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The original vaccinations for COVID-19 induce potent antibodies that protect against SARS-CoV-2. But a new study shows the antibodies generated by those prior vaccinations or infections can actually "hurt" the booster shots. That's because these antibodies rapidly "mop up" the booster from the body, before it has a chance to stimulate the cells from the immune system. In a cohort of 85 people who had been vaccinated with Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, Northwestern scientists found that lower antibody levels before a booster were associated with a higher-fold increase in antibody levels after the booster. "This suggests that pre-existing antibodies induced...

The Michigan State University Police and Public Safety Department confirmed Thursday that the Monday night attacker had two 9mm handguns on his person, both of which were legally purchased. MSU Police and Public Safety tweeted: UPDATE: We can confirm the shooter had two 9 millimeter handguns on his person at the time he was located. The weapons were purchased legally, but they were not registered. pic.twitter.com/SdBX1Vyxpr — MSU Police and Public Safety (@msupolice) February 16, 2023 Breitbart News reported that the alleged MSU attacker faced felony gun charges in 2019. Those charges, had they been pursued, would have barred the...

President Donald Trump released a scathing press release on Nikki Haley, former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, after she announced her run for the White House in 2024. Haley is the first person to announce a presidential candidacy following Trump. The press release, titled “The Real Nikki Haley,” explores a few of Haley’s controversial statements, including a time she said Hillary Clinton was the “reason” she was running for office during a 2012 interview with the New York Times. Trump also condemned Haley’s stance on the Ukraine-Russia war: “Instead of finding a peaceful solution to the Ukraine-Russia War, Haley...

As credit card debt hit an all-time high — just shy of $1 trillion — in the final three months of 2022, delinquencies among borrowers accelerated. Balances grew $61 billion in the fourth quarter from the previous one to $986 billion, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found. That marked the largest quarterly increase and the highest total since the series began in 1999. At the same time, the rate at which credit card holders missed payments and became more than 90 days behind was higher than before the pandemic, especially among younger borrowers, a potentially worrying sign when...

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (FOX 2) - Authorities are responding to a train derailment in Van Buren Township Thursday morning. Authorities are asking residents to avoid the area of Huron River Drive and Haggerty due to a railroad accident investigation. Both north and southbound traffic is blocked due to the incident, which happened just south off I-94 and west of Belleville. ... "We are also in touch with the relevant federal authorities, including the EPA," she said. "At this time no one is aware of the release of any hazardous materials, the car carrying hazardous material has been put upright...

Paxton filed the suit against Biden on Feb. 15 ... Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Joe Biden and his administration for breaking the Constitution in order to swiftly pass a trillion dollar spending package. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, claims that Biden unlawfully signed the Democrats' $1.7 trillion omnibus package into law in December because it was not legally passed in the House. Only 201 members were present when the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 was voted on by the House of Representatives in December 2022, and with half the members absent, the required quorum was not...

President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday issued a statement on the Jan. 6 events that led to political attacks on him and his supporters across the nation. Now that his Twitter account has been restored, and former Twitter executives are being grilled by the House of Representatives for their combined efforts to censor conservatives, according to RSBN, President Trump can prove that he did not incite violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. While various supporters have speculated as to when President Trump will finally tweet again, his timeline ends just after he clearly instructed everyone at the Capitol,...

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers has a theory on Wednesday as to why the train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, derailed: Donald Trump. This theory was basically a retelling of the talking points being spouted off by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. During his “Closer Look” segment, Meyers declared, “And by the way, rail workers and their unions have been warning for years about deteriorating safety conditions and demanding better work standards. Instead, these massively profitable rail companies poured money into stock buybacks and dividends and lobbied for safety regulations to be repealed. For example, in 2018, the...

On Friday, the president of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin will meet with illegitimate President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow, and the conversation will be profound in nature. Source: Russian state-owned news outlet RIA Novosti and BelTA, Belarusian state-run news agency Quote from Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of Russian President: "As for the preparations for the meeting between the two presidents, Putin and Lukashenko, tomorrow – yes, I can confirm that such a meeting is being prepared." Details: Peskov states that the meeting will take place in Novo-Ogaryovo, and "the conversation will be thorough." Lukashenko...

