in 1998 and has received poor user reviews, in handling the millions of trips military personnel make each year. Concur Technologies, the company receiving the … Continued
Democrat lawyer and former federal prosecutor Michael Sussmann of Perkins Coie, a law firm for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week for lying to the FBI. While most people probably never heard of Sussmann or Baker, more have heard of Hillary Clinton’s campaign foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan, … Continued
A member of CIA Director William Burns’s team who traveled to India with him earlier this month reported symptoms that are in line with Havana syndrome and had to receive medical attention. The official received immediate medical attention once back in the U.S. One source told CNN that Burns was “fuming” with anger following the … Continued
With Democrats in control of the Congress and the White House — and owing their success in 2020 to high turnout by minority voters — long-dreamed aspirations to fundamentally changing policing and paying reparations for slavery to Black Americans appeared within reach. What followed was eight months of disappointment. “Congress is doing terrible on racial … Continued
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