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It seems treating Spider-Man fans mean is the way to keep them keen. After withholding the first teaser trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home for months, the trailer — launched Tuesday — has smashed viewing figures records. Sony Pictures says the teaser trailer broke the 24-hour all-time record for most global views with 355.5 million trailer views, eclipsing the previous record holder, Avengers: Endgame, which drove 289 million views. Responding to the news, Spider-Man actor Tom Holland promised on Instagram: "It only gets crazier".

The province appointed Teri Bryant, longtime secretary of the Alberta Arms and Cartridge Collectors Association to the new role. Alberta has its first official chief firearms officer according to a news release from the province's United Conservative Party government. Teri Bryant, who has served the past 16 years as the secretary of the Alberta Arms and Cartridge Collectors Association, was awarded the newly-created position designed to oversee “licensing eligibility, compliance with legislation, overseeing the administration of firearms safety courses and other duties that previously fell to the federal government.” “I am delighted to welcome the province’s first-ever designated chief firearms...

During a press briefing Monday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan suggested a slowdown in approvals for the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program during the Trump administration contributed to the current delays in evacuating Afghans... ..."When we took office in January, the Trump administration had not processed a single Special Immigrant Visa since March of 2020, in nearly a year," Sullivan said. Facts First: This is incorrect... ...The White House told CNN that Sullivan was referring to the Trump administration stopping in-person interviews in Kabul... [but the Embassy] was closed for in-person visa services due to the prevalence...

One of my older songs, remixed for Spotify. I hope you don't find it too Hanoi-ing.

The ruling parties of Taiwan and Japan will host their first ever regional security dialogue on Friday -- a meeting, already condemned by Beijing, that comes amid growing Chinese aggression in the region. Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progress Party is sending Lo Chih-cheng and Tsai Shih-ying, members of the parliamentary foreign affairs and defense committees, respectively, and also key figures for the DPP in those fields. Japan will be represented by Masahisa Sato, a lawmaker in charge of foreign affairs for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Taku Otsuka, who heads the party's panel on defense issues. Taiwan's DPP is scheduled...

Kiss cancelled their Thursday night show in Pennsylvania after frontman Paul Stanley tested positive for COVID-19. Paul Stanley arrives at the 2018 ASCAP Pop Music Awards at The Beverly Hilton on Monday, April 23, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. Paul Stanley was diagnosed with COVID-19, effectively canceling the concert. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP The legendary rock band has been traveling across the country for their “End of the Road” farewell tour, which was paused because of the pandemic. They were set to play Thursday at The Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania before the news broke. In a social media post,...

<p>STOCKTON, Mo. (AP) — A Christian boarding school in southwest Missouri has been sued three times this month over allegations that students were abused.</p><p>The latest of the lawsuits was filed Tuesday in Cedar County Circuit Court on behalf of a Texas teen with autism and bipolar disorder. It accuses Agape Baptist Church, which operates Agape Boarding School, of negligence, infliction of emotional distress and battery by staff and other students, The Kansas City Star reports.</p>

(CNN)California health officials say the number of new Covid-19 infections reported statewide appears to be leveling off and recent trends are showing "encouraging" signs following a surge of cases and hospitalizations driven by the Delta variant. The state reported roughly 11,769 new cases on Thursday, according to the California Department of Public Health. That's down from 12,359 reported this time last week but up from 10,450 reported two weeks ago. Statewide, the positivity rate is 5.4%, down from a high of 7% on July 31..... Roughly 8,265 people are hospitalized with the virus across the state -- 1,982 of whom...

AbstractBackground: Ivermectin is a drug that has been shown to be active against coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) in previous studies. Healthcare personnel are highly exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Therefore, we decided to offer them ivermectin as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) method. Purpose: Primary outcome was to measure the number of healthcare workers with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and a positive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) COVID-19 test in the ivermectin group and in the control group. Secondary outcome was to measure the number of sick healthcare workers with a positive RT-PCR COVID-19 test whose...

