Daily Mail (UK),
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Andrea Blanco
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Multi-millionaire Wall Street executives have begged the world's biggest bank to cancel its in-person conference in lawless San Francisco next year because they fear for their safety with the city's out-of-control smash-and-grab crime. A number of unidentified high-ranking financiers have complained about having to make the trip to attend JPMorgan's 40th Annual Healthcare Conference in the crime-ridden Bay Area in January. 'I'm scared, the amount of lawlessness now is astounding,' one senior Wall Street executive told the New York Post. 'Violence is a huge topic of discussion at our bank.'(Snip)However, there are no signs that JPMorgan will relent
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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There are many unknowns about the omicron variant of the coronavirus, including whether it spreads faster than other strains or is more deadly. But here’s another puzzler: How to pronounce it.
World Health Organization officials give Greek names to new variants of concern, like alpha and delta. Those were pretty straightforward, but omicron appears to be tripping people up. President Biden repeatedly referred to it as “omni-cron” during remarks Tuesday, a flub that Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health appeared to repeat from the podium. On Wednesday, Dr. Fauci pronounced it as “ah-mi-cron,” with a short O sound at the start,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Dan Sales
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Police are investigating a disturbing video of a gang of yobs hurling abuse and spitting at a bus of Jewish teenagers celebrating Hanukkah. The attack happened on London's flagship shopping strip Oxford Street on Monday night. In the video of the incident on Facebook, none of the yobs' insults can be heard because they are outside of the bus. But on board the vehicle, the terrified occupants can be clearly picked up saying ' We are all Jewish'.
Cllr Rachael Robathan, leader of Westminster City Council, this afternoon condemned the social media scenes.(Snip)Mayor of London Sadiq Khan also said the action of the yobs were completely unacceptable.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Mary Kekatos
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is ordering all airlines to turn over the names of passengers who arrived in the U.S. from eight countries that are facing travel restrictions
The directive, first reported on Wednesday by Reuters, has been issued in an effort to quickly identify and stop the spread of the Omicron variant. The countries include Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. On November 8, the CDC required all airlines to collect contact tracing information from international travelers, but had not required those details to be turned over. According to the directive, which took effect on Tuesday evening, airlines have 24 hours
New York Post,
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Georgett Roberts
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Julia Marsh
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11/30/2021 10:31:12 PM
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With just four weeks left in office, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched the country’s first legal shooting galleries Tuesday morning, calling them safe havens for addicts—shortly before five people overdosed at just one of the clinics on opening day. “Overdose Prevention Centers are a safe and effective way to address the opioid crisis. I’m proud to show cities in this country that after decades of failure, a smarter approach is possible,” de Blasio said in a statement. The nonprofit-run centers, New York Harm Reduction Educators on E. 126th Street in Harlem and Washington Heights’ CORNER Project on W. 180th Street, opened Tuesday. There were five overdoses
Daily Mail (UK),
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Keith Griffith
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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's new book touting himself as the potential savior of the Republican Party has sold just over 2,000 copies in the week since it was published. In its first week available in stores, Christie's tome titled Republican Rescue has sold just 2,289 copies, according to BookScan data cited by the publishing newsletter Press Run. Press Run author Eric Boehlert called the sales figures a 'a colossal publishing flop' and 'debacle' for Christie, comparing the dismal sales to the same-week sales of 24,000 for Jonathan Karl's new political book, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show. The meager book sales come despite persistent promotion
Guardian [U.K.],
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Philip Oltermann
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Germany’s chancellor-to-be, Olaf Scholz, supports making vaccination against Covid-19 mandatory, German media have reported, as neighbouring Austria is debating how to enforce obligatory jabs from February. Scholz, a Social Democrat, who is expected to be sworn in as Angela Merkel’s successor in the coming week, reportedly told a meeting of regional leaders he was in favour of a cross-party initiative to make vaccines mandatory, as well as requiring customers at non-essential stores to show proof of vaccination or recovery from the virus. “As a delegate I would certainly vote in favour, to make that very clear,” Der Spiegel reported Scholz as saying.
New York Post,
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Evan Rusnak
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A doctor in Germany is under investigation for allegedly doling out homemade COVID-19 “vaccines” to about 20,000 people. Millionaire Dr. Winfried Stöcker said he didn’t submit his self-concocted shot for approval to German authorities because that “would take too long and cost millions,” according to the Irish Times. He is accused of running the unauthorized vaccination center, which is located in an airport he owns in the city of Lübeck. Authorities raided it Sunday, the Times said. “We have a responsibility to the patients, not the state,” Stöcker told the German outlet Bild. “But the police stopped everything.”(Snip)He says the three-dose jab is 97 percent
New York Daily News,
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Rocco Parascandola*
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A trio of teen girls on an anti-Semitic hate crime spree in Brooklyn smacked around two small boys and a teenager, police said Tuesday.
The hateful teens targeted strangers wearing traditional Orthodox clothing in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said. They first struck about 6 p.m. Friday when they confronted a 12-year-old boy walking his 3-year-old brother home on Skillman St. near DeKalb Ave. One of the teens slapped the younger brother in the face before the trio ran off. About 5:35 p.m. the next day, they attacked an 18-year-old woman and her 7-year-old sister walking to a store, police said.
New York Post,
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Steven Nelson
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So much for “Minnesota nice.” President Joe Biden received an ugly welcome in the Land of 10,000 Lakes Tuesday when his motorcade passed dozens of protesters who held vulgar signs dissing the commander-in-chief. Some of the demonstrators waved campaign flags for former President Donald Trump. One sign said “FJB” in an apparent abbreviation of “F–k Joe Biden.” “A less coded version just outright said ‘F–k you Biden’ with the U in the F word cleverly drawn to look like a middle finger,” reported White House pool correspondent Todd Gillman of the Dallas Morning News. “A real middle finger attached to a somewhat rough looking middle age man
Washington Times,
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Mark A. Kellner
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The Salvation Army said Monday it has withdrawn a discussion guide on racism that was intended for its church members but that an advocacy group claimed was given to donors as a call to “repent” for being White. “If that document is getting in the way of the fulfillment of our mission, The Salvation Army is going to remove it,” Commissioner Kenneth Hodder, the group’s U.S. national commander, told The Washington Times. “Because nothing can be allowed to affect the fulfillment of that critical mission.”
The church group has been flooded by email complaints about repentance requests over its guide “Let’s Talk About Racism,” one critic said.
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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The chief executive of Moderna, a key COVID-19 vaccine maker, predicted a “material drop” in the shots’ efficacy against the omicron variant, spooking investors in early Tuesday trading amid new fears about the trajectory of the pandemic. CEO Stephane Bancel, speaking to The Financial Times, said there is “no world” in which the vaccines are as effective against the variant newly discovered in South Africa as the delta variant that is dominant now. “I think it’s going to be a material drop. I just don’t know how much because we need to wait for the data. But all the scientists I’ve talked to … are like, ‘This is not
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Fair play, as Dirtbag Lunchbucket Joe used to swim naked while being guarded by female secret service agents. Maybe the Scotsman thought Mayor Pete was along for the ride?