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Monday night, fans tuned in, whether by streaming or updates via Twitter posts, to see the who’s who of Hollywood walk the red carpet at the 2021 Met Gala. But, like many other significant events, the annual fundraising gala altered its traditional presentation to ensure everyone’s safety during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—requiring that all attendees be vaccinated against the deadly virus. The usual suspects were in attendance, including Rihanna, Yara Shahidi, and some new, like co-host Keke Palmer. However, fans quickly noticed rapper Nicki Minaj was missing in action. The “Anaconda” emcee last attended the event in 2019 wearing a...

SOUTH BEND — Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas will speak this week at the University of Notre Dame. The associate justice will give the university's Tocqueville Lecture on Thursday at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center in an event presented by the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government. The event is free, but ticketed. Limited public tickets will be available an hour before the 3:30 p.m. lecture. Members of the public can line up for tickets as early as two hours before the event. Masks are required at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and backpacks, briefcases and similar items will...

After trans-identified MMA fighter Alana McLaughlin used a chokehold to defeat opponent, Celine Provost, in their match on Friday, popular English broadcaster Piers Morgan said watching the match made him "sick." Although Provost is a 32-year-old female that has over a decade of experience in competing in MMA, she lost her match to McLaughlin, a 38-year-old Army veteran who spent six years serving in the U.S. military as a male. Morgan wrote an opinion piece published by The Daily Mail about the match for Combate Global at the Univision Center in Miami, calling it the "moment ideology met cold, hard...

[Catholic Caucus] Lay Catholics on Latin Mass: ‘We will not let anyone deprive the faithful of this treasure’Lay Catholics from all over the world asked the Pope ‘to reverse his decision, by abrogating Traditionis Custodes and restoring full freedom to celebrate the Tridentine Mass, for the glory of God and the good of the faithful.’(LifeSiteNews) — An international group of lay scholars and Catholic organizations on Tuesday launched a website and published a list of prominent Catholics in support of a recent September 8 statement declaring they will not accept Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis Custodes which is essentially trying...

Biden's great-great-great-grandfather, Jesse Robinett, was found to have owned two slaves in Maryland, according to the 1800 census, Bennerman found in his research. ***** Another Biden great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Randle, enslaved a 14-year-old, according to the census records and other documents in the mid-1800s.

The 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York resulted in the loss of 2,753 people in the Twin Towers and surrounding area. After the attack, more than 100,000 responders and recovery workers from every U.S. state – along with some 400,000 residents and other workers around ground zero – were exposed to a toxic cloud of dust that fell as a ghostly, thick layer of ash and then hung in the air for more than three months. The World Trade Center dust plume, or WTC dust, consisted of a dangerous mixture of cement dust and particles,...

People with type 2 diabetes should be considered in remission after sustaining normal blood sugar levels for three months or more, according to a new consensus statement from the Endocrine Society, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Diabetes UK and the American Diabetes Association, and co-published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Diabetologia, Diabetic Medicine and Diabetes Care. pulation has diabetes, and these numbers continue to rise. People with type 2 diabetes can achieve "remission" by sustaining normal blood sugar levels for at least three months without taking diabetes medication. There is still a lot of...

When it comes to water, some materials have a split personality - and some of these materials could hold the key to new ways of harnessing solar energy. These small assemblies of organic molecules have parts that are hydrophobic, or water-fearing, while other parts are hydrophilic, or water-loving. Because of their schizoid nature, micelles organize themselves into spheres that have their hydrophilic parts turned out while their hydrophobic parts are shielded inside. A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory has shown water can serve another previously undiscovered role as these micelles coalesce to spontaneously...

[Catholic Caucus] It Won't Go Away, Francis: Old Rite Catholics Kneel In Rain Beside Unused ChurchThe journalist Paweł Milcarek published two pictures of Last Sunday's Roman Mass in Warsaw-Praga Diocese, Poland, which is headed by Bishop Romuald Kamiński, 66.The faithful are seen attending Mass in an overfilled tiny chapel, and therefore kneeling in the rain outside. A big church is a stone’s throw away and unused.Another Roman Mass chapel of the same diocese is located in an attic in Otwock where, despite open windows, the faithful have barely enough air to breathe.

