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Big Apple students will be forced to hunker down in front of their screens — instead of enjoying a snow day outdoors — when the winter weather is at its worst this year, Schools Chancellor David Banks said Tuesday. “There are technically no more snow days,” Banks said on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” ahead of the start of the 2022-23 school year Thursday. “With the new technology that we have — that’s one of the good things that came out of COVID — if a snow day comes around, we want to make sure that our kids continue...

All you need is a simple device, and to know how to use it 'properly'A plumber has shared his advice on how to save money on your gas bill. Tiktok user djmatrix101, a plumbing and heating engineer who shares tips on how to save money on household bills, shared his best "top tip" to save money on your gas bill. All that is required is a simple device called a thermostatic radiator valve. He said that the device can then be installed on every single radiator in the home, and can be used to turn off, or limit, the flow...

A federal judge in Fort Worth agreed Wednesday with a group of Christian conservatives that Affordable Care Act requirements to cover HIV prevention drugs violate their religious freedom. U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor also agreed that aspects of the federal government's system for deciding what preventive care is covered by the ACA violates the Constitution. O'Connor's ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans who are on employer-sponsored health care plans. It is likely to be appealed by the federal government. This lawsuit is the latest in a decade of legal...

In a 2021 lecture at Yale University titled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani described her “fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a favor.” Around the same time, a scholarly article in a peer-reviewed academic journal described “whiteness” as “a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility.” The author, Donald Moss, had also presented his paper...

Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France during World War II, often gets lost in the shadow of the Normandy invasions. Dragoon came little more than a month after the Allies crossed the English Channel, on Aug. 15, 1944. More than 151,000 troops cleared the way for more than half a million troops to swarm onto the beaches of the French Riviera. At the same time, tens of thousands of members of the French Resistance finally got the chance to rise up against their German occupiers. Pfc. Stephen Weiss landed on the Côte d'Azur that summer day, with the...

In California this week, there is a heat wave. There have been heat waves before; it’s not unusual for the area. But the energy grid is no longer up to it; so California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, took to the airwaves, to make an impassioned plea. “Everyone has to do their part to help,” Governor Newsom declares, in his new public service commercial. He then goes on to list his expectations for the taxpayers of California. The state already told people not to charge their electric cars. Now, Governor Sunshine says, you should wake up early and run your air conditioning...

The Office of Malaria Control in War Areas sought to curb malaria transmission in the United States.You’ve probably heard of the Cat and the Hat, but you may not have heard of “Bloodthirsty Ann.” Ann, another character created by Ted Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), was a mosquito who transmitted malaria, and she first appeared in a 1943 booklet for American troops during World War II. By the time Bloodthirsty Ann was introduced to readers, malaria had long been present in the southeastern United States. Cases of the deadly disease rose during the Great Depression, and started to wane during the...

ALouisiana-based federal judge ruled that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. Anthony Fauci will have to turn over emails sent to social media companies on the subject of censorship and misinformation of online content. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who are both Republicans, filed a lawsuit in May accusing President Joe Biden's administration of working in tandem with social media companies to suppress free speech, with specific allegations tied to information regarding elections and COVID-19.

What do you do when there's an earthquake? Well, the safety rules all depend on where you are. If you're in a car, stop the car and stay inside. If you're outside, find an open spot, far from power lines. If you're inside, and your building is damaged, get outside right away, in case it collapses on you... Unless you're in China, under lockdown, that is. Then the safety rules don't apply. Case in point: The politburo in Beijing dictated last week that Chengdu go into lockdown — maybe just for a few days, they said. we'll see how it...

Five officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety will be investigated over their response to the May shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, an agency spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday night. Two of the officers were suspended with pay. According to Ericka Miller, a spokesperson with DPS, the five officers “have now been referred to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) where a formal investigation into their actions that day will take place.” Miller did not specify what, if any, were the wrongdoings of the officers. The news of the investigation was first reported by the Austin American-Statesman and...

