On Thursday the Biden administration announced a new regulation on businesses. According to the new rule, businesses with more than 100 employees must require either weekly testing or vaccination by Jan. 4… under penalty of a hefty fine. Business-minded Americans have slammed the administration’s new rule. Missouri Attorney General Eric… Read More
New: Devastating fire in NYC apartment building
No injuries were reported Wednesday in a fire on the top floor at a Brooklyn building that’s home to U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke’s district office. Firefighters worked for about two hours on the blaze at 222 Lenox Road, which sent dark smoke billowing over the borough’s East Flatbush neighborhood. Doctor:… Read More
Jury selected for Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s ex-girlfriend
The weekslong process of selecting a jury for the federal sex trafficking trial of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend, a British socialite, began Thursday with a video introduction from the judge in which she called jury trials the “bedrock of American democracy.” Defendant Ghislaine Maxwell has said she is innocent of… Read More
Republican is elected city prosecutor… in Seattle?!
Dark-blue Seattle just elected a head prosecutor, 15 months after the shootings at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Voters chose between a Republican named Ann Davison and a would-be police abolisher named Nicole Thomas-Kennedy. Shockingly, Seattle voters picked Davison, the Republican. This Food Grows Cancerous Tumors – Do Not Eat… Read More
Loose monkey mesmerizes crowd in Puerto Rico’s capital
With necks craned and eyes shielded from the sun, dozens of people gathered Wednesday around a towering eucalyptus tree in the heart of Puerto Rico’s bustling capital for a most unusual sight: a rhesus macaque monkey on the loose. It was first spotted clinging to the tree’s branches Tuesday morning…. Read More
Pelosi bucks the Senate Dems on social spending
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday that she will include paid leave in the House’s version of the Build Back Better package. Previously, President Joe Biden had reluctantly cut paid leave from the bill in order to win a necessary vote from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. Sponsored: In 1944, an… Read More
Paul Newman’s unreleased memoir to come out next year
A memoir Paul Newman left unpublished in his lifetime will come out next fall. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that the book, currently untitled, will include Newman’s thoughts on “acting, directing, boyhood, family, fame, Hollywood, Broadway, love, his first marriage, his 50-year marriage to Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing,… Read More
New data: Service sector expands at record pace in October
The rate of expansion in the U.S. services sector, where most Americans work, hit a record high in October as demand remained strong even as supply chain problems persisted. The Institute for Supply Management reported Wednesday that its monthly survey of service industries — which includes restaurants and bars, trucking… Read More
Ohio governor cancels events after exposure to COVID
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his wife, Fran DeWine, are cancelling in-person events after the couple were exposed to two staff members who recently tested positive for COVID-19, the governor’s office said Wednesday. Both the governor and his wife are vaccinated and received their booster shots, have tested negative for… Read More
Kids aged 5-12 now eligible for vaccination
Vaccinations finally are available to U.S. children as young as 5, to the relief of some parents even as others have questions or fears. Late Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the final OK for youngsters age 5 to 11 to get kid-size doses of the vaccine… Read More
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