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Every US state has been advised to consider ethnic minorities as a critical and vulnerable group in their vaccine distribution plans, according to Centers for Disease Control guidance. As a result, half of the nation's states have outlined plans that now prioritize black, Hispanic and indigenous residents over white people in some way, as the vaccine rollout begins. According to our analysis, 25 states have committed to a focus on racial and ethnic communities as they decided which groups should be prioritized in receiving a coronavirus vaccine dose.

An Iranian teenager known as 'Zombie Angelina Jolie' has been released from prison in Iran just days after being sentenced to ten years in jail, it is claimed. Sahar Tabar, 19, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, from Tehran, was released on bail on Sunday, according to campaigners and activists in Iran. US-based Iranian activist Masih Alinejad, who first broke the new of Tabar's imprisonment on Twitter, said the release came after 'massive media pressure'. Tabar, who became famous after posting heavily-doctored photos of herself on Instagram, had originally been jailed for obscenity and insulting the hijab, according to the...

WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers reached a compromise over the Federal Reserve's emergency lending powers late Saturday night, overcoming a major hurdle that prevented Congress from completing a $900 billion coronavirus relief package earlier in the week, according to multiple sources. A last-minute roadblock emerged on Friday as Democrats accused Republicans, namely Pennsylvania's Sen. Pat Toomey, of attempting to encumber the incoming Biden administration by cutting off the Federal Reserve's emergency lending abilities created by the CARES Act meant to protect the already battered economy.

One year after the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the number one man in promoting the Iranian regime's terrorist policies in the region, the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the father of Iranian nuclear activities, took place, virtually without retaliation. Then, in the Belgian court in Antwerp, Assadollah Assadi, the diplomat terrorist of the regime in Austria, went on trial for carrying a bomb to be installed at the annual gathering of the Iranian Resistance, despite regime attempts to have him returned to Iran and open threats if the trial went ahead. The consequences of these three strategic blows have had a...

Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window... Stealing a devastating line from C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, I called Romania 'the real life country where it was always winter but never Christmas'. I knew how the story ended, with the triumphant return of Christmas, and I was pretty sure that Romania was going to be a lot better than it had been, once the shooting stopped....

by Laurie AzgardThe corrupt “United States Court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit” completely dismissed former USWGO alternative news reporter Brian D. Hill’s fraud upon the court ground and his actual innocence ground in his 2255 case under federal Writ of Habeas Corpus. It is a short memorandum opinion, then simply dismissed. No ruling on the actual merits, I do not believe that the corrupt “Fourth Circuit” is even reviewing over the evidence at all. The opinion being short for such a complex criminal case is very revealing that the Fourth Circuit federal court of appeals could care less about...

Greeted by cheers, Rep. Matt Gaetz announced he is joining the January 6 Electoral College challenge. Explosively, Gaetz added that Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville will be the first U.S. Senator to join the fight. Speaking at Turning Point USA’s annual Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, Representative Gaetz (R-FL) revealed that he will be “joining the fighters in Congress,” and will be objecting to Electoral College votes from states “that didn’t run clean elections” on January 6th. The announcement was greeted by whoops and cheers from the crowd, along with chants of “USA.” Gaetz added that he has spoken...

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep.-Elect Darrell Issa (R-CA) stated that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) “has to have a wake-up call” or he will end up like former Gov. Gray Davis, and that if Newsom “doesn’t take this very, very seriously, a recall is inevitable.” Issa said, “There’s huge building momentum, and you saw it with both in and out of state support for the recall. I think the important thing is that somebody has to have a wake-up call for the governor, or we’re going to go exactly down the road I...

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will receive a coronavirus vaccine publicly on Monday, according to his team. “It’s important to us, as he’s stated many times, to send a clear message to the public that it’s safe,” Jen Psaki, whom Biden has selected as White House press secretary, said. The event will take place publicly in Delaware. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and second gentlemen Doug Emhoff will receive the vaccine one week later “to avoid a situation in which all of the leaders of the incoming administration experience side effects at the same time,” according to Politico....

“An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed” (Proverbs 20:21).

Human beings need safe homes and love. The foundation for this was and always will be family. Families flourish when society is free. So in Vergil’s classic epic poem, The Aeneid, the Trojan hero Aeneas is loyal to his father and history, as he seeks a new home for his people. The goddess Juno holds old grudges against Aeneas and his people and makes life hard for them. But the love of his mother Venus leads him to a safe harbour in Carthage for the Trojan people. This story was part of the process of making the Roman people proud...

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The German chancellor has voiced her appreciation for BioNTech, the small German firm behind the first coronavirus vaccine to get regulatory approval. Merkel said the shot will save "many lives."

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PRESIDENT Trump has slammed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Twitter following the PMs decisions to backtrack on regulations surrounding the holiday season. Johnson assured UK citizens that they would not have to compromise their Christmas plans and would be able to enjoy the holiday period without restrictions. Trump tweeted: "We don’t want to have lockdowns. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself!" Johnson delivered a press conference on Friday afternoon where he detailed a new strain of the Covid-19 virus that is 77% more transmittable. With the new strain creating an influx of cases in the South...

Merry Christmas from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. @realDonaldTrump & @FLOTUS are seen December 10, in their official 2020 Christmas portrait,on the Grand staircase of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

The first legal hanging in Alberta, Canada, took place on this date in 1879. Generations later, it’s still remembered as one of the province’s worst, and strangest, crimes. The hanged man was a native Cree known as Swift Runner (Ka-Ki-Si-Kutchin) — a tall and muscular character with “as ugly and evil-looking a face as I have ever seen,” in the words of an Anglo Fort Saskatchewan officer. Whatever his comeliness, Swift Runner was on good terms with the frontier authorities, who trusted him as a guide for the North West Mounted Police. That is, until the Cree’s violent whiskey benders...

Tennessee’s highest court recognized unborn babies as victims, if only inadvertently, in a ruling this month about mothers who use opioids while pregnant. WZTV 17 Nashville reports the Tennessee Supreme Court unanimously agreed that babies may sue drug companies for harm that they suffered in the womb from their mothers’ use of the drugs. The ruling dealt with the Tennessee Drug Dealer Liability Act and drug companies that produce prescription opioids, according to the report. The act allows babies to “sue for damages caused by the use of illegal opioids if there is clear and convincing evidence that the drug...

The fingertip devices that hospitals use to monitor patients' oxygen levels might be less accurate in people with dark skin, a new study suggests. At issue are pulse oximeters -- small medical devices that clip onto a fingertip and estimate how much oxygen is making it into the blood. They are routinely used in hospitals to help providers make treatment decisions. And during the COVID-19 pandemic, pulse oximeters have increasingly made their way into the hands of lay people. Fairly cheap home devices are available, and people with milder cases of COVID have used them to monitor their oxygen levels....

In every competition out there, there will be a winner and a loser. It’s just the way that competitions work. Literally everywhere you go there are competitions going on and there are always winners and losers. When we are children, we are always taught to be gracious losers. Yes sometimes losing a tough competition hurts, but if you accept it graciously, people will always praise your character. The problem with today’s young generation is that they have forgotten how to lose graciously. Since the announcement that Donald Trump has won the presidential election, liberals have been protesting this victory. They’re...