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The Canadian federal government has already banned unvaccinated people from domestic or international air or train travel, a rule that went into effect Nov. 30. Facebook banned news and videos of protests of the development, saying it was misinformation. Those videos showed up on Tik Tok, however. Politifact, owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute, disputes the assertion that people are being prevented from buying groceries in New Brunswick. But Must Read Alaska’s Fact Check Desk found the New Brunswick government document that allows stores to discriminate against those who haven’t taken the shot. To date, one of the two major...

The priority deadline for Texas students to complete the Free Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA) is on January 15. Texas high school students are required to submit that application to graduate... “It was a great struggle filling out the FAFSA,” Martinez said. Millions of students face the same struggle of filling out the FAFSA. Some say that the application is too complicated for some. Congressman Doggett has been working for years to make it simple.

A home in a neighborhood near Chattanooga stands out -- it has hundreds of Amazon packages spread across its lawn. A neighbor said new boxes arrive daily, and many are half-full or empty. People who live in the area have contacted the police and city and written notes to the people who live in the home. "When it started out there were maybe 20 packages out there, and then 100 and then thousands," said Andrea Ellison, a neighbor. Neighbors say the pile of boxes in the front yard has been growing for months, and it's been worse than it is...

EAGLE PASS, Texas (WOAI) — U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued two small children abandoned on Tuesday near the Rio Grande River. Border Patrol agents were doing patrols along the river around noon when they noticed an unusual color along the river bank. When they got closer, they found two small children sitting in the brush, one was even in what appeared to be an infant carrier. The agents safely rescued the children, one being a 2-year-old girl and the other a 3-month-old boy. Both are siblings and Honduran nationals, according to border patrol. Nobody else was found in the area.

The Hays County Consolidated Independent School District will temporarily close one of its campuses due to COVID-19 spread. According to Hays CISD, eight of the 10 district classrooms that are currently under quarantine are housed at Tobias Elementary, triggering the closure until Monday, September 20. Previously, Hays CISD superintendent Dr. Eric Wright said that while he believes masks should be worn in schools, the district was choosing not to enforce its own mandates, as several Texas districts have done.

A suspect is in custody in connection with the mysterious shooting of prominent lawyer Alex Murdaugh, and authorities say Murdaugh arranged for the man to do it.

The state of Texas could soon feel economic backlash in response to its recently enacted new abortion laws, which are the strictest in the U.S. The city council of Portland, Oregon, is set to vote Wednesday on whether to ban future travel and trading of goods and services with Texas in protest of the legislation, The Hill reports. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said in a statement last week: “The ban will be in effect until the state of Texas withdraws its unconstitutional ban on abortion or until it is overturned in court.”

McDougall confirmed during a search of the building, officers discovered multiple unrefrigerated bodies in various states of decomposition, including some that were badly decomposed. Human fetuses were also discovered on the premises. Police have not provided a total body count, or given any sort of explanation about why the bodies were decomposing or why fetuses were on the property. So far, no one has been arrested in connection with this case... The Downard Funeral Home is owned by Pocatello resident Lance Peck and his wife. Peck has a history of licensing violations... Additionally, Downard Funeral Home was previously in charge...

Smokers typically pay higher insurance rates so it stand to reason that people who refuse to get a COVID shot might see their coverage costs increase. However, staff at the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner said that is not legal and they want to hear from people if it happens. “An unvaccinated person cannot be charged more than a vaccinated person," said Steve Valandra, the deputy commissioner for public affairs with the Insurance Commission. "It's just not allowed." However, self-insured companies are exempt from this, and are not subject to regulation by the state insurance commissioner. Delta Air...

she said she nearly cried when her apartment complex offered her a lease renewal for next year with a nearly 35% increase in price. “It was up over $400 — just like that,” she said, snapping her fingers. “My income is not going up 400 dollars a month!” KXAN Investigators have received several tips over the last month, detailing rent hikes as high as 30% and 40%. One viewer said their apartment downtown was asking for $1,200 more a month — a nearly 47% increase from last year. Experts with the Texas Real Estate Center at the University of Texas...

