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The rescue of Parwana: 9-year-old sold into child marriage in Afghanistan is taken to safety 

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The rescue of Parwana: 9-year-old sold into child marriage in Afghanistan is taken to safety 

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Parwana sold into child marriage was abused and escaped servitude. Afghanistans poorest people are underpressure and has caused many to starve and go in hunger. Said by Parwana, "He said that he didn't have any option","My father has sold me because we don't have bread, rice and flour," Parwana told CNN at the time. "He has sold me to an old man." Due to the extreme poverty many others like Parwana is sold in order to have substantial needs such as food. Violence and even murder takes place in selling themselves for their families needs and, "She said that they beat her, and she didn't want to stay there," Reza Gul said." Non-profit organizations are established to support those who are not able afford food therefore preventing any further marriages.

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Driving through a snow-capped mountain pass, the young mother huddles together with her six children in the backseat of a car after leaving their makeshift camp in northwestern Afghanistan.

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Gov. Kay Ivey warns Biden, OSHA vaccine mandate could create 'economic damage' in Alabama 

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Gov. Kay Ivey warns Biden, OSHA vaccine mandate could create 'economic damage' in Alabama 

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If Alabama were to adopt the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) as the "final standard or rule" it is said by Gov. Kay Ivey that there would be major 'economic damage' due to Alabama's low vaccination rates in the workforce. Alabama is overall a conservative state, "Given all the efforts to educate and persuade Alabamians of the vaccine's safety and effectiveness, I can only conclude that many Alabamians have profound – and sincere – medical, religious, or other reasons not to take it," Ivey wrote." If they're not open enough to get at least one dose of the vaccination that is upon them. Across the U.S states many workforces have gotten at least one dose in prevention of COVID-19. The economic damage is upon them to choose.

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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has penned a letter to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, warning that President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees will have a negative impact on the Yellowhammer State's economy.

In the letter, which was sent to Assistant Secretary of Labor Douglas Parker on Friday, Ivey urged OSHA to not adopt its COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) as a "final standard or rule" as she claims the ETS is "misguided" and that any standard based off of it would be a "mistake."
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While voicing her opposition to the vaccine mandate, which is facing numerous court battles, Ivey urged OSHA to discontinue the mandate "sooner, rather than later" as it increases "vaccine skepticism in Alabama" and continues to "disrupt the State's economy."

She also stated she believes a final standard based on the ETS could be "harmful to businesses in Alabama" as "significant percentages of Alabama's workforce have not received at least one dose" of the vaccine.

"Given all the efforts to educate and persuade Alabamians of the vaccine's safety and effectiveness, I can only conclude that many Alabamians have profound - and sincere - medical, religious, or other reasons not to take it," Ivey wrote. "I believe that enforcement of the ETS may lead many Alabamians to quit their jobs and leave the workforce - in the middle of a substantial labor shortage, no less - or to seek work at businesses not covered by the mandate."

Ivey continued, saying that "disruption would interrupt people's careers and threaten their livelihoods and the well-being of their families" and could "damage the productivity and bottom lines of businesses statewide."

"If a federal court strikes down the ETS, well and good," Ivey wrote. "If not, I ask that OSHA not continue its provisions under a final standard. The economic damage likely would be great. Ending the provisions sooner rather than later could lessen the damage likely to be caused by them."

Ivey has maintained that she believes COVID-19 vaccines should not be forced on Americans by the federal government. Last May, she signed into law legislation which bans the use of vaccine passports in the state, saying then that she is "supportive of a voluntary vaccine."

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"Alabama is standing strong in our fight against the overreaching, un-American Biden vaccine mandates," Ivey said in a statement Friday. "President Trump said it well in an interview yesterday morning. The Biden Administration is driving distrust and anxieties about this vaccine."

Ivey also stated that Americans "should never have to choose between getting this shot and putting food on the tables for their families" and vowed to continue "fighting these mandates every step of the way."

In October, Ivey signed Executive Order 724 which prevents any agency, department, board, commission, or other state entity from imposing penalties on businesses that are not in compliance with the federal vaccine mandate.

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Gov. Kay Ivey warns Biden, OSHA vaccine mandate could create 'economic damage' in Alabama

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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has penned a letter to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, warning that President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees will have a negative impact on the Yellowhammer State's economy.

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GoFundMe removes page supporting Army sergeant who shot and killed armed Black Lives Matter protester

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GoFundMe removes page supporting Army sergeant who shot and killed armed Black Lives Matter protester

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Army sergeant who shot and killed a protester in the BLM movement with a AK-47, made a gofundme in raising money for the expenses of trials. It is said that his attorney made it because, "It’s an expensive trial to undertake with the need for expert witnesses and stuff and we had a GoFundMe site that’s been taken down and it’s been weighing on him," and has caused the family to take a toll economically. Gofundme is seen to be more on the liberal biased side and has taken bias which implies why they have taken down his gofundme.

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A United States Army sergeant facing a murder charge after shooting a Black Lives Matter protester who approached his vehicle with an AK-47 had his GoFundMe page removed from the site by the company.

Perry's attorneys confirmed to Fox News Digital that the GoFundMe page for their client, Army. Sgt. Daniel Perry, has been removed.
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"It's an expensive trial to undertake with the need for expert witnesses and stuff and we had a GoFundMe site that's been taken down and it's been weighing on him," Perry Attorney Clint Broden told Fox News Digital, adding that Perry's father had to pay a "significant bond" for his release and that the ordeal has taken a "significant toll" on the family.

On the night of July 25, 2020, at about 9:50 p.m., authorities say Sgt. Daniel Perry was driving for Uber when he encountered a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, Texas. Perry, an active duty soldier, was stationed at Ft. Hood at the time. The protesters did not have a permit and were reportedly clogging a busy intersection.

After making a right turn onto Austin's Congress Avenue, Perry's attorneys say he was swarmed by a group of Black Lives Matter protesters and a masked man, later identified as Garrett Foster, approached his vehicle armed with an AK-47 in the "ready position" as protesters began banging on Perry's car and throwing bricks.

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Believing that Foster was beginning to raise the rifle and that his life was in danger, Perry fired the handgun he kept in his car console multiple times at which point another protester opened fire on him.

The man with the AK-47, Garrett Foster, was fatally wounded.

Roughly a year later, Perry was on murder and aggravated assault charges by Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza who claimed that over 150 pieces of evidence and testimony from 22 witnesses during a three-week court hearing led to the decision to press charges.

Perry's attorneys say the shooting was a clear case of self-defense and have expressed serious concerns with how the case has been handled by Garza's office.

"Garrett Foster either intentionally or accidentally pointed his rifle at Daniel Perry's head and Daniel Perry fired in self-defense," Perry attorney Doug O'Connell told Fox News Digital. "And as a practical matter he had no ability to retreat nor was he required to."

"You have the right to defend yourself in a crowd and you feel like you're in imminent danger of being shot," Broden added. "That's what it's all about. I ask people to put themselves in Sgt. Perry's position and you have this masked man with an assault rifle ready starting to raise it. I think anybody that had access to a firearm would react the same way."

Texas castle law extends to one's vehicle in some circumstances.

Veteran Detective David Fugitt of the Austin Police Department, the lead investigator on the case who has been on the Austin police force for 27 years, that the shooting was justifiable homicide, but charges were filed anyway, and the veteran detective has suggested that Garza's office committed witness tampering by preventing the grand jury from seeing exculpatory evidence.

Perry's attorneys say that those who wish to financially support Perry can still do so via the GoGetFunding crowdfunding platform.

"I can confirm that this fundraiser was reviewed and found to be in violation of GoFundMe Terms of Service, and subsequently removed. GoFundMe prohibits raising money for the legal defense of a violent crime," a GoFundMe spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

The platform has previously stated multiple times that it removes pages supporting those who are accused of a "violent crime" but has declined to completely remove pages of others accused of violent crimes in the past.

A trial date has not been set for the case but Perry's lawyers have a call scheduled with a judge on December 15th to review concerns with the grand jury process.

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GoFundMe removes page supporting Army sergeant who shot and killed armed Black Lives Matter protester

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A United States Army sergeant facing a murder charge after shooting a Black Lives Matter protester who approached his vehicle with an AK-47 had his GoFundMe page removed from the site by the company. Perry's attorneys confirmed to Fox News Digital that the GoFundMe page for their client, Army. Sgt.

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Due to court order, 'Remain in Mexico' rules for migrants are likely to restart Monday

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Due to court order, 'Remain in Mexico' rules for migrants are likely to restart Monday

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Biden administration enforces that the rules for migrants will restart Monday, meaning that the US will send migrants to Mexico to await their immigration court hearings. There is an extent to how long the wait will be for the immigration court hearings which is said to be 180 days, "to the greatest extend possible". Under Trump, "Trump-era public health order known as "Title 42" that allows for the swift expulsion of migrants encountered at the US-Mexico border remains in effect." but is said that the, "US will continue to expel eligible individuals under the health order" but in addition court hearings will be eligible.

