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A New Hampshire man who was charged over his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol says that he is running for Congress, WBTS reported on Monday. "In the long run, if you’re running for office, any attention is good attention, so I think it will help me," Jason Riddle told the NBC News affiliate. Riddle says he is running against Rep. Ann Kuster (D-N.H.) in the 2022 midterms, but he appeared confused as to whether defeating her would send him to Concord, N.H., or Washington, D.C. “I thought Ann was a state representative,” Riddle told WBTS. When...

A first-of-its-kind experimental vaccine designed to protect against Alzheimer's disease has passed the latest stage of human trials, scientists report in a new study. In a phase II clinical trial, the drug candidate AADvac1, developed by biotech company Axon Neuroscience, was shown to be safely tolerated by patients, and to produce a response against certain markers of the disease. In tests with 193 patients with mild Alzheimer's, 117 of the cohort received AADvac1, while the remainder acted as a control group, receiving a placebo instead. In the double-blinded, randomized trial, conducted over 24 months, the participants who received AADvac1 took...

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Watching and reading some of the media coverage of the fighting between Israel and Hamas I am reminded of the libretto from Les Miserables, when Javert says, “The law is inside out. The world is upside down.” The world certainly is upside down, with Israel, the only open, liberal democracy in the Middle East being portrayed as the aggressor, while Hamas, an infamous terrorist organization, plays the victim. As of this writing, there is a ceasefire, and I am grateful that it is holding for the time being. But Hamas will eventually go back to trying to make good its...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is to meet President Joe Biden at a summit Wednesday, has suggested that the hundreds of people arrested for rioting at the U.S. Capitol are being subjected to “persecution for political opinions.” ... “You are presenting it as dissent and intolerance toward dissent in Russia. We view it completely differently,” he said in an interview with NBC News broadcast Monday. He then pointed to the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington when protesters barged into the Capitol to try to halt the count of electoral votes to certify Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump. “Do you...

US Producer Prices soared 6.6% YoY in May – the fastest pace on record. This is the 13th straight month of MoM PPI increases…Over 40 percent of the May increase in the index for final demand services is attributable to margins for automobile retailing (partial), which jumped 27.3 percent. The indexes for truck transportation of freight; apparel, footwear, and accessories retailing; portfolio management; chemicals and allied products wholesaling; and hardware, building materials, and supplies retailing also rose. Conversely, margins for food retailing fell 3.6 percent. The indexes for traveler accommodation services and for airline passenger services also decreased. Within the...

McDonald’s workers were filmed being attacked by a customer after she allegedly tried to fill up a water cup with a free soda but wasn’t allowed to. The brawl was posted on Twitter, and there are allegations that the fight started when the customer tried to put soda in a free water cup. The video shows the three women arguing before the fight breaks out. The second piece of footage shows the fight breaking out after the customer hurls iced water at the employee. As the customer storms toward the staff member, she received instant justice and finally got a...

A Liberty County man says his rights were violated when a divorce court judge ordered him to get a COVID-19 vaccine in order to see his kids. The court-ordered COVID-19 vaccine was listed as a requirement by the judge in order for Chris Staley to have visitation with his kids, according to Trinity County court records. The divorce docket dated 5/10/21 gives this order: "Both parents are to get vaccinated for COVID by end of this week." "He pretty much told me and her both that we were to get a COVID vaccination," said Chris Staley. "I shook my head,...

The Law of the Bureaucrat states simply: “The Bureaucrat is the smartest person in the room.” This Law has a huge impact on everyday life, and if fully understood, will make it clear that we must clean out all the Federal bureaucracies. Further, it demonstrates why Anthony Fauci felt free to pursue gain of function research in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And finally, it explains why he feels free to completely dismiss any criticism of his actions. Let’s break it down. Congress passes lots of laws. But Congress has no interest in actually dealing with the details....

A physician, two nurses, a professional athlete, a drug dealer and a lawyer who had nodded off in court. Teenagers, specifically a 14- and a 15-year-old. And a 7-year-old who got into a stash in her mother's purse. These are some of the types of people Dr. Christopher Colwell, the chief of emergency medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, has recently seen in the emergency room for medical issues related to fentanyl use and overdoses.

