Biden press conference: President stirs controversy on border, China and Trump and vows to run in 2024

Virginia has become the first of the southern states to outlaw the death penalty, becoming just the 23rd to do so.

Democratic governor Ralph Northam signed the bill into law that abolishes capital punishment in the state, saying the repeal will stop a “machinery of death” that has a history of racial disparity.

However, more than half of the 50 states still carry out executions.

Greg Evans has this for Indy100.

Maroosha Muzaffar has the latest on the opprtunistic conspiracy theory cult, which is spreading hate against minorities in the wake of last week’s tragic mass shooting in Atlanta.

More from Trump’s erstwhile press secretary, who has been busy making wild claims about the president over on Fox as part of her new job as a pundit, implying Joe Biden is unwell, unfit for the Oval Office and concealing his condition behind a Covid face mask.

You will recall her old boss repeatedly tried to argue that the Democrat was too decrepit and senile for the presidency on the campaign trail, a smear that entirely failed to covince the voters.

“I think he’s prepared to just entirely ignore whatever is asked of him, and to pivot,” she told Fox co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy of Biden’s likely performance before the mic later today before make insinuations about his habit of wearing a mask to avoid spreading the coronavirus (which she, her old boss and many of his White House staff caught through incaution).

“I can barely understand what he’s saying with the mask on,” Campos-Duffy claimed in turn.

“I don’t know if that’s on purpose or what we talked earlier about how he hasn’t met with the Republican side, sometimes I wonder, maybe it’s something he doesn’t want to work together or pretend like he’s working together with them, maybe they just don’t want to show how badly he’s declining, I mean I can’t understand him. And there’s, there seems to be such little access, and they know that we have these questions. What else could be the reason?”

“Yeah, I think that’s a great question, Rachel. It’s a scripted presidency, it’s a soundbite presidency,” McEnany responded, utterly laughably given her own record.

“Can he do it I think is the question that that we’re all asking today is going to be a big test for President Biden his biggest yet at least when it comes to public relations.”

In light of McEnany’s latest scurrilous attack, here’s an extremely timely piece from Andrew Feinberg for Indy Voices.

Ideal for the blustering conservative deserting his post and risking all to hit the beaches of Cancun in the middle of a deadly pandemic!

Honestly though, what on earth does he think that slogan means?

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the suspected culprit of the King Sooper mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, made his first court appearance today, during which his defence team asked a judge to allow them a status hearing so they can determine the extent of their client’s mental illness. The judge granted the hearing.

Prosecutors also indicated they planned to bring additional charges against Alissa over the next two weeks. The status conference will be scheduled sometime in the next 30-90 days.

The prosecution opposed that time frame, asking for a conference within a month and a half, but were overruled by the judge.

Alissa was arrested on Monday after allegedly killing 10 people at the grocery store and having a shootout with police.

Here’s the latest.

This feels pretty on the money...

Here’s Chris Riotta on what to expect as GOP representatives find themselves in the extraordinary position of having to question Silicon Valley on whether it’s doing enough to supress the same dangerous untruths that they and many of their colleagues have provided a megaphone for since November’s election.

The president’s rapid rollout of coronavirus drugs continues apace.

Danielle Zoellner has the latest.

Despite that last news, another grim milestone in the pandemic has been reached, underlining how much the Biden administration still has to recover from the disaster it was left with by the Trump administration.

“Whether or not we’re going to turn the corner remains to be seen,” says Dr Anthony Fauci.

Gino Spocchia has this report.

“The internet gives everyone the power to communicate, and that certainly presents challenges,” he begins.