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Delta Air Lines Inc. pivoted to a more-punitive approach toward getting its workforce vaccinated against Covid-19, saying unvaccinated workers will pay a $200 monthly health insurance surcharge and could lose pay protection for missing work due to the disease.

A few weeks ago, I joined my good friend Cara for an evening of bacon, eggs, and Night Mimosas (mimosas consumed, perhaps trashily, after 7 p.m.). We were celebrating a bit of good news the way all distinguished ladies do: by eating breakfast for dinner. After Cara fried up the bacon and sloshed out a few Night Mimosas, I volunteered for egg-frying duty. I sidled up to her skillet, which was, to my delight, full of rapidly hardening bacon grease. Cara apologized and offered to wash out the skillet. I looked her dead in the eye, shook my head slowly,...

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Let's have some fun! Listen live at the link below. Jesse's show is now on over 200 radio stations across the nation, replacing Buck Sexton. Those of us who miss Rush very much know that no one could ever replace him, but if you give Jesse a chance, you'll find him to be a very intelligent, refreshing, naturally funny truth teller.Jesse is a former Marine. He and his beautiful wife live in the Houston area with their two young sons. He's a self-deprecating historyphile with an infectious laugh. His time slot is later...

American civilians and Afghan allies have just 72 hours before evacuations from Kabul end, a former CIA officer and terrorism expert has claimed. Sam Faddis, who served as the head of the Counter Terrorism Center's Weapons of Mass Destruction unit, said sources in the Pentagon, military officers in Kabul and other former intelligence agency officers have told him that flights for civilians out of the Afghan capital will actually end in the next three days.The alleged deadline has not been officially announced or verified, but raises fears that American citizens could be left behind in the Taliban-occupied city.On Tuesday President...

Why Nancy Pelosi is being heralded as ‘masterful’ After House Democrats passed a $3.5 trillion partisan budget plan on Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is getting all the credit for bringing together two diametrically opposed groups in her party to make it happen. “I want to thank Speaker Pelosi, who was masterful in her leadership on this,” President Biden said Tuesday.

After decades of films, documentaries, and TV shows meant to raise awareness about climate change, celebrity-studded Global Citizen campaign aimed at fighting it, and Hollywood elites dedicating their award show acceptance speeches toward addressing the topic — it’s all just not enough for teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg, who insists there is “a big lack” of awareness on the topic. Now she wants more climate content in film and television. In the past year, Thunberg herself was even the subject of the feature documentary, I Am Greta, which premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. But on Tuesday, while speaking...

Progressives are digging in for a fall fight with centrists following a House budget deal to advance the party's top social priorities, with some on the left threatening to vote against the bipartisan infrastructure bill if it comes to the floor before the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package... Now, leading progressives are signaling they plan to use their collective voting power to keep the pressure on leadership and their centrist colleagues to ensure the sweeping social benefits package passes Congress and becomes law. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a key member of the so-called squad of liberal lawmakers of color, warned that...

Dozens of San Diego County-area school students and their parents are stranded in Afghanistan, according to a report from the (Los Angeles Times), after taking a trip abroad for summer vacation. The outlet reported that at least 24 students and 16 parents from Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon, California, visited Afghanistan earlier this summer and are now among the thousands of people who are stranded in the war-torn country as the Taliban continues to take over.[snip]It was not immediately clear at the time of this reporting when the families arrived in Afghanistan.

Taliban likely to have access to biometric databases of Afghan civilians who helped US August 25, 2021 There are growing concerns that the Taliban, after taking control of Afghanistan, has gained access to biometric databases made with the help of US-built military devices, using which they could identify and target Afghans. “We understand that the Taliban is now likely to have access to various biometric databases and equipment in Afghanistan, including some left behind by coalition military forces,” Human Rights First, an international human rights organisation based in New York City and Washington, noted. One such handheld biometric device, known...