The U.S. has reached an important milestone in the pandemic, according to federal health officials. Going forward, COVID-19 could be treated more like the flu, with one annual shot offering year-long protection against severe illness for most people. "Barring any new variant curve balls, for a large majority of Americans we are moving to a point where a single, annual COVID shot should provide a high degree of protection against serious illness all year," said White House COVID response coordinator Ashish Jha at a press briefing Tuesday. The federal government has started rolling out a new round of boosters for...

A federal judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday that a mandate requiring most health insurance companies to cover medicine that prevents HIV infection violates the religious freedom of certain businesses. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor partially resolves a lawsuit brought by Braidwood Management Inc., a Christian for-profit corporation owned by Republican mega-donor Steven Hotze that employs about 70 people. Hotze claimed that forcing his company to cover pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs, more commonly known as PrEP, under the Affordable Care Act would make the company “facilitate and encourage homosexual behavior.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and...

Onward Together, a nonprofit group started by Hillary Clinton after she lost the 2016 presidential election, funneled $75,000 to a far-left group whose affiliate worked on a failed attempt to dismantle and replace the Minneapolis Police Department, Fox News first reported. Clinton’s Onward Together gave money to Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Youth Justice between April 1, 2021, and March 31, 2021, according to the group’s latest tax forms, the report noted.

Muslims make up 25% of the global population and Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world — but Muslims only comprise 1% of characters shown on popular televisions series in the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. Those are just two of the findings in a new report issued Wednesday by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Researchers investigated 200 top-rated television shows from 2018 and 2019 that aired in these four countries, and surveyed 8,885 characters with speaking roles. Apart from the numbers deficit, the majority of the Muslim characters were depicted as adult Middle Eastern or North...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Wednesday it’s optimistic about a decline in monkeypox cases and an uptick in vaccinations against the infectious virus, despite worsening racial disparities in reported cases. Promising to ramp up vaccination offerings at LGBTQ Pride festivals around the country in the coming weeks, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the deputy coordinator of the White House national monkeypox response, said more than 460,000 doses have been given. The U.S. leads the world with infections — as of Tuesday 20,733 cases had been reported — with men accounting for about 98% of cases and men who said they...

A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday ruled that state law does not allow election clerks to fill in missing information on witness certification envelopes that contain absentee ballots, delivering a victory to Republicans nine weeks before the election in the battleground state. The lawsuit, backed by the GOP-controlled Legislature, is the latest move by Republicans to tighten restrictions on absentee voting in the swing state where Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson are on the ballot in November. Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Aprahamian on Wednesday granted GOP motions to immediately block the practice, known as ballot curing....

emocrat John Fetterman is committing to at least one debate with his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, in Pennsylvania’s race for U.S. Senate. In a Wednesday afternoon article authored by Politico’s Holly Otterbein, Fetterman said voters will see him on the debate stage with Oz “sometime in the middle to end of October.” A “major television station” in the Keystone State will host the debate, Fetterman said.

[Catholic Caucus] Diocese in the Netherlands announces parishes will no longer offer Mass every Sunday'In many deaneries, it is simply no longer possible to find and maintain structured enough priests to celebrate the Eucharist every weekend in every church; other places are experiencing a shortage of priests.'ROERMOND, Netherlands (LifeSiteNews) – As Mass attendance continues to dwindle, the Diocese of Roermond in the Netherlands recently announced its parishes will no longer offer the Mass every Sunday.Citing a shortage of priests and volunteers as well as an increase in energy costs, Vicar General René Maessen wrote in a letter last month that...

SEATTLE (AP) — Red-shirted teachers and staff in Seattle Public Schools took to the picket lines instead of the classroom on what was supposed to be the first day of school Wednesday, striking for the first time since 2015 over issues that include pay and educational support for students who have struggled with years of pandemic learning. Contract talks, which began months ago, continued. It was unclear how long the walkout might last, leaving many parents to scramble for alternative childcare. The city said it would open recreation centers for children in kindergarten through sixth grade beginning Monday. “We encourage...

Trump-appointed District Court Judge Aileen Cannon was only asked two questions by Democrats at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing...That decision has been derided by media figures and experts across the political spectrum, many of whom have noted that Cannon was nominated by Trump. [*Left Media Warns* all federal judges their names, location, and videos will be published if they decide in Trump's favor on ANY issue]