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Ahead of President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday about new COVID-19 measures, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that there may be new measures that will be imposed on unvaccinated people. “There are six steps the president’s announcing, there will be new components,” Psaki told reporters on Wednesday. “Some of that will be related to access to testing, some will be related to mandates, some will be related to how we ensure kids will be protected in schools.” When asked about how the new steps would impact Americans’ lives, Psaki said that “it depends on if you’re vaccinated or not.”

Alex Jones joins Owen to discuss the latest updates about the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal and Alex reveals why the cover up goes so deep. Video...

Lara Trump, former President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, blasted Vice President Kamala Harris and former first lady Michelle Obama over their "silence" on Afghan women. "You haven't heard anything from Michelle Obama. And you haven't heard from our Vice President Kamala Harris," she said during her appearance on Justice with Judge Jeanine on Fox News Saturday. "The woke Democrat women are among the most hypocritical individuals to walk the face of the Earth."... ...On Saturday, the Taliban fired gunshots to break up an Afghan women's march, protesting for equality for the second day in a row. Taliban officials reportedly began firing...

Suzy Kies, the co-chair of the Indigenous peoples' commission of the Liberal Party, has resigned from the position after her claim to Indigenous ancestry was called into question. Radio-Canada reported on Wednesday that it could not confirm Kies's claims to Indigenous ancestry. Kies told Radio-Canada in an interview that her father is of European descent and her mother is of Indigenous descent. "My mother's family is from several communities," she told Radio-Canada in an interview in French. "On my grandfather's side, it's the Maliseet, from St. Mary's, New Brunswick, there are also the Laporte who are Innu. And my grandmother...

The U.S. Department of State has warned Afghan refugees that California and Washington, D.C., might be too expensive.... “Please be aware that the cost of living and the availability of housing can vary significantly in different locations across the United States,” the department’s website read. “The Washington, DC metro area including northern Virginia and some cities in California are very expensive places to live... ....The webpage used to display a list of 19 “welcoming communities” for Afghans fleeing the Taliban, but now only suggests that refugees steer clear of the “very expensive places to live” according to WMTV. Chicago, Phoenix,...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The effects of Ivermectin therapy on human males can have an effect on men’s reproductive health. Researchers at three universities in Nigeria studied the effects of Ivermectin, which is used to treat river blindness and other medical conditions in humans, on men’s sperm counts. According to their study, 85 percent of men who take Ivermectin become sterilized. Ivermectin is often used as an anthelmintic to combat parasites in animals and some people have been using it to fight COVID-19 despite health experts’ recommendations against it.

& Afghanistan war veteran sent a letter to the State Department demanding answers after a source informed his office evacuees being held at a Southside Virginia military base have had "free reign" of the campus and have allegedly been leaving the base using rideshare apps without restraint from officials, Fox News has learned. Rep. Mark Green, who represents part of Middle Tennessee wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday after a source with knowledge of the situation made the allegations to his office. Green wrote Blinken asking for information regarding allegations not-fully-vetted Afghan evacuees being held at Fort Pickett...

One of the largest Confederate monuments came down Wednesday in Richmond, Va. Now, the state is announcing new plans for the base that used to hold the massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. They're going to remove a 133-year-old copper time capsule inside the pedestal and replace it with one that they say will reflect the current cultural climate in Virginia. ... The original time capsule was placed in the pedestal of the Confederate monument on Oct. 27, 1887, according to Virginia historians When the capsule is removed on Thursday, state officials said the original capsule will be...

California candidate for governor Larry Elder had his campaign event halted Wednesday after protesters shot his security detail with a pellet gun. "Today I kicked off the Recall Express bus tour. Before we even left Los Angeles, my security detail was physically assaulted, shot with a pellet gun, and hit with projectiles," the Republican candidate said in a statement on Twitter. "The intolerant left will not stop us. We will recall Gavin Newsom. We will save California." Pellet guns can cause serious injury, particularly at close range.

“Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance” As I reflect on the recent news of leaving Afghanistan, it reminds me of the evacuation I participated in as a junior enlisted marine in Beirut, Lebanon in 1984. Despite both the differences and similarities between these two operations, the main thing to remember is, as Marines, soldiers, or whatever branch of service, we receive our orders from the top. Our orders descend from the commander-in-chief to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, through the chain of command, all the way down through the lowly private standing next to you. We go and we accomplish...

