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President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday submitted a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers for review, the first solid step it’s taken since Biden announced plans for the requirement last month. Biden said the Department of Labor would develop the mandate, centering around a provision that every company with more than 100 employees would need to receive proof of vaccination from each worker or make them get tested for COVID-19 once a week. A Department of Labor spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email late Oct. 12 that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an office within the...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The mother of Gabby Petito fired back at comments made Tuesday by the Laundrie family’s attorney concerning the death of her daughter. Attorney Steve Bertolino issued a statement via text, calling Petito’s death a tragedy but doubled down on her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, being only a person of interest in her death. Gabby Petito homicide: Coroner says exact day of death may never be known “While Brian Laundrie is currently charged with the unauthorized use of a debit card belonging to Gabby, Brian is only considered a person of interest in relation to Gabby Petito’s demise,”...

The Sheriff’s Office found no significant criminal wrongdoing during its investigation of the Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County Facebook group, the group that catalyzed recall effort against several School Board members. The group, to which six School Board members belong, became notorious when it was reported that members complied lists of parents in the county who opposed racial equity efforts. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the FBI also looked into the group, but did not pursue a criminal investigation. The group formed in March 2020 in response to a mailer that had been sent out to families, stating that LCPS...

CNN’s S.E. Cupp argued Tuesday that voters had “heaped huge expectations” on President Joe Biden and shouldn’t expect him to fix everything in just nine months. Cupp joined ABC’s “The View” as a guest host, and when the conversation turned to the battle to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, she argued that some people might have expected too much of the president in the early months of his administration. [cut] Joy Behar began the segment by noting that Biden’s approval ratings had not been stellar, and she asked Cupp whether passing the infrastructure...

Seattle Public Libraries (SPL) is reporting $434,000 in damage over the last 18 months, citing an increase in loitering, vandalism, and homeless encampments surrounding several of their branches. SPL laid out the most recent data in a memo to Seattle City Councilmember Debora Juarez. That includes reports of $170,000 in damage to the Central library branch on Fourth Avenue, in the form of seven shattered window panels damaged by a pellet gun. Other damage to that branch included one instance where an uninsured motorist ran into the building on its Madison Street side, breaking four large window panes and bending...

Here’s proof that the Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Politico, and MSNBC all lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop before the election, in order to help Joe Biden get elected. After the election, all of them finally admitted the truth.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)December 19, 2020The New York Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801.On October 14, 2020, it published an article titled:“Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad”Original: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201014115516/https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/Before the election, the mainstream media repeatedly claimed that the New York Post article was bogus.But after the election, the mainstream media admitted...

Another researcher finds a scary living monster in the vax. Tells audience to be aware of something shocking: The graphene oxide feeds the "thing" Full closed captioning on video. More details: Dr. Franc Zalewski claims to have found an aluminum/carbon based life-form in the COVID vaccines. He also presents several questions as to why they are only found in some vaccines. Some vaccines, he says, they could only find a saline solution. This poses a theory that a wide-spread legitimate parasite-infected vaccine would cause too many detrimental side effects all at once – thus would be quite alarming to the...

CHICAGO - There was outrage in Chicago and the south suburbs after students at Marist High School were caught on video kneeling during a Spanish-language song at their Homecoming dance over the weekend. Some were calling the act a racist gesture. However, more details surfaced Tuesday that revealed more about the incident. In a statement, the school said in part: "Students showed displeasure of the songs (being played at Homecoming) by kneeling, crouching down, or sitting at multiple times throughout the dance." School officials confirmed the kneeling was not isolated to that specific Spanish-language song heard on the viral video,...

Americans quit their jobs at a record-high pace in August, with almost 3% handing in their resignations, the government reported on Tuesday. The number of quits increased in August to 4.3 million, which is 242,000 more than in July. The quits rate increased to a new high of 2.9%. The Labor Department said the jump in quits is the highest on records dating back to December 2000, and up from 4 million in July. Hiring also slowed in August, the report showed, and the number of open jobs fell to 10.4 million, from a record high of 11.1 million the...

Government app to read QR codes ready for businesses to use A need to be "on our guard:" through the winter means Alberta's vaccine passport will be in place at least into early next year, Premier Jason Kenney said Tuesday, as he announced that a long-awaited app to scan proof-of-vaccination QR codes is now available. "We are now headed into an uncertain period," Kenney told a news conference. "Between weather, seasonal patterns, more indoor activity and the potential for waning protection, we don't want to let down our guard--let's say in November, if we get out of this fourth wave--only...

