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Hey kids, don’t be a maskhole! With the end of school mask mandates around the corner, the city’s elite private schools are warning students not to question or tease classmates over their face covering choices. Private schools introduced an optional mask policy for staffers and students Wednesday after Gov. Kathy Hochul officially scrapped the requirement. “Everything is so polarized and political these days,” said a parent at Manhattan’s Spence School. “There is more to this than just wearing or not wearing a mask. It’s seen as a reflection of the student and the parents’ views overall.” Some administrators are getting...

Woman made millions performing underground surgeries for 1 year TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Vietnamese worker was busted last week for performing unlicensed plastic surgery in northern Taiwan, with some sessions live-streamed for advertising purposes. The suspect, a 30-year-old Vietnamese woman surnamed Tran (陳), engaged in illegal cosmetic practices for a year, having raked in millions of New Taiwan dollars. From eyebrow tattoo, lip enhancement, double eyelid surgery, to a nose job, prices for the procedures ranged from NT$3,000 (US$106.83) to NT$40,000, per CNA.

CLEVELAND (WJW)– Cleveland Clinic was ranked the No. 2 hospital in the world by Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2022 list. The rankings were based on surveys from medical experts and patients, as well as data on patient safety and doctor-to-patient ratios. from more than 2,200 hospitals in 27 counties. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota topped the list. Cleveland Clinic previously topped Newsweek’s lists for cardiac surgery and was No. 2 for specialized care.

A JetBlue pilot was removed from the cockpit of a Fort Lauderdale-bound flight by police at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in New York on Wednesday after registering a blood-alcohol level of 0.17%, more than four times the Federal Aviation Administration's limit of 0.04%. The pilot was passing through airport security when a Transportation Security Administration officer noticed he was acting drunk, The Buffalo News reported. The officer notified Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority police, who administered a breathalyzer test. He was taken into custody before being released to JetBlue security personnel. The pilot has been identified as James Clifton, 52, of...

Biggest blasts we've ever seen, just as we were coming off air tonight in #Kyiv #cbsnews @charliecbs Commented: Justine Redman @redmanjustine · 3h Biggest blasts we've ever seen, just as we were coming off air tonight in #Kyiv #cbsnews @charliecbs @cbsnews COMMENTS: 1- GreenShades @GreenShades9 Replying to @redmanjustine @charliecbs and @CBSNews Why was there a double flash, first with Charlie was looking at the cam and then when he turned around. 2- IssaShame 🌻@issa_shame·2h Replying to @GreenShades9 @redmanjustine and 2 others Thermobaric - first explosive charge spreads an aerosol akin to vaporized gasoline over the area. A second charge then...

A profoundly alarming thread has surfaced this evening on Twitter. It is written by Gabriel Noronha, a former Iran official at the US State Department. The thread is about the activities of America’s Iran envoy Robert Malley in the current Vienna talks with Iran about a renewed nuclear deal. This is a lightly edited version of what Naronha writes: 1. My former career @StateDept, NSC, and EU colleagues are so concerned with the concessions being made by @RobMalley in Vienna that they’ve allowed me to publish some details of the coming deal in the hopes that Congress will act to...

<p>Seven days into the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it remains unclear how many casualties Russia has sustained.</p><p>The Ukrainian government said on March 2 the “indicative” number of Russia’s losses stands at 5,840 people. Russia has only admitted it had any losses four days after it started the war, and had not given any numbers.</p>

“My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments” (Proverbs 3:1 KJV).

Sympathetic Russian agents allegedly tipped Ukraine off about the plot A Ukrainian defense official announced this week that a kill squad sent to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been "eliminated" by the country's armed forces, according to a Telegram post from Ukrainian authorities. Oleksiy Danilov, chief of the country's National Security and Defense Council, reportedly said during a briefing on Tuesday that Ukrainian officials had recently been made aware of a "special operation" that was to be carried out against Zelenskyy by an elite Chechen special forces unit, known as the Kadyrovites. The Kadyrovites are a highly-skilled paramilitary organization in...

Taiwan blackout caused by malfunction at Kaohsiung power plant Equipment malfunction at switchyard in Hsinta Power Plant affected operation of Longci Substation 199 By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2022/03/03 10:55 Taiwan blackout caused by malfunction at Kaohsiung power plant (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan Power Company (Taipower, 台電) says that the widespread power outages experienced across Taiwan on Thursday morning (March 3) appear to have been caused by an equipment failure at a power plant in Kaohsiung City. At approximately 9 a.m. on Thursday, whole districts of Tainan City and Kaohsiung City began suffering power outages,...

