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The U.S. military is steadily boosting its presence near Alaska, deploying a destroyer and an Army unit armed with a long-range missile system as tensions rise due to stepped-up Russian and Chinese military activities near the Alaskan coast. Over the past month, the destroyer USS Sterett has been dispatched to the Alaskan coast in response to the Russian navy ships operating in the area, Army troops have landed on a remote Alaskan island, and fighter squadrons and other aircraft based in Alaska have been placed on heightened alert. The actions follow a series of Russian air operations that skirted Alaskan...

Philip Mehrtens is seen in video from Indonesian media. Photo: ScreenshotNew Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has reportedly been freed from more than 1 1/2 years in captivity in West Papua, Indonesia.The Indonesian police announced it in a statement on Saturday, Reuters reported."We are prioritising approach through religious leaders, church leaders, traditional leaders and Egianus Kogoya's close family to minimise casualties and maintain the safety of the pilot," the chief of Cartenz 2024 Peace Operations, Brigadier General Faizal Ramadhani said in a statement released to media.Mehrtens was freed and picked up by a joint team in Nduga Regency and is undergoing...

Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally with Oprah where she launches into what may be – even by her standards – the most cringy and unintelligible ramble we've ever heard.

By now, it is pretty widely known that government agencies are still withholding thousands of “protected” files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As of 2023, 4,684 assassination records are still “fully or partially” withheld from the public.All remaining JFK assassination records were supposed to be released in full by 2017. That is the law created by Congress in the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (JFK Act).What happened instead?President Trump ordered a delay of more than 3 years. Biden took over the task of declassifying the JFK records and actually made things worse.Biden placed discretion back...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris has spoken of her willingness to use her gun if an intruder entered her home. "If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot," she said in a jokey exchange during a livestreamed event in Michigan with host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday. After a laugh, the Democratic presidential nominee continued: "I probably shouldn't have said that, but my staff will deal with that later." Harris, who highlighted during the recent presidential debate that she was a gun-owner, went on to reiterate that she supported a ban on assault weapons. A firearm of that type was "literally...

A widely used drug could be the key to treating many patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure, particularly for patients with a common gene variant, according to research. In the study, people with high blood pressure who had two copies of the variation experienced a 5% reduction in their average blood pressure after taking the drug torasemide for 16 weeks. Torasemide is a drug used to treat fluid overload caused by many conditions, including heart failure, kidney disease and liver disease. Until now, loop diuretics like torasemide have not been commonly used to treat high blood pressure. Patients with two...

Time and time again, Democrats have lied about abortion. As a result, women and babies have tragically died.Vice President Kamala Harris will use her short appearance in Atlanta Friday afternoon to falsely blame Georgia’s lifesaving pro-life law for the deaths of at least two women. The untimely passings of Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, and their babies, however, had nothing to do with the Peach State’s protections and everything to do with Democrats and corporate media’s dangerous abortion rhetoric.ProPublica, an outlet known for doing Democrats’ dirty work, resurfaced Thurman’s and Miller’s 2022 passings this week in an attempt to vilify pro-life...

Ah, THE FUTURE!It is weirdly starting to look like the past, no?While the Green grifters are busy making sure people's lives get less comfortable and more expensive every day, as the things that once made a "standard of living" worth attaining are stripped away piece by piece......some of the wealthiest in the EAT THE BUGS crowd have the wherewithal to take a different approach by virtue of their place in the economic food chain - at the pinnacle.Not relegated to gluing themselves to the floors of Porsche showrooms or flinging tomato soup at old masterpieces, these are the big thinkers,...

Habitual coffee or caffeine intake is associated with a lower risk for new-onset cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CM), according to a study. Xujia Lu and colleagues examined the association of coffee, tea, and caffeine intake with CM, defined as the coexistence of at least two of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke. The study involved 172,315 participants (caffeine analysis) and 188,091 (coffee and tea analysis) participants free of any cardiometabolic diseases at baseline. Among 88,204 and 96,393 participants, 168 metabolites were measured. The researchers observed a nonlinear inverse association of coffee, tea, and caffeine intake with the risk for new-onset...

One of the most striking things about following this campaign is the fact that election projections are all over the place. I was chatting with a political science professor friend of mine, and he was projecting a 1980 Reagan-style victory for Trump--an assessment I tend to agree with--while the online analysts are showing a dead heat with a slight advantage to Kamala Harris. While Nate Silver has been more Trump-bullish, even his latest projection shows a very slight advantage for Harris. The answer, of course, comes down to the polls and what you take away from them. Most of the...

