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Their return felt humiliating. As men, women and children trudged exhausted through the arrivals hall of Irbil airport, camera crews mobbed them and yelled questions about why they had left Iraq in the first place. Most of the families just kept their heads down. On the outbound journey they had been hopeful, ready for the new life in Europe that travel agents had promised. But it turned out they were unwitting pawns in Europe’s latest migration battle. The repatriation flight brought them back to the place they had spent life savings trying to leave. .... Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has...

An all Indiana University School of Medicine team found that chlorthalidone was effective in lowering blood pressure in individuals with advanced kidney disease. "Kidneys are key regulators of blood pressure. When an individual has chronic kidney disease, the kidneys are unable to control blood pressure," said Agarwal. "If a person suffers from chronic kidney disease and high blood pressure, it is more likely their kidney disease will advance even further and lead to other health issues such as heart failure." Chlorthalidone was approved by the FDA in 1960 for treatment of high blood pressure or hypertension. However, it was largely...

Fears a Las Vegas strip club tryout would turn into an Astroworld-esque fiasco got officials to shut down the event, and video shows organizers openly worrying they'd end up in the same shoes as Travis Scott. Club Ice is a new strip joint in Vegas, and owners hosted open tryouts for dancers this week at Blume Lounge. We're told more than 1,000 girls signed up to show off their stuff, but interested patrons also showed up in droves to watch the dancers. Problem is, too many people crowded into Blume ... pushing in from the back and squeezing people at...

After more than a week sleeping in a frigid encampment on the border between Belarus and Poland, and an abortive foray across the frontier repelled by pepper spray and police batons, Mohammad Faraj gave up this month and retreated to a warm hotel in Minsk, capital of Belarus. Soon after, however, he watched with surprise and excitement a video report on Facebook claiming that Poland was about to open its border and urging all those who wanted to enter the European Union to gather at a gas station near the encampment that the migrants had nicknamed “the jungle.” Mr. Faraj,...

Breaking: The facility could be shut for at least four weeks in connection to the state's vaccine mandate. ONG BEACH, NY — The emergency department in Long Beach, operated by Mount Sinai South Nassau, is closing temporarily due to nursing staff shortages related to the state vaccine mandate, the hospital announced. It will shutter as of 3 p.m. on Monday. Patients in Long Beach in need of emergency care will be directed to the hospital's main campus in Oceanside. An ambulance will be stationed around the clock at the Long Beach Emergency Department during the closure. "We regret having to...

Amid health system and state COVID-19 vaccination requirements, workers have been fired for noncompliance, and some have resigned or quit. Here are stats from 40 organizations, announced since June: Note: This list was updated Nov. 22. It is not exhaustive. 1. Crouse Health fired 45 employees because of the state vaccination mandate, the Syracuse, N.Y.-based health system confirmed to Becker's. The employees are eligible for rehire if they choose to get vaccinated. 2. Centra Health in Lynchburg, Va., fired five employees because they refused to comply with the hospital's vaccination mandate, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's. There were also 31...

Joe Biden thinks a normal Midwest family is a group of domestic terrorists if they peacefully guard their family business against rioters, arsonists, and looters. Merrick Garland says concerned parents are domestic terrorists if they attend public school board meetings to speak about the policies of the district and its academic curricula. AOC and her infamous "Squad" say that Trump-supporters who attend rallies are domestic terrorists if they show up while wearing MAGA hats. Most of the time, normal people don't need to be told what constitutes domestic terrorism. Normal Americans have seen it, again and again, on their streets...

The far-left New York Times is telling its readers that unvaccinated kids must “eat quickly” during Thanksgiving and wear masks while not eating. That was the Times’ sociopathic advice for a reader dumb enough to ask the Times for advice. “If our child, 9, and a cousin, 10, have each received one dose of the vaccine two weeks prior to Thanksgiving,” the reader asked, “is it safe for us to eat indoors? There will be about 20 guests, all vaccinated, and the 65 and older crowd have all received boosters?” Here’s the Times’ sadistic reply: I’m glad to hear that...

