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http://youtu.be/_sKVJ_i-FVw Dr. Anthony Fauci and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser got roundly rejected when they went door-to-door pitching the COVID-19 vaccine at the height of the pandemic, newly unearthed video shows. A clip from the upcoming episode of PBS’ “American Masters” series shows Fauci, 82, and the Democratic mayor making the rounds in the Anacostia neighborhood in June 2021, Fox News reported. At the time, he was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “They’re sort of the disenfranchised group that we’ve got to reach out to,” Fauci says to the camera, referring to the residents of the historically black neighborhood where vaccination rates were low. One man greeted the duo with a heavy dose of skepticism. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/0...

http://youtu.be/R6FOjSTavqo Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is putting his money on former President Donald Trump to beat incumbent President Joe Biden in 2024. During an interview on “The Daily Show” Monday night, the South Carolina conservative bet $20 on Trump to win his third run for the presidency. “I look at the policies of Trump, and I like the policies of Trump,” he told guest host and former Democratic Sen. Al Franken. “And at the end of the day, he’s got to prove to people, not me, that he’s able to lead us again, and that will be a challenge for him.” Graham, 67, added, “And that’ll be a challenge for Biden, to say, give me four more years after the last four. We’ll see what happens.” Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/21/lindsey-graham-bets-al-franken-20-that-trump-be...

http://youtu.be/YIBGKlTZuMY Cops who failed to rush in during the Uvalde school massacre repeatedly admitted to being too scared of the teen shooter’s AR-15 “battle rifle,” according to a new investigation. Body-camera footage captured some of the first responders to Robb Elementary last May warning that shooter Salvador Ramos, 18, had an “AR,” according to a new report by the Texas Tribune. “He has a battle rifle,” someone warned, as another officer getting the same warning reacted with a blunt “F–k.” “What’s the safest way to do this? I’m not trying to get clapped out,” State Trooper Richard Bogdanski was heard asking while still outside the school. While mass-shooter training tells officers to risk their lives to immediately try to end the carnage, officers repeatedly admitted they...

http://youtu.be/-Oko1tHETeI A pair of high school athletes from Illinois were killed in a sledding accident during a spring break trip to Colorado over the weekend, officials said. The victims, identified by school officials as Dylan Bazzell and Drew Fehr, were riding tandem down a half-pipe at Copper Mountain Ski Resort on Sunday night when their sled launched off a large snowbank, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. “The two individuals came down hard on the hard ice below, causing blunt force trauma,” the statement read. First responders arrived around 8:35 p.m., but were unable to revive the two teens, who were both pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the victims were 17 and 18 years old, but did not release their names. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/2...

http://youtu.be/RdhfjQKdH_M It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s just space trash! California residents near the Bay Area were left shocked and puzzled when streaks of lights were suddenly spotted in the sky during Friday’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Viral video of the phenomenon had many quickly jumping on the idea of UFOs or another one of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites launching, but famed astronomer Jonathan McDowell said it was nothing more than space junk burning up in the atmosphere. McDowell, of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the lights were caused by debris tossed from the International Space Station in 2020, which remained in orbit for years before finally crashing. “It probably almost completely burnt up during re-entry, but any small surviving debris...

http://youtu.be/ZMjjrCZvN6s Fans of “Jeopardy!” were in an uproar Monday night when a contestant won the game after mispronouncing Ewan McGregor’s name. The mayhem occurred after professor Melissa Klapper answered the $600 question under the “Quite the Fish Story” category. “The Force of Lasse Hallström was strong to pull in this Scot to play a fisheries expert in ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,'” read the question. Klapper responded almost instantly with “Ewan Gregor.” Host Ken Jennings permitted the wrong answer without interruption, allowing Klapper to gain an edge over her competitors. However, the Force was not strong with Klapper as several of the game show’s fans rebuked the answer on Twitter. “Tonight there was a mistake on @Jeopardy the woman in the middle named Melissa said ...

http://youtu.be/mWEHcWXY0Y0 Mark Zuckerberg’s alleged dictatorial management style resurfaced in an email the Facebook founder sent more than a decade ago with the subject line “Please Resign” after one of his workers leaked information to the media. The 2010 email from Zuckerberg to Facebook staff — posted over the weekend by the Twitter account known as “Internal Tech Emails” — blasted the leak from an internal meeting about the social network’s future plans as an act of “betrayal.” “Confidential — Do Not Share,” began the message, which has gotten more than 3 million views since being posted on Internal Tech Emails’ Twitter account Sunday. “Lots of you saw the TechCrunch story … claiming that we’re building a mobile phone. “We’re not building a phone and I spoke at length … about wh...

