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Among a certain community of individual investors on TikTok, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading disclosures are a treasure trove. “Shouts out to Nancy Pelosi, the stock market’s biggest whale,” said user ‘ceowatchlist.’ Another said, “I’ve come to the conclusion that Nancy Pelosi is a psychic,” while adding that she is the “queen of investing.” “She knew,” declared Chris Josephs, analyzing a particular trade in Pelosi’s financial disclosures. “And you would have known if you had followed her portfolio.” Last year Josephs noticed that the trades, actually made by Pelosi’s investor husband and merely disclosed by the Speaker, were performing...

UK - Panicked motorists have caused lengthy queues at petrol stations for a second day - as an industry expert predicted the "catastrophic situation" is going to get worse before it improves. Long lines of cars continued to form at forecourts across the country on Saturday after a shortage of HGV drivers forced some fuel retailers to shut their pumps and ration sales. The petrol problems come after retailers warned a solution to the lack of truckers must be found within days to avoid "significant disruption" in the run-up to Christmas. Sky News understands that Boris Johnson has allowed minsters...

Senate Republicans are blocking Joe Biden's nominee for deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration, Dilawar Syed, over his affiliation with a group that advocates for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Republicans and conservative groups are raising concerns about Syed's board position with Emgage Action, a Muslim-American advocacy group that has described Israel as an "apartheid" state and lobbied against legislation that would penalize U.S. companies for boycotting Israel. "As a board member of Emgage Action, Dilawar Syed has embraced the hateful [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] movement and anti-Semitic rhetoric calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state," said Tom...

"The Administration strongly opposes section 716, which would detract from readiness and limit a commander's options for enforcing good order and discipline when a Service member fails to obey a lawful order to receive a vaccination," the White House argued. "To enable a uniformed force to fight with discipline, commanders must have the ability to give orders and take appropriate disciplinary measures."

The Italian government has passed a decree applying to both the private and public sector ordering companies to withhold pay from workers who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The decree mandates that all employees get the vaccine ‘green pass’, which led to questions about what would happen to the millions of Italians who remain unvaccinated. The government is attempting to avoid potential legal action by directing companies not to fire the unvaccinated, but simply to not pay them while telling employees not to show up to work under threat of being fined if they do so. “Instead, they should...

Monday deadline for health care workers to get vaccinated could prompt exodus of workers, leaders say Capital Region hospitals are scrambling to find new ways to recruit and retain staff amid a staffing shortage they say has reached crisis levels and as Monday’s deadline looms for health care workers in New York to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Area hospital leaders say the vaccine mandate is not responsible for the current staffing shortage. But they expect it will exacerbate the issue and could potentially impact care as thousands of unvaccinated health care workers statewide risk losing their jobs if they have...

El Salvador will begin administering a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine to various groups including the elderly, healthworkers, and people with underlying health conditions, President Nayib Bukele said on Friday. The Central American nation of roughly 6.4 million people has obtained some 12 million vaccines since February. Third shots would be given to people including those aged over 60, frontline health staff, teachers, the armed forces, police, and firefighters, as well as Salvadorans with pre-existing health problems, Bukele said on Twitter. "Considering the success of the third dose in Israel, we have decided to start with the third dose in...

While many on the left still use the word “insurrection,” the federal government has yet to use it once on charging documents related to the civil unrest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Instead, the federal government has charged many in leadership positions of groups like the Proud Boys with “conspiracy” and have alleged that there was a plot among these groups to breach the U.S. Capitol. FBI Director Christopher Wray previously seemed to acknowledge to Congress that his agency had not infiltrated the groups present at the Capitol protest. According to the New York Times, the FBI had...

Point Park University in Pennsylvania sent an email to its students threatening that they will face disciplinary action if they don't use their classmates’ preferred gender pronouns. “The Office of Equity and Inclusion would like to welcome in the 2021-2022 academic year with information on current policies that exist through our office and information regarding the Preferred Name Policy, instances of misgendering, pronoun misuse, and deadnaming (the use of a person’s legal ‘dead’ name instead of using the person’s chosen or preferred name), as well as resources on microaggressions and additional training,” the email reads, according to Campus Reform.The policy...

