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Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the city will end its vaccine mandate for businesses beginning February 15, and lift indoor mask mandates beginning March 1.

President Joe Biden on Sunday said it is “probably premature” to remove coronavirus mask mandates, despite originally pitching “just” 100 days of masking prior to taking office.

Even though the pandemic supposedly remains so dangerous we’re still masking two-year-olds, Versailles on the Potomac is scheduled to return in the form of the April 30th White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a popularity collapse, several polls published this weekend found, in the aftermath of his handling of the ongoing “Freedom Convoy” anti-mandate protests – with both supporters and opponents of the protesters.

A report in a major Austrian newspaper has claimed that the country’s new regime of forced vaccination has had no positive effect on jab uptake in the nation’s capital.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday blamed mysterious “imported” forces for the protests against her vaccine mandates that dominate the national capital.

A Freedom Convoy scheduled to take place in the de facto capital of the European Union is to go ahead, despite local authorities banning the demonstration.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been slammed for the use of armoured police vehicles against the banned Paris Freedom Convoy, after nearly 100 were arrested by police.

The Ambassador Bridge connecting Canada and the U.S. remains blocked by Canadian demonstrators on Saturday night, over 24 hours after a deadline issued by a Ontario Superior Court Justice Geoffrey Morawetz via injunction to restrain individuals from blocking the bridge between Windsor, ON, and Detroit, MI.

The UFC announced on Friday that Joe Rogan would not be on the broadcast team Saturday night for UFC 271 in Houston, Texas.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb called for immediate action to deal with increased morbidity after the coronavirus pandemic due to things like weight gain, increased alcohol consumption, mental health problems, and people missing

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said that there will be “a lot of morbidity” “on the back end” of the coronavirus pandemic due to things like people gaining weight, increased drinking, mental health

Former Obama administration official Juliette Kayyem backpedaled a call Thursday for actions against Canadian truckers protesting the government’s strict coronavirus policies, Fox News reported.

Mayor Mike Bradley has accused Freedom Convoy protestors of engaging in “economic terrorism” after they set up a blockade on a highway.

French police have squared off with protesters attempting to establish a Canadian-style convoy in Paris in response to coronavirus measures.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the CDC and health officials are primarily tasked with health, but governors have to balance “the overall flourishing of their communities.” And that in areas where Omicron has

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commented on states lifting their mask mandates by stating that “people should be empowered to make their own decisions about the risk level they’re comfortable

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday said he does not necessarily support penalizing school districts who defied the state’s ban on mandatory masking in school,, but suggested that parents should have the right to sue if their children suffer any negative effects from the forced masking policy.

Canadian Conservative Party MP and leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre expressed support for the Freedom Convoy protesters.

Norway says it is lifting almost all remaining COVID restrictions as it doesn’t see a major health threat to citizens any more.

Paris police intercepted at least 500 vehicles attempting to enter the French capital inspired by Canada’s horn-honking “Freedom Convoy.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher joked about mask mandates in California by remarking that “in San Francisco, you have to have the mask on when you’re shoplifting indoors,” and telling local politicians to get their apologies ready for when they get caught breaking mask rules during the Super Bowl.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher discussed the trucker protests currently taking place in Canada and stated that he thinks the main issue driving the protests is that there were some people who, during the pandemic, could afford to “wait out and get a free vacation and money from the government and other people can’t. And they’re pissed off, the people who can’t.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sounded “like Hitler” when he made comments about leaders facing a choice on whether or not to “tolerate” people who aren’t vaccinated and also negatively cited Trudeau saying that the trucker protesters in the country had “unacceptable” points of view.

Pfizer and BioNTech are delaying their Food and Drug Administration (FDA) request for the authorization of their Chinese coronavirus vaccine for children under the age of five, the company announced on Friday.

Police in Fredericton, the capital of Canada’s New Brunswick province, told reporters on Thursday they “are not going to tolerate” any blocking of roads in the “downtown core” during an anti-coronavirus-restriction protest planned for Friday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) called the military’s religious accommodation process for the coronavirus vaccine mandate a “sham” after the Marine Corps revealed to him they only approved three accommodations, for Marines already leaving the service.

Police in Paris have deployed barricades, heavy equipment, and armoured vehicles as a freedom convoy is set to descend on the city.

President Joe Biden’s federal mask mandates are still forcing children to wear masks on buses, despite the fact that several blue states this month announced plans to lift state-sanctioned mask mandates in schools.

Amazon will cut off paid leave for workers that contract coronavirus if they are not fully vaccinated. According to an internal memo, unvaccinated workers will be required to wear masks in the warehouse while their vaccinated coworkers can go maskless. The changes are expected to take place on March 18, according to Business Insider.

Most Americans disapprove of President Biden’s handling of the Chinese coronavirus, a CNN poll released Thursday found.

The number of illiterate six- and seven-year-olds in Brazil surged by 66 percent from 2019 to 2021, which is a time period coinciding with prolonged school closures across Brazil due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday that he would impose a “state of emergency” in response to the two-week-old “Freedom Convoy” protests that would, he hoped, end blockades in major cities and on international border crossings.

The bishop of the northern Italian diocese of Bergamo has suspended a priest of the diocese for publicly opposing Italy’s vaccine mandate.

The head of Canada’s far-left New Democratic Party, lawmaker Jagmeet Singh, published a video on Thursday railing against leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his “completely inexcusable” inaction in the face of the growing “Freedom Convoy” anti-mandate protests nationwide.

Pope Francis reflected back on two years of coronavirus pandemic Friday, underscoring the deaths as well as the loss of jobs and essential freedoms.