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Texas Senator Ted Cruz argued during a Friday appearance on Fox News that transporting migrants across state lines could be illegal — yet still praised the recent actions of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis of sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and advocated for more similar moves. Cruz, who is a lawyer and graduate of Harvard Law School, was asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday to weigh in on the situation “from a legal standpoint.” “Let’s say I went down to the border and I brought a big truck with me, and I picked up a bunch of illegal...

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One of the front-runners for a multibillion-dollar contract to redesign the Pentagon’s vast medical record system is Epic Systems, a privately held, fiercely independent firm that, in the view of many health IT experts, epitomizes the best and the worst of the effort to transform America’s health information systems/. MORE AT THE LINK Competitors and some health care providers claim that Epic and its big-hospital customers pressure smaller practices to join Epic and the networks it serves by charging them large fees for sharing patient information if they don’t. But inside the Epic network, the information sharing is smooth compared...

This new C19 booster vax the FDA just approved seems like a money making scheme for pharma with possibly very little increased efficacy from the original recipe....especially considering the side effects for those at low risk. Likely worth it if you are high risk or get a paid day off to recover. https://khn.org/news/article/new-omicron-targeted-vaccines-authorization/ The updated booster vaccine formulations are identical to the original covid vaccines except for a tweak in the mRNA code to match the omicron BA.5 virus. Studies by Pfizer showed that its updated omicron BA.1 booster provides a 1.56 times higher increase in neutralizing antibody titers against...

Underlining Russia’s widening isolation on the world stage, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India told President Vladimir V. Putin on Friday that it is no time for war — even as the Russian president threatened to escalate the brutality of his campaign in Ukraine. The televised critique by Mr. Modi at a regional summit in Uzbekistan came just a day after Mr. Putin acknowledged that Xi Jinping, China’s leader, had “questions and concerns” about the war. Taken together, the distancing from Mr. Putin by the heads of the world’s two most populous countries — both of which have been pivotal...

Summary:How is it possible for proprietary AI models to enter patient care, without extensive peer reviews for algorithmic transparency? That's a question we should be asking about Epic's Deterioration Index, which has been utilized for several use cases, including COVID-19 patient risk models.The conversation about machine learning development largely centers on how individual organizations proceed - and whether they use adequate data, methods, algorithms, transparency, and a process that guarantees models do not go into production until they are tested and vetted.At the other end of the spectrum are AI models developed by Google and Facebook that are completely opaque,...

The family of Kevin Nishita, has raised the reward to $40,000 to help find the third and final suspect who police say is responsible for Nishita's murder. Nishita was guarding a KRON 4 reporter in downtown Oakland on Nov. 24 when they and Nishita were held at gun point in an attempted armed robbery. Nishita was shot and died from his injuries in the hospital three days later.

The “tables have turned” as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis “beat the left” at their own game, Sky News host James Morrow says. Mr DeSantis sent two planes full of illegal immigrants without warning to the island of Martha’s Vineyard. “I think his move of shipping illegal aliens to a left-wing stronghold like Martha's Vineyard was genius,” Mr Morrow said. “And shows he is the sort of fighter who would be perfect to take the Republican party to the 2024 election. “Because all he did was what successful political activists always do – he made the other side live up to...

[H/T ymani cricket]Attorneys have filed three lawsuits against hospitals for forcing the use of Remdesivir and respirators to treat people for Covid-19, oftentimes against the wishes of the patients and their families. They claim that doctors, hospitals, and even states were given ample incentive by the federal government to use the ineffective and dangerous protocols instead of treatments that were more effective but less profitable.It was a blockbuster interview all the way through, but there was one comment in particular that should chill Americans to the bone. As the attorneys claim in their lawsuits, the unvaxxed were primarily targeted.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is scheduled to launch with crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin Sept. 21 for a six-month mission on the International Space Station NASA will provide live coverage of key events as a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts launch and dock to the International Space Station on Wednesday, Sept. 21. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will launch aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:54 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 21 (6:54 p.m. Baikonur time). Coverage will begin at 9 a.m. on NASA Television’s...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that "now is not an era of war," marking the first public criticism of Putin's invasion of Ukraine after months of neutrality, as India balances its reliance on Russia for military equipment and about one-fifth of its oil imports. KEY FACTS In their first meeting since the start of the war, Modi told Putin, “I know that today’s era is not of war,” adding that the biggest issues in the world today, especially in developing countries, are “food security, fuel security, fertilizers,” according to a translation of...

