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About 7 million Americans have received the updated versions of the coronavirus vaccines, compared to the 56.5 million people who received last year’s version. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data shows that the major vaccine manufacturers, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, have gotten their updated shots out to about 2 percent of the population as of Wednesday, Reuters reported. These updated vaccinations are “single-target shots aimed at coronavirus’s XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus, which was the dominant variant in the U.S. for much of this year but has since been overtaken as the virus continues to evolve,” the outlet...

Shelby Steele was born in 1946 in Chicago to his white mother and black father. Growing up, he said, he faced many experiences of racism. “When I was a kid they would tell me get used to it, learn to use a wheelbarrow,” said Steele. In the 1960s Steele and his wife applied for an apartment and were turned down. Steele and his wife turned around and sued the landlord. Through their decision to fight, they won in court. “I knew I’d be fighting in this life and I knew it would not be for money or for certain other...

A Florida teacher who was beaten senseless by a 270 pound student has refused to support a lighter sentence for the teen. High school teacher Joan Naydich was violently attacked by Brendan Depa, then 17, in February after she told him to stop playing on his Nintendo Switch. The autistic teen was seen on video punching and kicking the educator in the back and head until she lay on the ground unconscious. Eventually the 6-foot-6 teen, now 18, was pulled away and restrained by other staff. Naydich, was taken to a local hospital and treated after the assault. Depa, reportedly...

Joe Biden’s America. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is near historic lows after Biden drained the SPR down to just 17 days of supply as war broke out in the Middle East. And Biden has no plans to refill it anytime soon.

BEIJING -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has blamed the rapidly worsening conflict in the Middle East on a lack of justice for the Palestinian people, days after the militant group Hamas carried out a deadly assault on Israeli territory. "The crux of the issue lies in the fact that justice has not been done to the Palestinian people," Beijing's top diplomat said in a phone call with Brazil's Celso Amorim, a former foreign minister and now a special adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. A statement on the call was released by Wang's ministry. The call...

RUSSIAN STANCE ON ISRAEL The Russian president has reportedly not called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the weekend, and did not release a message of support or condolences following the attacks on Saturday. UKRAINE STANCE ON ISRAEL: Zelensky, meanwhile, has repeatedly affirmed his country’s support for Israel, comparing Hamas’s attacks over the weekend to Russia’s conduct during the war. “The only difference is that there is a terrorist organization that attacked Israel, and here is a terrorist state that attacked Ukraine,” Zelensky said during a speech to NATO on Monday. He later told a French television station that he...

Paris (AFP) – The global response to the bloodshed in Israel and Gaza has revealed deep divisions, with Western countries increasingly isolated on the global stage, a trend that has gathered pace since the outbreak of the Ukraine war. On the day of Hamas' unprecedented attacks on Israel, Western countries condemned the militant group's onslaught in the strongest terms insisting "nothing justifies terrorism". While some non-Western countries such as Argentina and India have shown solidarity with Israel, many others have simply called for de-escalation including regional heavyweights Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, as well as global powers Russia and...

This date is the dolorous anniversary of the “October 13 massacre”, a bloodbath wrapping up the Lebanese Civil War when the Syrian army executed hundreds of captured Lebanese. The intractable war, which dated back to 1975 and made “Beirut” a 1980s watchword for conflict, had boiled down* to two rival governments: a Maronite military government based in East Beirut under the leadership of Michel Aoun, and the Syrian-sponsored Muslim government in West Beirut putatively headed by Selim al-Hoss. Over the course of 1989-1990 Aoun’s “war of liberation” against the occupying Syrian army all but emptied the city of Beirut. Thanks...

In Miami this evening 200 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators faced off...At least four of the Palestinian protesters arrested... Speaking tonight Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... Saudi Arabia is freezing talks with the US on normalizing relations with Israel... Russia proposing a resolution at the UN Security Council calling for a cease-fire... A New Hampshire college student who threatened Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida entering into a plea agreement... Ratings agency Moody's postponing a decision on Israel's credit... Tonight in Israel an unidentified object shot down in northern Israel... In Japan the government going to court to requesting dissolution of the Unification...

