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A former FDA food safety expert is urging Americans to change their cooking and grocery habits amid a growing bird flu outbreak on US dairy farms. California recorded its sixth case of bird flu in dairy farmers in just three weeks and 11 more livestock herds have been affected by the virus, bringing the total to 90. While there have been no official cases of the H5N1 virus infecting people through food, officials could not rule it out in one isolated case in Missouri earlier this year. In light of this, ex-government food tester Dr Darin Detwiler told DailyMail.com people...

SALEM - Salem is the latest city in Massachusetts to test out a guaranteed income program that would give thousands of dollars directly to its poorest residents. The Uplift Salem initiative will give $500 a month to 100 Salem residents for an entire year. There's no restrictions on how recipients can spend the income. "We want Salem to be an affordable place for everyone, and a guaranteed income program offers an innovative approach to help achieve that goal," Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo said in a statement.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented his long-anticipated “Victory Plan” to Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday, after failing to drum up additional, tangible support last week during meetings with European allies. The plan, which consists of five points and three additional “secret” points shared only with certain partners, would be a bridge toward future peace talks with Russia, Zelensky told lawmakers in Kyiv, as he aims to bolster Ukraine’s position enough to end the war. At the heart of Zelensky’s plan is Ukraine’s desire for an invitation to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which would be a precursor to full...

According to a news release on Wednesday, however, the Arizona Supreme Court denied their “last-minute” appeal: Via Arizona Supreme Court: The Arizona Supreme Court today denied a last-minute motion from Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego to prevent disclosure of redacted records from their divorce proceedings. The records were initially sealed by the Yavapai County Superior Court, where the divorce was granted. A newspaper, the Washington Free Beacon, filed a lawsuit in Yavapai County Superior Court asking it to unseal the records. Holding that such records should be a matter of public record, the court unsealed them...

The contentious high-drama interview between Fox News anchor Bret Baier and Vice President Kamala Harris drew immediate attention and reactions online after it aired on Wednesday night. Meanwhile she tore into Donald Trump for being totally 'unfit to serve' as president for a second term because he's 'dangerous.' It was a contentious 30 minutes as the current VP worked to distance herself from Biden, saying her presidency would not 'be a continuation' while defending the administration's policies. The first testy moment started after a brawl over the Biden-Harris administration immigration policies. 'Kamala Harris just ran into a Bret Baier buzzsaw...

RICHMOND, Calif. - A 14-year-old girl was killed, and her 11-year-old sister was critically injured in an early morning car crash in Richmond on Monday, police say. KTVU has confirmed the 14-year-old was a student at Richmond High School and her sister was a student at Ford Elementary School. The younger sister is awake but in the intensive care unit at a local hospital, according to the girls' aunt. Both recently came to the United States from El Salvador.

The woman convicted of luring five young men into a Long Island park where they were attacked by MS-13 gang members, who killed four of them, was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday. The brutal 2017 attack shocked Central Islip, and the nation. Leniz Escobar, 24, also known as "La Diablita, or "Little Devil," was convicted in April 2022 in connection with the murders of Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre and Jefferson Villalobos. The victims were aged 16-20. She was sentenced Tuesday. Escobar was accused of luring them into the park to smoke marijuana. Once they got there,...

Donald Trump will attend the Pittsburgh Steelers versus New York Jets game on Sunday, according to two sources, but it leaves campaign aides with a major headache. Should he sit with his friend and ambassador, Woody Johnson, owner of the Jets? Or does he risk alienating tens of thousands of voters in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania if he does not join the Rooney family, owners of the Steelers, in their box at Acrisure Stadium, in Pittsburgh? With such a close election, everything matters. Trump is due to hold a rally in nearby Latrobe on Saturday evening and is...

Vice President Kamala Harris refused to answer a question from Fox News’ Bret Baier about why the Biden-Harris administration allowed Iran to access billions of dollars, deflecting instead to familiar criticisms of Donald Trump. Harris sat for a contentious 27-minute interview on Special Report during which the Democratic nominee often evaded questions or tried to shift the focus to her opponent. Her answer on foreign policy was no different. Given Harris’s claim that Iran (and not China) was America’s greatest enemy, Baier asked her, why had she and Biden “relaxed or failed to enforce sanctions on Iran, allowing all of...