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Due to court order, 'Remain in Mexico' rules for migrants are likely to restart Monday

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The Biden administration plans to relaunch the Trump-era border program known as "Remain in Mexico" on Monday due to a court order, meaning the US will again send migrants to Mexico to await their immigration court hearings, administration officials announced Thursday.

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Biden signs order to address 'crisis of violence' against Native Americans at White House summit

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Biden signs order to address 'crisis of violence' against Native Americans at White House summit

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In address of 'crisis of violence' against Native Americans, Biden signs an executive order in the departments of justice, interior, and homeland security in protection in part of non-Indian offenders and those who commit violence on their tribal lands. It is said that, "Thousands of Indigenous women and girls have been reported killed or missing for years, while families and activists say their cases are often disregarded by law enforcement." In support, "About 1,500 American Indian and Alaska Native missing persons have been recorded across the United States by the National Crime Information Center, and 2,700 homicide cases have been reported to the federal government's Uniform Crime Reporting Program." There is a liberal bias as the article is protecting Native Americans and their tribal lands. By including records on how many American Indians are affected by those who are against them, it demonstrates the concerning increasing rates of violence.

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President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday directing federal agencies, including the departments of Justice, Interior and Homeland Security, to create a strategy addressing what the President called a "crisis of violence" against Native Americans.

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A 14-year-old girl was shot and killed by her brother, who was making and selling guns, Georgia sheriff says

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A 14-year-old girl was shot and killed by her brother, who was making and selling guns, Georgia sheriff says

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A 13-year old boy who made and sold "ghost guns" has killed his 14-year old sister while fleeing a police chase after stealing a firearm. While fleeing the scene he allegedly shoots his sister but it's believed that the gun he shot was made himself. It is not said whether or not the shooting of his sister was intentional or not. But implying that investigators said that it he used a gun that he made himself, not the one he stole, switches up the whole perspective. Though the case is still ongoing he has been held accountable for robbery and felony murder.

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A 13-year-old boy who was manufacturing and selling so-called "ghost guns" has been arrested after he allegedly shot and killed his 14-year-old sister with one of his own homemade firearms, according to the Douglas County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office.

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'No discipline was warranted' against Michigan school shooter whose parents met with administrators before shooting that killed 4, superintendent says 

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After the shooting of Oxford High School, Ethans Crumbleys parents were said to be fleeing, but the two attorneys in defense are saying that, "The Crumbleys had left town for their safety and are returning for an arraignment." By the time their arraignment was scheduled they were still absent. It is said that both parents who seemed in support, Jennifer and James Crumbly bought the gun posting, "His new Christmas present" and "My new beauty." Series of events such as text messages from his mother, " 'LOL, I'm not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught.'' leads up to the event that followed.

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Hours after a prosecutor announced involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old accused of killing four fellow students at a Michigan high school, authorities said Friday that the parents are missing.

A vehicle matching the description of the black Kia Seltos connected to James and Jennifer Crumbley was found late Friday in Detroit, which is about 40 miles from Oxford, the scene of the deadly shooting on Tuesday, officials said.

A police perimeter was set up but law enforcement have not yet located the Crumbleys, who are considered fugitives, Detroit police spokesperson Rudy Harper told CNN.

The US Marshals Service is helping local authorities search for the couple and has offered a reward of up to $10,000 for information that could lead to their arrest.

A law enforcement official told CNN the parents withdrew $4,000 from an ATM in Rochester Hills, Michigan, on Friday. Rochester Hills is about 10 to 15 miles from Oxford.

Law enforcement had been able to track the couple's whereabouts by cell phone pings but can no longer do so as the couple's cell phones are turned off, the official said.

The source did not specify when the phones were turned off.

Prosecutors were worried about the couple evading law enforcement because they didn't have ties to their community, and officials had trouble locating the Crumbley couple once their son was being arraigned, the source added.

The parents' arraignment had been scheduled for late Friday afternoon. But as of Friday evening, the parents were still missing, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office in Michigan.

Undersheriff Michael McCabe told CNN a sergeant with the county's fugitive task force had spoken with one of the attorneys, who said she had not talked with the parents.

The undersheriff said he is confident the couple will be found, and it's a "matter of when."

In earlier twist, two attorneys who say they represent the couple released a statement saying the Crumbleys had left town for their safety and are returning for an arraignment.

"On Thursday night we contacted the Oakland County prosecutor to discuss this matter and to advise her that James and Jennifer Crumbley would be turning themselves in to be arraigned," the statement from attorneys Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman said. "Instead of communicating with us, the prosecutor held a press conference to announce charges."

The statement added: "They are not fleeing from law enforcement despite recent comments in media reports."

US Marshals announce reward, release wanted posters for James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the accused Oxford HS (Michigan) shooter pic.twitter.com/CbtWwdTHuj
- U.S. Marshals (@USMarshalsHQ) December 4, 2021

Sheriff Michael Bouchard told CNN that law enforcement had not talked with the Crumbleys, but their attorney had told officials if there were charges she would make arrangements for them to be arrested.

He said the attorney had attempted to reach the parents by phone and text without success.

When asked by CNN whether the parents are missing, Bouchard said, "correct."

"If they think they are going to get away, they are not," he said.

The couple weren't under surveillance until "it got closer to last night" when charges were pending and detectives began the process of monitoring them, Bouchard said. There was no early surveillance on them before that because no charges were pending.

Every available resource is dedicated to locating them, the sheriff said, adding people should not approach the couple. US Marshals and the FBI are involved in the search for the Crumbleys, according to Bouchard.

"The USMS Detroit Fugitive Apprehension team is working in conjunction with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office on the search," the agency said in a tweet.

The sheriff's office had released a statement which said the Crumbleys might be driving a black 2021 Kia Seltos with the Michigan license plate number DQG 5203.

Page Pate, a Georgia criminal defense attorney, cautioned the parents might not be on the run.

"I have been in this position before, representing someone who's just been charged with a crime," Pate told CNN. "They tend to panic, and when they panic, they do stupid stuff."

Pate said the parents might be looking for another lawyer, someone who will give them the answers they want to hear.

"You're like, 'I don't want to be charged. I don't want to go to jail,' and you try to find someone else," he said.

In this rare instance of charging parents, prosecutors will try to prove the parents of suspected shooter Ethan Crumbley were criminally negligent and contributed to a dangerous situation that resulted in the deaths of four teenagers Tuesday.

"It's been a devastating week for us," Oakland County District Attorney Karen McDonald said at a press conference. "There are other individuals who contributed ... and it's my intention to hold them accountable as well."

The shooting claimed the lives of Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17.

Mother called pistol 'his new Christmas present' on social media, prosecutor says

McDonald said James Crumbley bought the gun four days before it was used in the shooting. His son Ethan was with him and later posted on social media about the gun, calling it "my new beauty."

Jennifer Crumbley also posted about the gun on social media, calling it "his new Christmas present," McDonald said.

The mother took Ethan to a shooting range the weekend before the shooting, a law enforcement source told CNN Friday.

As of Friday evening, CNN could not get in touch with employees at the shooting range the source thinks the pair visited, or the listed business owner.

The sheriff as said the boy could not legally own the gun or carry it to most places - with rare exceptions such as shooting ranges.

Ethan Crumbley has been charged as an adult with terrorism, murder and other counts in the rampage north of Detroit that also left seven people wounded. The shooting was the deadliest at a US K-12 campus since 2018 and the 32nd such attack since August 1.

Lt. Tim Willis, head of the special investigations unit at the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, said officers were planning to arrest the parents.

Addressing reporters, McDonald said she was charging the parents in part to make a point about the responsibility of gun ownership, but the facts of the case were egregious on their own.

"I'm angry as a mother. I'm angry as the prosecutor. I'm angry as a person that lives in this county," she said. "There were a lot of things that could have been so simple to prevent and, yes, there was a perfectly executed response, and he was apprehended immediately, and we have great law enforcement and good training.

"But as I said before, four kids were murdered, and then seven more injured, so, yes, I think we should all be very angry."

Prosecutor outlines a chilling progression of events

McDonald said a teacher saw Ethan Crumbley searching ammunition on his cell phone during class the day before the shooting and reported it to school officials. The school contacted Jennifer Crumbley via voicemail. Officials also sent an email but received no response from either parent, McDonald said.

"Jennifer Crumbley exchanged text messages about the incident with her son on that day, stating, quote, 'LOL, I'm not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught.' End quote," McDonald said.

The day of the shooting, a teacher found a note on Ethan Crumbley's desk that alarmed her so much she took a picture of it on her phone, McDonald said. The note included a drawing of a semiautomatic handgun pointing at the words, "The thoughts won't stop. Help me," she said.

