NBC News admits COVID is now nearly impossible to distinguish from the common cold

Texas senators acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton on all articles of impeachment
The suspended attorney general can return to office.

Ken Paxton speaks out after failed impeachment: ‘Today, the truth prevailed’
"The sham impeachment coordinated by the Biden administration with liberal House Speaker Dade Phelan and his kangaroo court has cost taxpayers millions of dollars, disrupted the work of the Office of Attorney General, and left a dark and permanent stain on the Texas House."

Texas House members call for speaker’s resignation after Senate acquits Paxton
Phelan remains unapologetic, arguing Senate failed to do its job.

Chicago considers creation of government-operated grocery store
Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is exploring opening city-owned grocery stores to address food "inequities," according to a Wednesday press release.

3 acquitted in final trial of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot
Defense attorneys in the case have at times maintained an entrapment defense, arguing that the FBI coerced the defendants to drive the plot forward through a collection of undercover agents and confidential informants.

US Military Asks Public For Help In Finding Missing F-35
“The pilot ejected safely. If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center," located in Charleston, South Carolina.

Crime is so bad in Philadelphia that a cheesesteak joint hired armed guards to protect customers
"Our lines are down the block, so while you're standing here in line, connecting with other people you may not know, we have security right here just to keep you guys safe."

'Poverty simulation' in Highland Park canceled after backlash
"The City of Highland Park in Illinois is holding a 'poverty simulation event' where woke rich people will pretend to be poor for 2.5 hours while sitting in a comfortable country club." | Has since been canceled.

Ibram X Kendi's $15 MILLION 'Antiracist Research Center' at BU implodes as staff is fired, accusations of 'exploitation'
The university "decided to create a center that rested in the hands of one human being, an individual given millions of dollars and so much authority."

Video shows bystanders confronting man exposing himself to tourists at Hollywood Walk of Fame
The video shows the bearded man with his pants down while waving and standing in the intersection at Hollywood and Highland, one of the city's most popular tourist spots.

Two women arrested, charged for throwing baby back and forth in Daytona Beach
The police responded after a witness told them that there were two women "aggressively" handling a small child and "throwing him in the air" and "flipping him upside down."

O'Reilly: Hunting Hunter
Kimberley Strassel of the WSJ reported 170 suspicious activity reports tied to Hunter and Jim Biden, yet the FBI did nothing. Now Congress is investigating, but Biden refuses to hand over records. If he's innocent, why not comply? The stonewalling suggests he's hiding corruption that will force him out.

FBI received evidence from second informant in Biden case but shut him down, ex-agent testifies
“It shocked me a bit because … the purpose of a confidential informant is to support a case,” ex-Agent Tim Thibault told Congress. He's not the first law enforcement official to meet roadblocks created to protect Hunter Biden.

DOJ's farce should force House to keep investigating Bidens
Sometimes impeachment can get in the way of the broader imperative to inform the citizenry about abuses of the public trust that may be serious but not impeachable. Impeachment or no impeachment, Republicans should redouble their broader, and broadly successful, investigative efforts.

It’s Not Really Joe Biden On The Ballot Next Year. It’s Someone Much Worse
Don’t fool yourself into believing you’re casting a vote for Joe Biden next year. You’re voting for his radical successor, who is primed and ready to hasten our national decline.

Biden tells group of rabbis he was ‘raised in synagogues’ of Delaware
"I, you might say, was raised in the synagogues of my state. You think I'm kidding, I'm not."

Joe Biden Has A New Nickname For Donald Trump
“One was President Hoover, and the other was Donald Hoover Trump,” Biden said. “My predecessor promised to be the greatest job president in history. Well, it didn’t really work out that way. He lost 2 million jobs over the course of his presidency.”

Biden’s gaffetastic week — more than a dozen lies and bumbles
Rare is the day that President Biden doesn’t tell a lie or garble a sentence, but even by his standards, this week was a mess — featuring ramblings in Vietnam, fibs about where he was around 9/11, claims he taught Ivy Leaguers political theory, and more.

Biden racial ‘high school diplomas’ gaffe conveniently cleaned up in official WH transcript
Biden has once again said something deemed racist, and both his administration and its media allies are once again covering it up.

