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Ten people were reported to have been washed away by flood waters, Ontario Fire Department Chief Ray Gayk told KTLA. Five people have been rescued and one man was confirmed dead, leaving authorities to search for up to four others. Two of them were seen in the water — though authorities are still searching for them — and two additional people were also seen in the water, but it is unknown if they escaped on their own or are dead in the basin. They were previously described as being homeless and living in the area when the basin swelled with...

f you’ve received a new omicron-specific Covid booster, you’re the most protected you possibly can be against the virus. But there’s a new batch of so-called “Scrabble” variants circulating globally. While omicron’s BA.5 subvariant still accounts for nearly 40% of U.S. Covid cases, strains like BQ.1, BQ.1.1 and BA.4.6 are rising each week, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. The new strains present an uncomfortable question: Are the new bivalent boosters still worth getting, or has the virus already outmaneuvered them? “A booster is a booster,” Dr. Roy Gulick, chief of the division of infectious...

New lab data suggest that vaccines and prior infections may not offer enough protection against several new COVID-19 variants cropping up in the U.S. and around the world. Dr. David Ho, director of Columbia University’s Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC), and his team reported the results from a set of studies at an ADARC symposium. They showed how well some of the latest variants—BQ.1, BQ.1.1, XBB, and XBB.1, which were all derived from Omicron—are evading both vaccine-derived and infection-derived immunity. These new variants all have mutations in the region that binds to cells and infects them, which means that...

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The World Health Organization chief on Wednesday said a nearly 90% drop in recent COVID-19 deaths globally compared to nine months ago provides "cause for optimism," but still urged vigilance against the pandemic as variants continue to crop up. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that last week just over 9,400 deaths linked to the coronavirus were reported to the WHO. In February of this year, he said, weekly deaths had topped 75,000 globally. "We have come a long way, and this is definitely cause for optimism. But we continue to call on all governments, communities and individuals to remain vigilant,"...

Democrat Tina Kotek has won the race for Oregon governor, defeating Republican Christine Drazan. It was a hard-fought and expensive win by Democrats, who have a huge party registration advantage in Oregon but faced strong headwinds this year amid voter frustration at problems including homelessness, violent crime and lackluster delivery of government programs and services. ­As of 11 a.m. Wednesday, Kotek was ahead of Drazan by 30,000 votes, the state’s tally showed. And Multnomah County had yet to tabulate results from 80,000 ballots it has logged as received by 10 a.m. Wednesday, state and county websites showed. With Multnomah voters...

The final outcome of the battle between U.S. Rep. David Trone (D-Potomac) and his Republican challenger, Del. Neil Parrott of Hagerstown – the state’s most competitive congressional race this year thanks largely to redistricting – remained unclear early Wednesday. With all Election Day precincts reporting, Parrott held a 51%-49% lead, with a little more than 4,500 votes separating the two candidates in the 6th Congressional District. While Parrott had a nearly 15,000-vote edge in votes cast on Election Day, Trone cut into this with leads in early voting tallies and, perhaps most significantly, mail-in ballots – a category in which...

Dear America I am disappointed. Surprised and disappointed. Yesterday was a litmus test for your intelligence and you failed. 72% of voters said they felt the country was going in the wrong direction and still you voted to stay the course. Many of us tried to help you. We tried to help you understand what was at stake and how to set the country on a better path but you chose to ignore us. It's baffling. I never understood why people would vote against their better interests. But you did. What did you vote for? You voted for violent crime....

The company I work for has weathered the pandemic okay. We’re a 100% in person, small U.S. manufacturing company. I’m HR, finance, many other things, and sometimes reception. Because of that, I’m in a unique position to know the vaccination status of all visitors (due to a Covid screening form they complete) and some details about health status for employees and their family members. Until recently, all employees have been fully vaccinated (to the best of my knowledge). There is no “vaccines required” policy; any mention of that in the past has been shot down by management. It’s been hypothetical...

UPDATE: (4:00 PM) Kari Lake is only 5,000 votes down after the latest ballot dump.

