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The Pacific Grove Unified School District will require all students and staff to wear masks while indoors, starting Tuesday. In early May, the school board voted to look at two metrics; seven-day test positivity and seven-day case rates per 100,000 people. On Monday the county reported new COVID-19 numbers that triggered the change. Advertisement Click here to see Monterey County's current COVID-19 statistics. The district could lift the mandate if the numbers slip back into more reasonable rates. "The board listens to what the parents and the families are asking," said Ralph Gomez Porras, superintendent for Pacific Grove Unified School...

<p>A manager at an Arby's fast food restaurant in Washington state has been accused of urinating into a milkshake mix that might then have been served to dozens of people.</p><p>Police in Vancouver, just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon, said they uncovered footage of the 29-year-old man peeing into a bag of milkshake mix as they were executing a search warrant on his phone as part of a child pornography investigation, The Columbian newspaper reported.</p>

FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 14:27-31A Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus promises his Second Coming. In one sense, Christianity is a religion of fulfillment (the Lord has come), but in another sense, it is a religion of waiting, for we expect the Second Coming of Jesus in the fullness of his power. We wait and watch and keep vigil. What we all know is that great things take time. When a kid comes to an artist’s studio to apprentice, he has to submit to a long and difficult discipline; when a young man enters a monastery or a seminary, he...

Yet another version of Skyrim is here, as one fan has remade a portion of the acclaimed RPG in Unreal Engine 5. Skyrim’s Riverwood has been rebuilt in Epic Games’s recently released top-of-the-line engine, which is the prefect fodder while we wait for The Elder Scrolls 6. The Redditor responsible shared their creation in a 5-minute video (spotted by GamesRadar). The clip walks through the classic Skyrim settlement, showing off a few of its buildings and streets in dazzling graphical fidelity. It then cuts to what looks like the Western Watchtower in Whiterun, although this ruined outpost is a lot...

When I filed my taxes (TurboTax), there was a page which - as with last year - asked a question as to whether I got my 'stimulus' check. I do not recall that there was any other option (yes or no). I did not get a stimulus during the virus. Last year it automatically credited my taxes. No notice from IRS. This year it did the same (automatically credited my taxes on my answer to the question). Recently I got a notice of tax due, reversing the credit. Now I owe >$1400.00, plus interest & penalties.

A Conservative MP has been arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault. The Conservative whips office confirmed the unnamed individual has been asked not to attend Parliament until the investigation concludes. "The Chief Whip has asked that the MP concerned does not attend the Parliamentary Estate while an investigation is ongoing," said a Conservative whips office spokeswoman. "Until the conclusion of the investigation we will not be commenting further." In a statement reported by the Sun, the Met said: "A man was arrested on suspicion of indecent assault, sexual assault, rape, abuse of position of trust and misconduct in...

They have quietly opened truth social on the web app for everyone to join. Follow me at SarahinWP. I love that the leftist media and big tech are about to completely fall apart at the seams!!

Anti-woke Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson QUITS Twitter after being bombarded with a 'vicious flood of insults' for saying plus-size Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model Yumi Nu is 'not beautiful' Peterson, who is known for his outspoken stance against 'woke' ideologies, took to Twitter on Monday afternoon to offer his thoughts on the new SI Swim Issue Sharing an image of 36-year-old Nu's cover, the Canada-based author wrote: 'Sorry. Not Beautiful. And no amount of tolerance is going to change that' The clinical psychologist and author's tweet was met with bitter backlash from fellow Twitter users, many of whom hit...

