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They want someone else! A vast majority — 70% — of voters in New York believe President Biden is unfit to serve another four years in the White House, according to a poll released Tuesday. Meanwhile, more than half of the Empire State voters said the same of former President Donald Trump, the Siena College survey found. Conversely, 35% of voters said Trump is fit and Biden is not while another 32% said neither is up to the task of leading the country. Only 7% of voters surveyed consider both Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, fit to be president. Another...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) went after Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Monday, saying he is not “fit to serve” after he said he would have chosen not to certify the 2020 election results without pro-Trump electors. Vance said Sunday in an ABC “This Week” interview he would have allowed states to send multiple slates of electors to Washington after the 2020 election and “Congress should have fought over it from there,” adding there “were problems” in the 2020 election. “Yesterday, J.D. Vance claimed that Trump could defy rulings of the Supreme Court as President,” Cheney wrote on X, formerly...

The accuracy of detecting bowel cancer is increased to almost 100% by carrying out a common test twice rather than once, a new study shows. The test—called a fecal immunochemical test (FIT)—is used to detect blood in bowel movements that is not visible, which may indicate the presence of bowel cancer. Researchers found that carrying out the test twice ensured more cases of bowel cancer were identified. As well as reducing the risk of a missed diagnosis, experts say this two-test approach has the potential to reduce demand for colonoscopies in a health care system under pressure. Early detection is...

The man behind a hugely embarrassing leak of highly classified military documents is believed to be a young gun enthusiast who shared the secrets in a group for gamers. Known as "OG" in the Discord chatroom, the man allegedly claimed to spend parts of his day inside a secure facility where phones were banned, according to a story published by the Washington Post. He initially typed up versions of highly secret documents and posted them for the group of about 25 active members from various countries to read, but later switched to posting slews of photos of the documents themselves....

There was a low risk for advanced neoplasia after multiple rounds of negative fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) in people undergoing surveillance colonoscopy, according to a study. Molla M. Wassie, Ph.D. and colleagues examined the relationship between number of rounds of negative FIT and the risk for advanced neoplasia in individuals undergoing surveillance colonoscopy. The analysis included 3,369 individuals (aged 50 to 74 years) who had completed a two-sample FIT between colonoscopies with each round having a negative result (<20 μg hemoglobin/g feces). The researchers found that the incidence of advanced neoplasia in the cohort was 9.9 percent and decreased with...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) met weekly with large social media platforms to collaborate on moderating content, according to a deposition this week from FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan. Chan, who was one of the two FBI agents who contacted Facebook ahead of its censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop warning of potential Russian disinformation operations, said that the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials met weekly with social media companies to remove specific accounts ahead of the 2020 presidential election, according to his deposition cited by Missouri Attorney General...

Just a thought on blue jeans. Out of curiosity, a guy went and bought some blue genes online. I have a challenge with box stores as they fail to carry my size. The Inseam is the most challenging, that would be a 29", not the tallest guy but can get it online in a couple days. Waist is a 31", again not found in my local stores. I want to shop local to support my businesses, 30 X 32"s was all that was available. It's all available online and in stock. The local businesses have no answer. Bought Levi's and...

President Joe Biden shrugged off polls showing voters believed he was not mentally fit, during a press conference at the White House on Wednesday. One reporter asked Biden why only 40 percent of voters in a new Morning Consult survey believe Biden is mentally fit, 37 percent say he is in good health, and 43 percent believe he is stable.

The White House told reporters Monday that President Joe Biden is so physically fit, he is hard to keep up with. White House press secretary Jen Psaki discussed Biden’s physical health on Monday after a reporter asked her about the president’s Peloton exercise bike. Psaki did not reveal if Biden still uses the exercise bike at the White House. “I will say I have nothing to read out on the president’s private exercise routine,” she replied. “I can tell you, having traveled with him a fair amount, sometimes he’s hard to keep up with.” The Washington Post reported Monday that...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday would not state whether or not he believes House Republican Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) is a “good fit” for the House GOP leadership team as Cheney continues to attack former President Donald Trump and divide the party. McCarthy was asked by a reporter if Cheney was a “good fit” for the team as House GOP members wrap up a policy retreat in Orlando, Florida.

