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•Storyline's MV Narrative, a ‘residential community at sea’, has one to four-bedroom apartments and studios •The ship, which launches in 2024, also features two-storey penthouses that are on the market for £5.8million •Amenities on board include a 10,000-book library, three pools, a spa, a cinema, and 20 bars and restaurants

The Supreme Court on Tuesday formally rejected a request to block the federal mask mandate for air travel. A father of an autistic child, Michael Seklecki, filed the emergency application, asserting that he and his child are not able to wear a mask. Lucas Wall also joined the lawsuit, claiming that he has been unable to fly because he is medically unable to wear a mask as well. The request, filed to Justice Neil Gorsuch, was denied by the justices with no further comment.

Filings from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicate that Walmart could be planning to create its own cryptocurrency and collection of nonfungible tokens (NFTs). On Dec. 30, Walmart's filings showed it intended to buy new trademarks to make and sell virtual items like electronics, decor, toys, sporting goods and personal-care products. Separately, the company also said it would offer virtual currency and NFTs, according to CNBC. “Walmart is continuously exploring how emerging technologies may shape future shopping experiences. We don’t have anything further to share today, but it’s worth noting we routinely file trademark applications as part of the...

In a preliminary study of people with "wet" age-related macular degeneration, researchers report that as many as a third of those may be able to safely stop eye injection therapy without further vision loss. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of vision loss among people age 50 and older. The majority of those who lose vision from the condition have the "wet" form. Treatment of wet AMD requires monthly or bimonthly injections of drugs called anti-VEGF—or anti-vascular endothelial growth factor—into the eye. Anti-VEGF agents can slow or stop the growth of the leaky blood vessels and, in...

The United Arab Emirates has vowed to retaliate against Houthi militants for a deadly attack on its capital Abu Dhabi on Monday that killed three people, as fresh tensions in the region helped push oil prices to their highest level in seven years. International benchmark Brent crude futures rose 0.9% to $87.24 per barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures jumped 1.6% to $85.16 per barrel. Both oil contracts notched their highest level since October 2014 earlier in the day after a subdued trading day on Monday as U.S. markets were closed for a public holiday. Energy analysts have attributed...

Second Week in Ordinary Time Mark 2:23-28 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus calls us to recognize him as Lord. Acknowledging the lordship of Jesus means that your life has to change. For many this is liberating good news. But for others, it is a tremendous threat. If Jesus is Lord, my ego can’t be Lord. My religion can’t be Lord. My country, my convictions, and my culture cannot be Lord. The Resurrection is the clearest indication of the lordship of Jesus. This is why the message of the Resurrection is attacked, belittled, or explained away. The author of Acts speaks...

Genome sequencing can be used to determine whether a patient’s illness is genetic, but it usually takes weeks to get results. A new ultra-rapid technique can sequence a person’s genome and diagnose genetic diseases in just a few hours, earning it a Guinness World Record. All the information that makes up an organism is contained in its genome, including traits like eye color, as well as genetic diseases. By comparing a patient’s genome with a checklist of DNA mutations associated with certain inherited diseases, doctors can diagnose otherwise mysterious illnesses. Currently, this process usually takes a few weeks. But in...

The editors of the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet apologized for "thoughtlessly regurgitating the official government narrative on covid without ever questioning the validity of the content. We got swept up in the 'end-of-the-world' hysteria that led to bogus claims that 'science' required the incoherent and authoritarian measures that ruined millions of livelihoods, cost trillions of dollars, and encouraged vicious hatred of the scapegoats designated by government health authorities and politicians." "Good journalism emanates from skepticism," the editors wrote. "If we are to avert a further decline into insanity we must return to this foundation of our business. A self-governing people...

Mentally speaking, Joseph Robinette Biden Junior is no longer with us. He lives in a world of his own. The best thing that can be said now about the Biden Presidency is that the person most likely to be elected to replace him in 2024 (if Biden lasts that long) is Donald Trump. Fortunately, Emmanuel, our God, is always with us.

The asteroid, known as 7482 (1994 PC1), is set to fly by the planet at 1:51 p.m. PT, traveling at a speed of about 43,754 mph, according to NASA. “Near-Earth #asteroid 1994 PC1 (~1 km wide) is very well known and has been studied for decades by our #PlanetaryDefense experts,” With a diameter of approximately 3,451 feet, the asteroid is more than twice the size of the Empire State Building. And while there’s no threat that the asteroid will hit our planet, NASA still considers it a “potentially hazardous object” due to a combination of size and distance from Earth....

