Biden takes a victory lap for shooting down the Chinese spy balloon AFTER it completed its mission

Biden Tries To Take Victory Lap For Shooting Down Chinese Spy Balloon, Gets Slammed By Top Officials
“From the Southern border to Afghanistan and, now, Chinese surveillance directly above our homes and sensitive military installations, this President shows he is not interested in protecting American interests.”

Trump blasts Biden's response to China balloon
"The Chinese Balloon situation is a disgrace, just like the Afghanistan horror show, and everything else surrounding the grossly incompetent Biden Administration. They are only good at cheating in elections, and disinformation," Trump wrote.

Biden Admin Tried To Conceal Chinese Spy Balloon To Not Disrupt Blinken Trip: Report
Bloomberg News reported that U.S. officials were “well aware” that the balloon had crossed into American airspace and that it was over Idaho on Tuesday, but decided to not inform the public to not upend Blinken’s diplomatic trip to China.

Report: Biden Official Admits US Previously Unaware of Chinese Spy Balloons that Flew During Trump Admin
A Biden official confirmed that the United States was unaware of the Chinese spy balloons that flew over the United States during the Trump administration until after he left office.

China doubles down on its spy balloon story by firing national weather service chief
Beijing announced Zhuang Guotai's firing Saturday, hours before the U.S. shot down the craft off the coast of South Carolina.

Balloons called top ‘delivery platform’ for nuclear EMP attack
High-altitude balloons, such as the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key “delivery platform” for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, according to intelligence officials.

Timeline: A suspected Chinese spy balloon’s eight-day journey
On Saturday, Biden finally gave the order to have the U.S. military shoot down the balloon after it had already completed its journey across the U.S. The military used an F-22 Raptor to do the job.

Former Clinton Defense Secretary Cohen: Inspect Chinese Balloon for ‘Biological Component’
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen, also a former Republican U.S. Senator from Maine, said the Chinese balloon should be taken down and inspected to determine if there is a “biological component” that could pose a threat.

Judge: Banning guns for marijuana users unconstitutional
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a federal law prohibiting people who use marijuana from owning firearms is unconstitutional.

ATF Form 4473: Firearms Transaction Record Revisions
Significant changes in the Revised Form are noted.

Murdered GOP lawmaker was shot 7 times in the head
Pastor Nelia Rodriguez, a friend of the victim, said Dwumfour’s shooting was a targeted "personal attack."

Fatherless children, dangerous cities: Numbers confirm deep roots of urban crime epidemic
High rates of crime, single-parent homes largely overlap, data confirms.

Doctor cycling on Pacific Coast Highway is mowed down by Lexus then stabbed to death
Witnesses say the suspect was holding a BB gun when he approached the victim, a married father of two, and was screaming racial slurs about "white privilege."

The top 15 most affordable U.S. cities for people who want to live alone
Albuquerque, New Mexico, ranks as the most affordable city in the country for single renters.

Legislation curtailing right turns on red lights introduced to Washington legislature
If passed, Washington would be the first state in the nation to significantly roll back the right of drivers to turn right at red lights.

NY Times: For Biden, a Chance for a Fresh Start in a New Era of Divided Government
The president plans to use his first State of the Union address since Republicans took control of the House to call for bipartisan cooperation.

WaPo-ABC News poll: Trump Takes Lead over Biden on Eve of State of the Union Address
Trump, at 48%, leads Biden's 45% by 3%. One percent said they would vote for someone else, 3% said they would not vote for either Trump or Biden, 2% said they would not vote, and 1% had no opinion.

WaPo-ABC News Poll: Highest Number of Americans In Four Decades Say They’re Worse Off Under Biden
The poll found that four in 10 Americans say their financial situation has gotten worse since Biden took office, which is “the most in ABC News/Washington Post polls dating back 37 years.”

Koch Network Vows to Oppose Trump in Republican Presidential Primary
“The Republican Party is nominating bad candidates who are advocating for things that go against core American principles. And the American people are rejecting them,” the memo states.

