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John Tesh has revealed he 'went back into the trenches' with a cancer relapse amid the COVID-19 pandemic last autumn. The composer and former Entertainment Tonight co-host, 69, told People that he had two tumors around his pelvis that required chemotherapy. And he also had his prostate taken out and lost the use of one of his kidneys. These days he is feeling better with his cancer in remission, thanks in part to help from his wife, actress Connie Sellecca. And he also shared that he felt 'battle ready' after defeating cancer the first time. In 2015, Tesh was told...

"I've got news for you, School Board President Benito Mussolini, your power does not supersede that of the U.S. constitution and the rights of the citizens of this great country," he said before being warned not to name-call. "I'm quoting you from the U.S. Supreme Court. The judges wrote: 'This nation is founded on the profound national commitment to the principle that debate of public issues shall be uninhibited, robust, and wide open. And that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.' That's constitutional case law in this nation. I don't...

A mountain of human remains and animal carcases have been found in Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan, a vast underground tunnel that spreads for more than than 40 miles created by a river of lava ...Researchers found the gruesome mountain in Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan lava tube, which is thought to be the longest network of its kind in the country, measuring 4,900 feet long and around 26 to 29 feet. The "extremely dense accumulation of bones" was found on the lava tube's western passage...

Former President Donald Trump urged the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2018 National Reporting awards given to The New York Times and The Washington Post for coverage of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2020 campaign, saying their stories were based on “false reporting” and a “complete lack of evidence.” “As has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation,” Trump wrote in a letter addressed to...

FRANCE threatened to cut energy supplies to Britain and mocked the nation’s fuel ­crisis as the Brexit fishing row turned nasty. Europe minister Clement Beaune vowed to exploit the supply chaos to try to win more access to UK waters.... ...President Emmanuel Macron is angry that the UK and Jersey denied licences to most French boats that applied... ...No10, meanwhile, said it rejected licence applications only of boat owners with no records to show they fished UK waters before Brexit. Militant French fishermen have threatened to blockade Calais and stop the flow of goods to and from Britain in the...

Well, well, well… This is interesting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently instructed the FBI to begin investigating parents who confront school board administrators over Critical Race Theory indoctrination material. The U.S. Department of Justice issued a memorandum to the FBI instructing them to initiate investigations of any parent attending a local school board meeting who might be viewed as confrontational, intimidating or harassing. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s daughter is Rebecca Garland. In 2018 Rebecca Garland married Xan Tanner [LINK]. Mr. Xan Tanner is the current co-founder of a controversial education service company called Panorama Education. [LINK and LINK] Panorama...

Facebook staff said they experienced "what felt like a snow day" when the site's global outage left them paralysed on Monday. ...A Facebook employee reportedly said workers were not able to enter buildings to examine the scale of the outage on Monday.... ....Meanwhile other members of staff at Facebook said it felt like they were having a 'snow day' as the firm's internal tools and communications also went down yesterday. This meant no one was able to do any work, tech reporter Ryan Mac tweeted... The issues were caused by a faulty configuration change, according to Facebook. Explaining the outage,...

Actress Jennifer Aniston expressed her support for the killing of unborn babies in abortions over the weekend, posting “No uterus, no opinion” and other pro-abortion content on her Instagram account. Her Instagram story posts coincided with the Women’s March protests on Saturday. The march adopted a radical pro-abortion theme this year, “Rally for Abortion Justice,” to oppose pro-life laws that are saving thousands of babies’ lives. Aniston shared several photos of pro-abortion protesters on her Instagram page Sunday, likely from the protest. Best known for her role on the sitcom “Friends,” she also posted a GIF from the show when...

GOP gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl has landed a big deal endorsement. Former President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind the conservative candidate in a race where rivals are still lining up and Gov. Charlie Baker has yet to declare. “Baker is bad on crime, disrespects our police, does nothing for our Veterans, has totally botched the Vaccination rollout, presided over the collapse of the MBTA, and has seen crime go to record levels,” Trump said in his endorsement Tuesday night. Diehl has branded himself as a conservative counterweight in a race where most of the other candidates swing far...

