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COVID puts a damper on Christmas Eve again around the world

(AP) From Bethlehem and Frankfurt to London and Boston, the surging coronavirus put a damper on Christmas Eve for a second year, forcing churches to cancel or scale back services and disrupting travel plans and family gatherings. Drummers and bagpipers marched through Bethlehem — the town where Christians believe Jesus was born — to smaller […]

Education

School censors ‘Jingle Bells’ because it could be ‘offensive’

Bob Unruh(WND NEWS CENTER) It is the Rochester Beacon that is explaining at this holiday season how “Jingle Bells” is a very popular Christmas season tune. “It’s the first song to have been broadcast from space—by Gemini 6 astronauts nine days before Christmas in 1965. It’s regularly been sung at the White House—most recently by […]

International News News

Bustling bars, surging business: Dubai sees a post-vax boom

(AP) — Nations around the world are lurching into lockdown, steeling themselves for a brutal surge as the omicron variant spreads like wildfire. But in Dubai, Donna Sese is bracing for a very different surge: countless restaurant bookings and meter-long drink bills. “We’re back and busy like the way things used to be,” said Sese, […]

TJV Daily Dish

WV Gov. Justice on Bette Midler Attacking West Virginians: ‘Shame on Her’ — ‘Not Tolerable’

By Trent Baker Wednesday on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime,” West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) responded to singer and actress Bette Midler for going after the people of West Virginia because Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) rejected President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. Midler described West Virginians as “poor, illiterate and strung out.” After praising […]

TJV Daily Dish

Billie Eilish Says Pornography Destroyed Her Brain

Bob Unruh(WND NEWS CENTER) A popular pop singer about to turn 20 says pornography “destroyed” her brain. The BBC reports it was on a SiriusXM interview that singer Billie Eilish addressed the issue, explaining she now is “devastated” to reflect on her exposure, which she said started at age 11. The Grammy Award-winner said her […]

Coronavirus

Data show triple-vaxxed more likely to get omicron than vaxxed

WND News Services Early data on omicron published by the United Kingdom show at the very least that people who have received three COVID-19 vaccine shots are as likely to contract the new variant as people who are unvaccinated. The Office for National Statistics Infection Survey data, regarded as preliminary, indicated the triple-vaccinated are 4.5 […]

Local New York News

Omicron Variant Has its Own Holiday Plans for NYC

By: Benyamin Davidsons New York City has plans for the holidays– but so does Omicron. The much anticipated holiday season is upon us–but so are mask mandates for businesses, travel warnings, and pleas to get a booster shot. As per the NY Post, the five boroughs of New York City have been experiencing a surging […]

International News News

NHL Withdraws From Beijing Olympics, Will Not Send Any Athletes

Harry Wilmerding (DCNF) The National Hockey League (NHL) announced Wednesday that it will not allow its players to participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after surging COVID-19 cases rip through the league. “The National Hockey League respects and admires the desire of NHL players to represent their countries and participate in a ‘best on […]

Local New York News

A Second Look at the Headlines: Adams’ Bureaucratic Disruptor Commissioners; Adams Makes Lemonade Out of Losing Speakers Race; 2022 Crime Fighting in NYC

By Gary Tilzer The NY Times wrote the mayor-elect wants his top officials to be emotionally intelligent, characterizing it as Mayor-Elect Adams “No. 1 criteria, when he picks his commissioners.” What the Times misses about Adams’ picks to lead the city, is that he has taken on the NYPD bureaucracy and beaten it. As a […]

Coronavirus

Bill Gates’ Ominous Omicron Warnings on Twitter

Bill Gates has just issued a few tweets changing his projections for how long the pandemic might actually last. Zero Hedge reported: According to Gates, just when the world was finally feeling that life might soon return to normal, the surge in new cases over the past month (which has been partly driven by the […]

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