Rolled out just hours apart on Thursday, the new mandates apply to all state workers, or nearly 500,000 people in Maryland and another 122,000 in Virginia. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, pointed to the spread of the more contagious Delta variant as he announced the decision, also launching into …
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“I want to take this occasion to apologize for having skipped some parts of my speech at the ceremony,” Suga said at a news conference after an event to mark the anniversary. He went on to summarize parts of the address he passed over, including recognition that Japan is the …
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“In the past week, we have been made aware of three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated,” CNN president Jeff Zucker told staffers in a memo, which reporter Oliver Darcy posted Thursday on Twitter. The move marks one of the first publicized cases of a private-sector US employer …
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the proposed sale on Thursday, insisting that Taiwan is an “inalienable” part of the country’s territory while condemning Washington for emboldening Taiwanese separatist factions and threatening “peace and stability” in the region. “China will resolutely take legitimate and necessary counter-measures in light of the development …
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PM Ralph Gonsalves met hundreds of raucous demonstrators as he arrived at parliament on Thursday afternoon, with protesters gathering to denounce a bill that would compel Covid-19 shots for the Caribbean nation. Gonsalves’ office confirmed in a statement that he was “physically assaulted and wounded by opposition demonstrators while attempting …
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The move was announced by Qatar Airways in a statement on Thursday, with the airline saying its regulator advised it to temporarily put 13 Airbus A350 planes out of service. “Qatar Airways continues to closely monitor the significant condition across its Airbus A350 fleet in which the fuselage surface below …
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which Fauci has run since 1984, gave $424,455 to the University of Georgia to inject a group of beagles with experimental vaccines and then infest them with parasites, WCW reported last week, citing documents obtained from the government under a Freedom …
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Boeing 737 Max airplanes and some other 737 models are affected by the safety directive, which requires operators to verify that all objects in the cargo hold are nonflammable and noncombustible. Affected planes are suspected to have a “failed electronic flow control of the air conditioning packs that vent air …
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“If I end up spending $200,000, if I spend ten more dollars on it, you know what, I get to be here to do the work, so suck it up,” Bush said on Wednesday in a CBS News interview. “And defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund …
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) probe will examine all types of force used by Phoenix police, as well as whether officers retaliate against people for their speech, Garland said on Thursday in a statement. Biden administration officials also are concerned that Phoenix officers may engage in discriminatory policing or illegally …
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