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Last week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a pledge to legalize millions of vehicles being illegally imported from the United States. While it sounds like a phenomenal way to help the nation to contend with product shortages that are driving up vehicle prices around the globe, all of the cars had been smuggled previously and many were presumed to have been stolen. This has created a lot of tension. Despite there being evidence that these vehicles frequently end up becoming workhorses for criminal cartels, illegally imported beaters also provide a cheap alternative to poorer residents right when automotive...

Yi Zheng, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern, holds a sample desalination filter made of cow manure and one made of hornet nests in his lab in the Mugar Life Sciences Building. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University ================================================================================= Inspiration struck Yi Zheng on a summer visit to a local dairy farm. There were cows and horses and, Zheng noticed, that meant that there was manure everywhere. An associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern, Zheng is always looking around for ideas of how to create something functional out of natural materials. He wasn't sure just yet...

In the waning days of the Trump administration, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked quietly behind the scenes to allay the fears of Chinese officials that a defeated President Donald Trump might lash out and attack China. Now, with Trump out of office, it’s not a volatile American president that threatens to destabilize the U.S.-China relationship. It’s China. Tensions are escalating over Beijing’s provocative actions toward Taiwan this month, sending a record number of military aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense zone. The Biden administration is reassessing U.S. policy toward China, and experts fear that a...

What is the Shielding Approach1?High-risk individuals would be temporarily relocated to safe or “green zones” established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector or community level depending on the context and setting.1,2 They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents.A summary of the shielding approach described by Favas is shown in Table 1. See Guidance for the prevention of COVID-19 infections among high-risk individuals in low-resource, displaced and camp and camp-like settings 1,2 for full details.Table 1: Summary of the Shielding Approach1LevelMovement/ InteractionsHousehold (HH) Level:A specific room/area designated for high-risk individuals who are physically isolated from other HH...

BTC/USD “crashes” 87% on Binance’s U.S. platform, drawing irritation from traders who criticized order book depth. The scope of the Binance.US error, however, was in a league of its own and did not go unnoticed by market participants. “Good thing Americans are forced on to these dogshit exchanges where they can get completely scammed on unreasonably thin books. This type of shit just shouldn’t be happening. It’s not fair that some get stopped out and some stay in, some get fills and some don’t.” “Expect very high volatility in crypto over the next few months,” he tweeted on Oct. 21.

Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) questioned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland about his clear conflict of interest today surrounding the Attorney General’s instructions for FBI agents to investigate parents who question school board curriculum. Merrick Garland’s daughter is married to the co-founder of the Critical Race Theory educational material being purchased by the school boards. The exact CRT material being directly challenged by the parents Garland has instructed the FBI to investigate. In a clear conflict of interest Merrick Garland is using his office to protect the income and investments of his son-in-law’s business. However, when questioned about this conflict today,...

After a search of neutron stars finds preliminary evidence for hypothetical dark matter particles called axions, astrophysicists are devising new ways to spot them. Approximately 85% of the mass in the universe is missing — we can infer its existence, we just can’t see it. Over the years, a number of different explanations for this “dark matter” have been proposed, from undiscovered particles to black holes. One idea in particular, however, is drawing renewed attention: the axion. And researchers are turning to the skies to track it down. Axions are hypothetical lightweight particles whose existence would resolve two major problems....

Standard clinical trials used to test new medicines are slow and cumbersome. The pandemic has shown that a new kind of trial is far quicker, but is it reliable enough? HUNDREDS of years ago, if you had a pain, a cough or a fever, an apothecary might prescribe you a tincture or – joy – a restorative course of leeches. Thankfully, medicine has come a long way since then. It is by no means perfect, but hospitals, drugs and healthcare have made our days inestimably more comfortable. Much of this is thanks to that bastion of science, the clinical trial,...

Researchers used DNA from leeches' last blood meals to find out what animals live where in China's Ailaoshan Nature Reserve.You can't argue with 30,000 leeches. In the largest study of its kind, researchers used the blood-sucking worms to reveal a marvelous variety of mammals, birds and frogs in China's Ailaoshan Nature Reserve. The findings demonstrate the value of the park and help establish leeches as a conservation surveillance tool. "From a conservation angle, the number of endangered, near-threatened [and] threatened things that they found with this was just awesome," said Michael Tessler, a biologist and leech expert at St. Francis...

