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Australian journalist Denham Hitchcock is urging Aussies to explore what Covid vaccination is best for them after being hospitalised with a heart condition in the weeks after his second Pfizer jab. Hitchcock, who works for Seven News, described "feeling off" for a couple of weeks after receiving his second dose of Pfizer, saying his symptoms didn't start to appear until the end of the second week. He later went to the hospital where he was diagnosed with pericarditis, which he said was a "rare" side effect.

(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden said Thursday that he bears responsibility for what “happened of late” in the Afghanistan withdrawal, but he blamed former President Donald Trump for making a deal with the Taliban in the first place to withdraw U.S. forces from the region by May 1. After addressing the nation about the suicide bomb attack in Kabul that claimed the lives of 12 U.S. troops, Biden was asked whether he’s responsible for what happened in Afghanistan in the last two weeks leading up to his Aug. 31 deadline. “Mr. President, there have not been a U.S. servicemember killed...

The NFL has enforced very strict protocols for unvaccinated players this offseason. On Thursday, one player found out the hard way just how stringent those rules are. Buffalo Bills wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie tweeted a photo of a letter he received from the NFL informing him that he would be fined for his failure to wear a mask “for several minutes.” The letter reads like a police report and includes specific times and locations where the alleged infractions occurred. “On August 25, 2021, at approximately 2:15 p.m. while walking through the indoor fieldhouse and into the training room, you failed...

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An evident spike in COVID cases around the nation has raised questioning against the United States’ prioritization of mask mandates and vaccination rate. Inoculation continues to be a mitigator of serious effects from COVID, but in the long-term picture, is still not as dependable in response as natural immunization.COVID restrictions and vaccination efforts have been the lead metrics in our nation’s response to the new wave, while a focus on natural immunization gets pushed to the background.A study out of Israel looked at breakthrough cases and concluded that these cases were likelier among the vaccinated compared to those with natural...

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Anyone who has followed politics for any amount of time knows the Nancy Pelosi “January 6th Committee” is an opposition research effort under the guise of a House investigation. The goal is to frame an extremist narrative favorable for the Democrats in the 2022 mid-term election. That is the entire goal. What the Mueller probe was to President Trump, the J6 Committee is to the MAGA movement. Everyone, and I do mean e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e in Washington DC knew Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel for one reason, to target President Trump, weaken his administration and ultimately remove him from office....

TOKYO/ NEW YORK -- About 1.6 million doses of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine have been taken out of use in Japan because of contamination reported in some vials, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said early Thursday. Several vaccination centers have reported that vaccine vials contained foreign matter, according to an announcement from the ministry, which added it will seek to minimize the impact of the withdrawal on the country's inoculation program. The ministry said later in the day that the substance that had been mixed in may have been metal. "It's a substance that reacts to magnets," a ministry...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday issued a new executive order prohibiting vaccine mandates across the state after the Food and Drug Administration gave its full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 inoculation earlier this week.The new measure expands on an earlier order from the governor, which prohibited any vaccine mandates if a product is being used under an emergency use authorization, as all three of the COVID-19 vaccines in use in the U.S. were until this week. The FDA’s decision was a key moment in the nation’s effort to beat back the pandemic, with public health officials championing the...

Jose Rafael Vasquez tried to smuggle guns from the U.S. to Mexico, but was arrested as part of Homeland Security's Operation Without a Trace. A Washington man drove to a U.S. border crossing last year in his teal Ford pickup truck loaded with a hidden arsenal bound for a Mexican cartel war zone. Miguel Diaz Calderon never made it out of Texas. U.S. Customs agents searched his vehicle at the Eagle Pass crossing and found 43 shotguns, rifles and pistols. They also discovered more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in an ice chest in the gas tank and inside...

The late Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz.,remarks in 2014 warning that now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken is "dangerous to America" resurfaced online amid the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. The senator's comments come from his opposition speech against Blinken’s previous nomination to be deputy secretary of state under former President Barack Obama. "I rise to discuss my opposition to the pending vote concerning Mr. Antony ‘Tony’ Blinken, who is not only unqualified but, in fact, in my view, one of the worst selections of a very bad lot that this president has chosen," McCain excoriated Blinken, who was eventually confirmed to the post...

