Support in Congress is growing for a fiat digital currency run by the Federal Reserve Bank. This would ostensibly reach consumers without bank accounts, but it would also mean the government would have a record of your every purchase.
The Chinese government now admits damage to fuel rods at the Taishan nuclear plant but said the problem is “common” and there’s no need for concern. Since the CCP has been so open and forthright about the origin of SARS-2…
President Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meet today in Geneva, Switzerland. Meanwhile, the White House press corps is beginning to realize that they had more access under the Trump administration.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s twelve-year run as prime minister of Israel has come to an end as the new coalition government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid was sworn in Sunday after a narrow 60-59 vote in the Knesset.
CDC director Dr. Rachel Wallensky claimed that COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rates for US teens is spiking. The CDC’s data shows that her claim is based on conveniently selected start and end dates for her graph, since the most recent data shows rates dropping to record lows.
A bill loaded with amendments benefiting special interests is likely to pass the Senate this week. The bill would allow the NIH to pursue “in vitro culture of chimeric embryos”—the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for experiments.
That’s how one expert describes gain of function research on deadly viruses, which—thanks to an amateur research group called DRASTIC—we now know was being conducted on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with US taxpayer dollars.Continue Reading
Scientists at the University of Glasgow claim to have developed a method for detecting life in outer space and collecting samples—with an eye to cloning it in a lab back here on Earth.Continue Reading
After 11 days of rockets, Israel and Hamas have signaled willingness to discuss a cease-fire. The question is how long it will last and what the consequences will be for Israel’s relations with its Western allies.
Associated Press criticized Israel for destroying the building that housed its offices in Gaza. The IDF says the building also housed Hamas intelligence operations and weapons manufacturing—and that AP’s local reporters knew about it.