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Avideo of a woman slapping and punching an elderly man on a Delta Air Lines flight for eating without a mask has gone viral. Incidentally, the woman herself was not wearing her mask properly while the altercation took place. The video shows the woman asking the elderly man, who is eating, to put his mask on. He tried to reason with her, saying he was eating. But the woman follows it up saying, “Who invited you to come sit here?” After that, there was a brief exchange of verbal abuse between the two.(snip) After a few more abusive words were...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A woman seen in video boarding a Manchester school bus and yelling at students has been arrested. Manchester police said they identified the woman as Lillian Gosselin, 33, of Manchester. They said she can be seen on a cellphone video taken by a Parkside Middle School student on Dec. 15 yelling at students on the bus. Advertisement Manchester school officials said the woman stopped the bus after students threw objects out of it, apparently hitting her car. The district said the bus driver opened the door thinking the woman was reporting an issue with the vehicle. That's...

While the Biden administration has once again extended the pause on student loan repayments, some progressives have said that unless more is done, it could cost Democrats in the midterms in 2022. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is sounding the alarm over potentially losing voters and subsequent races if the campaign promise of canceling student loan debt goes unfulfilled by the Biden-Harris administration. Before the pause was extended, several prominent Democrats voiced their concerns about payments starting again and how it could cost them the midterms. Natalia Abrams, president of the Student Debt Crisis Center, a nonprofit focused...

BOONES MILL — Donald Trump exited the White House on Jan. 20, but the store that bears the ex-president’s name still flies his flags in Franklin County. Once a church, then a Masonic lodge, the Trump Store has made for an eye-grabbing presence along U.S. 220 since opening in September, with a larger than life standee of Trump looming over a yard ringed with signs bearing slogans like “Cops for Trump,” “Trump: No Bull——,” “Prison for Hillary,” “Biden Sucks” and a cartoon of a boy urinating on the name “Pelosi.” On a bright summer day, travelers from Utah passing...

(This is the text of an email I just found in my Spam folder) our vote-by-mail program needs you Hi Friend, With the March 1st Democratic primary election quickly approaching, we’re launching our 2022 vote-by-mail program. As you know, the 2020 Election taught us all how important mail-in voting options are to our elections, and just how many people cast their ballot by mail. That means it’s more important than ever that everyone who is eligible has the opportunity to make their voice heard through vote-by-mail in 2022. In January, we're sending nearly half a million vote-by-mail applications to eligible...

Heavy metal, or just metal, is a strange genre in the sense that we don’t know exactly where it came from. Much like punk, the genre derived from a wide variety of influences that over time coalesced and merged together to create something new, with no definitive starting point. Some posit that Link Wray’s 1958 classic ‘Rumble’ was where it started to germinate, and others claim that it started with the psychedelic rock movement of the ’60s with bands like Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, 13th Floor Elevators and Coven and that their loose similarities were tied together under one concise...

No story in 2021 was more important than that of January 6th. It was the culminating event of Trump hatred gone nuclear, and provided the final catalyst to ban him and attempt to ban his supporters from society. Over the course of the year, we have learned what a lie and set up it was. To ask a few rhetorical questions underscores the sheer absurdity of the day. Why was this the one Trump rally to absolutely lose it? Why were police killings at this rally intentionally ignored after a year of burning, looting, and murdering over other police shootings?...

If the hosts were really up for a challenge from a unique personality, they would bring conservative firebrand Ann Coulter back to the table.

NYPD Arrest Patrons In Queens Center Mall Over COVID19 Vaccination Proof Mandate

Inflation is the highest in 40 years. There used to be a lot of discussion about hedging against inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, but discussion subsided as inflation cooled in the US. But now it is roaring back as Fed monetary stimulus continues unabated and The Federal government continues to spends like crazy. So, how do we protect ourselves against inflation caused by Federal government policies (or follicies)? How about cryptocurrencies like Ethereum? Ethereum really started to take off as US inflation took off. Not a perfect fit (or hedge), but on average Ethereum has kept up with inflation....

