This Week in Historyby Dianne Hermann“In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought tosecure our independence and our liberties that remain thefoundation of our nation today.” Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA)Apr 13-19, 2026 April 131860 – The first Pony Express reached Sacramento, California, in just under 10 days. The Pony Express originated in St. Joseph, Missouri, and used a relay of about 80 riders at 184 stations and over 400 horses while in operation to deliver mail. The Pony Express lasted about a year and a half, ending after the transcontinental telegraph was completed.1902 – James Cash Penney opened his first store, called the “Golden Rule Store,” in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The first day’s sales were $33.41. JC Penny died in 1971 at age 95.1957 – Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the U.S. was temporarily halted. Saturday mail delivery was restored the following week when Congress allocated $41 million to the Post Office.1984 – Pete Rose became the first National League baseball player to get 4,000 hits in a career. American League player Ty Cobb, in 1927, was the only other player to get over 4,000 hits. Watch 42-year-old Charlie Hustle get his 4,000th hit. 2004 – Barry Bonds hit his 661st career home run, passing Willie Mays on the all-time home run list. Bonds ended his career with 762 home runs.2011 – Former baseball player Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice after a trial about his steroid use. Bonds broke Hank Aaron’s home run record in 2007, but his accomplishment is overshadowed by steroid use accusations. Bonds is now 61 years old.April 141775 – The first abolitionist society in the U.S. organized in Philadelphia. Around 1785 Ben Franklin was elected as its president.1865 – President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater during the play “Our American Cousin” in Washington, DC, after a plan to kidnap the president failed. Lincoln died nine hours later. Booth escaped, but he was killed when the barn where he was hiding was set on fire and burned down.1935 – The worst sandstorm in the U.S., known as Black Sunday, ravaged the Midwest and creates the Dust Bowl. The drought and sandstorms continued until 1939. Watch a report with photographs of the sandstorm. 1971 – In Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the Supreme Court upheld busing as a means of achieving racial desegregation.2003 – The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99% with support from the U.S. Department of Energy. The project was started in 1987.2009 – Georgetown University covered up its religious symbols at the request of the Obama administration before President Obama spoke at the university.April 151910 – President William Howard Taft began the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch on baseball’s opening day at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC. Every president since Taft has done this.1955 – Ray Kroc started the McDonald’s chain of fast food restaurants in Des Plaines, Illinois. Hamburgers cost 15 cents, while French fries and sodas cost 10 cents each. There are now more than 43,000 McDonald’s restaurants in over 100 countries, with plans to increase to 50,000 by 2025. Kroc died in 1984 at age 81. Watch a 9-minute bio of Krok and the history of McDonald’s. 1964 – The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, connecting Virginia and Maryland, opened as the world’s longest bridge-tunnel complex at 23 miles long. The toll is now $21 during peak summer season, $18 during off-peak season.1981 – Janet Cooke said her Pulitzer award winning story called “Jimmy’s World” about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie. The Washington Post relinquished the Pulitzer Prize on the fabricated story and Cooke resigned from the Post.2012 – The U.S. Secret Service’s inappropriate conduct scandal began when at least 11 agents were implicated. The 11 agents were placed on leave after an investigation into inappropriate conduct in Columbia prior to a summit attended by President Obama. Three more agents were sent home for inappropriate conduct prior to President Obama’s trip to Holland in March 2014.2013 – Three people were killed and 183 injured after two terrorist bombs explode near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Watch an ABC News report. April 161862 – The U.S. Confederate Congress approved the conscription act for all white males 18-35 years of age.1881 – Bartholomew “Bat” Masterson fought his last gun battle in Dodge City, Kansas. No one was killed and Masterson paid an $8 fine. Masterson served as a sheriff and U.S. Marshall for the next three decades. He became a sports editor in New York City and died of a heart attack at his desk in 1921 at age 67.1922 – Annie Oakley set a women’s record by shooting 100 clay targets in a row. Annie also starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. She died in 1926 at age 66.1962 – Walter Cronkite began anchoring the CBS Evening News. His news program aired until 1981. He was called “The most trusted man in America.” Cronkite died in 2009 at age 92. Watch his final broadcast. 1992 – The House of Representatives ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.2007 – In one of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho, shot 32 people to death and injured at least 17 others on the campus of Virginia Tech before committing suicide.April 171865 – Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in President Lincoln’s assassination. She owned the boarding house where her son John Surratt, along with John Wilkes Booth and others, conspired to kill the president. She was hanged on July 7th with three others convicted of the conspiracy. Mary, aged 42, was the first woman executed by order of the U.S. government.1948 – Bernard Baruch, advisor to presidents Hoover and Truman, introduced the term Cold War when he says, “Let us not be deceived, we are today in the midst of a Cold War.”1961 – A group of 1,500 Cuban exiled supported by the U.S. government invades the Bay of Pigs on the southern coast of Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. The invasion failed and by April 21st all fighters were killed or captured.1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to fly solo around the world when she completed a flight of 29 days. She flew in a Cessna 180 christened the “Spirit of Columbus.” Mock died in 2014 at age 88. Watch a short slide show of Jerrie’s career. 