Other news, 04/08/2021

• Beijing replaces New York City as home of most billionaires (Forbes). Hong Kong is third with 80 billionaires, Shenzhen fifth with 68, and Shanghai sixth with 64. China's cities are taking over the top positions.
• European Court of Human Rights ruled that **compulsory vaccinations are legal** and may be necessary in democratic societies (Deutsche Welle)
• Forensic evidence proves that the laptop at the center of the NYP exposé was Hunter Biden's - Daily Mail

On the laptop is evidence that Hunter Biden:

-got unauthorized Secret Service protection

-begged his father to run for president to save his own reputation

-made porn films with prostitutes

-lied on a federal background check form to get a firearm

• Indiana Attorney General Rokita probing five Big Tech companies and Biden’s nominee to be associate U.S. attorney general Vanita Gupta, who has allegedly met with Facebook and Twitter executives to "encourage the companies to censor conservative viewpoints."
• Ex-vice-president, Mike Pence, is first of Trump circle to snag lucrative book deals, --Simon & Schuster to pay $3-4m for two books.
• The British B.1.1.7 strain is now the most popular COVID-19 strain in the United States. Studies found the virus is 60 times more contagious than the current strain and 67 percent more deadly, according to the New York Times.
• Biden administration delays until July 20 review of a Trump administration policy that lowered the prices of insulin and epinephrine. The policy was originally supposed to be reviewed at the end of March.
• D.C. district judge challenges prosecutors’ allegations that the Proud Boys planned the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, says he hasn’t seen any evidence of an “invocation to violence” in their communications.
• China warns the Biden administration of a “robust Chinese response” if the U.S. boycotts the Beijing Olympics - NYP
• New York to offer one-time payments of up to $15,600 to illegal immigrants who lost work during the pandemic. Legal citizens who are unemployed in NY receive less money than unemployed illegal immigrants. - NYT
• CBP deletes press release about the arrest of border crossers who were on the terror watch list