'The Court concludes dismissal is the only way this Court can instill some sense of justice back into this matter...' (Ken Silva, Headline USA) An Idaho judge dismissed on Friday the state’s case against Patriot Front leader Thomas Rousseau after prosecutors flaunted rules that required them to provide the defendant with possibly exculpatory evidence, according to the Idaho Tribune. “My client is thankful that he had a fair day in court, and was unsurprised that the court saw things the way we presented them, and he believes this is a fair outcome to an unjust situation,” Rousseau’s attorney told the...

In 2014, I attended Matthew Vines’s conference on the Bible and homosexuality. His stated goal was to “promote inclusion of LGBTQ people by reforming church teaching.” The organization he started, The Reformation Project, teaches that homosexual sex and same-sex marriage are biblically permissible, and its goal to mainstream this theology into the church is overt and clear.Fast-forward to last month, when I attended the Unconditional Conference put on by Embracing the Journey (ETJ). Hosted by nationally known pastor Andy Stanley and held at his church, which boasts a weekly attendance of nearly 40,000 people, the event sought to create a...

A woman is suing her health insurance company for $700,000 for refusing to cover her obesity treatment and claiming she owes them. Luci 'Lynette' Solorio is suing Regence Blueshield over claims it is refusing to provide her with the 'lifesaving' bariatric surgery she had in 2017. At the time she got the initial op she was covered by her insurer at the time, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Four years later, she needed to have a follow-up operation. According to a lawsuit she filed in Washington state court in June, Ms Solorio's new insurer would not cover it because...

Screengrab from a video shot as revellers realize Hamas gunmen are attacking. Girls were raped beside the corpses of their friends. In 2021, we were part of a grassroots team which rescued 400 women from Afghanistan. We have all, together and separately, worked on a range of feminist issues including rape, sex trafficking, honor killing, child marriage, and forced veiling. Together with thousands of other women, we have signed countless petitions and resolutions calling for freedom, justice, and safety for women globally. We cannot understand the feminist silence about what is happening to civilian Israelis in general and to Israeli...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

We have to warn you, Twitchy readers. This is not easy to watch. It will turn your stomach. But we are not showing this to be gratuitous. This is in the spirit of 'do not look away.' That has been a mantra across Twitter this week, as many of the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli elderly, women, and children have surfaced, many of them published by Hamas themselves, proud of what they are doing. This is no different. Hams recently published this video of their militant terrorists holding Israeli toddlers and infants hostage. There is nothing gruesome here,...

A Reuters video journalist was killed and six other journalists injured in southern Lebanon on Friday when missiles fired from the direction of Israel struck them, according to a Reuters videographer who was at the scene.The group of journalists, including from Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse, were working near Alma al-Shaab, close to the Israel border, where the Israeli military and Lebanese militia Hezbollah have been trading fire in border clashes....Reuters said in a statement that Issam Abdallah had been killed while providing a live video signal for broadcasters. The camera was pointed at a hillside when a loud explosion...

Joel Simonds, a Los Angeles-based rabbi involved in progressive causes, has always known that many of his ideological allies did not agree with him on Israel. But after this weekend’s terror attack, the worst killing of Jews since the Holocaust, Simonds said many liberal Jews feel abandoned by people they thought were friends, some of whom have expressed little sympathy for the Israelis killed while focusing instead on the plight of Palestinians. “In these last few days, the silence is deafening and it is hurtful and a betrayal on so many levels,” said Simonds, the founding director of the Jewish...

A purported video of Hamas' live streaming of the 'final moments' of Israeli hostages has emerged. A family of five with two daughters and a son can be seen sitting in horror in gunmen's captivity. The gunmen can be seen telling the man to 'talk to your country; tell them we are here'. Hindustan Times independently cannot verify the authenticity of the viral video. Hamas militants have taken dozens of Israeli hostages during a weekend assault on Israel. Hamas threatened to execute hostages if Israel didn't stop bombing Gaza civilians. Watch this video to know more.

If you are a French Muslim applying for a job, you are five times more likely to face discrimination than a non-Muslim. And if you are a Muslim woman donning a headscarf, you have a 1% chance of finding employment. Rights activist Yasser Louati cited those examples when he spoke to Anadolu about how life is for Muslims in France. Rights activist Yasser Louati cited those examples when he spoke to Anadolu about how life is for Muslims in France. “If you apply for housing, it takes you twice as long to get housing because you are identified either as...

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