VP Harris Takes Taxpayer-funded Trip to Meet Ousted TN Lawmakers

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VP Harris Takes Taxpayer-funded Trip to Meet Ousted TN Lawmakers

(Headline USA)  Vice President Kamala Harris made a last-minute tax-paid trip Friday to Tennessee where she demanded more anti-gun control laws and voiced support for the two Democratic lawmakers who were ousted for plotting what some called an “insurrection” against the state House of Representatives.

Harris was met with adoration from fellow Democrats at Nashville’s historically Black Fisk University and claimed that the so-called “Tennessee Three” — ousted Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson and a third Democrat, Gloria Johnson, who avoided expulsion by a single vote — were being silenced and stifled for standing up for the lives of schoolchildren.

“Let’s understand the underlying issue is about fighting for the safety of our children,” Harris claimed. “It’s been years now where they are taught to read and write and hide in a closet and be quiet if there’s a mass shooter at their school, where our children, who have God’s capacity to learn and lead, who go to school in fear.”

During her speech, Harris called for restrictive background checks, red flag laws and even more limits on assault rifles, ignoring that residents with felony convictions, DUIs and reported mental illnesses are already barred from purchasing or carrying guns, according to the Daily Mail.

“Let’s not fall for the false choice — either you’re in favor of the Second Amendment or you want reasonable gun safety laws,” Harris said. “We can and should do both.”

Conservatives blasted Harris for not meeting with the families and victims of the deadly school shooting that targeted Christians at a Nashville school and left seven dead. “Harris reveals herself,” tweeted actor Rob Schneider. “She visits when 3 Dem legislators kicked out […] but she doesn’t visit when 3 Nine Year Old Children are murdered…”

Conservative attorney and host Jenna Ellis slammed Harris for ignoring the victims of the mass shooting. “They’ve dismissed the real victims of this tragedy almost as badly as they did East Palestine, OH,” Ellis tweeted.

Tennessee Republicans accused the ousted lawmakers of plotting an “insurrection,” “disorderly behavior” and “knowingly and intentionally” bringing disorder to the state House. The accusations did not deter Harris, however, from privately meeting with the ousted trio.

Nashville Metro Councilperson Zulfat Suara addressed the crowd before Harris arrived, saying the expulsions “tell us exactly what we need to know about how the state views young Black men” standing up for what they believe. Evoking the city’s civil rights history, she said, “Just like John Lewis and Diane Nash did many years ago, we too will resist.”

Pearson, Johnson and Jones entered the packed chapel to a standing ovation.

President Joe Biden, who has called the GOP a “threat” to the country, labeled the trio’s expulsions as “shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent.”

“Rather than debating the merits of the issue (of gun control), these Republican lawmakers have chosen to punish, silence, and expel duly-elected representatives of the people of Tennessee,” Biden said in a Thursday statement.

The White House also said Friday afternoon that Biden spoke with Jones, Pearson and Johnson via conference call, thanking them “for their leadership in seeking to ban assault weapons and standing up for our democratic values.”

GOP leaders said Thursday’s actions were necessary to avoid setting a precedent that lawmakers’ disruptions of House proceedings through protest would be tolerated. Republican state Rep. Gino Bulso said the three Democrats had “effectively conducted a mutiny.”

Vide footage of the riot displays local law enforcement being pushed by hecklers who were invited by the ousted lawmakers.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Court Denies Fired Teacher’s Religious Accommodation Over ‘Trans’ Names

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Court Denies Fired Teacher’s Religious Accommodation Over ‘Trans’ Names

(Headline USA) A federal appeals court rejected Friday the religious objections of, John Kluge, a Christian teacher who was forced to resign after refusing to comply with a leftist mandate forcing teachers to use transgender students’ names and preferred gender pronouns.

The decision from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a prior ruling in the case by a federal judge that equally rejected the First Amendment argument.

According to court records, Kluge was hired in 2014 as the music and orchestra teacher for Brownsburg High School about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis. In 2017, district officials began mandating that high school teachers use the names and pronouns listed in the school’s database.