The Coachella Music Festival is pulling the plug on their original plan to enforce mandatory vaccines for ticketholders when it returns in 2022. The fest, which makes its comeback to Indio, California April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022 after missing 2020 and 2021, will not require concertgoers to have the jab. The festival's official Instagram page made the announcement, saying that the decision was based on recent COVID statistics. 'After seeing first-hand the low transmission data and successful implementation of safety protocols at our other festivals this past month, we feel confident we can update our health policy,' they said...

Anyone looking to break the chains of 9-to-5 drone life will find no shortage of inspiration online — tiny homes, side gigs, you name it. Millions of people across the world searching for meaning and work-life balance were inspired by two radical movements in particular — “Lying Flat” and “FIRE.” One took root in China, the other in the United States, but both were born from the same fears, anxieties and hopes. Lying Flat 13 minin docLink

The website Renovatio 21 has published an open letter from one of three former Swiss Guards who refused to undergo the mandatory vaccination against Covid being applied to the Pontifical military corps in Vatican City State. All three of them lost their job, but Pierre-André Udressy wanted to go public and provide some background to his decision. He began his open letter by explaining that he had no grounds for medical exemption but added that he wanted to think about this choice, not with “pro or anti” vaccine biases in general. “All I wanted to do was understand the implications...

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the outspoken Marine officer who made viral videos aimed at senior military leaders during the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, will plead guilty to several charges in hopes of securing a more favorable discharge. "Our hope is for him to get a letter of reprimand, and no more," said Tim Parlatore, one of Scheller's attorneys. The court-martial for Scheller is scheduled for Thursday at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where the outspoken Marine will face charges such as disrespecting a superior officer, willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer and dereliction in the performance of...

ROME – After the controversy a letter by Pope Francis to Mexico generated among right-wing politicians in Spain, the country’s bishops conference responded by inviting the leaders – and their followers – to read the pontiff’s page-long note and not the headlines around it. Bishop Luis Argüello, Secretary General of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, said they were “perplexed” over the controversy during a press conference held in Madrid at the end of the meeting of the conference’s leadership. “We have witnessed comments that we think have been made [in response to] a headline, without reading the document. It is not...

Walgreens said Tuesday it will close five stores in San Francisco in November, citing the company’s concerns over retail theft in the city. “Organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,” Walgreens spokesperson Phil Caruso said in a statement. Law enforcement officials have attributed much of the city’s retail crime to organized theft rings. But public defenders and social justice advocates have argued that many people charged with retail theft act alone — many of them suffering from poverty, homelessness or substance abuse, and needing rehabilitation or other...

A New Jersey federal judge ruled this week that the Archdiocese of Newark can be held financially responsible for the abuse committed by Theodore McCarrick, a disgraced former cardinal, according to one media report. According to a report from the New York Post, District Court Judge Madeline Arleo found that the Newark archdiocese is “vicariously liable” for McCarrick’s actions. According to the Legal Information Institute, “vicarious liability” refers to liability that a supervisory party, such as an employer, bears for the actionable conduct of a subordinate or associate, such as an employee, based on the relationship between the two parties....

St. Peter’s Italian Catholic Church was marred with anti-colonial slogans on Monday in an act of vandalism that police are investigating as a hate crime. By noon, a small crowd had gathered at the church on the edge of Chinatown, where detectives said the vandalism appeared to be linked to the day’s holidays, which included Indigenous Peoples Day and the former Columbus Day. A banner resting on the church’s front steps read “STOP COLONIZING OUR LAND,” while graffiti on the sidewalk spelled out phrases including “Land Back,” “USA” and “Stolen Land.”Explosions of red paint dotted the steps and front facade,...

Per Charania, Irving is upset with the fact that people are being fired from their jobs in places where vaccines are mandated. A close source reportedly told The Athletic that the six-time All Star wants to “be a voice” for people who have had their lives affected due to imposed vaccine regulations. From the report: Multiple sources with direct knowledge of Irving’s decision have told The Athletic that Irving is not anti-vaccine and that his stance is that he is upset that people are losing their jobs due to vaccine mandates. It’s a stance that Irving has explained to close...

At a recent Virginia rally, Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin talked up his plans to boost the economy and fight crime, and said nothing at all about false claims that Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory was the result of fraud.But some in the crowd heard the message all the same, moments before the former private equity executive's speech, when Republican state Senator Amanda Chase told Youngkin supporters - offstage and without a microphone - that she was on guard against a repeat of election cheating."I know what the Democrats are trying to do," she said in an interview after...