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An initial autopsy has revealed few clues in the mystery of what happened to a California family found dead on a hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest south of Yosemite. John Gerrish, Ellen Chung and their 1-year-old daughter Miju — as well as their family dog — were found dead at the Devil's Gulch Investigators said the deaths do not appear intentional, and they did not find a suicide note or any signs indicating premeditation. Last month, the Forest Service cautioned on Facebook that people should avoid drinking or swimming in the Merced River due to the presence of...

Washington — States blocking schools from imposing mask mandates on teachers and students could face federal civil rights investigations, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday. He cast mask wearing as part of students’ rights, though he voiced reluctance to withhold federal funds from states that block them. “We are prepared to launch investigations with our Office for Civil Rights to ensure that all students have access to this fundamental right of education. And it’s sad that we’re talking about this now,” Cardona told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We’re going to use our Office for Civil Rights to investigate any claims...

China will now allow married couples to legally have a third kid amid concerns that its shrinking number of working-age people will threaten the country’s future prosperity and global influence. The ceremonial legislature updated the Population and Family Planning Law on Friday to address the consequences of the plummeting birthrate. China has tried for decades to control the population, beginning with a policy imposed in 1979 that strictly limited couples to one child. Couples who didn’t follow the rule faced fines or loss of jobs — and in some cases, mothers were forced to undergo abortions. A preference for sons...

Eleven people — including two teenagers — were shot in two mass shootings overnight, each including one fatality, according to Chicago police. The first mass shooting took place shortly before 9:10 p.m. Saturday in a parking lot in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. Six people were shot — one of whom died — when two men shot at them from a nearby alley, Chicago police said in a media notification. The shooting took place in the 1600 block of East 87th Place. A man, 39, suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen and was pronounced dead at Jackson Park Hospital &...

Intelli Times (@IntelliTimes) Tweeted: https://t.co/ZfDpfzZtay The childish encounter between the Taliban fighters and the gym left by the U.S. military demonstrates exactly the naïveness of the Afghans in a way they sought to capture a "ride" between parts of the U.S. military's giant aircraft...

At the center of the scramble to airlift American citizens out of Afghanistan after its fall to the Taliban is a simple question: How many Americans are waiting to be evacuated? It is a question the Biden administration has been unable to answer. “We cannot give you a precise number,” Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from The New York Times Mr. Sullivan said the United States had been in touch with a “few thousand Americans” and was working on making arrangements to get...

Across the state of Florida, there are 14monoclonal antibody treatment sites set up toserve COVID-19 positive Floridians—with more tocome. - Governor Ron DeSantis For more information, visit:floridahealthcovid19.gov

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered the Commander of U.S. Transportation Command to activate Stage I of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). CRAF activation provides the Department of Defense access to commercial air mobility resources to augment our support to the Department of State in the evacuation of U.S. citizens and personnel, Special Immigrant Visa applicants, and other at-risk individuals from Afghanistan. The current activation is for 18 aircraft: three each from American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines and Omni Air; two from Hawaiian Airlines; and four from United Airlines. The Department does not anticipate...

ABC's This Week roundtable today was rather rough on Biden's Afghanistan fiasco. Leading the charge were host Martha Raddatz and senior national correspondent Terry Moran. Raddatz called Biden's claim that our allies haven't questioned America's credibility "not particularly true." Moran took it a step further, saying "it's not true at all." Moran went on to cite a number of foreign leaders who have criticized Biden, including former British PM Tony Blair, who called Biden's withdrawal "imbecilic." Moran also commended a speech by Conservative UK MP Tom Tugendhat, a veteran of the Afghan war, who scalded Biden's criticism of the Afghan...

Sean Penn — long known for his support of Russian, Cuban, and Venezuelan dictators — is doubling down on demanding vaccine mandates for all film crews as well as movie theaters. Speaking to CNN’s Michael Smerconish about his latest film Flag Day this Saturday, the Academy Award-winning actor insisted that he only wants to perform in front of vaccinated audiences. “I am so grateful that audiences — and yes, we’ll come around to that, I would request only vaccinated audiences — have an opportunity to see this theatrically,” Penn said. “It’s rare these days to have something that is exclusively...

