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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 07: Reba McEntire attends the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 07, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
This week, the Reba actress explained on a TikTok live stream that she and her boyfriend, Young Sheldon star Rex Linn, had tested positive for the virus despite being vaccinated.
"I just want to say one thing: this has been a hard year and it's getting rougher again," she said. "You guys, please stay safe. Wear your mask. Do what you have to do. Stay home."
Though McEntire had planned to return to the stage later this year, she shared that it may not be in the cards due to the rapidly spreading delta variant, which is more contagious than the original strain of COVID-19. Across the United States, cases are rising once again, especially in low vaccination areas.
“Spikes are going everywhere right now ... and it's all over the country, this new variant," McEntire explained. "We have plans right now to go back on tour in January, February and March. We have plans of being with Brooks & Dunn at Caesars in the first two weeks, almost three weeks of December, but we don't know if that's going to go."
It was just in July that McEntire returned to the Grand Ole Opry for a packed show. Sharing a photo of the crowd, she wrote on Instagram at the time, “It was great to be back on stage at the @opry with a live audience for the #4thofjuly!”
Dr. Esther Choo, professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, explained to Yahoo Finance, “There’s a lot of talk about how people are getting COVID anyway, even though they’re vaccinated, and that is true and that is expected because there’s no vaccine that’s 100% all the time. So we are seeing these breakthrough cases. Many of them are asymptomatic, totally without symptoms, and they’re getting tested as part of contact tracing or other screening so that they can go on to certain activities or they have very mild symptoms.”
Armoni Howard was a conservative activist from San Jose, California.
He attended several local events and was a friend of conservative
activist Philip Anderson.
In early July, Armoni’s mother Apiffany found him in the bathroom in
the middle of the night. He was slumped over the bathtub not breathing.
She called 911 and started chest compressions. When the ambulance got
there she knew her son was dead.
On Thursday night we spoke with Apiffany Lentini about her son’s
death. She told us she wanted everyone to know about her son and that
the coronavirus vaccine took his life. Armoni was her only child.
Armoni Howard with Eric Metaxas and friends
According to Apiffany, her son was in good health. He belonged to a
dojo and frequently took his Siberian Husky out for a run. She said he
took the COVID vaccine before his death. At first he told her he was
getting nosebleeds at work. Then she found him dead in the bathroom.
Apiffany said Calgary Chapel was there for her after her loss. She is
a member there. in fact, the only news of his death was posted by the
Calgary community.
Saturday night, after a 26-year old member of their congregation — Armoni Howard — sadly died from a Covid shot, I sat on a panel with a group of people at the bravely led Calvary Chapel in San Jose who were explaining the legality of saying no to vaccine mandates.
My role on the panel was to communicate “SAY NO TO THE UNSAFE, INEFFECTIVE, AND EXPERIMENTAL COVID SHOT AND SAYNO TO THE UNSAFE, INEFFECTIVE, AND EXPERIMENTAL FACE MASK
Apiffany said the Calgary community went above and beyond what she
ever expected. Assistant pastor Neil of the Values Advocacy Council sat
in on the call tonight with Apiffany.
She hopes that her story about her son Armoni will prevent more
deaths and save families from the suffering she is going through.
Nearly 1,800 Americans directly affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are opposing President Joe Biden’s participation in any memorial events this year unless he upholds his pledge to declassify U.S. government evidence that they believe may show a link between Saudi Arabian leaders and the attacks.
The victims’ family members, first responders and survivors will release a statement Friday calling on Biden to skip 20th-anniversary events in New York and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon unless he releases the documents, which they believe implicate Saudi officials in supporting the acts of terrorism. The group says that as a candidate Biden pledged to be more transparent and release as much information as possible but that his administration has since then ignored their letters and requests.
“We cannot in good faith, and with veneration to those lost, sick, and injured, welcome the president to our hallowed grounds until he fulfills his commitment,” they wrote in a statement obtained by NBC News.
“Since the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission in 2004 much investigative evidence has been uncovered implicating Saudi government officials in supporting the attacks,” the statement says. “Through multiple administrations, the Department of Justice and the FBI have actively sought to keep this information secret and prevent the American people from learning the full truth about the 9/11 attacks.”
Among the documents the group seeks are supporting evidence found during a widespread FBI investigation into the attacks that examined alleged Saudi links and was completed in 2016.
Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce, died at the World Trade Center, said he and his cosigners “collectively are at our wits’ end with our own government.”
“We are frustrated, tired and saddened with the fact that the U.S. government for 20 years has chosen to keep information about the death of our loved ones behind lock and key,” said Eagleson, who is among a group of victims’ relatives who filed a federal lawsuit accusing Saudi Arabia of being complicit in the attacks.
