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Corporations' mass firings of unvaccinated workers have been documented as becoming "more common" as Joe Biden repeatedly has mandated that they force their employees to accept the experimental COVID shots. But now those companies are discovering that perhaps Biden's leadership isn't really what they should follow. It's because they are in such staffing emergencies that they are now asking their dismissed workers, the unvaccinated, to return to rescue them.

Prince Harry, husband of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has lamented the “genetic pain” of his upbringing and compared royal life to being a zoo animal. Speaking on the ‘Armchair Experts’ podcast hosted by Dax Shepard — who described Harry as “a rad dude” — the British royal kicked off the interview by telling off comedian and mixed martial arts colour commentator Joe Rogan for recent comments questioning the value of coronavirus vaccines for healthy young people, then lurched into a brief discussion of the way online algorithms create an “echo chamber of no pushback.” He went on to suggest that...

Multiple leftist women's advocacy groups – Higher Heights, the National Women’s Law Center and UltraViolet Action– have come together to launch a petition "demanding better representation of debate moderators. While they're happy that at least one woman is moderating every debate, the groups say there's still a "representation problem." According to the organizations' heads, the moderators are not reflective of the Democratic Party's voters.

It's a boy! April the giraffe welcomed a not-so-little bundle of joy Saturday morning after animal lovers devoted weeks to watching and waiting. April is one of the most popular residents at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York. Fans have kept up with her for weeks as she anticipated the birth of her fourth calf. April is 15 years old. On Sunday, the calf and mother were spending time bonding, as the baby was learning how to stand on his four feet.

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“I didn't even think- that's what scares me the most is that I just reacted." Brent Carey is still reliving the horror of Sunday afternoon. What started as a relaxing day at the park with his girlfriend Jessica Turner and her dog Chance, ended in a battle against a ten foot gator. “I can't close my eyes without seeing that gator over Chance's head- it's awful,” Turner says. She says the full-grown gator grabbed Chance while he was in the water swimming and started dragging him away. “I could almost grab him and I thought I'm going to die right...

Hillary Rodham Clin ton's straddle-the-center strategy on Iraq is starting to backfire as the Democratic Party keeps tilting toward the anti-war left while it revs up for 2008. It showed when antiwar activists booed her the other day - and when a shock weekend poll in first presidential test Iowa found her trailing likely 2008 rival John Edwards by 30 to 26 percent. "It's the war, stupid," says a Dem strategist who's an Iowa veteran. "The anti-war activists in Iowa are the most virulent in the country." Clinton's problem is that if she loses the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, and possibly...

NEW YORK - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan said Tuesday she was hurt slightly in a scuffle that erupted when police broke up a rally as she was at the microphone. An organizer was arrested and charged with using a loudspeaker without a permit. “I was speaking and someone grabbed my backpack and pulled me back pretty roughly,” Sheehan said, describing the scene at Manhattan’s Union Square on Monday. “I was shoved around.”

8 BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS FOUND OFF GULFPORT Tue Sep 13 2005 19:59:07 ET Eight bottlenose dolphins that were washed out of their Mississippi aquarium pool during Hurricane Katrina have been found alive, huddled together in the fetid waters off Gulfport, Miss, the BOSTON GLOBE will report on Wednesday. Now, deeply worried about the dolphins' chances of survival, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials and aquarium biologists are racing to rescue the weak and wounded animals - some of which have never before ventured into the wild. "These animals found us, they came back after Katrina ... they came home," said Moby...

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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi police killed a top spiritual guide for the Saudi wing of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network during a shootout in Riyadh on Wednesday, security sources said. They named the slain militant as Abdullah al-Roshood, on a list of 26 most wanted suspects, and said his death was a hefty blow to the ideological hierarchy of al Qaeda in the world's biggest oil exporter. The Interior Ministry said a policeman was also killed in the gun battle, the first militant violence since Saudi forces killed the leader of al Qaeda in the kingdom 12 days ago....