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The US government expects its supply of COVID-19 vaccines and antiviral treatments to run out over the next year and is preparing for them to be sold via the commercial market, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday. President Joe Biden's administration expects to run out of federal funding for buying and distributing COVID-19 vaccines by January, although it has already bought over 170 million doses for a booster campaign later this year, according to a blog post written by Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn O'Connell. The administration has procured enough of Pfizer's antiviral treatment...

Once a leader in education reform, Louisiana has fallen behind the rest of the country thanks largely to regnant faith in a one-size-fits-all Soviet model of education, a revanchism led by Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards but insufficiently challenged by lawmakers who should know better. As states begin a new policy-making cycle, many have launched new education initiatives or seem poised to do so. Over a decade ago, a similar wave occurred with the shellacking Democrats, who typically favor a model of government dictating to families what students can attend what schools facilitating little choice in the process, received from...

Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr Mehmet Oz is proving to be a slippery figure when it comes to pinning down his stance on abortion.—-Break—- “I do believe life starts at conception, and I’ve said that multiple times,” Dr Oz said at the event, according to The Daily Beast. “If life starts at conception … why do you care what age the heart starts beating at? It’s, you know, it’s still murder, if you were to terminate a child whether their heart’s beating or not.”

The only known World War II Navy pilot to shoot down both German and Japanese enemy aircraft died Aug. 10, according to the veteran’s family. Retired Navy Commander Dean “Diz” Laird died in Walnut Creek, California, with family by his side just weeks after embarking on his final flight, CNN reported. The 101-year-old former pilot was joined on a Dream Flights flight by another fighter pilot, Clarence “Bud” Anderson. --snip-- Laird’s storied career as a Navy aviator includes 5.75 confirmed planes shot down, according to his obituary on legacy.com. He was also the only Navy ace to down both German...

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned on Wednesday that the world could face a surge in energy prices in case no price cap on Russian energy is introduced."Without a price cap we face the threat of a global price spike if the majority of Russian oil production is shuttered," Yellen said during a meeting with her British counterpart Nadhim Zahawi. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom chancellor of the exchequer remained confident a G7 price cap on Russian oil "will deliver" and urged more countries to support the action.

NEW ORLEANS — In a story first reported by our partners at the Times Picayune, New Orleans Advocate, New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell may be on the hook for close to $30,000 in air travel upgrades. Travel documents obtained by WWL-TV show Cantrell, more often than not, chooses to fly in either business or first class. Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche says the city’s long-standing travel policy requires city employees to travel in coach. “We see that she has upgraded her travel accommodations contrary to city policy at the expense of taxpayers,” Goyeneche said. Here’s just two recent examples:...

Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are accusing acting National Archivist Debra Wall of misrepresenting the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) negotiations with lawyers for former President Donald Trump. Wall informed attorney Evan Corcoran on May 10 that President Joe Biden directed her to determine whether or not Trump should benefit from executive privilege post-presidency. After consulting with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, Wall rejected the request, she wrote to Corcoran. However, in an Aug. 16 letter to committee Republicans, Wall wrote that NARA “has not been involved in the DOJ...

Democrat John Fetterman has declined an early September debate against his Republican opponent Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race, citing recovery from a recent stroke. In a statement on Tuesday evening, Fetterman said that he rejected Mehmet Oz’s campaign offer to debate in the first week of September, accusing his Republican opponent of thinking “it is funny to mock” his stroke recovery. “I’m eager to put my record and my values up against Dr. Oz’s any day of the week,” Fetterman. “As I recover from this stroke and improve my auditory processing and speech, I look forward to...

TWENTY-SECOND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 4:38–44 Friends, in our Gospel, we see Jesus in action. He is always hurrying from place to place, on the go. Today, Luke gives us a sort of "day in the life" of Jesus. And it is quite a day! Our Gospel opens just after the dramatic expulsion of a demon in the Capernaum synagogue. And after entering the house of Simon, Jesus cures Peter’s mother-in-law, and then the entire town comes to his door. He spends the whole evening curing presumably hundreds who were variously afflicted. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries,...

