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While the US and Europe celebrate a return to near-normal, the reopening of tourist routes and even put an expiration date on the use of masks, in Latin America it all seems like science fiction. Despite the illusion generated by the extension of vaccination, the pandemic continues to ravage the region with painful figures reported daily. When the eyes of the world were on India, its dramatic mass cremations and its collapsed hospitals in its urban centers, in Paraguay, Suriname, Argentine, Uraguay, Columbia, Brazil, Peru and Chile - a silent catastrophe was brewing whose current figures are eight times more...

After interviewing 22 current and former staffers, officials, and associates of the president and vice president, Politico reporters paint a picture of “a tense and at times dour office atmosphere” for aides to Vice President Kamala Harris.In a piece published on Wednesday night, Harris’s office is portrayed as a morale-killing and occasionally dysfunctional place that lacks effective communication.“People are thrown under the bus from the very top,” said one source with knowledge of office politics among the vice president’s aides. “It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place where people feel supported but a...

LUMBARDA, Croatia—Archaeologist Mate Parica was examining satellite images of Croatia’s coastline when he spotted something unusual. “I thought: maybe it is natural, maybe not,” said Parica, a professor at the University of Zadar. The image showed a large, shallow area on the seabed jutting out from the eastern shore of the island of Korcula.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A program that has allowed wealthy foreign investors to obtain U.S. residency, and has long been the subject of complaints that it amounts to the wholesale selling of American citizenship, may be coming to a sputtering end. Congressional authorization for a key part of the immigrant investor program was set to expire Wednesday with dim prospects for renewal ... Congress created the program to encourage investment from overseas and spur job growth in 1990, when the economy was in recession. The program required an investment of $1 million or just $500,000 in areas of high poverty and...

CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Donald Trump whether he would apologize for his involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol on Wednesday, but only ended up getting booed by the former president’s followers. Trump was in Weslaco, Texas, with Gov. Greg Abbott (R), to presumably discuss border issues (but really just to foment more falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election being stolen) when Acosta asked the question. Since the House had just voted to form a select committee to investigate the attack, Acosta’s question was relevant. But that didn’t mean Trump would bother to answer it. Instead, he smirked...

Human Trafficking report from Alex Jones in McAllen Texas.

This is the flag adopted by the Youth International Party, founded in 1967. The red communist star is coupled with a marijuana leaf. This party, founded by unpatriotic leftists and anarchists, and supported by arch degenerates such as the pedophile "poet" pot legalization activist Alan Ginsberg, was instrumental in dismantling healthy anti-communist sentiment in the United States, including the demise of the House Un-American Activities Committee. All this was achieved through childish publicity stunts, leftist and anarchist propaganda, promotion of degeneracy and counterculture, and of course mass proliferation of marijuana. Our nation's weak handling of these subversives opened the...

The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg have been indicted and charged with tax-related crimes. Weisselberg, 73, who began working for Donald Trump's father Fred in 1973, will appear in court on Thursday, two sources told The Washington Post. His charges are related to the failure to pay taxes on benefits obtained as part of his work for Trump. ... ... the Manhattan district attorney's office has apparently failed to 'flip' Weisselberg, who was spotted driving from his home to Trump Tower on Tuesday....reports suggest prosecutors have spent months building a case against Weisselberg, a senior executive,...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki doubled down on her claims the Republicans are responsible for defunding the police during her briefing on Wednesday. Psaki was asked a follow-up on remarks she made Monday that GOP members essentially wanted to swipe funds from law enforcement across the country by voting against President Biden's $1.9trillion American Rescue Plan. Fox News' Peter Doocy asked her: 'You mentioned at the last briefing that you think Republicans wanted to defund the police because they did not support the American Rescue Plan. Which Republican ever said that they did not like the American Rescue Plan...

Water was filmed pouring from the ceiling of the doomed Miami condo and into its basement garage minutes before it collapsed - as the death toll from the disaster rose to 18. The video was recorded at 1.18am on June 24 and zooms in on the entrance to the gated garage beneath the north side of Champlain Towers South - behind which water rains from the ceiling as if blasted from a fire hose. The building was reported to have crumbled at around 1.25am. It emerged as six more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the ruined building on...

