US health officials are pushing ahead with a Covid vaccine mandate for travelers entering the country — despite no evidence it reduces infection rates.

There was an expectation the unpopular policy would be ditched when the federal government officially ends the nation's public health emergency on May 11, when any still-standing pandemic measures are expected to be ended.

But, in an announcement Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated the policy rather than dropping it.

A US Railway Union (RWU) rep explains why Biden isn't their man in the White House.

US President Joe Biden announced his re-election bid last Tuesday, hoping to cement a second term after the results of the 2024 presidential election next November.

This carefully orchestrated announcement came just days after a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs found that only 26% of Americans and 47% of Democrats would like to see him run again.

Biden, who claims to be the "most pro-union president in American history," is losing favor with working Americans. That's because, as he said to rich donors in the early stages of his 2020 campaign: "No one's standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change." Indeed, his record as president shows that not much has really changed, whether that be in tackling the issue of climate change, improving workers' rights, or ending America's forever wars.

Clashes broke out on the streets of Paris as cops ended up on fire as they tackled May Day pension protesters.

Furious demonstrators showed their anger at French president Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension policy.

Bank windows and bus stops were smashed, bicycles were torched and cops were also hit by objects after Mr Macron raised the retirement age from 62 to 64 last month.

The constant mantra that racism defines America and is deeply embedded in all of the nation's institutions is leading to policies and practices that are slowly destroying the country from within, writes Heather Mac Donald in her new book When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.

The book weaves together hundreds of stats and anecdotes to illustrate how the left's obsession with racial disparities, which became turbo-charged after the death of George Floyd in May 2020, has infected courtrooms, universities, law and medical schools, STEM research, and art and cultural institutions such as museums and concert halls.

These vital institutions have placed racial quotas and equity benchmarks above meritocratic achievement even though crime and the underrepresentation of blacks in many professions has nothing to do with racism and bias and far more to do with "the unequal distribution of skills."

"The concept of disparate impact is destroying America's core institutions in the name of fighting invented racism," wrote Mac Donald, who is on The College Fix's advisory board.

"It is putting future scientific advances at risk by substituting racial quotas for meritocracy. It is unwinding decades of progress in fighting urban crime by declaring color-blind law enforcement racist," she wrote, describing it as a sort of "cultural self-cancellation."

The conservative scholar describes the "rejection of objective standards" as "nihilistic."

A suspect on the run in Texas after allegedly killing five neighbors execution-style Friday night when they complained about him firing a rifle on his property has been deported from the country five times, a source from ICE told Fox News Digital.

The FBI said Sunday afternoon authorities have "no leads" in the search for Francisco Oropesa, 38, a Mexican national who is accused of the quintuple murder in Cleveland, Texas, outside Houston.

The Texas governor's office, state agencies and the FBI are offering a combined $80,000 reward for tips leading to his capture.

"We do not know where he is, that's why we've come up with this reward," FBI Houston Special Agent in Charge James Smith told reporters on Sunday, adding that he's sure Oropesa has contacted friends since becoming a fugitive, but they need to know who.

Oropesa was in the country illegally at the time of the shooting and had previously reentered the country illegally "multiple" times following his deportations, another ICE source told Fox News Digital.

The source added that Oropesa was last encountered by ICE in 2016.

Russian missile strikes have injured 34 civilians and apparently damaged railway infrastructure and an ammunition depot in south-eastern Ukraine, hours before an explosion inside Russia derailed a freight train.

The attacks on both sides of the border on Monday apparently aimed to disrupt military logistics before a significant Ukrainian counteroffensive against occupying Russian troops, expected to start shortly in the south or the east.

The Russian strike in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad was part of the second wave of missile attacks in just three days; on Friday, 23 people were killed when a missile hit an apartment block in central Uman city, and a woman and her daughter died in Dnipro.

"I, at least, think of myself as a moderate," Elon Musk told Bill Maher during an appearance Friday night on the comedian's HBO show.

