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More than 200 Seattle cops face being fired over vaccine mandate as 20% refuse to get jab Staffing crisis looms as department reels from 17% budget cut and 250 officers already quitting over 'anti-police climate' Seattle's Democrat mayor Jenny Durkan and King County Executive Dow Constantine made similar announcements which covered city and county employees respectively. But the move could see the number of cops in Seattle slashed - despite staffing at the department already at lows not seen since the 1980s. Just over 200 cops have either said they are not vaccinated, or have refused to turn over their...

MATAMOROS, Mexico — When the Supreme Court effectively revived a cornerstone of Trump-era migration policy late last month, it looked like a major defeat for President Biden. After all, Mr. Biden had condemned the policy — which requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico — as “inhumane” and suspended it on his first day in office, part of an aggressive push to dismantle former President Donald J. Trump’s harshest migration policies. But among some Biden officials, the Supreme Court’s order was quietly greeted with something other than dismay, current and former officials said: It brought some measure of relief.

Abstract A recent retrospective study has provided evidence that COVID-19 infection may be notably less common in those using supplemental melatonin. It is suggested that this phenomenon may reflect the fact that, via induction of silent information regulator 1 (Sirt1), melatonin can upregulate K63 polyubiquitination of the mitochondrial antiviral-signalling protein, thereby boosting virally mediated induction of type 1 interferons. Moreover, Sirt1 may enhance the antiviral efficacy of type 1 interferons by preventing hyperacetylation of high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), enabling its retention in the nucleus, where it promotes transcription of interferon-inducible genes. This nuclear retention of HMGB1 may also...

Less than one week after the United States completed its full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Sen. Lindsey Graham said the US will “have to” re-enter the war-torn country in an interview with BBC that aired worldwide on Monday. ...We will be going back into Afghanistan, as we went back into Iraq and Syria.” BBC host Stephen Sackur pushed Graham for clarification, asking if he “seriously” thought the US would re-enter the country after such a chaotic withdrawal. “We’ll have to,” Graham said. “We’ll have to. Because the threat will be so large. It will be a cauldron for radical Islamic...

Texas Senator Ted Cruz shared an article on Twitter Monday night that questioned the path forward for millions of Americans who lost unemployment benefits Texas Republican Senator told more than 7 million Americans whose federal COVID unemployment benefits expired on Monday to 'get a job' that night, predictably provoking outraged responses from across the internet. The conservative lawmaker shared an Associated Press article on the unemployment stipend drying up on Twitter late Monday night. It was headlined 'Jobless Americans have few options as benefits expire.' 'Um, get a job?' Cruz wrote in an apparent answer to the outlet. 'There are...

Pete Lopez, 73, died of COVID-19 on Monday, after weeks of his family pushing for hospital physicians to administer ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug. To last paragraph Lorigo said the hospital still refused to give Lopez ivermectin despite the judge's ruling, a decision the attorney said wasn't theirs to make because the court order made it a legal obligation. On Monday, the hospital received a stay from an appellate court judge and the parties were set to argue the case on Tuesday, but Lopez died before the hearing.

With most babies now protected, pregnancy centers step up to take care of mothers On a busy Tuesday at the Fifth Ward Pregnancy Help Center in Houston, a young woman burst into the lobby holding up a picture of the abortion pill on her phone. Screaming and crying with tears streaming down her face, she demanded, “I want this! Give me this!” The flustered staff ushered her into the conference room with the center’s executive director, Shayla Gaitor, who sat down across from her at the table and asked her what was wrong. As the woman vented, she slammed her...

AP reported 70% of poison calls in Mississippi were for ivermectin. The true number is reportedly 1.4%. Leah Willingham of the Associated Press (AP) joins Rolling Stone in having to correct an embarrassing error, as propagandists try to controversialize the medicine ivermectin to treat Covid-19. Both news agencies have passed along widely false information as they state or imply that leagues of uninformed people across the country are poisoning themselves with ivermectin. The AP report on August 23 falsely stated that 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were from people who had ingested ivermectin to try...

Why the Media Keep Publishing FictionI once taught a whole college seminar on how Rolling Stone got took.And now Rolling Stone has done it again. Maybe I’ll expand that seminar to a full semester — because the lessons of the journalistic crimes of Rolling Stone are applicable to much more than Rolling Stone.The venerable pop-music magazine, which not long ago had to retract a splashy story about a vicious gang rape that never happened, has now been obliged to issue a correction — this should be a prelude to retraction — for a story about how gunshot victims wheeled into...

