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(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (80% of those over 65 have now had a first shot - Over 30% of American adults are now fully vaccinated) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 255,400,665 (17,640,950 J&J) Administered: 198,317,040 (7,736,781 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 125,822,868 Fully Vaccinated: 78,498,290

Hours before city officials plan to release video of a police officer shooting 13-year old Adam Toledo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday asked Chicago residents to withhold judgment and again called for peace. The mayor choked back tears as she discussed the city’s endemic gun violence, saying, “We can’t have that be what young people experience in our city.” “Simply put, we failed Adam,” she said during a City Hall news conference. Lightfoot recounted how, two weeks ago, “a tragedy occurred that left a child dead, a mother in mourning and a family in crisis.” “I have seen those videos...

German biotech firm CureVac said it has seen the number of requests for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine increase over the past few days, as concerns over rare side effects have hit some other coronavirus shots. Remarks made to Reuters by a CureVac spokesman on the growing interest on Thursday were underscored by Chief Executive Franz-Werner Haas in an analyst call on fourth-quarter results. "There is much more vaccine needed than is available. We are talking primarily with governments but also ... with COVAX," Haas said, referring to the international vaccine-sharing facility. "There are very hot discussions," he added. The European...

“The Two Forms Cannot Coexist”; or, Why the Latin Mass Must Be Destroyed There is an interminable animus between the enemies of God and the Roman Mass.The study of any number of episodes in Church history will bear this out. Two manifest lessons stand forth: 1. The true Faith has a true Worship. 2. Neither are acceptable to those opposed to truth. The persecutors of the Church in every age have saved their subtlest arts and cruelest devices for the prohibition, alteration, or annihilation of the Catholic Mass – not merely the confection of the Sacrament of the Eucharist,...

Merck & Co Inc on Thursday said it plans a large study of what could become the first pill to target the coronavirus in people at risk of severe COVID-19, but will no longer pursue use of the experimental antiviral drug in hospitalized patients. The company said it would study the drug molnupiravir in a Phase 3 trial among COVID-19 patients out of hospitals who have at least one risk factor for poor outcomes, such as advanced age, obesity or diabetes. Trial participants can have had symptoms for no more than five days, shortened from seven days in a prior...

VIDEOEverything was perfectly synchronized during Chinese President Xi's carefully choreographed parade a couple of years ago. And then one soldier who was wildly but hilariously out of synch ruined it all. He turned his head at least a full three seconds before he was supposed to. Hopefully, that soldier suffered no consequences but if he did, I hope this video turns his out of synch error into a popular meme that will serve to get him out of trouble, especially if that trouble meant a long stay at a re-education camp.Hey, Xi! It was funny! And he made your parade...

Joe Biden and the progressive wing of the Democrat Party just got a wake-up call from House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi and some other top Democrats. “Do you support Jerry Nadler's bill to expand the Supreme Court by 4 seats and would you commit to bringing that bill to the floor,” a reporter asked the Speaker. “No,” she said matter of factly. “'I support the president's commission to study such a proposal,' Pelosi added. 'But, frankly, I'm not – right now, we're back, our members – committees are working putting together the infrastructure bill and the rest,” Speaker...

Russia has reportedly announced it will close a crucial strait in the Black Sea to foreign warships, including the Royal Navy, for the next six months. -snip- Now sources in Ukraine report that the Russian Federation has announced it will close the Kerch Strait, from next week until October 2021, "for warships and state ships of other countries under the pretext of military exercises". -snip- The Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai in the east.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is on the scene at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport after a bomb threat has caused a partial evacuation. It came on Thursday and it has something to do with an inbound flight, but more information was not immediately available, 13 News Now reported.

Chicago holds its breath, awaiting release of a police video showing 13-year-old Adam Toledo, reportedly with a gun, shot dead by a cop.The city by the lake hasn't recovered from the waves of looting and other violence that grew out of last year's George Floyd protests. Just look at all the vacant storefronts on North Michigan Avenue, the "Magnificent Mile." And now Chicago looks north to a trembling Minneapolis, a city on edge with the murder trial of Floyd's alleged killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a white man. Floyd was Black.Just a short drive from Minneapolis, in Brooklyn...

