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The South African president tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday as cases of the Omicron variant have surged in the region, officials said. President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is fully vaccinated, is receiving medical treatment for “mild COVID-19 symptoms” after he tested positive on Sunday, his office said in a statement. Officials said he began feeling unwell after attending a state memorial service in honor of former Deputy President FW de Klerk in Cape Town earlier in the day.

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Inflation-adjusted return of Treasuries fell to lowest since the 1980s. For bond investors, this is their version of Kevin’s Famous Chili from The Office! Or The Fed’s Famous Chili! Treasury investors are losing more money than they have in four decades, once inflation is taken into account. And if markets are right, they’re unlikely to come out ahead for years. The federal government’s debt has already lost about 2% outright over the past year as the Federal Reserve started removing pandemic-era stimulus from the economy and inched closer toward raising interest rates. But on top of that, the consumer price...

(NASA/Chris Gunn) VIDEO AT LINK............................. The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space observatory ever built, is finally set for launch in late December after decades of waiting. An engineering marvel, it will help answer fundamental questions about the Universe, peering back in time 13 billion years. Here are five things to know. 1. Giant gold mirror The telescope's centerpiece is its enormous primary mirror, a concave structure 21.5 feet (6.5 meters) wide and made up of 18 smaller hexagonal mirrors. They're made from beryllium coated with gold, optimized for reflecting infrared light from the far reaches of the...

Come join Clay and Buck every weekday from noon to three eastern time. Inspired by Rush Limbaugh, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton carry on a new form of broadcast excellence in the tradition of the late radio icon as they tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.

Some of the most progressive Democrats in Congress are supporting new legislation that could help an unexpected group: those who were arrested and imprisoned without trial for playing a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Democratic Reps. Hank Johnson (Ga.) and Jamie Raskin (Md.) on Wednesday reintroduced the Bivens Act, which would allow citizens to recover damages for constitutional violations committed against them by federal law enforcement officials. The bill, which the lawmakers first introduced last year, seeks "to provide a civil remedy for an individual whose rights have been violated by a person acting under federal authority." It...

If you want to become a billionaire—and you didn’t happen to be born into the Saudi royal family—there are a few ways to get the job done. You could come up with one seriously good idea, like a new computer operating system or social network, and then build it into a gigantic company. Or you could take the Warren Buffet route, making a decades-long series of shrewd, low–risk investments, and then watch the wealth slowly trickle in. And then there’s what Elon Musk did. Musk made his money differently than most of today’s famous billionaires. Instead of one amazing idea,...

A gunman opened fire Sunday night on a crowd that had gathered at a Celebration of Life ceremony in Baytown, Texas. A motorist drove by the location and opened fire striking a number of people. The injured were rushed to area hospitals. At least one person was killed. A child is also believed to have been injured The Harris County Sheriff’s Office told television station KTRK that one person had been killed, and three others critically injured. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez gives update after deadly shooting today at celebration of life in Houston Texas… https://t.co/kde8Z56Zbs via @YouTube — SherrilMetalGSM (@SherrilMetalGSM) December...

It recently came out that the former president of the Scottsdale Unified School District board appears to have compiled a creepy dossier full of personal information about parents who objected to CRT, COVID-19 restrictions and other parts of the progressive agenda being shoved down their kids’ throats without their approval. The Google Drive included over 160 pages about at least 50 parents containing background checks, a divorce paper, mortgage documents, hidden camera footage, Social Security numbers and screenshots of their social media posts. There were even some mental health status notes about a parent. There were offensive memes such as...

A member of the legislature of Canada's province of Ontario was expelled during a session Tuesday morning because she was not vaccinated for COVID-19. Cambridge, Ontario, MPP Belinda Karahalios had recently recovered from COVID-19 and tested negative for the virus. But Speaker Ted Arnott ordered her to leave because the current advice from the public officer of health was that she must be out of the chamber for 90 days following her positive test, Canada's CBC News reported. "I need to address the member for Cambridge – member for Cambridge is obviously in the precinct and in the chamber at...

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THE RECENT OPERATIONS NEAR PORT ROYAL. Capt. DUPONT, in his communication to the Navy Department, dated 4th of December, says the apprehension of losing possession of the Bay of St. Helena, so exceedingly valuable, for a harbor, for its proximity to Charleston, and for the command it secures of large rivers, supplying interior communication with South Carolina, induced him to dispatch a second expedition there under Commander DRAYTON, with orders to hold the island until Gen. SHERMAN is prepared to assume military occupation of it, when he will transfer the fort to his troops. The reconnoissance of Commander ROGERS, of...

In 1972, President Richard Nixon visited mainland China, opening the door for diplomatic relations between the two countries. It was a dramatic visit, as Nixon became the first United States President to visit the communist nation. Nixon met with Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, who is considered the world’s greatest mass murderer. During the “Great Leap Forward,” between 1958 and 1962, over 45 million Chinese were killed of starvation, torture and other barbaric methods. After Nixon opened the door to better relations, President Jimmy Carter formalized diplomatic relations in 1979 and adopted the “One China” policy, ending normalized ties with the...

A new analysis reveals the extraordinary left-wing bias of website ratings firm NewsGuard, which should concern every American given that it is expanding its reach into cable and broadcast TV news. Liberal outlets were rated 27 points higher on average than news organizations on the right. MRC Free Speech America analyzed the NewsGuard ratings of media outlets based on a list compiled by AllSides classified by their “bias” on a left-to-right scale. The average NewsGuard score for the “left” and “lean left” outlets — which included leftist outlets like Jacobin and The Nation — was 93/100. While the average rating...

At least one patient has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. "Sadly at least one patient has now been confirmed to have died with Omicron," Johnson told reporters. “So I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus - I think that's something we need to set on one side - and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population."… … Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the Omicron coronavirus variant was spreading at a "phenomenal rate" and...

The combination includes diphenhydramine, an antihistamine used for allergy symptoms. When paired with lactoferrin, a protein found in cow and human milk, the compounds were found to hinder the SARS-CoV-2 virus during tests in monkey cells and human lung cells.

Just imagine, with today’s labor shortage, how difficult it’s going to be to replace this guy: Skating waiter, Grand Hotel St. Moritz – photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1932Table 5 will have another round!Honestly, have you any idea how hard it is to hire a good bartender/waiter these days?Let alone one who can perform double axels, sit spins and death spirals? Good luck with that.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

In our wacky world where almost nothing makes sense any more, there is no shortage of examples of politicians, let alone self-important academics, journalists, and wealthy elites, looking foolish with incoherent and self-contradictory policy demands. My favorite among all of them is the demand for “climate justice” for the poor while simultaneously seeking action that will dramatically increase the price of energy and things derived from it (e.g., transportation, heat) — an increase that obviously will hit hardest on the poor. The contradiction is so stark that I have dubbed the situation a “looking glass world” and, in a piece...

The corrupt and mediocre heroes of the Left are imploding. With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were. Jussieopath From the moment details emerged surrounding Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime hoax, any sane, non-woke person could have recognized he was more than just a pathological liar. Smollett was also a conniving, mean-spirited egoist. He was intent on rescuing his fading acting career by libeling the Chicago police, smearing white Trump supporters as violent racists, and self-servingly advancing the lie of...

The corrupt and mediocre heroes of the Left are imploding. With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were. Jussieopath From the moment details emerged surrounding Jussie Smollett’s hate-crime hoax, any sane, non-woke person could have recognized he was more than just a pathological liar. Smollett was also a conniving, mean-spirited egoist. He was intent on rescuing his fading acting career by libeling the Chicago police, smearing white Trump supporters as violent racists, and self-servingly advancing the lie of...