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Groups say first of them could arrive today Matt Murphy State House News Service With the United States’ military evacuation of Afghanistan complete and some immigrant advocacy groups calling on the state to make money available to support refugees, Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday he has spoken to the federal government about being “as helpful as we can be, when we need to be.” Baker also offered his condolences to the family of Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, one of the U.S. military members killed in last week’s attack on the airport in Kabul. Rosario, 25, was among the 13...

A woman undergoing chemotherapy was able to keep her hair, all due to a special cooling treatment. Share KSBWUpdated: 6:31 AM PDT Aug 30, 2021 Infinite Scroll Enabled Troy Frisby Digital Content Producer Jennifer Bruck’s hair began growing back after her treatment for stage 1B breast cancer in 2019. But the following year, she was diagnosed with stage 4 metastasized breast cancer. "I lost all my hair during that treatment and very quickly, within two weeks of starting that treatment, I lost all of that, and then I was good," Bruck said. "The first round, it was difficult to see...

Starting bid is just 2 mill. Current high bid is this amount. https://realestatesales.gov/gsaauctions/aucpbsindx/?sl=DCNCR021001001Nike was an interesting program. Rings of missile defense placed around certain cities in the US. Simple concept - if there was an incoming missile, just fire up a tactical nuke to take it out. Like in horseshoes, you just need to get close. Unfortunately they realized the fallout might be a bit of a problem and the program was terminated. So we never got to actually send one up. :<

The Dukes of Hazzard's John Schneider has revealed that his production studio in Holden, Louisiana was left badly ravaged by Hurricane Ida. The New York-born star, 61, who played Bo Duke on the show during its six-year run, took to Facebook to share an image of the damage on Monday, with the picture showing one of the General Lee cars from the show smashed by a fallen tree. He penned: 'Well… When something like this happens you have two choices: Tears and laughter. I choose laughter. So… What’s your caption? Here’s mine: "Miss Ida stopped by to see the General...

Jake Sullivan wouldn't classify the Taliban as an enemy of the U.S. – or really put them under any classification – during a Tuesday interview upon the president declaring an end to the 20-year war in Afghanistan. 'Well, it's hard to put a label on it,' Biden's national security adviser responded.

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The Socialist Left government of the state of Victoria has shifted the goalposts again. Now the lockdown, the imprisonment of 5 million people in their own homes, does not depend on how prevalent the Coronavirus is. It depends on how many people have been vaccinated. People are being driven out of their minds as children want to kill themselves and businesses go under and the mad nanny state ignores the numbers on the virus and says to the people you can have your normal life back only if enough of you have had the vaccine. "Victorian businesses ‘shattered’ by Andrews’...

More than 800,000 Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Navy Sailors served in the war in Afghanistan. I am one of them. I worked the streets of Kabul on my last deployment. Day, and night we trudged the mind- bending, stomach- turning streets of the overcrowded streets of Kabul. It amazed me how many people could fit on the back of one motor bike, and how daring civilians were to jump right in front of an armored vehicle with the horn blaring with seemingly no regard for their personal safety. I became a man there too. I learned a lot about myself....

In Japan, 1.6 million doses of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine have been withdrawn from use because they are contaminated by foreign matter. "It's a substance that reacts to magnets," a ministry official said. "It could be metal." A Moderna spokesperson confirmed receiving several complaints of particulate matter in vaccine vials distributed in Japan, but denied there were any safety or efficacy issues to be worried about. "Hundreds of millions of people have received this vaccine. A much smaller number have been magnetized, killed or otherwise harmed by it." In the United Kingdom, the Francis Crick Institute conducted a test for antibodies...

LOS ANGELES—Sunday evening I was standing in an excited crowd at a Long Beach fundraiser for Larry Elder’s California gubernatorial campaign when I received a text with the headline “Gov. Newsom Pivots Recall Speeches To Attack Larry Elder’s Political Opinions.”Article by Roger L. Simon from our news partners at The Epoch Times.The article was from the California Globe, a publication I had never heard of, and was dated Aug. 17, ages ago in the whirlwind pace of today’s politics, but it caught my eye because it quoted extensively from Gavin Newsom’s stump speech, which ran in part:“Though we defeated Trump,...

