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Sports are back, certainly as a TV product. The NFL is up in the ratings over last season. The NBA, buoyed by a resurgent Warriors, improved Eastern Conference and avoidance of Thursday Night Football, is up over last season as well. So all is well, right? Let’s just say there’s an issue, one that franchises are attempting to obscure. I’m looking at it through the prism of the NBA, because that’s the sport I’m obviously most familiar with, but this is a broader problem that could explode into a larger story. Jacob Feldman of Sportico gives us a good look...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led a Democratic congressional delegation at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow Tuesday, said women around the world are more exposed to climate change’s negative impact. “It’s a threat multiplier that amplifies and accelerates existing inequities,” she said during “gender day” at the summit, according to the New York Times. “Eighty percent of people displaced by climate change globally are women.” The United Nations, which organized the summit, said women are more vulnerable to climate change due to social, economic and cultural factors. “Seventy percent of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of poverty...

WARNING: Video in this story depicts violence which may be disturbing to some. Viewer discretion is advised. RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WZTV) - Video submitted to the FOX 17 newsroom shows a handful of students fighting one another Wednesday morning at LaVergne Middle School. Some are warning the behavior is prompted by what students are calling “fight week.” The viewer who submitted the video asked to remain anonymous, citing fears of suspension for the student who filmed the brawl. “Everyone was screaming and yelling,” an eighth grader told FOX 17 News. “There’s been a lot of fights in the bathroom.” The...

Seattle’s downtown is now considered so dangerous that King County employees will be escorted by security guards to buses, trains and ferries as part of a new program. Private sector workers won't have such option. The new initiative, dubbed the Walking Bus pilot program, was announced internally to King County employees Wednesday — the same day the city council, seemingly going against the wishes of Seattle voters’ rejection of the defund police movement, proposed a nearly $11 million cut from the force. According to the King County website, the Walking Bus pilot program will take effect on Nov. 15. Starting...

The October Consumer Price Index number was a stunning .9%. That means prices have increased 6.2% in the last twelve months. The behavior of the Federal Reserve (Fed), Congress and the Biden Administration is shockingly irresponsible. Action must be taken immediately. Failure to do so could lead to runaway inflation. Four decades ago, the Fed realized that the growth in the money supply has a direct effect on the inflation rate. Since then, Fed policy of controlling the money supply growth has generally kept inflation under 3%. Now the Fed has stopped that policy. Instead they say that based on...

Social media users wondered if the San Francisco Chronicle had published satire when the outlet asked if residents should start to "tolerate" burglaries as part of their every day life amid a recent crime surge. San Francisco has seen an increase in shootings, assaults, shoplifting, car break-ins and more in recent months. The city’s Central District, by way of example, experienced a 753% increase in car break-ins from May 2020 to May 2021. More than 150 families were so fearful they even hired private security to protect their property. The rate of burglaries has been particularly concerning. As of Oct....

CHICAGO (WLS) -- COVID-19 vaccination efforts in Chicago and across Illinois took center stage Wednesday afternoon as Congress looks for ways to get more shots in arms. With the vaccine now being available for kids age 5 to 11, and with COVID cases ticking upward as we approach the holidays, there is renewed effort to get more people vaccinated. "Nationwide more than 20% of all adults and children over the age of 12 have not yet received even one dose of vaccine," said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Northwest suburbs. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Dr. Ngozi Ezike testified Wednesday before a congressional...

On Saturday, major LGBT events on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts served to highlight the substantial rise of the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism in institutions that were once regarded as bastions of conservatism. Donald Trump hosted a huge black tie gala for Log Cabin (LGBT) Republicans at his Florida Mar-a-Lago Atlantic resort home where former First Lady Melania Trump was honored with the organization’s “Spirit of Lincoln” Award.

AN AMAZON driver was fired after a bizarre video showing a woman crawling out of the back door of his truck went viral on social media. The video, captured in July of 2019 in a residential Florida neighborhood, shows the driver slowly push the door open. Suddenly, a blonde woman dressed in a black dress and flip flops sneaks out the door and casually goes on her way. As she leaves, she appears to take a phone from her dress and make a call.(snip) TikTok users had a field day in the comment section trading puns and innuendos. "Package will...