US officials with dementia may pose national security threat, Pentagon-funded study finds
The report states that "an increasing number of cleared personnel-that is, personnel who hold or have held security clearances-have or will have dementia."

House Republicans release short-term bill to avert government shutdown until Oct. 31
House Republicans reached a tentative agreement to keep the government funded temporarily, pairing it with a conservative border security measure.

Commentary: How ‘the Firm’ pushes bad spending bills — and what we can do about it
The “law firm” of Schumer, McConnell, McCarthy, and Jeffries (aka “the Firm”) has learned that members of Congress (and voters) don’t like “omnibus” spending bills.

Trump beats Biden in new CBS poll, 50-49
Nearly 75% of voters voiced their belief that the fate of democracy depends on who wins the 2024 election.

Trump vows to work with Democrats on abortion to make sure 'both sides will be happy'
When Welker asked Trump if he would sign a 15-week ban on abortion, he replied, "I would sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years. I’m not going to say I would or I wouldn’t."

Trump hammered over 'wishy-washy' stance on if a man can become a woman
Megyn Kelly asked Trump, "Can a man become a woman?" There was a slight delay before Trump said, "Um," and then chuckled. "In my opinion, you have a man, you have a woman," Trump continued. "I think part of it is birth. Can that man give birth? No, no."

The Democratic Party Rigs the Primaries
To help Joe Biden, New Hampshire is shunted aside and superdelegates return.

Horowitz: The big lie behind fearing a federal shutdown
To fund the status quo — the existing shutdown of constitutional government, the social compact, and American rights — for a second beyond midnight Oct. 1 would consummate the ultimate shutdown of government we should all fear.

‘The Fetterman Rule’: Senate Cuts Dress Code Enforcement
The change only affects senators and not staff members.

Strong men are seen as more conservative, study finds
Men with greater upper body strength were often perceived as right-wing.

Carol Roth: Bidenomics is lipstick on a pig
Biden's Orwellian spin can't hide the fiscal disaster of his failed policies.

Trump criticizes auto workers’ union, says its members are ‘being sold down the river’
“The auto workers will not have any jobs, Kristen, because all of these cars are going to be made in China.

Inside Colony Ridge: The ‘Fastest Growing Development’ In The US Is A Magnet For Illegal Immigrants
Experts say growing community of illegal immigrants in Texas development invites cartel activity, is a national security issue.

Video shows Mexican train reportedly 'bursting with migrants' heading to US southern border
"This is what an invasion looks like."

JD Vance Demands Biden Admin Reveal if American Transgender ‘Spokesperson’ for Ukraine Military Has US Intelligence Ties After Threats to ‘Hunt Down’ Russian ‘Propagandists'
“If the Ukrainians want to hire weirdos to threaten Americans and others for speaking their mind, I guess that’s their right. They shouldn’t use our tax dollars to do it.”

Zelensky rules out ceding any land to Russia, says Ukraine must be made whole
In an interview, Zelensky firmly rejected giving up territory to Russia for peace. Full transcript.

Zelensky says Putin could cause WW3 if US does not continue support for Ukraine
Draws parallels between Putin and Hitler, emphasizing the need for the world to decide whether they want to confront him or risk a global conflict.

The West Shouldn’t Underestimate Russia’s Resilience
Putin may still be in power in a decade. The West must prepare to defend itself and Ukraine against a belligerent Russia for many more years.

NATO chief warns there will be no quick ending to the war in Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has warned that the war in Ukraine could be long, as Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russia continues to make only marginal gains.

A nuclear bomb is still missing after it was dropped off the Georgia coastline 65 years ago
In 1958, two Air Force jets collided over Georgia, and one was carrying a nuclear weapon. Several searches have failed to find the weapon in the decades since.

NBC News: It's 'increasingly difficult to distinguish COVID from allergies or the common cold'
"Just about everyone who I've seen has had really mild symptoms. The only way that we knew that it was COVID was because we happened to be testing them."

UK health agency 'closely' monitoring deadly virus in India, has up to 75% fatality rate
The recent uptick in cases of the virus, which reportedly inspired the Hollywood pandemic flick "Contagion," has killed two people in the southern state of Kerala, according to the Daily Mail.

Gen. Milley: Chinese 'spy balloon' wasn't spying
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff now claims the spy balloon wasn't actually spying since its spying sensor wasn't turned on while over the continental United States.

