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Fauci Deputy Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine Feared Retaliation: Emails

Fauci Deputy Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine Feared Retaliation: Emails

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A top government doctor who declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 was worried he would lose his job and medical license in retaliation, according to newly obtained emails. The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., on May 30, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times “There were times when I was worried about losing my job especially when we first started receiving emails about [vaccine] mandate deadlines,” Dr. Matthew Memoli, who led the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases clinical studies unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the COVID-19 pandemic, said in one missive to a NIAID spokesman. He added later that he was more concerned about losing his medical license because he was aware there were “protections for government employees.” “Washington, DC directly threatened to take away my medical license which would have threatened my job (I need a medical license) so I applied for a Virginia license and protected myself that way,” Memoli also wrote in the email, …

Male Co-Star Refused to Film Scene Being Saved By Woman

Male Co-Star Refused to Film Scene Being Saved By Woman

Published by Daniella Wilson

Olivia Munn is getting candid about her experience working with a difficult male co-star on a past project. During a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress recalled an unnamed actor refusing to film a scene in which her female character saved his. “There have been a few times where I’ve been filming something — and my character was either like CIA, or a cop, or something — and there’s been scenes where my character has been the one to save the other character,” Munn explained. In this specific instance, the Your Friends & Neighbors star said they were filming a gunfight scene in an underground bunker. “If you read the script, it was that he was guarding his side, I was guarding my side, then we switch sides and then there’s a guy that was coming for him — was gonna shoot him in the back — so I shoot him,” Munn recounted. “And then we’re about to shoot and, somehow, I guess he didn’t read the script and in that moment, he realized, …

Universities of Wisconsin Board Will Vote on Whether to Fire System President Who Refused to Quit

Universities of Wisconsin Board Will Vote on Whether to Fire System President Who Refused to Quit

Published by Sam Flores

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents scheduled a Tuesday vote to consider firing the system’s president, who refused their offer to quietly resign because he said no reason had been given for the surprise ouster. Jay Rothman said in two letters sent to regents that he would not resign from leading the 165,000-student system without an explanation of what he had done wrong. Board of Regents President Amy Bogost said in a statement Monday that Rothman “was not without notice, nor was this process sudden.” “The Board has engaged with President Rothman in good-faith discussions over the past several months,” she said. The board scheduled the termination vote for 5 p.m. Tuesday. Rothman did not immediately return an email seeking comment. The vote is scheduled for just five days after The Associated Press first reported that the board asked Rothman to either resign or face being fired. Rothman has been president of the multicampus university system since 2022. His letters were the first public indication that Rothman’s job was in …

Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Refused to Answer Prince Harry’s Phone Calls Without a Witness Present

Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Refused to Answer Prince Harry’s Phone Calls Without a Witness Present

Published by Sam Flores

Following his farewell to the royal family and move to the United States, Prince Harry has had a fraught relationship with his relatives. In 2021, the Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle gave a bombshell interview to Oprah Winfrey that suggested the Windsors had been racist. At the time, Queen Elizabeth II, who died in 2022, responded with a diplomatic official statement: “The issues raised, especially the racial ones, are troubling. Although some memories may vary, they will be taken very seriously.” Now, in his new book Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History, historian Hugo Vickers says the sovereign was “deeply hurt by her grandson’s attacks.” After that interview, the queen became very “distrustful of Harry,” Vickers claims, so much so that she reportedly “refused to answer his phone calls unless there was a witness who could record what was said.” Per Vickers, whenever Prince Harry called her, “the queen would ask her lady-in-waiting to be with her.” When she responded, Queen Elizabeth II reportedly limited herself to “monosyllabic conversations made up only of ‘yes’ …

France Refused Israel Use of Its Air Space to Transfer US Weapons for Iran War

France Refused Israel Use of Its Air Space to Transfer US Weapons for Iran War

Published by Sam Flores

PARIS, March ⁠31 (Reuters) – ⁠France did ⁠not allow Israel ​to use its ‌air space to ‌transport ⁠American ⁠weapons to be used in the ​war against Iran, a Western ​diplomat and two sources ⁠familiar ⁠with the ⁠matter told ​Reuters on Tuesday. The sources ​said ⁠the refusal, which happened at the ⁠weekend, was the first time France had ⁠done this since the start of the conflict in Iran. Neither the French presidency nor the ⁠foreign ministry were immediately available for comment. (Reporting by John ​Irish, Editing by ​Dominique Vidalon) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should See – March 2026 Source link

A Florida Hospital Drops Its Lawsuit Against a Woman Who Refused to Leave the Facility

A Florida Hospital Drops Its Lawsuit Against a Woman Who Refused to Leave the Facility