Inmates took part in a major cleanup in Brevard County. The sheriff's office's "chain gang' pitched in to clean up a homeless camp and dumping ground under the Sykes Creek Parkway Bridge. They removed 22,600 pounds of garbage under the bridge. All that filled 16 trucks. The trucks hauled the trash to the landfill.

Today we are thanking a woman known as "The Cookie Lady" in her Idaho Falls neighborhood.

State data shows there are only 13 intensive care unit beds available in the 11-county Austin region. That means more than 98% of all ICU beds in the area are currently occupied... On Thursday, more than 6,300 new confirmed cases were reported in the state. With the increased transmissibility of the delta variant, hospitals in the area say the surge in cases is “putting extraordinary pressure on [their] hospitals, emergency departments and healthcare professionals.”

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday for engaging in civil disobedience in support of a federal voting rights bill. “Yes I engaged in civil disobedience today in front of the Hart Building in Washington, D.C., and I was arrested,” the Houston Democrat said in a video posted on Twitter. It was unclear what Jackson Lee was doing at the building to spur the arrest.

Attorney Rogge Dunn, longtime labor attorney with the Rogge Dunn Group of Dallas, said it is perfectly legal for an employer to require employees to get a vaccine. “There are two exceptions," he said. "One is a sincerely held religious belief and two is if someone has a disability such that they would have an adverse reaction to a vaccine." Dunn said employers can fire someone for not getting the COVID shot if those exceptions aren’t met. He points to the case of more than 100 workers at Houston Methodist who sued over the hospital’s COVID vaccine mandate. “They lost,”...

Needing some Windows 7 help. It won't start and has been on "Start up repair is checking your system for problems" for 14 hours.

A Baltimore police officer allegedly hid the body of his teenage stepson in a wall of his home's loft before trying to grab gun away from cop during his arrest. Eric G Banks Jr, an officer with the Baltimore Police Department who had already been suspended from the force, is facing a number of charges including assault and resisting arrest for the encounter with Anne Arundel County police. Officers received a complainant from the mother of Dasan Jones, 15, regarding a child custody dispute with the boy's stepfather, Banks, at 4.56pm on Tuesday, the department said in a press release.

The COVID-19 vaccine can cause swollen lymph nodes under the arm that received the injection, according to the American Cancer Society. “Swollen lymph nodes under the arm might show up on a mammogram done to screen for breast cancer, which could cause concern and might lead to the need for further tests,” the American Cancer Society says on its website. Lisa Mullen, a radiologist at Johns Hopkins University, said those enlarged lymph nodes can result in a false-positive mammogram. Swollen lymph nodes are a natural reaction for the body in response to the COVID-19 vaccine, according to Kaiser Permanente.

South Austin resident Gina Daniel walks past the intersection of Curlew Drive and Crownspoint Drive each day with her dog to admire the rows of sunflowers growing along the sidewalks. For the past year and a half, she said the sunflowers have been a bright spot amid the coronavirus pandemic. Then, the City of Austin’s code enforcement department issued a notice last week, requiring the property owners to remove the sunflowers. The notice cited right-of-way mobility concerns and an ordinance prohibiting weeds and grasses over 12 inches tall from growing on a property.

U.S. immigration authorities will no longer routinely jail migrants facing deportation if they are pregnant or recently gave birth, reversing a Trump-era immigration policy. The new directive, announced Friday, does not bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement from initiating proceedings to deport women who are pregnant, nursing or have given birth within the past year. But they generally would no longer be detained pending the outcome of their cases except under "exceptional circumstances," the agency said. The practice of detaining pregnant migrants has been condemned as a threat to maternal and fetal health by immigrant and women's advocacy groups critical of...