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Even as booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines become widely available in the U.S., some vaccine experts are not convinced that the shots are broadly necessary. While studies indicate that older adults have a higher risk of severe breakthrough Covid cases, limited data are available on the need for boosters among younger age groups. In addition, pressure from the federal government has made it difficult for some vaccine experts to make objective decisions about boosters, several experts said in interviews with the New York Times. Over 13 million Americans have received an additional vaccine dose as of October 25, including about...

Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among others. But there's nowhere to put them all. Emergency departments are ideally meant to be brief ports in a storm, with patients staying just long enough to be sent home with instructions to follow up with their primary care physician or being sufficiently stabilized to be transferred "upstairs" to inpatient units or the intensive care unit

Thanks to a blowout earnings report and a big car order by Hertz, Tesla’s market cap surpassed $1 trillion on Monday—and CEO Elon Musk has emerged as the richest person in the history of the world. Forbes estimates Musk’s net worth to be $271.3 billion as of the market’s close on Monday—up some $41.7 billion from Friday’s close. For that, he can thank a nearly 13% jump in Tesla stock plus more than 16 million new stock options, worth $16.1 billion, awarded following Tesla’s latest earnings report. Musk is in uncharted territory, headed toward $300 billion. For comparison, Amazon’s founder...

A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation. Why it matters: Good Information Inc. aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies. The group will be led by Tara McGowan, a former Democratic strategist who previously ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM. ACRONYM invested in for-profit companies that built media and technology solutions for progressive causes. It ran one of the largest...

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It wasn’t that long ago that embattled Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was hailed as a triumph of bisexual representation. After she was sworn in in January 2019, Out celebrated the first openly bisexual senator as a “rebuke to Trumpism,” positioning the “sassy lawmaker” in opposition to homophobic then-Vice President Mike Pence. But just a few years into her tenure, public opinion has soured on Sinema. Instead of a brash, bisexual icon willing and able to stand up to the far right, she’s now seen as an unreliable centrist, a self-absorbed Democratic turncoat more fixated on getting attention and lining her...

MADISON COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida man was arrested for trying to rob a Waffle House with finger guns. Madison County Sheriff’s Office deputies said Eward Rodriguez was arrested for an unarmed robbery and assault. An employee with the Waffle House on Bandit Street in Madison called 911 after the incident at around 8:09 p.m. on Monday. Madison County deputies said that no one was injured and the suspect got into a car and left the parking lot. Multiple deputies responded and witnesses told them that a white man wearing a gray hoodie, dark jeans, and a dark hat went...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A Capitol Police officer was bit during a confrontation with a woman along First Street SW Friday morning. According to police, several officers approached a woman who "appeared agitated" while carrying a baseball bat just west of the U.S. Capitol. Police said the woman did not cooperate with the officers and instead started yelling at them. When she raised her bat, the officers tried to take it. The woman allegedly became combative and bit one of the officers, police report. Olivia Romano, 25, was taken into custody. Charges are pending. On Twitter, a woman with the username...

@thehill Rep. Madison Cawthorn: "Dr. Fauci has forsaken his Hippocratic Oath and exchanged it for the mantle of unchecked power. [...] Americans deserve the truth, and this demon-doctor must never be allowed to escape justice." Clip...

A Democratic candidate for Middletown Township Committee initially denied a history of theft and forgery charges, telling party leaders a month ago that he wasn’t the same Nicholas Babcock involved in a series of crimes. Now, one week before Election Day, Babcock has acknowledged that he did plead guilty to bouncing checks in Arizona 20 years ago and was sentenced to two years of probation. The admission comes after weeks of denials and doesn’t include information regarding additional allegations made against him by law enforcement. A records check shows that Babcock had faced theft charges in Arizona in 2002, 2004,...

"Memphis, TN – Today the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced an agreement to resolve allegations that Trustmark National Bank engaged in lending discrimination by redlining predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee. "Redlining" is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing services to individuals living in communities of color because of the race or national origin of the people who live in those communities."

veryone has been doing so much more cooking since COVID started, and where there is cooking, there are cooking fails. These people absolutely blew it when making their meal and are probably the ones keeping the entire take-out industry afloat. C’mon guys, how long will it take you to figure out you can just eat cold soup out of the can and be done with it? 1. Go To Make Pasta, The First Pot Slips And I Pour It All On The Ground. Make A Second Pot And The Handle Straight Up Breaks And My Pasta Goes Everywhere. Didn’t Eat;...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is spinning a convoluted tale of an Amtrak conductor who congratulated him during his vice presidency for logging more miles riding the train home to Delaware than by flying on Air Force Two. “I swear to God. True story,” he said Monday, for emphasis. But it’s a mangled one. THE FACTS: The tale as Biden spins it is wrong. Negri could not have had that conversation because he was already deceased by the time Biden logged 1.2 million miles on Air Force Two. Biden refers to a train ride he made to Delaware when he...

Abp. Viganò letter to US bishops: Complicity with COVID agenda is a ‘satanic action against God’The silence of so many cardinals and bishops, along with the inconceivable promotion of the vaccination campaign by the Holy See, represents a form of unprecedented complicity that cannot continue any longer.(LifeSiteNews) – Editor’s note: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has decided to make public an October 23 letter sent to to Cardinal Luis F. Ladaria S.J., Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop José Gomez, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as to all the bishops...

Let Loose the River. There is a story of a woman called Granny Nelson, who worked hard with her husband to develop land along the buffalo river in Arkansas, they made a homestead and built a cabin. But the damning of the river caused areas to be dried up, and eminent domain law was used to seize property to make it a National Scenic River. Granny Nelson was forced to leave all that she had worked for. The Buffalo River has become a place where we stop on our way to see our daughter in Texas. The high bluffs, forested...

Mask requirements at most Massachusetts public schools will be extended until Jan. 15, 2022, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced Tuesday. “Masks remain a simple and effective measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and keep students in school safely,” the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education commissioner, Jeffrey Riley, said in a statement.

Moderna Chairman Noubar Afeyan indicated on Tuesday that his company's COVID-19 shot could require yearly boosters. "It may well need an annual booster, potentially varying on a year-to-year or every few years basis as the virus varies," Afeyan said on the Fox Business Network during an interview on "Mornings with Maria."

Dr. Paul Calls for Dr. Fauci's Firing and Criminal Investigation into NIH Rand: "He's still lying to the American public". Video...

Jo Acker, killed in the shooting attack at Boise Towne Square mall on Monday, in an Army dress uniform. TIFFANY LUNA ============================================================================ Family members have identified one of the shooting victims as a 26-year-old Boise Towne Square mall security guard named Jo Acker. On Monday afternoon, a man fired shots at the mall. Police confirmed that two people died and four others were injured. “I can’t even put into words how completely devastated and shattered I am,” Acker’s sister, Shawna Lannigan, wrote on social media. “Jo you were always kind and loving. You always had such an enormous heart of...

Nurses have been a critical part of our country’s COVID response. Lying in a hospital bed, looking beyond a respirator mask, every patient hopes to find one of these healthcare heroes looking over them. Nursing is one of the most trusted professions in the United States, and rightly so. Due in large part to the Nursing Code of Ethics that they adhere to, this modified vow, similar to the medical doctors' Hippocratic Oath, pledges autonomy, beneficence, justice and non-maleficence. It is exactly what a patient would want and need. Unfortunately, during today’s pandemic, unions are pushing nursing almost beyond limits...