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Sen. Marsha Blackburn and other GOP lawmakers are calling for additional steps to protect unvaccinated members of the military who were terminated from the armed forces now that Congress is poised to roll back the Biden administration’s military COVID-19 vaccine mandate.Blackburn, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital that the language she successfully pushed for inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was designed to combat the military’s “problem with recruiting and retention.””I’m very grateful that we were able to build bipartisan, bicameral support and get this into the body of the bill,” she said. “Getting this issue off the table…

The UK is set for at least seven days of bitterly cold weather with temperatures plummeting as low as -10C with weather warnings in place for snow and iceThe UK is braced for an arctic blast bringing seven days of bitter cold as temperatures plummet as low as -10C and parts of the country are blanketed with snow. After an unusually mild November, temperatures are set to drop well below zero with the icy weather to continue well into next week. The arctic blast, dubbed the ‘Troll of Trondheim’, will sweep south across the UK today, leaving the country to…

Olaf Scholz has not been dealt the best of hands. Replacing Angela Merkel after her 16 years of steady — if staid — rule was never going to be easy. Doing so in the midst of a brutal confluence of crises ranging from a war in Europe, the pandemic and exploding inflation has only made that job more difficult.While Merkel was seen as a tough act to follow, the first year of Scholz’s term has represented a significantly more seismic shift away from the Merkel era than anyone could have expected.Merkel navigated her own web of crises with unflappable calm, quietly and confidently exuding an aura that…

Emily Mayfield bid farewell to the “weirdest, most confusing year” in an emotional note on Instagram after her husband, Baker Mayfield, was released by the Panthers on Monday – and subsequently claimed off waivers by the Rams. “Feeling grateful tonight,” Emily wrote on her Instagram Story Tuesday. “For the whirlwind, the chaos, the craziness. I’m thankful for the opportunity to walk alongside my bff for this once in a lifetime rollercoaster ride. “I’m so thankful for our time in Charlotte. I met some REALLY incredible people & fell in love with an amazing city. You will certainly see more of…

Two Kansas high schools are investigating after students at one school reportedly yelled racist and offensive taunts at the other school’s basketball team.Topeka High School’s team was subjected to “racial slurs, threats and disgusting taunts,” during a game on Saturday with Valley Center High School, Coach Geo Lyons said in a Change.org petition. He also said Valley Center students used a Black baby doll to taunt his team during the game.Lyons has started a petition asking that Valley Center High School fans be removed from sporting events.Lyons did not return a message from The Associated Press on Tuesday. But he…

CNN  —  Lawyers for former President Donald Trump recently hired a team to search four of his properties for any potentially remaining classified materials, according to a source familiar the matter. The team of two searched Trump Tower in New York, the Bedminster golf club and two other properties amid lingering concerns from the Justice Department that not all documents had been returned to the federal government. The four searches, which were carried out in recent weeks, were overseen by Trump’s legal team, the source said. Trump’s attorneys offered to let federal investigators observe the search at his Bedminster property,…

Hungary has removed its cap on petrol and diesel prices after supply shortages caused panic buying and threatened the country’s ability to replenish emergency stocks, the government said. The price caps, introduced by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 13 months ago as fuel prices climbed across Europe, became untenable after costs to import refined products soared on the back of EU sanctions on Russian oil. The caps, which set pump prices at about €1.20 a litre — the lowest level in the EU — prevented importers from making a profit. The loss of imports and technical difficulties that halved domestic production…

Update: Since this article was published Croatia has been given the green light to join Schengen, while Romania and Bulgaria have been blocked. Click here for the latest.The enlargement of the passport-free Schengen Area to take in Romania and Bulgaria has been put in serious doubt ahead of an expected vote on Thursday.Austria and Netherlands continue to have concerns about admitting one or both of the countries.The opposition has been brewing for days but became patently clear on Wednesday after EU ambassadors met to discuss the topic.Interior ministers from the European Union are expected to decide on the long-stalled candidacies…

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.__________ Bitcoin newsNoteworthy, a designer of physical cryptonotes, announced the sale of its 5 millibit (mBTC) note, a small-denomination, fully fungible bitcoin banknote. According to a press release, this new bill equates to BTC 0.005, and it “makes buying crypto more familiar for people of all ages and backgrounds through its cash format.” All Noteworthy cryptonotes are printed with a QR code, they added.Legal newsUS hedge fund Fir Tree Capital Management filed a lawsuit against digital asset manager Grayscale Investments…

Citizens of El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti and three other nations will get relief from US deportation until mid-2024.Human rights advocates have welcomed the Biden administration’s extension of temporary deportation relief to the citizens of six countries, saying the move will allow hundreds of thousands of people to “rest a little easier”. The United States on Thursday announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will be extended until June 30, 2024, for citizens of Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Sudan, and Nepal, according to a document filed by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Their legal status in the US was…