House DFL pitches $100 million public safety plan
kare11.com > article > news > politicsThe sweeping spending plan would provide permanent investments into local policing and "tools to strengthen crime investigations," lawmakers say....
Amid Ukraine tensions, U.S. puts 8,500 troops on heightened alert
theweek.com > worldMilitary units stationed in the United States have been notified by the Pentagon that they should be ready to deploy to Europe should NATO send a request. Russia has spent the last year moving tens of thousands of troops to the border with Ukraine, and the U.S. warns that an invasion could be imminent. The Pentagon has put about 8,500 troops on heightened alert, CBS News reports, and most would deploy as part of the NATO Response Force. Some could be sent to other countries in Eastern Europe to bolster security there, should matters escalate even further. Pentagon spokesman John ... ...
Fauci: We Hope to Get COVID Down to Such a Low Level That It's Integrated into General Respiratory Infections We've Learned to Live With
mrctv.org > videosDr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday that the long-term strategy in dealing with COVID surges is that we hope to get COVID-19 down to such a low level that it becomes “integrated into the general respiratory infections that we have learned to live with.”...
Exclusive poll: Biden and Whitmer get poor marks from likely voters
abc12.com > news > politicsExclusive poll: Biden and Whitmer get poor marks from likely voters ABC 12 News...
Court Throws Out Alabama's New Congressional Map
nytimes.com > us > politicsCourt Throws Out Alabama’s New Congressional Map The New York Times...
Gottlieb: "Policymakers Have Not Prescribed Clear Endpoints to When They're Going to Withdraw" Mask Mandates
mrctv.org > videosFormer FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Sunday that it’s too soon to get rid of mask mandates in schools like the governor of Virginia has, but he said that parents are willing to tolerate masks in schools if there is an end date to it....
The Post Office's Law Enforcement Arm Is Expanding Its Surveillance Powers
theepochtimes.comThe U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced plans to provide its law enforcement branch with access to its vast trove of customer data, raising concerns among privacy activists about the organization’s expanding surveillance powers. The USPS came under scrutiny last year when it was revealed that its law enforcement arm, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), […]...
New Movie "Unsilenced" Brings Hope to Southern Californians
theepochtimes.comPASADENA, Calif.—Cheers accompanied tears from the audience at Pasadena’s Laemmle Playhouse 7, where the award-winning “Unsilenced” just screened, telling the true story of how a group of carefree youths with promising futures from a top university in China became ostracized outlaws risking their lives every day to expose a series of government propaganda and lies when the […]...
Forest "Resilience" May Translate to Fewer Trees: Study
theepochtimes.comScientists studying forest density in the Sierra Nevada have found that trees there were scarcer but physically larger in 1911 than in 2011, meaning that “resilient” forests could be remarkably thin by today’s standards. “Our findings suggest forests need to be treated more intensively than is often done when just reducing fuels, particularly greater reductions […]...