Another section was a drawing of a bullet with the words "Blood Everywhere" written above it. Between the drawing of the gun and the bullet is one of a person who seems to have been shot twice and is bleeding, McDonald said.

"Below that figure is a drawing of a laughing emoji," McDonald said.

Also found on the note, according to McDonald: "My life is useless" and "The world is dead."

James and Jennifer Crumbley were "immediately summoned to the school," McDonald said. A counselor met with the parents and the boy, who had altered the drawing by scratching out the drawings of the gun and bloody figure, along with the words, according to McDonald.

The parents were told to get their son into counseling within 48 hours, McDonald said. Neither parent asked their son to see the gun or "inspect his backpack for the presence of the gun which he had with him," according to McDonald.

The parents left school and the boy was sent back to class.

When news broke about the shooting, according to McDonald, Jennifer Crumbley sent her son a text: "Ethan, don't do it." James Crumbley called 911 to report a gun was missing and his son might be the shooter.

McDonald said investigators found the gun used in the shooting had been stored unlocked in a drawer in the couple's bedroom.

School officials: No disciplinary action was needed.

When the meeting was held before the shooting, no disciplinary action was warranted, the school district superintendent said Thursday.

"No discipline was warranted. There are no discipline records at the high school," Tim Throne, the superintendent of the Oxford Community Schools, said Thursday in a video statement. "Yes, this student did have contact with our front office. And yes, his parents were on campus November 30th."

There is a "strong possibility" Crumbley had the gun he allegedly used in the shooting in his backpack during the meeting, McDonald told CNN Thursday night.

The school's video surveillance cameras will let investigators "really map out exactly and literally watch what the perpetrator did" from that meeting through the shooting and being taken into custody, Bouchard, the Oakland County sheriff, told CNN on Friday morning.

The shooter had the gun "on his person or in his backpack or somehow secreted" it away from a school location, he said.

Another warning sign had come Monday - the day before the shooting - when a different teacher "saw and heard something that she felt was disturbing" related to Crumbley's conduct in the classroom, Bouchard said. School officials held a counseling session with Crumbley about the behavior in question, and his parents were notified by phone, Bouchard added.

Crumbley's defense attorney asked the court Wednesday to enter a not guilty plea on his client's behalf. CNN is trying to reach a new attorney for Ethan Crumbley.

School is like a 'war zone,' superintendent says

Two days after the deadly attack, Oxford High School is "like a war zone," Throne told his community from the school in the 13-minute video posted on YouTube.

"This high school is a wreck right now," he said, adding repairs could take weeks.

Throne commended students and staff for how they handled an active shooter threat, during which some administrators performed CPR and students used desks and chairs to barricade themselves inside classrooms for protection.

More than 100 calls to 911 were made to report the shooting as police rushed to the school at 12:52 p.m. local time, Bouchard said. Within "two to three minutes" of officers' arrival, the shooter had surrendered.

"I believe they literally saved lives, having taken down the suspect with a loaded firearm still in the building," the sheriff said.

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Hours after a prosecutor announced involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old accused of killing four fellow students at a Michigan high school, authorities said Friday that the parents are missing.

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Father of Autistic boy asks Supreme Court for emergency relief over TSA airline mask requirement

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In requirement of wearing a mask on transportation, a father of a 4-year old autistic boy is asking Supreme Court to block Biden's mandate, which was caused as they were unable to board despite them having a doctors note. Knowing that there was a mandate and receiving a doctors note pre-flight, it's right to pre-check whether or not you would be able to aboard or not. Many know that the mask mandate is a serious mandate that has unexceptional reasons. On social media there appears to be various articles and videos of passengers forcibly being taken off aircrafts. Not knowing the real possibility is an issue cause everything is unexpected.

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The father of a 4-year-old autistic boy is asking the Supreme Court for emergency action to block the Biden administration’s federal transportation mask mandate.

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Kyle Rittenhouse must be protected from campus mobs

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Kyle Rittenhouse must be protected from campus mobs

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Kyle Rittenhouse who attends ASU, was accounted of five charges from shooting two men and wounding of a third during the rioting in Kenosha. Kyle's return to school has outragged attendies of the school. After shooting two people wouldn't it be substantial that the safety of returning back to school is dangerous? Especially when its a state wide issue being debated over. Kyle overall should be held accountable for what he has done and issued that he is able to go back to school and "must be protected from campus mobs" is absurd.

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President Joe Biden and media figures are not the only ones who are "angry" after a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of five charges stemming from his fatal shooting two men and the wounding of a third during rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020.

Many are using the verdict as an excuse to denounce the entire legal system as racist, even though the makeup of the Rittenhouse jury - 11 Whites and one African American - is identical to the jury that recently convicted three men in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Critics also ignore that much of the coverage of the Rittenhouse case ignored evidence supporting his claim of self-defense.
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Now students and groups at Arizona State University are planning a rally against Rittenhouse and demanding that he be expelled. Demands for such extrajudicial punishments may seem legitimate to critics of the verdict with leaders like Biden calling Rittenhouse a "white supremacist" before any investigation was completed and legal analysts calling the entire trial "white supremacy on steroids." Rittenhouse is likely to face such campaigns to bar him from any campus as he seeks to continue his education.

Students groups like MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition are organizing a rally this week to "get murderer Kyle Rittenhouse off [the] campus." He is not on campus since he was enrolled as an online student (Indeed, he may not be currently enrolled for any classes at ASU). Students and faculty are being called to the rally to "protect students from a violent, blood-thirsty murderer."
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In addition, ASU student Taskina Bhuiya started a Change.org petition to denounce the verdict and to call for Rittenhouse to be "held accountable for the crimes he has committed." Without a sense of irony, the petition declares, "ASU should be a safe and inclusive place for all students, which will be disrupted if Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to attend this school." Inclusive unless you are an acquitted individual who must be "held accountable." Hundreds have signed the petition insisting that "Rittenhouse should pay for his crimes."

The campaign reflects a growing sense that the legal system is only worthy of respect (or even protection) if it rules in the way that we demand. It is the same mentality that has led members of Congress, law professors, and others to demand the expansion or restriction of the Supreme Court because it now has a conservative majority. Liberal justices like the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer have opposed such efforts as inimical to the rule of law.

Universities have long been dominated by liberal faculty but a new orthodoxy has emerged. Conservative students often feel that access to education is conditioned on their silent adherence to compelled values and language. That is if they are even allowed to attend such schools in the first place.

The campaign against Rittenhouse reflects a growing sense that the legal system is only worthy of respect (or even protection) if it rules in the way that we demand.

We saw a similar campaign to block Nick Sandmann, who was wrongly accused of racist attacks on a Native American activist, from attending Transylvania University. Even though some media outfits corrected their false coverage of Sandmann and others settled the lawsuits he filed against them, the ACLU's Samuel Crankshaw in Kentucky denounced Transylvania University for allowing Sandmann access to an education at the school.

Without a scintilla of support, Crankshaw labeled Sandmann a "provocateur in training with no intention of learning." Dr. Avery Tompkins, an assistant professor and diversity scholar at Transylvania, publicly promised to closely monitor Sandmann while he was on campus: "If he were to cause problems by being disruptive, trolling or engaging in unethical behavior of any kind, I would immediately document it (just like I would for any student doing the same thing)...and he would just be putting himself in a position for me to file a conduct report."

The fact is that Rittenhouse cannot be expelled or kept off ASU's campus due to such mob measures. He would quickly prevail in court. However, the rally and the rhetoric magnify the risk to his safety by those who demand "accountability" regardless of any verdict.
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We have seen faculty members join such mob efforts, even attacking others on campus, blocking speakers, destroying political signs, or encouraging attacks on student journalists.

University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said he saw "nothing wrong" with such acts of violence. Other faculty members have made similarly disturbing comments such as "detonating white people," denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements.

It is less common to hear professors today speak out for the rights of conservatives or others who are being targeted by campaigns on campus. The risk is simply too great that they will be "tagged" as intolerant, racist or reactionary.

ASU has responded to the controversy. Rather than rejecting the premise of barring a student based on such protests, the school simply noted that he is not currently enrolled. There is no need to cancel him if he is not currently a student. Problem solved. Yet, the planned rally still illustrates how education is now seen as a means to mete out punishment in lieu of conviction.

It is not surprising that Rittenhouse, who was looking at life in prison, did not register for classes this coming term. That would have been rather presumptuous with many in the media declaring him all but convicted before the start of opening arguments. He is likely to now move on with his life and will seek admission to ASU or another school. The question is whether he will be allowed access to an education or whether schools will yield to this campaign to bar him from any campus.

It is common for former felons (including violent offenders) to take classes or give lectures on campuses without such protests. It is not clear whether any school will admit this acquitted teenager given the protests at ASU and other universities.