Kluge told the school’s principal, Bret Daghe, on the first day of classes for the 2017 school year that he had a religious objection to using transgender students’ names and pronouns. District officials agreed that Kluge could call students by their last names and would not be responsible for handing out orchestra clothing.

But at least two students, along with pro-transgender counselors, claimed that the religious accommodation made them feel uncomfortable.

In January, the district told teachers that everyone would be required to use the names and pronouns listed for students in the database. In response to Kluge questioning whether the rule would also apply to him, officials told him he must abide by it, resign or be fired.

Kluge was pushed to resign and then sued the school for discriminating against his religious beliefs.

An Indiana federal judge ruled that Kluge’s refusal to use transgender students’ names and pronouns created an undue hardship on the district, which is responsible for educating all of its students.

The appeals court agreed, writing that district officials tried to accommodate Kluge’s religious objection but realized that letting the music teacher use last names “resulted in students feeling disrespected.”

“Brownsburg has demonstrated as a matter of law that the requested accommodation worked an undue burden on the school’s educational mission by harming transgender students and negatively impacting the learning environment for transgender students, for other students in Kluge’s classes and in the school generally, and for faculty,” the opinion read.

Rory Gray, a renowned pro-free speech attorney with the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), is representing Kluge and said they are considering next steps.

“Congress passed Title VII to prevent employers from forcing workers to abandon their beliefs to keep their jobs,” Gray said in a statement. “In this case, Mr. Kluge went out of his way to accommodate his students and treat them all with respect. The school district even permitted this accommodation before unlawfully punishing Mr. Kluge for his religious beliefs.”

ADF Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursh called Kluge a “skillful” teacher with an “excellent reputation as a fun and caring teacher,” and slammed the pro-transgender teachers who plotted Kluge’s firing at the announcement of the lawsuit. “The voices against tolerance and religious accommodation had won, even though no one in our society—in school or out—has a right to demand confirmation ‘of their beliefs or even their way of life.’”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Taiwan Threat from China Serious, House GOP Chairman Warns

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Taiwan Threat from China Serious, House GOP Chairman Warns

(Headline USA) The chairman of the House Select Committee on China said Saturday the Biden administration must take seriously the threat posed to Taiwan, as Beijing launched military drills around the island in the aftermath of the Taiwanese president’s meetings with American lawmakers.

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., who attended the meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen in California last week, told The Associated Press that he plans to lead his committee in working to shore up the island government’s defenses, encouraging Congress to expedite military aid to Taiwan.

“I think it all just points to what is obvious,” Gallagher told the AP, arguing that Chinese President Xi Jinping is intent on reunifying Taiwan with the mainland.

“We need to be moving heaven and earth to enhance our deterrence and denial posture, so that Xi Jinping concludes that he just can’t do it,” Gallagher said.

China conducted drills with warships and dozens of fighter jets around Taiwan on Saturday, the Taiwanese government said, in what was viewed as retaliation for the meeting between the U.S. lawmakers and the president of the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., hosted Tsai in a bipartisan session at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, with more than a dozen members of the U.S. House for what was the most sensitive stop during her transit through the U.S.

China’s response to Tsai’s transit through the U.S. has not, so far, been as intense as its reaction last year after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan.

While both McCarthy and Tsai spoke in measured remarks after the meeting about maintaining the status quo between their countries, which have no formal diplomatic ties, the daylong meeting enraged China.

The Chinese military announced the start of three-day “combat readiness patrols” as a warning to the Taiwanese who want to make the island’s de facto independence permanent.

Taiwan split with China in 1949 after a civil war, and the United States broke off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 while formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Beijing government.

The U.S. acknowledges a “one China” policy in which Beijing lays claim to Taiwan, but it does not endorse China’s claim to the island and remains Taiwan’s key provider of military and defense assistance.