Just a few months ago, Sam Brinton was a rising star in the universe of the woke. Back on June 29, he announced, with considerable fanfare, his new role as deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy and tweeted happily about being “one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership.” But it all ended ignominiously less than six months later: on Dec. 12, a Department of Energy spokesbeing announced tersely: “Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of...

Former CIA Director John Brennan said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump’s relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman raised “legitimate questions” about foreign interference in U.S. elections.Brennan said, “I think it’s quite clear that Donald Trump never believed that U.S. laws and ethics and principles apply to him. He was going to try to use every opportunity while he was president, and also, I think, in his post-presidency, to advantage himself financially, politically, whatever ways. So I do think there are serious questions that have been raised by this recent reporting about what might have...

WATERLOO, Iowa – On the day the Democratic National Committee voted to strip Iowa of its first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, a former congressman named Dave Nagle thumbed through a Rolodex full of faded contact cards at his desk on the seventh floor of an old department store building here. Frost clung to the windows. Nagle knew what was coming. In Philadelphia, where the DNC met, everyone was writing Iowa’s obituary. And when the vote went as expected, his wife, Debi, who was following the proceedings on Twitter from the next room over, came to the door. Nagle sighed. “So,” he said,...

The US is on target to eclipse previous economic forecasts and add a staggering $19 trillion to the national debt in the next 10 years, according to the nation’s budget scorekeeper. In a report released on Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office warned that one way or another, through tax hikes or spending cuts, the country’s fiscal course needs to be corrected. “Over the long term, our projections suggest that changes in fiscal policy must be made to address the rising costs of interest and mitigate other adverse consequences of high and rising debt,” CBO Director Phillip Swagel wrote in a...

California used to be the dream destination for Americans from all over the country and people from around the world. Now, for the first time, the state is shrinking. I’m old enough to remember when the California Dream was just like the American Dream, only better, because it was in California. Glorious beaches, a Mediterranian climate, redwoods, the Pacific Coast Highway, a world-class education system, and room and liberty enough for everyone to find a home there. It was an almost magical kingdom, to coin a phrase. [SNIP] There were 28.5 million people in the Land of Sunshine and Opportunity...

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Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry's family quietly sold their private jet to a New York-based hedge fund following intense criticism of the plane's carbon footprint in light of Kerry's work fighting global warming. The Kerry family's private jet, a Gulfstream GIV-SP, is no longer owned by his family's charter firm Flying Squirrel LLC., according to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) registration information reviewed by Fox News Digital. In financial filings submitted since joining the Biden administration, Kerry had reported that his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry owned a stake worth more than $1 million in the firm. The plane's registered owner...

When Norfolk Southern train 32N derailed in Ohio earlier this month, it was not the first time it had experienced problems on the route. The train, which originated from Madison, Illinois, on the evening of Feb. 1, broke down at least once before derailing in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, according to employees familiar with the matter. The employees say there were concerns among those working on the train over what they believed was the train's excessive length and weight — 151 cars, 9,300 feet long, 18,000 tons — before it reached East Palestine, which contributed to both the...

A man who was photographed marching in the violent "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 killed himself last week, according to a coroner's report, just as he was scheduled to face trial on federal drug charges. Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, 35, lived north of Mountain View, Missouri, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 30, according to a report from the Texas County Coroner's Office. That is the same day Von Nukem was scheduled to be in court in Arizona, facing four counts relating to illegal import and sale of fentanyl. He is a native of...

The Florida Department of Health fined WESH-2, an Orlando television station, $10,000 for not allowing Scotty Moore, the Republican candidate for a Florida Congressional District to participate in a televised debate last October because he had not received the covid vaccine. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo explained that "since the covid vaccines are neither safe nor effective and state law explicitly prohibits using a person's vaccination status as an excuse to deny him the right to enter a business' premises, the fine is warranted." Station manager Martin Crook shrugged off what he called "a piffling irritation. Mr. Moore went...

ATLANTA - Fulton County has released portions of the findings of a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to overturn his defeat in Georgia's presidential 2020 election. The report’s introduction and conclusion, along with a section in which the grand jurors expressed concerns that some witnesses may have lied under oath were released Thursday. But any recommendations on potential criminal charges will remain under wraps for now For nearly eight months, the grand jury has considered evidence and heard testimony from dozens of witnesses, including high-profile Trump associates and top state officials. While...