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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press briefing on Thursday where he promoted a new effort between the city and Shake Shack to provide free food to those who have been vaccinated.

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Wednesday that all remaining orders — other than those at nursing homes and assisted living facilities — put in place following the coronavirus pandemic will be lifted on June 2.

The NBA’s TV ratings have continued their long decline, with the most recent numbers even worse than the historic lows the league suffered during the pandemic-stricken 2020 season.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) – Slovakia’s health minister says he plans to keep AstraZeneca in the country’s vaccine arsenal, speaking a day after the country suspended use of the shots after a recipient died.

The acting governor of the southern Italian region of Calabria Antonino Spirlì has called for immediate state intervention to put a halt to the non-stop landings of African migrants.

LONDON (AP) – The British economy contracted by a quarterly rate of 1.5 per cent in the first three months of 2021, a relatively modest contraction given that the country was in the midst of a strict lockdown to combat a second wave of the coronavirus.

Boris Johnson announced on Monday that people may hug each other again after more than a year of social restrictions due to the Chinese coronavirus — but they should “exercise care and common sense” when doing so.

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) app will work as a ‘vaccine passport’ for British travellers to prove that they have been vaccinated when they go on foreign holidays, the government has confirmed.

Fauci insisted that no taxpayer funds went to bat coronavirus research at a lab in Wuhan, China, despite evidence that they did.

The number of migrants encountered by officers and agents operating under U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southwest border with Mexico jumped for the 11th straight month. In April, Border Patrol agents and CBP officers encountered more than 178,000 migrants — a nearly 945 percent increase over the same month in 2020.

The BBC has issued some “expert” advice on how to hug your granny without killing her…

Spotify podcast superstar Joe Rogan said large, Democrat-run cities like Los Angeles and New York City may “be irreversibly f*cked” due to public health measures, lockdowns, travel and work restrictions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ROME (AP) – A top World Health Organization official has strongly denied making false statements to Italian prosecutors about a spiked UN report into Italy’s coronavirus response, doubling down on his assertions in court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the state is projected to have a $38 billion discretionary surplus in 2021 — and that he wants to use it to expand the state’s stimulus program by sending additional checks to two-thirds of California residents.

During an appearance on this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) argued a degree of skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine was warranted given there is an apparent risk associated with the vaccine, according to the Wisconsin Republican.

“Defund the police is wrong for New York City,” Andrew Yang, who is running for mayor of New York City, said after a shooting in Times Square.

For those hardened supporters of lockdowns, masks, and social distancing, the news out of Texas is not good: AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, welcomed 73,126 for a boxing fight on Saturday night.

President Emmanuel Macron turned to rhetoric fit for the Napoleonic era in his latest attempt to deflect blame for French and EU inoculation programme failures, accusing “the Anglo-Saxons” of hoarding vaccines and vaccine ingredients.

Most Britons under 40 will be offered alternatives to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine due to blood clot links, according to new advice issued by health technocrats.

The “green list” of low-risk territories includes Gibraltar, Faroe Islands and Falkland Islands – but not major destinations such as Greece.

The proportion of people over the age of 16 who have experienced some form of depression has more than doubled since before the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

A recent article in The Atlantic calls out liberals for continuing to adopt excessive Coronavirus restrictions, despite CDC guidance, as “an expression of political identity.”

A massive brawl broke out at Miami International Airport over the last week due to a dispute over face masks, just one week after several passengers were documented on tape fighting over standby seats at the same airport.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane would theoretically consider cutting an unvaccinated player if it meant the team being able to lift NFL COVID-19 protocols restricting in-person team meetings.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso — Spain’s answer to South Dakotas Kristi Noem — has the Madrid regional elections on an anti-lockdown, pro-freedom ticket.

Wednesday, FNC host Tucker Carlson opened his program in support of those skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccine, who have been maligned by politicians, the media, and in other aspects of American culture.

Close to 50 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) have tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus while being housed in a newly opened California shelter by President Joe Biden’s administration.

LifeSite News, a major pro-life news website, reports that Facebook has permanently blacklisted its page over “false information about COVID-19” and “vaccine discouraging information.”

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, both of whom are vaccinated, gave each other a kiss through their face masks as he departed Joint Base Andrews to make a trip to Rhode Island.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday that baseball fans in New York will be segregated by their vaccine status.

Restaurants and venues owned by white men will be last in line for federal relief under President Joe Biden’s “Restaurants Revitalization Fund” (RRF), prioritizing funds for women and minority groups first.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) warned residents in the Empire State on Monday that if they are unvaccinated against COVID-19, they run the risk of “killing your grandmother.”

If there was any “turnaround,” it was not Biden improving Trump’s performance, but presiding over a recent decline.

Some left-wing Americans are having trouble emerging from coronavirus lockdowns, according to a new report in the Atlantic.

Pope Francis sent a video message to participants in the Vax Live concert in Los Angeles Sunday night, urging concertgoers “not to forget the most vulnerable” in vaccine distribution.

During the last big wave of unaccompanied alien minors (UAMs) in 2019, a Border Patrol agent said something to me that shook me to my core.  He said that he was “sick and tired of having to administer rape kits to nine-year olds.”