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ATLANTA – A guy who spent most of the season in the minors kept the Braves in it. Then the offense finally came to life. Just like that, Atlanta is one win from its first World Series title in 26 years. Dansby Swanson and pinch-hitter Jorge Soler connected for back-to-back homers in the seventh inning Saturday night, propelling the Braves to a 3-2 victory over the Houston Astros and a commanding 3-1 Series lead. Game 5 is Sunday night. The Braves can wrap up the championship on their home field, just as they did two stadiums ago when they beat...

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) visited Stony Brook University on Long Island to highlight the need for more workforce development programs in the medical field. She said the pandemic has been hard on hospitals and other healthcare facilities. In a letter to her congressional colleagues, she wants $67 million in federal funding for healthcare workforce development programs. “They desperately need reinforcements. Staff are physically and emotionally burnt out and hospitals across the entire state have been working with skeleton crews. More than 5 million New Yorkers live in primary care health professional shortage areas,” said Gillibrand. “If we don’t act,...

Standing in front of a judge at 17, Veronika Granado said she felt numb as she asked him to grant her a judicial bypass, which would allow her, as a minor, to get an abortion without parental consent or notification. For Granado, who had just graduated high school, terminating the pregnancy would allow her to continue her education without being a young mother at the same time. "My future was on the line," Granado said. "He could have easily said no, and that would have been devastating." Now 22 and a third-year student at the University of Texas at San...

Alec Baldwin told the paparazzi he is not allowed to talk about the details of the shooting that occurred on the set of his latest film, "Rust," but he had some things to say about the woman who died, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. In a video posted on TMZ's website Saturday, Baldwin and his wife Hilaria Baldwin appeared on camera from "Manchester, VT, where he and his family have been laying low since the fatal incident."

Explanation: If you see this as a monster's face, don't panic. It's only pareidolia, often experienced as the tendency to see faces in patterns of light and shadow. In fact, the startling visual scene is actually a 180 degree panorama of Northern Lights, digitally mirrored like inkblots on a folded piece of paper. Frames used to construct it were captured on a September night from the middle of a waterfall-crossing suspension bridge in Jamtland, Sweden. With geomagnetic storms triggered by recent solar activity, auroral displays could be very active at planet Earth's high latitudes in the coming days. But if...

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin told Newsmax on Friday that momentum is shifting his way from his Democratic rival, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, in the race because he is part of "a movement, not a campaign." McAuliffe "calls his friend [President] Joe Biden, and has Joe Biden send the FBI in to try to silence parents' voices in Virginia," Youngkin said on "The Chris Salcedo Show." "And parents just aren't having any part of it. This is a movement, not a campaign, and it is so exciting to be part of it." A key issue in the race is...

By Ray Starmann The final destruction of the US military by leftist social engineers is at hand. The Hour of the Clusterf*ck is near, that hour defined as the complete and utter decimation of the US armed forces on the ground, in the air and at sea by the Chinese. We are woke and we are weak and our enemies know it. The Chicoms are pacing back and forth in the Pacific, ready to pounce on Taiwan. Putin is eyeing the Baltic States and the Ukraine, the North Koreans are conducting missiles tests again and Iran laughs as its bass...

Biden’s Visit to the VaticanThe party of JFK now loves to talk politics with the pope.In the days of John F. Kennedy, the Democrats emphasized their political distance from the pope. Kennedy promised Americans that he would never let the pope influence him on “matters of public policy.” How times have changed. Today’s Democrats boast of their political alliance with Pope Francis. They openly confer with him on matters of public policy, as evident in Joe Biden’s latest visit to the Vatican. After he met with the pope last Friday, Biden praised him for “fighting the climate crisis, as well...

The data shows the vaccines are so bad, it's difficult for people to accept it.Week in and week out, we post the VAERS data dump, usually on Fridays. The stories have grown less and less popular for a reason: They don’t seem to have an effect on waking up the masses to the dangers of the Covid-19 “vaccines.”We will continue to post them because the information is important and must be kept at the top of mind. In the United States, we’re approaching one million reported adverse reactions (see below). Considering even the CDC acknowledges that the data only accounts...

Extension of the vaccine passport in France was approved 158-106 in the French Senate late Thursday. The date for the pass to end is February 28th of next year just six weeks before the Presidential Election's first round in April. The polling continues in that race with incumbent Emmanuel Macron in first place according to polling data published by BFM-TV. He would win the first round at 23 percent of the vote with Marine Le Pen at 19 percent. They would move onto a second round. But the third place candidate turns out to be Eric Zemmour the controversial Jewish...

