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Trump administration officials on Thursday recommended granting U.S. energy regulators the ability to block imports of nuclear fuel from Russia and China and detailed plans for setting up a government stockpile of uranium sourced from domestic miners. The recommendations are meant to address growing concern in Washington that the United States has ceded its global leadership in nuclear technology in recent decades, and to boost domestic nuclear power producers and uranium miners suffering from a lack of investment. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette told reporters on a call that the report from the Nuclear Fuel Working Group was a “road map...

There's more to add to that list of invasive species you just found out about and already don't like. Georgia officials are working to completely eradicate a lizard they say poses a major threat to some of the state's native wildlife: the Argentine black and white tegus. John Jensen, a biologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Conservation Section, said the lizard can grow up to about 4 feet in size and can eat "just about anything they want."

Representative Jim Jordan requested the US State Department under Mike Pompeo to turn over documents related to Obama Deep State employee Eric Ciaramella and Ukrainian firm Burisma. Sara Carter reported overnight: Republicans are demanding that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turn over a broad scope of unredacted Obama-Biden State Department documents pertaining to the corrupt Ukrainian company that was at the center of the impeachment inquiry earlier this year against President Donald Trump. In a document sent to Pompeo, Jordan wrote: “I write regarding documents that the State Department recently released pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),” stated...

The anti-malaria medicine hydroxycholorquine is being studied as a possible treatment for and prevention of coronavirus. How did this medicine that was held out as having so much promise for Covid-19, based on early studies and treating physicians' experience, become so controversial? What started the media drumbeat to say the medicine is dangerous... even quackery? Sunday on Full Measure, we investigate. See what I found when I spoke to scientists and followed the money. We'll report without the spin.

City of Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeannette Kowalik has taken a leave of absence to have elective knee surgery, multiple sources confirmed to "The Dan O'Donnell Show" while raising concerns about her commitment to fighting the city's Coronavirus outbreak as well as her apparent hypocrisy regarding frequent admonitions to help "flatten the curve." News/Talk 1130 WISN's Mark Belling reported on Thursday afternoon that Kowalik was taking a leave of absence in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, which has hit Milwaukee far harder than any other city in Wisconsin. According to an automated email response from Kowalik, she is on leave...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan lifted the state’s stay-at-home order and announced the easing some coronavirus-based restrictions on businesses and gatherings beginning 5 p.m. Friday. It comes as the state sees a slight drop in the number of patients hospitalized for the coronavirus, a metric that his administration will use to guide the gradual reopening of the state. Hogan said he is replacing the order with a “Safer at Home” advisory that will not be enforced by the rule of law. It allows manufacturing, retail, haircuts and worship services to resume with limitations. But some local officials have said they don’t...

By their own standards, the House Democrats’ Round 4 “rescue package” is a flop. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi set herself up to fail by instructing her caucus and surrogates to insist that Congress prioritize testing, testing, and more testing in future rounds of coronavirus response funding. At the end of the day, Democrats scrounged up a budget for those tests amounting to less than 1 percent of the $3 trillion package Pelosi introduced this week. Instead of putting their money where their mouth is, they slapped together a leftist wish list dedicated to causes unrelated to the pandemic. It is...

Most people today assume that our understanding of WWII is largely complete, thanks to the enormous quantity of books, TV series such as ITV’s classic 1970s documentary The World at War, the myriad of documentaries that aired in the early days of the History Channel cable TV network, and the unending series of movies produced by Hollywood, particularly when compared to its predecessor, WWI. But classicist historian and fellow PJM columnist Victor Davis Hanson does yeoman’s work unpacking the events of 1939-1945. Starting with the plurality in the title, Hanson’s 2017 book, The Second World Wars: How the First Global...

I suppose I might be more optimistic if we hadn't gone through this already with 9/11 - when, as it happens, some serious quarantine might actually have worked. That is, if the western world had been able to bring itself to say, "You know what - and with all due respect to you millions of peaceful Muslims? But we think it best to self-isolate from the contagion of the Koranovirus for a few years and halt all mass immigration from the Islamic world for the duration..."

