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Transgender male intrusion into women’s swimming is all OK because people should recognize that sports are about personal liberation, not fair rules competition, according to Sally Jenkins, a writer at Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post. “One of the things that makes NCAA sport so captivating is the vast assortment of characters emerging from their chrysalis [like a transformed butterfly] into the broader world,” Jenkins wrote March 17. “Hate to tell you, but in a way, everyone is trans,” Jenkins wrote. All of the women in the race were demoted one place by Thomas’s victory. “All of us in life’s competitive arena...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a new interview that he is considering stepping away from the position he’d held since 1984. Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was asked during a podcast released March 18 whether he was mulling retirement or transitioning to a less-demanding job. “I certainly am because I’ve got to do it sometime,” Fauci, 81, said. “I can’t stay at this job forever, unless my staff is going to find me slumped over my desk one day. I’d rather not do that,” he added. Fauci was appointed to his...

It’s unlikely the “Free Brittney” campaign being pushed by Hillary Clinton will go viral in Russia, but a former presidential candidate can dream. The 2016 Democratic nominee tweeted for the release of basketball star Brittney Griner, who is incarcerated in Russia, by drumming up a slight variation of the “Free Britney” tagline made popular when pop star Britney Spears was fighting to end her conservatorship in 2021. (snip) Clinton, who got nearly 66 million votes in the 2016 presidential election, has more than 31 million followers on Twitter. NBA stars Grant Hill and LeBron James campaigned with Clinton during her...

In the last few hours, a photo of a Ukrainian girl sitting on a window with a lollipop in her mouth and a rifle in her hand has gone viral. In her hair she wears a blue and yellow ribbon, colors of the Ukrainian flag. She looks outside, as if she is watching. She was even shared on Twitter by the former president of the European Council, Donald Tusk. The picture was taken by the girl’s own father, the Kiev photographer Oleksii Kyrychenko and published on their Facebook and Instagram accounts with the title “Young girl with candy”, “girl with...

National Public Radio issued a correction after running a false statement about the laptop of Hunter Biden in a story about Biden’s recent memoir, “Beautiful Things.” The article by NPR senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving stated categorically that the laptop story was discredited by news organizations. It was later compelled to correct that false statement but still has language casting doubt on the story and evades glaring contradictions in Biden’s book and his interview. Moreover, NPR continues to run false claims from prior controversies. The NPR story originally stated that “The laptop story was discredited by U.S. intelligence and...

Having moved the world to tears singing her favourite song whilst hiding from Russian air raids in a Kyiv bunker, little Amelia Anisovych was transported from Ukraine to safety in Poland. The seven-year-old girl’s rendition of the “Let It Go” hit song from Disney’s “Frozen” went viral on the Internet, striking a tender chord in hearts worldwide, instantaneously becoming both an anti-war symbol and an expression of Kyiv’s resistance to the atrocities brought by the Russian invader. Having been transported from Ukraine to Poland, the starlet was interviewed by Poland’s public broadcaster TVP. Apart from drawing ponies, Amelia loves singing....

Extra safety features not really a factor as freight demand meets inadequate supply  Trucks await near-record prices at a Ritchie Bros. auction in Houston,. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)Rising interest rates and the potential for a slowing economy so far are having no effect on runaway prices for used trucks. “February data is the last we’ll have that does not reflect any effect of the Russia-Ukraine war,” Chris Visser, J.D. Power Valuation Services senior analyst, wrote in the company’s March Guidelines report. “Pricing in February continued to break records and, as of this writing in mid-March, there does not appear to...

Her family feared the worst when they heard Phoebe was lying on the floorA 'bubbly' 12-year-old girl died suddenly as she was playing in the park with her brother, sister and two cousins. Phoebe Smith, 12, from Croxteth, was playing on the swings in Calderstones Park with her older brother, 13, younger sister, nine, and two cousins on Saturday, March 5, as their parents sat on the grass nearby. Phoebe's mum, auntie and uncle first realised something was wrong when the kids came over and told them the 12-year-old was lying on the ground. The family went over to the...

CHELSEA, Manhattan (WABC) -- Police have released new photos of the woman wanted for allegedly shoving a beloved grandmother who later died from her injuries in a random unprovoked attack. Barbara Maier Gustern, an 87-year-old active performer and voice coach, was wrapping up rehearsal last Thursday night in Chelsea when the woman approached her from behind and pushed her to the ground. Gustern suffered a severe head injury and was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Police announced five days later that she had died as a result of her injuries. Gustern was walking along 28th Street on...

