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At least 50 people have died after a fire tore through the Covid isolation ward at a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The death toll is expected to rise, as search operations at al-Hussain coronavirus hospital continued after the fire was brought under control. Sixteen people were rescued from the burning building. Initial police reports suggested that an oxygen tank explosion inside the hospital’s Covid-19 ward was the likely cause of the fire, a policeman at the scene of the fire said. The blaze at the hospital is the second such tragedy this year. In April, a...

The combination of tipping-based compensation structures with demands for overexaggerated friendliness lead customers to feel they have power over service workers.Anywhere between 70% and 90% of restaurant servers and bartenders have likely been subjected to sexual harassment—from unwanted comments and looks, requests for dates, to physical touching—by customers. There are also many anecdotal indications that the behavior has heightened during the pandemic, with wait staff reporting what’s come to be known as “maskual harassment”: servers being asked to remove their masks and show their faces for the gratification of customers. A new study aims to get to the reason behind...

A passenger prevented from boarding a Southwest Airlines flight has filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court seeking a preliminary injunction against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over its mandate requiring travelers to wear face coverings. “This is an authoritarian policy that has no basis in law and has to come to an end,” Washington resident Lucas Wall told The Epoch Times in an interview. Wall is fully vaccinated, but says he refuses to wear a face covering because doing so precipitates a feeling of panic and claustrophobia. “I’ve been stranded at my mother’s in Florida...

A lecturer at Catholic University discovered the rare costume wrapped in a trash bag in a drama department office Four people, a scarecrow, Tin Man, Dorothy and a lion, walk arm in arm down a yellow brick road A publicity still from The Wizard of Oz. A lecturer at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. recently stumbled onto one of the costumes worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film. (Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images) By Nora McGreevy SMITHSONIANMAG.COM JULY 12, 2021 9:58AM 45 For decades, members of the Catholic University of America (CUA) drama department traded...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is adding a label on Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, warning that it has been linked to rare cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a neurological disorder in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks part of its nervous system. There have been 100 preliminary reports following vaccination after approximately 12.5 million doses administered, FDA said in a statement. Of these reports, 95 of them were serious and required hospitalization. There was one reported death. The cases have largely occurred about two weeks after vaccination and mostly in men, many aged 50 and older, the...

With research help from the Mythinformed investigation crew, Keri and Carter reveal the link between the Southern Poverty Law Center and the "Learning for Justice" project, which brings leftist racism based on Critical Race Theory to elementary schools across the country, including Oak Park School District 97 in Oak Park, Illinois.

Chris Rufo is doing something so spectacularly unconservative, he may need to update his political affiliation: he’s winning. Last week, Rufo’s successful legislative efforts to ban critical race theory in the classroom found critique in the New York Times. The guest essay conspicuously avoided naming him; then again, it didn’t have to. Rufo, a journalist and advocate, has become so synonymous with both the effort to alert Americans to the racism their children are imbibing in public school and the legislative efforts to stop it, that he’s become the person we think of whenever “Critical Race Theory” is mentioned. For...

Hours after Representative Cheney (R-WY) broke from her 190 fellow Republicans to establish a “House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol,” she wasted no time in accepting an appointment to it. This move gave Pelosi’s Committee a façade of bi-partisanship and pre-emptively undercut Republican threats to boycott its committee appointments. On June 30th, Cheney issued a press release stating, “This investigation can only succeed if it is sober, professional, and non-partisan. The threat to our democracy is far too grave for grandstanding or political maneuvering. The Committee should issue and enforce subpoenas promptly,...

To prepare for the 2021 hurricane season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges Americans to get vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus "as soon as you can." Because, as a CDC site explains, "you can’t stop a tropical storm or hurricane, but you can take steps now to protect yourself and your family." After the Biden administration missed its July Fourth vaccination goal, it appears federal agencies are pulling out all the stops to get more Americans vaccinated amid criticism for proposing door-to-door vaccination drives. And while getting a COVID vaccine is the second action item listed by the...

Iris van Herpen’s collection for Paris Haute Couture Week consists of five gowns covered in intricate, elaborate lace. It’s hard to believe that the ethereal dresses are made entirely from trash. The Dutch designer has partnered, for a second time, with Parley for the Oceans, an organization that collects plastic waste from the ocean, then recycles it to create new materials. This time around, van Herpen pushes the boundaries of the recycled plastic fabric, hand- and laser-cutting it to create patterns that would not be possible with cotton or silk. The collection as a whole tells a larger story about...

