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Inmates of New York City's Rikers Island jail complex are reportedly running amok.Detainees at the understaffed jail have taken control of entire units, The New York Times reported.Inmates of New York City's long-beleaguered Rikers Island jail complex are running amok at the notorious lockup - and some have taken control over entire facility units, The New York Times reported on Monday."Rikers has long been dysfunctional, decrepit and dangerous," Zachary Katznelson told the news outlet. He's the executive director of a research and advocacy organization called Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.But Katznelson added, "What we...

Eric Clapton thinks he can change the world - or at least the world’s perception of COVID-19 vaccines. The 76-year-old rocker - who has repeatedly railed against the vaccines and associated mandates in recent months - has now helped bankroll an anti-vax band, Rolling Stone reported. According to the publication, Clapton donated £1,000 ($1,360) to British rockers Jam For Freedom through a GoFundMe set up to help pay for legal fees they incurred after “breaching COVID regulations” at a gig. Jam For Freedom has been playing shows across the UK in recent months, blasting the COVID shots in their songs....

Jon Stewart says former President Trump has "a very good chance" of winning back the White House if he enters the 2024 race. "I think he’s got it — he’s got a very good chance. And they’re smarter about it," Stewart said Sunday during an interview with David Remnick at the 22nd annual New Yorker Festival. "The danger of the coup — again, Jan. 6 is the TV event moment of it," the host of "The Problem with Jon Stewart" on Apple TV+, said of the riot by Trump supporters at the Capitol earlier this year. "It’s the special that...

Post-traumatic osteoarthritis is a musculoskeletal disorder shadowing especially the life of young and active population. Inhibition of cartilage damage progression with early intervention is crucial. To predict how an intervention would affect the state of an injured knee joint, knowledge of biomechanical and inflammatory aspects of osteoarthritis progression is necessary. For the first time, researchers have now captured both mechanisms in a physics-based computational model predicting cartilage degradation and a possible recovery scenario after anterior cruciate ligament injury and reconstruction. Rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament is a typical sports injury. An injured knee joint can be treated with ligament...

Where Pope Francis Needs to ImprovePolls reveal that a large majority of Catholics have a positive view of Pope Francis. However, far fewer look to him for moral guidance. (In one study, only 11% did.) It is therefore difficult to know how many Catholics are familiar with, and judge his performance by, his published statements. Having paid close attention to his statements during his pontificate, I note three problems that, if overcome, would benefit Catholics and no doubt others as well.Lack of ClarityAll too often, Francis’ statements tend to confuse rather than clarify important issues of faith. Philip Lawler, author...

WION News reported: Known for its ‘modern meets midcentury’ design, the house has been completely newly reconstructed this year and has been designed by the famous architecture firm Woods + Dangaran. The house now has five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, class-A glassy walls and a breath-taking view of the Downtown LA skyline. The whole house features interiors of unvarnished woods and other similar natural materials to match the muted palette of grey and cream tones throughout the house. In the back of the house is an open rectangular pool a few feet away from the house which sends a sense of...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware’s state auditor, who is responsible for rooting out government fraud, waste and abuse, was indicted Monday on public corruption charges. An indictment issued by a New Castle County grand jury charges Kathleen McGuiness, 58, with felony counts of theft and witness intimidation, and misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, conflict of interest and noncompliance with state procurement laws. Prosecutors said the charges include allegations that McGuiness hired her daughter and one of her daughter’s friends, both high school seniors at the time, as temporary employees in May 2020, even though other temporary employees had to leave...

A woman is suing a Wisconsin school district, saying her son contracted COVID-19 after his school removed its coronavirus mitigation measures. Shannon Jensen filed the lawsuit against Waukesha School District and school board on October 5, seeking an injunction to force the district to comply with COVID-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the lawsuit, seen by Insider and first reported on by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Waukesha School District removed its student mask mandate and other measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19 in May. Jensen's son still wore a...

Oxidative stress is a condition resulting from an imbalance between the generation of reactive oxygen species and the ability of antioxidants to neutralize those free radicals present in an animal or human's body. Researchers at have recently carried out a study investigating the potential effects of methyl donor supplementation on oxidative stress in the hippocampus of rats who were administered high amounts of fructose and that displayed depression-like behaviors. Their paper suggests that the administration of methyl donors, nutrients that can cause epigenetic alterations in the body, could be a valuable strategy for treating depression. "Ours is the first study...

We are now a little over a month into the Constitutional Carry era in Texas. As most of your probably know, HB1927 included the creation of a new "30.05" sign to go along with the familiar 30.06 and 30.07 signs. If you don't know, and you carry a handgun in Texas with or without an LTC, then you should look it up and familiarize yourself with the effect of each sign. My question: Have you seen any 30.05 signs in the wild yet? If so, did they replace a 30.06 and/or 30.07 sign from before, or were they put up...