The Venezuelan government recently lopped off six zeros from its hyperinflating currency, the bolivar. The highest denomination currency note of 1 million bolivars, worth less than $0.25, was replaced by a one-bolivar note. At the same time, a 100-bolivar note, worth about $25.00, was introduced as the new highest denomination of the bolivar. The currency conversion was designed to spare the government the embarrassment of having to issue a 100-million bolivar note to enable people to purchases everyday items without having to carry around bundles of notes, given that the price of a loaf of bread had risen to 7...

The deadline for New York City firefighters to get vaccinated was yesterday. Enforcement of the vaccine mandate is anticipated to begin Monday. Today, the New York Post is reporting that 26 FDNY firehouses are currently closed due to short staffing directly related to the vaccine mandate. But the vaccine mandate is all about the public health, right? New York – The FDNY shut down 26 firehouses across the Big Apple as of 7:30 a.m. Saturday because of staff shortages caused by the vaccination mandate, The Post has learned. […] “Twenty six companies out of service is an unconscionable number,” said...

Hilaria Baldwin made an emotional post on Instagram, showing her hand intertwined with husband Alec Baldwins and says she has fears he will develop PTSD after he accidentally shot dead cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of 'Rust'. Hilaria showed her support for her actor husband as she stood by his side. It was the first time since the fatal accident that the Baldwins spoke to the press. She later shared a heartfelt post on Instagram: 'I love you and I'm here,' she captioned a picture of her and her husband's intertwined hands. Hilaria said she drove her family to...

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he expects to see a rise in vaccinations among municipal workers in line with his mandate, telling reporters that the “human reality” is city employees will decide to get the shot rather than face unpaid leave. De Blasio made the remarks during an Oct. 28 press conference, on the eve of a looming Oct. 29 deadline for municipal workers to receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with no testing opt-out, or face being sent home without pay starting Monday, Nov. 1. Thousands of municipal workers took to the streets...

A majority of voters said President Biden's chief medical advisor, Anthony Fauci, should resign, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. The survey, which was conducted from October 26,27, found that 52 percent of registered voters polled felt Fauci should resign. By contrast, 48 percent of respondent said he should not. A June 17-18 Hill-HarrisX poll found that 58 percent of registered voters said Fauci should not resign, while 42 percent of respondents said he should. Thirty-two percent of Democrats said Fauci should resign, a 12 percentage point increase since the June survey, while 68 percent said he should not. The number...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just announced new coronavirus guidelines that said some people, some people with vulnerabilities, some people with compromised immunities, may indeed, should indeed, may very well mightily should indeed get — get this — a fourth shot. ... First came the “two weeks to flatten the curve” argument, the one that turned into, “oh, oops, we meant two years.” ... Then came the “if one face mask is good, two face masks are better” lines of science... Then came U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and his videotaped instructional on how to fabricate a face...

There are times in life when you made a decision, they after announcing it to the world, realized it was a terrible idea. As a politician who is running for office again, who just caused his lead to evaporate overnight, showing up where voters can ask you what you were thinking, might not be a good idea. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who is running for the job again, has fallen rapidly in the polls due to self-inflicted political wounds. McAuliffe who has stumbled repeatedly on the topic of education — long considered a winning issue for Democrats —...

The CDC hits a new low Alex Berenson 10 hr ago 1,080 (I didn’t think it was possible either.) But yesterday the Centers for Disease Control, America’s not-at-all-politicized public health agency, released a new study purporting to show that vaccination protects against Covid infection better than natural immunity. Of course, a wave of stories about the benefits of mRNA vaccination followed. To do this, the CDC used some magic statistical analysis to turn inside raw data that actually showed almost four times as many fully vaccinated people being hospitalized with Covid as those with natural immunity - and FIFTEEN TIMES...

Cordileone: Rosaries, Roses, & Reptiles“O young Lochinvar is come out of the west”—West Coast, that is.You have likely read the media pas de deux between Nancy Pelosi and her ordinary, Archbishop Cordileone. Forgive me if I am unsympathetic to His Excellency’s current “Rose and Rosary for Nancy” gambit. The sell-by date for talk about killing innocent life in the womb expired in September with passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021. Once the clock ran out on the utility of words, it was time for canonical action.But the archbishop apparently has no stomach for consequential action, or any...