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Coronavirus

Sesame Street Muppets Advocate for Coronavirus Vaccines After CDC Approves Use in 5-11 Age Group

By NICK GILBERTSON Fictional Sesame Street muppets have taken to social media to encourage children to get vaccinated following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the five to eleven age group. In a tweet on Saturday morning, the imaginary character Big Bird pretended it received a coronavirus […]

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When will the CDC correct its COVID death counts, as Italy just did?

By Andrea Widburg (American Thinker) The Summit caught a fascinating story out of Italy: the Italian Higher Institute of Health decided it had miscounted COVID deaths. Instead of looking at people who died with COVID, as it once did, it looked only at people who died from COVID — leading to a 97% decrease in […]

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Religious freedom group Asks How Biden Nominee , Rashad Hussain, will Protect All Faiths

(WND Staff) A religious freedom organization is asking one of Joe Biden’s appointees, Rashad Hussain, how he, as a dedicated Muslim, will protect the rights of those who are of other religions. Robert Spencer, the Islam expert who runs JihadWatch, explains Hussain is considered a “hafiz,” or someone who has memorized the entire Quran. “He […]

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Biden straining relations with Israel over plans for East Jerusalem consulate

By David Zukerman(American Thinker) President Biden’s announced intention to reopen a U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem for outreach to Palestinians looms as a significant point of contention between the administration and Israel. A look at the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963, is a logical starting point to analyze the problem. The Convention provides in […]

Friday’s retail sales report arrives as retailers are poised to enter the start of the critically important holiday shopping season in less than two weeks.
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Inflation Expected To Surge For At Least Another Year, A Key Economic Indicator Shows

Harry Wilmerding(DCNF) Inflation grew throughout October, increasing for the twelfth consecutive month in a row, according to a key economic indicator. The median consumer expectation shows inflation will grow to 5.7% in the next year, the highest level since the metric was created in June 2013, according to the New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of […]

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Explainer: Here Is Why Crowd Surges Can Kill People

(AP) — The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival added even more names to the long list of people who have been crushed at a major event. Tragedies like the one Friday night at the Astroland Music Festival have been happening for a long time. In 1979, 11 people died in a scramble to […]

Education

Why Academic Departments Should Steer Clear of Activism Against Israel

By: Richard L. Cravatts The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident last spring as Hamas showered southern Israeli town with some 4000 rockets and mortars. These woke, virtue-signaling moral narcissists, however, instead of denouncing genocidal aggression on the part of Hamas, of course took it upon themselves to condemn—in the […]

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Roads, transit, internet: What’s in the infrastructure bill

(AP) — The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that now goes to President Joe Biden to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more. The House passed the bipartisan plan Friday night and Biden said Saturday he will hold a signing ceremony when lawmakers […]

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Local Democrats warn party: Growing Republican wave is real

(AP) — The Democrats of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, felt the red wave building over the summer when frustrated parents filled school board meetings to complain about masking requirements and an academic theory on systemic racism that wasn’t even taught in local schools. They realized the wave was growing when such concerns, fueled by misleading reports […]

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