In the days since the West imposed sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, ordinary Russians are feeling the painful effects — from payment systems that won’t operate and problems withdrawing cash to not being able to purchase certain items. “Apple Pay hasn’t been working since yesterday. It was impossible to pay with it anywhere — in a bus, in a cafe,” Moscow resident Tatyana Usmanova told The Associated Press. “Plus, in one supermarket they limited the amount of essential goods one person could buy.” Apple announced that it would stop selling its iPhone and other popular products in...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices extended their rally on Thursday, with Brent rising above $116 a barrel, as trade disruption and shipping issues from Russian sanctions over the Ukraine crisis sparked supply worries while U.S. crude stocks fell to multi-year lows. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies including Russia have decided to maintain an increase in output by 400,000 barrels per day in March despite the price surge, ignoring the Ukraine crisis during their talks and snubbing calls from consumers for more crude. Brent crude futures rallied to $116.83 a barrel, the highest since August 2013....

As they say, timing is everything in life. And the timing of a graphic artist’s blunder at WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, couldn’t possibly have been worse. An anchor was reporting on a 71-year-old man who was “accused of inappropriately touching a twelve-year-old girl at the Walmart in West Mifflin Sunday afternoon.” At the very moment she began speaking, a photograph of President Joe Biden appeared in the upper left portion of the screen. Given Biden’s history of inappropriate touching, this in and of itself, was amusing. Stop the censors, sign up to get today's top stories delivered right to your...

March 3 (Reuters) - Fitch and Moody's on Wednesday each downgraded Russia's sovereign credit rating by six notches to "junk" status, saying Western sanctions threw into doubt Russia's ability to service its debt and would weaken its economy. Russia's financial markets have been thrown into turmoil by sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two. read more The invasion has triggered a flurry of credit rating moves and dire warnings about the impact on Russia's economy. S&P lowered Russia's rating to junk status last week. It also prompted index providers...

A newly released document featuring data pertaining to adverse reactions following a round of Pfizer’s Covid-19 inoculations has been making rounds on the internet.Details of the document were damning, revealing a massive number of observed adverse reactions beginning on page 30. The list is exhaustive, continuing seemingly endlessly until its conclusion about 8 pages later.It appears that much of the information in the document was hidden from the public in the past, with a blurb on the first page explaining that “dissemination of this information outside of Pfizer, its Affiliates, its Licensees, or Regulatory Agencies is strictly prohibited.”The information contained...

'I’ve called for Canada to be put on that list, and I think we need to consider all of the options that are available.'(LifeSiteNews) – Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said that Canada needs to be put on a list of nations that are “religious liberty violators” due to the continued jailing of Canadian Christian pastor Artur Pawlowski. “The United States keeps a designation of folks who are religious liberty violators,” Hawley said to Rebel News at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida this past weekend, after being asked about Pawlowski. “I’ve called for Canada...

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JUST IN - #Taiwan hit by widespread power outages affecting Taipei, the capital, and Kaohsiung, the second biggest city.

President Biden, sporting a cross of ashes on his forehead, told reporters Wednesday that he had given up ice cream and other sweets for Lent this year. In response to a question about what he had forsworn, Biden responded that he decided to give up “all sweets — and you know me, I start off with dessert. No ice cream, nothing.” The president began the 40-day period of Christian repentance and reflection before he departed for a trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin. ... The president fended off a reporter’s question about his support for legal access to abortion when Catholic...

Pope Francis raised Sr. Nathalie Becquart to top position in the Holy SeeVATICAN (ChurchMilitant.com) - Sister Nathalie Becquart, the first woman appointed by Pope Francis to a voting position in the Vatican, is endorsing a radical Catholic LGBTQ+ campaign group that defies Church teaching on homosexuality and gender ideology. Becquart, one of the highest-ranking nuns in the Holy See, will deliver the 2022 Fr. Robert Nugent Memorial Lecture organized by the New Ways Ministry, a dissident group promoting same-sex "marriage" and transgenderism in the Church. Titled "Synodality: A Path of Reconciliation," the April lecture will explore how the Synod on...