MIAMI BEACH — A gunman fatally shot a tourist eating dinner with his family at a Miami Beach restaurant as the man protected his 1-year-old son, police and a family member said. Tamarius Blair Davis, 22, of Norcross, Georgia, told investigators he shot Dustin Wakefield, 21, on Tuesday night because he “was high on mushrooms, which made him feel empowered,” according to his arrest report.

Sixty-eight percent of Americans and 55 percent of Democrats believe that the Biden administration’s evacuation of U.S. troops, civilians, and allies from Afghanistan has been handled “badly” according to a new YouGov poll. Seventy-five percent of veterans, 76 percent of independents, and 84 percent of Republicans concur with the majority of Democrats and supermajority of Americans who disapprove of way the U.S. has withdrawn after nearly 20 years of military involvement there. A mere 16 percent of Americans would go so far as to say that it has been executed “very or somewhat well.”

The officer who shot and killed a woman during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has come forward after months of secrecy surrounding his identity due to reported death threats and heated Republican rhetoric about his actions. Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd, a 28-year-veteran of the force, told NBC News on Thursday that it has been “frightening” to receive death threats for doing his job. “They talked about, you know, killing me, cutting off my head, you know, very vicious and cruel things. … There were some racist attacks as well,” he said, calling them “disheartening because I know I was doing...

AMAZING talk From Fr. MIKE a few years back that may help get your teen or young adult back to Mass. It is intended ONLY for a young audience, and it is intended to show them how it is possible to have intimacy with Christ. (45 mins not an hour.)Also to mote, he tells the graphic, yet heart wrenching, story of a murdered child near the end of the talk, so you know.The Hour that will Change Your Life Copy this link and fwd it your teen or young adult who are staying away from Mass. Tell them you think...

Former President Donald Trump expressed his condolences after Thursday's twin bombings at the airport in Kabul that killed 12 U.S. service members. "Melania and I send our deepest condolences to the families of our brilliant and brave Service Members whose duty to the U.S.A. meant so much to them," Trump wrote in a statement. "Our thoughts are also with the families of the innocent civilians who died today in the savage Kabul attack." "This tragedy should never have been allowed to happen, which makes our grief even deeper and more difficult to understand," he continued.

Attorney Robert Barnes says the FDA approval is not what the public thinks. This is because once the FDA approves a vaccine it has to by law revoke all the Emergency Use Authorizations (aka EUAs) of all the other vaccines. They did not reverse and revoke Pfizer's EUA, Moderna's EUA and Johnson & Johnson EUA. Under Federal Law EUAs cannot be issued if there is already an FDA approved drug on the market. The way Big Pharma got around that with Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, etc.. is to say they are only looking at other "vaccines". Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine are not considered vaccines....

Police in New York City are hunting for thieves who they say have been responsible for a pair of recent high-end jewelry heists in Manhattan, including one where a man leaving a restaurant was robbed of $4million worth of valuables. According to the NYPD, at around 4.20am on August 14, a 47-year-old man and his 27-year-old companion had just walked out of the trendy TAO Downtown on 9th Avenue when they were accosted by a duo that got out of a Mercedes-Benz parked on the corner of West 30th Street and Broadway. As seen in surveillance video released on Thursday...

“Effective Sept. 5, individuals working in these settings who are unable or unwilling to receive their first dose of vaccine will be required to get tested for COVID-19 at least once a week and [Illinois Department of Public health] and [Illinois State Board of Education] may require more frequent testing in certain situations, like in an outbreak.” Beginning Monday, masks will be required in all places for people older than 2 years old “regardless of vaccination status,” the governor said. “Masks work, period,” Pritzker said.

NEWS PROVIDED BY Bakuage Co., Ltd. Jul 07, 2021, 03:00 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE TOKYO, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- - Highest Prize for Any Unsolved Problem in Mathematics - Bakuage Co., Ltd. headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, announced on July 7, 2021, that it is offering a prize of 120 million Japanese yen (*) to anyone who has revealed the truth of the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved mathematical problem. (*) 120 million Japanese yen is about US$1,085,000 (1US$=JPY110.50 as of June 29, 2021). Image: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M106706/202106236656/_prw_PI1fl_dI1163aV.png - What is Collatz conjecture? The Collatz conjecture is one of unsolved problems in mathematics....