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Dozens of migrants were bused from Texas to DC and deposited on the doorstep of border czar and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday morning. The newcomers, who said they came from Nicaragua, were filmed getting off the bus, some wrapped in blankets against the morning chill, carrying their belongings outside the Naval Observatory shortly before 7 a.m. NBC News’ Gary Grumbach tweeted that the new arrivals - among them young children - were immediately met by volunteers from the humanitarian organization SAMU First Response who assessed their needs and found out their travel plans, before loading them into vans...

Vice President Kamala Harris experienced a new round mockery after touting her love of "yellow school buses" during her Seattle appearance on Wednesday. Harris spoke at Lumen Field in Seattle with a backdrop of four electric school buses to announce nearly $1 billion being awarded to school districts to replace older buses with electric vehicles. This funding came in part from the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in 2021. During her speech, Harris commented on the nostalgia of a "yellow school bus." "Who doesn't love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school...

Another bus carrying migrants arrived Thursday morning near Vice President Kamala Harris' official residence in Washington, D.C., the same day that two other buses with migrants arrived in New York City. About 50 men, women and children were dropped off at Harris' house, the second such drop-off this week at the Naval Observatory, according to NBC Washington. Volunteers responded to help the migrants, many of whom are expected to travel out of the District of Columbia, according to NBC. Migrants were first relocated from Texas to Harris' home three weeks ago when two busloades of them were dropped off there....

Vice President Kamala Harris accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of “dereliction of duty” over their recent transports of migrants to Democratic-led cities. “I think it is the height of irresponsibility … frankly, a dereliction of duty, when you are an elected leader, to play those kinds of games with human life and human beings,” Harris said in an interview with Vice News. “If you think there is a problem, be part of the solution.” While Abbott has bused thousands of migrants to Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago since April, he and...

resident Biden and his administration are set to launch a nationwide tour in the coming weeks to shore up its standing with voters, and promote its recent legislative wins, as Democrats face an uphill battle with three months until the November midterm elections. According to the White House, Biden plans to rally support across the country by touting recent policy and political successes, including the passage of a massive social spending and taxation bill officially known as the Inflation Reduction Act. The tour may also serve as an attempt to help stave off historical trends that could see Republicans gaining...

The staff shake-ups continue in the vice president's office. Rohini Kosoglu, domestic policy adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, has announced she'll be leaving the position in August, continuing a high rate of turnover in Harris's staff. It was also reported that Meghan Groob, Harris's director of speechwriting, is leaving after working in the office for less than four months. Kosoglu is one of the longest-serving aides working under Harris, beginning with her time in the Senate and continuing through her brief presidential campaign and her time serving as a second-in-command to President Joe Biden. Harris released a statement calling...

Vice resident Kamala Harris touched down in Los Angeles on June 3 ahead of big political week in the city for a gathering of global leaders, including resident Joe Biden, at the ninth Summit of the Americas. And while official communication from her office stated that the Harris had no public events scheduled for the weekend she arrived, she did have private power dinner plans. The Hollywood Reporter learned that Harris and husband, First Gentleman Doug Emhoff, headed to the home of CAA’s Bryan Lourd and husband Bruce Bozzi for a dinner described as “a gathering of old friends.” The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KAMR/KCIT) - U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas District 13) introduced a resolution that calls on President Joe Biden to replace Vice President Kamala Harris from her role at the southern border, according to a news release from the office of the congressman for Texas District 13. The resolution comes after a year since Harris was appointed to the role and after Jackson’s visit to the southern border this week. “It is past time for Joe Biden to remove her from the ‘Border Czar’ role and appoint someone who will put Americans’ interests first. A nation without borders is...

It's been well-documented that allies of Vice President Kamala Harris are frustrated with how she has been utilized and treated by the Biden administration. In November, CNN reported that Harris' team believes Biden's team hasn't provided enough support while giving her tasks that put her in "no-win political situation[s]." Now, some of Harris' allies are dropping their anonymity and going on the record critiquing the administration's treatment of the vice president. In a New York Times story published Thursday, two Harris allies - prominent San Francisco Democratic donor Mark Buell and, more notably, Rep. Karen Bass, who was in consideration...

