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Heartbreaking video captured by a US Border Patrol officer shows a frightened little boy, tears streaming from his eyes and pleading for help, after crossing the Rio Grande river in Texas. The apparently abandoned boy carefully approaches the car of an off-duty Border Patrol officer on his way home on a dirt road and asks for help, according to a report. “I came with a group. They dumped me, and I don’t know where they are,” the boy says in Spanish as he chokes back sobs, video of the encounter from last Thursday and posted on Univision’s website shows. “They...

SAN FRANCISCO (KORN) – Caitlyn Jenner for California governor? The former reality TV star is reportedly in talks with political consultants as she eyes a run for governor of California, Axios reports. Jenner is coordinating with longtime GOP fund raiser Caroline Wren, who previously worked for a joint fundraising committee for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to Axios.

Alcee Hastings, a Democratic congressman from Florida, has died at age 84, Fox News has confirmed. He suffered from pancreatic cancer. Hastings had been a federal judge and was impeached and convicted by the Senate in the late 1980s. But he then ran for Congress and won in 1992. Hastings represented Florida's 20th Congressional District, which includes Democratic areas around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. He was the dean of the Florida congressional delegation as the longest-serving member from the Sunshine State.

A hotel worker in Mexican tourist hotspot Tulum died after cops pinned her to the ground with a knee on her neck in a case being compared to the harrowing death of George Floyd. Victoria Salazar, a 36-year-old mother of two teenage daughters, died March 27 when four officers arrested her for disorderly conduct, with an autopsy showing her neck had been broken.

Authorities have identified Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet as the 38-year-old suspect killed in the Frederick, Maryland shooting on Tuesday after shooting and injuring two victims.

By Jeffrey Dastin and Paresh Dave (Reuters) -Google research manager Samy Bengio on Tuesday said he is resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. Though at least two Google engineers had earlier resigned in protest of the dismissal of artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Timnit Gebru, Bengio is the highest-profile yet to depart. Google and Bengio did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Bloomberg earlier reported the news. A distinguished scientist at Google, Bengio spent about 14...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday once again criticized corporate America for wading into hot-button political issues. McConnell stated that corporations should still be free to make political contributions of their choosing, but large companies such as The Coca-Cola Company, Major League Baseball, and Delta Air Lines should avoid injecting themselves into matters like Georgia’s recently-enacted voter integrity law.

US President Joe Biden removed sanctions on Friday that former President Donald Trump placed on two top officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) reports France 24. The sanctions were among the previous administration’s more aggressive moves targeting international institutions and officials. Pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC blasted the move warning that it could have damaging affects on Israel who is the target of an investigation by the Hague for war crimes. In a tweet on Friday, AIPAC wrote: “We are disappointed the administration is revoking sanctions on the International Criminal Court officials who are pursuing a baseless and discriminatory attack...

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Rev. Al Sharpton led the family of George Floyd and others in a prayer Tuesday outside the Hennepin County Courthouse, where the trial of Derek Chauvin is taking place. Chauvin is the former Minneapolis police officer charged in Floyd’s death. "We wept through many cases from Rodney King to Eric Garner to Michael Brown—some never reached the courthouse," Sharpton said. "But here we are now, in the shadows of a courthouse, praying for justice." Among the attendees at the prayer were Floyd family attorney Benjamin Crump, Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr and former New York Governor...

A link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clots in the brain has been discovered, but officials have yet to identify a possible cause, according to a senior European Medicines Agency official. “In my opinion, we can now say it, it is clear that there is an association (of the brain blood clots) with the vaccine,” Mario Cavaleri, chair of the EMA vaccine evaluation team, said, according to Reuters. “However, we still do not know what causes this reaction.” The EMA clarified in a statement that the vaccine review was ongoing and the agency expects to announce its findings...

Bitzaron, Volumes 55-56 - Pages 77-78, 1966 Chaviv Canaan, "The Mufti's War on the Jews" [...] When the third commissioner came, Sir John Chancellor, who was a civilian, noticed the Mufti that before him in is a weak-minded man, who will try to manage the affairs of the country with a gentle hand while maximizing reconciliation of the extremists. The "saint" claimed that the Jews were standing through the Western Wall to take over the Omar Mosque, that the Western Wall is nothing but one of its walls. The British surrendered again, began interfering with the Jews in the evening...

