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June 16 (UPI) -- A single dose of one of the two-shot COVID-19 vaccines prevented an estimated 95% of new infections among healthcare workers two weeks after receiving the jab, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Network Open found. The first dose of the Moderna vaccine was 78% effective at preventing new cases just one week after clinical staff were inoculated, the data showed. Still, 39, or just over 1%, of the nearly 3,400 health workers who received the vaccine later became infected with the virus, said researchers, from the VA Boston Healthcare System. These "breakthrough" infections occurred at least...

As Christians in Paul’s day sensed the destruction of Jerusalem drawing near, they wanted to know more about prophetic events. They were fearful about rumors concerning the ruthlessness of invading armies who took multitudes captive into slavery. It caused these believers to sense that perilous times were close at hand. They asked Paul to tell them more about what was to come and how to read the times. Paul responded with these words of assurance: “But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the...

After all, Satan's bait was that Adam and Eve would become as gods. And together with Satan, that would seem to them to be at least two or possibly three gods (if Satan was believed to be a god as well) against one.

An IRS official denied tax-exempt status to a Texas group that encourages church members to pray for state and national leaders regardless of their party affiliation because it benefits “the private interests of the [Republican] Party.”

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the planned executions of two inmates by electrocution, saying they cannot be put to death until they truly have the choice of a firing squad option set out in the state's newly revised capital punishment law. The high court halted this month's scheduled executions of Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens, writing that corrections officials need to put together a firing squad so that inmates can really choose between that or the electric chair. The state's plans, the court wrote in an unanimous order, are on hold “due to the statutory right of...

You know it’s bad when CNN is complaining about Joe Biden. Joe Biden largely avoided the press for his entire 8-day trip overseas. Biden visited 3 countries for his first foreign trip and his handlers would not let him answer impromptu questions from the press. Joe Biden’s aides aggressively screamed at reporters and shooed them away after every meeting or presser.

The Federal Reserve expects inflation will climb to 3.4 percent this year, higher than the central bank’s previous forecasts, while also projecting for the first time that there could be two interest rate hikes in 2023. The predictions, released Wednesday after the Fed’s two-day policy meeting, depict a delicate but mostly upbeat narrative of where central bankers think the economy is headed, as well as a serious revamp of predictions from just three months earlier. In March, the Fed predicted inflation would be 2.4 percent for this year. Moreover, earlier Fed estimates didn’t project an initial interest rate hike until...

The Francis effect: LGBT-promoting bishops come out publiclyFourteen U.S. bishops, one of them a cardinal, have added their names to a public statement in support of young people who identify as LGBT.June 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but our radically anti-Christian culture has dubbed it “Pride Month.” A month to take pride in an activity, not in persons. It’s not pride about love, it’s pride about sexual activity. It is pride in replacing God-ordained marriage between one man and one woman with a counterfeit. Listen, no one is condemning loving relationships...

Just how did a self-employed web site designer and mother of two come to work for one of the world’s most rapacious cybercriminal groups and then leave such an obvious trail of clues indicating her involvement with the gang? It is hard to think of an accused cybercriminal who has made more stunningly poor and rookie operational security mistakes than this Latvian senior citizen. For starters, it appears at one point in 2020 Witte actually hosted Trickbot malware on a vanity website registered in her name — allawitte[.]nl. Unlike many accused cybercriminals who hail from Russia or former Soviet countries,...

Under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), a national mutual aid system allowing states to share resources from all disciplines, today Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced he is sending help to Texas & Arizona to answer their call for more border security officers. [Facebook Video] At the request of governors in both states Governor DeSantis is sending state and local law enforcement units from Florida to Texas/Arizona [Video Below], including: The Florida Highway Patrol, The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Holmes...

Patriots will rally in Minnesota support of the Catholic priest Father James Altman, a man of the cloth in Wisconsin who is being targeted by leftists for his fervent opposition to Dr. Anthony Fauci and the masks and Coronavirus tyranny the globalists are inflicting on us. Father Altman, who works in La Crosse, Wisconsin at St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church, developed a national profile when he stated that “You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat,” and made massive strides in waking his parishioners up to the tyranny of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Coronavirus masks and lockdowns....

Amazon has been hiring hundreds of thousands of workers for roles in its warehouses, which it calls fulfillment centers, but those employees have been quitting almost as fast as they can be hired, according to a huge report from The New York Times published on Tuesday.Many of the over 350,000 workers Amazon hired from July to October stayed with the company "just days or weeks," the report said.

Posted on June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 by Evan GoughNASA has Approved a Space Telescope That Will Scan the Skies for Dangerous Near-Earth AsteroidsA lot of the threats humanity faces come from ourselves. If we were listing them, we’d include tribalism, greed, and the fact that we’re evolved primates, and our brains have a lot in common with animal brains. Our animalistic brains subject us to many of the same destructive emotions and impulses that animals are subject to. We wage war and become embroiled in intergenerational conflicts. There are genocides, pogroms, doomed boatloads of migrants, and horrible mashups of...

The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever—to 46 million people. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.” This ends today's lesson in irony…

The government is hiding the identity of many law enforcement officers who were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin held two separate press conferences because the two live in parallel universes. Putin’s universes us one rooted in the reality of global power politics and confrontation, including on the personal level. He knows who he is, where he is, and what he wants to do – which is to restore the old Soviet Union and the KGB je worked for and loved. Joe Biden lives in a worked if favorite ice cream flavors and elder care in which the White House jas been transferred into the world’s largest nursing home. The man whose 1988 presidential...

Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Texas’ “constitutional carry” legislation, allowing Texans over age 21 to openly carry handguns in public without a license as of Sept. 1.

Rumble — Wray wasn't interested in giving straightforward answers.

A grand jury charged a Portland, Ore., police officer with assault Tuesday after he was filmed hitting a protester in the head with his baton during last summer’s demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd. Officer Corey Budworth, who has been with the Portland Police Bureau for more than five years, is accused of “unlawfully, knowingly and recklessly causing physical injury” to the protester, who said the blows left her with head and back pain. Budworth faces one count of assault in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor that carries up to a one-year jail sentence. He has been placed on...