Posts Tagged ‘whether’

Federal prosecutors looking into whether Gaetz obstructed justice

The witness later spoke with prosecutors, the sources said. Gaetz has denied all wrongdoing, including obstructing justice or having sex with the trafficked 17-year-old, who was a friend of both Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend and the witness prosecutors interviewed. The obstruction probe is the latest development in the ongoing federal investigation into Gaetz, a top ally of […]

Whether all Indians will get vaccinated? When?

There is a very wide supply-demand gap, from a market perspective… Even if we secure necessary stocks of vaccine in near future, its cost and affordability will be real challenges.      We have a wonderful government which strangely thinks only SII and BB would produce and ignore several PSU and private vaccine makers in India.  ‘Vasudhaivaka […]

Sweden Says PCR Tests ‘Cannot Be Used to Determine Whether Someone is Contagious’

by Arjun Walia According to the Swedish Public Health Agency, PCR technology cannot distinguish between viruses capable of infecting cells and viruses that have been neutralized in the immune system. As a result, these tests “cannot be used to determine whether someone is contagious or not.” They emphasize what many other experts in the field […]

Miracle find or hoax? Scientists investigating whether message in bottle was thrown from Titanic hours before it sank

A message in a bottle, purportedly written hours before the fateful Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, is being investigated by scientists to know if it’s a hoax or an artifact of the historic tragedy. A letter dated 13 April, 1912, bearing the name of 12-year-old French schoolgirl Mathilde Lefebvre was found washed up in […]

Biden State Dept says Israel has right to self-defense, won’t say whether Palestine does

State Department spokesperson Ned Price began his Monday press conference by condemning Hamas for launching rockets at Israel. “This is an unacceptable escalation,” declared Price. “While we urge deescalation on all sides, we also recognize Israel’s legitimate right to defend its people and its territory. Said Arikat, Washington Bureau Chief for al-Quds, had a very […]

Newsom may have to decide whether to sanction heroin injection sites

“The Democrats are the party of enablers right now — and at taxpayer expense,” Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk, who called the sites “drug dens,” said in a statement Thursday after his chamber narrowly approved CA SB 57 (21R). FILE – In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, speaks […]

Not Good: Test For Getting Into Heaven Will Be Whether You Can Plug A USB Cable In Properly On The First Try

Not Good: Test For Getting Into Heaven Will Be Whether You Can Plug A USB Cable In Properly On The First Try HEAVEN—A heavenly representative confirmed today that the old test of whether or not you believe in Jesus will be replaced by asking candidates for entry into heaven to try to plug a USB […]

Pakistan’s parliament to vote on whether to expel French ambassador after violent anti-blasphemy protests by hardliners

Pakistan’s parliament will consider whether the French envoy should be expelled after increasing pressure and violent protests from the hardline, now-banned Islamic political group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP). The interior minister, Sheikh Rashid, went on national TV to explain that “after long negotiations between the government of Pakistan and the TLP, this has been agreed that […]

Conservative Jews consider whether to make Zoom prayer permanent

On the first weekend of the coronavirus lockdowns in New York City in March 2020, Rabbi Rachel Ain decided that her Conservative synagogue would conduct Shabbat services online over Zoom, the videoconferencing platform then still largely confined to the business world but soon to become a household word. Doing so technically violated a 2001 decision […]

Orthodox Jewish magazines unsure whether they can publish Nikki Haley’s photo

JTA — Back when Nikki Haley served as US ambassador to the United Nations, someone close to her approached Mishpacha, a leading ultra-Orthodox weekly magazine, about arranging an interview with the potential future Republican presidential candidate. The interview would have been a get, the kind that most news magazines would feature with a cover portrait. […]

Liberal Obediently Awaits CDC Instructions On Whether It’s OK For Him To Breathe

PORTLAND, OR—Local progressive man William Mollison is currently obediently awaiting CDC instructions on whether or not it’s OK for him to inhale and exhale. The man is standing by, patiently awaiting the latest data on the CDC on if it’s OK for him to take a breath. He has been vaccinated, but still double-masks and […]

BBC debate on whether Jews are an ethnic minority group sparks controversy

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BBC debate on whether Jews are an ethnic minority group sparks outrage

The BBC has been accused of bias in its coverage of Israel for decades. Now the public broadcaster is taking flak from British Jews for coverage much closer to home. What is causing their biggest dispute in years? It is the broadcast of a debate over whether Jews should be considered an ethnic minority — […]

Pfizer studies whether a third vaccine jab is needed to counter COVID-19 variants

Pfizer began studying whether a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine could offer protection against mutated versions of the virus, the company said on Thursday. The pharmaceutical giant said it will offer a third dose to 144 volunteers among participants in the vaccine’s early-stage testing in the United States last year. It wants to determine […]

Is it politically relevant today to ask whether Nehru visited Bhagat Sing in Jail?

In a political rally Narendra Modi made statements which are not true, and which are made to raise the emotive pitch against his opponents. In a blatant lie, in a rally in Bidar, he asked “When Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Batukeshwar Dutt, Veer Savarkar, greats like them were jailed fighting for the country’s independence, did any Congress […]

Jen Psaki Refuses to Say Whether Joe Biden Prioritizes Teachers or Students for Reopening Schools

White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to say whether President Joe Biden prioritized students or teachers when it came to reopening schools. “If it comes down to a binary choice, who would the president choose? The kids or the teachers?” Fox News reporter Kristin Fisher asked during the White House press briefing on Thursday. […]

WH Dodges on Whether Janet Yellen Should Recuse Herself from GameStop-Robinhood Controversy

The White House dodged a question Thursday about whether Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen should recuse herself on issues surrounding the investing app Robinhood. “I don’t think that I have anything more for you on it, other than to say, separate from the GameStop issue, the secretary of Treasury is one of the world-renowned experts on […]

Anti-Trump ‘Oversight Board’ to Determine Whether Trump Will Regain Access to Facebook

A lobbyist group is suing Apple in an effort to get free speech messaging platform Telegram removed from the app store, claiming that it allows ‘extremists’ to spread ‘hate speech’. Telegram has seen a surge in users since Twitter and Facebook permanently suspended President Trump. Last week the service gained more than 25 million new […]

Support for political violence, whether in the U.S. or overseas, is as American as cherry pie

There have been plenty of stupid comments in the mainstream U.S. media since Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Many have been along the lines of, “We expect this kind of political violence in the Mideast, or in a banana republic — not in our own democratic America.” Such remarks betray a limited understanding of […]

Mass. High Court to Decide Whether Christian College Discriminated in Denying Professor Promotion

Photo Credit: John Phelan BOSTON — The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts is currently weighing a case surrounding whether or not a Christian college can consider its professors as tantamount to “ministers” and may consequently legally deny an employee a promotion without being held liable for discrimination due to the “ministerial exception” legal doctrine based […]

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