I have a birthday next week so I look for stories like this every year, so many crazy things have happened in the days leading up to and including April 20..... The article is full of examples, for example, Adolf Hitler was born on 4/20, the mass shooting at Columbine High School happened on 4/20, the government murdered the Branch Dividians on 4/19, Timothy McVeigh set off the bomb at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma on 4/19. I could go on and on..... keep you eyes on Minneapolis for next 4/20.... Closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin Trial are...

President Joe Biden has nominated Christine Wormuth, former undersecretary of defense for policy under President Barack Obama, to serve as the Secretary of the Army. If confirmed, she would be the first woman to serve as the top civilian leader in the U.S. Army.The White House announced the nomination in a Monday press release.Wormuth was appointed to serve as the deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy, plans, and force development in August 2012 and then to serve as the undersecretary of defense for policy in June of 2014, where she served until June of 2016. Wormuth has also served as...

Former Minneapolis police officer (Derek Chauvin) on Thursday invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and declined to testify in his trial in the death of ( George Floyd.)[snip] The judge offered to read a set of sentences to the jury in regards to Chauvin’s decision, which would explain to jurors that Chauvin had no obligation to prove innocence, that he had the right not to testify, and advise them not to make any inference about the decision. Chauvin said he would like the script to be read.

Meghan McCain is relying on her family’s lengthy military history to weigh in on yesterday’s announcement that President Biden would bring troops home from Afghanistan. On today’s episode of The View, the conservative co-host, who explained that “the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been omnipresent in me and my family’s lives,” gave her own take on the withdrawal news during this morning’s Hot Topics.

SECOND WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 3:31–36 Friends, today’s Gospel declares that the Son of God does not ration his gift of the Spirit. At the cathedral in Chartres, the figure of Jesus is surrounded by seven doves, symbolizing these seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. The Messiah will be filled up with all of the powers and energies of God’s Spirit. These seven gifts have played a prominent role in our tradition, appearing in theologians as diverse as Gregory the Great, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas. These gifts are signs...

Zionism versus Bolshevism: A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People - By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill - Over 100 years ago, on February 8th, 1920, an article was published on page 5 of the Sunday Herald (London). The writer was none other that Winston Churchill. The context of the time in which the article was written was marked by a few major events. The first was World War I. Less than two years earlier on November 11, 1918 Germany had formally surrendered and on June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations signed the Treaty of...

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton said Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that she agreed with former Speaker John Boehner that the Republican Party had been taken over by “kooks and lunatics.” Clinton then attributed a recent rise in Democratic Party affiliation to the party being about “business of solutions.”

The Texas Senate approved legislation limiting transgender athletes to competing only in categories that correspond to their birth gender in contravention to the NCAA’s recent decision to allow transgender people to play in their choice of categories. The Texas bill focuses on “biological sex.” It maintains that athletes born as males will be banned from competing in girls’ sports, although girls would be permitted to play with biological boys if there is no comparable female sport. “This is about protecting female athletes and recognizing their accomplishments within their biological peer group,” said Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, author of the bill,...

Washington -- In predicting what we can expect to be the achievements of President Joe Biden, let us consider what his modern Democratic predecessors have achieved. There is a pattern in the president's predecessors' achievements that is revelatory. Briefly consider what they did. President John F. Kennedy entered the White House as a war hero, and he pursued the Cold War with courage and growing astuteness. He had plans for the domestic front but was not given the time to implement them. Suffice to say, he was a successful Cold Warrior. President Lyndon Baines Johnson was no war hero, but...

As hurricane season approaches, officials in deep South Texas are increasingly worried about breaches in the levee system that were created to facilitate border-wall construction, which the Biden administration has since halted. There are at least four breaches in the levee system that protects this low-lying area in Hidalgo County from flooding, Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez said on Wednesday morning, standing at the base of a mammoth break in the 25-foot-tall dirt levee. The levee was built under the 2006 Safe Fence Act to protect this delta region from Rio Grande flooding. However, the dirt levee also had been...