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A feuding neighbor shot a couple with a handgun before fetching an AR-15-style rifle from his home to kill them, after an apparent argument over the couple shoveling snow into his yard. Disturbing video has emerged showing the Pennsylvania couple yelling obscenities at the neighbor, before the man grabs a gun and fatally shoots the husband and wife in the middle of the street. The gunman, Jeffrey Spaide, 47, then took his own life as cops closed in.

I’ve made a minor hobby of looking skeptically at immunizations since my case report on atypical measles was published as the centerpiece article in JAMA 45 years ago. That case illustrated at least one unpublicized problem from immunizations.It seems that the original measles vaccine, “a killed measles vaccine” was given to preschool kids beginning in 1962-63 and available until 1968. It did prevent measles for about six years. Thereafter, when these kids were exposed to measles they sometimes developed an inverted and much more serious illness. My case was the first that occurred in a young adult 14 years after...

#AlexandriaOcasioSmollett: Conservatives Mock AOC on Twitter After She Exaggerates About Her Experience During Capitol RiotRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is facing ridicule online after exaggerating about her experience during the storming of the Capitol on January 6. Fighting tears during an Instagram-Live broadcast Monday night, Ocasio-Cortez described feeling traumatized, and said it “almost felt like a zombie movie or something.”AOC also said that she felt threatened by a Capitol Hill Police officer who had come to secure the building and had banged on her office door. “I thought I was going to die,” Ocasio-Cortez emoted.The socialist congresswoman said she hid inside...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals surprised GOP Sen. Rand Paul today with a great big hug for questioning costly and weird animal tests funded by Uncle Sam. In a letter to the Kentucky senator, the animal rights group credited him for prompting those who experiment on animals to reveal details of their secretive world. “We urge you to keep telling it like it is and do all you can to redirect funds from studies to superior animal-free methods,” wrote PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo in the letter shared with Secrets. At issue is Paul’s annual report on...

Drugs, prostitutes, shady dealings, a quickie marriage — President Joe Biden's son Hunter is too easily depicted as sleaze in human form. Who else would have left his wife and jumped into bed with his recently departed brother's widow only for her to end the affair when he got a stripper pregnant? Is it only Hunter who could have received two special waivers to join the military and be commissioned at a special ceremony in the White House, but then blow his chance on his very first day when a blood test came back positive for cocaine?

CNN president Jeff Zucker will leave the news organization at the end of 2021 after almost a decade in charge, it was reported Thursday. The long-time boss, 55, told staff: 'I'm going to stay and finish my current contract, which, as I said, will keep me here until the end of this year. 'At that point, I do expect to move on.'

House impeachment managers asked former President Donald Trump to testify under oath in his impeachment trial next week. Lead Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin sent a letter to Trump, asking he provide testimony under oath, either before or during the Senate impeachment trial, about his conduct on January 6, the day his MAGA supporters stormed the Capitol. The move by House Democrats is a sign they intend to aggressively prosecute the former president. The House managers do not have independent authority to subpoena Trump so they must invite him to make his case.

According to officials, a 46-year-old man was arrested in January for allegedly trying to board an airplane in Orlando with a bag that hosted 22 pounds of methamphetamine. Yet the suspect in custody claims that it’s a case of mistaken luggage, and that somebody must have switched bags with him while he was having a nap.

U.S. Rep. Val Demings of Orlando says she is “keeping the door open” for a potential run for governor or U.S. senator next year. “I certainly would not talk about any private conversations that I’m having,” Demings, D-Orlando, said in an interview with the Washington Post on Tuesday. “But as I said, there’s plenty of work to do in the House right now. If that would take me to another campaign, then I’m keeping that door open.” Demings, in her third term representing District 10 in western Orange County, gained national attention last year for her role as a House...