If admitted, Rittenhouse has every right to attend ASU in person and has every right to expect that he can do so safely. If ASU cannot muster the integrity and courage to reaffirm those rights publicly, it has abandoned a core defining element for higher education.

Colleges often sit in cringing silence as individual students are targeted and harassed. It is not clear whether Rittenhouse will seek to continue at ASU or other universities. However, his education should not be treated as a vehicle for collective extrajudicial punishment.
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Kyle Rittenhouse must be protected from campus mobs

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President Joe Biden and media figures are not the only ones who are "angry" after a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of five charges stemming from his fatal shooting two men and the wounding of a third during rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020.

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Michigan school shooting prosecutor 'doesn't have words' after watching footage of attack 

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High school shooting by student Ethan Crumbley at Oxford High Schools leaves people shocked across the United States. Four students are left dead and, "His attorney entered a not guilty plea". Facing charges should be faced without any exceptions, it is said that "He deliberately aimed the gun at students and began firing at students," Keast continued. "After students started running he continued down the hallway pointing the gun and firing (at them) and firing in classrooms and at students who were unable to escape." Yet there is no explanation given to why he shot up the school. Family and friends of the four victims are angered and outraged as many did not deserve what happened and justice for the victims should be served.

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Michigan school shooting prosecutor ‘doesn’t have words’ after watching footage of attack

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Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Marc Keast said he was speechless after reviewing security footage of the shooting at Oxford High School

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Sotomayor compares fetus to brain dead person, says fetal movement doesn't prove consciousness 

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Sotomayor compares fetus to brain dead person, says fetal movement doesn't prove consciousness 

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Sotomayor is Pro-choice and states that, "Virtually every state defines a brain death as death," Sotomayor, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said during oral arguments in a potential landmark abortion rights case Wednesday". Sotomayors saying has caused a spark among both groups Pro-life and choice. Sotomayor uses scientific research from the deceased to support, "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil. There are spontaneous acts by dead brain people. So I don't think that a response to -- by a fetus necessarily proves that there's a sensation of pain or that there's consciousness". Comparing a fetus in the womb to the deceased has caused backlash, coming from Pro-life.

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the idea that a fetus that has the ability to move and react to pain is a human life that should be protected from .

"Virtually every state defines a brain death as death," Sotomayor, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said during oral arguments in a potential landmark abortion rights case Wednesday, as the state of Mississippi defended an abortion restriction law that directly challenges Roe v. Wade.

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"Yet, the literature is filled with episodes of people who are completely and utterly brain dead responding to stimuli," Sotomayor continued. "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil. There are spontaneous acts by dead brain people. So I don't think that a response to -- by a fetus necessarily proves that there's a sensation of pain or that there's consciousness."

Sotomayor also said that she believes the idea that a fetus is a human life is a "religious view."

Sotomayor was criticized for her remarks by conservatives on social media including Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich.
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"Justice Sotomayor is comparing babies in the womb to dead people," Pavlich tweeted.

"Sotomayor is revealing just how poor the pro-Roe arguments are," Breitbart News Senior Editor Joel Pollak tweeted. "Inadvertently, of course."

"Oh good grief, Sotomayor playing the 'brain death' card now," Ethics and Public Policy Center Director Ryan T. Anderson tweeted. " There is no dispute about whether or not an unborn the baby is in fact a baby, a living human being. It's not a debate about when the baby is viable outside a womb, it's a question about whether the baby's life matters."

The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, centers on the law, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, much sooner than the current legal standard, which prohibits abortion bans prior to fetal viability - roughly 23 to 24 weeks into pregnancy.

Throughout the arguments, the justices alternated between examining not just the legal standards for abortion laws based on interests of women and protecting potential life, but also the court's own interest in protecting itself from losing the faith of the public.
Fox News' Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report

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Sotomayor compares fetus to brain dead person, says fetal movement doesn't prove consciousness

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the idea that a fetus that has the ability to move and react to pain is a human life that should be protected from .

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Abortion 'saves lives', woman says as protesters crowd around Supreme Court 

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Abortion 'saves lives', woman says as protesters crowd around Supreme Court 

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Outside the supreme court both Pro-life and Pro-choice protested among each other, whether abortion should be banned or not. Both choices tested the case Roe v. Wade. Both perspectives have differentiated aspects that are controversial from each side. A Pro-life activist states that, "I'm here today because I think that abortion hurts both the unborn and it hurts women," an anti-abortion activist told Fox News". And from the following Pro-choice, an activist states that, "I'm here today because I believe that a woman's right to choose her future, her destiny, her reproductive health care, is a fundamental right". Hearing both sides brings out the different perspectives and opinions people have on a topic, but after observing each sides Pro-life has weakness in supporting their opinion as there is no solid reasoning to why it hurts the unborn and women.

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Pro-life and pro-choice protesters who gathered outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning told Fox News why they came to protest, with one saying abortions save lives, while others said they kill humans.

"I'm here today because I think that abortion hurts both the unborn and it hurts women," an anti-abortion activist told Fox News.

In contrast, a pro-choice supporter said: "I'm here today because I believe that a woman's right to choose her future, her destiny, her reproductive health care, is a fundamental right."

The anti-abortion activist said: "I think that science has come a long way and proved that the babies in the womb are alive and well."

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Hundreds of protesters on both sides of the abortion debate gathered outside the c ourt as oral arguments began in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case that could overturn Roe v. Wade.

"It's critical that it is not overturned because it saves lives," one woman wearing a "Clinic Escort" face mask told Fox News.

A woman holding a "Supreme Court: Overturn Roe v. Wade" sign disagreed, saying "abortion intentionally kills human beings, and it's one of the greatest Holocausts of our time."

The woman in the "Clinic Escort" mask said abortion is the "basic floor level of human autonomy, bodily autonomy." She said she believes abortion has been in jeopardy since it was codified and worries about what overturning Roe would mean "for the rest of us who are Black, Brown, queer, indigenous - what other rights are going to be stripped away?"

Another woman disagreed: "I want to protect LGBT children in the womb. If they ever found a gene that makes them predisposed to LGBT, I don't want them to be targeted like people with disabilities have been."

A man holding a "Hands Off Roe" banner said he was there to express his concern that Roe v. Wade could be overturned.

"The state has no business getting involved in a woman's intimate decision as to whether to carry a pregnancy to term," he said.

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Abortion 'saves lives,' woman says as protesters crowd around Supreme Court

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Pro-life and pro-choice protesters who gathered outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning told Fox News why they came to protest, with one saying abortions save lives, while others said they kill humans. "I'm here today because I think that abortion hurts both the unborn and it hurts women," an anti-abortion activist told Fox News.

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Zapping cow dung with lightening is helping to trap climate-warming methane

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Zapping cow dung with lightening is helping to trap climate-warming methane

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Zapping livestock with artificial lightening is preventing the emissions of methane, known to be dangerous. Dung from cows and zapping of livestock prevents harmful emissions and they do this by adding, "Nitrogen from air to the slurry, it changes the environment to stop methanogenesis basically. So it drops the pH down to just below six and we're catching that early. So it stops the breakdown of those methane microbes that then release the gas to the air". Scientific discoveries and methods to prevent harmful consequences can be beneficial in the near future.

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Zapping cow dung with lightning is helping to trap climate-warming methane

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A Norwegian technology company has found a way to stop livestock slurry from releasing methane, a greenhouse gas that has around 80 times more global warming power than carbon-dioxide.

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Laura Ingraham questions effectiveness of remote work for federal employees 

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Laura Ingraham questions effectiveness of remote work for federal employees 

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It's debate why many workers who are working remotely are receiving the same amount payed when working in the office. In opposition to the same net pay of those working remotely compared to those working in office, Ingraham implies that remote should not have the same pay as those working in person, "No one believes that managers are as effective at monitoring the activities of employees who are not on-site," Ingraham said. "And even if we take it as true that federal employees are just as efficient at home as they are at work, then why are we paying them [Washington,] D.C.-area wages?". I value that people working remotely should be paid the same amount as those working in office especially due to the pandemic. Those putting themselves at risk to work in office, in order to receive a higher pay does not suit with me. Various reasons can influence why people choose to work remotely, not only because of the advantages of working either remote/in office.

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Laura Ingraham questions effectiveness of remote work for federal employees

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The ‘Ingraham Angle’ host cast doubt on the effectiveness of federal remote work in her opening monologue Tuesday night

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A US-Russia war over Ukraine would be catastrophic

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A US-Russia war over Ukraine would be catastrophic

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War against US and Russia would end up being catastrophic due to the amount of pay and the amount of life risked, leaving the war to no outcome at all. Overall it seems that the U.S would have little winning against Russia as, "Washington "experts," who are notoriously bad at understanding what motivates America’s foreign adversaries, have no clue about the visceral, centuries-old sense of possessiveness that Russia feels about Ukraine". It seems that the U.S is underestimating Russias powerfulness and is blinded by the fact that we'd receive nothing as the outcome.