Published by Sam Flores

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida hospital has dropped its lawsuit seeking to evict a patient who refused to vacate a room for months after she was discharged because, the hospital said, she finally left. Tallahassee Memorial Hospital filed the lawsuit this month requesting an injunction to force the woman to leave room 373 and authorizing the county sheriff’s office to assist if necessary. She was officially discharged from the hospital in early October. A hearing had been scheduled for Monday, but was canceled after the hospital filed a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice. The case is no longer active because the patient “is no longer at TMH,” hospital spokesperson Sarah Cannon said Monday. The hospital’s lawsuit said resources were being diverted from helping other patients because of the woman’s continued occupation of the room. According to the lawsuit, the woman was admitted to the hospital for medical treatment and a formal discharge order was issued Oct. 6 because she no longer needed acute care services. The hospital repeatedly tried to coordinate her departure …

Ryan Gosling Refused To Shave Legs Or Enter ‘Shave Room’ For Barbie Role

Ryan Gosling Refused To Shave Legs Or Enter ‘Shave Room’ For Barbie Role

Published by Sam Flores

Ryan Gosling has admitted there were certain sacrifices he was unwilling to make for his part as a living Ken doll. Last week, the Canadian star was asked about his role in the 2023 movie Barbie during an interview with Radio 1, where he said that he “didn’t even shave my legs” to help him get into character as Ken. “There was a shave room on Barbie that I never went in,” he claimed, noting that while co-stars Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa were among its patrons, he never partook himself. Ryan recalled: “Oh my god, you could hear the screaming down the hall. It was like a torture chamber. It was just like… howling!” “I went the other way,” he continued. “I just never went in the shave room. What a name! And the sounds that came out of it I’ll never unhear.” Despite his reluctance to suffer for his art, Ryan won widespread acclaim for his performance as Ken in Greta Gerwig’s movie. He racked up nominations at the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice …

Meet Martin Clunes’ daughter who refused the ‘nepo baby’ spotlight

Meet Martin Clunes’ daughter who refused the ‘nepo baby’ spotlight

Published by Daniella Wilson

Martin Clunes and his wife, Philippa Braithwaite, share one daughter together, and she is determined not to be branded as a nepo-baby despite both parents working in the television industry.  The Wuthering Heights star is back on screens, this time portraying former BBC Newsreader Huw Edwards in Channel 5’s drama series Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards, and despite his acting success, there is no chance his child will follow in his footsteps.  Welcoming their daughter Emily Clunes, 26, in 1999, Martin and Phillipa moved to the Dorset countryside in 2007 to raise their only child away from the glare of London’s spotlight.  The actor and film producer relocated to the 130-acre Meerhay Farm in West Dorset’s Beaminster so that they could have access to fields for Emily’s pony. The couple continued to work in the entertainment industry, alongside running their farm that has horses, cattle and sheep.  An ordinary career despite an extraordinary parentage  While many in her shoes would be making their way towards red carpets, Emily leaned into her countryside upbringing and …

Migrant family children to be deported if £40k offer refused | Politics | News

Migrant family children to be deported if £40k offer refused | Politics | News

Published by Sam Flores

Shabana Mahmood has unveiled radical plans to overhaul the asylum system (Image: PA) Children will be forcibly deported if their families refuse to take a £40,000 offer to leave the UK voluntarily. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is offering 150 failed asylum seeker families living in hotels vast sums of taxpayers’ cash to leave. Each family member will be offered £10,000 if they agree to leave within seven days, but the handouts are being capped at £40,000. And Home Office sources have admitted they are willing to forcibly remove families, including women and children, if they do not have the legal right to remain in the UK. As part of the plan, the Home Office is consulting with experts on how to “physically handle children during the removal, where it is appropriate”. A source said: “The average cost to a taxpayer, of each family, is £158,000 a year. “They will have seven days to reply to that offer and then leave the country. “Crucially, if they do not take this offer, we will look to forcibly …

Melania Trump documentary producer shares musicians who refused to let songs be used in film

Melania Trump documentary producer shares musicians who refused to let songs be used in film

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter First, it was Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood who asked that his music be removed from the controversial Melania Trump documentary. But now, the film’s producer has opened up about the other musicians who said no to their music featuring in the film. Released in January by Amazon MGM Studios, Melania follows the US first lady in the 20 days leading up to husband Donald’s second inauguration. The film saw polarised reactions between critic reviews and paying audience members, while musician Greenwood and director Paul Thomas Anderson made headlines when they condemned the use of the score of their 2017 film Phantom Thread on the soundtrack. In a new interview, producer Marc Beckman has shared that the team behind Melania had tried to include music from a number of acts who said no. “There was music that we tried to get, but sadly, …