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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Protect yourself and your family from COVID-19 this fall and winter. Updated COVID-19 vaccines are now available for people ages 6 months and older. “Getting the updated vaccine can enhance your protection against the COVID-19 variants currently responsible for most infections and increasing hospitalizations in the United States,” said Capt. John Iskander, MD, MPH, chief, Immunization Healthcare Division, Defense Health Agency. “Hospitalization rates are highest in infants and older adults.” Here’s what you need to know about the updated vaccine and protecting yourself from COVID-19. Q: How does TRICARE cover the updated vaccine? A: There are...

Woman walking dog attacked by moose in Boulder County By: Robert GarrisonSep 20, 2023 BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — A woman walking her dog was attacked by a moose near Ward in Boulder County. It happened Wednesday morning on the South Saint Vrain Trail, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The cow moose charged the woman, headbutting and stomping on her several times, CPW said. She was able to walk to a nearby neighbor’s house and got help. CPW said the woman was transported to a local hospital. The dog has minor injuries, and the neighbor reported it was leashed. Wildlife...

New York governor Kathy Hochul welcomed asylum seekers with 'open arms' and pledged to house them just three years before telling migrants to 'go elsewhere' because the city is at its limit. The Democrat addressed the migrant crisis on Wednesday, warning that asylum seekers who arrive in New York City will not be housed in hotel rooms as they have been in the past. 'We have to get the word out, that when you come to New York, you're not going to have more hotel rooms, we don't have capacity,' Hochul said on CNN. 'So we have to also message...

Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has announced plans to grant work permits and protection orders to hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals who have illegally crossed the border into the United States. Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced late Wednesday that over 700,000 illegal aliens already living in cities across America will qualify for the new protections. The program will allow 242,700 illegal aliens from Venezuela to qualify for an existing temporary protection designation, DHS said. An additional 472,000 Venezuelans are expected to qualify for the new designation to receive work permits and stay in the U.S. without fear...

Vivek Ramaswamy has sparked a firestorm of criticism since launching his 2024 presidential campaign for comments that some have called racially charged. Recently, the 38-year-old entrepreneur faced backlash for comparing Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Black Democrat representing Massachusetts, to “modern grand wizards” of the Ku Klux Klan. He has said that the U.S. education system is a “modern ghetto system,” that the government pays women in inner cities to be single, and has argued with former CNN anchor Don Lemon on what it was like to live as a Black person in America. *** McLaughlin, the Ramaswamy spokesperson, said that...

A video of Volodymyr Zelensky dancing in high heels while wearing a midriff-baring top has resurfaced online, with people widely praising the Ukrainian president.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, on Wednesday grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland during a hearing about what has been known as the administration's "domestic terrorist" parents memorandum, which brought intense pushback from parents around the country. Roy pressed Garland on the memo directing the FBI to use counterterrorism tools relating to parents speaking out at school board meetings against K-12 curriculum and agendas with which they disagreed, such as critical race theory and gender ideology-related policies in schools. After Roy repeatedly asked Garland whether the memo was rescinded, the attorney general finally acknowledged that it wasn't. "There's nothing to rescind," Garland...

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has labelled the conduct of protesters at Wednesday’s demonstration at Leinster House as “fascist-like behavior”, while Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said threats are being made against politicians by people who have a history of violence and convictions. A senior Garda officer has been appointed to lead an investigation into the protests outside the Dáil that led to 13 arrests. The demonstration attracted around 200 participants and resulted in a number of TDs requiring Garda escort from Leinster House. Gardaí confirmed that 13 people had been charged, including two men (40s) who were brought before the court. […] Those...

Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is planning to give “ICE ID” cards to illegal immigrants, leaked images have revealed. New images obtained by Fox News show ID cards that will be given to illegal aliens by Biden’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The move comes as officials seek to track the unprecedented flood of illegal aliens being released into the U.S. after crossing the open Southern Border. Plans for the ICE Secure Docket Card program were first reported last year. ICE said will “modernize various forms of documentation provided to provisionally released noncitizens through a consistent, verifiable, secure card.” Migrants...

WHY IS DESANTIS TANKING? A new poll Wednesday from the University of New Hampshire shook up the world of political obsessives who watch each twist and turn in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. No, there was no change at the top — former President Donald Trump is still in the lead in New Hampshire, 26 points ahead of the nearest competitor. The news was that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), for a long time Trump's chief rival, has slipped to fifth place in New Hampshire, the second state to vote in the GOP primary contest. Fifth place! How...