The ruling Communist Party says the island is obliged to rejoin the mainland, by force if necessary. Beijing says contact with foreign officials encourages Taiwanese who want formal independence, a step the ruling party says would lead to war.

Chinese officials condemned Tsai’s meetings with lawmakers and announced sanctions on two organizations that hosted her in the U.S., but its immediate response so far has been less forceful than its reaction to Pelosi’s August trip to Taiwan.

China had warned U.S. lawmakers not to join the meeting with Tsai, Gallagher said. And after the meeting, China urged the U.S. off what it called a “wrong and dangerous road”

Gallagher, who served as a U.S. Marine with tours in Iraq, said U.S. lawmakers will not be intimidated by the Chinese.

“It’s an attempt to shift the ideological battle space and, again, an attempt to intimidate us, and make us feel like we’re changing the status quo and provoking them, when the opposite is true,” he said.

Gallagher said he wants Congress to work on stepping up its military commitments to Taiwan. He said the U.S. should be more quickly sending weapon systems to Taiwan for its defense.

One idea that arose from the meeting, he said, was for the U.S. to help Taiwan with technology to manufacture its own defense systems.

In 2022, China responded in the aftermath of Pelosi’s visit with its largest live-fire drills in decades, including firing a missile over the island.

Chinese officials gave no indication whether the drills underway now might include a repeat of previous exercises with missiles fired into the sea, which disrupted shipping and airline flights.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Trump Cuts New Ad About Indictment

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(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) President Trump released a campaign ad about his indictment on Friday, hoping to further capitalize on the political indictment.

The video came via a tweet from the Trump War Room.

The video is just under a minute, and begins with somber music and descriptions of the trial by Fox News’s Sean Hannity and Gregg Jarrett.

Hannity’s voice begins the video. “Idiotic, small-minded prosecution,” he says.

“[The indictment is a] persecution disguised as a prosecution,” Jarett said.

Andre C. McCarthy, The New York Post’s legal analyst, also contributed to the ad.

“[I] would dismiss it [the indictment] on its face because it fails to state a crime,” he said.

Then, clips from President Trump’s Tuesday speech appear in the video.

“The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” the President said. “And now, these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement.”

“We. Can’t. Let. That. Happen.”

President Trump Expressed optimism in the face of opposition.

“With all of this being said, and with a very dark cloud over our beloved country, I have no doubt that nevertheless we will Make America Great Again,” he said.

The advertisement is of high quality and looks like it was done by the makers of Top Gun, according to RedState.

This ad seems to be an overt attempt to continue to positive trajectory created for President Trump by the botched indictment.

Twenty-four hours after his indictment Trump raised $4 million from donors. Over a quarter of these donations were from first time donors giving an average of $34.

The surge of support is more than financial, as President Trump has received a surge in political support.

Trump’s boosted support, along with his rapidly developing campaign organization make him a very formidable candidate to receive the Republican nomination in 2024.

China Responds to US Meeting with Taiwan’s Leader With Force

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China Responds to US Meeting with Taiwan’s Leader With Force

(Headline USA) China sent warships and dozens of fighter jets toward Taiwan on Saturday, the Taiwanese government said, in retaliation for a meeting between the U.S. House of Representatives speaker and the president of the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory.

The Chinese military announced the start of three-day “combat readiness patrols” as a warning to Taiwanese who want to make the island’s de facto independence permanent. The People’s Liberation Army gave no indication whether they might include a repeat of previous exercises with missiles fired into the sea, which disrupted shipping and airline flights.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy held talks with President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday in California, adding to a series of foreign lawmakers who have met Tsai to show support in the face of Chinese intimidation. Beijing responded Friday by imposing a travel ban and financial sanctions against American groups and individuals associated with Tsai’s U.S. visit.

On Saturday, eight warships and 71 planes were detected near Taiwan, 45 of which flew across the middle line of the strait that separates it from the mainland, the island’s Ministry of Defense said. It said they included Chengdu J-10, Shenyang J-11 and Shenyang J-16 jet fighters.