Biden Is Not the Arbiter of Religious Doctrine Military lawyers have been ordered to instruct chaplains to grill service members seeking religious exemptions from the COVID injections. The interrogation delves into areas that are clearly illegal. The government does not have authority to determine which religion or belief is acceptable and which is not! Joe Biden’s Department of Defense (DOD) is using the power of the federal government to decide which religious beliefs and doctrines are acceptable. Liberty Counsel is suing Biden, the DOD and Homeland Security to STOP THE COVID TYRANNY. Our massive class action lawsuit on behalf of...

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will call together a special session of the Florida legislature to ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates on businesses. "We will be calling the Legislature back for a special session. We want to make sure that individuals in the state of Florida have their rights protected," DeSantis ... The governor added that state lawmakers will be called back next month because rules are being implemented on the federal level and deadlines are imminent. He said legislation, rather than executive orders, was the correct vehicle given that Florida is "not in a state of emergency." ......

GORDA, Calif. (KABC) -- Gas keeps getting more and more expensive, especially in California. But perhaps nowhere is it pricier than the remote central coast community of Gorda. The town's only gas station is offering regular unleaded for $7.59. Premium is nearly $8.50. BUSINESS Gas hits $7.59 a gallon in CA town Thursday, October 21, 2021 1:29PM EMBED <>MORE VIDEOS A former Marine took matters into his own hands when he disarmed a robber at a gas station in Arizona and even helped detain him until deputies got to the scene. GORDA, Calif. (KABC) -- Gas keeps getting more and...

Mat Staver joins David Brody to discuss Liberty Counsel's class action lawsuit against Biden, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of the military, federal employees and federal civilian contractors, on Real America's Voice.

Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese will hold the news conference Thursday to discuss the mysterious deaths of John Gerrish, his wife, Ellen Chung, their 1-year-old daughter, Miju, and their dog. They have already ruled out the causes being related to a gun or any other weapon, extreme heat, a lightning strike, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, cyanide exposure, illegal drugs, alcohol or suicide.

Scientists temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection. The kidney for this experiment came from a gene-edited animal, engineered to eliminate that sugar and avoid an immune system attack. Surgeons attached the pig kidney to a pair of large blood vessels outside the body of...

Biden at MLK Memorial: “The violent, deadly insurrection on the Capitol nine months ago, it was about white supremacy."

LAKELAND, Fla. – On Tuesday morning, deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on a New Jersey warrant for murder, kidnapping, carjacking, and weapons charges. 51-year old James Lewis was taken into custody at a home at 220 Kinghill Court SE in Winter Haven. According to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, Lewis fatally shot a man on September 18, 2021 in East Orange, New Jersey during a carjacking. He then zip-tied the victim’s girlfriend and stole the vehicle with her in it, before crashing a short time later. James Lewis was previously convicted for homicide in a...

Like a giant writhing banana with gills, a bright yellow catfish jumped out of the water and into Martin Gratz’s boat. Gratz, a professional angler fishing on a Dutch lake with his twin brother Oliver, has caught many catfish in his life, but none of them. Gratz first panicked. “I’ve never seen such a catfish,” Gratz told Live Science in a direct message. “I’m still overwhelmed by it.” Wapper is Wels catfish (Wapper)Silurus glanis), According to large species that grow naturally in lakes and rivers throughout Europe Field & Stream.. These fish are known for their huge size. According to...

A North Carolina parent seeks to prohibit “medical tribalism” in schools after his child reported school officials differentiating between the vaccinated and unvaccinated students. Chad Slotta spoke of two reported incidents to The Epoch Times: one in which his child recorded a Wake County school principal advising students over the intercom to get vaccinated, and the other in which a teacher had asked for a show of hands of who has had the COVID-19 vaccine and who hasn’t. Slotta read the principal’s quote from what was recorded at a Wake County School Board meeting on Sept. 7: “I spent the...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—People just pooping willy-nilly on the sidewalk in San Francisco has been a long-time problem, and City Hall is finally taking action. Now they will require proof of vaccination before people can use the sidewalk as a restroom. “We can’t believe the brazenness of some people,” said Mayor London Breed, “being out and about and defecating in broad daylight without proof of vaccination. Well, that’s changing. If you’re smearing feces on something and aren’t vaccinated, there is going to be trouble.” Reactions from San Francisco citizens were largely positive. “Our city is run by escapees from an insane...