Smugglers recently used a phony Border Patrol vehicle and a driver in a fake uniform during a smuggling attempt at the Arizona-Mexico border, U.S. immigration authorities say. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Tucson-area Border Patrol agents took the driver and 10 migrants into custody, according to a tweet from John Modlin, interim chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector. Modlin shared a photo of the phony vehicle, which appeared strikingly similar to an actual Border Patrol vehicle. "This is not a Border Patrol vehicle," Modlin wrote. The driver was also wearing a fake Border Patrol uniform. Modlin didn't...

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the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate) oral pellets to treat children 3 months to less than 12 years old with venous thromboembolism (a condition where blood clots form in the veins) directly after they have been treated with a blood thinner given by injection for at least five days. The FDA also approved Pradaxa oral pellets to prevent recurrent clots among patients 3 months to less than 12 years old who completed treatment for their first venous thromboembolism. “The FDA is committed to helping our youngest patients with serious medical conditions have treatments that are relatively...

Federal regulators are likely to approve a Covid-19 booster shot for vaccinated adults starting at least six months after the previous dose rather than the eight-month gap they previously announced, a person familiar with the plans said, as the Biden administration steps up preparations for delivering boosters to the public. Data from vaccine manufacturers and other countries under review by the Food and Drug Administration is based on boosters being given at six months, the person said. The person said approval for boosters for all three Covid-19 shots being administered in the U.S.—those manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech...

As a family physician, I spend my days dispensing advice. I mean, there's the occasional cast, skin biopsy, or shot, but most of my patients are seeing me for medical counsel. Never have I been asked about one subject so much as the Covid-19 vaccines, and never have I seen so much doubt and confusion among a group of smart, well-educated people. Interpreting the reality of the effectiveness of these vaccines is complicated: it is waning with time, weakened against delta, unknown when coupled with prior infection, and may not be improved with a booster - but there is new,...

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Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday urged Vietnam to join the United States in challenging China’s belligerence in the South China Sea — as the Chinese Communist Party makes inroads with the Taliban while the militant group reclaims control over Afghanistan. As part of her week-long trip through Southeast Asia, Harris met with Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and President Ngyuen Xuan Phuc, reiterating her criticism of China as the CCP moves in on the power vacuum in Afghanistan left by the US’ rushed evacuation. “We need to find ways to pressure and raise the pressure, frankly, on Beijing...

Scientists have shown that the deadly floods that devastated northern Europe in July would have been less likely in a world without climate change.Global warming made the heavy summer rainfall between 3% and 19% stronger, and 1.2 to nine times more likely, according to a study published Tuesday by an international group of climate scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA). It is a finding that could play a critical role in Germany — the fourth-biggest historical polluter and the country with the highest death toll from the flooding — ahead of elections in September."These floods have shown us that...

Several countries have conducted evacuation flights for their residents and passport holders since the Taliban assumed control of Afghanistan. While the world applauds this humanitarian assistance, some individuals may be taking advantage of the opportunity to spread terrorism. Now, US officials have issued a warning that almost 100 Afghan evacuees are on intelligence agency watch lists and may be linked to terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State. A US official verified to Defense One that security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar discovered that at least one of the Afghans evacuated from Kabul Airport has ties to...

Up to 1,500 Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan and the U.S. is still relying on the Taliban to allow safe passage to Kabul airport with just six days before the August 31 deadline, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a press conference on Wednesday. Blinken gave an updated on the airlift operation and the bid to get all citizens and Afghan allies out amid reports the CIA has joined U.S. troops in rescue missions outside the airport perimeter. Thousands of people are still trying to leave Afghanistan as U.S. troops start leaving and evacuation flights begin to wrap...

Pelosi’s January 6 committee issued its first records request on Wednesday and targeted a group of conservative reporters, operatives and pundits. The far-left committee also requested National Archives for records of Trump’s White House: The Democrats are seeking 9 months worth of contacts between Trump’s White House and a group of conservatives, including Scott Presler, General Flynn, Ed Martin and Human Events Sr. Editor Jack Posobiec. Jack Posobiec responded: “This is completely illegal and my lawyers will make short work of it. These ugly communists want to go full Stalin and Gestapo as they flail about to distract from the...