Daily Mail (UK),
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Mary Kekatos
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Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine to include kids between ages five and 11.
When the vaccine was originally authorized for use by the FDA in December 2020, it was only for those aged 16 and older, before being expanded to those aged 12 and older in May. The FDA is planning to move quickly and has a meeting tentatively scheduled to discuss the matter on October 26. Officials are expected to make a decision—which would make 28 million kids eligible—between Halloween and Thanksgiving.
New York Post,
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Lisa Fickenscher
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Over the past couple of months, Allison, a wife and mother of a toddler and teenager in Chicago, says she’s been spending about $50 more each week on groceries to feed her family—and that’s at a discount supermarket chain, Aldi’s. “I used to spend $70 a week, but all of sudden this summer, I noticed that I couldn’t leave the store without spending at least $120,” said Allison, who works in education.(Snip)For households earning the US median annual income of about $70,000, the current inflation rate has forced them to spend another $175 a month on food, fuel and housing, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist
Daily Mail (UK),
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Mansur Shaheen
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Officials in Sweden and Denmark have paused use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in younger age groups due to concerns about the shots causing rare heart inflammation. The two Nordic nations—separated by only a dozen miles of the Kattegat sea area—announced the decision on Wednesday. In Sweden, the Moderna jab will no longer be available to any one born after 1990, or those aged 30 and younger. Denmark has restricted access to the vaccine to anyone under the age of 18. Myocarditis and pericarditis, both types of inflammation of the heart, are known as side effects of the Covid vaccines, and the Centers for Disease Control
Washington Times,
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Sean Salai
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A new survey shows that U.S. adults, especially millennials, increasingly endorse Marxist views such as the rejection of private property and traditional morality, even though they don’t adopt Marxism as a label. The Cultural Research Center (CRC) at Arizona Christian University, which published the results last week, found in a representative poll of 2,000 U.S. adults that one-third or more endorsed a dozen elements of Marxist theory on issues ranging from racism to God. Pollster George Barna, CRC founder and research director, said the results indicate that 10% of Americans have internalized Marxist ideology and now draw from it in their daily decisions,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Natasha Anderson
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The U.S. government is using 'keyword warrants' to uncover the identity of anyone who searches Google and other search engines for certain search terms that may be related to a crime, according to a new report. The controversial practice, which is already drawing civil liberties concerns about sweeping government overreach, was revealed on Tuesday in 'accidentally unsealed' court documents obtained by Forbes. Keyword warrants—which have been secretly employed for at least several years—are drawing backlash as many argue they violate an individual's constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure. 'Trawling through Google's search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking
Washington Times,
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Ben Wolfgang
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The Defense Department this week officially launched its new and expanded “continuous vetting” program for all troops, civilian employees and defense contractors, replacing the traditional system of periodic background checks with more in-depth monitoring that relies heavily on technology to flag suspicious behavior.
Pentagon officials said at a news conference Tuesday that they’ll also consider eventually monitoring social media activity for all 3.6 million people directly employed by the Defense Department or working as contractors. For now, however, the automated system will search for illegal or other suspicious activity within the military workforce and flag it for review. The revamped vetting system could ultimately give more fuel to critics
CNN,
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Jacqueline Howard
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The United States has just recorded its highest increase in rates of homicide in modern history, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provisional data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, released early Wednesday, suggest the homicide rate for the United States rose 30% between 2019 and 2020. It is the highest increase recorded in modern history—and confirms through public health data a rise in homicides that so far had been identified only through crime statistics.(Snip)"It is the largest increase in 100 years," Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at NCHS, said.
"The only larger increase since we've been recording
Washington Times,
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Seth Mclaughlin
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Vice President Kamala Harris has been mostly missing in action during the spending talks on Capitol Hill—renewing questions over her role in the Biden White House and her overall effectiveness as the commander-in-chief’s sidekick. There was just one event on Ms. Harris’ public calendar on Tuesday—a virtual event with the Democratic National Committee in which she tried to ramp up enthusiasm for next year’s midterm elections. “We all know what’s at stake,” Ms. Harris said, describing new election and abortion legislation in Texas as “anti-voter laws” and “anti-woman laws.”(Snip)On Monday, Ms. Harris visited a Cuban cafe in Washington, and over the weekend
Daily Mail (UK),
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Charlotte Mitchell
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US and Chinese scientists were planning to create a new coronavirus before the pandemic erupted, leaked proposals show. Last month, a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) revealed that an international team of scientists had planned to mix genetic data of similar strains to create a new virus. The grant application was made in 2018 and leaked to Drastic, the pandemic origins analysis group.(Snip)This would result in a virus which had no clear ancestor in nature, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert told The Telegraph. The expert, who asked the paper not to publish their name, said that, if such a method
Washington Times,
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Valerie Richardson
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10/5/2021 10:43:46 PM
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The Democratic embrace of vaccine mandates is running into resistance from some prominent Black athletes and activists, an unforeseen political side effect with implications for the party’s grip on a crucial voting bloc ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
A bevy of NBA stars has spoken out against the COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Golden State Warriors veteran Draymond Green defended vaccine-hesitant teammate Andrew Wiggins by arguing that mandating the shot “goes against everything that America stands for.” “I think you have to honor people’s feelings and their own personal beliefs, and I think that’s been lost when it comes to vaccinated and unvaccinated,” Mr. Green said Friday
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Seattle—Washington state health authorities say a woman in her late 30s has died from a rare blood-clotting syndrome after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Public Health Seattle & King County said Tuesday the woman was the fourth person in the United States to die due to blood clotting issues following the J&J vaccine. Three deaths were reported before federal authorities temporarily halted J&J vaccinations in April. A spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the agency is aware of, and is looking into, additional reported clot deaths since then, including the one in Washington state. The King County woman received her shot
Washington Times,
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Haris Alic
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George Soros, a left-wing Hungarian billionaire, is bankrolling groups exerting pressure and intimidation campaigns against the two moderate Democratic senators standing in the way of President Biden‘s $3.5 trillion expansion of the federal safety net.
Mr. Soros, a political megadonor who has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to progressive causes and candidates, is the lead financial backer of several advocacy groups that have harassed Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona in recent days. One of the groups, Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), came under fire this weekend for accosting Ms. Sinema while she was teaching a class
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Well, sure, but there are tens of billions of dollars of profits to be made from shots that do not work as advertised, and whose overblown effectiveness wanes dramatically after a few months. Cue the shill; at least she didn't die of the Covid!