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Police have apprehended a suspect who shot and killed someone inside a Philadelphia hospital around 12.12am on Monday morning. Authorities detained the male suspect following a shootout in the city's Parkside section that left two officers injured. Officers cornered the shooter after he fled the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City in an U-Haul, prompting a manhunt. ,,,

Former President Donald Trump has revealed he got Pfizer's COVID vaccine before leaving office - and that he may get a booster shot if he thinks it is necessary. Trump had not previously announced which vaccine he had received.

During his victory speech on Nov. 8, resident Joe Biden promised to “make America respected around the world again.” It’s only been eight months since Biden took office and he’s already proven that promise laughably false. He’s consistently put Americans last, abandoned our allies, and aided our enemies. Under his leadership, America is less feared and more vulnerable to threats foreign and domestic. Far from being respected, Biden has embarrassed the United States on the world stage. Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal included relying on the Taliban to ensure safe evacuations for Americans and reportedly giving these terrorists the names of...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Thursday, questioning the secretary for recently mocking coronavirus survivors — who have natural immunity — as “flat-earthers” for choosing not to get the vaccine. Paul asked Becerra if he was familiar with an Israeli study involving 2.5 million patients, which found that the vaccinated group was “actually seven times more likely to get infected with COVID than the people who had gotten COVID naturally.” Becerra admitted he was unfamiliar with the study, prompting Paul to...

Pity Chuck Schumer, with AOC sniffing around for the scent of primary vulnerability while the Murder Turtle across the aisle is tenting his fingers, whispering “Excellent,” as the majority leader publicly nadlers himself. He’s got Nancy Pelosi jumping into the race for Most Senile Senior in the Dem leadership, alleged moderates terrified of 2022, the bro-betrothing weirdos of the progressive left, and a desiccated old freak in the White House who intervened and only made things worse. But Chucky’s real problem is the Wonder Twins, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who are driving him nuts with their stubborn refusal to...

Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who sketched the Prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body, has died in a traffic accident. Vilks was reported to be travelling in a civilian police vehicle which collided with a truck near the town of Markaryd in southern Sweden. Two police officers were also killed and the truck driver was injured. The 75-year-old artist had been living under police protection after being subjected to death threats over the cartoon. The cartoon, published in 2007, offended many Muslims who regard visual representation of the Prophet as blasphemous. It came a year after a Danish newspaper published...

One of the implied promises behind the Democrats’ endless (and escalating) efforts to destroy the Second Amendment and disarm Americans is the promise that murder will become a thing of the past—and, if not all murders, at least mass murders, involving more than one victim. However, in Florida, one man managed to kill three people with a baseball bat and a knife, as well as seriously injured another victim. The problem wasn’t the weapons; it was that a man angry after a fight with his supervisor started killing innocents with the weapons he had at hand. If you look at...

I get a fair number of emails along the lines of: We’ve had our last fair election, it’s hopeless, America is lost. These disturb me because they represent a faction of conservatism that’s ready to surrender. The simple fact is that we are at war for the soul of America -- though for now, it’s a cold war. What we are experiencing is not politics as usual. The two political sides do not share common objectives while differing in their approaches to achieve those objectives. They have diametrically opposed objectives. The Left has said that they intend to transform America....

October 4th, 2021St. Francis of Assisi Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Assisi, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJonah 1:1-2:1,11 ©Jonah flees from his callThe word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah son of Amittai: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and inform them that their wickedness has become known to me.’ Jonah decided to run away from the Lord, and to go to Tarshish. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish; he paid his fare and...

“Be sure you’re right. Then go ahead” – The Davy Crockett Show This is a cautionary tale of two American soldiers. Nearly a century spans the incidents that brought them their notoriety, yet the issues they evoke are exactly the same and timeless: Does an active-duty officer in the military have the right, a moral obligation even, to criticize the actions of his superiors, both military and civilian, if he firmly believes that those actions are incompetent and have dire consequences? Our first soldier, William ‘Billy’ Mitchell was born in December 1879 into a family of wealth and influence. He...

My niece is a car. She used to be a human being. We're not supposed to talk about that anymore. About a year ago, my sister Claire called and told me that she was tired of hand-sewing costumes for her oldest daughter, Alice. One day Alice would beg to be dressed as a school bus, the next a pickup truck, and the next, a sports car. She told her mom that she wished she were an automobile instead of a person. Claire was running out of material and patience. At first, Alice's behavior made sense to me. She'd loved to...

<p>Hospitals across the region are seeing full intensive care units and staff shortages are starting to affect care. Public officials are pleading with the unvaccinated to get the shots. Health care workers are coping with pent-up demand for other kinds of care that had been delayed by the pandemic....</p>

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Critics are slamming Twitter after its fact-checkers added a 'misleading' alert to an obituary about a young woman who reportedly died after contracting a rare blood-clotting disease induced by the COVID-19 vaccine. Twitter user Kelly Bee shared the obituary for Jessica Berg Wilson with the caption 'an "exceptionally healthy and vibrant 37-year-old young mother with no underlying health conditions," passed away from COVID Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia. She did not want to get vaccinated.' Twitter flagged the tweet as 'misleading' with a link to an article on 'why health officials consider COVID-19 vaccines safe.' The tweet was also 'shadow banned,' meaning...

According to The Associated Press, the Wildwood Republican died Sunday night after a long bout with cancer, Perry Akin, the former lawmaker’s son, said in a statement. “He was a devoted Christian, a great father and a friend to many,” the statement read, according to the news agency. “We cherish many fond memories from him driving the tractor at our annual hayride, to his riveting delivery of the freedom story at Fourth of July parties dressed in the full uniform of a colonial minuteman. The family is thankful for his legacy: a man with a servant’s heart who stood for...

Havana (CNN)Cuba's state media on Sunday lashed out after nearly a dozen Cuban baseball players defected in Mexico -- believed to be one of the country's largest and most embarrassing known incidents of mass defection in years. Eleven young baseball players defected from the national team during a tournament for players under the age of 23, which began last month. The remaining Cuban players on the team are due to return to the communist-run island on Monday. A statement from Cuba's National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) slammed the missing players for "weak morals and ethics."

With just seven months left before he steps down as president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in and his government remain committed to their long-held dream of reuniting the two halves of the Korean Peninsula into a single nation. And, with Germany as one of the very few countries with recent experience of a similar amalgamation of two states, Unification Minister Lee In-young is traveling to Europe to discuss what can be learned from the events leading up to German reunification in 1990 and subsequent developments. Analysts suggest Moon and Lee have been “frustrated” by the failure to advance their agenda...

(CNN)A multi-agency law enforcement operation in Nebraska resulted in the arrest of 231 people, according to the US Marshals Service... ...The operation, led by the US Marshals Service Metro Fugitive Task Force (MFTF), the Omaha Police Department (OPD), and the Lincoln Police Department, resulted in the arrest of 144 gang members, according to the release. The four-month operation, which took place from May to August, focused on "arrest warrants involving gang members, gang suppression, and gang intervention/prevention," authorities stated.... ..The Marshals Service emphasized three missing children were also found... ...The operation led to numerous significant arrests, including Maurice Coleman... A...

The 2022 campaign season has already kicked off for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Republican Desi Cuellar — who, like AOC, is an ex-bartender — formed a campaign committee in June to challenge the congresswoman, and this week launched his first attack ad. "AOC is running and propagating so many leftist policies and it has forced me to feel like I have to do something because I don’t see anyone else doing anything about it in my area," Cuellar, 34, told The Post. Despite being just months into the race, the candidate says he’s already banked about $60,000 and held meetings with...