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A US nuclear powered submarine struck an object underwater in the South China Sea on Saturday, according to two defense officials. A number of sailors on board the USS Connecticut were injured in the accident, the officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to a statement from US Pacific Fleet. It's unclear what the Seawolf-class submarine may have hit while it was submerged. "The submarine remains in a safe and stable condition. USS Connecticut's nuclear propulsion plant and spaces were not affected and remain fully operational," the statement said. "The incident will be investigated." The US Navy did...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) — When the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped record-breaking rain on the East Coast this month, staircases leading into New York City’s subway tunnels turned into waterfalls.</p><p>In Philadelphia, a commuter line along the Schuylkill River was washed out for miles, and the nation’s busiest rail line, Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor running from Boston to Washington, was shut down for an entire day.</p>

The teenage gunman who opened fire in an Arlington, Texas, school on Wednesday has been released on bond, a day after pulling a gun from his backpack and shooting a 'bully', a teacher and one other girl. Timothy George Simpkins was being held on a $75,000 bond on three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon but the 18-year-old walked out of Tarrant County Jail on Thursday afternoon. Simpkins said nothing as he strode out of the jail in a blue t-shirt, matching baseball cap worn backwards, and jeans. It's unclear why he has been charged with aggravated assault...

Sen. Lindsey Graham told a reporter Thursday he is “upset” with Republicans for caving on debt ceiling negotiations. “I’m upset with us [Republicans] because we had a strategy to make them [Democrats] pay a price to raise the debt ceiling,” a Fox News reporter tweeted Graham’s comments. “We blinked and why? Because two people are normally made more or threatening to change the rules of the Senate,” he said of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).

Maricopa County NEVER provided chain of custody required by law "That should be created when the ballots are delivered to the county by their vendors than are processed in the election through the election...We never received that chain of custody." https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1446199794570047497

Some car dealerships are charging thousands of dollars in "market adjustment" fees on top of the "manufacturer's suggested retail price" for new vehicles. Supply chain issues continue to plague the auto industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in vehicle shortages on dealers' new car lots. There is currently a shortage of computer chips that the auto industry relies on for the production of new vehicles. U.S. auto sales are reportedly down by 14% in the third quarter compared to same time last year. A representative for Edmunds, a leading vehicle information resource for consumers, told Just the News that many...

To paraphrase Animal House, Andy Jassy hasn’t dropped the big one — yet — but he put it in play this week. After years of deteriorating relations with their home city of Seattle and its ultra-progressive city council, Amazon’s CEO made it known that the online giant may look for greener pastures. Citing the city’s hostility toward their presence, Jassy suggested that the suburbs are looking better and better for a new home to its 50,000-employee home base (via Instapundit):The world’s largest online retailer is by far the biggest private employer in Seattle with more than 50,000 workers. That distinction...

President Joe Biden’s administration is considering providing tariff exemptions for more than 500 products made in China — a potential boon to corporations who continue offshoring to the communist country. This week, United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai said the administration would continue to preserve tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese products first imposed by former President Donald Trump.

SINGAPORE: China‘s refining giant Sinopec Corp said on Wednesday it has jointly certified the country’s first carbon-neutral crude oil cargo with shipping giant Cosco Shipping and China Eastern Airlines . The 30,000-tonne cargo was produced by Sinopec in Angola and shipped by Cosco Shipping to an east China-based Sinopec refinery for processing, Sinopec said. To offset the carbon dioxide produced during the process from crude production to shipping to consumption by vehicles and airplanes, the three state firms bought Chinese Certified Emissions Reductions credits. These credits that will go to investing in carbon-reducing projects such as tree planting, solar, wind...

* Vanessa Gelman, Pfizer Senior Director of Worldwide Research: “From the perspective of corporate affairs, we want to avoid having the information on fetal cells floating out there…The risk of communicating this right now outweighs any potential benefit we could see, particularly with general members of the public who may take this information and use it in ways we may not want out there. We have not received any questions from policy makers or media on this issue in the last few weeks, so we want to avoid raising this if possible.” * Gelman: “We have been trying as much...