Also Saturday, the navy planned to hold “live fire training” in Luoyuan Bay in Fujian province opposite Taiwan, the local Maritime Authority announced. Ships were banned during the firing, which also was due to take place on five dates over the next two weeks.

Taiwan split with China in 1949 after a civil war. The ruling Communist Party says the island is obliged to rejoin the mainland, by force if necessary. Beijing says contact with foreign officials encourages Taiwanese who want formal independence, a step the ruling party says would lead to war.

“This is a serious warning against the collusion and provocation between the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces and external forces,” said a PLA statement. The “Joint Sword” exercises “defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

Plans also called for the exercise to include a destroyer, missile boats, ballistic missiles and land-based anti-ship missiles as well as early warning, electronic warfare and tanker aircraft, according to the The Global Times, a newspaper published by the Communist Party.

The Taiwanese military said missile defense systems were activated and air and sea patrols sent to track the Chinese aircraft.

“We condemn such an irrational act that has jeopardized regional security and stability,” a Ministry of Defense statement said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government has stepped up efforts to intimidate the island by flying fighter jets and bombers nearby and firing missiles into the sea.

The United States has no official relations with Taiwan, a center for high-tech industry and one of the biggest global traders, but maintains extensive informal and commercial ties. Washington is required by federal law to ensure the island of 22 million people has the means to defend itself if China attacks.

Military analysts suggest a possible Chinese strategy in the event of an attack is to try to pressure Taiwan to surrender by blocking sea and air traffic, preventing the United States, Japan or other allies from intervening or sending supplies.

On Saturday, the PLA was testing its ability to dominate the sea, air and information and to “create a situation of deterrence and suppression,” the mainland newspaper The China Daily said.

Taiwan and the mainland have multibillion-dollar trade and investment ties but no official relations.

“We will never leave room for ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist activities in any form and will definitely take resolute measures to defeat any foreign interference,” said a spokesperson for the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhu Fenglian, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

“Complete reunification of our country must be realized, and it can, without doubt, be realized,” Zhu was quoted as saying Friday.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Trump and Obama-Appointed Judges Clash Over Abortion Pills

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(Headline USA) U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of President Donald Trump, on Friday ordered a hold on federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

His ruling, came practically at the same time that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, an appointee of /tag/barack-obama, essentially ordered the opposite in a different case in Washington.

The split likely puts the issue on an accelerated path to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kacsmaryk, a former federal prosecutor and lawyer for the conservative First Liberty Institute, was confirmed in 2019 over fierce opposition by Democrats over his record opposing the homosexual agenda. He was among more than 230 judges installed to the federal bench under President Trump as part of a movement by the president and Senate conservatives to protect the American way of life.

He’s the sole district court judge in Amarillo — a city in the Texas panhandle — ensuring that all cases filed there land in front of him.

Since taking the bench, he has protected the American people from the Biden administration on several other culture war issues, including illegal immigration and homosexuality.

Interest groups of all kinds have long attempted to file lawsuits before judges they see as friendly to their points of view.

The Justice Department quickly appealed Kacsmaryk’s decision to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. And for now, the drug that the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 appeared to remain immediately available in the wake of the conflicting rulings in Texas and Washington.

Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone in the body and is used with the drug misoprostol to commit infanticide within the first 10 weeks of a pregnancy. The lawsuit in the Texas case was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was also involved in the Mississippi case that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned.

Kacsmaryk has heroically defended the American way of life against the Biden administration.

