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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed on Friday that nearly 30,000 Haitian migrants have been encountered on the US-Mexico border as they try to enter the country. Additionally he noted that the camp under the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, which serves the length of the border, has been emptied.
'Nearly 30,000 migrants have been encountered at Del Rio since September 9 with the highest number one time reaching approximately 15,000,' he said at the daily White House press briefing. Meanwhile the BBC reported nearly 19,000 mostly Haitian migrants are heading towards the US. They are in Colombia waiting to cross the border to Panama, Colombian officials say.
Washington Times,
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Kery Murakami
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President Biden’s wavering $3.5 trillion social welfare bill took another hit when Rep. Alma Adams said she’s a no vote unless more money goes to historically Black colleges and universities.
Ms. Adams, a North Carolina Democrat and top advocate for HBCUs, said Mr. Biden is shortchanging the Black schools in the massive spending bill.(Snip)Mr. Biden promised during the campaign to give HBCUs $57 billion to upgrade campuses and improve research facilities. The Government Accounting Office found in 2018 that 46% of the buildings at HBCUs needed repair or replacement. However, the Black colleges are slated to get just $2 billion in the bill, a fraction of what
New York Post,
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Yaron Steinbuch
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A passenger aboard a JetBlue flight from Boston to Puerto Rico tried to storm the cockpit before choking a flight attendant—and shouted at the pilot in Arabic and Spanish to shoot him, officials said.
Flight 261 was about an hour from San Juan late Wednesday when Khalil El Dahr became enraged after a phone call he tried to make was unsuccessful, according to an FBI affidavit obtained by ABC News. Some 25 minutes later, he “pulled himself out of his seat and rushed toward the flight deck yelling to be shot” in Spanish, the document says. The heroic flight attendant pushed El Dahr into a space
New York Daily News,
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Brandon Sapienza
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A group of 13 scientists from around the world released a statement on Thursday demanding that health care providers more carefully consider using acetaminophen (APAP) on pregnant women until the drug is investigated for potentially hindering the development of a fetus inside the womb. The statement, published on Thursday in the journal of Nature Reviews Endocrinology, suggests that “prenatal exposure to APAP might alter fetal development, which could increase the risks of some neurodevelopment, reproductive, urogenital disorders.”(Snip) The statement was also cosigned by 91 scientists from countries across the globe and implores that pregnant women be alerted to the possible risks of APAP as a cautionary measure
Daily Mail (UK),
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Jack Newman
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9/24/2021 9:58:47 AM
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Hundreds of Chinese video game makers have agreed to ban 'politically harmful, historically nihilistic, dirty and pornographic, bloody and terrifying' content in Beijing's latest culture crackdown. The 213 firms, including top industry players Tencent and NetEase, promised to also enforce curbs on underage players. The companies also promised in a joint statement to police their products for 'money worship' or 'effeminacy' in their games.(Snip)That reflects official concern that Chinese pop stars, influenced by the sleek, girlish look of some South Korean and Japanese singers and actors, are failing to encourage China's young men to be masculine enough. Broadcasters should avoid promoting 'vulgar internet celebrities' and admiration of wealth
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Peter Smith
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Washington National Cathedral announced Thursday it has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life, to design new stained-glass windows with themes of racial justice that will replace a set with Confederate imagery that were removed in 2017.
The landmark sanctuary said in a statement that the four windows will tell “a new and more complete” story of the nation’s racial history. Poet Elizabeth Alexander will write a poem to be inscribed in stone tablets alongside the windows, overlaying older ones that venerated the lives of Confederate soldiers.(Snip)The cathedral, also the seat of the Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop
Daily Mail (UK),
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Nikki Schwab
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9/23/2021 10:47:13 PM
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The Pentagon has named an ISIS-K planner killed in a drone strike and said he was 'directly connected' to the suicide attack that killed 13 Americans. The man, Kabir Aidi, was killed in an American drone strike on August 27 one day after the troops were blown up outside Kabul's airport. It comes a week after the Pentagon admitted the US accidentally killed ten innocent people—including seven children—in a drone strike two days later on August 29 in Kabul. Aidi 'was an ISIS-K high profile attack lethal aid facilitator involved in attack planning and magnetic IED production,' Army Maj. John Rigsbee, a CENTCOM spokesman, told
Daily Mail (UK),
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Peter Belfiore
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The Oakland Unified School District passed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for students 12 and older Wednesday, despite a lack of full approval from the FDA that it is safe for children. The measure makes it one of the first districts, with its student population of nearly 50,000, in Northern California to pass such a vaccine requirement and follows a similar decision made by the Los Angeles school district—the second largest in the US—earlier this month.
The Piedmont and Hayward districts also passed similar measures Wednesday.(Snip)It was met with concern and some outrage, among parents, students and the school board members themselves.
New York Post,
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Steven Nelson
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Washington—Republicans say a new non-partisan report indicates President Joe Biden improperly avoided paying Medicare taxes before he took office—raising eyebrows and the possibility that he owes the IRS as much as $500,000 in back taxes.(Snip)Banks said the report shows Biden improperly used “S corporations” to avoid paying Medicare tax on speaking fees and book sales in 2017 and 2018.
Biden and first lady Jill Biden routed more than $13 million through S corporations and counted less than $800,000 of it as salary eligible for the Medicare tax—exempting the rest from what would have been a 3.8 percent rate, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Washington Times,
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Emily Zantow
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FBI data is expected to show murders in the U.S. increased by nearly 30% in 2020—the highest annual spike in at least 60 years, according to news reports. The agency’s Uniform Crime Report is set to be released Monday, but preliminary data temporarily uploaded to the FBI website showed murders last year went up nearly 29% compared to 2019, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. If the data remains unchanged, it will reportedly be the largest single-year increase since the 12.7% change in 1968. Around 21,500 murders were reportedly tallied last year, which is approximately 5,000 more than in 2019—but the overall murder rate is still
New York Post,
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Emily Crane
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Hunter Biden’s business contacts touted his access to his father, “State, Treasury,” his relationship with then-Secretary of State John Kerry’s stepson, as well as his ties to the “highest level” in China, as they weighed whether to work with him on a potential Libya deal in 2015, newly uncovered emails show. The two emails—published by Insider on Thursday—date back to 2015, when Joe Biden was vice president, and reference getting Hunter’s help on a deal regarding billions in Libyan assets frozen by the Obama administration.
The emails are unrelated to Hunter’s infamous laptop.(Snip)“Per phone conversation I met with #2 son. He wants $2 per year retainer
New York Post,
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Jackie Salo
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An Illinois woman, who allegedly tried to go to Hawaii with a bogus vaccine card that spelled Moderna as “Maderna,” is wanted for skipping a court hearing in the case. Chloe Mrozak, 24, of Oak Lawn, is the subject of a $500 warrant for her arrest after she failed to appear Wednesday at a hearing in the case held over Zoom. The woman had been released without bail earlier this month on two misdemeanor counts of violating Hawaii’s rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In an attempt to opt out of the state’s 10-day traveler quarantine, Mrozak uploaded a vaccination card with the embarrassing typo
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A bit of comic relief in these dire days.