Ferdinand was working for a UK broadcaster in the game between Wolves and Manchester United at Molineux on May 23, a game which saw the attendance of 10,000 home supporters as authorities began to relax Covid-19 restrictions which had been in place for much of the English season. Things soon …
Read More »‘Unusual’ winter vomiting bug outbreaks on rise in England, public health agency finds, as Covid-19 restrictions are eased
A “routine surveillance” across the health system has revealed an “unusual” increase in the number of “out-of-season” disease outbreaks caused by the vomiting bug over the last five weeks, Public Health England (PHE) said in a statement on Friday. A total of 154 outbreaks have been reported between late May …
Read More »Not a serious candidate?! Caitlyn Jenner accused of bailing out of California governor’s race to film reality TV in Australia
Jenner, who in her previous life as an Olympic decathlete fathered the two youngest stepsisters of the Kardashian brood, has been drawing attention and controversy with her April announcement that she will be challenging California’s Democratic incumbent Governor Gavin Newsom for his job – as a Republican. However, she seems …
Read More »US Navy’s explosive test off Florida coast triggers 3.9-magnitude ‘quake’ as world’s most expensive warship undergoes shock trial
The US Geological Survey reported the 3.9 magnitude tremor on Friday, after the Navy’s second shock trial for the USS Gerald R. Ford, a $13 billion warship and the latest aircraft carrier to be introduced into the American fleet. The blast was detonated about 100 miles off of Florida’s Flagler …
Read More »GOP Senator Graham claims ‘big win’ against cancel culture after Chik-fil-A allowed into Indiana campus despite protests
“Big win! Great to hear Chick-fil-A is coming to Notre Dame,” Graham tweeted on Thursday evening, praising the “patriots” who stood up against “cancel culture” at the private Catholic university in South Bend, Indiana. The triumphant tweets were prompted by Notre Dame’s announcement it would allow Chik-fil-A to open a …
Read More »‘Fauci ouchie’: WH releases ‘cringe’ video of Fauci reading glowing tweets about himself & Covid-19 vaccine
The four minute video was released Friday and is part of the White House’s strategy to promote Covid-19 vaccines to the public. Both Fauci and the ‘Good 4 U’ musician read tweets about themselves and the vaccines in the video, and many of them are glowing endorsements of Fauci, with …
Read More »Former NASA executive jailed for Covid-19 relief fraud, spent $300k on credit cards, cars, Disney resorts
Andrew Tezna, 36, was sentenced on Thursday in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia to 18 months in prison, out of 30 years he potentially faced after pleading guilty to fraud. Tezna “essentially treated Covid-19 relief programs as a personal piggy bank,” according to Raj Parekh, acting US Attorney for …
Read More »‘Accusations not supported by facts’: Facebook dismisses Biden’s charge of ‘killing people’ with Covid-19 misinfo in fiery rebuke
“We will not be distracted by accusations which aren’t supported by the facts,” Facebook spokesperson Dani Lever said in a Friday statement. Lever went on to claim that two billion users have “viewed authoritative information about Covid-19 and vaccines” on Facebook and added that over three million have used the …
Read More »Texas resident hospitalized with viral MONKEYPOX infection after arriving from Nigeria, CDC says no reason for alarm
Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) reported the first confirmed case of the rare viral illness in a statement on Friday. The infected individual arrived in the US from Lagos, Nigeria, on July 8 via Atlanta, and traveled from Atlanta to Dallas Love Field airport on July 9. The …
Read More »Federal judge strikes down Obama-era immigration policy, bars new DACA applicants but allows current enrollees to stay in US
In a Friday ruling, US District Court Judge Andrew Hanen said DACA had no legal basis and violated the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal statute governing how agencies issue policies and regulations. He therefore ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the program, to stop approving new applications. …
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