Omicron Has 80% Lower Risk of Hospitalization, New Study Shows  — Once admitted, risk of severe disease is the same: NICD data  — Compared to delta, odds of severe omicron disease is 70% lower  —  South Africans contracting Covid-19 in the current fourth wave of infections …

Statement by President Joe Biden Extending the Pause on Student Loan Repayment an Additional 90 Days  —  When I came into office, we were facing a number of unprecedented crises.  Our economy was creating only 50,000 new jobs per month, less than 1 percent of Americans were fully vaccinated …

I did everything Biden told me to do.  On Friday, I tested positive for COVID-19  —  I was a supporter of wearing masks in public.  I received both doses of the Moderna vaccine and encouraged my friends and family members to do the same.  I started a community campaign to assist people …

US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say  —  Within weeks, Walter Reed researchers expect to announce that human trials show success against Omicron—and even future strains.  —  Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect …

POLITICO Playbook: Schumer and Manchin face off on Zoom  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  MANCHIN MEETS THE DEM CAUCUS — Senate Democrats held a virtual meeting Tuesday night, their first get-together since the Sunday meltdown.  And yes, JOE MANCHIN logged on.  —  Manchin and Majority Leader CHUCK …

Why Christmas Gifts Are Arriving on Time This Year  —  Fears that a disrupted supply chain could wreak havoc on the logistics industry over the holiday turned out to be wrong as many Americans ordered early and shopped in stores.  —  The warnings started to stream in early this fall: Shop early or you may not get your gifts on time.

The F.B.I. Deployed Surveillance Teams Inside Portland Protests  —  Federal agents infiltrated Portland's unruly racial justice protests, dressing to blend in and capturing clandestine video.  The tactics raised internal concern.  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — In the hours after President Biden's inauguration …

Pfizer's Covid-19 Pill Authorized in U.S.  —  It is the first authorization of a drug that newly infected people can easily take at home to stay out of the hospital  —  U.S. health regulators cleared use of a Covid-19 pill from Pfizer Inc., the first drug that newly infected patients can now take at home to stay out of the hospital.

How bad will 2022 be for Democrats?  A new party analysis sounds the alarm.  —  Get ready to hear this phrase in discussions among Democrats about the 2022 midterms: “The Biden-Youngkin voter.”  —  This category — which refers to voters who picked President Biden in 2020 …

America is now in fascism's legal phase  —  The history of racism in the US is fertile ground for fascism.  Attacks on the courts, education, the right to vote and women's rights are further steps on the path to toppling democracy  —  et us be reminded that before there is a final solution …

Hope Hicks, other Trump alums join hedge-fund exec's Senate camp  —  Hedge fund executive David McCormick is expected to launch his Pennsylvania Senate candidacy with the help of former top advisers to former President Donald Trump.  —  The list includes Trump White House veteran Hope Hicks.

No Critical Race Theory in Schools?  Here's the Abundant Evidence Saying Otherwise  —  Above, a mother protests critical race theory in Albuquerque last month.  Such objections are often met with denials that CRT is being taught, despite many indications to the contrary.

Criminals have stolen nearly $100 billion in Covid relief funds, Secret Service says  — Criminals have stolen close to $100 billion in pandemic relief funds, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday.  — The stolen funds were diverted by fraudsters from the Small Business Administration's …

How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate  —  They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.”  In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed …

Fox News Stands by Jesse Watters After ‘Kill Shot’ Remark While Fauci Wants Him Fired  —  Fox News has backed host Jesse Watters after Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he should be fired for urging conservatives to “ambush” him and “go in for the kill shot.”  —  Watters on Monday urged attendees …

Dan Crenshaw to his fellow conservatives: Come ‘correct’  —  He voted with Donald Trump most of the time but isn't a loyalist.  He's a stalwart conservative willing to criticize other conservatives.  —  Rep. Dan Crenshaw, in short, is a GOP anomaly.  —  In the roiling cauldron of Republican politics …

Long before embracing Trump's false election claims, Rep. Scott Perry promoted groundless theories  —  Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) has been fanning false claims for years, long before his efforts to overturn the 2020 election based on former president Donald Trump's baseless allegations drew …

He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK  —  At times the U.S. Army veteran donned a white robe and hood as a hit man for the Ku Klux Klan in North Florida.  He attended clandestine meetings and participated in cross burnings.  He even helped plan the murder of a Black man.

‘I am terrified right now’: Hospitalizations are again on the rise as Covid cases surge  —  How surging Covid cases, hospitalizations are impacting health care workers  —  Every morning in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, 200 to 400 people wait in an emergency room for a bed to come open.

US consumer confidence rises despite omicron, higher prices  —  U.S. consumer confidence rose this month as Americans shrugged off concerns about rising prices and COVID'-19′s highly contagious omicron variant  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence rose this month …