Russia on Friday dismissed as inflammatory a media report suggesting Moscow might be weighing an attack on Ukraine and accused the United States of making a series of aggressive moves in the Black Sea. Washington has raised concerns about a potential Russian attack on Ukraine with its European Union allies, the Bloomberg news agency reported a day earlier. The report cited potentially suspicious troop movements inside Russia as being one of the reasons for U.S. concern.

President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will speak virtually on Monday evening, marking the first bilateral meeting between the two leaders since Biden took office. The high-stakes meeting is likely to cover a range of topics including tensions over China’s military activity near Taiwan and human rights, as well as cooperation on climate change. The announcement came after the U.S. and China reached an agreement on a joint statement on the need to tackle climate change at a United Nations summit in Glasgow, Scotland, earlier this week.

James O’Keefe et al. were raided under a federal search warrant procured by the FBI. Although O’Keefe was instructed to remain mum, the authorities promptly leaked news of the raid to the New York Times. All this in the matter of Ashley Biden’s diary. Among the items seized in the raid were O’Keefe’s cell phones. Fox News reports that a court order has enjoined the Department of Justice from extracting material without judicial oversight. BREAKING! The federal court has just ordered the DOJ to STOP extracting data from our client, journalist James O’Keefe’s phone, and ordered a hearing. Counsel for...

Weird that two are “snake oil” and the expensive one will get EUA {Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA}

A nationally-renowned private Christian school in Memphis is facing attacks from LGBT activists and a radical county commissioner for following the teachings of the Holy Bible. Briarcrest Christian School drew fire after they announced a training session for parents and students on a Gospel response to sexuality and gender titled, “God Made Them Male and Female. And It Was Good. A Gospel Response to Culture’s Gender Theory." Briarcrest promised an "enlightening look into the craziness our culture is throwing at our kids and leave equipped with a gospel response to share with them." "When Superman is rewritten to be a...

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Abstract SARS-CoV in 2003, SARS-CoV-2 in 2019, and SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) can cause deadly infections, underlining the importance of developing broadly effective countermeasures against Group 2B Sarbecoviruses, which could be key in the rapid prevention and mitigation of future zoonotic events. Here, we demonstrate the neutralization of SARS-CoV, bat CoVs WIV-1 and RsSHC014, and SARS-CoV-2 variants D614G, B.1.1.7, B.1.429, B1.351 by a receptor-binding domain (RBD)-specific antibody DH1047. Prophylactic and therapeutic treatment with DH1047 demonstrated protection against SARS-CoV, WIV-1, RsSHC014, and SARS-CoV-2 B1.351infection in mice. Binding and structural analysis showed high affinity binding of DH1047 to an epitope that...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on Friday endorsed former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as his successor, saying that his state “will be in good hands” under her leadership. “I’ve known Sarah Huckabee Sanders most of her life and know firsthand her love for our state and her heart for public service,” Hutchinson said in a statement. “Sarah has earned the Republican nomination and I’m delighted today to endorse her for Governor.”

A woman who attacked a Polk County deputy was shot dead Thursday, according to the sheriff. The Polk County sheriff says the shooting happened Thursday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. in Wahneta, in unincorporated Polk County. The woman, identified as 24-year-old Jessiram Hweih Rivera, allegedly attacked a deputy with a shovel. Deputies were called to the area regarding a suspicious woman who was walking in and out of moving traffic on Rifle Range Road near Noles Lane in Wahneta. Sergeant Sean Speakman, 46, arrived to find Rivera south of Redemption Baptist Church on the west side of Rifle Range Road. "She...

Children learn social cues from observing body language of the people around them, including facial expressions. Masks preclude all social development based on facial expressions. A critical period is between the ages of 3 and 11, when children make great strides in reading emotions from facial expressions. There is some evidence that determining emotions from facial expressions correlates with social skills. How many children are being stunted in this area by being deprived of this vital period in their development?

Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), are expressing support for censuring their fellow Republican Rep. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) for posting a photoshopped anime video this week depicting himself killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Cheney and Kinzinger have frequently criticized their own party over its continued ties to former President Trump, but it is nevertheless extraordinarily rare for lawmakers to back censure efforts against members of their own party. A group of House Democrats, led by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), formally introduced a resolution on Friday to censure Gosar over the video, which the Arizona Republican defended as a...