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President Joe Biden is being blasted after telling reporters Tuesday afternoon he is praying the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial hands down the right verdict. I’m praying the verdict is the right verdict. The evidence is overwhelming in my view, Biden said just one day after his press secretary said he wouldn t be getting ahead of the outcome.
The reaction to his statements was swift, even drawing tough questioning from the White House Press Corps.
Joe Biden decides that Maxine Waters shouldn’t be the only politician foolishly providing grounds for a mistrial or a possible basis on appeal to challenge any guilty conviction. https://t.co/zGOz0963No Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 20, 2021
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Roblox, the online game platform pretty much every kid is glued to right now, is advertised with the tagline, “Powering Imagination.” This seems to bear out for at least one user, whose imagination was powered up well enough that they decided to fake press credentials in order to ask questions during recent White House press briefings.
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The story of the citizen journalist in question, who uses the screen name Kacey “Lego” Montagu, was detailed by
Roblox players around the world. Montagu claims to be “an 18-year old law student from the United Kingdom who was born in the U.S.” They created a fake publication called
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The Reagan Family’s Secret Battle Over the AIDS Crisis
The former first lady fought the most conservative elements of the Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic. It wasn’t enough.
, Simon & Schuster 2021.
In mid-1981 the U.S. Center for Disease Control noticed a set of medical curiosities: an alert from Los Angeles that five previously healthy young men had come down with a rare, fatal lung infection; almost simultaneously, a dermatologist in New York saying that he had seen a cluster of unusually aggressive cases of Kaposi’s sarcoma, an obscure skin cancer. These seemingly unconnected occurrences had two things in common. First, all of the victims were sexually active gay men. Second, their maladies pointed to a catastrophically compromised immune system.
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A member of the White House Press Corps finally managed to ask a very significant question of Joe Biden and get an answer back from him, a truly rare feat that it’s taken nearly three months to achieve.
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Tuesday asked if Biden had spoken with China to try to hold them accountable in relation to the Wuhan coronavirus. “You mentioned 554,064 Americans dead from COVID-19,” Doocy said. “A lot of families want to know how this happened, how it got here. Have you had a chance to speak to any of your international partners? President Xi, who I know you go way back with, have you had a chance to ask him if these reports are true, that China maybe misled the world at the beginning?”