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More than a million customers across Lousiana are without power on Tuesday morning. Some reports indicate it could take weeks for the lights to come back on as thousands of miles of transmission lines were damaged after Hurricane Ida rolled through on Sunday. The Category 4 hurricane raises fresh questions about how well New Orleans and other coastal areas across Lousiana are prepared for natural disasters. As of 0630 ET, PowerOutage.US reports a little more than one million customers are without power across the state’s coastal plain. Energy provider Entergy Corp has been surveying the damage since Monday and has...

A “U.S. official” speaking without attribution told the news organization that the purpose of the communication was “to focus on managing risk between the two countries.” It was the first mil-to-mil conversation with China in the Biden administration. There is only one way for the U.S. to “manage risk” with a militant regime, and it does not involve hotline conversations.

A psychiatric nurse spoke out at a Bemidji school board meeting last week to bring attention to mental health issues she has seen arise in children who are forced to wear masks. “[COVID-19] brings just as many psychological consequences” to the human body as it does physical consequences, the nurse said. She shared that she has been a nurse for over 27 years and has her own private practice as a mental health practitioner. She attended the Bemidji school board meeting last Wednesday to represent the Bemidji Parents Union. “As we know, children are at an extremely low risk for...

A perfect vaccine protects like a child’s immunity after chicken pox. It prevents future disease, prevents transmissions to others, and lasts for a very long time. Anything less is called a leaky vaccine. Let’s see how our current COVID vaccines stand up to each of these points:Prevent Future Disease. COVID vaccines don’t connect on this standard, and there are any number of reports that can show this. Just to pick one we haven’t discussed before, read the MMWR Early Release for August 24, 2021 which shows vaccine effectiveness dropped from 91% to 66% since the arrival of the delta variant,...

The US Marine Corps officer who was relieved of his command for chastising his bosses over the botched Afghan withdrawal has revealed that he was ordered to undergo a mental health screening. “I was evaluated by the mental health specialists and then sent on my way. My CO is a standup guy, and I understand why he did it,” he added. A day earlier, the officer said in a YouTube video that he was sticking by his guns and resigning his commission — walking away from a pension after 17 years of service. Scheller was relieved of his command for...

People wait for inoculations at a Covid-19 vaccination center in Jung District, central Seoul, on Tuesday afternoon. As of Monday midnight, 51.2 percent of the country's population had received one vaccine shot. [NEWS1] Deaths following vaccine jabs among people in their 20s continue to be reported in Korea, adding fresh concerns as inoculations for younger people start Thursday. A 21-year-old female college student died one week after getting her first dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in Gongju, South Chungcheong on Monday, according to police reports. She had no known underlying medical condition, her family said. According to local police, the...

Virginia is home to the Pentagon, Quantico, multiple Army, Air Force, Marine, Coast Guard and Navy bases. NATO headquarters is here. As a Commonwealth, our veterans and active military members are our backbone. Our servicemen and women and our Intelligence Officers, have raised their family and put down roots for years and generations in Virginia. Virginia has a unique responsibility to stand up for our active duty military and veterans. That is why as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, I cannot remain silent as the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan is mismanaged and rushed — handled in a way...

The first estimate I saw from an administration spokesman was that there were between 5,000 and 10,000 Americans in Afghanistan. Just two weeks ago, Jen Psaki told us with seeming specificity that there were 11,000, or perhaps more: We are — there have been — how the process works, I should say — I’ll tell you — is that there are individuals who will self-identify as American citizens — that number is around 11,000. Beyond that — around the country — beyond that, though, there are individuals who may not have self-identified, who may come and request assistance and come...

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She argued the test used to test Geronimo was flawed and said he had tested positive previously because he had repeatedly been primed with tuberculin - a purified protein derivative of bovine TB bacteria.

