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You can count on Canadian researchers to build a calculator that can predict your chances of developing dementia. Researchers at the Ottawa Hospital, the University of Ottawa, the Bruyère Research Institute and ICES developed an online calculator empowering people over 55 to understand how they can reduce the risk of being diagnosed with dementia in the next five years. This is the first tool designed to predict dementia, which refers to loss of memory and other thinking abilities that interferes with daily life, on a population level.

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A Michigan-Flint University professor says Harvard's hosting a music program open to “all BIPOC students” is a Title VI violation. Professor Mark Perry filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over an upcoming program at Harvard that will require applicants to disclose their race . “No Label Academy at Harvard,” is a “music business” course that will be hosted by rapper IDK . It is “open to all BIPOC individuals interested in music business,” and designed to build “a pipeline for BIPOC talent to kickstart their music careers,” according to the program’s website. Those...

The writing has been on the wall for weeks if not months. Children (and healthy young adults, for that matter) should NOT be subjugated to the experimental Covid-19 injections being pawned off as “vaccines” by government, mainstream media, and vaccine-Karens across the country. Today’s VAERS released, quietly dumped by the CDC, reveals just how asinine it is for anyone who is not in a vulnerable category to get vaccinated. Children are the least vulnerable to Covid-19. The raw data suggests those under the age of 20 have a tiny chance of death from Covid-19, far less than if they contract...

A man who was caught on video stuffing razor blades into packages of pizza dough that were sold to multiple customers at a Maine grocery store pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday, authorities said. The shocking incident came to light in October 2020 after a customer reported finding several blades inside a package of Portland Pie pizza dough that he had bought at the Saco Hannaford Supermarket. Store employees reviewed surveillance footage and saw 39-year-old Nicholas Mitchell tampering with multiple pizza dough packages of the same brand, according to police. “When the patrons subsequently opened the pizza doughs, they discovered...

John McAfee, who died yesterday, was one of the oddest men of our times. You might have thought Elon Musk was the most eccentric man in tech, with his fondness for memes, crypto-currencies and flamethrowers. Elon Musk was Joe Average compared to McAfee. The creator of the first commercial anti-virus software was one of a kind.

The ex-wife of assassin James Earl Ray, who killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is facing animal abuse charges in Tennessee, where dozens of neglected dogs were found living in her filthy home, authorities said. Police in Jackson raided the ramshackle property owned by Anna Sandhu Ray, 74, on Monday and uncovered a house of horrors where 44 dogs were found living atop piles of trash or caged while soaked in their own waste, according to national nonprofit Animal Rescue Corps. At least three dead dogs were found in the house and the stench from “dangerously high levels” of ammonia...

Vice President Kamala Harris finally made her way down to a U.S. border town on Friday, deciding to visit El Paso, Texas for a couple of hours before making her way to Los Angeles, California. While El Paso, and its Congressional district, are heavily Democratic, it appears mostly supporters of former President Donald Trump showed up to "greet" Harris when she arrived at the El Paso Border Patrol Station. Photos and videos of the gathering showed Trump supporters, most of whom were Latino, carrying Trump flags and anti-Harris signs."Kamala, You Know Trump Won," one sign stated.

The European Union summit meeting on Hungary's new anti-LGBTQ+ laws was extremely emotional, Prime Minister Mark Rute said after the meeting on Thursday evening. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban faced harsher criticism than Rutte ever experienced with any leader. "This was very intense and impressive," he said, NU.nl reports. According to Rutte, the "vast majority" of the EU leaders were against the anti_LGBTQ+ laws and made sure Orban understood it. Especially Luxembourg Prime Minister Zavier Bettel's personal account of his life with his husband had an impact. "Everyone had tears in their eyes," Rutte said. It was the first time...

During border visit, bishop speaks with vice president about immigrationBishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, asked Vice President Kamala Harris June 25 to engage with the faith community as partners on a path to bring relief and a compassionate solution to immigration issues in the Americas and to “hear the voices” of those turned away at the border.He also invited her to join Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Central America in an upcoming meeting in Washington to talk to Congress about the root causes of migration.In the border town, where the bishop has in the past accompanied...

TOKYO — Japanese soccer player Kumi Yokoyama said they are transgender — a revelation praised in the U.S. where they play in the National Women's Soccer League but an identity not legally recognized in Japan. The 27-year-old forward for the Washington Spirit said they felt more comfortable with their own gender identity while living in the United States, where teammates and friends are more open to gender and sexual diversity. "I'm coming out now," Yokoyama said in a video talk on former teammate Yuki Nagasato's YouTube channel. "In the future, I want to quit soccer and live as a man."...