http://youtu.be/CuTYQBEqSRA A British man was sentenced Tuesday to 26 years in prison for murder after he was caught on a body camera video stumbling back to the scene of the fatal stabbing, and telling a police officer, “I know what happened.” Marek Hecko, 26, from Chelmsford, Essex, has been found guilty of murder for knifing to death his romantic rival, 44-year-old Adrian Ellingford, who was in bed with the defendant’s ex-girlfriend. Ellingford, a married father of two, was stabbed twice in the back at a home in Nelson Grove on July 25, 2022. Just a few hours later, a body camera worn by a police officer guarding the crime scene recorded a visibly inebriated Hecko coming over while taking swigs from a half-empty bottle of brandy. In the video, the officer asks Hecko to state his na...

http://youtu.be/QcLrIcNY7R8 A Minnesota lawmaker is in hot water after he argued against a bill to provide free meals for schoolchildren impacted by food insecurity by stating that he has “yet to meet” anyone suffering from hunger. Republican state Sen. Steve Drazkowski made the bizarre comment during a Tuesday floor session on Senate Bill 12, which would allocate $420 million over two years to provide universal school breakfasts and lunches. “I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that says they don’t have access to enough food to eat,” Drazkowski scoffed. He went on to call the bill “basically fraud” and branded the measure “pure socialism” for trying to manage what children eat. Drazkowski, who was elected to the Senate last year after serving in the Minnesota House of Represent...

http://youtu.be/zjb6iKA4uAQ Moonwalking astronauts will have sleeker, more flexible spacesuits that come in different sizes when they step onto the lunar surface later this decade. Exactly what that looks like remained under wraps. The company designing the next-generation spacesuits, Axiom Space, said Wednesday that it plans to have new versions for training purposes for NASA later this summer. The moon suits will be white like they were during NASA’s Apollo program more than a half-century ago, according to the company. That’s so they can reflect heat and keep future moonwalkers cool. The suits will provide greater flexibility and more protection from the moon’s harsh environment and will come in a wider range of sizes, according to the Houston-based company. NASA awarded Axiom Spac...

http://youtu.be/PsNLwL_wSm0 Dramatic video captures a small plane carrying six people — including a 3-year-old and a newborn — floating safely to the ground in Brazil after the pilot deployed an onboard parachute during an emergency. The single-engine Cirrus SR22 suffered engine failure shortly after it took off from Pampulha Airport in Belo Horizonte, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, about 11:30 a.m. March 11, Air Data News reported. But disaster was averted when the pilot deployed the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, commonly referred to as CAPS — which is a whole-plane recovery system that has so far saved 249 lives. “Pilot reported loss of engine power during cruise, attempted return to airport, and activated CAPS when realizing there was insufficient glide range,” the C...

http://youtu.be/YQHiBjo8IV8 US military officials have released a dramatic video of the moment a Russian fighter jet collided with a US drone over the Black Sea earlier this week. The footage shared Thursday morning by the US European Command (EUCOM) was captured by the underside camera of the MQ-9 Reaper drone as one of two Su-27 fighter jets attempted to spray it with jet fuel. On the second try, the jet collides with the drone’s rear propeller, and the screen pixelates as communication goes down. An audio clip also purported to capture a Russian salvage team recovering the aircraft’s engine casing. “We raised part of the object,” one voice says in the recording obtained by East to West. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/us-releases-video-of-russian-jet-colliding-with-dro...

http://youtu.be/u-EVW30G27I An Alabama school has introduced a bulletproof classroom to better protect students and teachers in the case of an active shooter emergency. Cullman City Schools’ West Elementary in Alabama has installed Rapid-Deploy Safe Room Systems in two of its classrooms according to Unilad. KT Security Solutions came up with the design in response to the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas last year. Nineteen students and two teachers died, while seventeen others were injured. The design incorporates a fold-out room that extends from a whiteboard featuring bulletproof walls. One door is locked from the inside and only unlocked with a key. The safe room can be pulled out and assembled within 10 seconds. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/...

