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DETROIT (AP) — More cougar sightings are being confirmed in Michigan, although wildlife officials aren’t certain yet whether that means more of the animals are reclaiming the area as their home. Ten sightings of cougars, also known as pumas or mountain lions, have been confirmed so far this year by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, all in the state’s Upper Peninsula, compared with 15 last year. The most recent sighting in Michigan, confirmed by the agency in October, was on Sept. 16, when a photo was captured of a cougar in southern Dickinson County. The increase in confirmed reports...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has created a new requirement for automakers: Find a high-tech way to keep drunken people from driving cars. It’s one of the mandates along with a burst of new spending aimed at improving auto safety amid escalating road fatalities in the $1 trillion infrastructure package that President Joe Biden is expected to sign soon. Under the legislation, monitoring systems to stop intoxicated drivers would roll out in all new vehicles as early as 2026, after the Transportation Department assesses the best form of technology to install in millions of vehicles and automakers are given time to...

Will Jeff Bezos proclaim himself "President of Prime America?" Or will it be Elon Musk, issuing an edict anointing himself "Emperor of Teslamerica?" Morning Joe was baying for Steve Bannon's blood this morning, demanding that the Justice Department prosecute him after the House held him in criminal contempt for refusing to testify before the January 6th committee. Joe Scarborough took things to an outlandish extreme, predicting this dire consequence if the DoJ doesn't prosecute Bannon and other Trump allies who might refuse to comply with congressional subpoenas to testify: "I swear to God: 10, 15 years from now, if people...

Astronauts on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour splashed down off the coast of Florida. The Crew-2 mission is SpaceX’s second long-duration astronaut mission for NASA.SpaceX Crew-2 Astronauts Return to Earth | November 8, 2021 | Bloomberg Quicktake: Now

When news broke a few days ago that his Department of Justice was negotiating a deal to pay some illegal immigrants $450,000 in damages, President Biden declared the news "garbage." Now that he has had time to confer with his advisors, he has pronounced himself "perfectly comfortable" with the idea. Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained that "when the President was informed of the very real suffering endured by these people—trekking hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of miles to get to the United States—he immediately saw the justice behind the demanded payments. The United States advertises itself as the 'land...

Minnesota's COVID-19 indicators continued to show a worsening pandemic on Tuesday with more cases and hospitalizations, including a surge of newly reported infections over the weekend that exceeded the state's capacity for logging cases. The latest data from the Minnesota Department of Health added 7,173 new cases to the state's pandemic totals, a figure that captures reporting for Saturday and Sunday and continued a trend of rising daily cases over the past two weeks. Over the weekend, however, the high volume of new cases meant that staffing wasn't sufficient to process all the data, the Health Department said. The tally...

Video ROMA, Texas — Human smugglers ferried more than 100 migrants into the downtown square Monday night. U.S. Army National Guardsmen assisted Border Patrol agents to line the migrants and march them into the city for transport. In what has become a nightly ritual, smugglers made short work of transporting the migrants into Roma from Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas.

I live in Australia. The American alliance protects Australia from external threat. In World War Two, Douglas MacArthur earned the title The Saviour Of Australia. At the moment American protection of Australia is strengthened by our Quad alliance with Japan and India. Indonesia is neutral. If Indonesia were aligned with this Quad making it a Quin, Australia would be safer.

So I was standardized on Opera for several years, tried Brave, didn't really like it, and then someone on here recommended Vivaldi. I tried it and really like it, it's my main browser now. Problem is, it seems to lose the file-type association for web links and http files and so on. I clicked on a link in an email and it opened the box inviting me to tell it what program to use, and -- Vivaldi wasn't even one of the pre-registered options, only Opera. So I browsed to the location (which is oddly in %APPDATA%), and explicitly told...

The latest data from the U.K. Health Security Agency, which recently replaced Public Health England, shows that Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” have an average effectiveness rate of -73 percent in people over the age of 18. This means that the jabs are actually making injected people lose their immunity to the Chinese Virus, not gain more of it. This fact runs contrary to false narrative being spread by the government and the mainstream media that Wuhan Flu injections are “safe and effective.” As you may recall, Pfizer openly lied about its Chinese Flu injections, falsely claiming that they provide 95...

