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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will lift long-running COVID-19 travel bans against residents of most European countries on Nov. 8 and implement a new vaccination-and-testing rule — while also making travel tougher for Americans who are unvaccinated. Under the new policies, most travelers to the US must get tested for the virus within three days if they took one of the World Health Organization’s approved vaccines. The new rules tighten restrictions on unvaccinated US citizens and permanent residents, who will have to get tested within one day of travel — versus three days currently. The slow repeal of the nearly...

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. [snip] Colin Kaepernick and TV and moviemaker Ava DuVernay are the co-creators of Netflix’s “Colin in Black and White,” a six-episode, half-hour series inspired by the Black activist and former NFL quarterback’s teen years. Jaden Michael plays Kaepernick, adopted by white parents in a white community. Mary-Louise Parker and Nick Offerman co-star, with Kaepernick serving as the present-day narrator. In a statement, he said he hopes to inspire youth facing racism and other burdens to overcome them and...

Reading through Fauci’s experiments and the one I find most alarming is the use of an acid to destroy a region of monkeys’ brains to magnify terror. They then simulated images of spiders and tormented them with fear. Human DNA is 97% identical to apes. Why fund that research?

THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 13:10-17 Friends, today’s Gospel gives us a wonderful story of Jesus performing a miracle, something he still does today. I want to draw your attention to an extraordinary book by Protestant scholar Craig Keener titled Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts. The most surprising section of the book contains his reports of some of the millions of miracles that come, even today, from all over the world. I’ll relay to you just one case from Keener’s book. Ed Wilkinson’s eight-year-old son was found to have two holes in his heart. Surgery was...

CHAPEL HILL, N,.C. (AP) — Students in a North Carolina school system will have the entire week of Thanksgiving off to support students and staff members’ mental health and wellness, the district has announced. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools said the new days off, which also include an optional teacher work day and two new “wellness” days, are among several new initiatives the school board approved last week, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported. In a presentation Thursday night, Superintendent Nyah Hamlett cited feedback from employees, students and families as reasons for the initiatives, which also include two years...

Scientists at ESA’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service have been tracking the ash plume since the volcano first started erupting in late September. Initially, the plumes of sulfur dioxide from the volcano traveled east from the Canary Islands to northern Africa and southern Europe, eventually getting to parts of northern and western Europe. Thanks to a change in wind direction in early October, though, the plume is now flowing roughly 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) across the Atlantic and over the Caribbean.Since the directional shift, the Atlantic has also gone unseasonably quiet when it comes to hurricanes and tropical storms. There are...

A location manager for “Rust” says at least four people were responsible for checking the weapon that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — including gun-firing star Alec Baldwin. “A massive mistake was made,” Stacey Mickey-Evans told Australia’s 92.5 Triple M Gold Coast. “There are massive protocols to stop these things from happening. There are multiple checks for it,” she said Sunday. She noted that the armorist, assistant director and the key grip are supposed to “check the gun … no matter what’s going on on set. “And then very lastly, the actor checks the gun,” she said of Baldwin, who was...

COVID-19 vaccine mandates shouldn’t apply to people with immunity acquired through infection, suggest sponsors of the ‘’Natural Immunity Is Real Act.” Experts on bioethics and immunology disagree, and note that there is little to no debate in the scientific community about the existence of natural immunity, gained by infection from exposure to disease, rather than by vaccination, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many studies suggest natural immunity fades over time, and a vaccine improves immunity in people who have already had COVID-19. “This is bad science, dangerous policy and saddest of all, ideology tricked out as...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said on Twitter today that leftists are pushing a fake “scandal” about Facebook making exceptions to its rules to justify censorship of conservatives. “The Facebook “scandal” is a false flag intended to justify an oncoming wave of censorship against the Right,” said Rep. Gaetz on Twitter. The Florida congressman was responding to allegations from leftists at Facebook that the site makes exceptions to its rules in order to protect political figures on the platform.

A young fan holding a “Tom Brady Helped Me Beat Brain Cancer” sign breaks down in tears when Tom Brady gives him a signed cap. Tom Brady shared the heartwarming moment with the young fan, who is a cancer survivor, on Sunday night as the team was closing out a victory over the Chicago Bears.