In a separate assault, apparently by same attacker, a Jewish child was punched while riding a bicycle in Stamford Hill A Jewish man and child were punched in the face by a man who appeared to be wearing Islamic clothing in separate attacks in London on Wednesday. In one incident, footage showed a 64-year-old victim being knocked to the ground while he was walking down a street in the Stamford Hill neighborhood.

Angelina Jolie had sharp words for the United States' ongoing withdrawal from Afghanistan in an op-ed published by Time on Friday. The 46-year-old Eternals star and activist wrote that the US military was 'appearing to cut and run' amid the Middle Eastern country's turmoil as the Taliban regains control. She worried that the ongoing chaos could strip away any social progress that had been made for women and young girls in Afghanistan. She called it a 'betrayal and a failure impossible to fully understand' that the US had given up trying to facilitate a peace agreement between the Taliban and...

Jesse Jackson, 79, is vaccinated against the virus and received his first dose in January during a publicized event as he urged others to receive the inoculation as soon as possible. He and his wife, 77, are being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago,” the outlet noted.

It’s just the flu, bro. The belief of many covidiots is that they save lives when they get the vax. They also believe that restricting the activities of those without the vax saves lives. These beliefs are incredibly empowering for these losers. They actually believe they are truly doing good by limiting the freedom of those who don’t get vaccinated. It is very difficult to stop someone from doing what they perceive to be good and right. Additionally, they get to virtue signal and receive encouragement from their peers. I believe in many locations in excess of 50% believe they...

Yahoo News ‘Flat wrong’: Fox’s Chris Wallace presses secretary of state on Biden, Afghanistan Colin Campbell Colin Campbell·Managing Editor Sun, August 22, 2021, 12:48 PM In this article: Chris Wallace American journalist Joe Biden 46th and current president of the United States Antony Blinken American government official and 71th U.S. Secretary of State Explore the topics mentioned in this article Fox News anchor Chris Wallace grilled Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday over President Biden’s claims about the crisis in Afghanistan, repeatedly calling the commander in chief’s statements ”flat wrong.” “The president said al-Qaida is gone. It’s not gone,”...

The company that conducted Arizona’s sham review of the 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County during the 2020 presidential election is set Monday to deliver a report detailing their findings to the Republican state senators who ordered it up. Elections experts in both parties have said for months that results of the so-called “audit” — conducted by the Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas, which had no experience auditing election results and is led by a man who has repeated wild conspiracy theories about election fraud — will not be credible. The company and its volunteers and subcontractors did not follow...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Vaccinations strong again yesterday (about a million, for the fourth day) - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths on Weekend reporting lag - still watching for a peak - FDA expected to grant Pfizer Full Approval next week) Administered: 362,657,771 (14,130,274 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 201,425,785 Fully Vaccinated: 170,821,621

[H/T Ymani Cricket]FDA document available for download here: CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel - Instructions for Use (wordpress.com)"A document just released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) openly admits that the infamous PCR test for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) was developed not with actual samples of the Chinese Virus, but rather what appears to be genetic material from a common cold virus."SNIP"It is somewhat of a lengthy read, but have a look for yourself and see the deception in plain sight. There is no legitimate test out there that accurately identifies the presence of...

This is the question that may be partly responsible for vaccine hesitancy -- those who believe that the last days may be imminent are reluctant to take on the "mark of the beast." I think the general context is fairly well known. A seven headed, ten horned "beast" arises in the last days, is assisted by various other figures, makes an alliance with a great red dragon, and enforces a "mark" to be taken in the hand or forehead that is required for participation in the beast's "reign of antichrist" society. The vaccine qualifies in some estimations because you can...

In one way or another, we are all hurting. Every person on earth carries his own burden of pain. When you are deeply hurt, no person on earth can shut down the inner fears and deepest agonies. Not the best of friends can understand the battle you are going through or the wounds inflicted on you. This is what the Psalmist was wrestling with in Psalm 6:6-7, “I am weary with my groaning; all night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears. My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows old because of all...