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CDC issues urgent health advisory, strongly recommends #COVID19 vaccination for those pregnant, recently pregnant or trying to become pregnant or who might become pregnant in the future to prevent serious illness, deaths, & adverse pregnancy outcomes.https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00453.asp https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1443313161487196171

Like many 6-year-olds, Julian Gagnon likes to pick things up off the ground. Sticks, rocks, you name it. Earlier this month, he made his most important discovery yet. Important enough to garner the attention of University of Michigan’s Museum of Paleontology. Julian found an ancient mastodon tooth during a Sept. 6 hike with his family at Dinosaur Hill Nature Preserve in Rochester Hills. UM museum scientists verified its authenticity, and Julian will donate it to the museum to ensure its preservation. Julian is probably the first person to touch the tooth in 12,000 years, said Adam Rountrey, the paleontology museum’s...

Hillary Clinton on Thursday expressed support for ending the filibuster, contending that the Republican Party “does not respect the rule of law.” When asked during an interview for The Atlantic Festival’s Ideas Stage if she would end the filibuster, Clinton said “absolutely,” pointing to the GOP’s refusal to vote on Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2016. “Keeping the filibuster now, when you're dealing with a political party that does not respect the rule of law, does not even respect the process unless it works for them, you know, witness what they did to Merrick Garland when President...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday issued its strongest guidance to date urging pregnant women to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that the ban on mask mandates in schools is constitutional. https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1443607570879586307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Are we witnessing the end of United States global supremacy? This is a question that many academics and policy and foreign relations experts have asked for some time now. While the answer to the question may not be an immediate one, there are certainly enough indications that China is not only willing to challenge the U.S. as the world's superpower but that they are already doing it in more ways than most Americans likely realize. While it is true that nothing lasts forever and that, at some point, all things must come to an end, it would certainly be helpful...

The actress made quite the statement on Wednesday in honor of National Coffee Day by sharing a picture of herself covered in coffee beans.

Insulin resistance in people with type 2 diabetes was predictive of stroke, according to a Swedish nationwide cohort study. Patients with type 2 diabetes with less insulin resistance as measured by estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR) saw a significantly lower risk for any kind of first-time stroke over a median 5.6 years of follow-up, reported Alexander Zabala, MD, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. This association also appeared to be graded, with the less insulin resistance a person had correlating with an even lower risk for stroke in a fully adjusted model, Zabala said in a presentation at the virtual...

Three soldiers at an army base in New York are suspected to have died by suicide within just 48 hours, with one of them being among the last of the troops to leave Afghanistan just one month ago. Pfc. Tyler Thomas, 21, Spc. Sika Tapueluelu, 26, and Staff Sgt. Angel Green, 24, assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, all died within two days of each other in mid-September at Fort Drum army base in New York. Staff Sgt. Green, Green, an infantryman assigned to 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment (The Polar Bears), 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, was...

Nebraska is already promising to defy a Biden proposal that would require banks to hand over data on transactions over $600 on individual bank accounts to the IRS. 'My message is really simple. The people of Nebraska entrusted me to protect the privacy of these accounts and I am not going to comply with this. If the Biden administration sues me, we will take it all the way to the Supreme Court. We are going to fight every step of the way,' state treasurer John Murante told FOX Business. The proposal, backed by $79 billion in additional funding, would allow...

A Black woman in Virginia alleges a neighbor plays monkey noises and racial slurs over speakers to taunt her family from inside his home, but authorities say there's little they can do about it. Jannique Martinez says her family and other neighbors have been harassed in her Virginia Beach neighborhood for more than a year, reported NBC affiliate WAVY.

Sides,” or part two of “Operation EPIK FAIL.” Anonymous took credit earlier this month for breaching Epik, known for hosting far-right websites such as Gab, Parler, and TheDonald, before releasing an 180GB cache of the domain registrar’s data. The hack affected more than 15 million people and exposed names, physical addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, emails, and more. Now, the hacktivist collective says it has leaked “several bootable disk images of assorted systems” in a roughly 70GB torrent file. “[Y]ou didn’t think we completely dominated Epik and merely ran off with some databases and a system folder or two, did...

FBI agents returned to the Florida home of Brian Laundrie’s parents Thursday to collect “personal items” that will help in a massive manhunt for the 23-year-old fugitive. “The FBI is at the Laundrie home today to collect some personal items belong to Brian that will assist the canines in their search for Brian,” family attorney Steven Bertolino told The Post. “There is nothing more to this.” The feds’ visit marks at least the fourth time the FBI has been at the North Port house since Laundrie, sought for questioning in the disappearance and death of his girlfriend, Long Island native...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is surveilling America by launching a “Funded Surveillance” program called “Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms (FASTER).” This is a highly concerning development for gun owners, considering the federal government’s well-known desire to push gun control measures, monitor gun owners, and generally attack the Second Amendment in the United States. Now, the CDC is paying for states to “provide surveillance data in near-real time” on firearm injuries in emergency rooms. The CDC states: “CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention is funding 10 state health departments (up to $225,000 per recipient) as part of...

A man from Laramie, Wyoming was out in the wilderness archery hunting when he stumbled across an old GoPro. After taking it back to his camp and charging it, he found several minutes of footage that appeared to be captured by a bear. Dylan Schilt was out in the wilderness when he stumbled across the camera that he says had likely been there for several months. He described the situation on his Facebook. “Last week when I was up archery hunting, I stumbled across a GoPro that was lost while snowmobiling. When I got back to camp I charged it...

More German DissentBishop's address to politiciansThe head of the German Bishops' Conference is calling for "courageous" change in the Church. The prelate is known for his dissent from Church teaching on a host of topics such as the all-male priesthood. Church Militant's William Mahoney looks at some key points from the bishop's address.Bishop Georg Bätzing: "The Catholic Church is diversifying — but in very different ways and at very different speeds and partly with some unreconciled differences." Bishop Georg Bätzing, head of the German Bishops' Conference, spoke Tuesday evening to a room of guests and roughly 200 politicians, at the...

Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for an end to the federal debt ceiling altogether Thursday and shot down lawmakers' idea of minting a $1 trillion coin to avoid defaulting on the debt.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday confirmed to reporters his topline number for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package is $1.5 trillion. During the media powwow, Manchin said the far-left “should elect more liberals” if they want a more radical package with a price larger than $1.5 trillion.

Mild cases of COVID-19 could also leave a lasting impact on the human brain, according to a recent study. In August, researchers from England’s University of Oxford and the Imperial College of London wrote that brain imaging from the UK Biobank – including the data from more than 40,000 people in the United Kingdom, dating back to 2014 – showed differences in gray matter thickness between those who had been infected with COVID-19 and those who had not. The team said that using both hypothesis-driven and exploratory approaches, with false discovery rate multiple comparison correction, they had identified respectively 68...