Fifty years ago this August, United States President Richard Nixon went on TV right before Bonanza, a popular western series starring Canadian Lorne Greene, and shocked the world. Nixon unhitched the U.S. dollar from the value of gold. The move changed the global monetary system almost overnight. The eventual result was the floating international exchange rates we still use today.

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from "What to Say When" by Shawn Carney and Steve Karlen.What Not to SayMeaningful conversations, whether they go well or not, leave us thinking later, “I wish I would have said this” or “I wish I would have thought of that.” In such polarizing times, wording is important and saying the wrong thing could derail a conversation--especially when discussing sensitive conversations like abortion. The points we shouldn’t make, that don’t advance the conversation in a grace-filled way, will do the opposite. They can concede ground (without us even realizing it) or convey disrespect...

While animal rescue groups across the globe race to get dogs out of Afghanistan, Pentagon officials want to be very clear: The U.S. military did not leave any of its working dogs behind. Viral photos purporting to show dogs locked in cages at Hamid Karzai International Airport have raised the hackles of U.S. lawmakers and dog lovers alike. But the photos are not of military working dogs, as the American Humane Society and others have suggested. “ “To correct erroneous reports, the U.S. military did not leave any dogs in cages at Hamid Karzai International Airport, to include the reported...

Universities and colleges have responded to the pandemic with widely differing approaches from mandated vaccines to bimonthly testing. Amherst College however, stands out in its prohibition of off-campus travel without the express approval of the school. The rule has triggered a backlash by students.Under the college’s August 25 guidelines (active through September 13), “Students may visit the town of Amherst, masked when indoors, in order to conduct business (opening bank accounts, picking up prescriptions, etc.) during regular business hours, but may not go to restaurants or bars.” However, other “off-campus travel,” with the exception of travel to other nearby universities...

I just heard an unconfirmed report that Diane Feinstein passed away in her sleep last night.

Check out Facebook's warning that interest in food preservation might be a sign of extremism among those who are "becoming too prepared." This is what I call "War by Venn Diagram." Everyone knows folks who can/prep are conservatives. This is just a sneaky way to harass them.

I had hand surgery a few days ago and writing and typing are tough at the moment. Anybody got a HELPFUL suggestion for a dictation app that works across the Microsoft 365 suite? TIA

Pediatricians and other health care workers are suing the Biden administration over a mandate that would require medical professionals to provide gender-related services regardless of any medical objections. Indeed, any objections, even in terms of treatment on children, would be considered “discrimination.” As reported by the Daily Wire, the American College of Pediatricians, the Catholic Medical Association, and an OB-GYN doctor who specializes in caring for adolescents filed the lawsuit in federal court. The lawsuit, American Colleges of Pediatricians v. Becerra, was filed Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The Alliance Defending...

Satellite images from Maxar taken earlier this month and provided to USNI News confirm that a special purpose ship, Akademik Aleksandrov, is using the facility. And the vessel appears to have a Poseidon round, or related surrogate load, aboard.The facility is on the Northern shore of the Northern Dvina River on the edge White Sea. Work on the new quay started in 2018 and was substantially completed in 2020. Akademik Aleksandrov has been observed there in July and August. There is also a large building that was recently built adjacent to the new quay and may also be related to...

Jake Sullivan wouldn't classify the Taliban as an enemy of the U.S. – or really put them under any classification – during a Tuesday interview upon the president declaring an end to the 20-year war in Afghanistan. 'What is the Taliban? Are they now our frenemy, are they our adversary, are they our enemy? Are they our – what are they?' MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asked Sullivan. 'Well, it's hard to put a label on it,' Biden's national security adviser responded. He added: 'In part because we have yet to see what they are going to be now that they're...