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As a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer and specialist in Russian doctrine and strategy who participated in dozens of war games that simulated a U.S.-Russia conflict, I am gravely concerned about the high risk of Washington going to war over Ukraine.

If you thought $2 trillion and 6,000 American lives were a steep price to pay for a no-victory outcome of a 20-year engagement in Afghanistan, you ain't seen nothing yet.

U.S. costs and losses in a war with nuclear Russia would be catastrophic. Such a war is unwinnable, and it is not worth sacrificing American lives to wage.
WHEN 'OLD FRIENDS' BIDEN AND CHINA'S XI MET, IT WAS BAD FOR AMERICA
Russia's elevated force posture along the Ukrainian border - including 114,000 soldiers, special forces, intelligence operatives and heavy weaponry, counting tanks - is reminiscent of Putin's 2014 invasion of Ukraine. This, along with recent high-risk encounters between U.S. warships and the Russian navy in the Black Sea, and Putin's warning on Nov. 13 about the U.S. throwing down the gauntlet to Moscow, constitute what's called in the intelligence business "indications and warnings" of an impending crisis.

Concerned about the high probability of Russia's outright invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence has warned European allies that there is but a narrow window of opportunity to deter Putin.

Predictably, Washington "experts" discharge advice that is not grounded in reality, in this case that while Ukraine is part of Russia's vital interests, it is not part of America's. Some advocate accelerated acceptance of Ukraine into NATO, which in their "expert" view would guarantee Ukraine's security by virtue of obligating the U.S. and NATO to step into a Russo-Ukrainian conflict on behalf on Kiev. Others call for troop deployments into the region to deter KGB spymaster Putin.

For centuries, Russia has viewed Ukraine as its security buffer against foreign invasions.

Beleaguered and bullied, Ukraine should be free to pursue its own development path. But sadly, its geostrategic location, bordering on three sides the much bigger and military stronger Russia, dictates its destiny in the harsh world of realpolitik. Certainly, at least, in Putin's world.

The Russian leader has stated multiple times that the admission of Ukraine into NATO - a military alliance that Russia views as its top threat - would cross a "red line." For centuries, Russia has viewed Ukraine as its security buffer against foreign invasions. Not that this is justified or good. But that is how it is and has been.

Ivan Il'in, a Russian Orthodox Christian thinker whose ideas Putin drew from in developing his own ideology, stated in his writings that an independent Ukraine would be an unthinkable "madness." Like Il'in, Putin firmly believes that it is essential to rule all the lands of Imperial Russia together to ensure its self-defense. While the maintenance of empires may be alien and anachronistic to U.S. thinkers, it dominates the Russian mindset.

Washington "experts," who are notoriously bad at understanding what motivates America's foreign adversaries, have no clue about the visceral, centuries-old sense of possessiveness that Russia feels about Ukraine. The reintegration of Ukraine and other post-Soviet states into a Russian-led union is something that is viewed by Moscow as a matter of national survival. It is this mentality that is at the root of Putin's actions and policies, such as the annexation of Crimea.
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Putting U.S. troops in the theater, in Russia's backyard, would be interpreted by the Kremlin as a precursor to possible U.S. kinetic action against Russia. The very presence of U.S. deployed forces so close to a conflict would increase the pressure on Washington, which was just chased out of Afghanistan, to intervene on behalf of Ukraine.

Such an action would spur Moscow to activate its preemptive "self-defense" response, targeting the U.S. homeland with destructive cyber and space warfare attack. With Russia's recent anti-satellite missile strike test, Putin has demonstrated Russia's ability to cripple U.S. satellites, on which we are reliant not only for our war fighting capability but for countless civilian purposes.

Putin, who fears becoming a target of Washington's doctrine of "regime change" that has claimed the likes of Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi, is primed for overreaction. Once the shooting starts, the war could very well go nuclear and involve debilitating cyber strikes on America's power grid.

No one has been able to win a war with Russia on Russian soil. Just ask France's Napoleon, Germany's Hitler, and the Swedes, whose army was demolished in 1709 by the soldiers of Peter the Great.

Is Ukraine among America's vital security interests? Is America's safety, security, territorial integrity and long-term survivability even remotely reliant on Ukraine? The answer to both questions is a resounding "no."

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A US-Russia war over Ukraine would be catastrophic

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As a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer and specialist in Russian doctrine and strategy who participated in dozens of war games that simulated a U.S.-Russia conflict, I am gravely concerned about the high risk of Washington going to war over Ukraine.

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Mississippi AG says Roe v. Wade has 'pitted women against their children; time to return power to the states 

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Mississippi AG says Roe v. Wade has 'pitted women against their children; time to return power to the states 

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Mississippi has a controversial debate surrounding the abortion ban being established or not, which caught the eye of the Supreme Court. This should not be controversial as this is should be a human right and a women's choice to choose as it is their own body, but Mississippi attorney General Lynn Fitch believes that, "abortion policy-making should rest with the elected legislators and elected governors to make those decisions on behalf of the people". Her conservative mindset sets that women and others should not be able to choose whether or not abolitions should be up, which to me is absolutely absurd.

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Mississippi's attorney general, who will be defending her state's 15-week abortion ban before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade challenge this week, urged the high court to overturn the existing precedent that "has pitted women against their children" and return the power to the states.

Mississippi has become the center of national attention as the Supreme Court prepares to consider oral arguments on Dec. 1 surrounding the state's law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, presents the court with the opportunity to overturn the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion nationwide.
SUPREME COURT'S MISSISSIPPI ABORTION CASE IS A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR ALL WHO VALUE LIFE
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch told Fox News on Tuesday that she hopes the court will recognize that "abortion policy-making should rest with the elected legislators and elected governors to make those decisions on behalf of the people."

"For 50 years, Roe v. Wade has pitted women against their children, woman against woman," Fitch said on "The Story" Tuesday. "And now it's time to really stop and empower women and support life."
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The Supreme Court's current makeup - a 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republicans - has led to speculation that they might overturn Roe, which recognized a right to get an abortion before a fetus is viable, generally about 23 or 24 weeks into pregnancy.

Fitch said she believes the current law has been a "hindrance," arguing that a victory in the controversial case would benefit not only the unborn but women as well.

"In over 50 years, if you stop and reflect...the role of the men and women have [sic] been altered. Women have professional success. It's easier to balance your professional life and your family life. The culture has changed," Fitch, a single mother of three, told host Martha MacCallum.

"Unfortunately, because of Roe v. Wade, the changes have not been able to be incorporated in our different state laws. So it's been very much a hindrance," she continued.

Fitch said abortion policies have been "frozen" since 1973.

"We're definitely making a change in our society...[women have] so many opportunities that weren't there 50 years ago," she said. "Abortion is not the answer. We should stop selling that false lie that that is the only choice to level the playing field - because it's not. There's so many choices and options. It's time to stop and reflect and have those decisions turned back to our states."

The current abortion laws in the U.S. have become "unworkable," Fitch said.

"They're unmanageable. and it's not fair to women. It's time to overturn that - return it back to the states and have the right applicable laws in each state."

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Mississippi AG says Roe v. Wade has 'pitted women against their children,' time to return power to the states

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Mississippi's attorney general, who will be defending her state's 15-week abortion ban before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade challenge this week, urged the high court to overturn the existing precedent that "has pitted women against their children" and return the power to the states.

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Allowing foreign citizens to vote in US elections is a rotten idea

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Allowing foreign citizens to vote in US elections is a rotten idea

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Whether or not citizens from other countries should vote in US elections is a debatable question. People from other countries move over to the US and from my perspective should be able to vote. Being a resident here and experiencing experiences that every other American has seen on media and in reality isn't different from the person who moved over from elsewhere. Having an opinion and the freedom of citizens to vote should be allowed. Based off the wording the writer seems to be a liberal bias as they described them as foreign citizens as non-citizens and went against the fact that they should not be able to vote.

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Approximately 808,000 "non-citizens" may vote in future New York City elections, if the City Council welcomes them to do so, as early as December. These potential new members of the electorate would include green card holders and those with certain work permits.

This is a rotten idea. However, love or hate it, everyone at least should debate this concept with maximum precision.

These 808,000 potential new voters are not non-citizens. The computer on which I write these words is a non-citizen. So is the medium via which you are reading them right now.
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Rather than non-citizens, these people are foreign citizens. While they are not American citizens, they remain citizens of the foreign nations from whence they came - Mexico, Haiti, Russia, Singapore, New Zealand, and dozens more.

Every human is a citizen of some country. A human non-citizen is not a thing.

