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Excerpt: "But the report is in fact from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republicans were part of the investigation, too — they participated in the same interviews and reviewed the same documents — and they came away with such a different impression of events that they released their own report (which somehow did not find its way into the New York Times)."

The first study to look directly at how well vaccines prevent the spread of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 brings good news and bad. The study shows that people who become infected with the Delta variant are less likely to pass the virus to their close contacts if they have already had a COVID-19 vaccine than if they haven’t1. But that protective effect is relatively small, and dwindles alarmingly at three months after the receipt of the second shot. The findings add to scientists’ understanding of the vaccination’s effect on curbing Delta’s spread, but are “both more and less encouraging”,...

A man plunged nine stories from a high-rise in Jersey City, NJ, landed on a BMW — and miraculously survived, according to stunning photos and a witness. The man crashed through the roof of the Beemer parked below 26 Journal Square at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, then stood up with a broken arm and asked, “What happened?,” onlooker Christina Smith, 21, told The Post. According to witnesses, the man plunged through the roof of the BMW and then quickly got up.“I heard a big boom and I didn’t think it was a person at first,” said Smith. “The back window of...

The rapid decline in biblical lifespans Mathematics tells us the numbers are not made up by Robert Carter Published: 5 October 2021 (GMT+10) The dramatic decline in human lifespan after the Flood has been studied by many scholars. However, most studies only focus on the chronogenealogies of Genesis 5 and 11, which go from Adam to Terah, the father of Abraham. Yet, it is possible to add multiple additional generations by considering the details given to us in the rest of the Old Testament. The remaining data not only support the Genesis narrative, but they argue strongly that the lifespans...

The U.S. military is ignoring the protection against infection bestowed by having COVID-19 and recovering, a lawyer representing Navy SEALs who have concerns about COVID-19 vaccines said. “My clients are seeing for the first time in the military natural immunity is not being recognized as a reason for an exemption to a vaccine,” R. Davis Younts, the lawyer, said on EpochTV’s “Crossroads.” “So it’s very strange and I think it’s reasonable for my clients to ask the question, ‘why is natural immunity demonstrated by positive serology being ignored for this vaccine but it’s not for others?'” he added. Military regulations...

From a single-celled human to a baby with a beating heart, brainwaves, fingers, and toes, Olivia shows the remarkable beauty of a unique life within the womb. Baby Olivia was created by Live Action and reviewed by accredited medical professionals to show audiences the spectacular life of a baby growing within the womb. With scientific accuracy, this video depicts the moment human life begins and beyond to show the humanity of preborn children throughout each stage of human development.

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“Not even 24 hours after getting Ivermectin, two out of my three patients were almost completely better.”A B.C. emergency doctor helping in Alberta hospitals says he was relieved of duty for administering Ivermectin to patients in a small central-Alberta hospital.Dr. Daniel Nagase graduated from Dalhousie University in 2004 and went on to work as an emergency doctor for 10 years. In 2015, Nagase went on to practice in rural, under-served communities in Alberta.Nagase spoke at the Vancouver Art Gallery last Friday for the 75 Anniversary of the Nuremberg Code and shared his experience in the Rimbey, Alta. hospital while he...

718 1:36 A viral video shows several Women’s National Basketball Association players engaging in a wild fistfight in a parking lot next to a food truck in Atlanta, Georgia. The video allegedly features three players from the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, including Courtney Williams, Crystal Bradford, and Kalani Brown. The three reportedly throw punches at several people in front of the “Tenders and Bites” food truck. The brawl was reportedly sparked when someone made a “comment” about Williams’ girlfriend. The five-foot-eight WNBA guard is said to have thrown the first punch. Her two teammates then came to her side and joined...

As desperate Afghans resort to selling their belongings to buy food, international officials are preparing to fly in cash for the needy while avoiding financing the Taliban government, according to people familiar with the confidential plans. Planning for the cash airlifts is going ahead against the background of a rapidly collapsing economy where money is short, although diplomats are still debating whether Western powers can demand that the Taliban make concessions in return, according to internal policy documents seen by Reuters. The emergency funding, aimed at averting a humanitarian crisis in the face of drought and political upheaval, could see...