The United States is being used as an instrument to create a One World System. China and Russia are being coerced into compliance...

Just last week, Senator Rand Paul appeared on Fox News and slammed Anthony Fauci for taking the default position of trying to “cover up” his activities, including potentially encouraging social media companies to censor medical information.“I think that all of America should be appalled that America’s doctor, the leading expert on COVID in public health, doesn’t want to divulge information, doesn’t want to divulge his communications with Big Tech,” Paul urged, adding that Fauci’s “modus operandi” is to “cover up”.A month before that, Senator Paul spoke after first ever Senate hearing on gain of function research, having revealed that there...

The US Army has a major recruiting problem and can't find enough young people who meet the basic requirements to enlist, according to Army Times. Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, second in command for Army Training and Doctrine Command, sounded off Thursday about the troubling developments. She highlighted disqualification rates for potential recruits jumped from 30-40% (pre-Covid) to a whopping 70% this year due to obesity, low test scores, and/or drug use.Gervais pointed out the service has experienced a "nosedive" in recruits since July 2021. She explained Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores were 10% lower during the virus pandemic...

Last month we looked at the work of a research group from the University of Cambridge who have been creating mouse embryos that are grown from stem cells rather than sperm and eggs. The embryos possess small brains, beating hearts, and other organs. While this is fascinating research that presents opportunities in the medical field, particularly for organ transplants, I raised a number of obvious ethical questions. Doing this with mice is one thing, but obviously, this research is heading toward trying something similar with human organs. Well, as the saying goes, that didn’t take long. Someone is already on...

You may know him as the hyper, slightly-goofy pillow pitchman from TV who can regularly be found on Fox News hawking his MyPillow product along with Giza Dream sheets, slippers, and more. You might have even seen him on a poster in Bed Bath & Beyond or Walmart before they predictably—in the woke corporate age—dropped him from their lineups.Full disclosure: I own a MyPillow; I bought one long before I had any inkling of Lindell’s political leanings. I was just looking for a better way to sleep, and guess what? It delivered: now I can’t sleep without it.Things took a...

As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis send busloads of illegal aliens to strategically-selected Democrat strongholds, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is climbing aboard the Abbott-DeSantis Express.Cruz on Friday urged Abbott and DeSantis to bus illegals to three new liberal areas after the national news was dominated by Abbott’s shipment of roughly 100 illegals to the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in D.C. in front of the residence of Kamala Harris — who continues to insist the border is “secure” — and Desantis sent 50 illegals to the smug Democrat enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, sending wealthy liberals...

Warning: The video contains strong language.A woman in Hollister was injured when two masked men broke into her home and stole her French bulldog. returning home when she found two masked men with guns inside. The men stole her dog and some of her personal belongings before running out. Video, shown above, shows the thieves run away from the home with the dog. The homeowner was injured when she attempted to fight with the thieves. Police said it appears the men were casing her home and that she was targeted. The dog is reportedly worth $7,000.

For the first time in four years, researchers said, the rarest snake in North America was spotted earlier this year in Florida, but it appears its eyes may have been too big for its stomach. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the rim rock crowned snake is a tiny reptile, growing to less than a foot in length, that is only found in a very small part of southeast Florida and the Florida Keys. The head, also known as the crown, is black to light brown, while the belly ranges from yellow to red with black spots....