US home sales are headed for the biggest slowdown since 2011, according to Fannie Mae. The government-sponsored mortgage finance company forecasted total home sales to slump to just 4.8 million this year, marking the slowest sales environment since 2011. That figure will only improve slightly in 2024, with total home sales expected to hit 4.9 million, Fannie Mae economists said. The slump in sales is partly being influenced by high mortgage rates, with the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rising to 7.18% over the last week, according to Freddie Mac data. That means prospective home buyers are facing...

A bombshell new peer-reviewed study has provoked widespread concerns after concluding that the breast milk of vaccinated lactating mothers contains “trace mRNA amounts” from Covid shots. The study, published this week in the world-renowned Lancet medical journal, found that “COVID-19 vaccine mRNA administered to lactating mothers can spread systematically to breast milk.” The researchers, from the New York University Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, discovered that breast milk was contaminated with mRNA up to 45 hours after vaccination in the ten women they analyzed. The findings directly contradict the official narrative from government agencies, politicians, and their allies in...

(NEXSTAR) — As lawmakers continue to try to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month, many are growing concerned about how it could affect them, especially when it comes to federal monthly payments they receive. The government could shut down by the end of next week, if Congress isn’t able to pass a spending bill. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy vowed Wednesday he would not give up trying to persuade his colleagues to pass a temporary funding bill. So what would that mean for your Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, or Veterans Affairs payments? In short, they will not...

(Last Updated On: September 12, 2023) NATIONAL PECAN COOKIE DAY | SEPTEMBER 21 Each year on September 21st, people across the United States celebrate National Pecan Cookie Day. #NationalPecanCookieDay This delicious cookie can be eaten and enjoyed morning, noon and night. If you’re a pecan snacker, another pecan related celebration is National Pecan Day on April 14. Pecan is an Algonquian word, meaning “a nut requiring a stone to crack.” A member of the hickory family, the pecan is native to central and southern United States. One of the best ways to enjoy the celebration is by having freshly baked...

Between late October 2022 and mid-September 2023, the administration approved a total of 221,456 Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans, and Nicaraguans for "travel mode: air" into still-unspecified interior U.S. ports...The Biden administration did not release the numbers or receiving airports for Colombians or Ukrainians...More recently, the administration added Hondurans, El Salvadorans, and Guatemalans to the direct-flight family reunification program...their numbers also remain unknown.

"In some parts of Britain the arrest rate for offensive speech has risen by 900%. The Times reported that British police are arresting up to nine people a day. Law enforcement is encouraging people to report non-crime incidents and here I was thinking that New York had a rat problem. Which is why on my tour I will attempting the death-defying stunt of performing the most offensive setlist of all time! I will be doing all of this while smoking cigarettes onstage, wearing a leather jacket with a patch on it that says OFFEND, and asking the audience of it...

In Washington DC many are afraid to leave their homes during the day because of fear of being assaulted, robbed, raped, or murdered. Murders are up by 29% since last year. Armed robberies are up by 67%. Ronald Moten who was arrested in the 1990s for selling crack, said "you used to not have to worry about crime unless you were associated with the streets, with drug dealing. Now you could just be going down the street, going to the car and you can be killed." In California, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price slammed Oakland residents who have been...

Today, it was announced that Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, former prefect of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), will not be taking part in the Synod on Synodality 'at his own request.' No other reason was given. The peculiar timing, and absence of any explanation (other than that it was Ladaria's own request), are notable. Ladaria's last day as DDF prefect was September 8. He was replaced on September 11 with Francis loyalist Tucho Fernandez, who has been instructed by Francis to stay away from sex abuse investigations (despite it being a chief duty of his office)....

India on Thursday suspended new visas for Canadians and asked Ottawa to reduce its diplomatic presence in the country, sharply escalating a spat triggered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's accusations linking New Delhi to a Sikh separatist's murder. The Indian foreign ministry said Canada has not shared any specific information in connection with the allegations Trudeau made and that New Delhi was willing to look at it if provided. A blanket suspension of new visas by India for a Western country is unheard of and marks the lowest point of India-Canada relations. The announcement came hours after Canada's high commission...

Sure looks like it. AFP is reporting that:Poland will no longer arm Ukraine to focus on its own defence, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Wednesday, a few hours after Warsaw summoned Kyiv’s ambassador amid a row over grain exports.To quote Andrei Martyanov, WOWSER! Remember the collapse of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine in the early hours of 6 June 2023, which caused extensive flooding along the lower Dnieper river? This is worse. This may explain the “Grumpy Gus” visage adorning Zelensky, his crew, as well as John Kerry and Antony Blinken yesterday at the UN General Assembly during Biden’s...