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1968. He was sentenced to death but his sentence was commuted to life in prison because California deemed capital punishment as cruel and unusual punishment. Sirhan, now 81, was denied parole in 2022 by Gov. Newsom after being approved for release by the parole board.1996 – Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing their parents in 1989 when the brothers were age 21 and 18 respectively. All their appeals have been denied. They were reunited in 2018 for the first time in over 20 years. They had been housed in separate prisons. Their case was recently reopened in light of new evidence. Watch a report about the brothers. 2010 – George Washington was reported to have racked up $300,000 in late fees for failing to return a book to a Manhattan library. After staff at George Washington’s former home in Mount Vernon, Virginia, learn of the situation they got in touch with the library and offered to replace the book with another copy of the same book. During a ceremony in May the Mount Vernon staff presented the book to the New York library.April 181775 – Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Charleston to Lexington warning the colonists, “The Regulars are coming out!” It was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” that introduced the line “The British are coming.”1861 – Col. Robert E. Lee turned down President Lincoln’s request to command the Union Army. Lee’s home is now part of Arlington National Cemetery.1906 – The San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire killed nearly 4,000 people and destroys 75 percent of city. It ranks as the 16th strongest earthquake in the U.S. at an estimated 7.8 on the Richter scale.1958 – A U.S. federal court ruled that Idaho-born poet Ezra Pound would be released from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the criminally insane after 13 years of confinement. Pound lived in Italy during WWII and strongly supported Mussolini. He was arrested at the end of the war and held in a prison camp, where he suffered a mental breakdown. After his release from St. Elizabeth’s, Pound returned to Italy, where he lived until his death in 1972 at the age of 87.1968 – U.S. oil executive Robert P. McCulloch bought the London Bridge for $2.4 million to be reassembled in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The London Bridge, originally build in 1831, opened as an attraction in 1971. (Note: London Bridge is not falling down.) Watch an American version of the history of the London Bridge. 1978 – The Senate voted to turn the Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999.1987 – Gregory Robertson did a 200-mph free fall from 13,500 feet over Phoenix to save fellow skydiver Debbie Williams, who was knocked unconscious when she collided with another skydiver. Robertson pulled her ripcord and Williams landed, sustaining several injuries. Watch a Rescue 911 episode recreating the incident. 2008 – A Texas District Judge ruled that the state will keep temporary custody of the 416 children who were taken from a polygamous sect “Yearning For Zion” West Texas compound. Prosecutors say polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and others adults sexually abused the children. Jeffs, now age 69, was found guilty of sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years.April 191775 – The American Revolution began in Lexington Common after the “shot heard round the world” is fired by a British soldier. The phrase comes from the 1837 poem “Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.1897 – The first American marathon was held in Boston. John J. McDermott won in 2:55:10. In 1966, Roberta Bignay became the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon. The Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest annual marathon.1927 – Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined $500. The 34-year-old West was charged with “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” for writing (under the pen name Jane Mast), directing, and performing in the play “Sex.” Mae West died in 1980 at age 87.1934 – Shirley Temple appeared in her first movie “Stand Up & Cheer” one week before her 6th birthday. During her 30-year career she appeared in over 75 movies and film projects. She later served as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and then Ghana. Shirley Temple Black died in 2014 at age 85. Watch the amazing little Shirley Temple. 1982 – Sally Ride was named as the first woman astronaut. In 1983, Ride became the first American woman in space. Ride died in 2012 at the age of 61 from pancreatic cancer.1993 – Seventy-six Branch Davidian men, women, and children in Waco, Texas, died in a fire after a 51-day siege. Janet Reno approved the use of tear gas because Bill Clinton said, “If she thought it was the right thing to do, she should proceed.” Watch a CNN report about the end of the 51-day stand-off. 1995 – A truck bomb parked at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killed 168 and injured 500. Timothy McVeigh was arrested, convicted, and executed for the bombing.2000 – The Oklahoma City National Memorial was dedicated on the fifth anniversary of the bombing in Oklahoma that killed 168 people.Image from: celebbistro.com The post This Week in History: Apr 13-19, 2026 appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A popular leftist streamer who once claimed America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks claimed that the Republican Party was the biggest “terrorist” in the United States and around the world. Hasan Piker, who once suggested Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott should be killed over proposed cuts to Medicare, made the comments during an appearance on the “Pod Save America” podcast on Sunday, where he claimed that the Democrat Party was not serious about being “anti-fascist.” “I hate Republicans,” Piker said. “I oppose them. I say that all the time. I think that the Republicans are far more damaging. The biggest terrorists, the biggest domestic terrorist in this country, the biggest terrorist internationally is the Republican Party. And not only that, but it’s just like, they … I want to fight against the