  • Before the infanticide pill case, Kacsmaryk was at the center of a legal fight over Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.
  • In 2021, he ordered that the policy be reinstated in response to a lawsuit filed by the states of Texas and Missouri. The U.S. Supreme Court overruled him and said that the Biden administration could end the policy, which it did last August. But in December Kacsmaryk ruled that the administration failed to follow federal rulemaking guidelines when terminating the practice, an issue that the Supreme Court didn’t address.
  • He has also ruled that allowing minors to obtain birth control without parental consent at federally funded clinics violated parental rights and Texas law.
  • In other cases, he has ruled that the Biden administration wrongly interpreted part of Obamacare as prohibiting health care providers from discriminating against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • He sided with Texas in ruling against Biden administration guidance that said employers can’t stop men from using the women’s restroom.
  • In 2015, he slammed an effort to pass federal gender identity and sexual orientation protections, writing that doing so would “give no quarter to Americans who continue to believe and seek to exercise their millennia-old religious belief that marriage and sexual relations are reserved to the union of one man and one woman.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Democrats Use Dating Apps to Increase Voter Turnout

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Democrats Use Dating Apps to Increase Voter Turnout

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A small group of volunteers for a political action committee is using dating apps to attract more people who would vote for Democrats, meanwhile pretending to be bipartisan.

Kristi Johnston, the national press secretary for NextGen America, explained why it is beneficial to use dating apps to reach potential voters, according to Timcast.

“We started dating app organizing in 2020 when our efforts completely went virtual because of the pandemic,” Johnston said. “We see that a lot of young people are still on Tinder, on Hinge, on Bumble, so we wanted to make sure that we were covering all of our bases and meeting people in every space that we could.”

In the beginning, Johnston tried to pretend that the organization is not advocating for a particular candidate or political party, but is focused on increasing voter turnout overall. However, once matched with dating app users, the 27-year-old would find ways to bring up “reproductive rights being possibly stripped away from young people in Wisconsin” and send her matches a link to a NextGen America pledge to vote in the upcoming Supreme Court election.

“In terms of checking the pulse of the political landscape in Wisconsin right now, there’s no other way to do that than being on a dating app,” Johnston added.

She and 20 volunteers – three men and 17 women – for NextGen America from different parts of the country made contact with more than 500 potential voters, which, for example, resulted in outcome of Wisconsin’s spring election when the state’s supreme court flipped from a conservative majority to a liberal majority with the election of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protawiecz.

According to the organization’s website, NextGen America was founded in 2013 by Tom Steyer, a former Democratic presidential candidate, “because he believed that young people had the power to determine a new, brighter direction for our country on every single major issue that matters.” Timcast reported that NextGen America registered 1.4 million young voters and transported 4.5 million people to the polls in 2020.

“At NextGen, we know it’s always taken the courage and imagination of young people to make our country tackle the biggest challenges we face,” the organization stated. “Our nation needs that courage again to solve climate change, racial injustice, runaway inequality and to save democracy itself.”

Town to Pay Coffee Stand $500,000 For Prohibiting Public Nudity

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Town to Pay Coffee Stand $500,000 For Prohibiting Public Nudity

(Headline USA) Everett, Wash., has agreed to pay $500,000 to the owner and employees of ‘bikini coffee stands’ who sued over it six years ago.

The Everett City Council voted unanimously this week to authorize Mayor Cassie Franklin to sign the settlement agreement with Jovanna Edge and employees, The Daily Herald reported.

Plaintiffs had been seeking more than $3 million in damages and attorney fees.

Under the agreement, the city will keep most of its rules for probationary licensing of coffee stands and other quick-service business but will no longer dictate that baristas wear at least tank tops and shorts.

“I am glad we’re for the baristas and against the people who are trying to get them to do things they don’t want to do,” City Council member Liz Vogeli said after the vote.

In 2013 two espresso stand owners were arrested on accusations of promoting prostitution and exploitation of a minor, as well as a Snohomish County sheriff’s sergeant for tipping off baristas about undercover officers in exchange for sexual favors. The sergeant resigned, and the owners were convicted.

The city in 2017 created the dress code ordinance requiring employees, owners and operators of “quick service facilities” from coffee stands to fast-food restaurants to wear clothing that covers the upper and lower body or face fines.

Edge, the owner of Everett bikini barista stand Hillbilly Hotties, and employees Natalie Bjerke, Matteson Hernandez, Leah Humphrey, Amelia Powell and Liberty Ziska filed a legal complaint arguing that the ordinance violated their First Amendment rights.

