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Multiple people have reportedly been injured at the opening night of Travis Scott's sold-out Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas on Friday. Dozens of ambulances, multiple medics and other personnel were seen tending to people at the third annual festival, a sold-out concert featuring multiple acts. Videos posted to social media showed officials giving CPR to some fans in the crowd as Scott continued to play. Some appeared to have been badly bleeding, as fans say they saw some people appearing lifeless. The Houston Fire Department told ABC 13 CPR was performed on at least two people, and Zack Tawatari, a...

A law professor who was caught on tape pressuring a Native American student to apologize for 'trap house' party, pushed Yale to host a diversity trainer who reportedly told students anti-Semitism is a form of 'anti-blackness' and that the FBI artificially inflates hate crimes against Jews. Yale’s director of diversity and inclusion Yaseen Eldik invited 'kinky' sex education and diversity trainer Ericka Hart to the university after the board 'publicly expressed' it would 'implement implicit bias and antiracism training.' ... ...Hart's presentation allegedly included examples of 'perfectionism,' 'objectivity,' 'a sense of urgency,' and 'the written word' as examples of white...

Electrodeposition of Hydrogen Adatoms on Graphene Quan-feng He, Lianhuan Han, Dongping Zhan* , Zhong-Qun Tian State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces; Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Energy Materials of China; Engineering Research Centre of Electrochemical Technologies of Ministry of Education; Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; and Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005, China. E-mail: dpzhan@xmu.edu.cn Conductive carbon materials, such as graphite, glassy carbon, carbon black, carbon nanotube, graphene, etc., are used extensively as electrode materials or catalyst carriers in various electrochemical researches because...

Democratic New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, who is projected to lose his bid for reelection against a little-known truck driver, is talking about "recently found" ballots to support his refusal to concede the race. The defiant incumbent released a statement to the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday that explained why he is not ready to admit defeat to his Republican challenger The results from Tuesday’s election continue to come in, for instance there were 12,000 ballots recently found in one county,” Sweeney said in an email, not naming the county. “While I am currently trailing in the race, we want...

Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert was wearing a dress that had the words “Let’s Go Brandon” during a Thursday event at Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.Boebert wore the dress in an apparent reference to Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mid-September performance with a “Tax The Rich” dress at the Met Gala.The Colorado rep. posted a photo of herself alongside Trump on Twitter, captioning it, “It’s not a phrase, it’s a movement! #LGB.”

TRENDING: Virginia secedes from Biden's party Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky is declaring that masks can reduce the chance of infection from COVID-19 by 80%, contrary to studies by the CDC itself and real-world data. Further, Walensky indicated that masks could become a staple of American life, adding that they "also help protect from other illnesses like common cold and flu." Her guidance came in a tweet Friday spotlighting a video produced by the CDC... Yale Law School professor Samantha Godwin said the CDC director has made "a specific empirical claim for which no data exists."...

More than three dozen Democrats are taking heat for voting against a House resolution sponsored by a fellow Democrat calling for solidarity with Cubans after historic anti-government protests in the summer led to a brutal crackdown by authorities. The 40 Democrats, mostly from the progressive caucus, voted "no" Wednesday to “expressing solidarity with Cuban citizens demonstrating peacefully for fundamental freedoms, condemning the Cuban regime’s acts of repression, and calling for the immediate release of arbitrarily detained Cuban citizens.”...

The Italian Higher Institute of Health has revised the February 2020 to October 2021 COVID death toll from a previously reported 130,468 fatalities to only 3,783. The reason for the revision is that the higher figure included all deaths in which the deceased tested positive for COVID, while the lower figure counted only those who actually died from COVID. This revision was soundly denounced by Dr. Anthony Fauci who called it "the wrong message at the wrong time. It clashes with the protocol we've adopted here in the United States that anyone dying with COVID should be classified as a...

Hey you 13 House POS RINOs. Yes, I'm talking to you. You might as well pass the misnamed Build Back Better bill which will be the death knell of America. If we're going to have socialism, then just pass the bill and tell your RINO Senate colleagues who voted for the fake infrastructure bill to pass BBB too. Break out the wheelbarrows, because you'll need it to buy a loaf a bread in breadlines. Just 72 hours ago, Republicans wiped the floor with Democrats IN BLUE STATES and now you have 13 POS RINOs do this crap which completely killed...