A South African couple had to rule out a morning swim after they spotted a crocodile taking a dip in their pool. Angel and Jaco Breytenbach from the country's North West Province were checking their security cameras on January 29 before letting their pets out of the house – and it's a good thing they did. The cameras captured a croc sitting comfortably beneath the surface of their backyard swimming pool. The non-profit Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation was called in to help retrieve the predator. They posted a video on social media showing the rescue, with people crowded around the...

Another day, another round of right-wing pundits trying to dunk on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this time, her supporters are fighting back with cuteness. The outspoken member of Congress from New York has frequently been a target for Republicans, and this time it's with the hashtag #AOClied, which was trending on Twitter Thursday morning.

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Yesterday, we reported that 27-year-old country music star Morgan Wallen had been banned from the second biggest radio chain in the country after he was caught saying the N-word on camera. Now, things have gotten even worse for Wallen, as he has been disqualified from the 2021 American Country Music Awards.

Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a Florida supermarket is sparking outrage online after video surfaced of customers and employees going about their business without masks. The 15-second clip was shared Wednesday by NBC's Sam Brock, who was astonished when he walked into the popular Naples, Florida grocery store only to see people both young and old flouting the rules for mask-wearing. Brock in his tweet wrote that a sign outside the store cited "medical exemptions," preventing Brock from asking any questions. The video has since been viewed more than 2 million times, raking in over 9,000 retweets and sparking even...

When Centrism Becomes Extremism In today’s upside-down political culture, moderate centrism has become stigmatized as extremism.Joseph Overton died before his time in 2003, when the 43-year-old was involved in an ultralight plane crash. But he achieved immortality when the political concept he first described as the “window of discourse” became known posthumously as the Overton Window.What Overton refers to is the spectrum of political discourse that ranges from unthinkable ideas to those that are generally accepted and popular. Political commentator Joshua Treviño characterizes the milestones in this spectrum as starting with unthinkable, moving to radical, then acceptable, then sensible, then...

If you thought it was hard to travel in 2020 and hoped the new year would bring about simpler times, you’re about to be disappointed. The new administration’s focus on bringing the pandemic under control, combined with newer highly contagious strains of COVID-19, are complicating reopening plans in countries around the world. In fact, in many places (like Israel), the new strains of coronavirus have prompted the shutdown of air travel entirely. The Biden administration has imposed additional restrictions on international travel with new testing and quarantine requirements. There’s even active consideration for a testing requirement for flights within the...

EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is resigning from the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists after they threatened to expel his membership from the union after the Capitol riot -- to which he said, "Who cares!" The former president's letter of resignation Wednesday comes after the SAG-AFTRA board voted "overwhelmingly" that Trump violated the union's membership guidelines in the wake of the Capitol riot. Fox News exclusively obtained the letter sent to SAG President Gabrielle Carteris, slamming the union, the media and news organizations. "I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at...

Hospital emergency rooms in the United States saw an increase in patients requiring treatment for drug overdoses and suicide attempts in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, according to an analysis published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry... ERs treated 14% more drug overdose patients on a weekly basis last year and treated 6% more patients after a suicide attempt compared to prior years, the data showed. The findings highlight the need to account for the mental health effects on the pandemic as part of the overall public health response, the researchers, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote...

Bribe Senator Joe Manchin?Atlantic magazine writer Annie Lowrey doesn't even try to be very subtle about it. The headline of her story on Wednesday flat out makes it clear what she wants, "Give Joe Manchin Whatever He Wants." And if you can't figure out what she is getting at in the title, the subtitle goes into even more detail, "Why shouldn’t Democrats bring back earmarks and curry his favor with a few sky bridges and concert halls?" Lowrey makes the case that Democrats should, essentially, bribe Manchin in order to make him more supportive of legislation being pushed by the...

"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world." - Henry Kissinger (1974) From : www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/committees/cac/about/en/ "Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) The Codex Alimentarius Commission or CAC is the body responsible for all matters regarding the implementation of the Joint FAO/WHO … "