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The Texas Department of State Health Services has completed testing of the specimen submitted Thursday by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. The result is negative for Ebola.

The test was to evaluate the case of a sheriff’s deputy who sought medical care yesterday.

The deputy, who does not have a fever and is doing better, had been briefly inside the apartment of a man who later died of Ebola. The Ebola patient had already been hospitalized so the deputy did not have direct contact with him. All known cases of Ebola have occurred through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids or exposure to contaminated objects, such as needles.   Continue reading “Sheriff’s deputy tests negative for Ebola”

National Review Online – by Katherine Timpf

A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple penguins” instead.

“Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ and similarly gendered expressions to get kids’ attention,” instructs a training document given to middle-school teachers at the Lincoln Public Schools.   Continue reading “School Told to Call Kids ‘Purple Penguins’ Because ‘Boys and Girls’ Is Not Inclusive to Transgender”

Fox News

A massive swarm of bees attacked four people in southern Arizona Wednesday, killing one and hospitalizing another.

Douglas Fire Capt. Ray Luzania told The Arizona Republic that two landscape workers were found in critical condition outside a residence on East 20th Street at about 10:30 a.m. One of the workers had collapsed and was having trouble breathing when emergency workers arrived. Both were rushed to a local hospital, where one of the victims was pronounced dead. Luzania said the injured second victim person was believed to have been stung more than 100 times.    Continue reading “Massive bee swarm in Arizona attacks four people, killing one”

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Gateway Pundit – by Kristinn Taylor

Michelle Malkin asked last month, “Where in the world is jihad pilot Adnan Shukrijumah?”

Sources for the watchdog group Judicial Watch say they have the answer: The ‘Most Wanted’ al Qaeda terrorist was conspiring with narco-terrorists in New Mexico in March of this year.   Continue reading “Top Al-Qaeda Terrorist Adnan Shukrijumah Held Meetings in New Mexico THIS YEAR”

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The Newtown Bee

WATERTOWN (AP) — The 26th and final playground built in memory of the Newtown school shooting victims has opened in Connecticut.

Volunteers and relatives of Dawn Hochsprung gathered in Watertown on Sunday to dedicate the playground in her honor. Hochsprung was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School, where she, 20 first graders and five other educators were shot to death in December 2012.   Continue reading “Final Playground In Honor Of Sandy Hook Victims Opens”

Eric Frein Described Killing Trooper in Handwritten Letter: PoliceYahoo News – by RHEANA MURRAY

Accused cop killer Eric Frein described in disturbing detail what it was like when he allegedly shot two state troopers, killing one and injuring another, in a handwritten note found by a police dragnet in the Pennsylvania woods.

Frein, who has been on the run for nearly a month, appears to describe the murder of Cpl. Bryon Dickson in one handwritten letter.

“Got a shot around 11 p.m. and took it. He dropped. I was surprised at how quick,” Lt. Col. George Bivens said at a press conference today, reading from the note police believe Frein wrote. “I took a follow-up shot on his head-neck area. He was still and quiet after that.”   Continue reading “Eric Frein Described Killing Trooper in Handwritten Letter: Police”

PHOTO: Thomas Eric Duncan, identified by a former employer and seen in this undated Facebook photo, is the first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the United States.ABC News

The Ebola patient in an isolation unit in a Texas hospital, Thomas Eric Duncan, has died, officials said today.

“It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 a.m.,” the hospital said in a statement.

“Mr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease, Ebola. He fought courageously in this battle. Our professionals, the doctors and nurses in the unit, as well as the entire Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas community, are also grieving his passing,” the statement said.   Continue reading “Texas Ebola Patient Thomas Eric Duncan Has Died”

Reuters / Amir CohenRT

The Israeli Army fired artillery shells into Lebanon after at least two IDF troops were injured in a blast on the border between the two states, an Israeli security source told Reuters.

An Israeli military spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the retaliatory incident, which took place near the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Shouba.

Earlier reports suggested three Israeli soldiers sustained wounds, but the Israeli Defense Force’s official Twitter is talking of two soldiers being injured.   Continue reading “Israel shells S. Lebanon after border blast wounds two IDF soldiers – report”

Newsmax – by Melanie Batley

The airstrikes ordered by President Barack Obama have begun to degrade the Islamic State (ISIS), but will not be capable of eradicating the militant group unless Syrian President Bashar Assad is overthrown, say Arizona Sen. John McCain and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham.

In an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, the two Republicans say that the current strategy of dealing with “ISIS first” may unintentionally bolster the Assad regime which the United States has long said must come to an end.   Continue reading “McCain, Graham: Remove Assad to Defeat ISIS”

PHOTO: A member of the Scranton, Pa., Police Special Operations Group, prepares to ender the woods, Oct. 2, 2014, in Barrett Township, Pa., to search for suspected killer Eric Frein. ABC News – by AARON KATERSKY and RHEANA MURRAY

A handwritten letter penned by Eric Frein has been found in the Pennsylvania woods as police continue to scour the area looking for the accused cop shooter, authorities said today.

Details in the letter lead police to believe it was written by Frein, who’s been on the run since Sept. 12.

The note offers no motive for the shooting death of Cpl. Bryon Dickson and the wounding of another trooper when Frein allegedly ambushed the Blooming Grove police barracks, a law enforcement official familiar with the case told ABC News   Continue reading “Eric Frein’s Handwritten Note Found During Manhunt: Police”

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Oct 6 (Reuters) – Former Treasury Secretary Henry “Hank” Paulson told a packed courtroom on Monday that AIG shareholders were singled out for punishment as part of the U.S. government’s attempt to contain the contagion of the 2008 financial crisis.

The testimony from Paulson appeared to bolster some claims contained in a lawsuit brought by former AIG Chief Executive Hank Greenberg, who contends the terms of a government loan to AIG cheated its shareholders.   Continue reading “Ex-Treasury Secretary Paulson says AIG bailout was punitive”

insect diamondback moth vacc gmo 263x164 First GMO Mosquitoes: Now Oxitec Wants to Release GMO Moths in New YorkNatural Society – by Christina Sarich

Will the crazy GMO-creations ever come to a halt? Are our crops not enough for biotech? GM mosquitoes developed by Oxitec, a UK company, were already released in other countries as a means to control disease. The company is also trying to release them in the Florida Keys, while working to release GM olive flies in Spain. But it gets even more bizarre – now Oxitec wants to release GM moths in New York.

GeneWatch UK has been following Oxitec’s moves and has noted that the company’s GM experiments have not undergone environmental assessment risks at all. The company is a spin off from a multinational seed company, with deep ties to Syngenta. Oxitech claims to be in the business of pest control, but another theory is that they are in the business with other eugenicists for pest creation.   Continue reading “First GMO Mosquitoes: Now Oxitec Wants to Release GMO Moths in New York”

Louisiana Train Derai_Cham640100614.jpgReuters – by Daniel Wallis

The conductor of a Union Pacific freight train and an engineer on board were injured on Sunday when it crashed into a tractor-trailer that was stuck on tracks in northern Louisiana, a spokesman for Union Pacific said.

Two locomotives and 17 rail cars were derailed by the collision in Mer Rouge, said spokesman Jeff DeGraff. Two of the cars were carrying argon, a non-flammable refrigerated gas, and a three-block evacuation was put in effect in the area.   Continue reading “Two injured as freight train derails in north Louisiana”