July 01 , 2021 Memorial of St. Junipero Serra Main Altar Mission of San Antonion de Padua, California Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingGenesis 22:1-19 ©The sacrifice of IsaacGod put Abraham to the test. ‘Abraham, Abraham’ he called. ‘Here I am’ he replied. ‘Take your son,’ God said ‘your only child Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him as a burnt offering, on a mountain I will point out to you.’ Rising early next morning Abraham saddled his ass and took with him two of his servants and his son...

Where did thousands of mail-in ballots in pristine condition in Fulton County, Georgia suddenly come from during the 2020 presidential election? They were printed by Runbeck Election Services in Phoenix, Arizona, but there is something very suspicious about these particular ballots. Who filed a U.S. Patent Application for a computer system for “on-screen ballot duplication” to be used for “generating a revised ballot”?

Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television and America’s first Black billionaire, wants a check. He wants it from the government. And he wants it to come with an apology for slavery, Jim Crow, and hundreds of years of racism. The 75-year-old media magnate owns several homes, heads an asset management firm, and was the first Black person to own a majority stake in an NBA team. He doubts that check will ever come, but he sees a new kind of reparations—being called by a different name so as not be “divisive” or “controversial”—happening already. The new “reparations”...

June 30, 2021, 11:48 AM PDT By Erika Edwards Doctors are beginning to notice Covid-19 cases that look more like a very bad cold, especially in areas of the country where the highly contagious delta variant is quickly spreading. While shortness of breath and other lung issues remain among the most worrisome Covid-19 symptoms, it appears upper respiratory complaints — marked by congestion, a runny nose and headache — may be increasing. Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak "We've seen a number of folks with cold-like symptoms," said Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr., an internist at the University of Arkansas for...

MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin health officials say COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective, but they are not perfect. Now, the FOX6 Investigators have obtained details about 21 people across the state who have died of COVID-19 – even though they were fully vaccinated. "Get a shot or die," said Patrick Gary of Milwaukee. With those two choices, Gary figured getting a COVID-19 vaccine was a no-brainer. "The facts speak for themselves," said Jeff Martinka of Neighborhood House.

Another San Diego County resident has succumbed to COVID-19 in a second so-called local "breakthough" case. In so-called coronavirus breakthrough infections, fully vaccinated people get the illness anyway, despite the fact that the vaccines typically offer strong protection against severe disease. There are rare cases, however, that result in hospitalizations and, rarer still, deaths. On June 9, a county spokesman said an "older" San Diego woman who was fully vaccinated and had "many pre-existing medical issues" and was sickened by the coronavirus and later died.

Since the German government started handing out big subsidies for the purchase of battery-electric vehicles, sales figures have increased significantly. But electric cars only make up 1.2% of the country’s total registered stock of around 48 million vehicles. An important reason for this, in addition to high prices and a shaky charging infrastructure, are considerable doubts about the much touted environmental friendliness of electric vehicles. […] Even among experts though there is often a dispute about the actual carbon footprint of electric cars. Just last week an aggressive exchange of blows was on display. In an open letter to the...

From one Laptop: “Breakfast with Dad — NavObs” is one such meeting recorded for 8:30 am on November 19, 2015. Five photographs date-stamped on that day and taken at 10:03 am and 10:04 am appear on the laptop, showing Joe posing with four of Hunter’s business associates, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco. One photo also features Velasco’s son Miguel Aleman Magnani, the founder of budget airline Interjet, at whose Acapulco mansion Hunter and wife Kathleen had stayed that March. Jeff Cooper, a long-time Biden family benefactor, who ran one of the largest asbestos-litigation firms in the...

Police had called in a bomb squad after a tip led them to seize some 5,000 pounds (2,268 kilograms) of illegal home-made and China-manufactured pyrotechnics at about noon, police said. Pallet-loads of fireworks were placed into an LAPD tractor-trailer and hauled away for disposal but at some point, some of the devices that had been placed inside an armored container on an LAPD big-rig exploded in a burst of flame, demolishing the truck. The blast, caught by news crews, also knocked a nearby car on its side, smashed the windows of several others and blew out windows in a neighboring...