“Some countries make you wear lots of clothing because of their religious beliefs,” Hernandez wrote. “But America is different because you can wear what you want to wear. I wear what I’m comfortable with and others can wear what they are comfortable with.”

The case has seen various rulings in the courts, but in October a U.S. District Court judge found the dress code ordinance unconstitutional.

Ramerman told the council the city could appeal but a defeat would lead to a much higher tab than the $500,000. The city has spent nearly $400,000 defending the ordinance.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Church Attacks Nearly Triple So Far in 2023

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Church Attacks Nearly Triple So Far in 2023

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A new Family Research Council [FRC] report found that last week’s mass murder of six people in a Christian school constitutes 2023’s deadliest act of violence against churches, which tripled so far in 2023.

According to the Washington Stand, assailants attacked churches 69 times in the first three months of 2023, which is a 288% increase, compared with 24 such acts during the same period last year. The anti-Christian assaults — which include arson, bomb threats, vandalism, and sacrilege — already affected churches in 29 states.

“American churches are increasingly bearing the brunt of anger and aggression, whether that’s from political or other motivations,” Arielle Del Turco, the report’s author and assistant director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, said.

“This contributes to an environment of hostility toward Christianity.”

“If this rate continues, 2023 will have the highest number of incidents of the six years FRC has tracked,” Del Turco wrote in the report, adding that the number of church attacks in 2023 already exceeds the number of attacks in 2018.

According to FRC, January 2023 had more church attacks than any single month in the five years the organization has kept records.

The new FRC update bases its data on an 84-page report that was released last December. In that study, FRC verified 420 acts of hostility against churches between January 2018 and September 2022.

In all, FRC researchers documented a total of 543 attacks on 517 separate churches between January 2018 and March 2023. Of the 517 separate churches attacked, 26 of the churches were victimized multiple times, with three churches being targeted three times each.

In total, FRC found out that, between 2018 and 2023, American churches have suffered 442 acts of vandalism, 71 cases of arson, 15 gun-related incidents, 14 bomb threats and 25 miscellaneous acts of aggression against church facilities.

According to FRC researchers, a total of 25 attacks on churches fell into multiple categories.

WHO Turns On China, Blames CCP for Hiding COVID-19 Origin

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WHO Turns On China, Blames CCP for Hiding COVID-19 Origin

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The World Health Organization claimed this Thursday that China‘s lack of transparency over the origin of COVID-19 is “simply inexcusable.”

Three years after the virus was released into the world, Beijing-affiliated researchers have only just publicly shared crucial samples taken from inside Wuhan‘s “ground zero,” according to the Daily Mail.

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, a senior WHO official and a technical lead on COVID-19, heavily criticized China, saying that this data “should have been shared immediately.”

“The lack of data disclosure is simply inexcusable. The longer it takes to understand the origins of the pandemic, the harder it becomes to answer the question, and the more unsafe the world becomes,” she said.

“Every new piece of data could potentially move the world closer to stopping another pandemic – perhaps a worse one – in the future. The failure to share information only fuels politicization of origins tracing and keeps all hypotheses viable.”

Van Kerkhove said that she thinks China could be sitting on even more bombshell evidence that could reveal even more information about the virus.

“China has advanced technical capabilities and I, therefore, believe that more data exist that have yet to be shared,” she wrote in her first-person piece in the prestigious journal Science.

“[This includes] on the wild and farmed animal trade; the testing of humans and animals in Wuhan and across China; the operations of labs in Wuhan working on coronaviruses; the earliest potential cases; and more.”

“WHO continues to call on China and all countries to share any data on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, immediately,” she added.

“The world needs to move away from the politics of blame and, instead, exploit all diplomatic and scientific approaches so that the global scientific community can do what it does best – collaborate, focus on this health crisis and find evidence-based solutions to thwart future pandemics. Time is running out.”

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