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A leading Chicago police union opposed an impending mandate from Mayor Lori Lightfoot that requires all city officers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, said his group is "100% against mandated vaccines for our members," according to a statement given to Fox 32. "This vaccine has no studies for long-term side effects or consequences. None," Catanzara told the Chicago Sun-Times. "To mandate anybody to get that vaccine, without that data as a baseline, amongst other issues, is a ‘Hell, no’ for us." He also insisted all police unions in the city...

KINGWOOD, Texas – The 19-year-old who has been charged with murder after allegedly pouring flammable liquid on a man and setting him on fire has been arrested. Officials with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to KSAT’s sister station KPRC that Emma Pressler was arrested Thursday. The teenager was identified as the suspect in a murder investigation after she allegedly entered a home on the night of Aug. 6 in the 2000 block of Aspen Glade Drive in Kingwood and poured an unknown flammable liquid on 33-year-old Devin Graham. Authorities revealed after the initial investigation that Presler intentionally lit...

Vanity and shameless: A friend is looking for a listing of information to counter the Vaccine march. She is in her thirties and her family is practically disowning her Any websites to recommend? Looking for data.

The sudden collapse of the Afghan National Army and security forces, the fall of Kabul without a fight, President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the country, and the victorious Taliban taking everything are currently a source of mass revelry for the state-controlled Russian media. The propaganda machine describes the hasty and disorganized withdrawal of the United States and allied forces from Afghanistan, along with the collapse of their Afghan allies, as a turning point, signaling the decline of US regional and global power and credibility. Russian outlets accuse US President Joseph Biden of double-dealing and incompetence (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, August 17). Ukraine and...

(CNN)A North Carolina mother is suing the Transportation Security Administration and an agency supervisor for a May 2019 incident involving her transgender teenager who was asked to undergo a strip search at an airport. According to a complaint filed Monday, Kimberly Erway and her 15-year-old daughter, Jamii Erway, were flying out of Raleigh-Durham International Airport in May 2019. When Jamii went through the TSA body scanner, it indicated a "false positive," according to the complaint. TSA's transgender passenger webpage states "the TSA officer presses a button designating a gender (male/female) based on how you present yourself" when entering the scanner....

Johann Christian Woyzeck was publicly beheaded on this date in 1824 for fatally daggering his lover in a jealous wrath. He was a rudderless orphan to whom the Napoleonic Wars gifted the stopgap profession of soldiering, but once the fighting stopped, Woyzeck wandered back to his native Leipzig and gave rein to his many vices. Suicidal, drinking heavily, and unable to hold down steady work, Woyzeck frequently abused his special lady friend, the widow Johanna Christiane Woost. He would later say that he was often urged by voices in his mind to slay her — and on the night of...

Pizza is the most popular and the favourite meal of people around the world, without any question. Be it chicken pizza, pepperoni pizza or a simple cheese pizza, people have their own preferences. However, in such a bizarre incident, a woman in England ordered pizza from the famous chain Domino's and got toppings of something that she had never expected. Gemma Barton, who lives in England's Lancashire, took to Facebook to share that she ordered pizza from Domino's, and as toppings, she received nuts and bolts. She called out Domino's for not paying attention to safety and health as she...

The Taliban now have $83BILLION worth of military hardware. I want a friggin BlackHawk!!!

President Biden on Friday said he and Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed requiring COVID-19 booster shots every five months rather than every eight as previously anticipated. The shorter timeframe would increase the number of vaccine doses that the US will need to set aside for booster shots — as poorer nations clamor for more US donations. “The question raised is should it be shorter than eight months? Should it be as little as five months? That’s being discussed. I spoke with Dr. Fauci this morning about that,” Biden said in the Oval Office during a visit from Israeli Prime Minister Naftali...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is partnered with a self-described “socialist” internet foundation run by the branch of the Chinese Communist Party spearheading its digital campaign to censor factual narratives and push fraudulent information about COVID-19. The two foundations inked a memorandum of understanding in 2015, pledging cooperation in areas including “public health”: According to the cooperation memorandum of understanding, the two parties will rely on new technologies such as the Internet to promote pragmatic cooperation in the fields of charity, public health, and international development, and work together to improve the quality of life of the poor and...

