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LOS ANGELES - As the country continues its push to get more Americans vaccinated, FOX 11 caught up with an elderly couple who caught the virus despite taking their COVID-19 shots. FOX 11's Phil Shuman spoke with 72-year-old Miriam Selivry, who – along with her husband, Nathan, 74, and two other relatives – all tested positive for the virus despite always wearing their masks. The couple isn't sure how they caught the breakthrough case of the virus. "I don't know how, don't know where," Nathan said. "But I got it. I called the doctors… he sent us to get the...

The states of Goa and Maharashtra have been badly affected, with many feared missing near the financial hub Mumbai. At least 136 people have died in Maharashtra, while in neighbouring Goa hundreds of homes have been damaged. Many factors contribute to flooding, but experts say climate change caused by global warming makes extreme rainfall more likely. Heavy rains and flooding have also hit western Europe and parts of China in recent weeks, while North America has grappled with scorching heatwaves. The monsoon season in India lasts from June to September each year. Rescuers have struggled to reach affected residents. Landslides...

A Prince William County, Virginia, woman shot and killed an allegedly armed, masked man who approached her front door on Thursday. The Associated Press reports the woman was leaving her home when she noticed the masked man approaching. The woman had a gun and shot the man, fatally wounding him. Officers responded to the scene and reportedly found the man lying with a handgun nearby. WTOP notes that officers performed CPR on the man, who was then transported to a hospital where he died. The deceased man was identified as “20-year-old Azhar Laurent Smart.” The Prince William Police Department said...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee split along party lines during a Thursday morning vote on President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Democrats on the committee unanimously backed the nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, in the face of fierce Republican opposition over her involvement in a 1989 ecoterrorism incident and her alleged dishonesty to the committee about the incident. “Tracy Stone-Manning collaborated with ecoterrorists. She lied to this committee, and she continues to harbor extremist views most Americans find reprehensible,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., ranking member of the committee, said before the vote. “She is thoroughly...

“The body was located in a bathroom window” at a hotel, which was not the resort where Snow was staying, according to the tweet translated from Spanish. Benito Juárez is about a 30-minute drive, or 10 miles away, from the beachfront hotels in Cancun. Snow’s cause of death has not been released, and results of an autopsy are pending. Family members believe he was murdered after possibly being kidnapped and trying to escape, according to media reports. Elijah Snow’s wife, Jamie Snow, told family members her husband had been found dead Monday morning while they were staying at a Cancun...

WORLD—After a century of hard-fought battles for equal rights, the feminist movement has finally achieved its ultimate goal of obliterating women's sports, relabeling mothers "birthing persons," and getting women drafted into the military. "We are so proud of what we have achieved," said Mandy Chandrilla, a biological man who now identifies as a female feminist. "Women were so oppressed, and we realized there was really no way around it, so we just rendered the term 'woman' meaningless and effectively eliminated women as a meaningful category of human altogether. Hooray for feminism!" Chandrilla then shotgunned a beer and crushed the can...

NEW YORK, NY—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the world’s smartest socialist, is always talking about the evils of capitalism. Now tragedy has struck her with what she sees as a clear failure of that economic system: She has accidentally super-glued her face to her coffee table. “See what capitalism has done to me?!” Ocasio-Cortez told the press who had to meet her in her living room, since she couldn’t leave because a coffee table was glued to her head. “I had broken apart a vase I bought, to see if there was a prize inside — there wasn’t — and then I...

WASHINGTON D.C.—According to reports, President Joe Biden has purchased the entire collection of Hunter Biden's artwork for $12.6 million. In a discussion with an anonymous source, he said he hopes this gives him the leverage he needs for an audience with the President. "I really wanna meet the President—I hear he's a real swell guy," said President Biden as he packed a mural made of multicolored pasta in his trunk. "And I was able to get this whole collection for only four-hundred bitcoin! What a deal! Four hundred ain't a lot!" Biden said he hopes the President will listen to...

