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The range of acceptable opinion on COVID-19 mitigation efforts may be widening, with peer-reviewed medical journals recently publishing research finding that masks likely harm schoolchildren and questioning whether benefits from COVID-19 vaccines outweigh risks.Measured carbon dioxide content in "inhaled air," observed in a study of masked German schoolchildren, was at least three-fold higher than German law allows, according to a research letter published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics.Last week, the journal Vaccines, affiliated with the American Society for Virology, published research that estimates every three COVID-19 deaths prevented by vaccination are offset by...

A team of researchers from Florida State University, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Los Angeles, has found that the enduring qualities of both spouses in a marriage shape behavioral interactions, which in turn predict changes in relationship satisfaction. In this new effort, the researchers looked at relationship satisfaction as a marriage matures as a likely indicator of marriage success. Participants in the longitudinal studies were asked to rate their spouses in three main ways: degree of attachment avoidance, neuroticism and attachment anxiety. Each was also asked to rate their spouse regarding how they behaved...

At Easter, Pope Francis invited transgender group to Vatican to receive COVID-19 vaccineVATICAN CITY (RNS) — The day before Easter this year, a group of transgender people came to the Vatican at the invitation of Pope Francis to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to an official who oversees the pope’s charitable works.Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, confirmed in a phone interview that about 50 individuals arrived at the Vatican on buses on April 3 from a parish in Torvaianica, near Rome, where the Rev. Andrea Conocchia has been ministering to a transgender community for several years. On April 24,...

Did you know that your IOT devices are secretly communicating with each other? This includes IOT devices that are not in your home. Did you know that what your IOT devices do may be transmitted to third parties? Did you know that your TV may also have the capability and may currently be transmitting your activity far and wide?

Woke mobs have ripped down statues of the Queen, her ancestor Queen Victoria, and explorer Captain James Cook in Canada.“Winnipeg: Queen Elizabeth down, Canadian flag down, Warrior flag up,” crowed the Communist Party of Canada on its verified Twitter account, alongside the hashtag #CancelCanadaDay and a picture of an activist trampling the vandalised face of Queen Victoria’s toppled statue.Winnipeg:Queen Elizabeth down, Canadian flag down, Warrior flag up#CancelCanadaDay pic.twitter.com/gckFlQSW8y— Communist Party of Canada (@compartycanada) July 1, 2021“This is the state legislature building and not a policeman in sight,” lamented Robert Poll of the Save Our Statues campaign, sharing one of the...

SURFSIDE, Fla. — A 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter was among two additional bodies found overnight in the rubble of the collapsed condo building outside Miami, raising the death toll to 20 with 128 people still missing. "This tragedy has haunted so many of us because so many of us know somebody who was in the building or affected by this tragedy," City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said Friday at a news conference. "Now, not only do we know someone, but this is someone who is a member of our family, of our fire family." Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella...

Sha’Carri Richardson is speaking out and making no excuses as she’s suspended from Team USA over a positive drug test.

Former President Donald Trump fired off a four-word message to his email followers that asks for the identity of the law enforcement officer who fatally shot a woman during the Capitol Building siege on Jan. 6. “Who shot Ashli Babbitt?” Trump wrote on Thursday afternoon. Babbitt was killed as rioters attempted to gain entry to the House of Representatives chamber. The government has released no word on who shot Babbitt or even what agency the shooter worked for. Trump’s statement comes on the heels of a vote to establish a select committee on the Capitol Riot. The killing has become...

President Biden on Friday celebrated a positive monthly jobs report by declaring that it was “afternoon” in America — a play on Ronald Reagan’s famous pronouncement that it was “morning in America” after a dark stretch. US companies added 850,000 jobs in June — more than anticipated — though the unemployment rate unexpectedly nudged higher to 5.9 percent, according to data released Friday. “Good morning, everyone. It is a good morning,” Biden told reporters at the White House. “As we get prepared to celebrate Independence Day, today’s job news brought us something else to celebrate.” “The last time the economy...

All U.S. forces have been removed from Bagram Airfield, the largest military base in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official told Fox News Thursday. Bagram Air Base, located just north of Kabul, was the heart of the U.S. operation in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years following the attack on Sept. 11, 2001, by Al Qaeda, which was based in the country... European troops had largely pulled out months ahead of the U.S. departure from what was a stronghold in the war on terrorism. Italy and Germany declared their missions in Afghanistan complete Wednesday. The Bagram Air Base will be taken over...