The principal of a Boston public school in Dorchester was beaten until she was unconscious for four minutes or more during an increase in violence in the school district. Henderson K-12 Inclusion School Principal Patricia Lampron was pummeled in the head until she was unconscious Wednesday, the Boston Herald reported.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), head of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), was left waiting outside a meeting of the Progressive Caucus on Friday night as Democrats remained locked in a marathon debate over provisions of their mammoth social spending package. Beatty, who’s joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in pushing for a stand-alone vote on the infrastructure bill passed by the Senate, said neither the Speaker nor President Biden, with whom she spoke earlier Friday, asked her to visit the progressives in an effort to change minds. “I asked if I could come here,” she said. Beatty said Majority Whip James...

PETA told Fox News that Fauci has defended 'a cruel, archaic system for far too long.'The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals said that the National Institutes of Health leadership should resign, including Dr. Anthony Fauci."Our position is clear. ALL those in leadership at NIH, including Fauci, should resign," PETA tweeted on Friday afternoon.The tweet comes after a White Coat Waste report claimed that more than $400,000 in taxpayer funding was spent on experiments that involved beagles being given an experimental drug, then infested with disease-carrying flies. Fox News has not independently verified whether these experiments took place. NIH provided...

Majorities of Latinos say discrimination is worse and getting ahead is harder for Hispanics with darker skin, but about 80 percent see themselves as having lighter skin, a Pew Research Center poll found. Latinos responding to the Pew survey released Thursday said skin color affects their lives, with 62 percent saying having darker skin hurts Hispanics’ ability to get ahead at least a little. Fifty-nine percent said getting ahead is easier for Latinos with lighter skin color. The survey respondents tended to pick the lightest shades when they were asked to select one of 10 images of hands, shaded fair...

Bonfire night celebrations have returned in the UK... The effigies are among those which were set alight in the historic East Sussex town which hosts the country's biggest and arguably most famous November 5 celebrations, and which return after they were cancelled by coronavirus lockdowns last year. ***** US President Joe Biden also featured in the controversial event, depicted as a chicken, clad in red, white and blue being led from Kabul. ***** Lewes is famed for its topical and sometimes controversial bonfire night effigies and usually attracts thousands if not tens of thousands of revellers.

CNN's Jake Tapper uncovers the planning and motivations behind the January 6 insurrection in a new documentary airing Friday at 9 p.m. ET. He interviews numerous Republicans who were in the White House, in Congress and out in the states, watching in frustration and horror as then-President Donald Trump tried to mount his coup. What I found most interesting, and disturbing, were their warnings that Trump could be learning from his mistakes and setting the stage to repeat his efforts to steal the election in 2024. "It looks to me that he has evaluated what went wrong on January 6....

German Priest Performs Gay Pseudo-Blessing In Gay SaunaFather Wolfgang Rothe performed a November 4 homosex blessing in Munich's gay sauna Deutsche Eiche, he wrote on Facebook.com.Rothe who has a dazzling biography was accompanied by a BBC "journalist." Ordained by conservative St Pölten Bishop Kurt Krenn, Austria, he became the vice-rector of now defunct St Pölten seminary. In 2004 pictures showing him while seemingly kissing seminarians on their lips producing a scandal that made worldwide headlines. After that, Rothe returned to Germany working in Munich Archdiocese.In recent years, he has again been active on the homosex front. In May, photos showing...

The labor union for ICE officers has filed two workplace safety complaints about the Biden administration’s handling of illegal immigrants and COVID-19 at the border, saying federal employees processing and releasing the migrants face conditions that amount to “a death trap.” The complaints say many of the federal workers are contracting COVID-19. A Texas processing facility designed to hold fewer than 1,000 people at times has topped 4,000 per day. Employees have been falling ill after spending time in close quarters with illegal immigrantsm , who generally aren’t tested for coronavirus infection, according to the complaints....

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Democratic New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, who is projected to lose his bid for reelection against a little-known truck driver, is talking about "recently found" ballots to support his refusal to concede the race. The defiant incumbent released a statement to the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday that explained why he is not ready to admit defeat to his Republican challenger. “The results from Tuesday’s election continue to come in, for instance there were 12,000 ballots recently found in one county,” Sweeney said in an email, not naming the county. “While I am currently trailing in the race, we want...

Democrats and Gov. Ralph Northam resisted GOP calls this year to investigate misconduct at the Virginia Parole Board after people were released from prison without proper notification to crime victims and prosecutors. Republican Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares says he’s going to get to the bottom of the problems so they don’t happen again. “Citizens get frustrated when they feel like there’s no accountability or transparency in government,” Miyares said Thursday after taking questions from reporters at a news conference in Richmond. “I’m going to have an internal working group in the AG’s office after I get sworn in to really...