Buttigieg Says You ‘Can’t Argue’ When It Comes To Biden’s Accomplishments
“At the end of the day, you can’t argue with the extraordinary accomplishments, more than almost any other modern president, that President Biden achieved, again, under the toughest of circumstances.”

Democrats move first presidential primary to South Carolina to prioritize non-white voters
Biden lost the Iowa caucus is embarrassing fashion and demanded the first Democrat primary be moved to what is considered the safest state for him in case he's primaried.

Democrats See Chance To Flip Mississippi Governorship Blue
Only 33% of Mississippians would vote to reelect Republican Governor Tate Reeves, while 57% would vote for his opponent, according to a Mississippi Today/Sienna College poll.

Everyone’s talking about the new tipping culture — here’s what money experts say
What was once a question of etiquette is becoming for many Americans a question of affordability.

Report: Over 800K Border Crossers Freed into US Without Court Dates Since Biden Took Office
The figure details the extent to which the agency released hundreds of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior without court dates.

Who Benefits From Our Prolonged Financing Of The Ukraine War?
America’s open checkbook for Ukraine is more likely to produce a long war than a swiftly decisive outcome. Three groups favor a long war in Ukraine: Vladimir Putin, the global industrial defense complex, and China.

Zelensky’s Party Says It Will Move to Replace Defense Minister
The expected move against Oleksii Reznikov comes amid a widening corruption scandal, although he was not implicated in wrongdoing.

NY Times: Fears of Russian Nuclear Weapons Use Have Diminished, but Could Reemerge
Nearly a year into the war in Ukraine, U.S. policymakers and intelligence analysts have more confidence that they understand at least some of President Vladimir V. Putin’s red lines.

China media: US' supply of long-range rockets pushes Russia-Ukraine conflict toward 'a nuclear threat'
The implication of these long-range arms is that Ukraine will have the ability to carry out attacks deeper into Russian territory.

Russia will reportedly test launch a Tsirkon hypersonic missile during war games with China, South Africa
The missile is allegedly capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and cruising at speeds up to Mach 9.

Defense Department successfully test-fires hypersonic missile
The Lockheed Martin missile again flew at speeds greater than Mach 5, higher than 60,000 feet, and farther than 300 nautical miles.

Children more than 100 times less likely to die from COVID than adults, study finds
Children account for less than 0.15% of all COVID deaths in the United States, according to official data.

Children Lost One-Third of a Year of Learning During the Pandemic, Analysis Finds
"The COVID-19 learning deficit is likely to affect children's life chances through their education and labour market prospects," the analysis' authors argue.

How a DHS whistleblower was silenced over early COVID failures
In January 2020, the senior scientist in the Department’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office began imploring the DHS to aggressively respond to the threat he believed COVID-19 posed to the nation.

Feds: Miami woman paid for Bentley, cosmetic work with fraudulent COVID loans
Daniela Rendon, 31, received $381K in fraudulently obtained funds, prosecutors say.

CIA Director William Burns: 'I wouldn't underestimate' Xi's ambitions for Taiwan
Intelligence shows Xi Jinping has instructed his country's army to be "ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion" of Taiwan.

Chinese students running distribution for drug cartels: Former DEA official
"So that's enabling the cartels to do more business. Chemicals are coming in, money's flowing, kids are dying. That's a perfect strategic plan for China."

‘Rust’ Director Joel Souza Will Testify for Prosecution in Alec Baldwin Trial
Filmmaker was wounded by a stray bullet from a gun fired by Baldwin.

Bill Maher Roasts Woke Revolutionaries
“If you’re part of today’s woke revolution, you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control because the revolutionaries get so drunk on their purifying elixir, they imagine they can reinvent the very nature of human beings,” Maher said.

Dave Chappelle Wins for ‘The Closer’ Despite Transgender Backlash
Chappelle won on a night when the Grammys celebrated transgenderism and gender non-conformity with an appearance by trans dancer Jayla Rose Sullivan and references to Harry Styles’ cross-dressing.