@ChadPergram 1) The Supreme Court ruled the CDC’s extension of the eviction moratorium to be unconstitutional last night. There is now a push by progressives like Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) for Congress to pass a bill to address the eviction moratorium. 2) House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) has written a bill to tackle the issue. 3) White House Spokeswoman Jen Psaki just said that any potential legislation to address the eviction moratorium “would be up to the Speaker and the leaders to determine.” Psaki also says the President would be happy to sign a bill which renewed...

Just two weeks ago, the AP attempted a disgusting and desperate hit on Ron DeSantis for promoting the treatment of covid with monoclonal antibodies. They claimed that DeSantis was acting in some kind of criminal way because a single donor of his was also invested in monoclonal antibody treatments (among a million other things). Under pressure, the AP had to admit that, um, okay, maybe DeSantis wasn't solely motivated by a desire to indirectly boost the stock price of a single stock held by a single investor; maybe -- just maybe -- he was also motivated by the fact that...

President Joe Biden again refused to take questions on his Afghanistan debacle, a day after 13 United States service members were killed in a twin suicide bombing. The president spoke to reporters during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. “I’m not going to take any questions, because of the prime minister being here, on Afghanistan now,” he said. The event with Bennett was the only press event scheduled for Friday after the initial meeting was canceled on Thursday once news broke of the suicide bombings and the slain American troops. Biden struggled to answer questions from reporters after...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia's faculty of medicine and BC Cancer Research Institute have uncovered a weakness in a key enzyme that solid tumor cancer cells rely on to adapt and survive when oxygen levels are low. The findings, published today in Science Advances, will help researchers develop new treatment strategies to limit the progression of solid cancer tumors, which represent the majority of tumor types that arise in the body. Solid tumors rely on blood supply to deliver oxygen and nutrients to help them grow. As the tumors advance, these blood vessels are unable to provide oxygen...

Lack of FDA support amid "changes in the treatment landscape" cited in decisionGenentech announced that it will voluntarily withdraw its accelerated approval of the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab (Tecentriq), in combination with nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane), for metastatic PD-L1-positive triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The decision was made despite a vote of support by an FDA advisory committee to maintain the accelerated approval in the absence of compelling data to support the results that led to the conditional approval. Since that committee meeting, the company discussed possible postmarketing research requirements (PMR) with the FDA, but "due to changes in the treatment landscape, the FDA...

A new pre-print Israeli study has found that people with natural immunity to COVID-19 could be 13 times less likely to contract the respiratory virus than those who were solely vaccinated against the disease.Conducted by researchers at Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University, the yet-to-be peer-reviewed study found that when comparing individuals previously infected with the virus and those that received two jabs of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, those with natural infection saw greater protection against the delta variant and breakthrough infection.“SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when...

Activists from numerous gun control groups are pressuring President Biden to created a White House-level gun control office that can be led by an individual who does not need Senate confirmation. Politico reports that push comes as confirmation of Biden ATF nominee David Chipman appears unlikely, now that Sen. Angus King (I-ME) has voiced his opposition to the nomination. Subsequently, four groups from the gun control lobby–Guns Down America, March For Our Lives, Newtown Action Alliance, and Survivors Empowered–are urging Biden to create a gun control office that will not be dependent on Senate support. They sent a letter to...

Fully assembled SEND packages are released from the cell to be collected for gene therapy. Credit: McGovern Institute ________________________________________________________________________________ Made of components found in the human body, the programmable system is a step toward safer, targeted delivery of gene editing and other molecular therapeutics. Researchers from MIT, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new way to deliver molecular therapies to cells. The system, called SEND, can be programmed to encapsulate and deliver different RNA cargoes. SEND harnesses natural proteins in the body...

The father of one of the Marines killed in the bomb attack on Kabul airport yesterday is blaming Biden for it, saying he turned his back on the troops on the ground with his chaotic evacuation attempt that made them sitting ducks for ISIS-K. Thirteen US troops were killed along with 170 Afghans at the airport on Thursday when a single suicide bomber detonated his vest. The first four have been named; Navy medic Max Soviak and Marines Rylee McCollum, David Lee Espinoza and Kareem Nikoui. Kareem's outraged father Steve told The Daily Beast on Friday: 'They sent my son...

We were clear with the Taliban that we had this understanding--but you were going to live up to it. And we had a conditions-based withdrawal plan and we executed that. We were down from about 15,000 to a little over 2,500. And for the last 13 months of our administration, we didn't have a single American attacked or a single American killed. It wasn't because of the piece of paper, that was the set of understandings. It was because the Taliban understood that if they acted against Americans and took on actions that were inconsistent with what they had promised...