The Church of England has abandoned a proposal to appoint 42 "racial justice officers" across the country, one of the recommendations from its report on tackling racism in the institution. The Archbishops' Anti-Racism Taskforce in April made 47 proposals to address institutional racism and improve diversity in an attempt to end a "rut of inaction" spanning several decades, with the Archbishop of Canterbury conceding people of colour had been "bullied, overlooked, undermined and excluded" within the Church. With the taskforce warning a failure to act against racism would convince people the Church was "not serious about racial sin", one recommendation...

TEMPERANCE, Mich. (AP) — A priest who criticized a teenager’s suicide during his funeral is protected by the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the Michigan Court of Appeals said. The court affirmed a decision by a Monroe County judge who had dismissed a lawsuit by the mother of Maison Hullibarger. The 18-year-old, who was an athlete and honors student in the Monroe area, died in 2018. Mourners were shocked when the Rev. Don LaCuesta gave a critical sermon. He said suicide was a “secular crime” and a “sin against God with dire eternal consequences.” Linda Hullibarger sued the priest...

On June 30, 2021 the Russian national Olympic team prayed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior before going to the XXXII Olympic Games, which will be held in the Japanese capital of Tokyo from July 23 to August 8. Photo: Peter Nikolaev/foto.patriarchia.ruA solemn prayer service in the church with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill was led by Metropolitan Mitrophan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk, chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Physical Culture and Sports, the website Patriarchy.ru reported. Archpriest Andrei Alexeev, the spiritual leader of the Olympic team, rector of the Church of Prince Dmitry Donskoy in North...

Woke activists often ruin their own causes with “narcissism” and “self-righteous toxicity,” a left-wing UK think tank said Monday. The Fabian Society, a “democratically governed socialist society” founded in 1884, warned in a pamphlet published Monday that petty infighting often gets in the way of progressives winning what it deems “culture wars.” SNIP Instead of winning support, that often leaves “the watching audience … alienated and confused by jargon-filled debates.”

The Trump Organization has removed Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg as an executive at certain subsidiaries following criminal charges earlier this month alleging he and the Trump Organization engaged in a 15-year tax scheme, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Weisselberg, who's worked with former President Donald Trump's family for nearly five decades, was terminated last week as a director at Trump's golf course in Scotland, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing public records. According to regulatory filings in the United Kingdom, Weisselberg was terminated from his role at the golf course on July 8; he previously served as a...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Scott Air Force Base, IllinoisScott Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon, 17 miles east-southeast of downtown St. Louis. Scott Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entered World War I in April 1917. It is headquarters of Air Mobility Command (AMC), and is also the headquarters of the U.S. Transportation Command, a Unified Combatant Command that coordinates transportation across all the services.Air Mobility Command was activated June 1, 1992, with headquarters at Scott...

If a priest 'does not care about souls, he becomes useless.'ROME, July 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — An eminent African cardinal has strongly emphasized the identity of the Catholic priest as the caretaker of souls. “Today we speak little about the Gospel and we don’t speak about souls anymore,” Cardinal Robert Sarah, the former Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, said in a recent interview. “Pastoral care today is concerned principally with the body, life, material things,” he added. “Thus, when Jesus says, ‘What does it profit a man that he should gain the whole world but lose his soul’,...

We are seeing this over and over again. Obama judges end up with all the court cases that are related to President Trump. The selection process is statistically impossible. We just reported on a case in Michigan where the state is suing whistleblowers in the state who reported on the massive election abuse in Michigan. This case is overseen by Judge Linda Parker, an Obama judge. Judge Parker also oversaw and ruled on Sidney Powell’s case in Michigan right after the election which Judge Parker labeled “speculation” and threw in the garbage. Her comments and bias showed right through her...

Paul Orndorff, aka “Mr. Wonderful,” one of the greats from the World Wrestling Federation’s 1980s heyday, has died. He was 71. His son Travis made the announcement Monday on Instagram, where he has documented his father’s recent health struggles. “It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of my father, Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr,” wrote the younger Orndorff. “He is better known as “Mr. #1derful” Paul Orndorff.” Orndorff came up in the Southern wrestling circuit, and signed with the WWE predecessor World Wrestling Federation in late 1983, where “Rowdy” Roddy Piper became his manager. Piper nicknamed Orndorff “Mr....

We saw this exact same strategy play out in Wisconsin circa 2011 when the Democrats in state legislature fled the state to avoid showing up to a legislative session. They left the state specifically to avoid state police arresting them and forcibly returning them to work. This is how Democrats operate.In Texas the milk-carton Democrats do not have the numbers to block legislation; however, they can deny a legislative quorum by not showing up to work. The Democrats took buses to a private airport where they took private charter flights to Washington DC; all of their manipulative schemes paid for...