The number of new COVID-19 cases reported in Florida continues to plummet, according to Friday’s update from the state’s Department of Health.Another 54,109 people in the state tested positive for the coronavirus during the week ending Thursday, but that’s more than a 40 percent drop in new cases from the week before.Although more than 2,000 deaths were reported — pushing the toll to 53,580 — that’s also a decline in newly-recorded deaths from the prior week.Overall, about 60 percent of Sunshine State residents over age 12 are fully vaccinated, and 71 percent — in excess of13.5 million — have gotten...

Israel says that the Biden administration's decision to move forward with coronavirus booster shots vindicates its vaccine strategy. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized a third dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday for people aged 65 and older, along with others at high risk for severe disease and for those whose jobs put them at high risk of severe COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance on Thursday aligning with the FDA’s recommendation, while CDC Director Rochelle Walensky later also recommended that people at risk of infection due to their jobs should also be...

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Vice President Kamala Harris has expanded her team with new senior advisors, including the brother-in-law of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, as she faces public relations challenges over the border crisis. Harris in recent months hired Lorraine Voles and Adam Frankel, both of whom worked with her transition team, to assist with 'organizational development, strategic communications and long-term planning,' a White House official told the Washington Post. Frankel, who worked as a speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, is married to Psaki's sister Stephanie Psaki, a senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Bill Maher has slammed 'The View' host Whoopi Goldberg after she said America needs a separate black national anthem in order to 'reeducate people'. Maher had hit out at the NFL two weeks ago after Alicia Keys performed Lift Every Voice and Sing - otherwise known as the black national anthem - at a Thursday night football game. He warned that having separate anthems for different people was 'segregation' but 'under a different name'.

A young boy took his mother's advice on mask-wearing very seriously — maybe a little too seriously. When Nicole Peoples got her son's school picture day photos this year, she was shocked by the results. Her son's eyes weren't closed, he didn't have a stain on his shirt and his hair looked fine. But there was something wrong with his smile; he didn't have one. That's because it was being blocked by a mask. Peoples turned to Facebook to share the photos, explaining that her son, Mason, really took her rules on not taking his mask off to heart. Photographer:...

European coal prices have hit a 13-year high as coal supply to Europe remains constrained and utilities fire up more coal power plants amid surging natural gas prices. The price of coal for delivery next year to the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) hub has risen by 2.6 percent to $137 per metric ton, ... The prices are at their highest since 2008 as more coal is added to Europe’s electricity output these days amid record-high gas prices, and as supply and stockpiles are scrambling to meet demand. “Stock levels across Europe are low, and as on the gas market, coal supply from...

Here are the locations where you can sign the petitions or volunteer for the weekend of the 25 and 26th. Freedom Rally on Sunday starting at 1 on Beacon Hill Big Y in Westfield, locations on East Main Street and East Silver Street Market Basket in North Andover and Rowley Big Y in Milford Wegman's in Chestnut Hill Stop and Shop in Pembroke Center Star Market in Marshfield on Saturday

A Black Lives Matter leader is threatening an “uprising” over mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports in New York. New York City’s vaccine mandate began on Sept. 13. It requires proof of vaccination entry to certain public spaces, including gyms, restaurants, and bars, unless a person has an approved medical exemption. New York officials call the program the “Key to NYC Pass.” Hawk Newsome, the co-founder and chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York (BLMGNY), argues the mandates are fundamentally racist, given the low rate of vaccination in the black community. Some 85.6 percent of black people in the...

California is banning state-funded travel to Ohio over the state’s new law allowing doctors to decline medical services to people on moral or religious grounds. The Ohio measure triggered a 2016 California law that requires the attorney general to prohibit state-funded travel to states that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, according to a Friday press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

DENVER (AP) — About this time every year, southeastern Colorado towns like La Junta see more visitors looking to glimpse saucer-sized Texas brown tarantulas as they scurry out of their burrows and across fields and roads in search of a mate. The eight-legged spectacle might not last long: Scientists say climate change, theft and human development are cutting into tarantulas’ population, with fewer emerging year after year. “It’s a noticeable numbers game,” said Ryan Jones, a research associate at the Denver Museum of Nature of Science. “If you compare pictures, you can tell that there are just fewer males out...