The omicron variant has been spreading for more than a month now, which is more than enough time for people to report their omicron variant symptoms. [SNIP] Top symptoms: According to the chart, here are the top 14 symptoms for the omicron variant. The report included the percent of people who reported having the symptom. 1. Runny nose — 73%. 2. Headache — 68%. 3. Fatigue — 64%. 4. Sneezing — 60%. 5. Sore throat — 60%. 6. Persistent cough — 44%. 7. Hoarse voice — 36%. 8. Chills or shivers — 30%. 9. Fever — 29%. 10. Dizziness —...

Alex Jones exposes Brian Stelter's lies about the existence and possibility of COVID internment camps as he attempted to attack Glenn Beck's appearance on Tucker Carlson's show. Segment...[23:29]

The United Talent Agency (UTA) confirmed to Mediaite on Monday that Fox Nation host Lara Logan was dropped by the agency several weeks ago after she made compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele on air.Logan made the comments comparing the White House chief medical adviser to the Nazi SS officer during an appearance on Fox News’s “Prime Time” in November of last year.

"St Richard’s in Chichester Dr advises against taking any more Covid-19 injections due to new data on safety and says the entire vaccination program is about to be scrapped" (2 min audio) Prole53 TwitterCatbox Audio File (2min)

Anthony Fauci still insists it’s too early to say the pandemic is waning due to the contagious but mild Omicron variant. Speaking online at the World Economic Forum, Fauci was asked if the virus that causes COVID-19 would finally become endemic in 2022. He responded by saying it’s too early to tell and that the world still appears to be in phase one of a five-phase pandemic, The New York Times reported. “Dr. Fauci also said that the world is still in the first of what he considered to be the five phases of the pandemic. The first is the...

Don't expect to find any lobster in your lobster balls. The hotpot favourite does not necessarily contain any ingredients from lobsters, Hong Kong's consumer watchdog has found, while 75 per cent of meatballs sampled had high levels of sodium and most contained other types of meat. DNA tests by the Consumer Council found none of the 10 samples of lobster balls it collected contained any traces of the crustacean. Professor Nora Tam Fung-yee, chairwoman of the council's research and testing committee, on Monday (Jan 17) said it was hard to tell what exactly "lobster balls" contained. "We found some other...

Kenneth Wollack, a Co-Chair of the Commission of Presidential Debates, participated in several “off-the-record” dialogues with Chinese Communist Party officials and influence groups, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.Wollack – also the Chairman of the publicly-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) board – was one of ten principal delegates for what was called the inaugural U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue, hosted by the EastWest Institute “in partnership” with the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Pakistani health authorities on Monday announced the completion of a successful clinical trial of Chinese traditional herbal medicine for treating COVID-19, as the South Asian nation enters a fifth wave of the pandemic driven by the Omicron variant. The Chinese medicine, Jinhua Qinggan Granules (JHQG) manufactured by Juxiechang (Beijing) pharmaceutical Co Ltd, is already being used in treatment of COVID-19 patients in China. "Since it was tried on patients with different variants of COVID-19, we expect it to be effective on Omicron as on other variants," Professor Iqbal Chaudhry, director of the International Center...

From social media platforms to email providers, tons of places on the web want to scoop up your private data. Don’t forget about online stores and personal services, either. Your details are major commodities to most businesses on the web - and most have little regard for your privacy. Advertisers and marketers don't know who you are. But your behavior is tracked and assigned a unique identifier, called a Mobile Advertising ID (MAID). This tiny snippet of information contains where you live, what you shop for or what you recently searched online. Until recently, there had been very little that...

MSNBC host Joy Reid said Monday on her show “The ReidOut” that Republicans were the “same” as the Dixiecrat segregationist political party. Reid also claimed Republicans celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. but oppose “everything Dr. King fought for.” Reid said, “Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day when people who would have stood four-square against everything Dr. King fought for — equal rights, civil rights, the elimination of poverty, and especially voting rights — soberly repeat that one partial quote they memorized in high school.” Reid then shared video and tweets from Govs. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Glenn Youngkin (R-VA),...