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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and US Vice President Kamala Harris held a joint press conference on Monday (Aug 23) after meeting for talks in the morning. Ms Harris is in Singapore for an official three-day visit, where she is looking to deepen bilateral cooperation in multiple areas. During the press conference, Mr Lee announced that Singapore would offer its air force's multi-role tanker transport aircraft to help the US in the evacuation of refugees from Afghanistan, highlighting the several decades of cooperation between the two countries on air defence. Mr Lee spoke about new areas of partnership, namely cybersecurity...

In what amounts to perhaps the most unhurried act of animal predation ever caught on camera, researchers have filmed for the first time a giant tortoise slowly – ever so slowly – closing in for the kill. This drawn-out encounter – between a lumbering, almost leisurely giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) and its grounded bird prey – is gruesome to watch. But it's also entirely transfixing. After all, we've never seen a tortoise 'hunt' anything before. Who knew these dawdling giants had it in them? VIDEO AT LINK...................... "I couldn't believe what I was seeing," says biologist Justin Gerlach from the...

Justice Democrats, a far-left political advocacy group aligned with ‘Squad’ members like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), are being mocked widely online after a case of mistaken identity drew allegations of racism. A new ad targeting more moderate Democrats whom the organization feels are not leftist enough and thus threaten to “tank” Joe Biden’s presidency contains headshots of nine lawmakers — though one of them is actually a Republican. The “rookie error” was noted and tweeted by Jake Sherman, a co-founder of Punchbowl News. “@justicedems have a new ad hitting moderate Dems for their demands on infrastructure...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shot back at The Associated Press on Monday after the outlet's incoming CEO accused his press secretary of harassing one of its reporters, saying the AP received deserved pushback for a partisan "smear" that could cost lives. In a letter to Daisy Veerasingham, DeSantis blasted the AP for its "temerity" to complain about criticism a reporter received last week over his story that suggested a link between the governor's touting of a COVID antibody drug from Regeneron and a political donor's investment in the company. DeSantis didn't hold back in a remarkable open letter from...

Hillary Clinton already lived through her husband Bill Clinton’s infamous infidelity scandal once in 1998. So it’s highly doubtful the former secretary of state will want to see it again when FX’s new series “Impeachment: American Crime Story” hits the small screen, according to its showrunner. The series’ executive producer Brad Simpson revealed at the virtual Television Critics Association panel that he doesn’t think Hillary, 73, will watch the 10-part drama series when it airs on Sept. 7. “No one, as far as we know, from the Clinton camp has seen this series,” Simpson said. “Of course, I’m curious what...

The Biden White House is blasting Fox News on Monday after a Fox & Friends weekend host accused first lady Jill Biden of failing the United States by letting Joe Biden run for president. 'This is disgusting. @RCampusDuffy and @FoxNews know better. They can do better and their viewers deserve better,' Jill Biden's press secretary Michael La Rosa wrote on Twitter. 'I hope they'll apologize to the First Lady and leave this kind of talk in the [trash] where it belongs.'

General Motors is recalling another 73,000 Bolt EV and EUV electric vehicles in the United States and Canada for a problem that could cause the vehicles to catch fire. GM had earlier announced that the recall would cost $800 million, but that was before the recall was expanded to cover all remaining Bolt vehicles. The recall is now expected to cost an additional $1 billion. The recall comes after GM had previously recalled about 70,000 Bolt vehicles for the same potential problem. The recall now covers Bolt EV and EUVs from 2017 to 2022. GM had previously said that the...

In an interview with Bloomberg, Ajmal Ahmady, governor of Da Afghan Bank, observed the majority of the central bank’s more than $9 billion in assets were frozen by the U.S. following the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces...Last week, the International Monetary Fund said the Taliban has been prevented from accessing reserve assets worth about $500 million. Afghanistan functions primarily as a cash economy, but the Afghani, the nation's currency, is not accepted for cross-border trade, while an informal transfer system known as hawala doesn’t function efficiently in a modern financial environment.Ahamdy predicted the Taliban will “probably try to go...

A rural council in New South Wales, a state on the east coast of Australia, shot and killed multiple impounded dogs over COVID-19 concerns, which prompted a government investigation, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The Bourke Shire Council killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at an animal shelter based in the town of Cobar from traveling to pick them up, the council’s watchdog, the Office of Local Government, told The Sydney Morning Herald. WHAT THE ACTUAL Fxxx!?!? They’re SHOOTING all the rescue dogs in Australia because of COVID!!! Who could do that??? That country is trying to be worse than...