Interview with Col. (Ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, former deputy head of assesment, Israel Military Intelligence.Iran is trying to avenge the November 2020 assassination of scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.Israel's Mossad - intelligence agency - foiled several Iranian terrorist attacks against Israeli targets in Africa, Channel 12 reported.The terrorists, from the Iranian Quds Force, have reportedly been trying for months to target Israeli businessmen in Senegal and Ghana, as well as in Tanzania, where Israelis are used to going on safari.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The White House has set aside a special seat for "honored guest" Peter Doocy of Fox News, Jen Psaki confirmed Monday. Doocy was concerned, however, when he realized the "seat of honor" was positioned directly under a precariously dangling piano. "Um, Press Secretary Psaki, do you think I could get a different seat?" Doocy asked, looking up worriedly. "I'm pretty sure there is a massive grand piano directly above me." A smiling Psaki assured him there was no piano and that he was "perfectly safe." "We'll circle back to your question," she said while making a "cutting" motion with...

1. A common method of sperm retrieval (masturbation with the assistance of pornography) involves a violation of the sixth commandment (Matthew 5:28; Colossians 3:5; Exodus 20:14). 2. Many ethical and practical issues are the same here as with surrogate parenting. A review of surrogate parenting material would be appropriate. 3. Sperm banks raise valid social and legal concerns re: paternal rights, the rights of children to know their parents, transmission of diseases, and a checkered past of mismanagement resulting in mistaken insemination of sperm. I reject the argument that sperm banks presume for humans the authority of God. The role...

We have entered a new and acute phase of a long-running political development in the U.S. toward increasing executive power. The Presidential Office, via the CDC and other executive agencies, along with numerous state governors and local officials, have essentially served the role of Roman Dictator or Soviet Politburo since Spring 2020, using emergency powers and the authority of expertise to cow other American political officials and citizens into compliance. We don’t even take care to speak of “executive orders” anymore; news reports increasingly refer to “mandates,” “proclamations,” or just plain “orders,” as if these were the normal products of...

A Michigan township said schools would be closed on Monday after several staff members had a "negative reaction" to the COVID-19 booster shot. Saginaw Township Community Schools posted an announcement on the homepage of its website , noting that, due to being understaffed, schools in its district would be closed on Monday, affecting after-school programs and child care. "A large number of our staff had a negative reaction to the COVID booster shot given at a voluntary clinic over the weekend," the notice said. "There is a substitute teacher/staff shortage throughout the state, further complicating the availability to cover those...

A federal court on Monday declined to block the White House’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal government employees and military service members. In a 41-page memorandum opinion, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied emergency relief sought by several avowedly “devout” Christians who have argued that being forced to take the vaccine would compromise their “closely held religious beliefs.” The Washington, D.C.-based judge’s decision to rule against the numerous plaintiffs in the case, some of whom are members of the U.S. Marine Corps, however, is largely a product of their own recent victories against the Biden administration in the exact same...

Once Abhimanyu Mishra and his father bought one-way tickets to get them from Englishtown, N.J. to Budapest, there was no turning back. The pandemic was still raging, but that tiny pathogen didn’t stop the countdown clock separating a 12-year-old boy known as Abhi from history. Mishra was on a mission to become the youngest ever chess grandmaster. “It was very scary and we knew it was a big risk,” Abhi said. “But we needed more tournaments. We had to try it.” For 77 days over the summer, Abhi and his father Hemant lived out of a Hungarian hotel room that...

Video showing that Pfizers new anti-viral drug is virtually the same as Ivermectin. And interestingly they have research that their version of ivermectin works against COVID but they have no research that the real ivermectin works. Of course the real Ivermectin costs 10 cents a pill outside the US.

People who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are “criminals” and have cost “millions of lives,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday. Speaking with Washington D.C.-based think tank Atlantic Council, Bourla said there is a “very small” group of people that purposefully circulate misinformation on the shots, misleading those who are already hesitant about getting vaccinated. “Those people are criminals,” he told Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe. “They’re not bad people. They’re criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives.” Bourla’s comments come as millions of eligible adults in the U.S. have yet to get vaccinated even though the shots...