Russell Brand Vehemently Denies Sexual Assault Allegations In Viral Video Statement
"... the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual."

Ashton Kutcher steps down from anti-child-sex-abuse organization
In addition to writing a letter of support for his friend Danny Masterson, he made some "inappropriate" jokes in the early 2000s.

Singer Maren Morris says she's quitting country music because of 'Trump years'
"... she says she’s leaving because of what she views as the country music industry’s unwillingness to honestly reckon with its history of racism and misogyny and to open its gates to more women and queer people and people of color."

Comedian Hasan Minhaj made up stories about racism against Muslims in the US
A New Yorker profile found that Muslim comedian Hasan Minhaj had exaggerated or outright fabricated details and events he told about racism and discrimination in the U.S.

Gigi Hadid has the perfect jawline, according to science
Her jaw angle of 141.9 degrees is close to the "perfect" angle of 142 degrees, according to researchers. When the model's face was shown to 32 expert facial surgeons and 16 ordinary people, they unanimously agreed her jawline was neither too steep nor too flat.

CNN: Scholars warn outdated constitution has put democracy at risk
CNN's chyron warns of the dangers of a constitution to "democracy."

Rolling Stone Co-Founder Removed From Rock Hall Board Over Comments About Black, Female Musicians
Jann Wenner was swiftly removed from the Rock Hall board after saying no women or blacks met his "intellectual" criteria in his new book.

Iran blocks nuclear inspectors after Biden admin unfreezes $6 billion for Tehran
The development, which comes as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi prepares for a visit to New York City to address the U.N. General Assembly, adds a fresh layer to rising tensions over Tehran‘s nuclear activities.

Netanyahu: Iran is violating all of its nuclear commitments
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked the decision by the Islamic Republic to ban a third of IAEA inspectors assigned to it.

Rolling Stone: PragerU’s Right-Wing Playbook for Infiltrating Public Education Is Working
New Hampshire's school board just voted to make one of the right-wing organization's courses count toward graduation credits, despite vocal opposition.

Teacher removed for giving 5th-graders 'nuclear fallout' homework
The school's principal said in a Tuesday letter to students' families that a full investigation had commenced in regard to the "deeply inappropriate assignment."

Bob Odenkirk says he rejected advice from conservative doctor before his heart attack
"The cranky conservative jackass was right, because he was a goddamn good doctor." He urged listeners to separate people's professional skills from their personal beliefs.

Australian man sues for $1 billion after contracting 'psychotic illness' after watching wife's C-section
He claims seeing his wife's organs and blood caused him to have a mental illness.

‘Dirty Tricks Campaign’: Elon Musk Is Battling Biden Admin As Investigations Pile Up Since Twitter Takeover
Musk has faced an investigative onslaught from the Biden administration since he acquired social media platform Twitter less than a year ago and exposed censorship against conservatives by his predecessors.

Biden’s ‘TikTok Army’ received hundreds of thousands from Soros
Soros’ Open Society Foundations shelled out $5.5 million to the nonprofit Accelerate Action Inc. in 2020 and 2021 — which in turn gave at least $300,000 in 2022 to another nonprofit, Gen Z for Change, which boasts a network of 500 “activists, organizers, and creators,” tax filings show.

NASA says it has debunked famous UFO video, but scientists are skeptical
It was one of the pivotal UFO videos captured by the U.S. military that helped thrust the once-fringe topic into the mainstream — the so-called "GOFAST" infrared video filmed by U.S. Navy fighter pilots off the coast of the Atlantic in January 2015.

NASA's Webb telescope finds exoplanet with potential signs of life
Along with methane and carbon dioxide, the James Webb Telescope also discovered a molecule known as dimethyl sulphide, a substance only produced by living things.

NASCAR driver who liked a George Floyd meme is reinstated after undergoing re-education
"I want to express my sincere gratitude to NASCAR for reinstating me. Over the past several weeks, I have dedicated myself to personal growth and reflection, and I believe I have become a better person because of it," Gragson said on his X page.

Alabama high school band director tased after police order him to stop students' performance
The police had ordered the band director to bring the music to stop so they could "safely" clear out the stadium, but he reportedly did not heed the request.