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mRNA Flu Shot Moves Forward As Pfizer Launches Late-Stage Trial, Builds On Covid Vaccine Success. Pfizer said it had dosed the first participants in the Phase 3 clinical trial designed to test an mRNA-based influenza vaccine designed using the same technology used in its widely-used Covid-19 vaccine, which it developed with German firm BioNTech. The trial, which is based in the U.S., will assess the safety and effectiveness of the shot and will recruit around 25,000 healthy adults. The shot—known as a quadrivalent vaccine—is designed to protect against four different flu viruses and covers the strains the World Health Organization...

Fort Wayne, Indiana Mayor Tom Henry admitted to drinking and driving after he was involved in a car accident Saturday night, according to a statement from his office. “Mayor Tom Henry was involved in a motor vehicle crash late Saturday," a spokesperson for him, John Perlich, said in a statement to NBC News. "Upon arrival, officers determined that the Mayor appeared to be impaired. After tests were conducted, that was confirmed.” Henry apologized in a tweet Sunday morning, taking full responsibility for his actions. “I want to apologize to the residents of Fort Wayne and my family for the poor...

KERNERSVILLE, N.C. — UPDATE: ALL YOUTH FOOTBALL GAMES SCHEDULED AT THIS SCHOOL HAVE SINCE BEEN CANCELED. Police were called to a high school in Kernersville about a fight that broke out during a youth football game Saturday, according to Winston-Salem city officials. It happened at 11:14 a.m. at Glenn High School located at 1600 Union Cross Road during a football game that involved 6-year-old athletes. Winston-Salem police said some people had guns and one person was hitting people with a hammer on the field. Once officers arrived, they found multiple people arguing and still fighting. A man was found with...

Schools Chancellor David Banks quietly promoted Mayor Adams’ girlfriend to a top job at the Department of Education, just months after Adams hired Banks’ girlfriend as a deputy mayor, The Post has learned. Banks named Tracey Collins — Adams’ longtime partner and NYC’s unofficial First Lady — the DOE’s “senior advisor to the deputy chancellor of school leadership,” Desmond Blackburn. She started the new job in July, and got a giant, 23% raise to $221,597 a year, records show. Hizzoner named Banks’ girlfriend, Sheena Wright, and four other women deputy mayors last Dec. 21. Deputy mayors made $251,982 in FY...

WASHINGTON — Federal marijuana inmates say they’re shocked that President Biden’s mass-pardon for pot offenders doesn’t actually help them — telling The Post that the historic clemency amounts to a “rancid” pre-midterm elections stunt and a “slap in the face” that fails to do what Biden promised as a candidate. There are about 2,700 federal pot inmates, according to a recent congressional estimate, but none will get out because Biden’s pardon applies only to the roughly 6,500 people convicted federally of simple possession, of whom none are in prison, and to unknown thousands more convicted under local DC law. Biden...

This week, GOP critics jumped on President Biden’s apparent gaffe while campaigning at a Volvo Group Powertrain facility in Hagerstown, Maryland when he said “let me start off with two words: made in America.” Dreaded members of the MAGA terrorist organization pointed out that “made in America” is three words. This gaffe recalled an earlier Biden speech in which he touted his support for a three-letter word “jobs.” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refuted the gaffe interpretation, saying “those so quick to pounce on a seeming error are the ones making fools of themselves. The president’s count of words is correct....

A group of Orthodox Jews in New York City are suing the state’s new law banning carrying a firearm in a house of worship and arguing that it essentially makes them "sitting ducks." The Jewish congregation in Midwood, Brooklyn, in a suit organized by the New York State Jewish Gun Club in Rockland County, filed the lawsuit on September 29 objecting to the state’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act signed by New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, the New York Post reported. The legislation banned concealed-carry permit holders from carrying weapons into "sensitive locations" that includes "places of worship or religious...

Even Jeff Bezos' son is hoping Amazon's new "The Lord of the Rings" production is up to snuff. The billionaire Amazon founder told the audience at the show premiere that his son warned him not to mess up the prequel series that debuts on Prime Video this Friday, Variety reported. "After Amazon got involved in this project, my son came up to me one day, he looked me in the eyes, very sincerely, and he said: 'Dad, please don't eff this up,'" Bezos said, according to Variety. "And he was right. We know that this world is important to so...

