Important Takeaways:
- Consumers nationwide are facing egg shortages at retail stores, leading to purchasing restrictions and sky-high prices when they are in stock.
- The cost of eggs surged by 15.2% in January, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index. This marked the largest increase in egg prices since June 2015 and accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total monthly rise in food prices, the Labor Department reported.
- Whitney Bissonnette, an Arkansas-based chicken breeder, is fielding 50 to 100 messages every day from people asking to buy her chickens.
- Jen Tompkins, co-founder of Rent The Chicken, a company that helps people rent chickens and provides all the necessary supplies, from feed to coops, has been flooded with inquiries, which have surged by 500% as of last week.
- Stephanie Hall, who has a farm stand in South Carolina, told FOX Business she can’t keep up with the requests she has been getting from people seeking to buy her eggs.
- Gina Bare, director of program and partnership development at the National Environmental Health Association, recognizes that the “rise in backyard chicken coops reflects an exciting trend in local food production, with families increasingly interested in raising their own flocks for fresh eggs and educational opportunities.”
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- Southern California is getting ready for another weather extreme this week, after already dealing with devastating winds and several storms this year.
- “Later this week, we’re looking at temperatures 10 to 15, even 20 degrees above normal,” KTLA’s Kirk Hawkins said Monday.
- Afternoon highs will be above normal on Monday but the hottest temperatures will arrive midweek.
- Coast and valley areas, except for the beaches, will see highs top out in the 80s and lower 90s, according to the Weather Service.
- Gusty winds, possibly reaching advisory levels, are also expected late Tuesday into Wednesday.
- The ridge will push to the east on Thursday allowing a cooling trend to return and accelerate into the weekend.
- Forecasters are even calling for a chance of light rain to develop across the weekend. There is a 30% to 40% of rain arriving on Sunday, according to the Weather Service.
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Important Takeaways:
- Scientists have warned that a massive volcano in Alaska has a 50-50 chance of erupting in the near future.
- The 11,000-foot-tall Mount Spurr sits 77 miles from Anchorage— the state’s largest city which is home to nearly 300,000 people.
- Over the last 10 months, it has been experiencing an unusually high amount of small earthquakes.
- Since the seismic activity first began in April 2024, the rate of earthquakes has increased from an average of 30 per week to an average of 125 per week, ramping up in early October.
- Experts at the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) believe this seismic activity is being driven by new magma churning beneath the volcano, which could be a sign that it is getting ready to erupt.
- If Mount Spurr does erupt, it could produce explosive plumes of ash, destructive mudslides called lahars and avalanches of hot gas, ash and rock called pyroclastic flows, which would race down the volcano’s side at over 200 mph.
- Fortunately, there are not any communities within the potential path of pyroclastic flows or lahars from Mount Spurr.
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Important Takeaways:
- Professor Efthymios Lekkas, head of the state-run Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization, warned on Sunday that seismic activity on Santorini is expected to continue for an extended period.
- “It will be a prolonged sequence lasting several weeks, possibly even a few months. This type of seismic activity does not subside easily,” he stated in an interview with public broadcaster ERTNews.
- Lekkas further explained that the total number of tremors has already exceeded 20,000 earthquakes. “We are dealing with a unique phenomenon in a unique region. The risk has not been eliminated, just as the risk is never zero anywhere in Greece,” he added.
- While the possibility of a 6.0-magnitude earthquake remains on the table, he said that the likelihood is significantly lower.
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Important Takeaways:
- Seismologists, volcanologists, and officials from Naples are racing against the clock as they implement school closures, set up emergency shelters, and plan evacuation routes for residents living within the region’s Campi Flegiri area, also known as the Phlegraean Fields, after over 600 earthquakes have been recorded since Saturday, with magnitudes ranging from M2.0 to M3.9; the most and the strongest the region has seen in 40 years.
- According to INGV, “the ongoing earthquake swarm is linked to bradyseism, a geological phenomenon in which ground levels rise or fall because of underground magma or hydrothermal activity.”
- CCTV footage located within residential homes and along city streets showed the intense shaking caused by the mega earthquake swarm; the strong tremors felt in Naples city center. According to reports, structural damage and power outages have been reported throughout the area affected by the earthquake swarm since its conception, prompting officials to monitor the seismic swarm with a watchful eye.
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Important Takeaways:
- Apple is committing $500 billion to the U.S. economy in a historic initiative, the company announced on Monday, marking “an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation.”
- Apple’s 11-figure commitment will roll out over the next five years. It will involve building an advanced AI server manufacturing factory near Houston, as well as doubling the company’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund from $5 billion to $10 billion.
- The tech giant also plans to establish an Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit, as well as hire 20,000 new employees with focuses on research and development, silicon engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- “This new pledge builds on Apple’s long history of investing in American innovation and advanced high-skilled manufacturing, and will support a wide range of initiatives that focus on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering, and skills development for students and workers across the country,” the company said in a statement.
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Important Takeaways:
- Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, was named as the FBI’s next deputy director.
- President Trump congratulated Mr. Bongino on Sunday night and described him in a Truth Social post as a man with “incredible love and passion for our country.”
- Bongino, a native of New York’s Queens borough like Mr. Trump, is also a former NYPD police officer and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from the City University of New York and a master of business administration degree from Penn State.