Reporters waited three hours for President Joe Biden before he appeared late to his press conference in Brussels on Monday. “Thank you all so very much, sorry you’re all here so late,” Biden said as he left the podium after only answering questions from five reporters selected by his staff.

The Golden State has consistently gone blue in every presidential election spanning from 1992 through 2020. ================================================================================= The Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit regarding the constitutionality of California's winner-take-all method for choosing presidential electors. "Petitioners are two California Republicans and two non-profit organizations who have alleged their votes for President and Vice President are diluted by California's use of the so-called winner-take-all system," the petition said. "That system, by law, results in the appointment of members of only one political party to the Nation's largest electoral college delegation." Among the petitioners are actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez...

For more than a century, the United States was home to the best college and university system in the world. High-potential students from all across the globe came here to study. Many stayed after graduating and used their education to benefit America. During this time, few institutions contributed more to America's prosperity, quality of life and technological superiority than the academy. Unfortunately, over time, higher education in America has changed, and not for the better. The academy is in decline because it is suffering from self-inflicted wounds. Too many of our colleges and universities have become "woke" institutions governed by...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday that he and President Biden hadn't reached a deal about lifting coronavirus border restrictions after discussing the matter. Trudeau said during a press conference that he spoke with Biden about lifting the ban on nonessential travel between the U.S. and Canada. The restrictions were imposed in March 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both U.S. and Canadian business leaders have complained about the border restrictions, which lowered tourist travel between the two countries, affecting Canadian businesses and airlines that depend on tourism, Reuters noted. Trudeau said Canada needs more of...

Officials today would not disclose why three missile-armed Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 fighters were scrambled Sunday afternoon for an “irregular air patrol” requested by the Federal Aviation Administration. “The 154th Fighter Wing launched two F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam at approximately 4 p.m.,” Pacific Air Forces said in an email. “A third was launched at approximately 5 p.m.” The Hickam-based Air Force command added that the FAA requested that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command “conduct an irregular air patrol and the situation resolved, prompting the fighters and a KC-135 Stratotanker (a refueling plane) to return to base. We cannot...

“Cancel culture” has claimed many victims this year. Actress Gina Carano was fired from the hit Disney+ series The Mandalorian for then-recent comments she made on social media. Meanwhile, Teen Vogue’s brand-new editor Alexi McCammond had to immediately resign for social media posts from a decade earlier when she herself was a teenager. Books by Dr. Seuess have been pulled from shelves for questionably insensitive content, and even queen of nice Ellen DeGeneres found herself in the crosshairs for apparently not actually being nice all the time to employees.

Production on the series originally paused on June 2, when the studio was made aware that a crew member had tested positive for giardia. (According to The Wrap, as many as 40 crew members were ultimately affected by the parasite, leaving people "collapsing" on set due to "awful explosive diarrhea" and "being forced to run into port-o-potties." ) Working with L.A. and Ventura County Health Departments, NBCUniversal employed a third-party environmental lab to run tests on the location's water source and determined that it was negative for giardia. However, additional testing conducted on June 10 turned up positive tests in...

A San Jose community is in limbo and left wondering if their personal information, credit cards, and other packages are in the hands of a thief. That's because last week a surveillance camera captured someone clearing out a postal truck near the Evergreen community. The United States postal inspector is asking for the public's help to capture the suspect committing what they said is a very serious federal crime. Surveillance video from Sturla Drive shows a man, who is not a postal service employee, opening the sliding back door of a mail truck. He then brings in a woman, and...

Right now, Donald J. Trump’s opponents can’t quite believe what they’re seeing. Just a few short months ago, the “Swamp” denizens of Washington were breathing sighs of relief. They had done it! They had defeated the awful Trump, handed the White House to Joe Biden, and could now begin implementing all their cherished plans for a post-Trump America. And then an amazing thing happened. A twice-impeached former president who had supposedly incited an “insurrection” at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 has returned—and he’s looking stronger than ever. On the night of Saturday, June 5, Trump emerged to give only...

The Group of Seven pledged to cut global greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. World leaders at the G7 Summit this past week agreed to cut in half greenhouse gas emissions 2030 and by next year stop the funding of some coal production overseas. However, they declined to agree on a deadline for using coal as electricity to slow climate change. The G7 nations, which collectively produce about a quarter of the world’s climate pollution, also declined to pledge significant new funding to help developing countries manage the impact of climate change and move away from burning oil, gas...