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Israel Sees Highest COVID Daily Infections in Two Months as Delta Variant Spreads 125 Israelis test positive for coronavirus on Monday, Health Ministry says, as the delta variant continues to make headway in Israel The highest daily coronavirus infection rate in two months was registered in Israel on Monday, with 125 people testing positive after local outbreaks of the delta variant had been reported across the country. The director-general of the Health Ministry, Chezy Levy, told Israeli television that about 70 per cent of the new infections were with the Delta variant. He also noted that half of those infected...

Israel has recommended vaccinating teenagers following several coronavirus outbreaks clustered around schools, with even fully vaccinated people contracting the virus as authorities blame the more infectious delta variant. The latest outbreaks were identified in several schools following random testing and came after Israel removed nearly all of its coronavirus restrictions following a dramatic decrease in cases and a world-leading vaccination campaign that began in December. Infections peaked in January with over 10,000 daily cases, falling to new daily cases in single digits this month. In two schools, nine fully vaccinated teachers contracted the virus, local newspaper Haaretz reported. The town...

Both the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus were silent on Monday after news broke that Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) defended his membership to an elite, all-white beach club. Breitbart News reached out to both the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus for comment regarding Whitehouse’s extra-curricular activities. Neither organization responded. Whitehouse, who decried systemic racism following the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, has frequented Bailey Beach Club for decades . While the 124-year-old club can’t legally mandate its members be “all white,” its lack of diversity was first documented back in 2003 in the...

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HENDERSON, Nev. -- Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. Nassib, 28, made the announcement in an Instagram post. "What's up people?" Nassib posted. "I'm at my house here in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I just want to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. I've been meaning to do this for a while now, but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest. I really have the best life, I've got the best family, friends and job a guy could ask for....

Yet another overpriced 'starter-home' in the city I grew up in that recently sold at nearly 20% over the asking price... 830k for 1.8k sf. The house last sold for 300k in 2008. What's particularly sad is that Melrose was once a blue-collar middle class city in which the children of residents eagerly wished to remain. Prices have been on a tear since 2012, but they, like those everywhere else, have been accelerating rapidly since the plandemic. I would like to especially thank our clueless, arrogant, obnoxious elites at the Federal Reserve (yes, you JPow), the arrogant, entrenched executives at...

A Democratic mayoral primary that mostly played out in the tiny confines of a square box on Zoom spun into full Technicolor berserk in the race’s final days. Candidates flung accusations of racism, anti-Semitism, and sexism at one another with abandon, even calling into question the integrity of the ranked-choice system some are using to form strategic alliances. But the tumult made it clearer what kind of mayor each of the top-tier candidates would be. There was Eric Adams, who is running as such a law-and-order candidate that he received support over the weekend from both Rudy Giuliani and one...

Senate Democrats are on track to suffer a stinging defeat Tuesday with Republican opposition expected to sink a voting and election bill that Democrats have made a signature priority, an outcome that will underscore the limits of the party's power with the narrowest possible Senate majority. Democrats have set up a key test vote on the bill that they have pitched as a necessary counter to state-level efforts to restrict voting access, but Republicans have united against it, decrying it as a partisan power grab and a federal overreach into state voting and election systems. Democrats have also faced pushback...

DRAPER, Utah (KUTV) — Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he and Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, are proposing legislation to establish a national wildfire commission, but in response to a question from 2News, acknowledged he can “never guarantee that a government commission will work.”

VIDEOONE, just ONE very dubious poll comes out showing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with more support from conservatives than President Donald Trump. As revealed by Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Show, this poll is very obviously a psyops attempt to pathetically try to produce a rift between Trump and Desantis. Of course, this absurd poll is now being hyped in a big way by "conservatives" who never really liked Trump as well as the usual suspects such as the Morning Joe crew who joyously leaped upon this PHONY poll like a starving dog snapping at raw meat as...

Eight people have been arrested for trespassing during a climate change protest outside Ted Cruz's Houston home. Around 70 activists staged a demonstration outside the Texas Senator's $2million property in the ritzy River Oaks neighborhood on Monday morning, before police were called to the scene. The protest was held by the Sunrise Movement, an organization advocating for political action on climate change, with video showing some of the participants sitting on Cruz's front lawn and refusing to budge. Police negotiated with some of the activists for more than an hour, and threatened to take them into custody if they did...

Imagining the climate of the Antarctica region usually prompts visions of dog sleds, parkas, and explorers like Ernest Shackleton struggling to access the area, only to be beaten back by snow, ice and freezing temperatures. ... ...scientists, paleontologists and other experts of ancient eras say that Antarctica was not always thus, that once upon a very long time ago, its landscape bore a greater resemblance to rainforests than the inside of a refrigerator, and had temperatures that were downright balmy.It’s difficult to imagine, certainly, but about 90 million years ago, sediment samples indicate, Antarctica had the landscape best described as...

Just thinking out loud. Young and pretty(those things count). Wheelchair-bound(inspirational) He'll get the female vote as they'll want to be the ones who 'take care' of him. This article he wrote made me think of about it. It shows he's into details and will put himself out there in an appealing manner. Tillis is up in '26 and Cawthorne will be 30 in '25. President DeSantis should offer Tillis an ambassadorship to the country of his choice so that a (hopefully) republican N.C. governor can appoint him without campaigning for it. Incumbency in '26 means less travel in the wheelchair....

Former President Trump is offering to back a primary challenger to Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) after Katko voted to impeach Trump. Trump sent the letter to the chairman of the Onondaga County Conservative Party detailing his support for a primary challenge, Syracuse.com reported. Bernie Ment, the party’s chairman, said he got the message on Monday. The outlet obtained the letter, written on top of an April 23 article by Syracuse.com with the headline “Onondaga County Conservative Party dumps John Katko over Trump impeachment vote.” “A great move,” Trump wrote overtop the article. “Katko will never win again. He is bad...

A group of climate protesters were taken into custody for trespassing outside Sen. Ted Cruz’s​ home in Houston — after they marched 400 miles to get there, refused to leave and “chose to be arrested,” according to law enforcement. ​ The eight who were arrested were part of a larger group of about 70 people protesting about climate change Monday morning. “The large majority of the group are extremely peaceful out there expressing the First Amendment rights​ ​​to protest against climate change,” Assistant Houston Police Chief Ban Tien said in a video​ posted on Facebook​. “Unfortunately, there was a small...

“Lee Zeldin’s established himself as a front-runner,” Langworthy said. “He has amassed a lot of support and has raised a lot of funds.” Zeldin has raised $2.5 million. Any Republican candidate would face obstacles in a state that has a large Democratic Party enrollment advantage that has nearly doubled in size since 2002, the last time a GOP candidate won a statewide office. Zeldin is closely aligned with Trump, a polarizing figure who is unpopular among the largely Democratic voters in New York City. snip In a statement, Astorino’s campaign spokesman said the candidate isn’t giving up, even if party...

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President Joe Biden will give a speech later this week in an effort to get ahead of an impending summer of violent crime. "The reason is that there's been actually a rise in crime over the last five years, but really the last 18 months. And so, it's an opportunity for the President to speak to what he's going to do to help address that. And as we've seen around the country, it is a concern of many Americans, Republicans but also Democrats too, not necessarily through a partisan lens. It was something the President felt was appropriate to speak...