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Seattle's police department is preparing to fire up to 400 officers who have not yet had their Covid shot in line with the city's strict vaccine mandate—despite already suffering staff shortages, rising crime rates and high 911 response times. The Seattle Police Department has an October 18 deadline for all sworn personnel to turn in proof of COVID-19 vaccinations or risk losing their jobs.
As of Friday, 292 officers have yet to turn in proof of vaccination—or 27 percent of the department's 1,080 deployable police officers.
Another 111 officers—ten percent of the deployable officers—are waiting on exemption requests to be approved. If all 403 officers are let go
New York Post,
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Isabel Vincent
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A federal COVID loan to the art gallery repping Hunter Biden more than doubled after his father took office, records show. The Georges Berges Gallery initially received a $150,000 COVID “disaster assistance loan” from the Small Business Administration last year, according to public records. But the loan was recently “revised,” with the SBA approving a further $350,000 to the SoHo gallery this summer, records show. The approval came on July 26, in the lead-up to Berges’ exclusive marketing of 15 paintings by the president’s scandal-scarred son, public records show. In addition to the COVID disaster assistance loans, the SoHo gallery received nearly $80,000 in two payments
Washington Times,
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Alex Swoyer
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A federal judge denied a request to block an employer’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on the basis of natural immunity on Friday.
Jeanna Norris, who works at Michigan State University, challenged the school’s vaccine requirement on the basis that she had COVID-19 and recovered. After having two antibody tests showing her immunity, her doctor instructed her not to get the vaccine at this time.
Yet, she faces termination for not complying with Michigan State University’s requirement that all staff and students get vaccinated by Aug. 31 unless they have a religious or medical exemption. She asked a court to intervene and block the school’s mandate,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Stephen M. Lepore
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Suspected members of a Mexican cartel were caught on video firing multiple rounds of bullets across the border into Texas on Thursday. The footage was captured by a reporter amid reports that Texas National Guard members in Starr County have seen cartel gunfights increase near the border recently.(Snip)'In the later night hours, we started seeing a constant stream of these rafts and these human smugglers, and they were bringing across hundreds of family units,' he said. 'You'll see the smugglers—they weren't afraid.(Snip)National Guard soldiers say they have been unable to arrest the human smugglers when they reach the shoreline for fear of retaliation.
Reuters & Daily Mail [UK],
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Border czar Kamala Harris skipped a high-level meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Friday to discuss the migrant crisis at the US's southern border—to visit a daycare center in New Jersey instead. The vice president, who was put in charge of tackling the border crisis by Joe Biden back in March, delegated the thorny meeting in Mexico's capital to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.(Snip) Instead, Harris spent the day in New Jersey where she played bingo with kids at a daycare center, stopped by a vaccination site and even had time to sample some cake at a Newark bakery.
New York Post,
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Melissa Klein
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The staffing shortage caused by the thousands of unvaccinated teachers and staffers who were out of a job Monday wreaked havoc at some city schools, where students skipped mandated services or were taught by inexperienced teachers. At PS 204 in Bensonhurst and PS 185 in Bay Ridge, there were no speech specialists. At IS 61 in Corona, students who needed occupational therapy did not get it.(Snip)Mom Jessica Waverka tweeted about “the panic of my special needs child this morning when his para, with no warning, is absent. When no one knows his routine. Alone. Scared. Sounds dramatic? Nope.” The quality of education was “completely down,” said Erika Newsome,
Washington Times,
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Sean Salai
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More Americans have died from COVID-19 during President Biden‘s first nine months in office than during the first nine months of the pandemic under Donald Trump’s presidency, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Despite widely available vaccines and Mr. Biden‘s pledge to handle the coronavirus better than his predecessor after taking office Jan. 20, Johns Hopkins’ Coronavirus Research Center reported that, as of Wednesday afternoon, 353,000 Americans had died this year. That surpassed the 352,000 who died from March 2020, when the pandemic started, to December, when the Food and Drug Administration first gave emergency authorization for vaccines.
In a congressional briefing Wednesday,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Shannon Thaler
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President Joe Biden showed he can handle an old-timey toy with aplomb as he played with a yo-yo while giving children of his military aides a tour of Marine One at the White House on Friday afternoon.(Snip)The president, donning a navy blue suit, held hands with a young boy and girl as he crossed the lawn towards the helicopter. He didn't seem to show the youngsters any yo-yo favorites, such as walking the dog and around the world. He did help the little girl, who wore a blue-striped dress and matching bow in her hair, up the steps and onto the helicopter.
WWMT-TV [Kalamazoo, MI],
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Andrew Feather
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Portage, Mich.—Employees at Pfizer’s U.S. based facilities could soon lose their jobs if they aren’t fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and some hourly employees will soon see changes to their pay structure. According to an internal memo obtained by News Channel 3, all U.S.-based employees and contractors must be fully vaccinated against the virus by November 15 unless they have a religious or medical exemption.(Snip)Under previous policy unvaccinated employees had to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing.
A Pfizer spokesperson said an overwhelming majority of staff members have already been vaccinated, adding the November 15 deadline doesn’t mean there will be mass firings that day.
New York Post,
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Craig McCarthy
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A detective who racked up more than $15,000 in unpaid tolls and fees was busted for driving his unregistered vehicle in Brooklyn—and tried to get out of trouble by flashing his NYPD badge, sources said. Det. Yosef Aisaa was stopped in his Land Rover by Bridge and Tunnel officers just before 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday after he crossed the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge where cops spotted the unregistered vehicle, according to an MTA spokesman. The New York State DMV had stripped the cop of his registration for “persistent toll violations” that totaled $1,348.27 in unpaid tolls and $14,100 in fees, the spokesman said.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Rachel Sharp
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North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson is facing calls to resign after he was caught on video calling gay and transgender people 'filth'. Footage, first posted online by advocacy group Right Wing Watch on Wednesday, shows Robinson addressing the congregation at the Asbury Baptist Church in Seagrove back in June. The Republican, who would take over if the state's Democratic Governor Roy Cooper stood down or was impeached, is seen raging that children should not learn about such 'filth' in public schools and using a derogatory phrase for transgender people. 'I'm saying this now, and I've been saying it, and I don't care who likes it:
Daily Mail (UK),
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Dave Boyer
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the nation’s first Native American Cabinet official, tearfully described the White House grounds Friday as “the ancestral homelands” of two Native American tribes. During an event with President Biden on the North Lawn of the White House, Ms. Haaland became choked up as she praised the president’s action to restore territory of two sprawling western national monuments that had been reduced in size by then-President Trump. “We are here today on the ancestral homelands of the Anacostan and Piscataway people, bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice,” Ms. Haaland said. She thanked Mr. Biden “for the profound action you’re taking today to permanently
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The US government sees the American people as the enemy. What's wrong with this picture?