CACTUS HILL, AZ—Pastor Fred Wilkinson, a King James-only pastor in a rural Arizona town, reportedly leads his congregation in a chant every Sunday morning, wanting to join in on the 'F--- Joe Biden' chant trend sweeping through sports games, concerts, and churches across the country. But his chant is slightly different, opting for the proper King James phrase "Knoweth Joe Biden!" instead. "Let us all standeth and joineth together in the traditional chant," Wilkinson (thee/thou) said as the organist played "Softly and Tenderly". "Knoweth Joe Biden! Knoweth Joe Biden!" Some church members complained about the crassness of the word "knoweth,"...

Chicago is the latest city to be hit by rampant shoplifting and its Magnificent Mile, the once highly-populated retail destination, is now dotted with empty storefronts as businesses are being driven away by the brazen thieves. The city has been plagued by a string of robberies and a wave of crime in the past few months, as some say that the city’s ‘soft-on-crime’ policies embolden the thieves. The issue may only grow worse as at least 50 cops have been put on unpaid leave for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Shoplifting cases grew more common following a December 2016...

HT Aero plans to follow up its basic two-seat multicopter with an auto-folding, twin-rotor flying carXPeng / HT Aero VIEW 6 IMAGES XPeng affiliate HT Aero has unveiled an outrageous flying car design that it claims is "planned for roll-out in 2024." It looks like an electric Bugatti hypercar with a pair of huge, auto-folding props in the style of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. Xpeng is a seven-year-old Chinese electric car company that's growing fast, pulling in somewhere around US$2 billion in revenue this year and shipping somewhere around 50,000 cars. It's investing heavily in autonomy and charging infrastructure, while...

@RandPaul Dr. Fauci now maintains experiments are only ‘gain-of-function’ if experimenters knew in advance that the newly created virus would gain lethality. @RandPaul Hmm…So you can take any unknown bat virus and recombine it with the back bone of a known coronavirus and it doesn’t qualify as gain of function, even if you discover that it gains function? Clear as mud and just as slimy.

Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey (R) was indicted on Monday in connection to an alleged campaign finance scheme that sought to funnel money into his 2016 campaign for U.S. Congress. The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that Kelsey, 43, along with Nashville social club owner Joshua Smith, 44, conspired to illegally transfer “soft money” — which refers to contributions that are made to political parties and political action committees, and thus have fewer limits — from Kelsey’s Tennessee state Senate campaign committee to his federal campaign committee.

Health and Human Services Secretary biden Becerra said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that the unvaccinated need to stop being “selfish” and get the vaccination. Mitchell said, “I want to ask you about mandating vaccinations because that’s happened in New York City, and we’re seeing protests today in Brooklyn, Becerra said, “Andrea, [cut] we have to be safe. I saw Mayor De Blasio last week, and I will tell you that the city is going to do— the city doesn’t want to go back, New York City doesn’t want to go back to what it experienced a year, two...

‘Married… with Children’ was way bigger in the Motherland than it ever was in America Until 2004, there was really no such thing as a Russian sitcom, or at least, not a successful one. While the country has a proud tradition of comedy on stage and on film, Russian comedy on TV is quite a different story. “During the Soviet Union, the only comedy on television was sketch comedy and improv competitions,” explains sociology professor Jeffrey Brassard. Then, after the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russia couldn’t afford to make much of anything, so all they had was dubbed versions...

A global energy crunch, fueled by tightening coal and gas supply, has already roiled the market and threatened to squeeze customers this winter, as utility bills rise. That may just be the beginning, according to Duke Energy (DUK) CEO Lynn Good, who heads one of the country’s largest energy holding companies. In an interview at Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit, Good said she expects the supply and demand imbalance in the energy markets to continue well into 2022, with full rebalancing not expected until "2022 rolls into 2023." “We're facing a period where the production of these commodities has remained...

The hashtag #ArrestFauci trended on Twitter Sunday as critics of White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci slammed him for funding abusive animal testing as well as misleading the public about gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. Daily Caller first reported that a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress sent a letter to Fauci demanding answers for his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money on animal testing that involved abusing and killing beagles. The National Institutes of Health also released a letter admitting it funded gain-of-function research at the...

The hashtag #ArrestFauci trended on Twitter Sunday as critics of White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci slammed him for funding abusive animal testing as well as misleading the public about gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. Daily Caller first reported that a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress sent a letter to Fauci demanding answers for his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money on animal testing that involved abusing and killing beagles. The National Institutes of Health also released a letter admitting it funded gain-of-function research at the...