Audience: Individuals Performing COVID-19 Testing Level: Laboratory Alert After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only. CDC is providing this advance notice for clinical laboratories to have adequate time to select and implement one of the many FDA-authorized alternatives. Visit the FDA website for a list of authorized COVID-19 diagnostic methods. For a summary of the performance of FDA-authorized molecular methods with an FDA...

Lockdown could be a “permanent” part of life until the majority of the population is vaccinated, according to an Australian economist. While Sydneysiders are on tenterhooks to see if their lockdown efforts will be represented in a Covid-19 case decline, economist Gareth Aird said they may need to come to grips with restrictions lasting a lot longer than expected. Mr Aird, who is CommBank’s head of Australian economics, told The Australian the coming week would be critical in determining whether a lockdown end date could soon be set.

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In an article published by the Daily Mail, on one flight the crew of his private jet were allegedly forced to don oxygen masks in order to deal with the cannabis smoke that filled the cabin. Although WeWork was once valued at roughly US$ 47 billion, the New York-based company has continued to bleed money for several years and further hit a bumpy road in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as many people transitioned to working from home in lieu of renting a workspace.

On Tiffany Cross's MSNBC show this morning, in a segment on abortion and Mississippi's effort to overturn Roe v. Wade, MSNBC regular Elie Mystal twice portrayed pro-life people as treating women like "incubators with mouthparts."Pro-life people would reject Mystal's foul metaphor. They would instead point out that Mystal and his ilk would treat unborn children like a clump of cells to be discarded at will up to—and in the case of opponents of born-alive protections, even beyond—the moment of birth. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for Earth’s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Jupiter's moon Europa. The Europa Clipper mission will launch in October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The total contract award amount for launch services is approximately $178 million. Europa Clipper will conduct a detailed survey of Europa and use a sophisticated suite of science instruments to investigate whether the icy moon has conditions suitable for life. Key mission objectives are to produce high-resolution images...

A majority of Americans believe racism against black people is “widespread” in the United States, a Gallup survey released Friday found. The survey showed 64 percent of U.S. adults expressing the belief that racism against black people is widespread across the nation, representing a 13 percent uptick from the 51 percent who said the same in 2009 during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency. That number has continued to increase in the years following, reaching 60 percent in 2015 and 61 percent in 2016. Eighty-four percent of non-Hispanic black adults say racism against black people is widespread in the...

Gerardo Martinez, 19, who spoke the Mexican Indigenous language Zapotec, was shot around 8:30 last Friday night ... A neighbor called 911 shortly after eight to report that Martinez was “really drunk” and had pointed a black handgun at him... [O]fficers ordered him in Spanish to come out with his hands up, the D.A. account said. Instead...Martinez walked in and out of the side door several times while officers continued issuing commands Martinez re-emerged from the door and raised the gun... pointed the weapon at an officer, who fired three rounds from a rifle, striking Martinez in the torso. Latin...

It’s simple really. Your free speech is killing people.It is clear that the Democrats are now completely done with free speech as an American institution.Those days are over.The US Constitution no longer applies. And why should it? When you know you don’t have to worry about elections anymore. You can hide your dementia-suffering candidate in the basement for months and still win an election by stealing the ballots. And Democrats can do this against the most popular presidential candidate in history.So why worry?Last Thursday White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki casually admitted the federal government is censoring American citizens and...

Biden administration officials are suddenly everywhere in the news, warning that the origins of the COVID-19 virus may remain shrouded in mystery for all time. This curious effort to lower expectations comes as our spy agencies are halfway through the 90-day review that Joe Biden loudly and publicly “ordered” them to conduct back on May 26. May 26 was, as it happens, the very same day we learned that, a few weeks earlier, Biden had secretly canceled an investigation launched by the Trump administration into exactly the same question. Damage control? You may draw your own conclusions. In announcing the...

CDC finally pulling PCR tests as they can't differentiate between Covid and the Flu..."CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses."https://twitter.com/NewsAlternative/status/1418964939776040961 Insane!"After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel"Furthermore:"In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to...