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Three snow leopards at the Children's Zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska, died of COVID just a month after testing positive Ranney, Everest, and Malaku had first tested positive for COVID on October 13, along with a pair of Sumatran tigers who have since made a full recovery Veterinarians attempted to treat the snow leopards with an aggressive regimen of steroids and antibiotics that ultimately proved unsuccessful It remains unknown as to whether the three snow leopards were vaccinated against the virus Reports of COVID infections are on the rise in the US as zoos in Denver and in St Louis, Missouri,...

Biden Targets the Religious Freedom of Federal Contractors His Labor Department seeks to rescind a Trump-issued rule protecting them.Joe Biden is systematically eliminating the religious freedom protections that Donald Trump established. The latest example of Biden’s secularist program comes from his Labor Department, which is planning to undo Trump’s policy of defending the religious freedom of federal contractors.Trump’s Labor Department protected federal contractors who “hold themselves out to the public as carrying out a religious purpose.”“Religious organizations should not have to fear that acceptance of a federal contract or subcontract will require them to abandon their religious character or identity,”...

OKLAHOMA CITY – In a move to protect Oklahoma’s frontline healthcare heroes from religious discrimination, the State of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit on Friday to block Ascension Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest healthcare networks, from carrying out its plan to fire employees who have been denied religious exemptions from Ascension’s nationwide COVID-19 vaccination mandate. In court filings, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights Enforcement says it began an investigation into Ascension Healthcare after receiving several civil rights complaints. In reviewing the complaints, the attorney general says it determined the hospital system was summarily denying religious exemption requests...

QUID EST VERITAS: What did the Pope Really say to the President?President Joe Biden does not have a reputation as a “truth-teller.” Mr. Biden said the armed forces generals all told him to pull out of Afghanistan without leaving a small force. Under oath in testifying to Congress the top generals contradicted the President. Mr. Biden didn’t really visit the border, as he claimed in a recent town hall. He only drove by. It’s been proven he did not visit the Tree of Life synagogue after the massacre as he claimed. Newsweek magazine calls it “tortured logic” that allows Joe...

A man had two of the best tickets for the Masters. As he sits down, another man comes along and asks if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him. "No", he says, "the seat is empty. "This is incredible!" said the man, "who in their right mind would have a seat like this, the biggest golfing event of the whole world, and not use it?" He says, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. My wife always would come with me, but she passed away. This is the first Masters we haven't been to together since we got...

Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist and chairman of the Public Health Collaboration, a charity, noted how in war zones heart attacks and strokes often increased among civilians after the conflict had ended. He suggested that the impact of the pandemic might be creating a similar phenomenon, helping to explain a surge in heart attacks caused by partially blocked arteries in the west of Scotland, after lockdowns this year.

WorldPride 2025 will take place in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, which will be the first time a WorldPride will be held in an East Asian country. Kaohsiung Pride beat out Washington, D.C.’s Capital Pride Alliance to host the event. Today’s decision came after more than 300 member organizations from around the world voted during InterPride’s 2021 general meeting, which was held virtually this week. InterPride is the organization behind WorldPride. The meeting featured performances by nonbinary actor and musician Kat Cunning. ...

The former head of the Food and Drug Administration warned Sunday that there’s “no question” that there will be a surge in COVID-19 cases after Thanksgiving gatherings. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who sits on the board of Pfizer, said he anticipates the uptick in cases already seen in more than a dozen states to continue after the Nov. 25 holiday.

For centuries, concrete was everywhere in Roman Italy: in the awesomely durable breakwaters of artificial harbors, in the soaring vaults of great baths, in the foundations of the Colosseum, and - of course - in the spectacular dome of the Pantheon. But during late antiquity, concrete all but vanished from the Mediterranean world, and would not be used widely again until the twentieth century. This video explains why.Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:39 Understanding Roman concrete1:29 Early experiments2:25 The apogee3:33 Squarespace!4:19 Geographic limits of Roman concrete5:00 The decline of concrete6:28 Final notices7:26 Not forgotten, but goneWhy was Roman Concrete Forgotten during the Middle Ages?...

As Glenn Reynolds likes to say, they told us that voting for Donald Trump would mean Congress would pass big tax breaks for the rich — and they were right! Democrats have spent the last four years complaining about Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and insist they want the rich to pay their fair share. Their latest change to Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan imagines that most millionaires have overpaid. ----SNIP--- Of course, this is by design, and it’s getting pushed by blue states that impose the highest tax burdens in the country. The new-ish proposal raises the deduction cap...

Countries near Belarus are warning that the migrant crisis on the European Union's eastern borders could escalate into a military confrontation. Video released by the Polish defense ministry is said to show Belarus border guards carrying heavy arms at the border, including grenade launchers and sniper rifles. Reuters couldn't verify the grenade launcher claim, but it comes as Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania -- which are both EU and NATO members -- say the incident is posing a serious threat to European security. And Ukraine, which is not an EU member, but is wary of becoming another flashpoint, says it will...

Rep. Fred Upton (Mich.), one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, revealed on Sunday that he has not yet decided if he will run for reelection in 2022. Asked by co-host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he is committed to running for another term next year, Upton said he is unsure because redistricting is still underway in Michigan

NEW YORK — The following is a statement from Brian Hauss, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, in response to reports of an FBI raid on Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe: “Project Veritas has engaged in disgraceful deceptions, and reasonable observers might not consider their activities to be journalism at all. Nevertheless, the precedent set in this case could have serious consequences for press freedom. Unless the government had good reason to believe that Project Veritas employees were directly involved in the criminal theft of the diary, it should not have subjected them to invasive...

One recent survey of web hosting companies named the following as being "top ten" rated: GoDaddy HostGrid Site Creator blue host 1&1 IONOS Inmotion SiteGround Hostinger WiX HostGator I know that GoDaddy hates and will deplatform conservatives. What are the latest suggestions or opinions regarding conservative "friendly" webhosting platforms?

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace during an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” told Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that his position on COVID vaccine mandates was “not consistent.” Wallace asked, “You say Texas companies should take care of their own workers so, given that, how do you justify the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, issuing an executive order that bans any business in Texas from issuing a vaccine mandate and how do you justify the governor issuing a ban on all school districts on mask mandates, a ban that was overturned just this week by a federal judge?

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” offered her advice for those struggling with the inflationary pressures on the American economy: be smart shoppers.

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Former President Trump beat out President Biden by 11 points in a hypothetical faceoff in Iowa, according to a poll. If such a rematch were held in 2024, 51 percent of likely voters would support Trump, and 40 percent said they would back Biden, a Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll showed Saturday. Another 4 percent said they would not vote for either candidate and the remaining 5 percent were not sure. When the candidates faced off in 2020, Trump defeated Biden by about 8 percentage points, carrying the state with 53 percent of the votes

HAJNOWKA, Poland, Nov 14 (Reuters) - NATO must take "concrete steps" to resolve the migrant crisis on the Belarus border, the Polish prime minister was quoted as saying on Sunday, adding that Poland, Lithuania and Latvia may ask for consultations under the alliance's treaty. Thousands of migrants have travelled to Belarus in the hope of crossing into the European Union (EU), only to find themselves trapped on the border in freezing conditions. The EU accuses Minsk of orchestrating the crisis to put pressure on the bloc over sanctions, but Belarus has repeatedly denied this. Some countries in the region have...

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