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 198 pages of records and communications from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) involving “humanized mice” research with human fetal heads, organs and tissue, including communications and contracts with human fetal tissue provider Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR). Most of the records are communications and related attachments between Perrin Larton, a procurement manager for ABR, and research veterinary medical officer Dr. Kristina Howard of the FDA. Judicial Watch received the records through a March 2019 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, of which the...

Infamous Norm MacDonald appearance where he claims Bill Clinton murdered someone and offends the cast of The View.

Like all Americans, I was stunned and horrified at the images of falling bodies from planes, mothers handing babies over walls, and terrified Afghans being crushed to death at checkpoints due to our precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan. I am deeply troubled by the plight of Afghan women forced to live under the return of Taliban rule and felt great sadness when reading a story about a popular folk singer, Fawad Andarabi, being dragged from his home and shot by the Taliban. Though I believe the decision to withdraw or not from Afghanistan has good arguments on both sides, I cannot...

Drug overdose deaths rose by close to 30% in the United States in 2020, hitting the highest number ever recorded, according to a report the CDC issued in July 2021. The data indicates more than 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020—a 29% increase from the 72,151 deaths projected for 2019. While it’s still early in the process, scientists at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons have now taken a step toward turning those numbers around. A team at the university is leading a Phase 1a/1b clinical trial for an experimental vaccine for treatment of opioid use...

Below is the statement former President Donald Trump issued Tuesday after a bombshell report alleged Gen. Mark Milley sabotaged the Republican President during the final day of his presidency. “If the story of ‘Dumbass’ General Mark Milley, the same failed leader who engineered the worst withdrawal from a country, Afghanistan, in U.S. history, leaving behind many dead and wounded soldiers, many American citizens, and $85 Billion worth of the newest and most sophisticated Military equipment in the world, and our Country’s reputation, is true, then I assume he would be tried for TREASON in that he would have been dealing...

“Norm @normmacdonald was a great talent, and I loved laughing with him on SNL. *Bob Dole* will miss Norm Macdonald.” pic.twitter.com/gPsdyJ5tS9— Senator Bob Dole (@SenatorDole) September 14, 2021❤️❤️ RIP @normmacdonald https://t.co/0HIPXzPEMj— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 14, 2021

Chinese billionaire Hui Ka Yan is probably edging towards a restructuring of Evergrande’s whopping $302 billion in total liabilities, as the property developer makes little progress in averting a mounting debt crisis that has led to protests outside its headquarters. Evergrande has hired two advisors—Houlihan Lokey and Admiralty Harbour Capital–to assess its capital structure and evaluate the company’s overall liquidity, the Hong Kong-listed firm said in a stock exchange filing today. Zhou Chuanyi, a credit analyst at Singapore-based Lucror Analytics, said such action usually heralds a debt restructuring down the road, and investors are now closely monitoring its interest payments...

I thought it might be interesting to compile an up to date listing of various mask and vaccine regimes in place in various states of the USA and provinces/territories of Canada. If you are familiar with these in your jurisdiction, please add your stats and info.

Sen. Josh Hawley pledged on Tuesday to hold up confirmation votes for all Pentagon or State Department nominees until key members of President Biden’s Cabinet resign over the Afghanistan pullout. Mr. Hawley, Missouri Republican, issued the threat during a speech on the Senate floor when he introduced legislation honoring the 56 Missourians who died while deployed to Afghanistan.

Trump reacted to this news on Tuesday and said if it’s true, it’s treason. “So, first of all, if it is actually true, which is hard to believe that he would have called China and done these things and was willing to advise them of an attack or advance of an attack, that’s treason!” Trump said. “Number two, it’s totally ridiculous…for him to say that I would even think about attacking China — I think he’s just trying to get out of his incompetent withdrawal out of Afghanistan…they killed our soldiers and we left $85 billion worth of equipment.” Advertisement...

Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement after introducing a resolution to create a pilot program to require the leadership of the House of Representatives to wear body cameras and share the recorded footage with the public. “Today, body-worn cameras already provide valuable evidence defending police officers from otherwise false and frivolous accusations. Occasionally, the police worn body cameras show a law enforcement error. There is further movement to put cameras in school classrooms. Too often what is really happening in our schools is hidden from parents.