You could call it the revenge of the Big Bambino; and Chris Columbus too. In U.S. District Court this morning, City Councilman Mark Squilla joined a coalition of 47 national, state and local Italian-American groups in filing a civil rights lawsuit against Mayor Jim Kenney. The lawsuit charges that by unilaterally dumping Columbus Day as a city holiday, and replacing it with Indigenous Peoples' Day, Mayor Kenney is guilty of discriminating against Italian-Americans, and violating the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit further argues that the mayor's executive order to cancel Columbus Day as a city holiday...

In July of 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was signed between Iran on one side, and the United States, United Kingdom, China, Russia, France, and Germany on the other. That is, the UN Security Council’s five permanent members, plus Germany. The aim of the JCPOA was to prevent Iran’s radical theocratic regime from developing nuclear weapons, in the fear that it would use them to terrorize the world. The JCPOA imposed a number of new conditions on Iran, such as requiring it to sharply reduce its then-existing supply of enriched uranium, setting limits on how much uranium enrichment...

The Arkansas House on Tuesday voted to override Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s (R) veto on the legislation that would ban gender reassignment surgeries and other treatments for transgender youth. The majority Republican state House voted 72 to 25 to approve the controversial bill, called HB1570, now sending the legislation back to the Arkansas Senate for approval to negate the governor’s rejection of the bill, according to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Both chambers require a simple majority to override the veto. Under the bill, physicians are banned from giving gender confirming hormone treatment, puberty blockers or surgery to those younger than 18....

White House press secretary on Tuesday said that CCP virus “vaccine passports” will not be developed or supported by the Biden administration, coming after several GOP governors issued executive orders barring them. “The government is not now, nor will we be supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential. There will be no federal vaccinations database and no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential,” Psaki told reporters on Tuesday at the White House. Psaki last month responded to reports that the administration was working with private firms to create a passport system, saying the...

BOSTON — New research suggests the protection the Moderna vaccine gives against COVID-19 lasts for at least six months. The report Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine echoes what Pfizer said last week about its vaccine, which works in a similar way. Both reports were based on follow-up tests in dozens of people who received the shots during studies that led to the vaccines’ use. Those studies were done before troubling new variants, or versions of the coronavirus, had emerged and started to spread. A separate report in the medical journal adds to concern about the variants. Scientists...

Firstly, by any standard of reasoning, whether it involves spiritual understandings, or knowledge of physical things, the logical conclusion for both believers, and nonbelievers in God is that the world as we know it in its present state, is temporal. At some point, whether it is near or very very far off, as surely as there was a beginning, there shall be an end. Indeed, and this reality holds even truer for the believer, who comprehends things by both spiritual understandings of the scriptures, and from a stand point of science and the physical realities of the universe. Therefore, there...

A revolutionary technology developed within the Trabolsi Research Group at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) could dramatically improve the wellbeing of diabetic patients: an insulin oral delivery system that could replace traditional subcutaneous injections without the side effects caused by frequent injections. Using prepared layers of nanosheets with insulin loaded in between layers to protect it, the researchers developed gastro-resistant imine-linked-covalent organic framework nanoparticles (nCOFs) that exhibited insulin protection in the stomach as well in diabetic test subjects whose sugar levels completely returned to normal within two hours after swallowing the nanoparticles. Led by NYUAD's Research Scientist Farah Benyettou and Program...

The U.S. financial services sector is getting edgy as the Federal Reserve’s initiative for a digital dollar or Fedcoin steps up its research to reveal prototypes as soon as July, Bloomberg reported on Monday (March 22). The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at work on the research and creation of prototypes for a Fedcoin platform, could unveil their findings in July, according to James Cunha, the project leader for the Boston, per Bloomberg. Banks fear that such a reality could cut into their own profits, prompting the industry’s central trade group — the American...

Nursing mothers who receive a COVID-19 vaccine may pass protective antibodies to their babies through breast milk for at least 80 days following vaccination, suggests new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "Our study showed a huge boost in antibodies against the COVID-19 virus in breast milk starting two weeks after the first shot, and this response was sustained for the course of our study, which was almost three months long," said first author Jeannie Kelly, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology. "The antibodies levels were still high at the end of our study, so...