growing fascist movement in this country.” Piker’s comments come as he has boosted politicians like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D-NYC), and endorsed Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA). During the podcast appearance, Piker also claimed that Democrats were not pro-immigrant enough. “On the one hand, you say Donald Trump is a dangerous force,” he said. “I see that. I recognize that. But then you turn around, and you take on his anti-immigrant narratives and anti-immigrant messaging from the 2020 election that you won and decide you’re going to be the sincere candidate that ends up, you know, dealing with the growth of migration in this country. It’s a failure.” Piker, who has over four million followers between YouTube and Twitch, is known for his radical calls to action. Last year, he was banned from Twitch for comments he made about Senator Rick Scott. “The reason why I’m saying, if you cared about Medicare or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott is because — and not make him a prominent part of the Republican Party — is because he, to this day, is still also known as committing the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history,” he claimed. Some Democrats, such as Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), have distanced themselves from Piker while others have dodged questions about their association with him.

Washingtonians just notched a landmark Second Amendment victory as the D.C. Court of Appeals held the District’s 10-round limit on magazine sizes unconstitutional. Why is U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro — who insists that she is “a proud supporter of the Second Amendment” and who may be in the running to be the next Attorney General — asking the court to second-guess itself? After decades of struggling under one of the strictest gun-control schemes in the country, residents of the nation’s capital might have expected to breathe a sigh of relief when President Donald Trump was reelected. After all, he boasts of “standing up for” the right to keep and bear arms, and his Department of Justice is taking some bold steps in that direction — including filing a lawsuit against D.C.’s ban on many semiautomatic weapons. The Department should also be joining locals in celebrating the recent court decision in Benson v. District of Columbia. The case began when Tyree Benson was arrested for possessing a gun with a detachable, 30-round magazine. That was illegal because Benson had not registered the gun or obtained a carry license. But Benson had a compelling defense: the District would not have let him register the gun because it bans magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds — and that restriction is itself unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. D.C.’s highest court agreed and, on March 5, a three-judge panel struck down the ban. A two-judge majority observed that “about half of the magazines in the hands of our citizenry” hold more than 10 rounds and “come standard with the most popular firearms sold in America today.” The Constitution does not let a locale ban such “arms in common and ubiquitous use by law-abiding citizens across this country.” The Benson decision now stands as a monument to common sense, protecting magazines that many Americans rely on. Surprisingly, the court reached this decision with the encouragement of Pirro’s office. Though she had initially prosecuted Benson, she ultimately agreed that the District’s law violated his rights. Then something even less expected happened: Pirro asked the court to press rewind. It backed the District’s request for the court to rehear the case en banc, meaning all seven of its judges would participate in the decision. It is anyone’s guess whether Washington gunowners will manage to run the court’s gauntlet a second time. One of the three judges who heard the case the first time dissented from the decision. All four of the judges who would join the case, if reheard, were appointed by Democratic presidents. Letting the decision stand would vindicate the Second Amendment — rehearing would roll the dice with virtually no chance of achieving a better constitutional ruling. Pirro attempted to explain her stance. While noting that she continued to believe the District law is unconstitutional, she fretted that the court’s decision went too far, saying it should have merely limited the law’s application to extremely high-capacity magazines. (Never mind that the law the court invalidated is far broader than that.) Further, she argued that the law wasn’t what kept Benson from registering his gun. Had he gone down to the station, the police could have “confiscate[d] the prohibited large-capacity magazine while registering the firearm itself.” Judge Deahl, the author of the majority opinion, deemed this poppycock, writing that the District could “with a snap of its fingers” comply with the Constitution by “no longer conditioning the registration and licensure of firearms upon their firing capacity.” Setting aside the technicalities of D.C.’s gun-registration laws, Second Amendment advocates are wondering why Pirro is working overtime to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The National Association for Gun Rights said her support for rehearing “risks undermining” the Benson decision. Gun Owners of America warned: “Stop adopting anti-gun positions, DOJ!” The Reload noted that Pirro’s brief “did not even need to exist.” This is not the first time Pirro has shown hostility toward the Second Amendment. Back in 2004, she said, “There is no legitimate purpose in possessing an assault weapon other than to kill as many people as quickly as possible.” Two months ago, she threatened: “I don’t care if you have a license in another district, and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail, and hope you get the gun back.” Following backlash, Pirro put out a social media video casting herself as “a proud high-heeled gun owner.” Those heels are doing quite the dance on the Second Amendment. Should President Trump nominate her to lead the DOJ, every American gun owner will get to know the dangers of Pirro’s pirouettes, facing an attorney general who voices support for their rights while undermining them at every turn. *** Matthew Cavedon is the director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice. 