An election loss by Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe would spell doom for Democrats in the 2022 congressional midterms as well as the 2024 general election, warned Vice President Kamala Harris Friday evening. She spoke just days before McAuliffe suffered a crushing defeat, as she stressed the election’s crucial impact on “how the country is gonna move.” Harris’ warning was made last week as she joined McAuliffe campaigning at a “get out the vote” rally ahead of the Virginia governor election.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ immigration work has become the target of critics with a singular question: when will she visit the southern border? The question has hounded the vice president, who on a trip to Mexico this month relented and said she would visit at some point while emphasizing that as a former California official she had been to the area. Allies of the vice president say a border trip would not douse the criticism, which is mainly coming from Republicans, and that Harris should go on her own time frame. Their advice to Harris is to ignore the naysayers...

Vice President Kamala Harris has been facing criticism over her response to a border question on her first foreign trip, and according to a new report, the fact that she was prepared for it is "all the more unnerving" to allies. Harris during her recent trip to Guatemala and Mexico was questioned by NBC News' Lester Holt about why she hasn't visited the southern border, and when Holt pointed out that she hasn't done so, she said, "And I haven't been to Europe. I don't understand the point that you're making." Last week, The Hill reported that her comments "left...

Vice President Kamala Harris dropped in at the Capitol Pride Walk And Rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The state of play: Harris and second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, joined the crowd, who welcomed them with cheers, according to press reports. The visit had not been on the vice president's public schedule. The big picture: Pride celebrations are taking place across the country this weekend, a year after many similar events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What they're saying: “We need to make sure that our transgender community and our youth are all protected. We need, still, protections around...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration's top environmental official are making stops in several Southern states to promote an intensive White House coronavirus vaccination effort. On Friday, the White House announced that Harris will visit Greenville, South Carolina, on Monday, to be followed by a June 18 visit to Atlanta. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan plans to make Tuesday stops in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina. Details of the trips were not released. The visits mark the launch of a national tour that's part of of the White House’s “month of action,” announced...

**SNIP** CLAIM: Harris is not eligible to serve as president because her parents were immigrants. If Biden is unable to serve a full term as president, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would be next in line to become president. THE FACTS: Harris is a natural-born U.S. citizen who is eligible to serve as president. Facebook users are spreading a false claim that that if Biden were elected president this fall and then became unable to serve out a full term, Harris would be skipped over to serve as his successor. Instead, the inaccurate claims say, Pelosi would be next...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Sen. Kamala Harris said Wednesday that busing students should be considered by school districts trying to desegregate their locations - not the federal mandate she appeared to support in pointedly criticizing rival Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden last week. Harris had a breakthrough moment at the candidates’ first debate when she criticized Biden for his opposition to mandatory school busing when he was a senator in the 1970s. Harris said she benefited from busing as an elementary school student in Berkeley, California, in the early 1970s. “That’s where the federal government must step in,”...

All the Democratic candidates not named Joe are facing a dilemma: How do they foster the impression that they've got just as good a shot at winning the nomination and beating Donald Trump? After months of coverage about what a weak candidate Biden would be, he's totally upended the race, at least based on the polls that are crack cocaine for political reporters.

WARNING: If you tend toward posterior constriction or other puritanical proclivities, do not let your eyes stray below this line.Our society worships youth — the appearance of youth rather than the innocence and inexperience of youth. If the external is so important, where does that leave folks bypassed by the fairy of beauty? Unfortunately, youth and beauty do not always walk hand-in-hand. But if we are willing to invest our hearts, minds, and bodies, the Fountain of Youth is accessible to all. History offers countless stories of expeditions seeking the physical location of the Fountain of Youth. Since such searches...

Another Horizontal Gene Transfer Fairy Tale by Jeffrey P. Tomkins, Ph.D. * As the genomes of many new creatures rapidly fill the public DNA sequence databases, the problems for the grand evolutionary story are becoming overwhelming. One issue is the fact that different creatures have unique sets of genes specific to their kind with no apparent evolutionary history. To explain this glaring problem, evolutionists have resorted to the myth of pervasive horizontal gene transfer. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the process whereby genes are transferred from one type of creature to another without sexual reproduction. Earlier in my career, I...

Is Horizontal Gene Transfer a Force for Evolution? April 13, 2009 — Two more genomes were published last week: the information libraries of two tiny microbes.  They are members of Micromonas, green algae less than two microns across.  The original paper and summary both bragged about how the genetic information is helping shed light on evolution, but did the data really contain any light?  If so, the light was pointing downward. Worden et al published the genomes of RCC299 and CCMP1545, two isolates of the picophytoplankton clade Micromonas.1 John M. Archibald commented on the paper in Perspectives article in the same...