The Most Clownish Takes About The Laptop Hunter Biden Admits Was His
Here are some of the statements that aged the worst.

Getting Trump Was More Important to Some Journalists Than Getting the Story Right
The botched pursuit of the Russiagate story illustrates how the media shed credibility.

What happens when the government dictates media access
In early October 2022, residents of Seattle’s Chinatown-International District gathered outside a gated-off facility in the city’s industrial south end. Inside, members of the media were invited to tour what would become an expanded shelter and service space for the county’s swelling homeless population.

Catholic school suspends teen for stating there are only 2 genders, protesting boys in girls' bathrooms
A student has reportedly been suspended by a Catholic high school for the remainder of the school year for believing that God created two genders and protesting against transgender students using girls' bathrooms.

Italy's Internet Restored After Nationwide Outage; Reports Of Global Ransomware Attack
Reuters pointed out that the cyberattack and Italy's internet outage "were not believed to be related."

Making the Entire US Car Fleet Electric Could Cause Lithium Shortages
Converting the existing U.S. car fleet to electric vehicles would require more lithium than the world currently produces, showing the need to move away from private cars as a primary means of travel.

The Atlantic Writer: I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me
I didn’t shell out the $250 for the CO2 monitor until I learned about the health risks of gas stoves and indoor air pollution.

I’m an ex-banker ‘genderless dragon’ — now my son won’t talk to me
“At the time when I started my transformation, my son had already turned 16, and he rejected me at that point in my life.”

Axios: Utah schools could be required to tout 'superior' US capitalism
Teachers would have to "explain why free market systems are superior and have made America the most free and prosperous country in the world" under new standards proposed for financial literacy courses.

The Majority Of America’s Top-Ranked Colleges Will Be Led By A Woman Or Person Of Color This Fall
The new leadership profile has emerged following a spate of presidential resignations, retirements, and replacements at prestigious universities during the past 18 months.

Harvard is shutting down project that studied social media misinformation
The school’s Technology and Social Change Project, which published research on COVID misinformation and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, will end in 2024.

Pope accuses critics of exploiting Pope Benedict XVI’s death
In the days and weeks after his death, Benedict’s longtime secretary and some conservative cardinals came out with books, interviews, and memos criticizing Francis’ papacy.

UN Looking To Push Religious Communities To ‘Fully Comply’ With LGBTQ Agenda
The United Nations is set to release a report at its annual Human Rights Council meeting in June to discuss the “perceived contradictions” between religious freedom and sexual orientation and gender identity.

OpenAI CEO Says His Tech Is Poised to 'Break Capitalism'
"I think capitalism is awesome. I love capitalism. Of all of the bad systems the world has, it's the best one — or the least bad one we found so far. I hope we find a way better one. I think that if AGI really truly fully happens, I can imagine all these ways that it breaks capitalism."

Congress is set to expose what may be the largest censorship system in US history
This coming week a new House select subcommittee will hold its first hearing on the FBI and the possible “weaponization” of government agencies. A variety of such controversies have contributed to plunging public trust in government and the FBI in particular.

NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency’s hiring spree
The NSA began reaching out to technology workers privately over LinkedIn last fall as word spread that major U.S. companies such as Meta and Amazon were bleeding tens of thousands of skilled employees.

Nerd fight: Bill Gates tells Elon Musk that he should forget about space travel and focus on vaccines
Last April, Musk noted that Gates looks like the woke pregnant man emoji.

As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
Congress must reveal the truth to the American people.

Scientists to engineer woolly mammoth's return by 2027
The long-extinct woolly mammoth is slated for a return to the world stage by 2027, Popular Mechanics reported Monday of biotechnology startup Colossal's ambitious project.

University apologizes after students chanted ‘Russia’ at Ukrainian basketball player
Colorado State University has apologized for chants of “Russia” from its student section near the end of a basketball game Saturday night while an opposing player from Ukraine was shooting a free throw.

Mystery bidder to shell out big bucks for jar of sand from Tom Brady's retirement video
The highest bid among the 119 so far stands at $99,990, plus shipping.