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President Biden said social media platforms such as Facebook were 'killing people' as the White House on Friday doubled down on the danger of COVID-19 misinformation. He spoke to reporters minutes after the issue dominated a White House press briefing, with reporters asking whether the administration was spying on American citizens by flagging misleading, dangerous information. As he left for a weekend at Camp David, Biden was asked if he had a message for social media companies like Facebook.  'They’re killing people. I mean it really,' he said. 'Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated.  'And they’re killing people.' President Biden told reporters social media companies were killing people with the spread of misinformation. 'Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,' he said as he left the White House on Friday afternoon for a weekend at Camp David Biden and the White House defended its actions after it emerged t

A TikTok comedian who has accurately guessed the number of new Covid cases in NSW for three days in a row says the state's health department has asked him to cease posting his 'calculations' online, but it hasn't stopped him from making his predictions for Saturday. In a video uploaded to Twitter on Friday evening, Jon-Bernard Kairouz teased his latest prediction of 111 cases for Saturday, despite his claims he received a stern phone call from a NSW Health representative demanding he refrain from posting further videos. 'He said we would have to cease giving out the numbers because we're compromising the public health system,' Kairouz told news.com.au on Friday afternoon.  @jonbernardk Number Of Cases Tomorrow, Saturday 17th Of July #fyp #sydneylockdown ¿ original sound - Jon-Bernard Kairouz ¿¿ @jonbernardk Number Of Cases Tomorrow, Saturday 17th Of July #fyp #sydneylockdown ¿ original sound - Jon-Bernard Kairouz ¿¿ Number Of Cases Tomorrow, Saturday 1

Bill Burr has branded CNN 'f*****g morons' for continuing to talk about Donald Trump and claims 'They want Darth Vader to come back' because Joe Biden doesn't bring in viewers. The comedian hit out at 24-hour cable news networks, and especially CNN, in a three-minute, profanity-laced rant on Thursday's episode of Burr's 'Monday Morning Podcast'.  'I can't believe people watch that channel,' Burr said. 'They want Darth Vader to come back because they got nothing to talk about because it's show business, and Joe Biden is a f*****g bore.  'So now what do they do? They’re doing what they did the first time to get this guy elected by giving him all this free coverage while they act like they allegedly don’t like him. I don’t buy it. They are a corporate news channel. 'They’re f*****g treasonous un-American pieces of s**t, just like Fox News, MSNBC, just like all of them. Just like f*****g all of them.' WARNING: GRAPHIC LANG

A former longtime Walmart employee with Down syndrome was awarded a $125million in a discrimination case after the retail giant changed her work schedule and eventually fired her for chronic absenteeism.  Marlo Spaeth, who was with the Manitowoc, Wisconsin store for 16 years before she was fired in 2015, needs to maintain a rigid daily schedule as part of her condition, which includes eating dinner at the same time every night, the lawsuit says.   The store changed her hours in 2014 and made her work longer days, which caused health issues for Spaeth, according to the lawsuit that was filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2017 on her behalf.  When Spaeth asked to adjust her schedule by 60 to 90 minutes to get back to her noon to 4pm shift, Walmart fired her and then later refused to rehire her, according to the lawsuit.  An eight-member jury in Green Bay, Wisconsin sided with Spaeth and awarded her $125million in punitive damages on Thursday and an additional $150,

The Mayor of Rochester, New York, together with her estranged husband, have both been slammed with various weapons charges following a raid of their home in May. Lovely Warren and Timothy Granison were both charged with criminal possession of a firearm, two counts of Endangering the welfare of a child, and two counts of failure to secure firearms in a home.  Mayor Warren has said she intends to plead not guilty to the charges.   New York State Police searched the mayor's home in Woodman Park together with a number of other properties following an investigation into an alleged drug operation in Rochester lasting several months.   Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and her estranged husband, Timothy Granison are facing various weapons charges  Mayor Lovely Warren posted this Facebook message shortly after being charged with various weapons offenses on Friday  During that investigation, Granison together with seven others were charged in connection with the investigation, although the mayo

Thousands of Sydneysiders will be locked in their neighbourhoods, most shops shut, and 'non-urgent' construction banned as Covid cases spiked above 100 again. The new restrictions announced by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Saturday aimed to completely shut down the southwest Sydney epicenter of the outbreak. Sydney's numbers are again headed in the wrong direction with 111 new coronavirus cases recorded on Saturday to end the third week of lockdown. Sydney will now face its toughest-ever lockdown restrictions including the closure of non-critical retail, restrictions on the movements of people in three local government areas and a shut down of 'non-urgent' construction NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has closed down all 'non-urgent' construction until July 30 and also shut down home repairs and even paid cleaning services Another death was also announced on Saturday, a man in his 80s from south-west Sydney. The total number of deaths in NSW from Covid-19