Retired four star general Barry McCaffrey called for Fox News host Tucker Carlson to be fired for insulting Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley. General Milley proudly told Congress on Wednesday that he wants to understand “white rage” and is studying the concept. Milley defended Critical Race Theory as well. On Thursday Tucker Carlson UNLOADED on Gen. Milley for his ignorant and unimpressive statements to Congress. "Mark Milley is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He didn’t get that job because he’s brilliant or because he’s brave or because the people who know him, respect him....

Samantha Bee broke into late night TV with the kind of hate all too commonly seen from modern “comedians.” Her very first “Full Frontal” show slammed Republican Sen. Ted Cruz as a “horse-faced s–t salesman.” She’s been consistently vicious since then on her TBS platform, most famously when she called the First Daughter a “feckless c-word.” Bee served up a quasi-apology for that attack, but she’s been doing variations of that shtick ever since. She even had to apologize, again, for singling out a cancer patient as a Nazi for having the wrong haircut. Her latest broadside might be her...

The final results from a Grail study of its cancer-tracing blood test found it was accurate at detecting a range of different tumors at early stages—especially those more likely to be lethal and have fewer screening options. Grail launched its prescription Galleri diagnostic in the U.S. earlier this month. The test is designed to help spot as many as 50 different cancers and uncover their original organ sites from a blood sample… In a paper published in… cancer journal Annals of Oncology using data gathered from the company’s Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas study, researchers found the test could detect cancer...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday criticized Republican efforts in that state to bar self-identified transgender athletes from competing in sports leagues of the opposite sex, claiming that sports authorities should be the ones to tackle such a problem. "This issue is best addressed outside of government," DeWine said in a Friday statement, "through individual sports leagues and athletic associations, including the Ohio High School Athletic Association, who can tailor policies to meet the needs of their member athletes and member institutions."

Happy Freedom Day! By proclamation of "Boris" Johnson (phoney name, phoney guy), today was supposed to mark the end of all lockdown restrictions in his benighted land. Unfortunately, freedom has had to be "postponed" until July 19th, supposedly because of the "Delta variant", which is puttering along nicely while the ChiComs fine-tune the Epsilon variant in time for its soft launch in Chad or Bolivia around July 12th. On the surface, naming the day "Freedom Day" concedes the case of old Boris chums like Toby Young and James Delingpole that the year-plus lockdown is a massive unprecedented assault on free...

A cryptic tweet allegedly posted by John McAfee earlier this month has been circulating on Twitter claiming he was storing secret files at a Miami condo Screenshots appear to show tweet shared from McAfee's account on June 8 revealing he had '31TB of files on hard drives' near '88th Street and Collins Ave' McAfee was found dead on Wednesday allegedly from suicide by hanging The following day, a 12-story Miami apartment building on 8777 Collins Avenue collapsed, with the cause of the disaster still unknown DailyMail.com was also unable to find records for a condo owned under McAfee's name in...

MADISON, WI - Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a vocal critic of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, announced plans Friday to hold a news conference bringing together people who claim to have had adverse reactions to the vaccine. His plans drew renewed criticism from doctors who have been accusing Johnson for months of advancing conspiracy theories and putting people's health at risk. Johnson, who has also advocated for alternative and unproven treatments for COVID-19, said the Monday event in Milwaukee will allow people from around the country to tell their stories and express concerns he said have been “repeatedly ignored” by the...

I have been mulling around several different topics to address on this subject; what is church, what does it mean to be part of a church, how should a healthy church function, God’s power and reality in the church, etc, all of which I intend to get to. But I wanted to begin by cutting to the chase, I want to make the case for the Church. Why should Christians be part of a church, and give themselves to that form of the work of God? It was a given, at one point, in my own experience of being converted...

GENEVA: China pressured Ukraine into withdrawing its support for a call for more scrutiny of human rights in China's western region of Xinjiang by threatening to withhold Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccines destined for Ukraine unless it did so, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday. Ukraine briefly joined a statement by over 40 countries, presented by Canada at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, urging China to allow immediate access for independent observers to Xinjiang. Some human rights groups have alleged Chinese mistreatment of Muslim Uyghurs and others in the region. On Thursday, Ukraine pulled its name off the...