- “Great news for Law Enforcement and American Justice! Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our Country, has just been named the next deputy director of the FBI, by the man who will be the best ever Director, Kash Patel,” Mr. Trump said.
- “Working with our great new United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Director Patel, Fairness, Justice, Law and Order will be brought back to America, and quickly. Congratulations Dan!” the president wrote.
- Bongino said that his new role is not about politics but about professionalism, leadership and accountability.
- A 12-year veteran of the Secret Service under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Mr. Bongino was previously an NYPD officer between 1995 and 1999.
- Following his time in law enforcement, he launched his political and media career, making unsuccessful bids for Congress in 2012, 2014 and 2016.
- He waded into online media, when he launched the Bongino Report in 2019 as an alternative to the Drudge Report, saying founder Matt Drudge had “abandoned” Mr. Trump’s supporters.
- He later joined Fox News as a contributor and host and became a successful podcast host and radio broadcaster on Cumulus, where he was signed to replace “The Rush Limbaugh Show” on its talk radio stations.
- In 2022, he joined Rumble as a content creator with his podcast after YouTube banned his program after he questioned the effectiveness of masks in stopping the spread of COVID-19.
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Important Takeaways:
- Yale University study identified a debilitating syndrome linked to Covid vaccines
- The 31-year-old Army veteran, from Arkansas, has been wheelchair-bound since she took her second Pfizer shot in 2021 as part of the government’s military mandate.
- For years she was told her extreme fatigue, sickness and heart palpitations were anxiety. Then doctors said it was long Covid. She was branded an antivaxxer for suggesting it could have been the vaccine
- Thousands of Americans have reported similar stories. After the study news dropped, DailyMail.com spoke to dozens of Americans, including those in healthcare, law, and the military, who said they felt a sense of validation after years of being dismissed as crazy.
- Trevor Keyler, a 39-year-old biology professor from Minnesota who describes himself as ‘pro-vaccine’ and ‘pro-science’, has been forced to cut his work hours after suffering extreme tremors and fatigue and partial blindness following his Moderna vaccine.
- For years doctors told him his symptoms were not related to the vaccine and were probably Covid itself or long Covid. The doctor, who said he used to be a ‘very healthy’ and outdoorsy person, now has more trouble staying active with his wife and their two children.
- In the small study, Yale researchers found patients with previously unknown ‘post-vaccination syndrome’ show distinct biological changes.
- The most common symptoms appear to be brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus and exercise intolerance, a feeling of exhaustion after limited exercise.
- In patients with the syndrome, the vaccine also appears to awaken a dormant virus known as Epstein–Barr and interfere with people’s immune systems in complicated ways still being studied.
- Meanwhile, people with the post-vaccination condition had high levels of coronavirus proteins in their blood, years after taking the shot, which could leave their bodies in a permanent state of inflammation, causing a host of other problems.
- The Yale experts emphasized the results ‘are still a work in progress’ (for example, it’s not clear how common the condition is) but they highlighted a need for further studies.
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Important Takeaways:
- Robert F Kennedy Jr has pulled promotional ads for vaccines and postponed a meeting of key vaccine advisors, in one of his first moves as health secretary.
- Kennedy wants the CDC to move away from nudge tactics and focus its vaccine communications on ‘informed consent’ – which involves telling the patient the medical risks and benefits and letting them come to their own decision.
- Meanwhile, the year’s first meeting of the CDC’s influential panel of vaccine experts has been delayed indefinitely, marking the first time the meeting has been postponed in over 40 years, except for during the emergency Covid pandemic.
- RFK released his blueprint for reevaluating recommended vaccines, shifting research priorities, removing legal protections for vaccine manufacturers, and modifying vaccine advertising practices years ago.
- It calls for subjecting vaccines to the same rigorous approval process as other drugs, mandating automated adverse event reporting, eliminating conflicts of interest in federal vaccine approvals, and reevaluating all vaccines recommended before evidence-based guidelines were established.
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Important Takeaways:
- A 74-year-old woman has been charged after silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Scotland less than a week after U.S. Vice President JD Vance highlighted the draconian thought crime laws in the UK.
- The pro-life activist has reportedly become the first person to be arrested and charged under Scotland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act, the BBC reported.
- The law, which came into force last year, prohibits any protests or vigils being held within 200m (656ft) of abortion clinics in Scotland, mirroring similar restrictions enacted in England and Wales
- The so-called “buffer zone” legislation makes it a criminal offence to attempt to influence women not to get an abortion outside of clinics, with fines of up to £10,000 or potentially limitless fines in supposedly severe cases. It is also an offence to “impede their access; or otherwise cause alarm, harassment or distress.”
- The broad language of the law appears to allow police to arrest those for silently praying outside of clinics, which free speech proponents and religious observers have decried as being akin to a “thought crime”.
- …the government has denied that it sent letters warning against praying in homes near abortion clinics.
- However, the government did send letters to residents saying: “In general, the offences apply in public places within the Safe Access Zones. However, activities in a private place (such as a house) within the area between the protected premises and the boundary of a Zone could be an offence if they can be seen or heard within the Zone and done intentionally or recklessly.”
- The letter went on to call for residents to report anyone they believed to be in violation of the law to Police Scotland.
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