Mass migration has quickly spiked Canadians’ housing prices and rapidly reduced the share of Canadians who can own homes, admits the pro-migration New York Times. “Basically southern Ontario has become unaffordable” amid a massive inflow of immigrants, real-estate agent Bryan Adlam told the newspaper for an October 8 article, and added: “I have two clients I have right now whose budget is $500,000 to $600,000, which is not chump change,” he said. “Are they going to be renters for life? Probably. Has owning a home become unattainable for someone on the lower income echelon? I would say, yes.”

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General Dynamics Land Systems has officially unveiled its AbramsX future main battle tank concept in the flesh — or should we say in the steel. Earlier this week we wrote up the latest on the feature-packed M1 Abrams evolution, but now we get to see the actual hardware ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army's big conference in Washington, D.C., this week

Tyson Foods Inc. became the latest large company to announce its departure from Chicago, continuing a trend in the city that many have argued is the result of the city's skyrocketing rates of crime and threatens to do harm to its most vulnerable populations. "You're talking about a situation where you have a hollowed out economy, where you have businesses leaving, there are no jobs," Heritage Foundation senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy Robert Moffit told Fox News Digital last month. "And the people who are desperately hurt by this are mostly low income and...

Former President Donald Trump called out the Department of Justice (DOJ) for sending the FBI to arrest pro-lifers around the country over alleged minor offenses.Speaking before a crowd of supporters at his rally in Nevada the former president said that Joe Biden and his Democrat supporters in government are “turning America into a police state,” citing the administration’s humiliating arrests of pro-lifers and the blind eye it turned toward mass firebombings of pro-life clinics at the hands of pro-choice terrorists.“Before our very eyes, Biden and his left-wing handlers are turning America into a police state,” said Trump, adding:Look at what’s...

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Joe Biden’s remarks warning of “armageddon” amid nuclear threats from Russia were “right.” At a fundraiser last week, Biden said, “We have not faced the prospect of armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Discussing Russian President Vladimir Putin, Biden added, “I know fairly well. He’s not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons.”

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that former President Donald Trump was “legitimately a cult leader.” Anchor Ali Velshi said, “I want to ask you about something weird going on at trump rallies. They are now playing music that sounds very much like the QAnon music, and people are giving a weird salute with your finger? It seems cult-ish and stuff like that. Go back to your history with him. You have seen them flirt with this stuff over the years. What is happening here?”

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Luke 17:11-19 Friends, today’s Gospel recounts the Lord’s healing of ten lepers, only one of whom comes back to give thanks. Leprosy frightened people in ancient times, just as contagious and mysterious diseases frighten people today. But more than this, leprosy rendered someone unclean and therefore incapable of engaging in the act of worship. It is not accidental that the person responsible for examining the patient in ancient Israel was the priest. The priest’s job was to monitor the whole process of Israelite worship, very much including who could and couldn’t participate in the temple.What is so important about worship?...

In a hypothetical matchup between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential election, an Emerson poll revealed that Iowa voters favored Trump over Biden by 8 points.The poll indicates 47% of voters would support Trump, compared to 39% who would support Biden in 2024. The poll also mentions that for 38% of voters, the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago would not affect their support of Trump in 2024. But 34% said the raid makes them more likely to support the former president, and 28% said it makes them less likely to do so.Most Iowa voters, 56%,...

Recently, got into a brief exchange with an antigunner on another forum. Thought I'd share it with you. I was answering a post about someone who had their house ransacked and robbed. My initial response post follows, then the exchange: Laz: "I sure hope they don't try me. I seldom leave and have a terrific aim. Gosh, that would be awful if I ended up shooting a bunch of them as they broke in. That would really mess with my head." Antigunner: "Ammosexuals always want to shoot up the neighborhood. Besides, they probably knew he was gone. Hope it works...

Stumping in one of the key battleground states — Nevada — former President Donald Trump made a call for Republicans to vote in the midterms to stop the reign of "radical left Democrats.""Thirty-one days from now the people of Nevada are going to fire your radical Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak — shouldn't be there," Trump told his Save America rally in Minden, Nevada, which aired live Saturday night on Newsmax."You are going to defeat your extreme left-wing senator, not respected at all in Washington, D.C.; Catherine Cortez Masto hasn't done a thing on the border. Hasn't done a thing."You're going...