While the 9/11 Commission report found that Saudi Arabia had been a “problematic ally,” particularly when it came to sharing intelligence, the investigation found no evidence implicating Saudi leaders in the attack.
“The Commission staff found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or as individual senior officials knowingly support or supported al Qaeda; however, a lack of awareness of the problem and a failure to conduct oversight over institutions created an environment in which such activity has flourished,” the report said.
It did, however, identify Saudi nationals as a major source of funding for Al Qaeda. The Saudi government has denied any connection to the attacks.
Eagleson said he is convinced that senior leaders in the Saudi government knew about the planned attack and did nothing to stop it.
Among the evidence he cites is the 2017 sworn testimony of former FBI Special Agent Stephen Moore, who was in charge of the Los Angeles Task Force Team for PENTTBOM, the FBI’s investigation of the 9/11 attacks.
“Based on evidence we gathered during the course of our investigation, I concluded that diplomatic and intelligence personnel of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia knowingly provided material support to the two 9/11 hijackers and facilitated the 9/11 plot. My colleagues in our investigation shared that conclusion,” Moore said in his affidavit.
Image: Brett Eagleson, son of Sept. 11 victim Bruce Eagleson (Jessica Hill / AP)
The administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump also declined to declassify supporting documents, citing national security concerns. The Trump administration invoked the state secrets privilege in 2019 to justify keeping documents classified.
“Twenty years later, there is simply no reason — unmerited claims of ‘national security’ or otherwise — to keep this information secret,” the group wrote. “But if President Biden reneges on his commitment and sides with the Saudi government, we would be compelled to publicly stand in objection to any participation by his administration in any memorial ceremony of 9/11.”
Eagleson said in an interview, “The buck stops at the president.”
He and his fellow 9/11 community members have been “ignored” by the attorney general, the FBI director and other senior officials in the administration, he said.
Biden “really needs to be the one to step up and take action,” Eagleson said, adding that the families hope for a day when the president is “working with us and not against us.”
Eagleson said his group was optimistic after a letter from candidate Biden in October pledging transparency about the matter.
“I intend to be a President for all Americans, and will hear all of their voices,” Biden wrote. “The 9/11 Families are right to seek full truth and accountability. ... I will direct my Attorney General to personally examine the merits of all cases where the invocation of privilege is recommended, and to err on the side of disclosure in cases where, as here, the events in question occurred two decades or longer ago.”
But most letters and attempts to reach the administration since Biden was inaugurated have gone unanswered, and now, Eagleson said, patience has run out.
“We had great hope that President Biden, who campaigned on bringing truth and trust back to the Oval Office, would value the lives and sacrifices of America’s citizens over diplomatic relations with a country accused of mass murder,” Eagleson said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Eagleson said he believes the U.S. government will not release the documents because of deep diplomatic and military ties between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
“Twenty years is way too long for anybody, especially thousands of American families, to learn the truth about what happened to their loved ones,” he said, saying it was “cruel and unusual that the government would keep us waiting this long.”
Eagleson argued that the community of 9/11 family members, survivors and first responders did everything the government asked of it after the attacks. “Now, 20 years later, when we need them, they are rubbing salt in an open wound and not giving us the documents,” he said.
“It should not take this much fighting,” he said. “The president of the United States should be standing next to us.”
Moderna said Thursday that people will likely need a COVID-19 vaccine
booster dose to protect against future mutations of the coronavirus,
touting the “robust” antibody response generated by the additional shot.
Vaccine developers at Moderna “are looking forward
towards our vision of a single dose annual booster that provides
protection against COVID-19, flu and [respiratory syncytial virus] for
adults. … We believe this is just the beginning,” CEO Stephane Bancel
said.
The company has conducted studies to determine the benefits of
administering a third “booster” shot of its two-dose vaccine to protect
against the highly contagious delta variant that accounts for a majority
of COVID-19 cases, as well as any future strains of the virus that
develop.
Moderna’s Phase 2 trial of a 50-microgram booster dose generated a
strong immune response against the delta, gamma, and beta variants — all
of which seem to spread more easily and quickly than other variants,
which could lead to more COVID-19 outbreaks. The third dose produced an
antibody response nearly as strong as the response generated in
previously unvaccinated people who received the first two doses of the
vaccine.
MORE… On Thursday Moderna also announced their COVID vaccine brought in more that $4 billion in second-quarter sales, helping to push the vaccine developer into a profit
In an unexplainable and abhorrent headline, the NY Times actually referred to Osama Bin Laden, one of the most notorious terrorists and the man responsible for 2,977 Americans dying on 9/11, as a “devoted family man.”
