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It has recently become prominent in Mexico and, similarly to other variants, presents a mutation in the Spike protein of the coronavirus...This variant represents 52.8% of all sequenced coronaviruses in Mexico, whereas in the United States it shows up only in 2.7% of the sequenced samples.

A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, believed to be the world's oldest, is decaying at a rapid pace because of salt erosion likely caused by climate change, archaeologists have warned. The painting of a group of therianthropes, or humans with animal characteristics, appearing to hunt animals was found in a limestone cave in 2017 and dated to nearly 44,000 years ago. Experts are now racing against time to find ways to preserve the priceless Pleistocene artwork.

Democrats are opening the door to revamping a sweeping election reform bill, considered a top priority for the party’s base, as they try to shore up support within their own ranks. Democrats have vowed to hold a vote on the For the People Act in just over a week, giving them a matter of days to try to figure out a series of changes that, even if it doesn't peel off GOP votes, at least lets them claim unity. That started a conversation among Senate Democrats about either paring down the 800-page bill, or breaking off smaller pieces entirely as...

Los Angeles -- Meghan Markle's estranged father Thomas Markle has threatened to expose "dirty laundry" in an upcoming interview scheduled to be aired on Sunday. Thomas' assertion came in a teaser clip of the impending interview to be aired on the American television news magazine show "60 Minutes", on June 13. The interview, incidentally, happens within days of the birth of Meghan's second child Lilibet on June 4. "You want dirty laundry? This is the first time I've ever discussed these things," Thomas, a former Hollywood lighting director is seen saying in the trailer of the show, according to a...

June 14 , 2021 Melkite Catholic Church, Aleppo, Syria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First reading2 Corinthians 6:1-10 ©How we prove that we are God's servantsAs his fellow workers, we beg you once again not to neglect the grace of God that you have received. For he says: At the favourable time, I have listened to you; on the day of salvation I came to your help. Well, now is the favourable time; this is the day of salvation. We do nothing that people might object to, so as not to bring discredit on our function as God’s servants. Instead,...

Andrew Neil pledged his new 24-hour news channel will tackle cancel culture and will not be 'yet another echo chamber for the metropolitan mindset' as it launched at 8pm tonight. GB News, which is aiming to reach those who feel 'unheard' by the media, launched at 8pm tonight with a special programme titled Welcome To GB News. It is the first new British news network in 24 years - since BBC News 24 launched in 1997. Although foreign channels have launched in the UK in that time, such as Al Jazeera English, this is the first new network specifically for...

He didn't merely become our President. He became our father, our grandfather, our model of patriotism. When Donald Trump first announced his candidacy, we felt curiosity which soon turned to admiration, then love. As my husband says, "Reagan was liked, but Trump is loved." Looking back on the past six years since President Trump burst into our lives first as a candidate, then as President and now as our President-in-Exile, he's taught us so much about how to be a patriot, how to handle liars and adversity and how to do it all with grace, strength and humor. Even as...

A American adults who won't get the coronavirus vaccine are more likely to be "comfortable" with going to a restaurant, bar or large event than those who have been fully vaccinated, according to a new poll. A CBS News/YouGov poll, released Sunday, found that 59 percent of adults who won't get vaccinated said they were comfortable going to a large event, compared to 42 percent of fully vaccinated adults.

“The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death” (Proverbs 14:32).

It is reported that the United States may lift some of the sanctions imposed on Iran in good faith to pave the way for a new agreement on Iranian regime's nuclear program. But we should examine what effect the lifting of any sanctions will have on Iran, and if Iranian people will profit from this or any money will be spent for them!? It is clear that Iran's economy is currently collapsing. According to the World Bank Group Iran had a negative economic growth of 6.78% in 2019. Currently, inflation is above 50% and is increasing daily, because of sanctions,...

Trump's North Carolina speech was the first time a state Republican party publicly embraced Trump . And it did so on the eve of the five-month anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, which FBI Director Christopher Wray testified was an act of "domestic terrorism." Trump repeated the very lies that incited the Jan 6 insurrection, calling the 2020 election "the crime of the century." Trump radicalized Americans to believe his "Big Lie" that he was the real winner of the election -- a claim that led his supporters to storm the Capitol to try to stop certification...

