🔺 The Arizona State Audit officially completed its third paper recount, which was conducted by the Senate on Wednesday. The process was extremely thorough with multiple counts of the same ballots to eliminate any doubt about the numbers when the final results are released. Pallets of ballots were loaded into trucks and delivered back to Maricopa County. The paper ballots, in particular, included very detailed documentation of the chain of custody that the state was unable to provide.

🔺 Election audit expert Jovan Pulitzer announces he has received full funding for a kinematic forensic audit of the entire state of Michigan.

🔺 This week, the Biden administration announced the repatriation of more than two dozen Cuban refugees who fled the repressive Communist regime after being caught in Florida waters. 27 Cuban refugees have been ordered to return, even as waves of migrants from other parts of the world continue to make their way across the country's southern border, and tens of thousands of them have been released into U.S. communities without trial. It has also been learned that the Texas administration has issued an executive order banning bus and other ground transportation of illegals.

🔺 The Los Angeles Unified School District will require weekly Covid testing for students, regardless of vaccination status.

🔺 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services instructed its agents to cover up the actual extent of a coronavirus outbreak among children held at a facility in Fort Bliss, Texas, earlier this year, according to a call filed with four U.S. congresses.

🔺 "Make your departure official": more House Republicans are calling for Cheney and Kinzinger to be expelled from the party for participating in Pelosi's witch hunt following the Jan. 6 events.

🔺 Biden: "Even if you are vaccinated, it doesn't protect you from the delta strain.

🔺 CDC Director Walenski: "European-style Covid passports are the way forward."

🔺 Wages in America are down nearly 2% as inflation spirals out of control.

🔺 Delta and United Airlines give African migrants free flights to the United States.

🔺 Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would soon sign a decree releasing 1,000 federal prisoners. These are prisoners sentenced to long terms and federal prisoners who have been victims of torture.

🔺 A German federal court prohibits Facebook from suspending user accounts without prior notice in a landmark ruling. In addition, the social network must state the reason and provide an opportunity to appeal.

🔺 Alaska's largest earthquake in half a century caused minimal damage to the state.

🔺 Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is accused of sexually assaulting a teenager in Massachusetts, making him the highest-ranking Catholic official in the country to face criminal charges of sexual assault.

🔺 St. Petersburg, Russia, has introduced mandatory vaccinations for 80% of service workers, officials, and state enterprises.

🔺 U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recommends that fully vaccinated people wear face masks outdoors to protect the unvaccinated. Murthy made the suggestion during an appearance on MSNBC, where he said fully vaccinated people wearing masks indoors and outdoors would be an "extra step" of protection for the unvaccinated

🔺 DC will again require masks in all indoor settings, starting Saturday. Mayor Bowser’s order will apply to everyone over age 2, vaccinated or unvaccinated.

🔺 Gov. Desantis: Americans should not be "consigned to live in a Faucian dystopia."

🔺 Australia will not reopen its borders for travel until 80% of the population is vaccinated - Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Roughly 14% of the total population in Australia has been fully vaccinated as of today.