So, pro or con, all discussions of this brainstorm should reflect what's at stake:

The New York City Council aims to dilute the local votes of American citizens by extending the franchise to 808,000 foreign citizens. This would include letting approximately 117,500 citizens of communist China select the mayors, City Council members, district attorneys, and other officials of America's most-populous municipality.

There really is no bottom to the depravity and evil of the Democrat Party, most of whose local members cheer this proposal. But astonishingly, and to his rare credit, Gotham's far-Left Mayor Bill de Blasio, is not among them.

Today's madcap left-wing fantasy is tomorrow's statute.

"I do have reservations," de Blasio said on Tuesday. "So, I understand if folks say, 'Hey, I'm somewhere on the path toward citizenship.' But I also have feelings about citizenship and the value of citizenship and wanting to encourage people to become citizens, fully." De Blasio also argues that this matter should be decided by the state legislature, not the City Council. A left-wing idea must be truly wretched not to enjoy de Blasio's support.

Conversely, New York's mayor-elect, Eric Adams, backs giving foreign citizens the vote. This position T-bones at 100 mph into the widespread view that Adams is a moderate-to-conservative Democrat. Does this exception prove the rule or is it an ominous preview of horrors to come? As a certain former president loves to say: We'll see what happens.

This wacky idea extends beyond Gotham. Left-wing politicians already empowered foreign citizens to vote for San Francisco school board and in local races in two Vermont cities and 11 Maryland communities.

And if foreigners may vote for school board and sheriff, why not state senator and governor?
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What the left wants is more. Why not let green card holders vote in state elections? If this sounds too crazy to contemplate, remember how they all laughed at the Green New Deal, when Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled it in 2019? NOT GONNA HAPPEN, the smart set chuckled.

Well, President Joe Biden just signed huge chunks of the Green New Deal into law last week via his $1.2 trillion so-called infrastructure bill. Today's madcap left-wing fantasy is tomorrow's statute.

Similarly, if green card holders can vote in city - and perhaps state - elections, then who will tell illegal aliens that they cannot pick the leaders who make the rules for them, their families, friends and neighbors? Why not simply hand ballots to all adults (or maybe minors over age 16) who can reach their local precincts - or complete absentee ballots at home? Illegal aliens now get free health care, free education and free plane tickets to their destinations of choice. Why not give them ballots, too? Insane? Give it a few years.

And, of course, a President Pete Buttigieg would give illegal aliens free Uber rides to the polls.

For now, the distinction between "non-citizens" and "foreign citizens" voting in U.S. elections is bigger than it sounds. Using the latter expression describes this dreadful idea accurately and exposes its immorality and outrageousness - before things decay even further.
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Approximately 808,000 "non-citizens" may vote in future New York City elections, if the City Council welcomes them to do so, as early as December. These potential new members of the electorate would include green card holders and those with certain work permits. This is a rotten idea.

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COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness will likely drop against omicron variant, Moderna CEO says

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COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness will likely drop against omicron variant, Moderna CEO says

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Effectiveness that the COVID-19 vaccine is uncertain against the Omicron variant as data is still being released, but as far as we know its stated that the result will "not be good". Announced, Biden will not choose to go on a widespread lockdown but will encourage that people continue getting the vaccine and wearing masks which are mandatory. Many are urging the vaccinations such as Dr. Rochelle Walensky who states that, "Strong immunity will likely prevent serious illness." I am still uneasy about the topic of omicron but I believe that getting vaccinations and wearing masks is not preventable enough to stop the spread from spreading any faster.

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Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, said in an interview published Tuesday that current vaccines for COVID-19 will likely be much less effective against the new omicron variant.

"I think it's going to be a material drop," he told the Financial Times. "I just don't know how much because we need to wait for the data."

He told the paper that he does not believe there is a "world" where the effectiveness is the same level that vaccines had with the Delta variant. He said he's spoken to scientists who told him that this variant is "not going to be good." He also said it could be months before pharmaceutical companies can produce vaccines at scale to counter omicron.
COVID-19 OMICRON VARIANT: HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW
The Financial Times reported that a recent Stanford study found the Moderna jab 56.6% effective against infection from the Delta variant.

President Biden said the variant is a "cause for concern, not a cause for panic."

He said he is not considering any widespread U.S. lockdown and instead urged mask-wearing and vaccinations, even as a federal judge blocked his administration from enforcing a requirement that thousands of health care workers in 10 states get the shot.

The World Health Organization said there are "considerable uncertainties" about the omicron variant. But it said preliminary evidence raises the possibility that the variant has mutations that could help it both evade an immune-system response and boost its ability to spread from one person to another.
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reacted to the potential threat by urging everyone 18 and older to get booster shots, because "strong immunity will likely prevent serious illness."
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, said in an interview published Tuesday that current vaccines for COVID-19 will likely be much less effective against the new omicron variant. "I think it's going to be a material drop," he told the Financial Times. "I just don't know how much because we need to wait for the data."

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Opinion | HBO's 'Black and Missing' would be depressing if it weren't also empowering 

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Opinion | HBO's 'Black and Missing' would be depressing if it weren't also empowering 

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HBO's 'Black and Missing' is established with a wide lookout on the medias coverage of missing black people and the research on the centuries' old systemic racism driving issue. News coverage and media believes that black missing children and adolescents are considered less valuable. The term "missing white women syndrome" was established due to favoritism of covering missing white people in contrast to missing poc. Brought by the article, "A study showed this in 2015, noting that white children represented 54 percent of the cases it looked at but received 88 percent percent of media references, whereas Black children represented 35 percent of the cases but made up only 7 percent of media references." If we were to look on various news outlets and articles, many of them are white people and not poc, which shows that media neglects their concern.

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HBO's new documentary " Black and Missing," which premiered Tuesday, has been three years in the making. But the Black and Missing Foundation, a nonprofit organization fighting to bring awareness to missing Black people and the focus of this series, has been around since 2008, when founders Derrica Wilson and Nicole Wilson mobilized after noticing that both law enforcement and national media outlets disproportionately neglected and misjudged missing Black persons cases.

Like so many Black women before them, they figured, "Screw it, I'll do it."

Black girls and women in particular go missing at disproportionately higher rates than other groups. In 2020, this demographic accounted for nearly 34 percent of the 268,884 girls and women reported missing, though they only made up about 3 percent and 12.9 percent of the U.S. population in 2019, respectively.

This disparity stems largely from the racial bias dominating media coverage of missing persons. A study showed this in 2015, noting that white children represented 54 percent of the cases it looked at but received 88 percent percent of media references, whereas Black children represented 35 percent of the cases but made up only 7 percent of media references. As a former police officer and a public relations professional, the Wilson sisters-in-law felt they were uniquely qualified to address this glaring issue impacting their community. And like so many Black women before them, they figured, "Screw it, I'll do it."

The four-part story follows the Wilsons as they raise awareness in communities, alert media outlets to the plight of thousands and urge police departments to earmark more resources for the nationwide epidemic of missing Black people, especially - although not exclusively - those of girls and women. Helmed by four female directors of color - Samantha Knowles, Yoruba Richen, Nadia Hallgren and Geeta Gandbhir - and co-created with journalist Soledad O'Brien, "Black and Missing" expertly crafts a multidimensional look at a complex issue, deftly threading insightful research on the centuries-old systemic racism driving the issue through intimate studies of the Wilsons, the grieving families they've helped and the high-profile cases they've successfully resolved.

Derrica Wilson and Nicole Wilson could not have predicted the series would premiere amid a renewed conversation on " missing white woman syndrome," the media's fascination with missing white girls and women and its exclusion of missing people of color, coined in the early 2000s by scholar Sheri Parks and popularized by Gwen Ifill. For the most part, it was left to Black reporters and Black-centered outlets to address this longstanding disparity.

Not much has changed, but last year, unprecedented public support for the Black Lives Matter movement hinted that things could. Then in September, the disappearance of Gabby Petito catapulted "missing white woman syndrome" back into national headlines, including on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" with Joy Reid, confirming the foundation's mission and providing an opportunity for a work like "Black and Missing" to be heard. Discussions like the ones Reid was having made the Wilsons' documentary suddenly newsworthy to outlets and audiences that have shown a longstanding disinterest in the topic.

Systemic white supremacy and patriarchy have led to the adultification and criminalization of Black children compared to white children, who are granted innocence and vulnerability and therefore protection.

"That sounds depressing," my sister told me on a recent phone call, after I told her the premise of the documentary. If I hadn't watched the series, I would have assumed the same thing. But "Black and Missing" highlights stories of hope and closure alongside realistic examples of vulnerability. Importantly, it points to the effectiveness of communal and self-empowerment and agency practiced by the Wilsons, Black families and expert sources like Black journalists and informed law enforcement officials.

The expertise lies in how they pull that off while meeting truly disturbing, harrowing stories and maddening issues head-on, including grooming, sex trafficking, domestic abuse and economic instability.

