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Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin was released from an Ohio hospital Monday, a week after he collapsed on the field during a nationally televised game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Hamlin was transferred to a hospital in Buffalo, New York, where he is expected to continue his recovery process before making the transition home.“Damar Hamlin has been released and returned to Buffalo. I traveled with him to the airport this morning with our UC Health air care and mobile care crew, including teammates who were with us on the field when Damar Hamlin collapsed,” said Dr. William Knight IV, a professor…

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FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are buzzing over pulling the curtain back on President Biden’s “weaponization” of the federal government, with one noting that “sunlight is the best disinfectant.”The lower chamber GOP is looking to form the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government expected to be headed up by Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to probe the Biden administration’s use of the federal government against everyday Americans.Republicans from leadership to the newest members are pumped for the subcommittee, with newly-minted House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., telling Fox News Digital “House Republicans laid out a plan of…

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The Vatican said Monday it has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, months after a new Netflix documentary purported to shed new light on the case and weeks after her family asked the Italian Parliament to take up the cause.The Vatican prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, opened a file on Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance, based in part “on the requests made by the family in various places,” said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni.A lawyer for the Orlandi family, Laura Sgro, said she had no independent confirmation of the development, which was first reported by Italian…

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A solemn vigil on Monday marked the one-year anniversary of one of the darkest days in the city’s history — the Bronx blaze at the Twin Parks high-rise that killed 17, including eight children. Survivors and city officials alike gathered at the 19-story Fordham Heights building to honor the dead and rename the street 17 Abdoulie Touray Way — for the number killed and the first West African immigrant to move into the building. “We recognize those lives on this day one year later,” Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said at the vigil. “January 9, 2022, a day that we…

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The British government is slashing the support it gives companies with their energy bills, but extending it for another year from April at a cost of £5.5bn, ministers announced on Monday.The new package will ensure that all companies receive discounts on their electricity and gas bills and will offer more generous support for those businesses classified as “energy-intensive users”.It is the latest attempt by ministers to prevent companies collapsing as a result of high global energy prices caused primarily by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago, even though the pressures have eased in recent weeks as wholesale prices have…

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The 7,000 nurses who went on strike in New York Monday say the 19% pay hike that hospital management offered them was never the main issue. “We are not out here for wages. We are out here because we want the patients’ safety,” said Lorena Vivas, a nurse at Mount Sinai for 19 years and member of the executive committee of the New York State Nurses Association, to a crowd of hundreds of strikers and their supporters in front of Mount Sinai Hospital. “When I’m in ICU, I’m supposed to have two patients. I have three to four. I have…

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico –The arrival here of President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to attend the North American Leaders´ Summit comes at a time when many issues, including border security, immigration, drug trafficking, energy policy and trade, dominate the trilateral agenda.It’s reported that Biden’s agenda for the meetings will include the challenges of migration, climate and environment, increasing the three nations’ competitiveness as well as emphasizing the need to stop the trafficking of fentanyl into the United States. Trudeau is said to be more concerned about trade issues and especially President Andres Manuel López Obrador´s (AMLO) energy policy, which…

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Poland’s President Andrzej Duda was meeting Monday with the prime minister and some of his ministers to discuss security issues amid the war in neighboring Ukraine, including Kyiv’s request for delivery of Western-made heavy battle tanks.A presidential aide said the request for German-made Leopard 2 tanks which Poland, among other countries, uses, will be on the agenda.Pawel Szrot said that should Warsaw decide to hand over a limited number of Leopard tanks it would “only be within a wide agreement and an undertaking by other countries that have these tanks.”POLAND ASKS UN TO STEP IN AS IT PUSHES GERMANY FOR…

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Health leaders on Monday welcomed a promise by the UK government to spend up to £250mn to speed up the discharge of hospital patients, easing pressure on the country’s struggling NHS, but questioned how much impact funding could have so far into the winter.Senior medics and NHS workers have in recent weeks voiced alarm over the effect of staff shortages, rising flu and Covid cases and industrial action on patient safety. Officials from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine have estimated that between 300 and 500 deaths occur each week due to delays in emergency care. Health secretary Steve Barclay…

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