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Michigan’s House delegation was left scrambling Wednesday after the state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission finalized new congressional maps that eliminated one district while putting eight incumbents in four shared districts and creating three new open seats. In the hours after the map was released Tuesday evening several incumbents – including Democrats Elissa Slotkin and Debbie Dingell and Republican John Moolenaar – announced they would move to run in districts where they faced better odds or to avoid running against one of their colleagues. Democrat Haley Stevens, who has been on Republican target lists for the last two cycles, announced she would...

Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. The 60-year-old was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced - including the most serious charge, that of sex trafficking a minor. The verdict was reached after five full days of deliberation by a 12-person jury in New York. It means the British socialite could spend the rest of her life behind bars. The verdict followed a month-long trial that featured testimony from four women who described being abused by Epstein between 1994 and...

"... About 1,450 children were evacuated without their parents, according to numbers from the Office of Refugee Resettlement obtained by CNN. Some of the children got separated from the their families as they were attempting to flee Afghanistan together, and some lost communication with their parents when the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul was bombed. The bombing also killed some of the children’s parents as well as 13 members of the American military. Out of the 1,450 children who came to the U.S. without their parents, most have been released to sponsors, who are sometimes the other family members...

Winner of Kerala State Film Award for Best Debut Director in the year 1988, filmmaker Ali Akbar who has directed more than 20 films, has announced that he is quitting Islam and converting to Hinduism. The director took this step after discussing with his wife, who too is converting to Hinduism. As he said, "They have lost faith in religion." he said, "Today, I am throwing away an attire I received by birth. From today onwards I am not a Muslim. I am an Indian. That is my reply to those people who posted thousands of smiling emoticons against India."

"... I’m not going to sugarcoat this and say that a doubling of the number of children hospitalized with COVID isn’t disturbing (and the “with” is important, as we’ll discuss in a moment). But we’re talking about 1,933 children here. That’s not 1,933 children in one city or one county or even one state. That’s in the entire country of 330 million people. And more than 73 million of those Americans are under the age of 18. That works out to a hospitalization rate of .00000026. ..."

France has ordered the closure of a mosque in the north of the country because of the radical nature of its imam's preaching, regional authorities told AFP on Tuesday The mosque in Beauvais, a town of 50,000 people some 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Paris, will remain shut for six months, according to the prefecture of the Oise region where Beauvais is located. It said the sermons there incite hatred, violence and "defend jihad". The move comes two weeks after Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he had triggered the procedure to close the site because the imam there "is...

"The controversial Republican made her disdain for the celebration evident after the College Republicans, an organization representative of Republicans on college and university campuses, wished its followers on Twitter a happy Kwanzaa. "Wishing you a happy and prosperous Kwanza!" the group posted. Greene called out the post as "pandering." "Stop," she replied in a tweet. "It's a fake religion created by a psychopath. You aren't bringing in new voters, you are turning them away. People are tired of pandering and BS." ..."

"The billionaire has now exercised more than 22 million options that were due to expire in August 2022 Elon Musk has exercised the final batch of a package of vested Tesla Inc. stock options that have underpinned several weeks of share dealings by the chief executive. Mr. Musk on Tuesday converted more than 1.5 million options due to expire in August 2022 into stock and sold more than 934,000 shares to cover associated taxes, according to regulatory filings. ..."

Corporations' mass firings of unvaccinated workers have been documented as becoming "more common" as Joe Biden repeatedly has mandated that they force their employees to accept the experimental COVID shots. But now those companies are discovering that perhaps Biden's leadership isn't really what they should follow. It's because they are in such staffing emergencies that they are now asking their dismissed workers, the unvaccinated, to return to rescue them.

"The F-35 Stealth Fighter is now the World’s Best Stealth Fighter. Its detection range, geolocation, threat identification, and system response capabilities allow the jet to precisely fix and destroy the most advanced threats in the world including every layer of Russia’s latest surface-to-air missile system."

"I think about his time next year Donald Trump is going to announce that he's going to run for president in 2024."

CNN hasn't said anything about him yet.

Keep in mind Dr. Robert Malone is the mRNA inventor. Pfizer 6 month data which shows that Pfizer’s COVID-19 inoculations cause more illness than they prevent. https://rumble.com/vrm7rz-dr.-robert-malone-was-kicked-out-of-twatter-after-recommending-this-video.html

Gunshots again pierced the Portland night as nearly 100 shots were fired Tuesday night in the snow-dappled Parkrose Heights neighborhood. Portland police found almost 100 spent cartridges of multiple calibers, and, at a nearby restaurant, several parked cars with fresh bullet holes, after responding to reports of shots fired near Northeast 108th Avenue and Weidler Street around 9 p.m. Video taken by a residential surveillance system shows three people walking on the sidewalk, then bolting back the way they came as the first shots are fired. The group then doubles back again, as five more people run in the street...

Years ago, a satisfied customer sent a gift basket of goodies to my husband’s office, and he came home with a few of the things that were in it. One of them was a little jar of Capelin ‘caviar’. I had never had any experience with fish eggs; but one taste of that, and I was hooked. True caviar only comes from the sturgeon fish, and I’ve never been – and will probably never be – in the tax bracket to afford the best of that. What’s available to me is properly termed fish roe; and I very much...

SAN FRANCISCO - Those hoping to attend a concert or Warriors game at San Francisco's Chase Center in the next coming weeks will have to be fully vaccinated and boosted. The Chase Center announced Wednesday that the venue's entry requirements are updated in accordance with the public health order issued by the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

Angela Kukawski, 55, was found dead in the trunk of her car Thursday morning Her boyfriend Jason Barker, 49, has been charged with murder and is being held at the Ventura County Jail on a $3 million bond The medical examiner's office confirmed Kukawski's cause of death to be sharp and blunt force injuries of the head and neck and strangulation Police believe Barker killed his girlfriend in their Sherman Oaks home, placed her body in his car and then drove to a relative's house in Simi Valley Kukawski worked as a business manager at Boulevard Management with high-profile clients...

Treatments for COVID-19 incorporating hot-button drugs such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are being secretly adopted by National Football League teams, according to one of the NFL's biggest stars. "I do know, behind the scenes — this is 100% true — there are many teams who are recommending a lot of the same treatments that I got for their players," Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said in an interview Tuesday with Pat McAfee's SirusXM show. Rodgers was referring to his highly publicized bout last month with COVID-19, from which he quickly recovered. In the interview, the future Hall of Famer...

Just one fifth of the weekly rise in Covid inpatients was caused by people admitted to hospital because of the virus, figures suggest. The most up-to-date NHS data show that on December 21, there were 6,245 beds occupied by coronavirus patients in English hospitals - an increase of 259 from the previous week. But within that increase, just 45 patients were admitted because of the virus, with the remaining 214 in hospital for other conditions but having also tested positive - so called “incidental Covid” admissions. Proportion of increase in Covid inpatients being driven by true Covid cases Critics of...