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Bubba Wallace became just the second Black driver to win at NASCAR's top Cup Series level when rain stopped Monday's playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway. Wallace had driven through a crash and to the front of the field five laps before the second rain stoppage of the race. NASCAR tried to dry the track for nearly 45 minutes, but called things off as sunset approached and the rain showing no sign of ceasing. Wallace had been waiting atop his pit stand celebrated wildly with his crew when the race was called. Wallace is in his first season driving for 23X1...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins, says he is stepping down by the end of the year, having led the research center for 12 years and become a prominent source of public information during the coronavirus pandemic. “There comes a time where an institution like NIH really benefits from new vision, new leadership,” Collins, 71, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “This was the right timing.” A formal announcement was expected Tuesday from the NIH. The Post and Politico reported Collins’ plans Monday night.

MOAB (AP) — Every day for the past two weeks, Sean-Paul Schulte sits at the same picnic table at Swanny City Park in Moab. He brings cookies, flowers, pictures of his family, meticulously painted rocks, and two pairs of black boots from his daughter, Kylen Schulte, and her wife, Crystal Turner, who on Aug. 18 were found dead in the La Sal Mountains outside of town. He also brings a clue box. “There’s really only been two bogus ones,” he told the Deseret News, referring to the roughly 40 tips locals have brought him. “There was one point I was...

Meanwhile, the President was cornered by the Press while holding Pelosi’s hand and was asked by reporters when the bill would be passed into law. Biden told the press to calm down and then uttered a strange reply. “We’re going to get this done. It doesn’t matter when. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in six minutes, six days, or six weeks. We’re going to get it done,” he said... ...You can say all you want that we are a Constitutional Republic and all of that other nostalgic yarn but many who are seeing the truth are now understanding what is...

Germany's four biggest parties have held a series of bilateral meetings on Sunday to communicate their positions before deciding on further steps in forming a new government. The centre-left Social Democrats, who won Germany's national election last month, first met with the Free Democrats before holding talks with the Greens. The latter two had already met on September 29, though it is unusual for smaller parties to make the first move. The sessions in Berlin — that some observers described as akin to a political "speed dating" — were rounded off by a meeting between the Free Democrats and the...

Quantum physics, invisibility cloaks and a cutting-edge Italian theorist are all tipped to win Tuesday's Nobel Physics Prize, a year after it went to pioneering research on black holes. The prestigious honour, to be announced at 11:45 am (0945 GMT) in Stockholm, is the second Nobel of the season after the medicine prize on Monday went to a US duo David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. France's Alain Aspect has been mentioned for years as a potential laureate...Britain's John Pendry would delight physicists and Harry Potter fans alike with a Nobel for what...

This video was recorded on 31 August 2021, the day after the announcement of the “visitation” to the Philadelphia, Fairfield, and Valparaiso Carmelite OCDs. This is an anti-suicide note from Father Maximilian Mary Dean, released at this time in case he is murdered. Yeah, for real... Aired October 4th, 2021 on the John-Henry Westen Channel on YouTube. Fr. Maximilian Mary Dean, chaplain in Fairfield for the Carmelites is interviewed by LifeSiteNews’ Jim Hale. Introduction:3:10 – Fr. announces his intention to never commit suicide. If he “dies” this is documentation stating that he is not suicidal.6:30 – We have a virus...

Members of the environmental justice movement sent an email blast more than 5,600 times over a 48-hour period to top Biden administration officials, disrupting White House communication and sparking a tense exchange between the administration’s chief environmental outreach official and one of the key leaders of the movement. The form-letter blast effectively shut down email communication over two August days between high-ranking Biden administration officials, including national climate adviser Gina McCarthy, her deputy Ali Zaidi, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and David Kieve, who leads outreach to environmental groups for the White House, according to Erika Thi Patterson, campaign...

India last month said that it had created the world’s first DNA vaccine, ZyCoV-D. While standard vaccines use actual 'hardware' protein, DNA vaccines use the 'software' blueprint of the virus.India last month began boasting that it has created – and its regulatory body approved – the world’s first DNA vaccine, ZyCoV-D. The vaccine, developed by a company called Zydus Cadila, expects to have it available for use as early as next month, giving hope to a country that has suffered more than 447,000 deaths at the hand of the virus. A DNA vaccine is a form of a software vaccine,...

Three Swiss Guards have resigned and three others have been suspended after refusing to comply with a Vatican mandate that they get the COVID-19 vaccination. The Swiss Guards, colloquially known as the Pope’s bodyguards, had previously been ordered “to protect their health and that of the others they come into contact with as part of their service” by getting the jab. The mandate was part of a broader instruction to all Vatican employees to get the COVID shot or face losing their jobs. “Besides the three guardsmen sent back to Switzerland, at least three others were suspended from active duty...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to say Monday whether first son Hunter Biden has sold his remaining stake in a Chinese private equity firm with ties to the Communist government in Beijing — two years after President Biden vowed that his family would divest itself of all overseas business interests. In April, the Daily Caller reported that Skaneateles LLC — Hunter’s company — still owned 10 percent of BHR Partners, which is controlled by the state-run Bank of China. On Monday, Newsmax correspondent Emerald Robinson asked Psaki for an update on the matter, to which the press secretary...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghan refugees will soon be arriving again in the U.S. after a massive campaign to vaccinate them against measles following a small outbreak that caused a three-week pause in evacuations, officials said Monday. Authorities have administered the vaccination to about 49,000 evacuees staying temporarily on American military bases as well as to those still at transit points in Europe and the Middle East, according to the Department of Homeland Security.... ...Everyone coming from Afghanistan is also tested for COVID-19. About 84 percent of the refugees in the U.S. and at overseas transit points have now received vaccinations...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Jesus prayer: “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil...

....The national guard has been deployed to hospitals in rural north and central California, where short-staffed hospitals have been overwhelmed with coronavirus patients – exposing stark disparities within the most populous US state. Although California has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the country, its agricultural heartland in the Central Valley and its sparse, rural north have case rates that are three or four times higher. National guard medical teams have been deployed to several hospitals in the valley’s Bakersfield and Kern counties, and to two hospitals in Shasta county in the far north.... ....In Shasta, which has one of...

President Biden slammed Republicans Monday for refusing to help raise the debt ceiling, and ...said Democrats are willing to raise the debt ceiling alone this week but Republicans are stopping them, having blocked two attempts to suspend the debt limit in just the last week.... ...In a letter to Mr. Biden on Monday, McConnell reiterated Republicans would not help raise the debt limit, and Democrats would have to do it on their own, a stance Republicans have taken since mid-July. "The debt limit is often a partisan vote during times of unified government. In 2003, 2004, and 2006, Mr. President,...

Shocking videos show a wild shootout between two groups on a Bronx sidewalk – with multiple people rattling off shots as others run or duck for cover. The NYPD released the videos Monday asking the public for help in identifying some of the people in the footage, which shows a Wild West-style gunfight in front of 635 E. 169th St. on Sept. 16.... ...The video appears to show the two groups shooting across the street, with at least eight people on one of the sidewalks as the bullet-fueled chaos erupts... [video at link]

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), plans to announce his resignation on Tuesday at the age of 71, according to Politico.

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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chilean police said Monday they have detained an international group of migrant traffickers who have sent more than 1,000 migrants out of the South American nation, including lone children heading to the United States.... ...Police said the ring was led by a Haitian man and also included people from Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela and Chile. The head of the metropolitan police brigade on human trafficking, Giordano Lanzarini, said officials last year detected that children less than 5 years old — offspring of Haitians who are Chilean citizens because born here — were being detected by immigration officials in...