On Sunday, AZGOP Chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward Tweeted an outstanding Arizona audit update. Kelli Ward: “WA, GA, VA, PA, NV, UT, CO, WI, OK, AK, MI, SC, MO have all recently visited the first full forensic audit of an American election – THIRTEEN states. #AmericasAudit is soon to be #AmericasAudits! Arizona is leading the way to #ElectionIntegrity in America.” 13 states have now toured the historic Arizona audit with hope of all 50 states doing the same! Requests to review this audit have been coming in droves and more states are expected to tour the audit this week, as it...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is demanding U.S. airlines submit plans with updated weight averages they will use for passengers and baggage moving forward by Saturday. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Airlines officials say the weight estimates used for passengers and baggage are going up between 5 percent and 10 percent.” “That will affect some flights, possibly requiring that more passengers get bumped or more baggage left behind,” the Journal reported. Airline officials say the weight requirements used for passengers and baggage are going up about 10% or more. That will affect some flights, possibly requiring that more passengers...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now claims that "healthy young children" can die from COVID-19. Marty Makary wants to see the evidence. "In reviewing the medical literature and news reports, and in talking to pediatricians across the country, I am not aware of a single healthy child in the U.S. who has died of COVID-19 to date," the Johns Hopkins University professor of medicine and public health said Thursday. Archived versions of the CDC's web page comparing COVID-19 and seasonal influenza show that it revised the "differences" in the section "People at High-Risk for Severe Illness" sometime between...

COVID shutdowns championed by U.S. governors and D.C. bureaucrats are responsible for destroying nearly 40% of small businesses since the virus was unleashed on the world—and we know now that it was for little to no damned good reason. A study by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences revealed recently that shutdown orders made little to no difference in COVID’s impact. ... While bureaucrats gave Walmart, Costco, Lowe’s, and other big-box stores “essential” status, allowing them to stay open during the COVID pandemic, 38.9% of America’s small businesses, the providers of most of the country’s jobs, were forced...

A Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket launched the U.S. Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission June 13 at 1:11 a.m. Pacific from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The payload was successfully deployed its intended orbit, a Space Force spokesman confirmed on Sunday. Pegasus is an air-launched rocket deployed from a Stargazer L-1011 aircraft. Shortly after its release from Stargazer, at approximately 40,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, Pegasus ignited its first stage and flew TacRL-2 to a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit. Launch vehicle assembly, integration and testing were completed within four months of contract award, said Lt. Col. Ryan Rose,...

Vice President Kamala Harris says she is determined to get at the “root causes” of the migration crisis at America’s southern border. There is one way to do that and at the same time stabilize Central America, attract factories from China, reduce America’s strategic vulnerabilities and cut global carbon emissions. Harris has just wrapped up her first foreign trip as vice president — she visited Guatemala and Mexico — but she barely touched upon the primary cause of the relentless northward movement of people. There are many reasons for the devastation of the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and...

Senator Ron Johnson joined Mark Levin on Sunday night on Life, Liberty and Levin on FOX News. Senator Johnson was invited on to discuss the unconstitutional imprisonment of Jan. 6 protesters in Washington DC. Advertisement - story continues below Senator Johnson says one-third of the protesters who entered the US Capitol at the West Terrace doorway were waved in by Capitol Police. Senator Ron Johnson: We counted up to 309 individuals entering that door. Five police officers met them. There was no violence that we could tell. That is how about 38% of the 800 people entered the Capitol. On...

On the first hot weekend of the summer, Richard Knapp put up a sign outside Mother’s Ruin, a bar tucked in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. It had two arrows: one pointing vaccinated people indoors, another pointing unvaccinated people outdoors.The Instagram post showing the sign (above) quickly went viral among European anti-vaxxers on Reddit. “We started receiving hate mail through the Google portal,” Knapp says, estimating he’d received about a “few dozen” emails: “I’ve been called a Nazi and a communist in the same sentence. People hope that our bar burns down. It’s a name and shame campaign.” It wasn’t just the...

Infighting among different Black Lives Matter groups appears to be increasing after a coalition of Black Lives Matter chapters demanded transparency from the group’s global network amid reports that co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent millions of dollars on homes and real estate.Cullors, a self-described “trained Marxist,” stepped down from the group last month, but denied allegations that she misused any donations and said those claims—along with reports about her real estate holdings—were part of a right-wing misinformation campaign meant to discredit her and Black Lives Matter.But a group calling itself BLM 10 Plus, the name of the 10 original Black Lives...