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The first hospital in the United States to mandate all its health care workers get the COVID-19 vaccine has quietly decided not to require the updated booster shot after facing staffing shortages, according to an internal email obtained by The Epoch Times. Houston Methodist Hospital in April 2021 announced it was mandating the vaccine. The hospital fired hundreds of employees who refused to get the original vaccines, and later mandated booster shots. But in the new email, the hospital’s chief physician informed employees that they will not be made to get the newest boosters, which are produced by Pfizer and Moderna and aimed at the…

The boss of Transport for London, Andy Byford, has resigned, after just over two years in the job. His departure from the £355,000-a-year role of commissioner was announced on Tuesday morning, days after TfL had managed what Byford called its biggest ever challenge – the logistics around the Queen’s funeral. TfL said Byford was leaving to return to the US, where he previously ran New York’s transport. Andy Lord, TfL’s current chief operating officer, will become commissioner on an interim basis from 25 October. The decision comes weeks after TfL had secured a longer-term funding settlement from central government to help it manage the loss of…

Former First Lady Melania Trump felt “very violated” after FBI agents raided her Mar-a-Lago home last month, according to former President Donald Trump. “She felt very violated. I mean, this is a terrible thing. They go into her closet, they go through her dresses, and who knows what else, and it wasn’t left the way they found it,” Trump told Newsmax in a phone interview on Sept. 20. Trump added, “I didn’t walk into mine and say, ‘Oh, this is exactly so nice, the way they put it back.’” The former president, who was in New York City when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago…

Members of the Bank of England’s interest-rate setting body should be appointed by the devolved administrations and by English MPs in order to counter groupthink, a former member of Threadneedle Street’s monetary policy committee has said. David Blanchflower said the committee was dominated by people with little knowledge of the “real world”, and greater diversity of thought was needed to ensure the interests of ordinary people were reflected. Blanchflower, a member of the MPC during the global financial crisis of the late 2000s, said in a proposal co-authored with his fellow economist Richard Murphy that membership of the committee needed…

Businesses have been given an emergency package of government support including a cap significantly reducing the price paid for energy from 1 October to help them get through the winter. The government has stepped in to discount wholesale power prices for companies, charities and public sector organisations, including schools. Under the plan, they will be given support for six months to protect them from soaring bills. Further support will be offered to companies in vulnerable industries after that. On announcing an energy support package earlier this month, Liz Truss said the government would “launch a new scheme for all non-domestic customers…

The pilot of a plane in which the footballer Emiliano Sala died told a friend the aircraft was “dodgy”, after an outward flight from Cardiff to Nantes. The 28-year-old player was flying from Nantes in France to Wales to join then Premier League club Cardiff City when the plane crashed in the Channel close to Guernsey. His pilot, 59-year-old David Ibbotson, was also killed. Audio aired on the BBC’s Transfer: The Emiliano Sala Story podcast captures Ibbotson expressing his concerns. In a voicemail to his friend Kevin Jones, aired on the podcast, Ibbotson can be heard saying: “I picked a footballer up from Cardiff. He’s just been…

Queen Elizabeth II’s final resting place is marked with a new ledger stone in the King George VI Memorial chapel, Buckingham Palace has said. The stone slab bears the name of the late Queen, her husband, and her parents, with the two generations separated by a metal garter star. It reads: George VI 1895-1952 Elizabeth 1900-2002 Elizabeth II 1926-2022 Philip 1921-2021 Princess Margaret’s ashes are also buried in the chapel, though her name is not on the inscription. The previous ledger stone in the chapel floor was inscribed with “George VI” and “Elizabeth” in gold lettering. The King George VI…

Some addictive products come from screens, not syringes, according to new lawsuits against Instagram. As stated in whistleblower documents, Instagram’s parent company Meta knew for years that its network caused addiction that damaged children’s mental health. Lawsuits by eight former teen Instagram users including Laura Ashman, Chesapeake Dowdy, and Brianna Perez demand damages based on Instagram’s alleged negligence and concealment of safety risks. The named three say they were 13 or younger when they began using Instagram. The Motley Rice law firm has petitioned California’s courts to coordinate these lawsuits because they have similar claims. Instagram’s addictive effects on teens resemble hard drug addiction, according to…

A pilot died suddenly during a flight between the Russian cities of Novokuznetsk and St. Petersburg on Sunday, officials told state-run media. Authorities told RIA Novosti that the unnamed pilot, identified as a flight commander, felt sick during the trip. The co-pilot of the Ikar Airlines Boeing jet had to make an emergency landing at the airport in Omsk. The commander died before medical attention could be given to the pilot, officials said. Ikar Airlines is also known as Pegas Fly. “The resuscitation ambulance team arrived at the airport ten minutes before the plane landed. The team stated the death of…

After the majestical funeral pomp and military spectacle, unsurpassed in the nation’s living memory and watched across the world, the final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II would belong only to her family. Night had fallen as she was laid to rest next to the Duke of Edinburgh in the George VI Memorial Chapel, Windsor, in private and away from cameras. With only her family present, it was a wholly intimate ceremony, one for a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother who also was a Queen. The contrast with the earlier grandeur of Britain’s official goodbye, with its pipers, buglers and muffled bells, its kings,…