Despite being decried by all asunder as a 'far-right conservative operative' or some such hyperbole, Musk said:

"I spent a massive amount of my life energy building sustainable energy, you know, electric vehicles, and batteries, and solar. It's not exactly far-right."

Musk made his opinion clear a year ago - he hasn't changed, the world has...

To mark International Women's Day, one of the leading lights of progressive thought, Justin Trudeau, issued a writ in which he let loose all manner of simpering on the subject of "woman," before claiming some moral high ground about fighting "hate." This Cloaca Minima of the New World Order also drew to full height to declare: "We reiterate today that trans women are women."

We will leave aside the fake custom dedicating days to all sorts of "moral" causes — this assumes that the remaining 364 days of the year will have nothing whatsoever to do with said cause, for example, here, women.

To "mark" a day dedicated to women, Canada's foremost pansophist informed us that men too are women. All men have to do is invest in some feminine clothing, smear on lipstick, and be instantly transformed into a "woman." In other words, a woman is no more than the slight of a man's hand.

To be a woman, you just need to wear "Woman-face," just as Trudeau is fond of wearing blackface, and so to use his logic, he can also declare: "We reiterate today that white men are black men."

To disagree with government declarations is to "hate," and politicians like Trudeau have handy "hate-laws" to make sure the police show up and haul you off to face the full penalty of the law. You must admire the naked emperor's new clothes. There can be choice. Repeat: "Trans woman are women!"

As is now too obvious, the West is defined by its ongoing war against reality, because it innately believes that reality is an invention of the "white man" and thus must be destroyed, so that a new "reality" may be established in its place. These various "white" sins are said to be entrenched in the entire system of the West, which is why the general political attitude is that of destruction of all that exists. The world must be built back better — without the white man.

Impiety does not surprise any more in France. In the name of secularism, Wayside Crucifixes are being torn down and statues of the Virgin are being removed. Alas, there is nothing new in this since the sacrileges committed by the anti-Christian Revolution of 1789. On the other hand, a new and particularly disturbing phenomenon seems to be emerging — the public worship of Satan.

Twenty years ago, the idea that the devil could be honored in our squares and streets would have made people smile in Descartes' country. Witchcraft and diableries seemed to belong definitively to the past, when the French still believed in God. However, by a ruse of which history has the secret, here is that Satan makes his return, without even bothering to hide his hideous face.

Witches, Ghosts and Demons

This phenomenon began with the spread to France of Halloween, the Anglo-Saxon holiday celebrated on October 31 of each year.

Before the advent of Christianity, the Celts celebrated Samain on that night, one of the four great festivals of their calendar, when the dead returned to haunt the living. Over time, Samain-Halloween has become a dark celebration where all creatures — real or imaginary — associated with evil are honored: witches, zombies, vampires, ghosts and of course demons. It is also the occasion of the most important Satanic Sabbath of the year.

When witches and ghosts appeared in the French streets, most commentators saw it as a strictly commercial operation or the resurgence of an innocent folklore to entertain children in the greyness of autumn. However, it was the first time after centuries of Christianity that the Devil was celebrated more than God in France. The Feast of All Saints and the commemoration of the faithful dead were suddenly eclipsed by a grotesque cult of evil figures from Hell.

A secret activist army is vandalising and stealing Sadiq Khan's hated Ulez cameras.

Dubbed the 'Blade Runners', the covert group has been attacking ANPR cameras that catch out drivers using high-polluting vehicles across the capital.

The London Mayor's controversial scheme will force Londoners to pay £12.50-a-day to drive in Greater London from August 29, if their cars don't meet certain environmental standards.

One of the secretive Blade Runners, who met with MailOnline, vowed: 'We are going to take down every single one no matter what'.

Dressed in a balaclava to protect his identity, the father in his mid-forties revealed he had stolen 34 Ulez cameras himself but his group and others like them have taken down hundreds.