With remarkable speed, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated select investment themes across a number of industries. Nowhere is that truer than the media and entertainment sectors where technological advances and work-from-home trends are rapidly changing the landscape. Structural shifts in media consumption are disrupting the business models of traditional media giants as momentum builds for cord cutting, streaming video services and more interactive forms of entertainment. The resulting shift in viewership habits, especially among young people, could profoundly alter the outlook for media companies in the years ahead. With that in mind, here are five powerful themes that I believe...

Liberty University this week switched all classes to online instruction due to increasing COVID-19 cases. The Virginia university made the change on Monday, just one week after the school year started, according to The Washington Post. “The campus infection rate is higher than at anytime last year, our only local hospital is reaching capacity for ICU COVID treatment, and we project our Annex quarantine capacity to be reached soon,” officials wrote in a statement on Friday, the Post noted.

The Lone Star State on Wednesday officially becomes the 21st-- and largest-- state to recognize that only the Constitution, not a permit, is needed to be able to legally carry a handgun.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in June signed seven pro-gun bills into law, sent to his desk by the state's Republican-controlled legislature. Among these measures was House Bill 1927, which recognizes that a state-issued license isn't required to legally carry a concealed handgun in Texas.The move keeps the state's popular carry permit process in place for those who elect to obtain one for reciprocity purposes in other states. The current...

"EXCLUSIVE: Emergency Response Says Department of Defense Has Taken Over Vaccine Shipment Crash That Shuttered Airspace UPDATE: HHS said in a statement to Timcast that all of the vaccines are accounted for. Read the full update here. The West Virginia Center for Threat Preparedness has confirmed to Timcast that the Department of Defense has taken over the case of a truck carrying Moderna vaccines that crashed near a waterway off Interstate-79. The Center for Threat Preparedness was in charge of trying to recover the vaccines, but are no longer permitted to speak to the press about the incident. Instead, they...

Apple spent $90,000 lobbying against past version of the bill.. A bipartisan group of senators on Friday introduced a bill that would stop U.S. companies from relying on Chinese slave labor. Introduced by Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.), the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act would require companies to ensure forced labor is not used in their supply chains. It would also direct federal departments to produce a strategy for cutting Chinese forced labor out of the U.S. supply chain. Up to one million members of the Uyghur ethnic minority have been placed in "re-education camps"...

On March 7, 1966, General Charles De Gaulle, the French President, informed the United States government the all foreign troops must leave France. That was the end result of a number of agendas which began with the French desire to develop a self-determinate nuclear arsenal, remove France from what it considered an unequal partnership with the United Kingdom and the United States in NATO, and free it from being drawn into a conflict between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization members and members of the Warsaw Pact, should the Russian forces encroach on West Germany territory. France wished to be free...

The Biden administration’s abject incompetence and focus on anything except the well-being of Americans is leading numerous analysts to start talking about the decline and imminent fall of the United States. One among the chorus of voices in the Islamic world crowing about America’s supposed coming demise is Islam Al-Ghamri, an Egyptian political analyst and former senior official of Egypt’s pro-Sharia Building and Development Party. Al-Ghamri recently appeared on Turkey’s Channel 9, a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Arabic channel, to predict that the fall of the United States would happen fairly soon, possibly even during his lifetime. Thanks to Joe Biden...

"To situate “A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?” in the scientific world in which it was written, the practice of theoretical physics is often an exercise in fabulism: you propose something new and strange that appears to fit with established theory and observations and then — this is the hard part — follow the ever-branching consequences of your new idea to see if there are any contradictions that might arise. After justifying those contradictions, you make or someone else makes a prediction, however outlandish or futuristic, and you wait for the moment between tomorrow and one hundred years from now...

A truck carrying a large supply of Moderna vaccines crashed on Interstate-79 near Morgantown, West Virginia early Friday morning — and officials refuse to answer any questions about it. The crash took Hazmat cleaning crews 21 hours to clear after the truck lost control and went through a concrete barrier. “A tractor trailer, carrying Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to be sent as aid to a foreign country, lost control on the interstate, struck a concrete barrier and went down over the embankment approximately 30 feet and rolled on its side,” Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “The driver was...