President Joe Biden visited New York and New Jersey on Tuesday to view flood damage from Hurricane Ida that killed 52 in the Northeast – and had to endure angry hecklers as he sought to provide comfort to suffering families. -snip- After landing at John F. Kennedy airport in Queens, Biden was met by jeers and profane signs from a group of angry Trump supporters as his motorcade rolled through New Jersey One red, white and blue flag said "F*** Biden' with a sub-heading that read: 'And F*** You for voting For Him.' A school-age boy at a protest along...

The Model Y is Tesla’s newest available vehicle and also the company’s most popular car in several markets, including the United States...In February, Tesla officially filed to have the spring structure made permanent by filing with the City of Fremont to add a 64,000 square foot expansion to the factory. In July, Tesla officially started making GA 4.5 a permanent part of the company’s production facility by adding underground sewer connections for plumbing and creating foundational work for the spring structure to sit on...Tesla has been making tremendous strides toward improving GA 4.5, especially as demand for the company’s vehicles...

The Democratic Party and its apparatchiks in the media keep asking the American people variations on a single question: What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? From the Trump/Russia collusion fantasy and concocted claims that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” to ongoing efforts to cast an America that has never been freer or fairer as a nation riddled with “systemic” racial oppression, they keep insisting that we reject clear and convincing evidence and embrace politically driven falsehoods. The latest example is President Biden’s refusal to even acknowledge the catastrophic failure of his withdrawal from Afghanistan....

[Catholic Caucus] German(FSSP) priest challenges COVID jabs and LGBT agenda, gets forced out of parishA letter to the diocese emphatically expressed ‘our indignation and horror’ at the priest over criticizing ‘the current zeitgeist’ in his monthly bulletin to the faithful attached to the Traditional Latin Mass. RECKLINGHAUSEN, Germany (LifeSiteNews) — A German priest will be transferred to the Czech Republic after the parish where he was allowed to say the Traditional Latin Mass reported him to the diocese for questioning mainstream narratives about the COVID-19 vaccine, homosexuality, and gender ideology. Fr. Michael Ramm FSSP, a member of the Priestly Fraternity...

Oh how I despise this woman

Pelosi dismisses Manchin call for 'pause' on $3.5T spending plan © Greg Nash House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) call for a “pause” in deliberations on the $3.5 trillion spending package, saying she does not agree with the moderate senator’s recommendation. Pelosi, when on Monday for her reaction to Manchin’s call for a pause, said “Well obviously I don’t agree.” “I'm pretty excited about where we are. Everybody's working very hard, the committee's are doing their work. We’re on a good timetable, and I feel very exhilarated by it,” she added.

The following is a statement from GETTR CEO and former Trump Adviser Jason Miller who was detained for three hours at the airport in Brasilia. Miller had been in Brazil for CPAC Brazil Conference.

President Joe Biden on Thursday will present a six-pronged strategy intended to fight the spread of the highly contagious COVID Delta variant and increase U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations, the White House said on Tuesday. The United States, which leads the world in COVID-19 cases and deaths, is struggling to stem a wave of infections driven by the variant even as officials try to persuade Americans who have resisted vaccination to get the shots. Rising case loads have raised concerns as children head back to school, while also rattling investors and upending company return-to-office plans. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters...

2010 RJ53 The asteroid that’s making a flyby this week on September 9 is the 774-metre large 2010 RJ53. It is expected to fly by around 366,000 kilometres away from the planet, indicating that it will actually be closer to Earth than the Moon that’s around 384,400 kilometres away. 2021 PT Sunday i.e. on September 11, we’ll see another asteroid dubbed 2021PT. Although not as large as the 2010 RJ53, it's still quite substantial at around 137 metres in diameter at a distance of around 4.9 million kilometres away from Earth. 2021 NY1 The third asteroid that’s expected to fly...

A decade and a half back, the late Christopher Hitchens was talking to the then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and brought up my demographic-death-spiral thesis from America Alone. Hitch wanted to know whether, when the PM got together with the Continental bigwigs, it was part of "the European conversation". Tone replied that it was part of "the subterranean conversation". By which he meant that nice house-trained EU prime ministers hadn't figured out a way to raise such subjects in public without being damned as racists and becoming electorally unviable, at least anywhere west of the Landstraße, to modify Metternich....