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Spokane Public Schools approved and accommodated every single religious exemption request made by its employees.More than 350 pages of exemption requests came from Spokane Public School employees and 4 News Now dug through them. The requests listed their belief in God and bodily autonomy as reasons for not getting the shot. Requests from employees included letters from their pastors. Most cited a pro-life stance. The majority of worker statements said aborted fetal cells are used in the vaccines and their production. They believe getting the vaccine would go against God. Jesse Erasmus is an assistant professor at the University of...

Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather took to social media Monday to defend Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving’s decision to remain unvaccinated despite the team’s vaccine mandate. “America is the land of the free: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and supposedly freedom to choose,” Mayweather said in a video posted on social media. “Never be controlled by money.” “I respect you for having some integrity and being your own man. A free mind makes his own choices and a slave mind follows the crowd,” Mayweather continued. “Stand for something or fall for anything. One man can lead a revolution to...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Jim Bob Duggar announced on Friday his candidacy for Arkansas State Senate District 7, which includes Springdale, Johnson, Goshen, and Elkins. The seat was vacated on Thursday by Republican Lance Eads, who resigned to take a lobbying role. Jim Bob Duggar, a Republican born in Springdale, previously served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for four years (1999-2002). He is best known for his family’s TLC reality television show, 19 Kids and Counting. “I’m running for State Senate because these are unprecedented times in our nation,” Jim Bob Duggar said in a social media post announcing...

The evidence is pouring in that the COVID-19 vaccines are not as efficacious as advertised against the Delta variant that became dominant in the fall of 2021. The Delta is learning how to thrive. The evidence has further accumulated to show that the vaccinated are showing viral loads (very high) similar to the unvaccinated, and the vaccinated are equally as infectious. The gestalt of the findings implies that the infection explosion globally – post double vaccination e.g. Israel, UK, US etc. – that we have been experiencing may be likely due to the possibility that the vaccinated are driving the...

A Kentucky pooch plunged 170 feet into a gorge but survived unscathed in an incident authorities are dubbing a “doggone miracle.” “Adrenaline was running through my body, and the only thing I could think about was, ‘Holy crap, he’s alive,'” owner Tyler Stinson told station WLEX 18 of the incredible saga, which occurred Sunday in Daniel Boone National Forest. The Shelbyville resident was exploring the Red River Gorge with his “hiking buddy” Tyson, a pitbull boxer mix, that Stinson said he “takes everywhere.”

Heaven forbid that "kooks" — you know, the kind of people who watch Fox News — will run for school boards! That was the message from CNN Thursday morning. New Day had on supposed "moderate" Michael Smerconish to discuss Attorney General Merrick Garland's testimony on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the memo he had sent to the FBI regarding reported threats of violence against school board members. Twice, Smerconish fretted about who would replace school board members who resign because they have felt threatened or intimidated: "What I'm most worried about is that the people who will step...

fficials in Phoenix voted Thursday to fully adopt a policy limiting access to certain hiking trails in extreme heat. The Phoenix Parks and Recreation board unanimously pushed through the measure, which will close trails at Camelback Mountain and Piestewa Peak from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. any day an excessive heat warning is issued. The policy was tested at Echo Canyon and Cholla Trail in the Camelback Mountains and the Piestewa Peak trails in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve from July 13 to Sept. 30. The trial run began after nearly a dozen members of the Phoenix Fire Department were sent...

Almost all news outlets, including the liberal media, admitted that the failure of Congress to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill on Thursday, despite Joe Biden begging them to give him this win, was a fail for Biden. However, the attitude at Politico was absurdly Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!!! This bizarre reaction was reflected in Friday's Politico Playbook title, "Why Joe Biden already won."If that didn't make you take notice, then the text which spun the sinking of Biden's hopes as somehow a great victory, will leave you gasping at the hilarious absurdity of Politico's spin:

President Biden on Friday apologetically told French President Emmanuel Macron that he was “clumsy” in blindsiding France with a nuclear submarine pact among the US, the UK and Australia. “What happened was, to use an English phrase — what we did was clumsy. It was not done with a lot of grace,” Biden said as he met with Macron during the G20 summit in Rome. “I was under the impression that certain things had happened that hadn’t happened,” Biden claimed. “I was under the impression that France had been informed long before. “I honest to God did not know you...