The filmmakers draw connections between attitudes toward and perceptions of Black people and the history of popular images of Black people in the media, from minstrel shows, films like "The Birth of a Nation" and the prevalence of images of Black people living in poverty. Specifically, they highlight how systemic white supremacy and patriarchy have led to the adultification and criminalization of Black children compared to white children, who are granted innocence and vulnerability and therefore protection.

In contrast, law enforcement often assumes Black children, adolescents and young adults have run away from home and therefore don't immediately, if ever, investigate these disappearances. The lack of urgency can also mean law enforcement misses out on the critical initial 48-hour period following a person's disappearance.

In "Black and Missing," we learn how the significance of representation of Black people in film, TV and news coverage trickles down and pools into grounds for law enforcement and subsequently media to consider the lives of Black missing children and adolescents as less valuable, and how the questions of what someone who in fact is a runway is running from and potentially running to are rarely considered.

The filmmakers could have easily gone the gloom-and-doom route, a road that's both well traveled in news coverage of tragic events in Black communities and awarded and praised as moving - but only at the expense of Black people and at the cost of perpetuating the same pathological misrepresentation that leads right back to the issue at hand.

Having struck a delicate balance, the final product successfully calls out and subverts the marginalization and devaluation Black missing persons and their communities face. Each episode provides viewers with resources at every step of missing persons' cases, with clear-cut actionable solutions proven effective through years of emotional, physical and economic labor.

True to the foundation's unapologetically for us, by us tagline, "Help us find us," the Wilsons and their colleagues remind Black viewers that we're all we got, but we're pretty damn powerful by our damn selves.

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HBO's new documentary " Black and Missing," which premiered Tuesday, has been three years in the making. But the Black and Missing Foundation, a nonprofit organization fighting to bring awareness to missing Black people and the focus of this series, has been around since 2008, when founders Derrica Wilson and Nicole Wilson mobilized after noticing that both law enforcement and national media outlets disproportionately neglected and misjudged missing Black persons cases.

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New Covid variant leads to a new Republican conspiracy theory 

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Former White house doctor,  Dr. Ronny Jackson, a trump supporter, believes that Omicron was nothing but on purpose as a midterm election ploy produced by democrats. Dr. Ronny Jackson implies that the election is connected with Omicron and that the Democrats would, "Do anything to CHEAT during an election." Jacksons reasoning is out of place as Omicron would put many peoples lives in danger, and if the democrats really wanted to win, why put the people who vote at risk in order to win.

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Biden meets with retailers and grocers to discuss supply chain as holiday season begins

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President Joe Biden met with the CEOs of a number of major retailers and grocers on Monday to discuss the holiday shopping season, part of the administration's ongoing effort to emphasize the strength of the nation's supply chains amid growing concerns.

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World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

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The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce - and in a way not seen in plants and animals.

Formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which it takes its name, xenobots are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide. The tiny blobs were first unveiled in 2020 after experiments showed that they could move, work together in groups and self-heal.

Now the scientists that developed them at the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering said they have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction different from any animal or plant known to science.

"I was astounded by it," said Michael Levin, a professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University who was co-lead author of the new research.

"Frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you ... liberate (the cells) from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce."

Robot or organism?

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the ability to develop into different cell types. To make the xenobots, the researchers scraped living stem cells from frog embryos and left them to incubate. There's no manipulation of genes involved.

"Most people think of robots as made of metals and ceramics but it's not so much what a robot is made from but what it does, which is act on its own on behalf of people,"said Josh Bongard, a computer science professor and robotics expert at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study.

"In that way it's a robot but it's also clearly an organism made from genetically unmodified frog cell."

Bongard said they found that the xenobots, which were initially sphere-shaped and made from around 3,000 cells, could replicate. But it happened rarely and only in specific circumstances. The xenobots used "kinetic replication" - a process that is known to occur at the molecular level but has never been observed before at the scale of whole cells or organisms, Bongard said.

With the help of artificial intelligence, the researchers then tested billions of body shapes to make the xenobots more effective at this type of replication. The supercomputer came up with a C-shape that resembled Pac-Man, the 1980s video game. They found it was able to find tiny stem cells in a petri dish, gather hundreds of them inside its mouth, and a few days later the bundle of cells became new xenobots.

"The AI didn't program these machines in the way we usually think about writing code. It shaped and sculpted and came up with this Pac-Man shape," Bongard said.

"The shape is, in essence, the program. The shape influences how the xenobots behave to amplify this incredibly surprising process."

The xenobots are very early technology - think of a 1940s computer - and don't yet have any practical applications. However, this combination of molecular biology and artificial intelligence could potentially be used in a host of tasks in the body and the environment, according to the researchers. This may include things like collecting microplastics in the oceans, inspecting root systems and regenerative medicine.

While the prospect of self-replicating biotechnology could spark concern, the researchers said that the living machines were entirely contained in a lab and easily extinguished, as they are biodegradable and regulated by ethics experts.

The research was partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a federal agency that oversees the development of technology for military use.

"There are many things that are possible if we take advantage of this kind of plasticity and ability of cells to solve problems," Bongard said.

The study was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PNAS on Monday.

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As World Shuts Borders to Stop Omicron, Japan Offers a Cautionary Tale

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Various places such as Indonesia and Singapore, Japan is shutting down its borders in prevention of Omicron. Writers bring to attention how quickly these countries have decided to bring restrictions and steps of prevention in absence of the expected spread, "Countries across the globe rushed to close their borders to travelers from southern Africa, even in the absence of scientific information about whether such measures were necessary or likely to be effective in stopping the virus’s spread." The strict shut down of borders, have left out students and residents, for example a couple, Ms. Hirose and her fiancé. Without a clear understanding of the future, they bring concern to the topic, "We don’t want to suffer in pain at the thought of not being able to reunite in the near future,” said Ms. Hirose." I stand by the shut down of the borders in prevention but what devastates me the most is the separation of loved ones who live globally.

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Japan, which has been very cautious throughout the pandemic, is again barring all nonresident foreigners. There is an economic and human cost.

The Sensoji temple in Tokyo, which has typically been a top destination for foreign tourists. Credit... Shiho Fukada for The New York Times

TOKYO - With the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus late last week, countries across the globe rushed to close their borders to travelers from southern Africa, even in the absence of scientific information about whether such measures were necessary or likely to be effective in stopping the virus's spread.

Japan has gone further than most other countries so far, announcing on Monday that the world's third-largest economy would be closed off to travelers from everywhere.

It is a familiar tactic for Japan. The country has barred tourists since early in the pandemic, even as most of the rest of the world started to travel again. And it had only tentatively opened this month to business travelers and students, despite recording the highest vaccination rate among the world's large wealthy democracies and after seeing its coronavirus caseloads plunge by 99 percent since August.

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"It's best to be extra cautious when dealing with the risk of a mysterious virus," Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan said as he reversed a recent move to reopen the country's borders to short-term business travelers and international students. Credit Credit... Philip Fong/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

Now, as the doors slam shut again, Japan provides a sobering case study of the human and economic cost of those closed borders. Over the many months that Japan has been isolated, thousands of life plans have been suspended, leaving couples, students, academic researchers and workers in limbo.

Ayano Hirose has not been able to see her fiancé in person for the past 19 months, since he left Japan for his native Indonesia, just two weeks after her parents blessed their marriage plans.

As Japan has remained closed to most outsiders, Ms. Hirose and her fiancé, Dery Nanda Prayoga, saw no clear path to a reunion. Indonesia had started allowing some visitors, but the logistical challenges were steep. So the couple has made do with multiple daily video calls. When they run out of things to talk about, they play billiards on Facebook Messenger or watch Japanese variety shows together online.

"We don't want to suffer in pain at the thought of not being able to reunite in the near future," said Ms. Hirose, 21, who has written letters to the foreign and justice ministries asking for an exemption to allow Mr. Dery to come to Japan. "So we will think positively and continue to hold out hope."

As the United States, Britain and most of Europe reopened over the summer and autumn to vaccinated travelers, Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region opened their borders only a crack, even after achieving some of the world's highest vaccination rates. Now, with the emergence of the Omicron variant, Japan, along with Australia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea, is quickly battening down again.

China, which has barred international tourists since the start of the pandemic, is so far still issuing visas for work or diplomatic purposes, although limited flight options and lengthy quarantines have deterred travelers. Taiwan has prohibited nearly all nonresidents from entering since early in the pandemic. Australia, which only recently started allowing citizens and visa holders to travel abroad, said on Monday that it would delay a relaxation of its border restrictions. Sri Lanka, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand have all barred travelers from southern Africa, where the variant was first reported.

Although the true threat of the new variant is not yet clear, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan told reporters on Monday that he had decided to revoke the relaxations for business travelers and international students in order to "avoid the worst-case scenario."