BREAKING: Abraham Hamadeh has taken the lead for Arizona Attorney General.

Members of the Church of Pentecost are expected to begin fasting and prayers across the country on Thursday, November 10. According to the Executive Council of the Church, the members are to pray and intercede for the nation and the global community amidst the economic crises. In a communique signed by the Chairman of COP, Apostle Eric Nyamekye said; “The fasting and prayers, which are scheduled to end on Sunday, November 13, will be observed on the theme: ‘So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He answered our prayer’ (Ezra 8:23), all assemblies have been asked to...

One of Iran’s most prominent actors on Wednesday posted an image of herself on social media without the headscarf mandatory for women in the Islamic republic. Taraneh Alidoosti’s apparent act of defiance comes as weeks of protests have rocked the country since the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman died in mid-September after being arrested by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly flouting the country’s strict dress rules for women. Alidoosti, one of the best-known actors remaining in Iran and who has publicly backed the protest movement, posted the image of herself with her head uncovered...

During CNN’s election coverage on Wednesday, CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama adviser David Axelrod said that the message of the results in the 2022 midterm elections “wasn’t an affirmation of policies so much” as a rebuke of extremism and that he would advise President Joe Biden against being triumphant in addressing the results. Axelrod said, “Look, what I would advise would be to understand what the message was yesterday. I think it was a repudiation of extremism in all its forms. And I think he should note that and understand this wasn’t an affirmation of policies so much...

Putin - always on hand to cheer Russia's 'victories' - was nowhere to be seen. Putin's top military commander said troops will retreat from Kherson on orders from Russian Defence Minister Troops will leave 'in the near future' and take up positions across Dnipro River, General Sergei Surovikin said Giving up the city - capital of a region Putin annexed to Russia just weeks ago - is the most humiliating loss yet General Surovikin said city was impossible to defend as Ukraine's armed forces continue to counterattack Kirill Stremousov, 45, is believed to have died when his Lexus was involved...

by Becca London | RNNDuring a night when Republicans were certainly hoping to take down more Democrats, there was one takedown that has to be especially sweet. That’s the race in New York where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) just lost to Mike Lawler. Maloney has conceded, with 95% of the vote counted. It was a historical loss — Maloney became the first Democrat Committee chair to lose in four decades, since 1980. Maloney was a powerful Democrat, responsible for disbursing tens of millions in campaign funds to his fellow Democrats, and who had...

Documentary filmmaker and activist Michael Moore thanked voters for creating a “Blue Wall” to stop Republicans from gaining control of the House and Senate during Tuesday’s midterm elections. “We were lied to for months by the pundits and pollsters and the media. Voters had not ‘moved on’ from the Supreme Court’s decision to debase and humiliate women by taking federal control over their reproductive organs. Crime was not at the forefront of the voters ‘simple’ minds. Neither was the price of milk,” Moore wrote on his Substack “Mike’s Midterm Tsunami of Truth.”

Voters between the ages of 18 and 29 cast their ballots in favor of Democrats 63 percent of the time in the 2022 elections, exit polling data found. Data from NBC exit polls found that the demographic, comprised of Generation Z and the Millennials, voted 63 percent for Democrats and just 35 percent for the Republicans. The age demographic accounted for 12 percent of the electorate, in contrast to those aged 30 to 44, who made up 21 percent of the electorate and voted 51 percent for Democrats and 47 percent for Republicans, the exit poll data found.

Here’s A List Of Major GOP Wins From Last Night That Legacy Media Won’t Tell You AboutThe GOP scored major victories in states and localities throughout the country on Tuesday that the corporate press have chosen to ignore.With Election Day over and the rest of “election week” just ramping up, legacy media are openly celebrating their party escaping as stern a rebuke as many expected. Despite predictions of a red tsunami that would wipe out Democrat officeholders nationwide, the election shaped up to be one big, confusing mess, leaving pundits on both sides of the political aisle wondering what exactly...

John James wins Michigan's 10the congressional seat, beating Carl Marlinga