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http://youtu.be/SWQkSsmp3HY A former New York Times science editor ripped Dr. Anthony Fauci Wednesday for repeatedly seeking to discredit the so-called “lab leak theory” of COVID-19’s origin — just days after newly released emails showed the former White House chief medical adviser commissioned a paper early in the pandemic meant to disprove it. “Fauci was probably not too pleased to hear that the virus might have escaped from research that his agency had funded,” Nicholas Wade, who also served as an editor for the journals Nature and Science, told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Wade was referring to experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with funding from the National Institutes of Health and Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infect...

http://youtu.be/jvnBoocYBA8 Here are The Post’s biggest video headlines for Wednesday, March 8, 2023: One of the Americans killed in the Mexican cartel kidnapping was worried about the trip, a brawl on Southwest Airlines was caught on camera, and the royal family skipped out on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's daughter Lilibet's christening. #mexico #cartel #southwestairlines #caughtoncamera #princeharry #meghanmarkle #lilibet The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/nypost Facebook - https://...

http://youtu.be/cQlWgJcXNfA The U.S. Justice Department has found Louisville police have engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights following an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. The announcement was made Wednesday by Attorney Merrick Garland. A Justice Department report found the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government and Louisville Metro Police Department “engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives people of their rights under the Constitution and federal law.” The report said Louisville police “discriminate against Black people in its enforcement activities,” uses excessive force and conducts searches based on invalid warrants. It also said the department violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech, l...

http://youtu.be/pCzSMwygX78 Arizona rancher George Kelly told 911 dispatchers there was an “animal lying facedown” on his property after he allegedly shot dead an illegal migrant — and a Border Patrol agent deemed he was being “intentionally vague” with authorities, according to recordings obtained by The Post. Kelly — accused of killing 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea after firing an AK-47 at a fleeing group of unarmed border crossers — begged the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s office to send officers to his Nogales ranch Jan. 30, but refused to divulge further details. “It’s very serious, ma’am, and I’m not going to talk over the telephone,” a frantic Kelly, 74, told the dispatcher, according to a recording of the call. In the nearly 8-minute phone call, the dispatcher pleaded with Ke...

http://youtu.be/tJ6no3EHlKA Nearly 6,000 US public schools are employing guidance policies that block parents from knowing whether their child identifies as a different gender in the classroom — which could become federal policy if President Biden’s Title IX proposals are approved in May. At least 168 school districts nationwide have rules on the books that prevent faculty and staff from disclosing to parents a student’s gender status without that student’s permission, according to a list compiled by the conservative group Parents Defending Education and shared with The Post. More than 3.2 million students are affected by such policies in all kinds of districts — large and small, affluent and poor, urban and rural, red and blue — stretching from North Carolina to Alaska. The non-compre...

http://youtu.be/qF_gJLgEiPY Iranian scientists could construct the key components of a nuclear bomb in less than two weeks, a top US defense official told lawmakers Tuesday. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told the House Armed Services Committee that Iran’s nuclear program had made “remarkable” progress since former President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed by the Obama administration, Iran and five other world powers. “Back in 2018, when the previous administration decided to leave the JCPOA, it would have taken Iran about 12 months to produce one fissile — one bomb’s worth of fissile material,” Kahl said after Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) asked why the Biden administration had attempted to resurrect the deal. “Now, it w...

http://youtu.be/MC_Gh3-l1Wo National teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten channeled Howard Dean in a maniacal speech on the steps of the Supreme Court on Tuesday that went viral among critics who labeled it a “meltdown.” Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, had co-sponsored a protest against challenges to President Biden’s student debt relief plan brought by six GOP-led states and two applicants who sued because they would not be eligible for full reimbursement under the plan. The union boss of some 1.7 million education workers drew the ire of Twitter when she punctuated her angry speech to hundreds of demonstrators with a series of wild body movements and frantic pointing gestures. “This is what really pisses me off,” the former president of New York City’s ...

http://youtu.be/daqVsmzb-oo President Biden chuckled Wednesday night while knocking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for falsely blaming him for the 2020 deaths of two Michigan brothers — whose mother emotionally slammed the federal response to surging fentanyl deaths. “A little bit of more of Marjorie Taylor Greene and a few more, you’re gonna have a lot of Republicans running our way. Isn’t she amazing? Whew,” Biden told a gathering of House Democrats in Baltimore of the Georgia Republican. “I was the reason, she was very specific, I shouldn’t digress probably. I’ve read she was very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that I killed her sons. Well, the interesting thing: That fentanyl they took came during the last administration [hee-hee].” S...

http://youtu.be/xTZlcFQqMGk A juror was dismissed from the Alex Murdaugh trial Thursday just as it is set to go to deliberations — and she bizarrely told the judge she needed to collect 12 eggs she has in the courthouse. The unnamed juror was apparently caught discussing the case outside the courtroom, which is prohibited during a trial. When Colleton County Court Judge Clifton Newman asked her if she needed to collect any personal items, she replied by saying, “a dozen eggs.” The bizarre answer gave everybody a laugh in the South Carolina courtroom, including the judge and Murdaugh himself. Judge Newman explained the dismissal to the courtroom before bringing the juror in. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/murdaugh-juror-needed-to-retrieve-a-dozen-eggs-from-court/ #ale...