http://youtu.be/spBPP20tVxc Dramatic video shows the moment a man desperately clinging to a wall after being swept into the rushing waters of the Los Angeles River was rescued by a heroic first responder suspended from a helicopter. Los Angeles Fire Department ground and air crews responded to the rain-swollen river south of Washington Boulevard in the Boyle Heights neighborhood around 5 p.m. Wednesday after getting a report about a person in distress. Heart-pounding aerial footage shot by KTLA’s Sky5 captured the man desperately holding onto a “concrete sheer wall” as he waited to be pulled up by an LAFD member who was lowered on a cable from a helicopter. Muddy waters are seen in the video churning all around the stranded man following recent rainstorms that drenched parts of Califor...

http://youtu.be/iwImOg9KCYQ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will seek to reassure lawmakers about the US banking system’s stability on Thursday after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and trouble at Credit Suisse stoked fears of economic contagion. Yellen is set to tout the federal government’s “decisive and forceful” actions to shore up the banking sector while testifying before members of the Senate Finance Committee. “I can reassure the members of the Committee that our banking system remains sound, and that Americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them,” Yellen said in prepared remarks. “This week’s actions demonstrate our resolute commitment to ensure that depositors’ savings remain safe,” Yellen added in the remarks. Yellen’s prepared remar...

http://youtu.be/3QRpyOKcu78 A tech tycoon has been branded a “creep” after allegedly offering a woman $100,000 to take off her face mask on board a Delta flight. Steve Kirsch took to Twitter to say he made the anonymous passenger the offer last Friday. “I am on board a Delta flight right now. The person sitting next to me in first-class refused $100,000 to remove her mask for the entire flight,” the millionaire wrote. “No joke. This was after I explained they don’t work. She works for a pharma company.” Kirsch accompanied his post with a selfie that showed him smiling on board the full flight. He did not disclose the destination to which he was traveling. The Post reached out to Kirsch for comment. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/tech-tycoon-called-a-creep-for-100k-offer-t...

http://youtu.be/qx709xm8CHE Lame duck Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot got a tongue-lashing at a raucous city council meeting Wednesday, with a longtime critic telling the controversial pol to “get the hell out of my city.” Journalist William Kelly, a frequent adversary of Lightfoot, berated the outgoing mayor for her botched leadership, including her response to the COVID-19 pandemic, during a public comment portion of the meeting. “You shut down our schools, you shut down the churches, you shut down the businesses,” Kelly railed, according to a video posted by Forbes. “You did the one thing that I thought could never happen,” he said. “As someone who was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, I never thought in my life that I would ever see the city of Chicago brought down so low ...

http://youtu.be/mN4EL887tds CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert couldn’t resist a jab at Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday night after she answered a question about her role in the administration by rambling about President Biden’s leadership skills. While discussing his and Harris’ mutual admiration for HBO’s “Veep,” the reliably liberal “Late Show” host noted how title character Selena Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, was often frustrated by the “vague duties of the role” and asked Harris to describe how she found being a heartbeat away from the presidency. “Well, I have the great privilege of serving with Joe Biden, who is the president of the United States,” Harris responded. “Does he understand what it’s like to be vice president?” Colbert asked, a sarcastic reference to...

http://youtu.be/X2IYJ4VbgzY President Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie is the mysterious “new Biden” family member who got paid Chinese cash in 2017, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed exclusively to The Post Thursday. Comer said the payments to first son Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law-turned-former lover were revealed in subpoenaed bank records. The records show Hallie Biden received $35,000 over two transfers in 2017 from Biden family associate Rob Walker, who got $3 million on March 1, 2017, from State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy. President Biden, who allegedly was the “big guy” mentioned in communications about the same Chinese venture, dined at Hallie Biden’s residence last Friday during his regular weekend trip home to Delaware. It...

http://youtu.be/u_bKlFrlMSA A 21-year-old soldier was found dead in a burning car in Honolulu – and her boyfriend has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing her in the neck and igniting the vehicle. Spc. Laau Jordan Laulusa, a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard, was discovered at about 6:40 a.m. Monday inside the torched car, which was parked outside Mililani High School, KITV reported. Witnesses told police they saw a man holding a “bladed weapon” opening and closing the car’s doors moments before it went up in flames, and then fleeing from the scene. The passersby followed him until police arrived and took him into custody. The suspect, identified as Samuel Jones, was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree arson. His bail was set at $1 million. Read more ...