A “fit and healthy” teenage wrestler in England has died within hours of being hospitalized with COVID-19. Cameron Wellington, a 19-year-old professional wrestler from Walsall, tested positive for the virus on Nov. 10, but his condition quickly took a turn for the worse, Birmingham Mail reported. “Cam was adamant he was fine but I could tell (something was wrong). The color was draining from him,” his mother Jane Wellington told the outlet. He was rushed to the hospital Wednesday with breathing problems — and doctors said he “wasn’t expected to last an hour

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) has apologized after a fashion show held by graduating students featured accessories meant to depict exaggerated facial features that at least one model said were racist. Critics including one model at the show, Amy Lefévre, said that accessories handed out to models at the school's Feb. 7 show mimicked historically offensive caricatures of black people, and should not have been handed out to models, some of whom wore the accessories onstage. “I stood there almost ready to break down, telling the staff that I felt incredibly uncomfortable with having to wear these pieces and...

Suspects accused of shining laser at pedestriansA group of Florida Institute of Technology students trespassed on a construction site, climbed a radio tower and pointed a green laser at pedestrians because they were bored and wanted to “mess with people,” according to the Melbourne Police Department. Police said they were called to the Roberts Hall construction site around 1:20 a.m. Sunday after security officers spotted the three teens on top of a radio tower on the roof of the seven-story tall building, pointing a green laser at people as they walked by. The building is vacant and under construction with...

Fit vs. Unfit I was chatting about the impossible odds Donald Trump faced to become our nation’s 45th president. The media reported the women, gays, Latino’s, and black community’s opposition. Then add the opposition from the Republican Party with the expected Democratic Party opposition. The resistance is the result of the Democrats’ fear of President Trump. They fear that the people will realize we don’t need political parties to elect a president. They fear that more people’s eyes will open when President Trump does in two years what the politicians collectively didn’t do in twenty years. At this point someone...

Hillary Clinton’s doctor says she is recovering from her pneumonia and remains “healthy and fit to serve as President of the United States.” The statement was part of medical information Clinton’s campaign released Wednesday after her pneumonia diagnosis last week. The campaign says that Clinton’s physician found that the remainder of the Democratic presidential nominee’s complete physical exam was “normal” and she is in “excellent mental condition.” Dr. Lisa Bardack adds that Clinton is “recovering well with antibiotics and rest” after she became overheated, dehydrated and felt dizzy at a 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday. Clinton’s aides say she’ll return...

Just a prediction, folks!

“The New Face Of EU Immigration Is Young, Fit And Overwhelmingly Male,” by Simon Kent, Breitbart, September 6, 2015: BUDAPEST,Hungary (Sep. 6) – Meet the self-styled ‘Aleppo Boys’. Pictured above, they are the collective face of mass immigration entering Europe from the Middle East. Their story is indicative of so many you can hear right now at Budapest Keleti railway station. They are young. They are fit. They clearly know what they want. They have no intention of staying and fighting in Syria. Instead they have travelled overland through Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and into Hungary. They say their...

An unsolicited memo to State Attorney Angela Corey: You are a public official, and people have the right to express an opinion about how you are doing your job. -------- D'Alemberte is a former president of the American Bar Association, a former president of Florida State University and a law professor — not too shabby in the legal credentials department.When Corey was appointed to head up the investigation into the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, D'Alemberte had this to say:"I cannot imagine a worse choice for a prosecutor to serve in the Sanford case. There is nothing...

"In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion," Jill Abramson told the New York Times yesterday upon being designated the paper's new executive editor. "If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth." This quote prompted blogress Ann Althouse, who is a much nicer person than we are, to contemplation: Let's analyze the analogy. A newspaper is like religion, believed in, and taken, unquestioningly, as true. Then what happens when you are in charge of it?

The Government plans to slash subsidies for large-scale solar installations to divert money to smaller alternative energy projects, in a move that the industry has called a “horrendous strategic mistake”. A review of the Feed-in Tariffs was announced in February, in response to concerns that large solar projects would soak up the available subsidy at the expense of other technologies. This followed a study that showed there could already be 169 megawatts of large-scale solar capacity in the planning system - equivalent to funding solar panels on the roofs of around 50,000 homes if tariffs were left unchanged. Greg Barker,...