When health experts talk about the remarkable efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, they typically point to their ability to prevent severe disease and death. Fully vaccinated people can still get “breakthrough” infections from the virus that causes COVID-19—but compared to an unvaccinated person, they’re more than 10 times less likely to be hospitalized or die from their illness, according to (CDC) research. Officials often point to these impressive figures as evidence that we can tame COVID-19 into a mostly mild illness that behaves like a routine cold or flu, and thus with which we can coexist. After all, the vaccines were...

ESPN has removed personality Sage Steele from programming for a week after she made controversial remarks in a podcast appearance, including calling the company's coronavirus vaccine mandate "sick" and saying it was "fascinating" that former President Obama self-identifies as Black "considering his Black dad was nowhere to be found." Front Office Sports and the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday reported that Steele won’t appear in her regular noon “SportsCenter” slot for a week and she will no longer be the host for the 2021 "espnW: Women + Sports Summit," which will take place from Oct 18 to 20.

With less than a month before Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial, his attorneys attempted to dismiss the gun charge against him Tuesday by arguing Wisconsin’s hunting laws allowed the teen to carry an assault rifle on the night he fatally shot two people and injured a third in downtown Kenosha. Under state statute, there are specific training and supervision requirements for anyone 16 years or younger to possess a gun while hunting. It does not detail restrictions for anyone older than that.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot slammed Cook County’s State Attorney Kim Foxx for not bringing charges in a deadly West Side shooting – and Foxx is hitting back. One person was killed and several others injured on Friday when a shootout broke out among alleged gang members in the Austin neighborhood that was caught on police cameras – but Foxx didn’t charge five suspects saying there was insufficient evidence. Lightfoot said on Monday she and lawmakers sent a letter to Foxx asking to reconsider fearing a lack of accountability could send the city into chaos, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “It’s...

Before Covid pandemic erupted, group submitted proposals to mix genetic data of related strains and grow completely new sequencesScientists from Wuhan and the US were planning to create new coronaviruses that did not exist in nature by combining the genetic codes of other viruses, proposals show. Documents of a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), leaked last month, reveal that the international team of scientists planned to mix genetic data of closely related strains and grow completely new viruses. A genetics expert working with the World Health Organisation (WHO), who uncovered the plan after...

President Joe Biden made a bizarre gaffe on Tuesday regarding the Michigan lieutenant governor while introducing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her deputy. The president visited the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 324 training facility in Howell on Tuesday in an attempt to gain support for a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and his larger Build Back Better agenda, which includes a proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. After praising Whitmer for being "one of the best governors in the United States of America," he added a strange comment about Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist. "And her lieutenant governor who covers her...

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have sprung up around the world—but the U.S. SEC continues to stonewall proposals for a Bitcoin ETF. Since the first application for a U.S. Bitcoin exchange-traded fund was filed in 2013, a Bitcoin ETF has become something of a holy grail for the crypto community. An ETF is a publicly traded investment vehicle that tracks the value of an underlying asset; in the case of a Bitcoin ETF, that asset is Bitcoin. Advocates for a Bitcoin ETF argue that the complexities of exchanges, crypto wallets, and private keys still present a daunting barrier to entry into the...

US and Chinese scientists were planning to create a new coronavirus before the pandemic erupted, leaked proposals show. Last month, a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) revealed that an international team of scientists had planned to mix genetic data of similar strains to create a new virus. The grant application was made in 2018 and leaked to Drastic, the pandemic origins analysis group. 'We will compile sequence/RNAseq data from a panel of closely related strains and compare full length genomes, scanning for unique SNPs representing sequencing errors. 'Consensus candidate genomes will be synthesised...

A former nurse for the NHS was jailed for three years, and has been barred from practicing by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for supplying abortion pills so a friend could force an abortion on a pregnant woman. Robin Christy was working at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust when his university friend, Kasam Rahman, requested the abortion pill. Rahman passed them on to another friend, Isaac Lyndsay, who force-fed them to his pregnant partner in 2018. Luckily, the baby survived, although born prematurely at 26 weeks. All three men were arrested, and Christy was charged with conspiring to...