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PHOENIX (AP) — Scammers were able to pocket nearly 30% of the $16 billion in unemployment insurance payments sent out by Arizona since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the director of the state agency overseeing the program said Thursday. Most of the fraud happened in the first several months of the pandemic and mainly hit federally funded emergency unemployment insurance programs. Those programs were designed to help people who normally would not be eligible for assistance because they had contract jobs or were so-called “gig workers” such as Uber drivers. Their employers generally did not pay into the unemployment...

A lawyer representing the family of the woman and child who died when they fell from a third-level dining area at Petco Park over the weekend says they are planning to file a wrongful death lawsuit, KTLA sister station KSWB in San Diego reports. Investigators are continuing their probe into Saturday’s incident when 40-year-old Raquel Wilkins and her 2-year-old son, Denzel Browning-Wilkins, tumbled over the railing to their deaths before to the start of a Padres game. A witness this week told KSWB that Wilkins appeared to lose her balance after jumping up on a bench of a picnic table...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing bipartisan criticism over its approach to immigration, the Biden administration on Thursday announced new rules that require authorities to only pursue migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety. The new guidelines replace interim rules issued in February that were initially blocked by a federal judge in August as part of a lawsuit brought by Texas and Louisiana. They break from a more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement under former President Donald Trump, who early in his presidency directed authorities to apprehend anyone who was...

EXEMPT from Biden's Vaccine Mandate Congress/Legislative Branch Congress Staff Judicial Branch White House Staff CDC Employees FDA Employees USPS Employees NIAID Employees PFIZER Employees MODERNA Employees

While political tensions between Beijing and Canberra were largely left aside, WA Premier Mark McGowan used an event with the state's top Chinese diplomat to lament the eastern states' failure to acknowledge China's contribution to Australia's economic success. Neither McGowan nor Consul General Long Dingbin made mention of their nations' ongoing trade war, the AUKUS deal and the nuclear submarines that come with it, or the fact that Australian Federal Ministers cannot get their Chinese counterparts to pick up the phone. As guests of honor, alongside mining magnate Andrew Forrest, they both highlighted the strong relationship WA had with China...

A woman who received a phone call from the CDC’s National Immunization Surveys (NIS) claims she was told she wasn’t on the federal agency’s ‘vaxxed list’ and was subsequently “shamed” and “pressured” into getting the jab. Alex Jones calls the CDC ops to warn them against illegally harassing American citizens. https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=6155fd2e26e1342117411c4c

A great series for those who seek a deeper understanding of dispensationalism, the Grace message, the message given to Paul to give to the church, and the differences between the Gospel given to the Jews and the Gospel given to the church.

A mere 40 minutes later, Wredberg discovered the glimmering gemstone on the ground and handed it to her husband. The excited gal didn’t initially realize what it was, “but it was clean and shiny, so I picked it up!” she exclaimed. He added that the pear-shaped rock, which weighed “more than four carats” was about the size of a “jellybean,” making it the largest gemstone discovered at the site this year. More than 250 diamonds have been registered at the state park in 2021, with visitors finding around two diamonds a day on average.

On this date in 1630, Massachusetts’ Plymouth Colony held its first hanging — of a guy who’d come over on the Mayflower. John Billington‘s John Hancock is on the Mayflower Compact, but he and his progeny had an ill reputation from the start. Billington’s son almost torched the Mayflower while the pilgrims were still living in it; the old man himself achieved the distinction of “the first offence since our arrival … for his contempt of the captain’s lawful command with opprobrious speeches, for which he is adjudged to have his neck and heels tied together; but upon humbling himself...

I just heard this one from a friend: LGBTQ = Let's Get Biden to Quit! Wondering if Freepers know of other creative slogans / memes. If you know or can think of any, please post them here. This should be fun. Let's make a list.

"You Sir, Are The One Ignoring Science". Thank you Rand Paul for exposing the communist Bacerra and the others who are espousing communist ideology in our government and the totalitarian, authoritarian policies coming our way.