House Democrats are preparing to pass a resolution Friday that would set up a recess lasting until July 21. . . . "Even as the American people want to get back to work and for Congress to do its job in Washington, Speaker Pelosi is preparing the House for extended recess — even beyond the initial 45-day proxy voting period,” Mark Bednar, a spokesman for Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, said.

Disturbing footages shows the forceful arrest of a mom by NYPD and MTA officers in front of her toddler for her mask etiquette on the New York subway. Not properly wearing a mask in New York City can get you thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and arrested. It doesn’t even matter if your young child is there to witness it all. That’s the message from a video of one mom’s arrest by a large group of NYPD and MTA officers for her mask etiquette in a New York City subway station this week. Mom Arrested After She And Toddler Wear...

COVID-19 has given us many opportunities — the opportunity to catch up on television reruns, the chance not to wear pants all day, and the joy of finding peanut butter in stock on our weekly masked grocery trips. More importantly, it has given us the opportunity to test-drive democratic socialism — a chance to take a spin around the economic block without signing on the dotted line. Let's be clear: democratic socialism doesn't really exist as a democracy. Let's call it what it is: a planned economy purportedly managed by a few popularly elected folks, but in reality executed by...

But a less-noticed effect of these draconian laws has been to shift sentencing power to the prosecutors. Now, under intense pressure to find ways to avoid the immense sentences they will face if they go to trial and are convicted, virtually all defendants—whether innocent or guilty—beg prosecutors to let them plead to reduced charges. The statistics bear witness to this shift. For decades, as noted, 15% to 20% of federal defendants went to trial.11 But as soon as mandatory minimums and mandatory guidelines took effect in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the percentage began to rapidly decrease: by 2000...

Five percent of New York City's population has fled since the coronavirus pandemic gripped the city, new smartphone data reveals. From March 1 to May 1, about 420,000 residents of the Big Apple left, particularly from the wealthiest neighborhoods, reported The New York Times. While there was relatively little change in some zip codes, others such as SoHo, the West Village, Morningside Heights, the Upper East Side, the Financial District, Midtown, Gramercy and Brooklyn Heights emptied by at least 40 percent. Meanwhile, Manhattan's overall population fell by almost 20 percent.

Prayers up for all the families suffering from the impact of this virus. And we're still praying that the spread starts fading with the warmer Spring weather and that an effective treatment and vaccine are developed before the next flu season starts. And we pray that our people are allowed to go back to work very soon and that our economy comes roaring back. Meanwhile, we may be hurt and slowed down somewhat, but we have faith in the long-run that "what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger." God willing, America will survive and we will survive and we...

As many as five plagues have come out of China in the last 20 years and at some point it has to stop, US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien has said, holding the country responsible for the origin of the coronavirus pandemic which has killed over 2,50,000 people globally. People across the globe are going to rise up and tell the Chinese government that “we can no longer have these plagues coming out of China”, whether it is from labs or wet markets, neither one is a good answer, he told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. We know...

Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer made news Tuesday when she told the county’s board of Supervisors that the “Safer at Home” order would almost certainly be extended for three more months when it expired May 15. Outrage ensued, and the Board of Supervisors and Ferrer herself walked back those comments. Turns out that walk-back was just a giant “psych!” because Ferrer announced the new order Wednesday – one with no expiration date. But, give her credit for being literal – it wasn’t a three-month extension. To say that the vast majority of county residents are...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Napoleon Hill. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is known best for his book Think and Grow Rich, which remains among the 10 best selling self-help books of all time. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns)...

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Imagine a vaccine without having to endure the dreaded needle. Sounds good, right? This is what immunologist and chief scientific officer at Vaxart, Dr. Sean Tucker is currently working on. In an exclusive story by Daily Mail, Dr. Tucker hopes that by nearly next year, they would have already obtained large quantities of the material used in their study as well as millions of doses of the vaccine ready for use. According to him, when COVID-19 first appeared, Chinese scientists shared the virus's sequences as early as they could, so that experts all over the world could start making vaccines...