When Target announced that it was opening a store in Mondawmin, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Baltimore, a city struggling with crime and poverty, it seemed like a ticket to a turnaround. And from the start, it was a practical success and a point of community pride. The store, which opened in 2008, carried groceries, operated a pharmacy and had a Starbucks cafe — the only one in this part of Baltimore’s west side. People came from across the city to shop there, helping to soften the Mondawmin area’s reputation for crime and the looting that followed protests over the...

A few snapshots from the past few years: In 2015, a famous male athlete puts on a dress and make-up. He then declares himself a female. Despite the athlete not having undergone "sex assignment surgery", our cultural overlords immediately announce their agreement: the dress and make-up have indeed made the male a female. Not just a "female in spirit", but an actual female. Time magazine then proclaims the athlete its runner-up "Woman of the Year". Glamour magazine goes all the way and proclaims him its "Woman of the Year". Social media bans anyone who dares refer to the athlete by...

U.S. President Joe Biden hailed Friday’s strong monthly jobs report, saying it was a sign that his economic and pandemic-fighting strategies were working. “This is historic progress, pulling our economy out of the worst crisis in 100 years, driven in part by our dramatic progress in vaccinating our nation and beating back the pandemic as well as other elements of the American Rescue plan,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. “To put it simply, our economy is on the move,” Biden said. This is what every mainstream media reported about. But no one mentioned the fact that Biden...

“Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves!” (2 Corinthians 13:5). True believers will see the glory of Christ reflected in their lives when they examine the genuineness of their salvation. Assurance of one’s salvation has been a key issue throughout the history of the church, especially the Reformers’ reaction to the Roman Catholic Church’s assertion that since salvation is a joint effort between man and God, the outcome is in doubt until the end. John Calvin, the leading sixteenth-century Reformer, taught that believers can and should be assured of their salvation. He made the grounds...

ST. PAUL, Ore. (AP) — On his 38th birthday, Sebastian Francisco Perez, an immigrant from Guatemala, played chess with his nephew. The next day, he went to work at a nursery in a rural Oregon town as the thermometer soared well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius). Perez collapsed that day, June 26, as a heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest in all-time, record-high temperatures. The workers had been moving irrigation lines when they noticed Perez wasn’t there and found him. They called his nephew, Pedro Lucas, who arrived to find his uncle unconscious and dying. Paramedics tried to revive...

Army Sergeant Daniel Perry has been indicted on murder charges on Thursday for shooting AK-47-wielding Black Lives Matter “protester” Garrett Foster. Perry shot Foster after his car was surrounded by a mob and Foster allegedly lifted his rifle towards him during the “protest” in downtown Austin a year ago. All evidence points to clear self-defense, however, a newly-elected District Attorney, Jose Garza, has indicted Perry. Garza, to no surprise, is funded by George Soros. After the July 25, 2020 shooting, Perry was released without charges, but D.A. Garza wants to transform Austin into the new St. Louis by criminalizing self-defense....

The spectator whose cardboard sign sent riders tumbling to the road was charged with reckless endangerment and involuntarily causing injuries. A Tour de France spectator on the side of the road held up a sign that hit the German rider Tony Martin. He fell and caused a pileup of dozens of more. [snip] Camille Miansoni, the prosecutor in Brest, France, who had opened an investigation into the case, said that the spectator, a 30-year-old French woman, had been released from police custody pending her trial. She turned herself in on Wednesday. The charges under consideration carry a possible one year...

In late April, after amassing 40,000 troops on the border of eastern Ukraine and another 40,000 in the disputed Crimean peninsula, Russia removed most of its forces and walked back its naval presence in some areas of the surrounding Black Sea where it concentrated. Many Western commentators read this as ‘saber rattling,’ a popular phrase in the press, on behalf of Putin to remind a new U.S. administration of Russia’s strength, part of the routine cycle of provocation and de-escalation Putin uses to conduct diplomacy. The conventional thinking is that these patterns tend to ‘flare up,’ another popular phrase, but...

The 10-member panel on the House Ethics Committee voted Thursday to drop the $5,000 fine issued to Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who challenged the report by the Capitol that said she failed to complete a security screening before entering the House building. This is the third time a majority of the evenly split bipartisan panel voted in favor of waiving the metal detector fee since the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol. In May the Capitol Police issued a report that documented an incident where Foxx set off a metal detector in front of a door to the House chamber....

President Joe Biden again snapped at reporters on Friday after delivering remarks to celebrate the substantial employment gains in June. After finishing his remarks, Biden took a few questions from the attendant media, but immediately complained they were too negative. One reporter asked him about the future of Afghanistan and his proposed timeline of withdrawal of troops from the country. U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about the June jobs report in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on July 02, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Biden defended the withdrawal of troops, noting the...