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If the Navy is forced to live with a yearlong continuing resolution, the service would have to cut the number of recruits it adds by nearly 10,000, prevent 37,000 moves, and stop the construction of ships it says are crucial to national security, service leaders are warning lawmakers. A continuing resolution, or CR, is the funding mechanism that keeps spending fixed when Congress fails to agree on a budget bill. Lawmakers are already three months late in delivering a new spending law, with no immediate end to the stalemate in sight. In a hearing with the House Appropriations Committee earlier...

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Earlier this month, the leader of the Air Force Recruiting Service was seeing warning lights flashing for the Air and Space Forces’ 2022 goals. In an email to the command, he is seeing fewer leads on possible new recruits... Maj. Gen. Edward Thomas, Jr., commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service, told Federal News Network. “The aggregate effect of these two years of COVID is driving downward trends in our pool of qualified applicants.” So far, in the first fiscal quarter of 2022, the Air Force is meeting expectations. The service wanted to recruit 6,030 members to the active duty...

A Los Angeles-area homeless encampment near the venue slated to host Super Bowl LVI was cleared out Tuesday after reports of people setting fires in the area. The California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, said the encampment near SoFi Stadium in Inglewood needed to be cleared because of a fire safety issue. The venue will host the NFL's annual championship affair on Feb. 13. "Caltrans’ responsibility is to ensure the safety of the traveling public and to protect and maintain California’s highway infrastructure," a Caltrans statement said. "The department is coordinating with local partners to provide outreach and support including...

Significantly more children were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with previous years, a single-institution study suggested. From March 2020 to March 2021, a total of 187 children were admitted for new onset T1D at a San Diego children's hospital, a 57% increase over the 119 children in the prior year, according to Jane Kim, MD, of the University of California San Diego, and colleagues. And for part of this pandemic period (July 2020 to February 2021), they found significantly more new diagnoses than would be predicted based on averages from the previous 5 years....

A retired teacher who says he is the 'world's most prolific sperm donor' has claimed to have fathered 129 children during the last nine years. Clive Jones, 66, who lives in Chaddesden, Derby, has been donating his sperm from his van for nearly ten years and says he has another nine children currently on the way. Mr Jones, who is originally from Burton, was unable to become an official sperm donor as he only started donating aged 58, while banks have an upper donor age limit of 45. But health experts have warned against his actions, saying that all donors...

Beginning Thursday, it's rolling out the "Spicy Lover's Pizza" for a limited time. The pie features spicy marinara sauce, two types of pepperoni (classic and crispy cupped), red jalapeño peppers and a sprinkled topping custom made with herbs and crushed chili peppers. Three versions are available: double pepperoni, chicken and pineapple, and a veggie version topped with green bell peppers, onions and mushrooms. Prices start at $12.99 for a large. People are increasingly craving spicy food, Pizza Hut says. A third-party report from Technomic, a research firm that specializes in the food service industry, found that nearly 80% of fast...

A gun rights group and a gun owner have filed a lawsuit against a California city for a newly passed ordinance requiring citizens to obtain firearm liability insurance and pay an annual fee.The National Association for Gun Rights and a local gun owner sued the city in federal court Tuesday after City Council members voted to approve the ordinance believed to be the first measure of its kind in the United States. An attorney representing the plaintiffs said Wednesday the law is unconstitutional and infringes on both the First and Second Amendments.San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said that having liability...

The Hyattsville Mayor reportedly shot himself dead in a Virginia park, authorities revealed. Kevin Ward, 44, a father-of-two, died on Tuesday from an 'apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.' His body was found in Fort Marcy Park in Virginia, roughly 20 miles away from Hyattsville, in Maryland, the Washington Post reported. Ward, who leaves behind two children and a husband, was elected in May as the first African American and strived to help his community rebuild after the pandemic and create a safe haven for undocumented immigrants and the LBGT+ community. The politician renamed the largest park in the city after African-American...

A French surgeon is facing legal action and condemnation after auctioning an X-ray of a gunshot wound from a victim of the 2015 massacre at the Bataclan theater in Paris where 90 people were killed. The surgeon promoted the sale of the X-ray in the form of a non-fungible token on the marketplace called OpenSea. The surgeon has been identified as Emmanuel Masmejean, an orthopedic surgeon at the European Hospital Georges Pompidou in southwest Paris. Martin Hirsch, who manages Paris' public hospitals, called the incident "disgraceful," in a tweet in French, as translated by Insider, saying, "This act is contrary...

“Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?” (Proverbs 27:1 KJV).

A security guard died after a fight broke out over the weekend at a Mesquite fitness center, police said. Mesquite police were called about 4:30 p.m. Saturday to the Fitness Connection in the 2000 block of Town East Boulevard, near LBJ Freeway, where the man was assaulted. The man, identified by family as 43-year-old Patrick Prejean, was taken to a hospital and later died. A family member told KDFW-TV (Channel 4) he’d been working as a security guard at the gym since last summer. Police said his cause of death has not been determined. Police said they were aware of...

ARPA-E, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Workshop October 21, 2021 CONCLUSIONS • Eng. Carl Page, President of Antropocene Institute-USA and Chairman of ICCF24 (lenrdiscovery.com), announced that he will give a 2-3 M$(USA) PRIZE to simple/reproducible LENR experiment. • The name of the prize is: SOLID STATE FUSION PRIZE • The ICCF24 will be held at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA (USA) on July 25-28, 2022. URL: www.iccf24.org Selected slides among presentation by Larry Forsley (NASA) Presentation of selected slides by kind permission of Prof. Lawrence P.G. Forsley. Conclusion • The ARPA-E Workshop was, among others, a paradigm-shift about one of...

TALLAHASSEE — A panel of Florida senators on Wednesday advanced the confirmation of Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick to be Florida’s surgeon general. After an hour of grilling Ladapo on COVID-19 vaccines, his resume and other Department of Health initiatives, Democrats refused to participate in the vote. TALLAHASSEE — A panel of Florida senators on Wednesday advanced the confirmation of Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick to be Florida’s surgeon general. After an hour of grilling Ladapo on COVID-19 vaccines, his resume and other Department of Health initiatives, Democrats refused to participate in the vote. “We don’t feel that...

Alex Jones delivers a cutting-edge breakdown of World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab publicly detailing how his cabal is able to “penetrate” governments and manipulate western nations to follow his Great Reset agenda. Segment...

China saw 10.62 million births in 2021 -- approximate 7.25 per thousand people -- and also saw 10.14 million deaths in the same year, putting it at a mortality rate of 7.18 per thousand and amounting to a population growth rate of just 0.34 per thousand As per the national data, this growth rate is the lowest since 1960. The birth rate has dropped for the fifth year in a row and according to demographers estimate, the total fertility rate has dropped to 1.15, which is lower than the replacement rate of 2 The proportion of individuals over the age...

The Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) publishes excellent protocols for treating COVID before you get sick, while you are sick, and advises doctors for hospital care. The "I-MASK+ Prevention Protocol" recommends Nigella Sativa as an alternative if Ivermectin is not available: Note 4 refers you to a page with this information: I began reading about this remarkable plant the past couple days. Black seed (Nigella Sativa or NS) is a flowering plant native to Asia and the Mediterranean. Its seed has been used to make medicine for thousands of years. It goes by many names: nigella, blackseed, black...

Investigators say they discovered over 100 bags of fentanyl in the bedroom of a Connecticut teen who overdosed and died earlier this month and are seeking any information on the person who provided the drugs. The Hartford Police Department said Wednesday that the bags recovered from the room matched 60 bags found at the Sports and Medical Science Academy, a magnet school in Hartford where the unidentified 13-year-old overdosed on Jan. 13. He died the following Saturday, police said. "This fentanyl was packaged in the same manner as the bags located at the school, had the same identifying stamp, and...

I am prohibited from getting another job. I'm prohibited from accessing my 401(k),' one United pilot says. A United Airlines captain who is on unpaid leave for not complying with her company’s vaccine mandate says she has been locked out of her 401(k) and is prohibited from finding another job. "I am out on unpaid leave. I am prohibited from getting another job. I'm prohibited from accessing my 401(k). I have no medical benefits, and I'm leading the charge in this fight, so my days are consumed," United pilot Sherry Walker, co-founder of Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom, told the...

Jan. 25, 2022 -- A new, highly contagious subvariant of Omicron has emerged, which some have begun calling “son of Omicron,” but public health officials say it's too soon to tell what kind of real threat, if any, this new strain will present.In the meantime, it's worth watching BA.2, the World Health Organization says. The subvariant has been identified across at least 40 countries, including three cases reported in Houston and several in Washington state.BA.2 accounts for only a small minority of reported cases so far, including 5% in India, 4% of those in the United Kingdom, and 2% each...