Opus Dei have an ‘indirect complicity with the destructive course’ of Pope Francis: psychologistIn the second part of LifeSite's interview with Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg, he referred to 'symptoms of over-compliance to the homosexuality policy of this Pope' in Opus Dei, and called for Opus Dei to apologize for Bishop Bonnemain’s grievous misbehavior as a member of Opus Dei.'(LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg, a Dutch psychologist and expert in questions of homosexuality, has given LifeSiteNews an interview, in which he discussed, in a first part, the errors about same-sex unions as promoted by the Swiss bishop Joseph...

Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments. Why it matters: It's one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation.

In a disturbingly selfish but honest admission, British actress Jameela Jamil said she aborted her unborn baby because her life “matters more than an unborn human.” Eastern Eye reports Jamil (“The Good Place,” “How to Build a Girl”) shared her abortion story recently when she criticized Texas for its new heartbeat law. The pro-life legislation went into effect Sept. 1, prohibiting abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, and pro-life leaders say as many as 3,000 babies have been saved from violent abortion deaths so far. Jamil slammed the abortion ban, claiming “hatred” and “control” of women are behind...

Here is Fauci admitting the mandatory vaccination was deliberately done so that the old way could be dispensed with. Sorry, if you don't have or no longer have a facebook account. I don't know where else to find this video.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud and embezzlement charges. The Baltimore Sun reports: McGrath, 52, served as the governor’s chief of staff for 11 weeks in the summer of 2020, resigning just days after The Baltimore Sun reported that he’d negotiated a lucrative payout when he left his prior state job. It was subsequently revealed that as McGrath departed the environmental service to head Hogan’s staff he led the service’s board members to believe the $233,650 payout had the governor’s blessing. He also was paid more than $55,000 in expense...

It wasn’t a good look. Following last month’s unfortunate mixup, Brian Laundrie doppelgängers are buying up special T-shirts online to ensure they’re not confused for the infamous fugitive. The identity-solving couture surfaced on Etsytees and other online T-shirt bazaars as the search continues for the MIA fiancé of murdered TikTok influencer Gabby Petito. For just $22, the shorn-headed, beard-wearing men of the world can buy a T-shirt, hoodie or crewneck sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase: “I’m just bald. Nope! I’m not Brian Laundrie.” The confusion-clearing clothing comes in colors ranging from white to gold and fits anyone up to a...

COVID-19 immunization status is deciding who gets care in some cases, according to a disturbing report from the Washington Post. What are the details? UCHealth, a Colorado-based hospital system, is denying organ transplants to unvaccinated patients in "almost all situations." "In almost all situations, transplant recipients and living donors at UCHealth are now required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in addition to meeting other health requirements and receiving additional vaccinations," a spokesperson for UCHealth said in a statement to The Hill. UCHealth explained that patients who receive an organ transplant are at "significant risk for COVID-19" and stated that the...

“As the Delta variant became predominant, COVID-19 cases increased five-fold in the [over-65] population,” the report states. “In this 80% 65+ population, an estimated 60% of COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in fully vaccinated individuals in the week ending August 7th.” The “fully vaccinated” also made up more than 71 percent of COVID-19 cases as of August 21, according to the presentation, which was published online by the analytics firm Humetrix, a Project Salus partner.

A Louisville, Kentucky, police officer is suing the town’s mayor, police chief, and police department for persecuting him over his off-duty prayer at an abortion clinic. The federal lawsuit was filed October 4, 2021, by Thomas More Society attorneys on behalf of Matthew Schrenger. The complaint states that the City of Louisville and the Louisville Metro Police Department violated the officer’s constitutional and civil rights. “A quiet, off-duty prayer, on a public sidewalk, resulted in Officer Matt Schrenger being immediately suspended for over four months, stripped of his police powers, and placed under investigation,” explained Thomas More Society Senior Counsel...

Ft. CAMPBELL, Ky. (WZTV) — A Ft. Campbell solider has been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly killing his pregnant wife. A spokesperson says the incident happened on base on Sept. 27. Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Santiago, 33, was taken into custody on Sept. 28 for the death of Meghan Santiago. He's been held at the Grayson County Jail pending an investigation by the U.S. Army Criminal Division. Santiago was formally charged with murder on Wednesday.