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James Varney
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A Northern Virginia public library removed a holiday-themed display this week that featured the Bible alongside two sexually-explicit books at the center of a furious debate between area school officials and parents who see the material as inappropriate for children. The glass-enclosed display at McLean’s Dolley Madison Public Library included a copy of the Bible as well as copies of “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison and “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe—two books available to students in the Fairfax County Public Schools that have created a furor with their graphic depictions of fellatio and other sexual acts among children, including an image that shows a man
Daily Mail (UK),
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Jack Maidment
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Harry Howard
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Boris Johnson today hinted coronavirus jabs could eventually be made compulsory or Covid passes could be rolled out in wider society if a 'substantial proportion of the population' remains unvaccinated.
The Prime Minister announced the Government is now triggering its Plan B to reimpose work from home guidance, make masks compulsory in more indoor settings and require people to show a Covid pass to go to nightclubs.(Snip)But Mr Johnson said a 'national conversation' is likely to be needed in the future on how the nation will live with the virus. He said he does not believe the Government can 'keep going indefinitely with non-pharmaceutical interventions'
New York Daily News,
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Jami Ganz
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Hundreds of Los Angeles school board employees have been fired for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 despite a district mandate. The school board for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest in the country, voted Tuesday 7-0 in separate motions to axe 496 employees who are largely believed to have been on leave since mid-October, the Los Angeles Daily News reports.(Snip)Those fired Tuesday are among about 1,100 employees who have not complied with the mandate or have not been granted medical or religious exemption, with more dismissals and settlements anticipated in coming weeks, said Board Vice President Nick Melvoin
New York Post,
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Reuven Fenton
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Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
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The husband of a 50-year-old city woman sucker-punched by a deranged homeless man called it an outrage Tuesday that the suspect is still free despite even more than a dozen prior busts. “When does it stop?” the spouse said, asking that he and his wife, who was punched on the Upper West Side, not be identified. “You keep giving him more tries so that he finally kills someone, and then you lock him behind bars?(Snip)Darrell Johnson, a 23-year-old vagrant, was already free without bail on an earlier assault case when police said he slugged two women, including the 50-year-old victim, in unprovoked, random
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
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Rebecca Solomon
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New York—Despite the cold weather, many restaurateurs around the five boroughs are gearing up for a busy season of dining al fresco.
On the Upper East Side Tuesday afternoon, John Hayes was putting the finishing touches on his outdoor beer garden at Doc Watson’s.
“Everywhere is heated, ventilated. We’ve done as much as we can really,” Hayes said. Improving his outdoor spaces has set Hayes back around $100,000, but he said it’s a price he’s willing to pay to keep customers content.(Snip)Although diners are allowed to eat indoors with a proof of vaccination, the outdoors could become a popular alternative because ventilation may be better.
New York Post,
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Ben Cost
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They were trying to embellish their lovely lady humps. More than 40 camels were booted from a Saudi Arabian beauty pageant after getting administered Botox, hormones and other appearance enhancing techniques. This marks the biggest crackdown in the contest’s history. “The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels,” the Saudi Press Agency said of the dromedary disqualification which occurred at the annual Abdulaziz Camel Festival, near Riyadh, where breeders compete for some nearly $66 million in prize money, the Washington Post reported. The camels themselves are judged on the shape of their heads, necks, humps, dress and postures
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
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Rachael Bunyan
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Tourists were sent scrambling for cover after gunmen arrived on jet skis at a beach in Mexico's Caribbean coast resort in Cancun and opened fire. The attackers pulled up to the beach on jet skis and began shooting in Cancun's hotel zone on Tuesday, Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez, the chief of police of the coastal state of Quintana Roo, said. Three jet skis have been found and seized, and nobody appeared to be injured in the attack, police said. A family from Utah said they ran for cover during the shooting, which they say involved the gunmen firing about '20 shots' near the beach.(Snip)Mexican marines with bulletproof vests, helmets
Reuters,
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Guy Faulconbridge
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Kylie Maclellan
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London—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized on Wednesday after a video surfaced showing his staff laughing and joking about a party in Downing Street during a Christmas COVID-19 lockdown last year when such festivities were banned. For more than a week, Johnson and his team have repeated that no rules were broken in late 2020 after the Mirror newspaper reported there had been several parties including a wine-fueled gathering of 40 to 50 people to mark Christmas.(Snip)Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer accused Johnson of "taking the public for fools," while Ian Blackford of the Scottish National Party called for Johnson to resign.
The Hill,
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Olafimihan Oshin
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The Charlottesville, Va. city council on Tuesday unanimously approved a move for its now-infamous statue of Confederate leader Robert E. Lee to be melted down to create public artwork that will "reflect racial justice," The New York Times reported. The city council will give the statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the monument to create a new piece of public artwork, according to the measure. The city council selected the Jefferson School’s proposal “Swords Into Plowshares,” from other potential bidders for the statue, according to The Times. According to its Indiegogo campaign page, the Jefferson School plans to “transform a national symbol
Washington Times,
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Haris Alic
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Another moderate Senate Democrat plans to back a Republican-led effort to overturn President Biden’s national vaccine mandate for private businesses in a direct rebuke of the White House. Sen. Jon Tester, Montana Democrat, announced Tuesday that while he supported everyone getting “vaccinated as soon as possible,” the private sector mandate was a step too far. “Over the past few months, I’ve repeatedly heard concerns from Montana’s small business and community leaders about the negative effect the private business vaccine mandate will have on their bottom lines and our state’s economy,” Mr. Tester said. “That’s why I intend to join a bipartisan majority of my colleagues in defending Montana jobs
New York Daily News,
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Emma Seiwell
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Larry McShane
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The Manhattan nurse battered with a bike by a hate-fueled Manhattan madman remains terrified by his look of pure delight and the threat of his return. Atsuko Obando, an Asian woman and frontline worker during the pandemic, was targeted for her ethnicity by oft-arrested Raymond Bennett as they randomly crossed paths in the 116th St. subway station on Nov. 27, police said. He allegedly hurled a racist taunt after slamming her from behind with the handlebars of a bicycle. “I clearly saw that he was enjoying it,” the still-shaken 54-year-old victim told the Daily News. “I kept saying ‘You hurt me, it really hurts.’ Then he smiled
Daily Mail (UK),
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Mansur Shaheen
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The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine could be significantly less effective against the newly discovered Omicron variant that it was against previous strains of the virus. Researchers at the African Health Research Institute (AHRI) found that there are forty times less antibodies in Pfizer vaccine recipients that can fight Omicron than there are for other variants. The pre-print study, made available Tuesday pending peer-review, implies that the vaccine could be less effective against the strain detected last month in South Africa. Conclusions from it cannot yet be drawn, though, and researchers are not yet sure how much more likely the Omicron variant is to cause infection
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"Despite being fully vaccinated." All cases were mild, precisely the same as in people who did not alter their immune systems with the profitable shot, and yet the US government says we need boosters now.