CNN wants you to believe that the Democrats are a political party . . . above politics. That in fashioning their policies, the thought that massive, record-breaking flows of immigrants across the southern border might help them politically never crosses the Democrats' minds! And if you disagree? If you think that, in fact, Democrats view those immigrants as, in the phrase that Mark Steyn made famous, "undocumented Democrats," well then, you are a racist, spewing a "garbage" conspiracy theory. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Biden COVID response coordinator Ashish Jha says he has "two major worries about a possible uptick in covid that could infect over 100 million Americans by Fall. The increasingly infectious variants mean more people will catch the disease. On the other hand, the diminishment of symptoms means that hardly anyone will realize they are infected." "People who don't realize they are infected won't feel an urgency to get tested or vaccinated," he predicted. "The whole pandemic infrastructure will be underutilized. People will be going about their business as if life is normal. Their willingness to obey directives to wear masks,...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee announced Tuesday that she tested positive for COVID-19, despite being fully vaccinated and receiving booster shots. “Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee tested positive for COVID,” her official Twitter account noted on Tuesday. “She is fully vaccinated and has received her boosters.” Evidently, the multiple jabs of COVID-19 inoculation did nothing to immunize the Texas Democrat from contracting of the virus nor did it stop Jackson from urging the public to get more shots. Statement: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee tested positive for COVID. She is fully vaccinated and has received her boosters. She encourages everyone to get tested...

Exercise increases levels of a chemical involved in brain cell growth, which bolsters the release of the "feel good" hormone dopamine, a new study shows. Dopamine is known to play a key role in movement, motivation, and learning. Experts have long understood that regular running raises dopamine activity in the brain and may protect nerve cells from damage. In addition, past research has tied exercise-driven boosts in the dopamine-triggering chemical called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and in dopamine levels to improvements in learning and memory. Researchers showed that mice running on a wheel for 30 days had a 40% increase...

If a woman who is three, six, or nine months pregnant is shot and survives, but the baby dies, did the shooter make a reproductive choice, or is it the murder of a human? Does the mother who was carrying the baby believe it was murder of her baby, or does she believe that it was just a reproductive choice? Will the mother be soothed by people who tell her that killing the child was good for the economy and lowered inflation? After all, it saved her money and didn't change her lifestyle. It also supposedly helped save the climate....

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose purchase of Twitter remains ongoing, slammed President Biden in a podcast interview Monday and warned that if the government continues printing money, inflation will get worse and the U.S. might follow the path of Venezuela. Musk, who said he has voted "overwhelmingly for Democrats," slammed the Democratic Party and Biden in particular. He suggested that Biden is something of an empty suit. "The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter," the Tesla CEO said. "The path to power is the path to the teleprompter." "I do feel like if somebody were to accidentally lean on...

White people fear being replaced with people of color. Weapons of War, Charlottesville, white supremacy, gun ban legislation that worked, more white supremacy, several quotes from the Bible, and a story about little Joey in Scranton. Now you don't have to subject yourself to Biden's speech. lolNotice how Biden will go to Buffalo, but not the border. Which as more murders? 33 shooting in Chicago in the last week. Where is little Joey?Notice how Biden will quote the Bible, but fully supports the murder of innocent unborn babies. Yeah, he's a Roman Catholic, just like Pelosi.No mention of the leftist...

Since Dodge City was founded 150 years ago, the Kansas cowtown is still the reigning queen of the WestSeven years after it was founded in 1872, Dodge City was a booming cattle and railroad town “Queen of the Cowtowns” was the moniker historian Stanley Vestal bestowed on Dodge City, and the name stuck. The prairie town was certainly the most famous and longest lasting of the wild Kansas cattle towns that terminated the Chisholm and Western trails. Up from Texas came literally millions of long-horned cattle destined for the Kansas railheads and shipment east. They would feed a rapidly growing...

Deep in the forests of Laos, in a cave in the Annamite Mountains, lay a single child's tooth. That tooth – an unassuming molar - could be from a mysterious species of human we know little about, and of which few remains are known to exist. "Analyses of the internal structure of the molar in tandem with palaeoproteomic analyses of the enamel indicate that the tooth derives from a young, likely female, Homo individual," researchers write in a new study. The tooth, from the Tam Ngu Hao 2 cave, "most likely represents a Denisovan", the researchers say. Denisovans are an...

After insisting their forces would "fight to the death," Ukraine has ceded control of the major city to Russia.

The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on Monday ruled in a 5-4 opinion against an illegal alien who sought to appeal his order for deportation before a federal appellate court. Pankajkumar Patel, an illegal alien from India who arrived in the U.S. with his wife in the 1990s, applied for discretionary adjustment of status with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency in 2007. The adjustment of status would have rewarded Patel and his wife with green cards.

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.