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LANSING, Mich.—A public hearing on a proposed new law to ban employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus drew hundreds of people, many dressed in hospital scrubs, to the state capital on Thursday morning. [emaillocker id=521003] The overwhelmingly supportive crowd jammed into a hearing on the bill conducted by the House Committee on Workforce, Trades, and Talent, filling the spacious committee room and four overflow rooms to capacity. The Informed Consent in the Workplace Act (pdf), offered by Rep. Sue Allor (R-Wolverine) and 16 other sponsors, prohibits employers from threatening, firing, discriminating, retaliating against,…

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson—who is fully vaccinated—and his wife, Jacqueline Jackson, have both been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a statement on Aug. 21. Jackson, 79, received his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021 during a publicized event and urged others to get the vaccine as soon as possible. It isn’t clear if his wife, who is 77, also got the vaccine. [emaillocker id=521003] Both are being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, according to a statement from Jackson’s nonprofit group, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. The organization didn’t provide an update on their status. “There are no further updates at this…

BORIS JOHNSON’S net zero dream appears to have been dealt a crushing blow as Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has admitted eco-friendly heat pumps are not as good as traditional gas boilers yet. Mr Kwarteng’s comments arrive amid a raging debate about the future of gas boilers in British households. The Government has now published its Hydrogen Strategy, stating that it aims to phase out gas boilers by 2026. Many, however, fear opting for greener alternatives like heat pumps is going to hit the taxpayers in their pockets. Mr Kwarteng has now warned heat pumps are “still in their infancy” and…

ELON MUSK is “interested” in building a Tesla gigafactory in the UK after facing a red tape nightmare in Berlin, Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has exclusively told Express.co.uk. [emaillocker id=521003] The Tesla CEO said he hoped the first cars will roll off the production line in Gruenheide, near Berlin, in October after visiting the site to grill both state leaders and executives of the company building the factory. Tesla has pushed back the expected opening of the gigafactory to late 2021 following German bureaucratic hurdles and environmental concerns. But as the environmental agency in Brandenburg has yet to give final…

Labour has called for the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to resign or be sacked after it emerged he delegated a reportedly crucial call to an Afghan counterpart to a junior minister last week while he was on holiday. After days of increasing pressure on Raab over both his department’s response to the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan and his decision to return from a beach holiday only on Sunday, Labour said he “should be ashamed” of his actions. Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary, said: “How can Boris Johnson allow the foreign secretary to continue in his role after yet another catastrophic failure…

The notion that he has a point to prove after returning to England does not interest Romelu Lukaku. Chelsea’s new £97.5m striker has heard the jibes about his game before – the comments about his first touch, the whispers about his physique – but he does not intend to spend much time worrying about his critics. [emaillocker id=521003] “Being with my back against the wall is something that I experienced since my youngest age,” he says. “It’s nothing new to me. Whatever people are saying, let them talk. They have a perception. You do want respect, but you don’t want to keep…

Many San Diego residents attended a county board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday to express their fury and disappointment over the county’s COVID-19 restrictions, such as lockdowns, universal masking requirements, and vaccination mandates. Mariam, a former health care worker and first-generation Afghan American, told the board that she has been left “completely disappointed” by the county’s decisions in managing public health and COVID-19—the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. “My family came here from Afghanistan. They ran away from the Taliban, from the rule that they were going to do over us,” Mariam said during the hearing. “You know what you guys…

Students at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University will be fined up to $2,275 and lose internet access if they fail to comply with the university’s COVID-19 vaccination policies. [emaillocker id=521003] The private liberal arts college in New Haven County announced the new penalties on Aug. 16 in an email sent to some 600 students who haven’t yet provided proof of COVID-19 vaccination or requested an exemption. Students at Quinnipiac were required to submit their vaccination records by Aug. 1, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times. Those not in compliance by Sept. 14 will begin to face $100 weekly fines, with increases…

MPs hammered Boris Johnson over the ‘catastrophic failure’ in Afghanistan today – as the PM swiped at Joe Biden saying the ‘successful’ Afghan mission could not continue without ‘American might’. As the desperate evacuation effort continues in Kabul, the premier defended his handling of the chaos insisting there was a ‘hard reality’ as a result of the US stance. [emaillocker id=521003] Mr Johnson told the recalled chamber – packed out for the first time since last year after Covid restrictions were dropped – that the ‘sacrifice’ of British troops was ‘seared into our national consciousness’. He said the ‘core mission’…

Facebook has said that it will maintain its ban of pro-Taliban content under “U.S. law,” and that it was blocking WhatsApp accounts linked to the terrorist group, after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on Sunday. [emaillocker id=521003] “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under U.S. law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies,” a Facebook spokesperson told several media outlets. Facebook, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has a “dedicated team of Afghanistan experts, who are native Dari and Pashto speakers and have knowledge of local context, helping to identify and alert us to emerging…