The Arizona Supreme Court ruling that 98,000 people whose citizenship documents aren't confirmed can vote... In Brazil the "X social media platform naming a legal representative. This meets... US Central Command announcing destruction of a Houthi ... South Carolina executing Freddie Owens... The US Navy announcing that Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti was treated for Stage 1 breast cancer... US Army Private Travis King who defected to North Korea getting a one-year sentence and a dishonorable discharge... A fire explosion and evacuation of civilians in southern Russia after a drone attack... 16 Ukrainian drones destroyed by air defenses...

A disgraced CIA officer who drugged and sexually abused “numerous women in multiple countries” over 14 years and was found with over 500 disturbing images and videos of his victims was sentenced to three decades behind bars. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, was slapped with a 30-year sentence on Wednesday after pleading guilty in November 2023 to four of 25 counts, including sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact, coercion and enticement, and transportation of obscene material, according to the Department of Justice. He also admitted to “drugging and then creating obscene material depicting 28 women without their knowledge or permission and drugging...

We’ve seen a lot of dishonest statements and allegations from the left about the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the corrupt J6 Committee dropping the most disinformation. One of the longest-running allegations is that Donald Trump knew violence was coming but did nothing to stop it. He never requested the National Guard, the narrative goes. He didn’t care what happened.Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) of the Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight has a different view, however, and he has newly released transcripts to back it up. In a press release...

Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman continues to be a thorn in his party's side from time to time. This is one of those times. And Kamala Harris and her campaign staff would be wise to listen to him. At issue for the mercurial senator is Donald Trump's relationship with some Keystone State voters, and how they now see the former president — and it's not good news at all for Kamala. Fetterman not only said Trump has a special hold on his state; he also suggested the hold has grown stronger as a result of the first assassination attempt, which...

Amazon has become the latest major company to order staff to return to the office five days a week, effectively ending working from home at the $1.99 trillion tech giant. Just like JPMorgan, Boots, and Goldman Sachs’ bosses, Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy cited strengthening company culture as one of the main reasons behind raising its in-office requirements from three days to full-time. However, a new report from PwC suggests that the move to full-time in-office work could have a different effect than the one intended. The Big Four accounting firm conducted 13 months of research and surveyed over 20,000 business...

Legislation that Kamala championed during her years in the Senate reveals bills designed to negatively impact the ability of DHS to enforce our nation’s immigration laws. While the legislation was not enacted into law, should it reflect what her immigration policies would be like as president, her administration would out-extreme even that of President Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s impeached secretary of Homeland Security.During the 115th and 116th Congresses, Harris introduced or co-sponsored legislation designed to:Effectively erase the border by halting or impeding border wall construction and curtailing border enforcement; Disable immigration detention by cutting detention beds; ending most mandatory...

WASHINGTON — Who’s in charge here, again? First lady Jill Biden did most of the talking Friday at the public portion of what may be President Biden’s last Cabinet meeting — before showing the cast of “The West Wing” around the Oval Office and hosting a Rose Garden event without her husband. “The work is hard and the days are long. And yes, there are times when the weight of all we have before us can just feel too heavy to carry,” Jill, 73, said in the Rose Garden from a podium presidents usually occupy. “But that’s where the heart...

It’s hard to imagine a life without sugar. But how much sugar is too much? The American Heart Association recommends that women eat no more than six teaspoons of sugar a day; for men, no more than nine. This means no more than 25-36 grams or about 100-150 calories a day of sugar. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends eating a maximum of 50 grams, but preferably no more than 25 grams of sugar per day. Does that sound like a lot or a little? Well, when you consider that a 12 oz can of regular Coke has 39 grams...

A small clinical trial suggests that a duo of drugs can extend survival for people battling advanced kidney cancer. Researchers developed the new regimen, a combination of pazopanib (Votrient) and bevacizumab (Avastin). Pazopanib is from a class of cancer drugs known as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). These drugs work by blocking vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling—a key mechanism that cancer cells need to grow. In prior trials that led to pazopanib's approval by the U.S. FDA, the drug led to an average survival (without cancer progression) of just over 11 months among people diagnosed with kidney tumors. The new...

Collusion between Big Tech and Western governments is a growing threat. It’s the First Amendment for a reason: free speech is a fundamental prerequisite for liberal democracy. But The Guardian, with logic that Stalin would have appreciated, insists the concern over free speech has been “concocted” by the Right. This is one example of many that shows the assault on free speech today primarily comes from the very people—the legacy media, academia, and progressives—who once championed unencumbered dialogue. Given the increasing likelihood of a Kamala Harris presidency, the outlook for free speech could turn even more dismal. As California’s attorney...