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Not to be biased, but I felt I needed to share some first hand knowledge from the last few days regarding the home tests. Two of my daughters are nurses in a major hospital. Both along with three other nurses they work closely with, and two of their children came down with the dreaded "symptoms". So they all took home tests that showed positive for Covid. As a work and school requirement for the kids, they all had to take the longer term 48 hr test before they could return to work and school. All tested negative with the second...

The anti-fogging sprays and cloths that have become popular to help stop glasses from steaming up when wearing a face mask may be exposing users to carcinogens. That is the warning from Duke University-led experts, who found these treatments may contain cancer-causing per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS). The team subjected four anti-fogging sprays and five anti-fogging cloths — all of which have received top ratings on Amazon — to high-resolution mass spectrometry. Specifically, the chemical analysis found that all nine products contained so-called fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs) and fluorotelomer ethoxylates (FTEOs). These are two types of PFAS that have, until...

@Breaking911 PSAKI: In Jan 6 speech, Biden will lay out the "singular responsibility Mr. Trump has for the chaos and carnage we saw.” Clip...

Novak Djokovic might not make it to the 2022 Australian Open after all. According to The Times of London, the world No. 1 tennis player was stopped at border control upon entry to Australia due to a reported visa mix-up. A member of Djokovic’s team reportedly requested a type of visa that does not apply to individual(s) who have been granted a medical exemption from the COVID vaccines.

A so-called author couldn't be bothered to do the bare-minimum research when she wrote her book and claimed that Kyle Rittenhouse (not guilty) had shot two Black men. The author who wrote it is named Kara Cooney and her book is called "Good Kings." At some point in the last chapter, she made a massive mistake about Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot white guys, not Black guys, and now some say she could be in deep water or up to her head in lawsuits.

California anti-mandate activist Kelly Ernby was not vaccinated when she died of COVID-19 this week, according to her husband — who said that “that was the problem.” The 46-year-old Republican deputy district attorney from Orange County had until a month before her death vehemently attacked coronavirus vaccine mandates. When news of her death broke Monday, it was not immediately clear if she had herself been vaccinated — with some fellow GOP activists even suggesting the shot had actually caused her death, according to the Orange County Register.

<p>Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing recently reported intriguing new evidence for a possible mouse origin of the Omicron variant. Their paper, posted on the BioRxiv preprint server, was quickly picked up and published a few days later by the Journal of Genetics and Genomics, and defies the prevailing theory which claims that the polymutant spike sequence of Omicron must have evolved under protracted infection in a severely immunocompromised patient.</p>

French President Emmanuel Macron told one of the nation’s leading newspapers that he no longer considers the unvaccinated to be French citizens, and that his primary COVID-19 strategy is to continue to “piss them off” until they submit to his COVID-19 mandates. The remark from Macron, delivered during an interview with French newspaper Le Parisien, has divided French politicians, and even has the country’s Communist Party candidate questioning Macron’s motives. “I am not about pissing off the French people,” Macron told the readers of Le Parisien on Tuesday. “But as for the non-vaccinated, I really want to piss them off....

Teachers’ unions across the country are demanding that schools shut down in favor of virtual learning amid concerns over the low-risk omicron variant of the coronavirus. Virtual learning has proven detrimental to the educations, social development, and mental health of children.

U.S. companies hired employees at the fastest pace in seven months in December, before a surge in the new omicron coronavirus variant cast a fresh threat over the economic recovery, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday morning. Companies added 807,000 jobs last month, blowing past the 400,000-job gain that economists surveyed by Refinitiv had predicted and the revised 505,000 positions added by companies in November. It marked the best month for private payroll growth since May, when employers added 882,000 jobs.

A testing company on Wednesday confirmed the first known case of 'flurona' in Southern California, referring to the condition of being infected with COVID-19 and the flu at the same time. The case was detected at a testing site at the Getty Center in Brentwood, according to 911 COVID Testing. The patient is a minor who just returned from vacation in Cabo San Lucas with family.

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that former first lady Melania Trump’s online auction was “basement, tacky-type stuff.” Trump’s “Head of State Collection” includes a white hat, digital and watercolor paintings, and one-of-a-kind signed items.

The United States is now the world's leading exporter of liquified natural gas as Europe's energy crisis and shortages in China send demand for American shipments soaring. LNG exports from the United States topped 7 million tonnes (7.7 million tons) in December, according to ship-tracking data from ICIS LNG Edge, narrowly edging out rival producers Qatar and Australia for the first time. The United States only shipped its first LNG cargo from the lower 48 states in 2016, and has risen to become the world's top exporter in just six years as a shale gas revolution boosted domestic production and...

MEMORIAL OF SAINT JOHN NEUMANN, BISHOP MARK 6:45-52 Friends, our Gospel today is the story of Jesus walking on the water. Water is, throughout the Scriptures, a symbol of danger. At the very beginning, the spirit of the Lord hovered over the surface of the waters. This signals God’s lordship over all of the powers of disorder. In all four Gospels, there is a version of this story of Jesus mastering the waves. The boat, with Peter and the other disciples, is evocative of the Church. It moves through the waters as the Church will move through time. Storms—chaos, corruption,...

Steve Bannon asked me to step you through it. I'll do that and tell you how this is validated using independent methods and also why VAERS was deliberately set up to make all vaccines look safe.Steve Kirsch10 hr ago DefinitionsURF = VAERS underreporting factor. This is the ratio (# events that actually happen/# events reported in VAERS). So if VAERS has 10 events and the URF=41, then it means 410 events are likely to have happened, but only 10 events were reported to VAERS.Executive summaryThis is the data we use in our computation:Known rate of anaphylaxis from JAMA paper published...

Who needs soft-on-crime judges when the district attorney doesn’t even want to lock up the bad guys?Manhattan’s new DA has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences for hordes of criminals and to downgrade felony charges in cases including armed robberies and drug dealing, according to a set of progressive policies made public Tuesday.In his first memo to staff on Monday, Alvin Bragg said his office “will not seek a carceral sentence” except with homicides and a handful of other cases, including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption.

Democrats are planning more tarnishing of Republicans and former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. But, she told Newsmax on Tuesday night that she is going to get to the truth of what happened in the storming of the Capitol. "With Nancy Pelosi and her awful Jan. 6 committee, it's nothing but Russia collusion 2.0, and they're going to continue to run it into the ground day in and day out, trying to hurt Republicans going into the midterm elections," Greene said on Tuesday's ''Cortes & Pellegrino.'' She was referring to the House...

Blinken: Russian military buildup near Ukraine is an 'immediate and urgent challenge to peace and stability in Europe.'

Tuesday's episode of Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show offered a triple-header of obtuse liberal hypocrisy. First up, Yamiche Alcindor—apparently devoid of the slightest shred of self-awareness—said: "Fox News, while it's sort of supposed to be a cable news channel, what it really was, I mean, and continues to be, is sort of this fringe wing of the GOP."Need we remind Alcindor that she is among the most egregiously biased liberal commentators in the media universe? If Fox News is a fringe wing of the GOP, how would Alcindor, a PBS host and MSNBC contributor, describe herself and the networks that sign...

Last week Secretary of State John Kerry warned graduating students at Boston College of the "crippling consequences" of climate change. "Ninety-seven percent of the world's scientists," he added, "tell us this is urgent."Where did Mr. Kerry get the 97% figure? Perhaps from his boss, President Obama, who tweeted on May 16 that "Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous." Or maybe from NASA, which posted (in more measured language) on its website, "Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities."Snip