These men approached @GlennYoungkin’s bus as it pulled up saying what sounded like, “We’re all in for Glenn.” Here they are standing in front of the bus as his campaign event at Guadalajara started.@NBC29 Notice that the only people interacting with this story are Democratic Political Operatives, all retweeted by Parkhomenko. Let's take a look at this gentleman. He bears a strong resemblance to one Camden Layton, otherwise known as the finance director for @vayd Let's take a look at this gentleman. He bears a strong resemblance to one Camden Layton, otherwise known as the finance director for @VAYD. This...

Forty-five years ago, a small force of Israeli sol­diers flew south over the Red Sea, skim­ming the ter­ri­to­r­i­al waters of a string of ene­my states and res­cu­ing near­ly all of the 105 hostages at Entebbe, Uganda. The sto­ry is well-known. But what few peo­ple real­ize is that those sol­diers, many of whom served in the elite Say­eret Matkal recon­nais­sance unit (or the ​“Unit,” as the out­fit is known), met with the prime min­is­ter and defense min­is­ter and, after being dri­ven back to their base, sim­ply ate, show­ered, con­grat­u­lat­ed one anoth­er on a job well done, and went home. The post-mis­sion...

The top federal agency in charge of oversight of American involvement in Afghanistan published a report on Friday stating the U.S. government spent nearly $89 billion on “training and equipping” the Afghan military in the past two decades. The Afghan military, formally the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, “no longer exist,” the report – the latest installment of its mandatory quarterly report to Congress – noted. The country’s armed forces collapsed this summer after President Joe Biden announced he would extend the Afghan War, the longest in American history, beyond the May 1 deadline that the previous administration had...

Today, at the conclusion of an emergency hearing, a federal District Court of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order against NorthShore University HealthSystem on behalf of 14 health care workers who have been unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate. The court said the plaintiffs are likely to prevail on Title VII and the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act. The court set November 16 for a preliminary injunction hearing. In the meantime, Liberty Counsel will file a brief with the court for conditional class status to extend the relief for the entire class...

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening networks censored another disastrous economic report that incriminated the feckless policies of President Joe Biden. The Commerce Department’s new report showed that third quarter annualized GDP growth was an abysmal 2 percent. Bloomberg News referred to it as the “[w]eakest” growth of the pandemic recovery. The Oct. 28 report indicated a major collapse from the 6.7 percent annualized pace in the second quarter. That’s a 4.7 percentage point contraction. Guess what: none of this atrocious news was apparently worth any coverage. ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News all ignored...

WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden gathered with world leaders at an English seaside resort in June, it was a backslapping celebration of America’s return to diplomatic stability after four years of public dressing-downs and impulsive policy withdrawals under President Donald Trump. “America is back at the table,” Biden declared at that meeting, a summit of the Group of 7 major industrialized nations. In the tumultuous four months since, the president has found that not being Trump is not enough to accomplish his ambitions at home or abroad. Biden’s advisers said he was counting on at least one economic policy...

NEW YORK CITY—Approximately two in five New York City restaurants, gyms, and entertainment venues weren’t fully abiding by the city’s COVID-19 vaccination pass mandate when first inspected. The city managed to inspect nearly two-thirds of the estimated 31,000 businesses that are required to ask their employees and customers for proof of vaccination. Some 8,000 were issued a warning for noncompliance. Of those, more than 3,300 for infractions that would have led to violations which could be penalized with a fine of $1,000 for the first and going up to $5,000 for the third. Upon second inspection at least two weeks...

Rutgers professor Dr. Brittney Cooper slammed white people as “villains” during an interview with The Root last month. Cooper falsely claimed that black and brown people happily co-existed and sailed around the world until whites came along and destroyed the world with violence.

In 1992, Hillary Clinton wasn't yet a household name — and was still years away from her own trailblazing political career — but she was quickly getting familiar with the white hot spotlight cast by national politics. Then the wife of a governor whose campaign for president was plagued with rumors of infidelity, she made her first major national media appearance in an attempt to tamp down the reports: a joint 60 Minutes interview with husband Bill Clinton That interview was depicted in this week's episode of the FX drama Impeachment: American Crime Story, which retells the White House affair...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will receive a COVID-19 booster shot on Saturday, the White House announced, as it encourages eligible Americans to follow suit. The White House says Harris, 57, qualifies for a booster because she frequently travels for work and interacts with a range of people as part of her duties.