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Protesters stopped traffic on the San Francisco bridge for about 45 minutes Immigration protesters stopped traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge for more than 30 minutes Thursday morning, urging Congress to pass a citizenship bill through the budget reconciliation process.... ...About 25 cars stopped traffic at around 7 a.m. on the bridge, and protesters delivered speeches from a bed of a truck and held banners reading, "Pass the $3.5 trillion spending bill," "Override the Parliamentarian," "Kamala: Override the Parliamentarian," and "Citizenship for All."... ...At least five people were arrested, according to the California Highway Patrol, and four vehicles were...

Apple today released iOS 15.0.1 and iPadOS 15.0.1 which include bug fixes for your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, respectively.iOS 15.0.1 includes bug fixes that address: Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch may not work on iPhone 13 models Settings app may incorrectly display an alert that storage is full Audio meditations could unexpectedly start a workout on Apple Watch for some Fitness+ subscribers For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

Ten hospitals around Southern California have had ICUs at or over capacity for 25 weeks or more. Three hospitals have had full ICUs for over a year. During the earliest days of the pandemic, calls to "flatten the curve" flooded social media from all corners, as health officials and politicians asked everyone to stay home and avoid spreading COVID-19. Those calls aimed to prevent more cases of the then-novel coronavirus, but beyond that, they aimed to keep hospital systems, healthcare workers and intensive care units from becoming overburdened with too many patients.... For some hospitals, ICUs began to slowly empty...

At the start of the pandemic, researchers began testing existing antivirals in people hospitalized with severe Covid-19. But many of those trials failed to show any benefit from the antivirals. In hindsight, the choice to work in hospitals was a mistake. Scientists now know that the best time to try to block the coronavirus is in the first few days of the disease, when the virus is replicating rapidly and the immune system has not yet mounted a defense. In a trial of hospitalized patients, however, molnupiravir seemed to have no effect on the disease. In April, the companies announced...

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) in a Friday tweet called the “live-leaker” who sent the press details about the House Democratic Caucus’s meeting while it was happening a “schmuck” and “coward.” The California Democrat said that the member who was live-leaking information to Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman apparently likes the narrative that the House Democratic Caucus is in disarray. ...

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These days, people are having a harder and harder time discerning the difference between a public school and a prison. Believe it or not, there are a few subtle differences that can be discerned with a trained eye! Our writers drew from their extensive experience going to both public school and prison to bring you this handy infographic. Enjoy!

Biden Didn’t Get 80 Million Votes – Not even close… I was noticing some analysis done on a thread about Ohio about reapportionment and nefarious dealings done by RINO DeWine because he hates Trump, and wanted to mess Congressman Jordan out of his seat during reapportionment. Comparisons were made at the county level between 2008 and 2020 showing there was an attempt to steal Ohio, but it failed because some counties’ Donk fraudsters were prevented from carrying it out where others did.

SAN ANTONIO - New developments in a police chase that ended in a deadly crash, killing 19-year-old TikTok star Gabriel Salazar from San Antonio. The crash happened around 1:25 a.m. Sunday along Highway 83 in Zavala County near LaPryor. The sheriff's office there says at the time Salazar was driving undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Those three passengers were also killed in the crash, all men ages 41, 36 and 23. According to the Zavala County Sheriff's Office, a deputy overheard a call from the Crystal City Police Department initiating a traffic stop on the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Salazar was driving....

People in Vietnam’s largest city will be able to leave their homes on Friday after three months of strict coronavirus restrictions. -- Vietnam will lift the lockdown in its largest city on Friday, ending nearly three months of restrictions on movement to curb a coronavirus surge. People in Ho Chi Minh City, a metropolis of 10 million, will be able to leave their homes, restaurants can serve take-away meals and other essential businesses can open, the city said on its website on Thursday.

(CNN)The federal government picked up the cost of the unprecedented expansion of jobless benefits during the pandemic, but many states are still facing a hefty tab for their share of the program -- and tough decisions about how to cover the bill. To avoid hiking taxes on employers, some states have opted to use billions of federal dollars they received in two congressional rescue packages to replenish their unemployment trust funds or repay the federal loans they took out. But others must decide whether to dip into the federal funds, hike taxes on employers or cut future benefits -- as...

Six months after receiving the second dose of the two-shot vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, many recipients no longer have vaccine-induced antibodies that can immediately neutralize worrisome variants of the coronavirus, a new study suggests.

“He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints" (Proverbs 2:7-8).

There was a time not very long ago when political parties never would have entertained the idea of jamming through any massive, generational reform without some form of buy-in from the other party. Today, Democrats argue that the filibuster’s imaginary threat of “minority rule” has compelled them to use (really, abuse) the budgetary reconciliation process to jam through their entire agenda in the most expensive bill in American history. In the days before the Affordable Care Act fight forever changed the Senate, nearly every major post-war reform bill easily passed the 60-vote threshold: The Civil Rights Act got 73 votes...

FlashPoint: President Donald Trump, David Harris Jr., Mario Murillo, Lance Wallnau and more! ​(even global warming)

The United States Postal Service projects that it will have a $160 billion loss over the coming decade, so it needs to boost revenue and cut costs. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy thinks he has the answer: offer slower service. That's right, DeJoy's blueprint for making the USPS solvent includes cutting costs by slowing mail delivery for millions of Americans coupled with hoped-for increased revenues from postage rate hikes, CBS News reported. However, critics have been quick to point out that this will likely discourage people from using the Post Office. What's happening? Starting Friday, DeJoy said, the postal service will...

'This is a hill worth dying on,' says the best-selling thriller writer Robert Harris, defending his right to create a character of any colour or gender, whatever the woke warriors may say. 'We have to have the artistic freedom to imagine and write about other sexes, other times. I think that is very important. Are you saying a woman can’t write a book in which there’s a male character? It’s ludicrous.'

October 2nd, 2021 Cathedral of Saint Jean-Baptiste de Lyons, Lyons, France By Otourly - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20013958 Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingBaruch 4:5-12,27-29 ©Take courage, my children, call on GodTake courage, my people,constant reminder of Israel.You were sold to the nations,but not for extermination.You provoked God;and so were delivered to your enemies,since you had angered your creatorby offering sacrifices to demons, not to God.You had forgotten the eternal God who reared you.You had also grieved Jerusalem who nursed you,for when she saw the...

Croc bites drone at Darwin wildlife park during 'Crocodile Territory' documentary filming It's the most powerful bite in the animal kingdom. An ABC News drone took the brunt of the bite force when a saltwater crocodile leapt up and plucked it from midair while ABC cameraman Dane Hirst was filming in Darwin. The freak event occurred during production of an ABC News multiplatform documentary, Crocodile Territory, which airs tonight. The documentary marks the 50th anniversary of the ban on hunting the ancient reptiles in the Northern Territory. Mr Hirst said he hadn't long been filming when he heard the kind...

THE UK has begun launching its booster shot programme in a bid to stave off a third wave of infections ahead of winter. New data released by the FDA has highlighted which side effects are to be expected after receiving a booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine.A drop-off in antibody levels after a second dose of the vaccine has informed the recommendation of a third booster shot for over-50s and younger adults with health conditions in the UK. Invitations to book the third coronavirus vaccine will today be sent out to more than a million Britons in a bid...