Germany's Health Minister, Karl Lauterbach, declared that the COVID-19 pandemic is over in Germany, citing virus variants, vaccination rates, and hospital cases as evidence for his assessment.
"If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms," says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Former President Trump is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday for 34 felony counts related to falsification of business records, with no expected misdemeanor charges and no need for handcuffs or a mugshot, while several prominent Republicans have come out in support of Trump.
Since former President Trump was indicted, the Trump campaign raised $7 million in donations, with $4 million from the first 24 hours of the indictment.
President Biden recognized Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday, saying transgender people were "made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support."
Jacob Chansley, known as the "QAnon Shaman," has been released from prison to a halfway house after serving just under 27 months of his 41-month sentence for his involvement in the January 6th events at the U.S. Capitol.
A Biden administration official told the Associated Press that the president will not veto a Republican-led bill ending the national COVID-19 emergency.
Protesters demanding stricter gun control legislation in response to a recent mass shooting at a Christian school in Nashville stormed the Tennessee Capitol building, resulting in chaos and at least one demonstrator being detained and released amid the commotion.
An activist group is set to hold a so-called "Trans Day of Vengeance" demonstration at the Supreme Court despite a transgender individual murdering six innocent people in Nashville this week.