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A tight primary race between the three Democrat candidates for Michigan’s Senate seat is showcasing the different extremes of the Democratic Party. According to polls, voters are currently divided among a center-left congresswoman who is backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, a physician who appears to be sympathetic towards Islamic radicals, and a current state senator who has been accused by her colleague of “grooming” children while adopting popular Democratic stances. Downplaying Islamic Terrorism? Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has recently attracted attention for his public statements linking the recent string of terrorist attacks perpetrated by alleged Islamic radicals to Israel’s war campaign. After Lebanese-born Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who became a naturalized a U.S. Citizen in 2016, drove his car into Temple Israel Synagogue on March 12, El-Sayed released a statement condemning the violence while also claiming the attacker possibly acted in retaliation to Israel’s military campaign. “A week earlier, an airstrike killed his niece and nephew. Imagine if that had never happened. Imagine there was no war in Iran. Imagine if there were no airstrikes in Lebanon. Imagine if his family had never died,” El-Sayed said. “We can and must condemn the attack on Temple Israel, and we can and must condemn the violence 6,000 miles away.” Days after El-Sayed released the statement, the candidate told his staff that the statement he put out condemning the attack was a “risk.” His spokesperson, Roxie Richner, claimed that the “nuanced statement” was met with “bad-faith critiques,” but the candidate has sought to double down on his controversial rhetoric. A week after his video statement condemning the assailant, who federal agents confirmed was motivated by Hezbollah, a leaked audio of a call between El-Sayed and his campaign team appeared to show him refusing to make a statement on the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because “a lot of people in Dearborn are sad.” “I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today,” El-Sayed told his campaign team. “So, like, I just don’t want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I don’t think it’s worth even touching that.” An Emerson poll found that El-Sayed has 16% of the Democratic voters’ support, while 38% remain undecided, and a combined 39% of Democratic voters are split between his two primary opponents. Could Stevens’ AIPAC Affiliation Cost Her the Race? Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., has also entered the primary to replace outgoing Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich. Stevens, who has allegedly received millions of dollars from AIPAC in the past, has recently been the subject of protests from left-wing social justice organizations such as CODEPINK over her ties to the lobbying group. “We tried to go up to Haley Stevens’ office to talk to her about the genocide and our objection to her receiving $5 million from AIPAC since 2019,” the Detroit local coordinator for CODEPINK said in November of 2025. AIPAC has recently come under scrutiny by Democratic voters and candidates. Data suggests that since Oct. 7, sympathy for Israel among the Democratic Party’s voters has dropped to 12%. Stevens currently leads El-Sayed by 1% in the polls. But both El-Sayed and Stevens trail Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow. Accused of ‘Grooming’ Children and Genocide Flip Flop? McMorrow, who was first elected to public office in 2018, is a rising star in Democrat politics. She was provided a prominent speaking slot at the 2024 Democrat National Convention. McMorrow first gained national acclaim in 2022 when she delivered a five-minute speech in which she defended herself against a Republican colleague’s accusations that she was a “liberal social media troll” who wanted to “groom and sexualize kindergartners.” The speech went viral and gained over 10 million views online. “[I am a] straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom,” McMorrow said during her speech, before slamming state Sen. Lana Theis’ accusations as a “hateful scheme.” The candidate raised over $1 million shortly after her speech. Additionally, McMorrow, the author of “Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It,” was caught on video telling supporters in December that she “would not be able to control herself” if she ever met Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. “I’m a Notre Dame grad and [U.S. Supreme Court Justice] Amy Coney Barrett coming out of my university makes me furious on a personal level,” McMorrow said. “I talked to somebody yesterday who said they saw her with [U.S. Supreme Court Justice] Brett Kavanaugh at a tailgate last weekend. I was like I would not be able to control myself. There would be beers thrown in people’s faces.” McMorrow leads Stevens by 5%, and El-Sayed by 6%. The post Michigan Democrat Senate Primary Highlights the Left’s Extremes appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Drip, drip, drip. Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic, more details are being revealed concerning the failure of federal public health officials to come clean about lingering safety issues with the COVID-19 vaccine. Senate investigators have conclusively proved, for example, that Biden administration officials downplayed the risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis (heart inflammation) and failed to warn the public. Widespread and dangerous loss of trust in public health authorities is thus hardly unsurprising.   