The famous U.S. sanction strategy in the foreign policy now is used in the state's internal issues.

The controversial Texas law, that bans abortions as early as six weeks is now in effect. It was signed into law back in May by Gov. Greg Abbott. It was widely criticized not only by women's rights advocates, abortion activists and abortion providers, but also by other states' officials. Thus, the Portland City Council is going to consider to adopt an emergency resolution next week that will be aimed to ban goods and services from Texas, because of the new abortion law there. The council will take up the emergency resolution on September 8.

On September 3, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler claimed the intent "to ban the city's future procurement of goods and services from, and city employee business travel to, the state of Texas." It should be in effect until Texas "withdraws it unconstitutional ban on abortion or until it is overturned in court."

Police were reportedly investigating whether the suspect was disguised as a Hasidic man.

The NYPD released grisly surveillance video on Thursday that shows a suspect pretending to work on his car on a Queens street before ambushing a man and killing him with multiple shots to the head.

The victim, 46-year-old Jermaine Dixon, walked across the street on Monday morning and opened the driver's side door of an SUV when the suspect started running toward him.

Seconds later, the gunman fired multiple shots at Dixon from close range. Dixon was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Ukraine's parliament has adopted a new law that legalises and regulates cryptocurrency and other virtual assets like tokens.

The bill was passed in a near-unanimous vote on Wednesday and will now need to be signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine is the fifth country in as many weeks to set up ground rules for digital currencies following El Salvador's move to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

Oxford University Professor Sarah Gilbert said the standard two-dose regimen is providing lasting protection for most people

She said the world's priority should be to get more vaccines to countries that have received limited supplies

Booster shots to extend the protection of Covid-19 vaccines may be unnecessary for many people, a leading scientist behind the AstraZeneca vaccine said on Friday.

Oxford University Professor Sarah Gilbert told The Telegraph newspaper that immunity from the vaccine was holding up well - even against the Delta variant. While the elderly and those who are immune-compromised may need boosters, the standard two-dose regimen is providing lasting protection for most people, she said.

"We will look at each situation; the immunocompromised and elderly will receive boosters,'' she said. "But I don't think we need to boost everybody. Immunity is lasting well in the majority of people."

The comments come as the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, a panel of experts that advises the British government, is expected to make recommendations in the coming days on the scale of any booster programme.

When White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that people who spread "misinformation" "shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others," she revealed the left's chilling plan for censoring content that goes against the left's narrative.

It is becoming increasingly clear that political leaders on the left and Big Tech are joining arms to not just deplatform dissident voices from social media, but to bar them from the digital space entirely, including from having the ability to make and receive payments online.

In the latest example, Chase Bank reportedly planned to close the credit card account of former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Sept. 18, stating that "continuing the relationship creates possible reputational risk to our company." While as of Aug. 31, a Chase spokesperson said that they had "made an error and apologized for any inconvenience caused," the initial gesture can't be ignored.

This comes just a couple months after Wells Fargo made the "business decision" to close 2020 Republican Delaware Senate candidate Lauren Witzke's account. Two of the more prominent digital payment services, PayPal and Stripe, have also become active cancel culture participants.

As part of our season marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 "terrorist attacks", OffG is going to be highlighting some of the research papers and scientific studies done over the years.

These studies have been key in pointing out logical flaws and impossible physics used to support the official narrative.

Our first paper is "Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction", which was first published in 2008.

Authored by five key names in the 9/11 truth movement, Steve Jones, Frank Legge, Kevin Ryan, Anthony Szamboti and James Gourley, this paper collates all the statements from both FEMA and NIST that actually agree with the so-called "conspiracy theorists", and highlights the holes in the official story. Holes that the government experts admit exist.

We'll post the 14 points summarised, and then embed the whole paper below.

A New York City hospital was ablaze on Friday, with two people reported injured as firefighters battled the rooftop flames and huge black plumes of smoke billowed into the sky.

The two-alarm fire was reported at the 257-bed St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens at 5:15pm, a New York Fire Department spokesman told DailyMail.com.

Twenty five units were responding, with 106 fire fighters and other first responders on the scene.

Two civilians have been injured, he said, but the extent of their injuries are unclear. He did not know if the entire hospital has been evacuated.

The dramatic escape of six Palestinian prisoners from Gilboa prison is now in its fourth day, and the story is resonating around the world. Palestinians and their supporters celebrate the escape, while Israeli authorities and media express humiliation and rage.

The dramatic escape of six prisoners from Gilboa prison in Israel is now in its fourth day with none of the prisoners captured, and the story is resonating around the world. Palestinians and their supporters celebrate an escape to rival those in Hollywood pictures. While Israeli authorities and media express humiliation and rage.

Over 100 Palestinians were injured as Israeli authorities attacked protests in the West Bank Wednesday in solidarity with the escapees, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Israelis describe the escapees as "terrorists," and an anchor on i24 News said today that the escape has caused fear because they are "dangerous people on the run." Alon Eviatar, a former intelligence officer, told the channel that Israel has two choices, to capture the escaped prisoners or kill them.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in July that healthcare workers and state employees must be vaccinated or succumb to weekly testing and wear masks; however, back in 2019, Newsom opposed the same kind of mandate. He said at the meeting:

"I believe in immunizations, "however I do legitimately have concerns about a bureaucrat making a decision that is very personal."

Kennedy wrote in a Facebook post:

"We don't measure character or leadership by a commander's posture during moments of comfort, but by his willingness to stand against the tides and storms of collective opinion during eras of controversy and hysteria. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has just passed that test with his wise and sober opposition to a draconian proposal to forcibly vaccinate medically fragile children against the wishes of their parents and the medical advice of their physician.

"He expressed his concern about giving faceless government officials (with no medical training) veto power over vaccine exemptions deemed medically necessary by a child's doctor. Gavin argued that those decisions should be made between patients and doctors without government involvement."

Newsom told reporters at the 2019 California Democratic Party convention in regards to a proposed bill to require the Department of Public Health to approve every request for a medical exemption to a child's immunization schedule:

"I like doctor-patient relationships. Bureaucratic relationships are more challenging for me. I'm a parent. I don't want someone that the governor appointed to make a decision for my family."

Kentucky lawmakers voted to lift a statewide public school mask mandate late Thursday after an emotional debate. Republican state Sen. Max Wise, the bill's sponsor, said during debate:

"This bill will give local control back to the districts — not mandating they do, not mandating they don't. They make the decision of what they think is best for their constituents in their communities."

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed portions of the bill, which gives local school boards the authority to make masking decisions, but was quickly overridden by the Republican-led legislature. The bill also affects childcare centers.

Its passage came at the end of a special session called by the governor to address a coronavirus surge that has overwhelmed hospitals in the state. Democratic Sen. Reggie Thomas claimed during the debate:

"This bill ... is really a life-and-death bill. If we eliminate mask mandates, then we are putting all children and all school personnel at severe risk."

Republican Rep. John Blanton said the bill removes a "one-size-fits-all" approach:

"We are not taking masks away from your children today. Masks are still part of the tools that's provided for each and every school district across this state."

The bill also aims to keep children in the classroom as much as possible by limiting remote instruction to a particular school or classroom - instead of the entire district - when there's an outbreak. Another bill passed Thursday night bans statewide mask mandates, also leaving that power to local governments and businesses.