Twelve years ago in autumn, the Year of the Ox according to the traditional Chinese horoscope and a year after the massive 2008 financial crisis, then-US president Barack Obama went to Beijing to propose a megadeal to China. It was a pact about the environment that could include technology transfer from the US to China. The pact didn’t gain traction in China and was finally scuttled at the climate conference in Copenhagen that December. Last week, again in the Year of the Ox, US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry went to Tianjin to broach the environmental issue with the...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have noted that certain patients are at especially high risk of developing severe illness or dying from coronavirus infection. Type 2 diabetes—a condition affecting more than 10 percent of the U.S. population— is one of the main risk factors for severe COVID-19 illness. New research from U-M uncovers why this might be and offers hope for a potential therapy. The culprit appears to be an enzyme called SETDB2. This same enzyme has been implicated in the non-healing, inflammatory wounds found in people with diabetes…. "We think we have a reason for why these patients are...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Several prominent Republicans came forward this week to call for the impeachment or resignation of whoever on earth is telling Biden what to do every day. "I think it's clear at this point that the person controlling Biden —and telling him what to do and say every moment—is completely incompetent," said Republican Representative Bob McCobb. "We're not really sure who that is, but they need to be impeached immediately. They suck." Americans increasingly agree with this sentiment, as recent polls revealed record-low approval ratings for whoever that person is who is pulling the strings of the barely sentient President...

Reading native Michael Constantine, an actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as high school principal Seymour Kaufman in the TV series “Room 222” from 1969 to 1974 and his portrayal of Kostas “Gus” Portokalos, the Windex bottle-toting father of the bride in the 2002 film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” died Aug. 31 at age 94, his family disclosed Wednesday.Constantine’s brother-in-law Michael Gordon said Constantine died peacefully of natural causes in his Reading home, surrounded by family, including his sisters, Patricia Gordon and Chris Dobbs. Constantine had been ill for several years, but the nature of his illness was...

Democrat Pollsters Warn Joe Biden’s Incompetence, Chaos Hurting Party: ‘They Don’t Know What the F*** They’re Talking About’ Top Democrat pollsters and strategists are beginning to realize the Biden administration is failing on nearly every challenge before the nation, including Afghanistan, increasing wages, border security, and coronavirus. Pollster Paul Maslin told Politico Joe Biden’s presidency has turned into chaos with few if any redeeming features. “There’s no good news here. This is all on his watch,” said Maslin, who worked Jimmy Carter and Howard Dean. “You can argue what he’s doing or not doing, but it’s almost irrelevant. If things...

Facebook A new chapel was recently consecrated at the site of a Soviet prison in Ukraine where newly-glorified New Martyrs served their sentences. The former Elisavetgrad prison, in today’s Kropivnitsky in central Ukraine, saw the suffering of the holy New Martyrs Archpriest Platon Kupchevsky and Archpriest Nikolai Vinogradov. Today the building serves as the provincial pre-trial detention center. The new prayer room was created by the administration and the prisoners themselves, and was consecrated by a cleric of the Kirovograd Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, reports the local Holy Annunciation Church. Hieromartyrs Platon and Nikolai were imprisoned several times...

Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - While the "Time of Creation" opens again this year, a period of the year in which Christians of different confessions around the world are invited to pray and work together for the custody of the "common home", the growing ecological sensitivity of the baptized is also reflected in the concrete and operational choices made by various ecclesial institutions in the context of their own pastoral, charitable and educational activities. The series of "agreements" stipulated by the "Pontifical Mission" in the Holy Land with Catholic institutions and academic schools present in the Holy Land is also part...

The culprits behind the 2020 Election steal in Arizona have done all they can to stop any legitimate audit work in the state. The thieves who stole the 2020 Election knew the results in Arizona were insane. That’s why they did everything they could to stop it. Maricopa County did its own audits in an attempt to delegitimize the Senate’s audit and claim it wasn’t necessary. Their audits were garbage and never were going to catch any fraud in the election results which is why they were done. The culprits behind the election steal brought in big league attorneys to...

ROME – As blowback mounts to increasingly strict international vaccine requirements, Pope Francis in the preface for a new book by an Italian journalist called the vaccines a sign of hope amid a global nightmare and urged people to trust what science has to say. “We must find hope and trust in science today too: thanks to the vaccine, we are slowly returning to see the light again, we are emerging from this ugly nightmare,” the pope writes. The preface is part of a new book titled, “Beyond the Storm” by Italian journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona of Mediaset, and which...