Republicans across America are pressing local jurisdictions and state lawmakers to make typically sleepy school board races into politicized, partisan elections in an attempt to gain more statewide control and swing them to victory in the 2022 midterms. Tennessee lawmakers in October approved a measure that allows school board candidates to list their party affiliation on the ballot. Arizona and Missouri legislators are weighing similar proposals. And GOP lawmakers in Florida will push a measure in an upcoming legislative session that would pave the way for partisan school board races statewide, potentially creating new primary elections that could further inflame...

Hi. Asking for help where to buy ivermectin. One of our employees is down with covid and these idiots at the hospital gave her remdisvir. She doesn't have much family but she's a great conservative and her mom is in Canada. We became the guardians after we spoke with her family. No one flies in out of that country. The doctors don't believe in ivermectin (suprise). You can't order from indiamart because USPS with the big pharma wing of the FDA confiscated all ivermectin 2 weeks ago (search FR). Highly preferred no prescription get it quick and get her out...

he U.S. State Department on late Thursday warned Americans who are traveling outside the country to “make contingency plans” amid restrictions associated with rising COVID-19 cases worldwide. “U.S. citizens who do choose to travel internationally should make contingency plans, as they may have to remain in a foreign country longer than originally planned, which will be at their own expense,” the State Department said in a statement. The agency added that anyone aged 2 and older coming back into the United States would need to show proof they’ve recovered from COVID-19, the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)...

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New data released today by the Robert Koch Institute, a research agency run by the German government, found that though 71% of the population is fully vaccinated nearly 96% of Omicron cases are among the fully vaccinated. "Robert Koch Institute report released today states that 95.58% of the #Omicron cases in Germany are fully vaccinated (28% of those had a "booster"), 4.42% are unvaccinated," Disclose TV reported.

CHICAGO - A 15-year-old girl was among 11 wounded in citywide shootings Thursday. The girl was inside her home about 2 a.m. in the 8000 block of South Crandon Avenue when a male fired a gun in a different part of the house, Chicago police said. A bullet grazed the teen in the thigh, and she was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, police said. Two people were shot about the same time in separate shootings in Chicago Lawn. About 2:33 p.m., a man, 18, was in a car in the 6400 block of South...

DeSantis last held a press briefing about the pandemic on December 17 and photos of the governor shared to social media have raised questions. DeSantis' official Twitter account has recently shared photos of him that were apparently taken several days earlier without noting the fact. On Tuesday, DeSantis' account posted a photo that had been taken 12 days earlier—a fact later confirmed to MSNBC by the governor's office.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two gunmen fired more than 65 rounds on a Philadelphia street, sending nighttime pedestrians on a busy block teeming with markets and restaurants scrambling for cover and injuring six people, at least one of them critically, police said Friday. Police responded around 11:30 p.m. Thursday in the Germantown neighborhood and found a 21-year-old woman shot multiple times in the abdomen and chest and lying near dozens of spent casings. Officers rushed her to the hospital, where she was in critical condition Friday. Five men ages 19 to 29 were taken with gunshot wounds by private vehicles to...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went online Wednesday to ask her followers to make a generous donation to the Clinton Foundation. Within seconds, social media users had torn her solicitation into sarcasm-laden shreds.“If you’re able to give, I hope you’ll consider supporting the life-changing work of the @ClintonFdn,” tweeted the failed 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee. She retweeted a social media message from her eponymous foundation that read:Thanks for being part of our community in 2021. Together, we’re working to: Confront the climate crisis Improve public health Expand economic opportunity Inspire citizen engagement & service Join us and the...

Pfizer’s antiviral oral drug developed to treat COVID-19 can cause severe or life-threatening effects when used with common medications including some anti-coagulants, some anti-depressants, and some cholesterol-lowering statins, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (pdf). FDA does not recommend Paxlovid for those with severe kidney or liver disease.The FDA on Dec. 22 granted emergency use authorization (EUA) to Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment pill as treatment for mild-to-moderate cases of COVID-19 in patients from 12 years of age.Paxlovid was the first oral medication of its kind authorized by the FDA to treat COVID-19, with the aim of reducing the need...