In the name of Covid, a Canadian provincial government has granted itself ’emergency powers,’ allowing them to seize personal property at will. Under Orwellian new health orders, the Saskatchewan minister may “authorize the entry into any building or on any land, without warrant, by any person in the course of implementing an emergency plan.” But it gets worse… The Canadian government has also granted itself the power to “cause the evacuation of persons and the removal of persons or livestock and personal property from any area of Saskatchewan that is or may be affected by an emergency and make arrangements...

The fervor in which our government and media have been pushing this untested, experimental gene therapy on the populous is as suspicious as it is concerning. But now they have the battle cry of its “FDA approved” so it’s completely safe! Oh is it? While the media ran with the story that the Pfizer show was “FDA approved” ….the truth is that it’s not. They never had a public forum to discuss the myriad of side effects and death, nor comple the stage 3 trials required for approval per the FDA’s own perimeters. What the FDA did “approve” however, was...

Explanation: Gorgeous spiral galaxy M33 seems to have more than its fair share of glowing hydrogen gas. A prominent member of the local group of galaxies, M33 is also known as the Triangulum Galaxy and lies a mere 3 million light-years away. Sprawling along loose spiral arms that wind toward the core, M33's giant HII regions are some of the largest known stellar nurseries, sites of the formation of short-lived but very massive stars. Intense ultraviolet radiation from the luminous massive stars ionizes the surrounding hydrogen gas and ultimately produces the characteristic red glow. To highlight the HII regions in...

arc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill · Sep 30, 2021 After my successful Achilles surgery on Friday, I was rushed to the ER on Saturday after suffering a mild heart attack. Over the previous two weeks, I had DVT (deep vein thrombosis), which was caused by my Achilles rupture. This is an extremely common outcome for such injuries.

Masks requirement in the House Tours not allowed Yet here we are — group of 9, only 2 in masks

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles officials on Wednesday signaled they would vote next week to prohibit unvaccinated people from entering most businesses in the United States’ second-largest city, one of the nation’s most severe crackdowns so far of the COVID-19 pandemic. All but one of the City Council members present on Wednesday said they supported the proposed “emergency” ordinance, which would require proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, bars, shopping centers, gyms and other indoor spaces. “I am sick and tired of yahoos going into Trader Joe’s (grocery store) refusing to wear a mask,” City Council member Paul Kerkorian...

Border Patrol agents have discovered nearly two dozen illegal aliens inside water drainage systems in multiple Texas cities in recent days, according to reports.Migrants were caught moving through sewers in Hidalgo and Brownsville this week, and some were pulled through manholes onto the street.“NOT SO SECRET passages uncovered in two south Texas cities,” Rio Grande Valley Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted on Wednesday.“Smugglers continue to use dangerous tactics to move migrants across the border.”https://twitter.com/USBPChiefRGV/status/1443342486429126659Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says agents discovered footprints leading to a drainage pipe in Brownsville on Tuesday.“The Brownsville Fire Department was requested and responded to...

As one who enjoys an ecclectic music library and was born in an age when recorded music went from mono to stereo, it gives me joy to look back on the 70s when the industry was blossoming with analog recording, tube amps, and turntables. I also have been a participant in live music performance over the years. The occasions were rare that everything clicked. The audience. The acoustics. The sound system. The band chemistry. One of my best memories was playing Buddy Miles "Changes" at a wedding reception in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Today I decided to search out Buddy Miles...

Since leaving Afghanistan, everyone who was on the gates has their own stories about the horrors they saw. American soldiers and Marines were placed under very strict orders not to interfere with anything that happened outside of the gates. Every inch of the city, right up to the walls, was controlled by the Taliban. The Taliban set up checkpoints on the roads leading to the airport, tightly controlling the movement of people and vehicles to and from the vicinity. We heard reports of all sorts of atrocities committed by the Taliban. I listened to reports about sniper teams observing the...