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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 6 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Parents in Idaho headed to the state's Capitol building with their children Saturday to burn their masks, contesting continued mask mandates and violating local orders. Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little never enforced a state-wide mask mandate, but several of the state’s districts enforced county-wide regulations to slow the spread of the deadly virus. BIDEN SAYS TEXAS AND MISSISSIPPI GUILTY OF ‘NEANDERTHAL THINKING’ OVER LIFTING COVID RESTRICTIONS Eastern Idaho Public Health Director Geri Rackow announced earlier this week, that due to the dip in cases and hospitalizations, the state's seventh district was lifting thier mask mandate. "I feel that continuing to issue public health orders is no longer justified," Rackow said during a Thursday board meeting, reported East Idaho News . Though … [Read more...] about Idaho parents and kids burn masks in front of state Capitol

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 3 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. President Biden took a swipe at Republican governors in Texas and Mississippi Wednesday, accusing them of "Neanderthal thinking" following their decision to reverse COVID safety policies, including mask mandates. "We've been able to move that all the way up to the end of May to have enough [vaccines] for every American, to get every adult American to get a shot," Biden told reporters from the White House Wednesday. "The last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking." Despite the warning issued by health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding a fourth resurgence in coronavirus cases earlier this week, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said all state regulations would be lifted starting Wednesday. RED STATES ABANDON MASK MANDATES, BIDEN SAYS: 'NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO LET UP' … [Read more...] about Biden says Texas and Mississippi guilty of ‘Neanderthal thinking’ over lifting COVID restrictions

FUKUSHIMA: Tepco, the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima atomic plant, said it had successfully removed spent uranium fuel from a damaged reactor building in a key step in its cleanup of the site after a nuclear disaster a decade ago. Formally known as Tokyo Electric Power, Tepco said it had transferred around 170 tons of spent uranium fuel from high up in the building to a safer location — the second successful operation of its kind and the first to be carried out by remote control, because of the high radiation in the reactor building. It comes as Japan prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. It will provide Tepco with important experience and data for the much tougher and time-consuming task of extracting melted reactor cores and debris in the coming decades. At 1:59 PM on Sunday the last six of 566 used fuel assemblies were removed from the spent fuel pool by a crane operated by a team located about 500 meters away, … [Read more...] about Japan removes 170 tons of nuke waste

LONDON : Britain’s fashion industry is “at real risk of decimation” by the post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union and current government policy, a leading forum warned on Monday (Tuesday in Manila). More than 400 industry figures signed an open letter from the Fashion Roundtable to Prime Minister Boris Johnson arguing there was a “gaping hole” in his deal where free movement of goods and services for creatives should have been. They said the agreement, finalized on Christmas Eve just a week before the United Kingdom left the bloc’s single market and customs union, had failed to deliver on promises of frictionless future trade. Their concerns echo those of other sectors, from music to fisheries, who argue the new bureaucratic regime is endangering the future of their industries. “We have been disregarded in this deal and our concerns overlooked in current policy decisions,” their letter said. “We call on the government to stand by their commitment to frictionless work … [Read more...] about Britain’s fashion ‘at risk of decimation’

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo received the country's first Covid-19 jab on Wednesday, as the government kicked off a mass vaccination drive to clamp down on soaring case rates. In a procedure broadcast live on television, the 59-year-old leader, was inoculated at the state palace along with his health minister and several senior officials, as well as business and religious leaders. "I don't feel it at all," he said with a laugh after receiving the injection, the first of two required. He will get the second at a later date. This week, domestic regulators approved a Covid-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac, announcing that its efficacy stood at a relatively low 65.3 percent, according to tests performed in Indonesia. The Muslim-majority nation's top religious body also approved the vaccine as halal -- meaning permissible under Islam -- in a move that could help convince wary citizens. Previous vaccination drives have met resistance among some segments of the country's … [Read more...] about President Jokowi gets first coronavirus jab