During the Trump presidency, whenever President Trump's approval ratings would take even a modest dip, Joe Scarborough would gleefully trumpet the news. But when back in August Biden's approval ratings began to drop, not a peep from Scarborough about it. I tweeted to Scarborough at the time, asking if the cat had gotten his tongue. Radio silence from Joe ensued. On today's Morning Joe, with Joe having the day off, Mika did acknowledge Biden's disastrous polling elephant [donkey?] in the room. But she did so in an outrageously misleading way, downplaying the severity of the slide. Speaking with Victoria DeFrancesco...

(CNSNews.com) – The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction told lawmakers on Wednesday that his office has issued 11 reports and 600 audits since its creation in 2008, but that despite “all of the reports we’ve done, no one in the government has been held accountable.” “I always joke that the only person who’s ever going to get fired over Afghanistan is probably going to be me,” John Sopko told the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that deals with international development. “Nobody else,” he said. “Not the generals who came up [to the Hill] and spun and spun and spun, and...

Old Country Buffet. Those three words bring up a lot of random memories. It was a special Sunday night meal in my family. It didn’t happen often, but our family of four would go when my overworked mom wasn’t in the mood to cook dinner. What kind of child wouldn’t want to load up on a buttload of forbidden food you couldn’t eat home? Plus, come on, a soft serve machine practically doles out unlimited amounts of joy for any kid. But on our final night at Old Country Buffet, decades ago, my family and I all looked up at...

They’re not so happy with this Halloweave. A Halloween hairpiece poking fun at “Karen” — the heavily memed term for entitled white women who call the cops on black people and defy mask mandates — is being slammed as tone deaf and racist on social media. The Karen costume came to light after a Twitter user named Helen Shivers shared a snap of the inflammatory accessory, dubbed a “Karen Wig,” that she came across at a costume shop last week. She captioned the pic: “and the scariest costume goes to…” The packaging for the wig, which is sold online by...

Iowa is expecting approximately 700 refugees among the three resettlement agencies. Beth Gibbins with Catholic Charities said she believes the agencies are all preparing in similar ways.

Democrats can’t win unless they cheat. Virginia Democrats are now asking Governor Ralph Northam to waive absentee ballot witness signature requirements ahead of the gubernatorial race, citing Covid dangers.

First, last month still saw sales of some 2.2 million units in total, exceeding every year prior to 2020. Moreover, for the first three quarters of 2021, firearms sales reached nearly 30.5 million – compared to 28.6 million for the same period a year earlier. Clearly, that was the result of the pandemic, followed by a wave of violent protests across the country that occurred following the killing of George Floyd over Memorial Day weekend 2020. It is true as well that last year’s fourth-quarter sales were strong, driven in no small part to the election of President Joe Biden,...

I am writing in response to the article in the Iowa Standard where it mentions that Speaker Pat Grassley “expects only redistricting to be done during the special session”. Together with many Iowans, I am left with questions and grave concerns. Blanket policies and cookie-cutter health mandates are sweeping the state without concern for our individual bodily autonomy or beliefs. As a member of leadership and Speaker of the house, Pat Grassley, has turned a blind eye to the needs of the people he was elected to represent. As thousands of Iowans are concerned about retaining their jobs (many of...

Over the past couple of months, Allison, a wife and mother of a toddler and teenager in Chicago, says she’s been spending about $50 more each week on groceries to feed her family — and that’s at a discount supermarket chain, Aldi’s. “I used to spend $70 a week, but all of sudden this summer, I noticed that I couldn’t leave the store without spending at least $120,” said Allison, who works in education. Like millions of Americans whose income has not kept pace with inflation — up 5.3 percent in August compared with a year ago — Allison and...

Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that they had submitted an emergency request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for authorization of the companies' two-dose Covid-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. An FDA advisory committee plans to meet to discuss authorization on Oct. 26.