An analysis by National Review shows an unseemly trend among 20 Major League Baseball teams supporting organizations that perform sex change operations on children. The magazine reviewed the causes and organizations to which these teams are handing out millions of dollars in donations and found that many support sex-change surgery, hormone treatments, and other dangerous procedures for “transitioning” teens and pre-teens.

Russian tourists in Kazakhstan have faced anger from locals and even fines from police for sporting pro-war Z stickers on their cars.

I was unaware active duty service members can wear the uniform at political rallies. Ask Defense Secretary Austin if there is an exception to that regulation for Democrat campaign events," the source familiar with the band's inner workings told Fox News Digital. "Anyone with eyes to see knows that the Marine Corps just gave an in-kind contribution to Pennsylvania Democrats before the midterm elections," the source continued. "And they’ll do so again on Thursday in Philadelphia." When asked for comment on the band members’ reaction to the president's actions, the Department of Defense (DOD) pointed Fox News Digital to the...

GREENWICH, Conn. (WTNH) – The Greenwich first selectman is calling for an investigation after an assistant principal was caught on video saying he wouldn’t hire conservatives or Roman Catholics.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the GOP candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, compared homeless people to "zombies" in a speech that has been criticized for a lack of compassion. "Go down to downtown Philadelphia—I see a little bit in Pittsburgh now too, but more in Philadelphia—there are whole blocks, multiple blocks and areas you can't go," Oz told a crowd gathered in Monroeville, near Pittsburgh, on Monday. "There are addicts walking like zombies into the street with needles sticking out of their necks," he said.

Former President Barack Obama was frequently frustrated with Joe Biden, a new book claims, first as a Democrat senate colleague and then as his vice president. “Shoot. Me. Now,” Obama reportedly wrote in a note to one of his aides as Biden delivered long, rambling remarks during a 2005 senate confirmation hearing for then-President George W. Bush’s choice for Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

Pfizer is offering a fellowship exclusively to students of black, Latino and Native American descent — prompting attorneys to blast the company for discrimination while predicting that it would not survive any legal challenges.

We now have all the CMA Canadian doctor death data in a spreadsheet. It shows that doctors 50 and younger are being killed after the second booster a rate that is 23X normal.Steve KirschAug 30 Executive summaryThe Canadian Medical Association (CMA) data for 2020 shows doctors in Canada aged 50 and under die at a rate of about 6 per year.After the latest booster, 6 Canadian doctors, 50 and under, died within a 15 day period.Something is very wrong here, but nobody wants to talk about it or look into it. They’d rather look the other way.IntroductionThanks to the brilliant...

German producers are halting manufacturing in response to the surge in power costs brought on by Russia’s squeeze on gasoline provides, a development the federal government has described as “alarming”.Robert Habeck, financial system minister, mentioned business had labored laborious to scale back its gasoline consumption in current months, partly by switching to various fuels like oil, making its processes extra environment friendly and decreasing output.“It’s not good news,” he mentioned, “because it can mean that the industries in question aren’t just being restructured but are experiencing a rupture"Habeck mentioned rising gasoline costs have been affecting everybody from large industrial firms...

Former President Donald Trump suggested FBI agents were reckless with classified documents during the raid at Mar-a-Lago "perhaps pretending it was me who did it."Trump's latest comments about the FBI search at his Florida home were posted Wednesday morning on Truth Social."Terrible the way the FBI, during the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see," Trump said."Thought they wanted them kept Secret? Lucky I Declassified!"The Justice Department in court papers Tuesday said it had evidence that classified...

The Washington Post, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories, lies, hate, and child grooming, is in serious financial trouble.This news comes from the New York Times, another far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories, lies, and child grooming.Rather than boosting their readership by ceasing to be a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories, lies, hate, and child grooming, the Post is instead looking to ax ten percent of its unprofessional, crybaby, ignorant, bigoted, sheltered, inexperienced woketard staffers.Here’s da’ good stuff:The organization is on track to lose money in 2022, after years of profitability, according to two people...