Consider the latest. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the indefatigable chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, recently notified Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that records show that Biden officials failed to notify the public about “significant safety signals for ischemic stroke” (a blockage of blood to the brain) among patients aged 65 and older who had received the Pfizer Corporation’s COVID-19 bivalent booster. Safety Concerns. After reviewing about 2,000 pages of records, Senate investigators revealed that officials from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were aware of safety concerns regarding the booster but did not share this information with the public. In the fall of 2022, as Johnson’s letter to Kennedy makes clear, CDC officials had become aware of a “statistically significant safety signal” for ischemic stroke for persons aged 65 and older. Between November 2022 and March 2023, seven separate analyses of the incoming data detected the stroke signal (an early warning) for the older population. As Johnson told Kennedy: “HHS records show that as early as October 2022, federal health officials identified a potential connection between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster and ischemic stroke for individuals over the age of 65. However, after identifying the safety signal, federal health officials did not issue any formal warnings, such as a Health Alert Network(“HAN”) message, about their findings, nor did they pause or modify their recommendations for the affected population.” Citing CDC communications, Johnson reports that between August 2022 and February 2023, there were 226 stroke cases. In 2023 and 2024, more stroke cases continued to surface. CDC officials, knowing the weaknesses of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), clearly understood that the cases obviously required more detailed analyses, and thus, in February 2023, HHS hired Lukos LLC, a private firm, to undertake “The Stroke Project” and do a deeper dive into the data. As Johnson observes, “Taken together the records … reflect an extended period in which federal health officials continued to evaluate a statistically significant ischemic stroke safety signal while leaving booster recommendations for adults aged 65 years and older wholly unchanged. From the initial detection of the safety signal in late 2022, through the contractor-led case review, VAERS data mining analyses, and follow-up VSD (Vaccine Safety Datalink) studies references in MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) publications through at least September 2024, health officials continued to say the vaccine was safe while simultaneously searching for evidence to support that assertion.” Federal officials developed a “communications plan” addressing vaccine-related strokes, including a section on “Tough Questions and Answers” for President Joe Biden and his White House team. Curiously, the final edits to the draft changed the original language to say that the safety signal for stroke was “moderately elevated” to “slightly elevated.” The obvious point was to downplay the risks. As Johnson notes, “It is unclear who provided this edit.” Flawed Process. In fact, as House investigators reported in 2024, Team Biden rushed the process; a lesson in how not to move ahead with a universal vaccine booster program. On Aug. 18, 2021, Biden announced that the government would offer booster shots to “all” Americans, even before the FDA’s final evaluation and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendations to the CDC. In fact, as House investigators also noted, two senior FDA officials—Marion Gruber and Philip Krause—resigned because they felt that a booster program should be limited to the most vulnerable and that there was insufficient data at the time to recommend boosters for the entire population. That is why the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded: “The Biden administration arbitrarily and without scientific support announced COVID-19 vaccine boosters would be available to all Americans.”  Failing to reveal the full story—the potential costs as well as the true benefits of the COVID-19 vaccines—has done enormous damage to trust in federal public health agencies. Today, less than half of all Americans have confidence in the CDC and the FDA to execute their core tasks without special-interest group or political influence. Johnson has asked Kennedy to deliver all remaining department communications concerning decisions to inform the public about the risks of ischemic stroke; all records relating to the Lukos LLC “Stroke Project” report; and all remaining CDC and FDA records, especially those relating to deep-dive data analyses of vaccine safety signals for stroke. Kennedy has made commonsense changes in COVID-19 vaccine policy, aligning U.S. practice with the broad international consensus on COVID-19 booster shots among our European friends and allies. In sharp contrast to the previous administration, Kennedy is committed to “radical transparency” in his dealings with Congress. So, there is little doubt he will deliver on this most recent congressional request. Nonetheless, the crucial restoration in federal public health is going to take time and effort; this is a necessary task well before the onset of the next pandemic. The post Biden Officials Knew About COVID-19 Vaccine Stroke Risk appeared first on The Daily Signal.