A Washington Post reporter has shared how British troops helped her and friends flee Afghanistan - as pressure mounts over US forces' continued refusal to leave Kabul airport. Susannah George told of how she and the paper's Afghan staff were able to latch on to a separate evacuation led by UK troops, after spotting them and asking for help to flee. That saw them hurriedly travel along a road to Kabul's Hamid Karzai Airport in armored cars driven by private security guards. Those roads were being guarded from Taliban interference by UK service personnel, before making it to the security...

America has just made one of its worst foreign policy mistakes in its entire 245 year history. If left as is, the negative ramifications will mushroom for decades. As such, this situation must be fixed — and the only way to do so is via a massive airlift of U.S. combat troops back into Afghanistan. Human nature has a characteristic which often proves fatal to those who succumb to it — that being "we are inclined to see what we want to see, instead of what actually is." Investors and government leaders the world over did this in 2005 -...

A stress signal received by the heart from fat could help protect against cardiac damage induced by obesity. The finding could explain the "obesity paradox," a phenomenon in which obese individuals have better short- and medium-term cardiovascular disease prognoses compared with those who are lean, but with ultimately worse long-term outcomes. Study co-leader Clair Crewe, Ph.D., explained that the metabolic stress of obesity gradually makes fat tissue dysfunctional, causing its mitochondria—the cellular organelles that generate energy—to shrink and die. Eventually, this unhealthy fat loses the ability to store lipids generated by excess calories in food, poisoning other organs through an...

I fly around a lot to give talks, and I’m always trying to work on my laptop, and people lean their seats right back into me and squish the laptop into my chest. So I have a lot of experience thinking about, “Well, whose space is that, when someone leans back?” Does it belong to the person in front or the person in back? All of that traces back to these very same simple few stories, and all those stories are on display in that crowded, mushed, conflict-ridden space, which is the airplane seat. Just to give you a concrete...

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that his office has “about 20 to 30 people” that they’re trying to get out of Afghanistan and had a family that was turned away at the gate of the airport despite being told by the State Department to head to the airport. Krishnamoorthi also stated that it’s “almost impossible to get to the airport right now.” And the U.S. shouldn’t follow any “artificial deadlines” for leaving Afghanistan. Krishnamoorthi began by saying, “I’m very happy to learn that the number of people being evacuated has increased rapidly...

Not very long after the pandemic lockdowns began last year, we heard of a potential treatment for COVID-19 involving the off-label use of an existing medication called Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).A French doctor published two studies which showed amazing results. Soon thereafter President Trump mentioned the drug in a press conference as a potential game changer. Dr. Fauci dismissed the studies as “anecdotal”.TRENDING: BREAKING: Taliban Won't Extend Aug. 31 Deadline for US Withdrawal - Threatens Biden Regime, "Complete the Evacuations by Aug. 31 or Face Consequences" (VIDEO)Hospital trials and observational studies soon began but they quickly showed the medication to be ineffective...

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Arizona’s COVID-19 cases have dipped below 3,000 for the first time in five days, The Associated Press reported. Arizona’s Department of Health Services (DHS) on Monday reported 2,362 new cases of the virus along with zero COVID-related deaths. The state still has 1,901 people hospitalized with COVID-19, the first time it has reached such heights since February.

Note: Adverse events reported after vaccination are not necessarily related to vaccination; the illnesses could be coincidental. For a summary of adverse events associated with Covid-19 vaccines, click the link in the blue box below entitled "Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns Summary."There are 18 deaths reported after Covid-19 vaccine among children aged 12-17. That's according to the most recent data in the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Database from a search conducted by Children's Health Defense.One of the most recent deaths reported is that of a 15-year old boy, who previously had Covid-19 but was vaccinated, anyway. He died four days after getting...

Our body is tuned to function in a synchronous manner with a "circadian" or day-and-night rhythm. Alterations to daily lifestyles due to the current stressful routines people follow can disrupt the body's day-night cycle for longer periods. Recent studies in rats have shown that even chronic light exposure can disrupt the circadian rhythm and cause memory deficits seen in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Interestingly, circadian rhythm disruption has also been frequently reported in patients suffering from AD. To understand the correlation between circadian rhythm disturbances and AD progression, a team tested the effect of circadian rhythm disruption...

The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol "will not be facing internal discipline," Capitol Police said Monday. After interviewing multiple witnesses and reviewing all the available evidence: "[The Department's] Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) determined the officer’s conduct was lawful and within Department policy, which says an officer may use deadly force only when the officer reasonably believes that action is in the defense of human life, including the officer’s own life, or in the defense of any person in immediate danger of serious physical injury. "The officer in this...