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NPR reports: A couple whose gender reveal ceremony sparked a Southern California wildfire that killed a firefighter last year were charged with involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced Tuesday. Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez pleaded not guilty Monday to charges involving the El Dorado Fire, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson [photo] announced at a news conference. The …

NBC News reports: So much for Donald Trump’s quest for “perfect” hair. President Joe Biden’s administration is reversing a Trump-era rule approved after the former president complained he wasn’t getting wet enough because of limits on water flow from showerheads. Now, with a new president in office, the Energy Department is going back to a standard adopted in 2013, saying …

More from Michael Wolff’s new book Landslide: Much of the West Wing and campaign staffs were made up of people whom Jared had picked. Their common characteristic was that, while they were tolerant of Trump, they could be counted on to slow-walk his worst excesses; some, like Herschmann, acting for Kushner, even often sought to put a brake on them. …

On Monday, Newsmax host Rob Schmitt declared that vaccines are “kind of against nature” because “something’s supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people, and that’s just kind of the way evolution goes.” Last night Newsmax issued a cleanup statement: Newsmax as a network strongly supports President Biden’s efforts to widely distribute the COVID vaccine. It is important for …

The Tennessean reports: The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails obtained by the Tennessean. If the health department must issue any information about vaccines, staff are instructed to strip the agency logo off …

“You know, one thing I’ve always thought, and maybe you can guide me on this because, obviously, I’m not a doctor. “But I’ve always thought about vaccines, and I always think about just nature and the way everything works. And I feel like a vaccination in a weird way is just generally kind of going against nature. “Like, I mean, …

Media Matters has the transcript: I’m Batman. Actually I’m Benny Johnson. But as many of you know, we are enormous Batman fans on this show. The Dark Knight is America’s finest superhero, for obvious reasons. He is tough. He has the best tools and villains to fight. And unlike those villains, and many of his fellow superheroes, Batman has no …

“They’re starting to talk about going door-to-door to take the vaccines to the people. Think about the mechanisms they would have to build to be able to actually execute that massive of a thing. And then think about what else those mechanisms could be used for. They could then go door-to-door take your guns. They could go door-to-door to take …

The New York Daily News reports: Bulldog lawyer Michael Avenatti has lost his bark. The once-famous attorney choked up Thursday, saying he was ashamed of himself before being sentenced to two years and six months for trying to shake down Nike of more than $20 million. “I lost my way. I betrayed my own values, my friends, my family and …

The Dallas Morning News reports: Gov. Greg Abbott, after trailing potential challenger Matthew McConaughey in the spring, has rebounded and now has a slight — but not statistically significant — lead over the movie star in a hypothetical matchup in next year’s race for governor, according to a poll released Sunday by The Dallas Morning News and the University of …

“What does this do to the children? What does this do to a kid? A quarter of all black marriages are intermarriage, racially. “So what does that do to a black boy whose mother is black and his father is white? What does he think? ‘My father exploited my mother and that’s how he got successful?’ “If the couple breaks …

The Daily Beast reports: An Instagram post uploaded after John McAfee’s death was announced Wednesday appeared to be a shoutout to the QAnon conspiracy theory, turning the apparent suicide in prison of a notorious software impresario into a surreal moment while sparking a frenzy of baseless speculation. Posted around 4 p.m. Wednesday, the image showed just a black letter “Q” …

Mediaite reports: In an Economist/YouGov Poll released Wednesday, respondents were asked “Do you believe that Donald Trump has been vaccinated for COVID-19?” A full 44 percent of GOP voters say they either aren’t sure or do not believe that Trump was actually vaccinated. The result illustrates a central paradox surrounding the politicization of the Covid vaccine. Trump and his supporters …

From Monmouth University Polling: One-third (32%) of Americans continue to believe that Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 was due to voter fraud – a number that has not budged since the November election. At first glance in the crosstabs, it looks like the number of “Republicans” who believe this has been trending down while the number of independents who agree …

The Washington Post reports: In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as White House officials debated whether to bring infected Americans home for care, President Donald Trump suggested his own plan for where to send them, eager to suppress the numbers on U.S. soil. “Don’t we have an island that we own?” the president reportedly asked those assembled in …

The Washington Post reports: According to the conspiracy theory known as “Italygate,” people working for the Italian defense contractor, in coordination with senior CIA officials, used military satellites to switch votes from Trump to Joe Biden and swing the result of the election. Though her name was not mentioned in either document, both Virginia organizations are led by Michele Roosevelt …

Mediaite reports: During the New York City Democratic mayoral primary debate on Wednesday, candidates were asked what they would ban if elected. Predictably, Ben Shapiro was widely mocked for pointing out – in apparent earnestness – that none of the candidates said they would ban crime, which by definition, is banned. Read the full article. Notably, nobody said crime https://t.co/9ihSrJwWy6 …

Mediaite reports: Earlier this week, Newsmax held a panel discussion about a Virginia high school student who said “Allah” instead of “God” while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in front of her class graduation ceremony. During the discussion in which five indignant people took umbrage at this development, conservative radio talkshow host Mark Vargas called the act “unpatriotic,” and said, …

Mediaite reports: Fox News Primetime host Tammy Bruce took viewers on quite a journey Thursday night by warning them about “human chimeras living among us.” “China is already doing it,” said Bruce, pointing to an April report about a team of scientists in China creating the first ever embryos that were part human and part monkey. They were kept alive …

The Associated Press reports: Michael Avenatti should spend no more than six months behind bars after a jury concluded he tried to extort $25 million from sportswear giant Nike, his lawyers told a judge Wednesday, saying the once high-flying California attorney faces constant ridicule after his “cataclysmic fall.” In a sentencing memorandum in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers wrote that …