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A 75-year-old grandfather of four died from COVID-19 a month after receiving his second vaccine shot in what's being called a "breakthrough" case.

Earlier this week, a pair of black Penn State University professors reported a “noose” in a tree behind their house. Responding to the profs’ call about “possible harassment,” Patton Township Police Department collected the “noose” and began investigating around the neighborhood. PSU President Eric Barron sprung into action, posting a statement “expressing concern” about the incident and “offering support.” Alas, according to the professors’ neighbor who was interviewed by police, the “noose” actually was part of a swing set. The neighbors’ kid told police he merely had thrown the rope “into the woods.” Patton Police Chief Tyler Jolley concluded there...

Former President George W. Bush is lobbying House and Senate Republicans to work with President Joe Biden on amnesty for illegal aliens. In an interview with the Dispatch Podcast, Bush said Biden and Republicans ought to strike a deal to provide amnesty, at the least, to illegal aliens enrolled in or eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “I think piecemeal probably makes sense and I think the president, if I could be so bold, is calling Republicans like-minded and saying ‘Let’s see if we can get something done,'” Bush said. “Comprehensive may be too...

Why do the Elected Republicans Love Joe Biden?

Tomorrow, Sunday, is the centenary of Satyajit Ray, novelist, publisher, illustrator, composer, lyricist ...and above all a great film-maker. Ray was born on May 2nd 1921 in Calcutta in the Bengal Presidency of British India. On what would have been his hundredth birhday, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali: "Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon." – Akira Kurosawa When Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali debuted at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, no less a personage than Francois Truffaut...

The full-length bronze memorial on the empty grave in Pickens hints at how Ross Walker died.“Perished over the Pacific Ocean,” says the marker at Hillcrest Memorial Park.That is all the Walker family and the families of 92 other servicemen aboard Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 know.The military charter jet on route to Saigon was lost over the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean on March 15, 1962, three years before President Lyndon Johnson sent combat troops to Vietnam.No wreckage was found, not a seat cushion or life vest. No remains.Their mission was so top secret, the military has revealed nothing...

JOSH Duggar's wife Anna is "standing by" the disgraced reality star after he was arrested for serious federal charges. A source exclusively told The Sun that the 32-year-old - who is pregnant with their seventh child - even accompanied Josh to the police station when he turned himself in. Josh was taken into custody on federal charges on Thursday afternoon following a 2019 Homeland Security raid on his now-shuttered used car dealership. An insider claimed Anna is continuing to support Josh throughout the scandal and has no plans to divorce him. "Anna is standing by her husband as she always...

Before the pandemic began, the Food and Drug Administration had scaled back a program it used successfully to track adverse events during and after the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and the agency is still ramping up its replacement, said Dr. Robert Chen, scientific director of the Brighton Collaboration, a nonprofit global vaccine safety network. “It’s purely bad luck they were in between systems when Covid hit,” said Chen, who helped create the existing U.S. vaccine safety systems during nearly 30 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. FDA officials acknowledged that some data analysis won’t start for weeks...

So articulate and wise. Promoting his new book. Best anti-monopolist in Congress. I keep thinking he could ride his war on Big Tech to the White House. Can any of you guys offer a reasonable explanation why he wouldn't give PDJT the power of recess appointments, which he could have done with his single vote as a Senator? Could have made a difference, IMO

Deaths following the capsizing of a suspected smuggling boat off San Diego and police being blamed for the stampede disaster in Israel early Friday morning but first... As of April 16th 132 Americans have died of COVID-19 at least two week after receiving their final vaccination... Three are dead and 27 in hospital after a suspected smuggling boat capsized off the California coast near San Diego... Israel's intelligence chief met President Joe Biden Friday... The multinational talks to restore the US to the JCPOA with Iran set to resume this Friday... The US is denying an Iranian state television report...

DENVER—Several members of a bizarre spiritual group called “Love Has Won” have been taken into custody after the badly decaying body of the group’s leader was found in its headquarters. Amy Carlson, 45, whose followers call her “Mother God,” was found dead in a mobile home in Casada Park, west of Crestone. Saguache County Sheriff’s deputies and Colorado Bureau of Investigation detectives found the self-proclaimed “divine being” of the group after a tip-off from a member who told them her body had been transported to Colorado from across the country. The death and its connection to Love Has Won—which law...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is expected to sell off hundreds of properties by this summer in order to fund settlements of sex abuse lawsuits. The archdiocese, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018, plans to part with more than 700 properties, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported Sunday. Nearly 400 claims of abuse, some of which allegedly occurred decades ago, have been filed. According to court records, the archdiocese in the last several months has requested a bankruptcy judge grant a request to sell properties in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Raton, Sandia Park and...

Todays Mass sermon for the last Sunday of the Easter.... 13 minutes long.... How to know Christ us Alive in You

LOS ANGELES — A man used a sledgehammer last week to smash the face of a Virgin of Guadalupe mural painted on tiles at a church in Los Angeles. The man was recorded on security camera video during the predawn attack at St. Elisabeth Catholic Church in the Van Nuys neighborhood on April 21. The parish website posted photos of the damage and called the vandalism “one of our saddest moments” in addition to what people have endured during the coronavirus pandemic. The Virgin of Guadalupe is considered central to Mexican identity and is widely venerated as the patron saint...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has confirmed that a controversial ban on public worship will be lifted on May 10, meaning Catholics will be free to attend Mass without fear of criminalisation. Worshippers in the Irish Republic have been forbidden to attend Mass for 27 of the last 30 weeks, the Government moving recently to make it a criminal offence with priests and Mass-goers facing up to six months in prison. Archbishop Eamon Martin has described the penal provisions attached to Mass as both “draconian” and “provocative”. In an address to the nation tonight (Thursday) Mr Martin confirmed that this ban will...

A video posted to YouTube April 26 showed young people climbing up the side of St. Rupert’s Church to drape a banner reading in full: “God cannot bless sin. Roma locuta, causa finita.”VIENNA, Austria — Young Catholics have hung a banner declaring “Roma locuta, causa finita” (Rome has spoken, the case is closed) beneath a rainbow flag on Vienna’s oldest church. A video posted to YouTube April 26 showed young people climbing up the side of St. Rupert’s Church at night and draping a banner reading in full: “God cannot bless sin. Roma locuta, causa finita.” The video explained that...

@Zabehulah_M33 #Clarification As withdrawal of foreign forces from #Afghanistan by agreed upon May 1st deadline has passed, this violation in principle has opened the way for IEA Mujahidin to take every counteraction it deems appropriate against the occupying forces. The Mujahidin of IEA will now await what decision the leadership of Islamic Emirate takes in light of the sovereignty, values and higher interests of the country, and will then take action accordingly, Allah willing.

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Over 40% of American Adults now Fully Vaccinated - Over 56% with first shots) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 312,509,575 (18,463,200 J&J) Administered: 245,591,469 (8,374,395 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 147,047,012 Fully Vaccinated: 104,774,652

Explanation: What forms lurk in the mists of the Carina Nebula? The dark ominous figures are actually molecular clouds, knots of molecular gas and dust so thick they have become opaque. In comparison, however, these clouds are typically much less dense than Earth's atmosphere. Featured here is a detailed image of the core of the Carina Nebula, a part where both dark and colorful clouds of gas and dust are particularly prominent. The image was captured in mid-2016 from Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. Although the nebula is predominantly composed of hydrogen gas -- here colored green, the image was...