Yes, in case you were wondering, their slogan still reads “All the news that’s fit to print.”
The article, written by Louise Richardson, was a review of Peter Bergen’s book “The Rise and Fall of Usama bin Laden.” Richardson seems to admire the “man” behind countless terror attacks, and calls the book a “page-turner that weaves back and forth between the man and the terrorist.”
She writes: “Two of bin Laden’s attributes that shine through in Bergen’s account are his extraordinary self-belief and the ways in which he modeled his life on that of the Prophet Muhammad. Rather than try to explain where bin Laden’s self-confidence came from, Bergen simply describes it. It is all the more fascinating as a result”
She compares bin Laden to other “revolutionaries” and cites his inability to “articulate a positive vision” as to why the rest of the world could not get on board with the dictatorship that he was using terrorism to create.
Her disdain for America is also apparent, but hey she wouldn’t be a writer for the New York Times if it wasn’t.
“In all of his speeches and papers, bin Laden, like most revolutionaries, never articulated a positive vision of the new world he wished to create. The American counterrevolutionaries, for their part, invariably stretched the emergency powers they were accorded”
Robert J O’Neill, the former Navy Seal who killed bin Laden, ridiculed the outlet over their coverage of the former Al-Qaeda leader.
“Family man. He used his wife as a human shield,” O’Neill reacted, adding, “Lucky for me he was taller than her.”
After O’Neill and others spoke out, the Times retitled its book review, which now reads “A Fuller Picture of Osama bin Laden’s Life.”
The New York Times is an anti-American joke. Where were they located on 9-11?
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday admitted the Biden
Administration is dumping thousands of Covid-positive illegal aliens
into McAllen, Texas.
As reported on Wednesday, the city of McAllen, Texas constructed
emergency shelters for illegal aliens released by Border Patrol agents.
The city of McAllen told Fox News that the federal government is
releasing “an alarming number of immigrants into McAllen, and that the
feds aren’t testing them for COVID.”
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Psaki about the thousands of illegals pouring over the border in McAllen, Texas.
Psaki admitted her boss is releasing Covid-positive illegals into McAllen.
But don’t worry because Psaki said the illegals are required to wear masks.
"The View" failed to disclose the conflict of interest that exists with co-host Whoopi Goldberg as she led the discussion about the scandals plaguing Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The
ABC daytime program kicked off its "hot topics" on Wednesday with the
stunning report released by New York Attorney General Letitia James,
which outlined damning sexual harassment allegations against the
governor.
However,
there was no acknowledgment by Goldberg nor from anyone on "The View"
that she was one of Cuomo's celebrity fundraisers.
The New York Post reported
back in November that Goldberg, along with Ben Stiller and Rosie Perez,
were headlining a December virtual reelection fundraiser to commemorate
Cuomo's 63rd birthday.
A
more exclusive "host" reception reportedly welcomed donors who
contributed at least $10,000 while the larger reception gave six tickets
to anyone who donated $5,000 or three tickets to those who donated
$2,500. Donors who gave $1,000 received one ticket while "young
professionals and 'activists'" were able to attend with a mere $50
donation.
Goldberg's fundraising efforts for the governor date back to 2013, as the Post reported, when she emceed a $1,500-a-plate dinner for Cuomo at the Waldorf Astoria.
ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
(The View/AP)
This isn't the first time that "The View" failed to mention
Goldberg's close ties to Cuomo. Back in March, Goldberg led two
separate discussions of the latest developments in the harassment
scandal, including the claims of a third accuser and the governor's
press conference in which he expressed regret over his conduct, but
refused to resign.
On
Wednesday, co-host Meghan McCain called out CNN and its anchor Chris
Cuomo for staying silent on the subject during "Cuomo Prime Time."
"You
want to talk about nepotism? Not having to talk about the biggest
scandal in the country when it has to do with your brother and you’re
hosting CNN, that’s nepotism. The Cuomo family and CNN are the worst
kinds of nepotism that the media has an example of," McCain said. "If it
were my brother and he had been accused of this, you'd be damn straight
I would be talking about it on 'The View' this morning, and that makes
all of them cowards."
"I hope Governor Cuomo is either forced out
of office or resigns, and I hope that his brother Chris Cuomo has any
kind of retribution whatsoever for his show … We wonder why people hate
the media and hate journalism," she added.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @JosephWulfsohn.
Armoni Howard
Armoni Howard with Eric Metaxas and friends