http://youtu.be/CLXiWvSet-k The Canadian high school teacher who wears massive Z-cup prosthetic breasts in class has been placed on leave after The Post revealed that she rarely wears them outside of school. The Halton School District confirmed that Oakville Trafalgar High School shop teacher Kayla Lemieux was put on paid leave Tuesday. “While not currently on an active assignment, the teacher remains employed with the (Halton District School Board),” spokesperson Heather Francey told the Toronto Sun. Lemieux’s suspension comes after Education Minister Stephen Lecce and Halton Region MPPs Natalie Pierre, Stephen Crawford and Effie Triantafilopoulos rebuked the school board for having “abdicated its responsibility by failing to put the interests and safety of students first,” according ...

http://youtu.be/cbUuTPS34sI A New Jersey woman’s fight against eviction ended in a deadly blaze Wednesday when she intentionally started a fire in the home she shared with dozens of cats and refused to vacate. The woman and dozens of cats died in the massive fire, which broke out shortly after 11 a.m. in Roosevelt, authorities said. State police had served the unidentified woman an eviction notice but she refused to leave and threatened to blow up the house. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/new-jersey-woman-blows-herself-up-in-house-full-of-cats/ #newjersey #fire #eviction The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www....

http://youtu.be/j3oFU4UJDL8 Comedian Bill Maher told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he thinks the “woke community” is trying to “shut down” any “debate” over transgender issues. During an hourlong sit-down with Tapper on Tuesday night, Maher addressed his views on comedians joking about the transgender community, after the CNN anchor suggested that such jokes “punch down.” “I don’t really agree. I mean, I think the trans community is asking for too much,” said Maher, host of his own show on HBO. “Again, the difference between liberal and woke.” “And it’s great we live in a time where people like that can freely live the lives they should live with all the dignity and protection of the law that we can afford them, like anybody else in society. I think that’s the liberal point of view,” Maher ad...

http://youtu.be/U2VVY6s6K5c OJ Simpson is convinced the disgraced South Carolina legal scion will beat the double murder charges he faces despite having “likely” killed his wife and son in cold blood, the ex-gridiron star said Thursday. The 75-year-old murder case aficionado — who himself was notoriously acquitted for the 1994 slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson — said Murdaugh had turned on the charm on the stand during his high-profile trial. “It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if this guy beats this case,” Simpson said in a video he posted to Twitter. “I realized watching him testify, what he was doing. He was just trying to relate to one or two of those jurors that he was a good ol’ boy, that he was one of them — and I’m not sure he didn’t succeed in doing that,” Simpso...

http://youtu.be/omqYiuQLivk Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of the grisly 2021 murders of his wife and son Thursday evening at Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro. As the jury reconvened at 7 p.m. local time —after just three hours of deliberations —Murdaugh sat ashen-faced on the stand. The foreman announced they had reached a unanimous verdict, which they passed to Judge Clifton Newman. As the two guilty murder verdicts were announced, Murdaugh, 54, stood still and did not speak or react. He was also then found guilty of two counts of possession of a weapon in the commission of a crime. Sitting a few rows back, Murdaugh’s remaining son, Buster, 26, cradled his chin in his hands and also showed no apparent emotion. Addressing the court after the ve...

http://youtu.be/fNe_cyJWD2A Disgraced South Carolina attorney and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh was sentenced Friday morning to two consecutive life terms for the grisly 2021 murders of his wife and son. The once-prominent legal scion was stone-faced as he learned his fate at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, just hours after the jury returned the guilty verdicts following less than three hours of deliberation. The sentence was read after a long speech from Judge Clifton Newman, who said it was “heartbreaking” to witness his former colleague’s spectacular fall from grace as it played out in the media over the last year and a half. “When will [the lies] end?” Newman asked Murdaugh, who previously admitted on the stand that he frequently deceived his partners and family in...

http://youtu.be/YgI50mjftuc A major fire erupted at a skyscraper construction site in Hong Kong’s popular shopping district on Thursday night, sending burning debris down onto the street below. The blaze broke out at the site of The Mariners’ Club redevelopment project in the densely populated Tsim Sha Tsui district at about 11 p.m. Multiple floors of the building were engulfed in flames as was the bamboo scaffolding, sending burning debris flying through the air as firefighters worked to contain the blaze. Two people, believed to be motorists, were taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei for treatment, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported. Their conditions are unknown. As the fire rapidly spread, explosions could be heard. Firefighters deployed two jets to douse the...

http://youtu.be/Mt9jl8qlzfQ Investor and “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary claimed Friday that blue states in America are “uninvestable” thanks to regulations enacted by politicians and quipped that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is “great at killing jobs.” The business mogul appeared on “CNN This Morning” to discuss the state of the economy after the latest US jobless claim numbers dropped, which showed positive signs regarding low jobless claims. O’Leary said the numbers, combined with a 4% unemployment rate, make for “an extraordinary economy” in which “we’re hiring every day and we’re competing every day.” The mogul noted an interesting wrinkle to the post-pandemic economy — that people don’t want to work in an office anymore because many of them have gotten used to working at...

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