SpaceX successfully landed its Starship rocket in what Elon Musk calls one of the company's most important launches. SpaceFund founder Rick Tumlinson joins Josh Lipton on Asking for a Trend to talk about what the landing means for SpaceX and the space exploration industry. The venture capital fund focused on space exploration is invested in SpaceX. "What we're witnessing here [is the] combination of the railroads, the steamships, airplanes, all in one. Like 100 years from now, people are going to look back at this period of time as sort of when humanity breaks out into space, Tumlinson says, adding...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Marines Doing Marines Thing! U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, execute range 400 during Integrated Training Exercise 4-24 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, June 16, 2024. Range 400 is used to train rifle companies in the techniques and procedures for attacking fortified areas. ITX is the culmination of Marine Forces Reserve’s training cycle as they participate in a live-fire, combined arms exercise as a part of MAGTF operating over vast distances. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by...

For over a year, as I’ve talked to Black men and voting organizers, I’ve picked up on discontent with the Democratic Party from some Black men, but I wasn’t sure what to make of it or how widely that sentiment stretched. Apart from my reporting, polling suggests an erosion of Democratic support among Black men, though I remained somewhat skeptical. But when a campaign unfurls a closing-stretch strategy to reach and retain a particular group of voters, as the Harris campaign clearly has done with Black men, it means that something — whether in public polls or in its internal...

Kamala Harris’s senior campaign adviser complained that Wednesday’s much anticipated Fox News interview with Harris was an “ambush” after Fox’s Bret Baier repeatedly pressed Harris to directly answer questions. David Plouffe, former President Barack Obama’s campaign mastermind who joined Harris’s presidential campaign in August, made the charge after a half-hour interview in which Harris seemed to grow frustrated after being unable to answer Baier’s questions about her record.

New ordinance set to take effect in 2027The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance that will, in a little more than two years, ban the sale of filtered cigarettes in unincorporated areas of the county. The Supervisors will hear a second reading and final adoption on Oct. 29. Santa Cruz-based Save Our Shores says that volunteers picked up more than a half-million cigarette butts in the Monterey Bay area over the past decade, a problem made more pervasive by the toxic chemicals in the plastic filters. Worse, they remain in the environment for years. “This...

City Council wants to raise costs to cut sales of sugar-sweetened drinksSanta Cruz’s sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax measure is shaping up to be not only a battle over potentially higher soda prices, but also over a state law that bans cities from proposing measures like it at all. City officials say Measure Z would promote a healthier community and a healthier democracy, while the opposition says it amounts to a regressive tax on consumers already struggling to get by. Measure Z was put on the Nov. 5 ballot by the Santa Cruz City Council and seeks to create an additional...

NASA and NOAA have declared the Sun’s solar maximum, noting increased sunspot activity and heightened solar events that influence Earth’s space weather. This period is linked to significant geomagnetic storms and aurora displays, with potential disruptions to satellites and communication systems. Solar Maximum Announced by NASA and NOAA.. During a teleconference on Tuesday, officials from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel declared that the Sun has entered its solar maximum period. This phase, characterized by heightened magnetic activity, could continue for the next year. The solar cycle is an approximately 11-year...

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to separate herself from the Biden-Harris administration’s record during a Wednesday interview on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier. Under the Biden-Harris administration, costs increased by about 20 percent across the board, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas and Iran attacked Israel, illegal migrants invaded the southern border, and the nation suffered the deadly Afghan withdrawal.

PITTSBURGH, PA — An apparent miracle occurred today as President Donald Trump, cooking up a McDonald's burger for the people of Pennsylvania, suddenly spotted the visage of President Ronald Reagan in his Big Mac Bun. "I was just about to put the Big Mac sauce on, you know that great sauce everybody loves, but I said wait just a minute -- there's a tremendous face there," said President Trump. "And wasn't it a beautiful face, everybody? Ronald Reagan, the great Ron himself, he was smiling back at me, which I totally expected, I knew he would love me. Good old...

Mayor Eric Adams’ hopes of beating his federal corruption rap could hinge on a unlikely savior: Donald Trump. A Trump win in the 2024 presidential election is viewed by some in Adams’ camp as potential path to legal victory for the mayor against an unprecedented federal indictment, sources close to the case told The Post. The insiders’ hopes are that Trump would quickly replace Attorney General Merrick Garland with a pick who could scuttle the case against Adams, sources close to the case told The Post. “Any adult will see this is a bulls–t case, so a new attorney general...

During her first FOX News interview with Bret Baier on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris responded to Donald Trump disputing her characterization that he is a "threat to democracy." She responded to a clip of Donald Trump's response to her attacks: BRET BAIER: Are they misguided, the [people who thin the country is going in the wrong direction]? Are they stupid? KAMALA HARRIS: I would never say that about the American people. And in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he's the one who tends to demean, and belittle, and diminish the...