Barely a freshman with just a redshirt and the COVID-19 impacted year of 2020 under his belt, BYU defensive back Tavita Gagnier is well accustomed to the football program's True Blue Heroes. In the middle of the week after practice, the Cougars break the huddle a little early and surround an invited guest or member of the community to join them for a short celebration of life. Oftentimes, it's a thank you to a valued member of the BYU family, someone going through hardships or trials, or university staffer who just needs a reason for cheer. Over the years, the...

We need to talk about South Korea.Through 2020 and 2021, South Korea chased zero Covid with strict border controls, aggressive testing and tracing, and a vaccination campaign that reached nearly its entire adult population with mRNA (and some DNA) shots.The country didn’t quite get to zero. Infections and deaths rose slowly last year. But it came close enough that the usual highly credentialed public health experts held it up as a light among the nations. […]On Thursday, South Korea reported 600,000 new Covid infections - the equivalent of more than 4 million in the United States. In a single day.Covid...

A Wildwood woman was arrested after fleeing an altercation at a Wendy’s restaurant in Oxford. Officers were called at about 1:30 p.m. Friday to the Wendy’s on Will Odell Avenue where a woman had suffered a swollen right eye with severe discoloration, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. The woman who had suffered the injury said she had ordered 23-year-old Gaelle Adelina Adelson to go home because she was “being rude” to the general manager while inside the business, the report said. Adelson turned to the woman who had ordered her to leave and told her...

It’s always fun to watch big thinkers slug it out over the most pressing issues of the day. Today in one corner is renowned Indian literary critic and essayist Pankaj Mishra, arguing why so many countries prefer to sit on the fence over the war in Ukraine and why it won’t end well for the West. Opposing him is Francis Fukuyama, the influential American political scientist, predicting a triumph of the West, the total defeat of Vladimir Putin and a renewal of the “spirit of 1989”. Fukuyama says he is sticking his neck out to make several prognostications. Writing in...

Former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, a leading contender for the GOP nomination in the Pennsylvania governor’s race, is hoisting up the economic impacts of Russia’s invasion into Ukraine as a portrait of why American energy independence is so important. Speaking to the Post-Gazette by phone on Thursday amid a four-day swing through Pittsburgh, Mr. Barletta blamed Democrats and President Joe Biden’s administration for weakening America’s energy exportation worldwide — a vacuum that Russian energy was able to fill, he claims. . . . Despite criticism from GOP officials, oil and gas drilling in the U.S. has actually increased since Mr....

If we are seeing this much criminal activity already, what will happen when the price of gasoline really spirals out of control? I had heard that gasoline thefts were happening around the nation, but I had no idea how bad things really were until I started looking into it. From coast to coast, gas stations are being targeted, and this is often being done by organized groups. In other cases, criminals are going to private homes and are actually drilling directly into gas tanks in order to steal gasoline. What we are witnessing is quite frightening, and it is yet...

<p>GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A Husband and wife were recently charged with multiple crimes connected to a string of sexual assaults, according to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.</p><p>Deputies said they began investigating on January 6, 2022, when they learned about the alleged sexual assaults.</p>

Paris (AFP) – Nearly 200 nations gather on Monday to confront a question that will outlive Russia's invasion of Ukraine: how do we stop carbon pollution overheating the planet and threatening life as we know it? The answer is set to arrive on April 4 after closed-door, virtual negotiations approve the summary of a phonebook-sized report detailing options for drawing down greenhouse gases and extracting them out of thin air. The IPCC "solutions" report draws from hundreds of models projecting development pathways that keep Earth within the bounds of the Paris temperature goals. "There are scenarios that show high renewables...

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New York City’s private employer vaccine mandate and the school mask mandate imposed on children five-and-under will remain in place indefinitely, the city’s new health commissioner announced Friday. “I think it’s indefinite at this point,” Dr. Ashwin Vasan said at COVID-19 press briefing. “People who have tried to predict what will happen in this future for this pandemic have repeatedly found egg on their face, as they say. And I’m not going to do that here today.” “I would love for me to sit here and say, I can give you a date or a data point for when we...

Foreign fighters in Ukraine have ridiculed an American who fled the country when he was faced with fighting Russians in Kyiv with supplied gear, and complained in a viral video that he had been lured into a 'trap'. Henry Hoeft, 28, was among thousands of foreigners to answer the call of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to help repel Moscow's invasion of his country - including a reported 3,000 U.S. citizens. Hoeft, who also goes by the name of Henry Locke, is a 28-year-old former U.S. Army infantryman with associations with the American far-right group Boogaloo Boys. But according to other...