The government's decision to close again reflects its desire to preserve its successes battling the virus and to prevent the kind of strain on the health care system that it experienced over the summer during an outbreak of the Delta variant.

Japan is recording only about 150 coronavirus cases a day, and before the emergence of the Omicron variant, business leaders had been calling for a more aggressive reopening.

"At the beginning of the pandemic, Japan did what most countries around the world did - we thought we needed proper border controls," Yoshihisa Masaki, director of communications at Keidanren, Japan's largest business lobbying group, said in an interview earlier this month.

But as cases diminished, he said, the continuation of firm border restrictions threatened to stymie economic progress. "It will be like Japan being left behind in the Edo Period," Mr. Masaki said, referring to Japan's isolationist era between the 17th and mid-19th centuries.

Japan had already lagged countries in Southeast Asia, where the economies are dependent on tourism revenues and governments tiptoed out in front in the push to reopen. Thailand had recently reopened to tourists from 63 countries, and Cambodia had just started to welcome vaccinated visitors with minimal restrictions. Other countries, like Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia, were allowing tourists from certain countries to arrive in restricted areas.

Wealthier Asian countries like Japan resisted the pressure to reopen. With the exception of its decision to hold the Summer Olympics, Japan has been cautious throughout the pandemic. It was early to shut its borders and close schools. It rolled out its vaccination campaign only after conducting its own clinical trials. And dining and drinking hours remained restricted in many prefectures until September.

Foreign companies could not bring in executives or other employees to replace those who were moving back home or to another international posting, said Michael Mroczek, a lawyer in Tokyo who is president of the European Business Council.

In a statement on Monday, the council said business travelers or new employees should be allowed to enter provided they follow strict testing and quarantine measures.

"Trust should be put in Japan's success on the vaccination front," the council said. "And Japan and its people are now firmly in a position to reap the economic rewards."

Business leaders said they wanted science to guide future decisions. "Those of us who live and work in Japan appreciate that the government's policies so far have substantially limited the impact of the pandemic here," said Christopher LaFleur, former American ambassador to Malaysia and special adviser to the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

But, he said, "I think we really need to look to the science over the coming days" to see whether a complete border shutdown is justified.

Students, too, have been thrown into uncertainty. An estimated 140,000 or more have been accepted to universities or language schools in Japan and have been waiting months to enter the country to begin their courses of study.

Carla Dittmer, 19, had hoped to move from Hanstedt, a town south of Hamburg, Germany, to Japan over the summer to study Japanese. Instead, she has been waking up every morning at 1 to join an online language class in Tokyo.

"I do feel anxious and, frankly speaking, desperate sometimes, because I have no idea when I would be able to enter Japan and if I will be able to keep up with my studies," Ms. Dittmer said. "I can understand the need of caution, but I hope that Japan will solve that matter with immigration precautions such as tests and quarantine rather than its walls-up policy."

The border closures have economically flattened many regions and industries that rely on foreign tourism.

When Japan announced its reopening to business travelers and international students earlier this month, Tatsumasa Sakai, 70, the fifth-generation owner of a shop that sells ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints, in Asakusa, a popular tourist destination in Tokyo, hoped that the move was a first step toward further reopening.

"Since the case numbers were going down, I thought that we could have more tourists and Asakusa could inch toward coming back to life again," he said. "I guess this time, the government is just taking precautionary measures, but it is still very disappointing."

Mr. Dery and Ms. Hirose also face a long wait. Mr. Dery, who met Ms. Hirose when they were both working at an automotive parts maker, returned to Indonesia in April 2020 after his Japanese work visa expired. Three months before he departed, he proposed to Ms. Hirose during an outing to the DisneySea amusement park near Tokyo.

Ms. Hirose had booked a flight to Jakarta for that May so that the couple could marry, but by then, the borders were closed in Indonesia.

"Our marriage plan fell apart," Mr. Dery, 26, said by telephone from Jakarta. "There's no clarity on how long the pandemic would last."

Just last week, Mr. Dery secured a passport and was hoping to fly to Japan in February or March.

Upon hearing of Japan's renewed border closures, he said he was not surprised. "I was hopeful," he said. "But suddenly the border is about to close again."

"I don't know what else to do," he added. "This pandemic seems endless."

Reporting was contributed by Hisako Ueno and Makiko Inoue in Tokyo; Dera Menra Sijabat in Jakarta, Indonesia; Richard C. Paddock in Bangkok; John Yoon in Seoul; Raymond Zhong in Taipei, Taiwan; and Yan Zhuang in Sydney, Australia.

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San Diego student vaccine mandate temporarily blocked by Ninth Circuit 

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SNSD and its harsh regulations to get the vaccine between a certain time has family of students opposing to it. They believe that if there are expeditions for pregnant people, there should be one for religious reasons. The writer uses logos to bring attention the reasoning and opposition to the use of fetal tissue in the COVID-19 vaccines, "None of the COVID-19 vaccines contain fetal cells, but fetal cell lines, which are grown in a lab from decades-old fetal tissue, were utilized in the research and development of the vaccines dispensed by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson." On the other hand I agree that unvaccinated people should get the vaccine but I disagree by the fact that students have to choose between only two choices, to attend school in person receiving the vaccine or going remote with no exceptions. Reasoning to why people are obligated to get the vaccine is the weakest within this article.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction pending appeal against the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) on Monday after a student-athlete sued the district for religious discrimination because of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

In September, the school board of the SDUSD voted in favor of requiring students aged 16 and up to be fully vaccinated against COVID by Dec. 20, which would require them to get their first dose by Monday. Anyone who failed to comply would be forced to attend school remotely.

In October, counsel with the Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit on behalf of the family of a 16-year-old Scripps Ranch High School student, referred to as "Jane Doe" in the court documents. The suit argued that religious exemptions should be allowed if the school district also allows medical exemptions for pregnant students.
JUDGE BLOCKS BIDEN VACCINE MANDATE FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN 10 STATES
Many religious objections to the vaccines cite alleged use of fetal tissue related to their development. None of the COVID-19 vaccines contain fetal cells, but fetal cell lines, which are grown in a lab from decades-old fetal tissue, were utilized in the research and development of the vaccines dispensed by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

"The injunction shall be in effect only while a 'per se' deferral of vaccination is available to pregnant students under San Diego Unified School District's COVID-19 vaccination mandate," Judges Marsha Berzon and Mark Bennett wrote in the ruling. "The injunction shall terminate upon removal of the 'per se' deferral option for pregnant students."

"I concur in granting Doe's emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal," Judge Sandra Ikuta said. "But I would keep the injunction in effect until the San Diego Unified School District ceases to treat any students (not just pregnant students) seeking relief from the vaccination mandate for secular reasons more favorably than students seeking relief for religious reasons, because any unvaccinated student attending in-person classes poses the same risk to the school district's interest in ensuring a safe school environment."

Describing SDUSD's vaccine as "one of the harshest in the nation," Thomas More Society attorney Paul Jonna said in a statement provided to Fox News that the court order was "a significant victory," despite the case being in its early stages.

"SDUSD should promptly revise its policy to include religious exemptions for students. Otherwise, we are confident that we will fully vindicate our clients' rights either in the Ninth Circuit or in the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary," Jonna said.

"The COVID regime of secular favorites but religious outcasts must end," Jonna added. "There is no vaccine exception to the Free Exercise Clause. Until that truth becomes the law of the land, the battle for religious freedom from state-coerced vaccination-while secular exemptees are given a pass-will not be over."

The SDUSD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction pending appeal against the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) on Monday after a student-athlete sued the district for religious discrimination because of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In September, the school board of the SDUSD voted in favor of requiring students aged 16 and up to be fully vaccinated against COVID by Dec.

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All vaccinated adults should get a Covid-19 booster shot because of the Omicron variant, CDC says

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All vaccinated adults should get a Covid-19 booster shot because of the Omicron variant, CDC says

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According to the article the unvaccinated should be vaccinated as soon as possible following the new Omicron variant. This article has a liberal standpoint considering not all will stand by that they are injecting something not knowing the long term affects. Writers of this article are using logos to demonstrate how the worsening spread can be prevented, "These include vaccination, wearing masks, improving ventilation indoors and keeping a distance from others, especially if they are unvaccinated." Writers mainly bring to attention ways of prevention, vaccinations of the unvaccinated people, and booster shots to a certain extent, but does not include the most concerning topic, long term side affects. I agree that those who are unvaccinated should be vaccinated as soon as possible but there is still some uneasiness.

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All vaccinated adults should get a Covid-19 booster shot because of the Omicron variant, CDC says

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The CDC strengthened recommendations for booster doses of coronavirus vaccine Monday, saying all adults should get boosted six months after the second dose of Pfizer/BioNTech's or Moderna's vaccine or two months after the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.