At least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Using machine learning to analyze and map more than 100,000 studies of events that could be linked to global warming, researchers paired the analysis with a well-established data set of temperature and precipitation shifts caused by fossil fuel use and other sources of carbon emissions. These combined findings - which focused on events such as crop failures, floods and heat waves - allowed scientists to make a solid link between escalating extremes...

John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence under then-President Donald Trump, said on Sunday that the Biden administration’s efforts to purchase Chinese-made drones for federal law enforcement agencies make no sense because it’s a risk to U.S. national security.In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Ratcliffe, also a former U.S. lawmaker from Texas, said the Trump administration tagged the Chinese company in question after intelligence officials discerned with “moderate confidence” the firm was spying on critical U.S. infrastructure electronically and sending the collected data to the Communist leadership in Beijing.“Yeah, those reports are accurate as reflected, the Biden...

There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former occurring over the last 250 years or so. However, there’s an important difference between the despotisms of old and coercive governments in the modern era: modern-day tyrants frame themselves as the righteous side in any conflict. Think about it: Ancient Persian Emperors and the...

LAS VEGAS (LifeSiteNews) — After winning a stunning victory in a much-anticipated competition for the World Boxing Council (WBC) title Saturday, undisputed heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury gave all the glory to Jesus Christ, saying, “my Lord and Savior rose me to my feet tonight to give Him the glory.”In what was widely hailed as an incredible fight Saturday night at the packed T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, internationally-acclaimed British boxer Tyson Fury (also known as the “Gypsy King”) held on to his WBC heavyweight title after a suspenseful bout resulting in a definitive knockout of opponent Deontay Wilder...

A whistleblower employed by vaccine maker Pfizer has been fired after she leaked emails by company executives discussing how to best hide information from the public regarding the use of fetal cell lines derived from aborted babies in the development of the COVID vaccine.A new video released by Project Veritas on Saturday featured an audio recording of a message that was left on Melissa Strickler’s voicemail, informing her of her termination. Strickler is the whistleblower who recently exposed Pfizer’s policy of withholding information from the public on the use of fetal cell lines in creating the vaccine. The message was...

It’s a brand new day for the man of steel. Continuing a recent trend of comic book characters coming out as LGBTQ, Superman is now confirmed to be bisexual and on the fight for global social issues, according to the DC team behind the character, who spoke to IGN. This news is not for the traditional iteration of Clark Kent, but instead his 17-year-old son, Jon, who has taken up his father’s mantle. “It is a pretty big deal doing it with Jon Kent as Superman … I hope this kind of thing will not be seen as a big...

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Let's have some fun! Listen live at the link below. Jesse's show is now on over 200 radio stations across the nation, replacing Buck Sexton. Those of us who miss Rush very much know that no one could ever replace him, but if you give Jesse a chance, you'll find him to be a very intelligent, refreshing, naturally funny truth teller.Jesse is a former Marine. He and his beautiful wife live in the Houston area with their two young sons. He's a self-deprecating historyphile with an infectious laugh. His time slot is later...

Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Kashyap Patel, a former Defense Department official, are “engaging” with the Jan. 6 select committee, but Stephen Bannon, a former Trump adviser, is not complying with requests for documents and testimony, a move that may result in the panel sending a criminal contempt of Congress referral to the Department of Justice. Dan Scavino, the former White House deputy chief of staff for communications, was not mentioned in the committee’s statement Friday, which comes the day after an Oct. 7 deadline for the four Trump allies to produce records. All four...

Explanation: What would it be like to fly over the largest moon in the Solar System? In June, the robotic Juno spacecraft flew past Jupiter's huge moon Ganymede and took images that have been digitally constructed into a detailed flyby. As the featured video begins, Juno swoops over the two-toned surface of the 2,000-km wide moon, revealing an icy alien landscape filled with grooves and craters. The grooves are likely caused by shifting surface plates, while the craters are caused by violent impacts. Continuing on in its orbit, Juno then performed its 34th close pass over Jupiter's clouds. The digitally-constructed...

This country is a disaster. The clusters are piling up- Afghanistan, the open border, Bidenflation, gas prices, COVID- he's screwed them all up. His approval rating is in the crapper but no matter what the mess, Biden puts the blame on the unvaccinated. Psaki's finger-pointing came as Biden's approval rating nosedived to 38 percent, with 53 percent saying they disapprove of how Biden has handled the presidency, according to a poll from Quinnipiac University on Friday. 'So what do you make of these really terrible polls? Are they that he's doing something wrong. Is it just the communication? Or is...