A dusty cardboard boxSometimes, when we are clearing out the attic, we come across a dusty cardboard box full, apparently, of junk.Out of curiosity, we go through the long forgotten items and suddenly, near the end of our search, we find a long lost treasure.This is treasure, not in the financial sense, but something that meant a lot to our personal story, something that we mislaid on the way and had in fact forgotten about.As we sift through the collection of faith experiences of a life time, we can get the same sense of surprise and wonderment.Different experiences are treasures...

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Distributing and trafficking fentanyl to the United States is the “perfect tool” in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaign of “unrestricted warfare” against the West, according to a former division head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).“They are not dropping bombs or putting armies on the ground in America, but they’re still killing Americans at record levels,” said Derek Maltz, former head of the Special Operations Division of the DEA, referring to the CCP’s plan to destabilize the country using unconventional forms of warfare.“They’re taking advantage of massive, addicted population in America.”Maltz’s warning comes as a new report found that...

A nationwide shortage of nurses and health care workers may soon worsen as thousands of medical staff face losing their jobs by refusing to obey new COVID-19 vaccine mandates.“It will be really terrible. We’re already understaffed,” said one veteran registered nurse who works at a health care facility north of Seattle.She said she will lose her job after her employer’s Aug. 31 mandated vaccine goes into effect unless she complies with the requirement.She estimates that as many as 400—20 percent—of the health center’s 2,500 employees refuse to take the vaccine. That number will likely shrink due to the financial hardship...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—The state of Florida has administrered more than 10,000 doses of the monoclonal antibodies treatment at state-sponsored sites since since Florida began rolling out the program two weeks ago, the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) told The Epoch Times. Demand for the treatment is high and is expected to go higher as word gets out and new sites are continuing to open throughout the state, Christina Pushaw, the governor’s press secretary, said. The 10,000 doses administered at state-sponsored sites do not include treatment administrered at infusion centers at clinics and hospitals around the state. Baptist Health South...

BATESVILLE, Ark. (KAIT) - The Lyon College of Board of Trustees has accepted the resignation of President W. Joseph King, effective immediately following comments made in a publication. According to a media release from Lyon College Board Chairman Perry L. Wilson, the board accepted the resignation Thursday... Several civic leaders say they were “disappointed and shocked” by comments the former Lyon College president recently made and urged the board of trustees to fire him. King came under fire earlier this week following comments he made in the Chronicle of Higher Education, claiming Batesville was a town full of white supremacists....

George Mason University Professor Todd Zywicki isn’t a pushover to anti-science COVID-19 policies. Zywicki has natural immunity to the virus, and thanks to his own hard work and that of his legal team, Zywicki has been granted a medical exemption from his employer’s vaccine mandate. He’s also created a blueprint for others to potentially follow suit.Zywicki Fought Back and Was RewardedGeorge Mason University (GMU) tried to penalize Zywicki for possessing the “wrong type” of COVID immunity, but he wasn’t having it. As a law professor beginning his 24th year teaching at Virginia’s largest four-year public university, Zywicki enjoys well-documented, robust...

(CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi again urged members of Congress to not visit Afghanistan or neighboring countries after at least 12 US service members and dozens of civilians were killed on Thursday, noting that the Departments of Defense and State have "explicitly stated" that such trips would "unnecessarily divert needed resources" from evacuating Americans and Afghan allies.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Billy Graham Sermon (19630: Pray For America The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. Instead He is patient with you, not...

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem claimed in a podcast interview published Thursday she never planned to sign a transgender sports bill to protect female athletes.Noem was pressed over the debacle that began to sink her political stardom on the “Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” Sexton brought up the issue in the context of the governor turning down piece after piece of legislation that protected individual liberties from vaccine mandates and erasure of women’s sports.“By the way, you said you would sign the trans bill, and then backed off of it, we know that happened,” Sexton said.“That is not...

Media access to Vice President Kamala Harris's address to U.S. troops at Pearl Harbor was suddenly blocked on Thursday. No explanation was given, according to the White House press pool, but the move came hours after two explosions outside the airport in Kabul killed 13 U.S. service members and 60 Afghans during evacuations....