The NBA announced on Monday afternoon that Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James will receive a one-game suspension, and lose out on a game check of $284.004 as a result, for hitting Detroit Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart, who received a two-game suspension and will miss out on $45,201 in game checks for his role in the incident, in the third quarter of Sunday's game. James was assessed a Flagrant-2 foul, which resulted in an automatic ejection, while Stewart was also ejected after getting two technicals for unsportsmanlike conduct during the incident. This is the first suspension of LeBron's NBA...

In China, my son had to study hard. Here in the U.S., he just needs to bring a ‘healthy snack’ to school. As a Chinese doctoral student raising a young son in the U.S., I am mystified by how American elementary schools coddle students. In China, schools are run like boot camps. What do the therapeutic comforts America showers on its youth portend for a growing competition with China? On Friday night my son came home announcing in bewilderment that he didn’t have any homework. In China students tend to receive twice as much homework on the weekend, given the...

CernovichWaukesha massacre suspect Darrell Edward Brooks was released from Milwaukee County jail on $1,000 bail earlier this week. Here is Soros affiliated Milwaukee district attorney John Chisholm bragging about abolishing bail and congratulating other Soros DAs.

YORK - York County District Attorney Dave Sunday promised a robust after-action review of the handling of a Windsor Township man’s kidnapping and eventual killing of his two daughters after a four-day extended crime spree and manhunt through parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland. The hunt ended in tragedy Thursday when Robert Vicosa, a former Baltimore County Police Department officer, Vicosa’s alleged accomplice Tia Bynum, and both of Vicosa’s daughters were found fatally shot in a crashed vehicle along Ringgold Pike in Smithsburg, Maryland after police tried to pull them over. Police told reporters they believed it was a murder-suicide by...

The Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate have identified the company it will hire to perform a forensic audit of the 2020 Election results in Pennsylvania. The 2020 Election results in Pennsylvania were severely corrupt. The amount of fraudulent activity before, during and after the 2020 Election was shocking. For example, we know that 200,000 more ballots were received than were sent out during the election. Infographics Confirm the Absolute Fraud in the Pennsylvania 2020 Election Results — Including the 205,000 Extra Ballots that Came In than Were Sent Out! We know that this was all part of the hundreds of...

[Catholic Caucus] How the Modernists and Francis Turn Catholic Foundations into SandRegardless of whether “we perceive the intrinsic truth” of the Faith, we believe the truths the Church has always taught because God, the Revealer, can neither deceive nor be deceived. And since our Faith “is the beginning of human salvation,” we would be absolute fools to choose the opinions of men over the truth revealed by God, which can never change.If this Faith is strong enough to have inspired Catholics to become Martys for nearly two thousand years, surely it is strong enough to lead Catholics to resist any...

The Moscow State University of Technology and Management is named after Count Kirill Razumovsky, an 18th century President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the year 2014, per order of the Ministry of Education, the school received recognition as the First Cossack University. On November 11, 2021, in the Military Memorial Park near Moscow, University students made a pledge of loyalty to the Orthodox Christian faith, to the homeland, and to the Cossack community. The University President Dr. Serge Chebotarev congratulated the young Cossacks on this significant event in their life. Guests to the ceremony handed medals of honor...

WAUKESHA, Wis. - This is not the first time Darrell Brooks has been accused of running someone over with his SUV. In fact, it's not even the first time this month. You have surely seen it by now – the red Ford Escape whose driver tried to escape after plowing through a holiday parade, killing five, and injuring dozens more. What you may not know if just three weeks ago, Brooks was arrested and charged for using that same SUV to run over the mother of his child in a gas station parking lot. The incident left the woman with...

A rare manuscript by theoretical physicist Albert Einstein goes under the hammer in Paris on Tuesday, with auctioneers aiming for a stratospheric price tag. The manuscript, containing preparatory work for Einstein's key achievement the theory of relativity, is estimated at between two and three million euros (2.3-3.4 million), according to Christie's which is hosting the sale on behalf of the Aguttes auction house. "This is without a doubt the most valuable Einstein manuscript ever to come to auction," Christie's said in a statement. The 54-page document was handwritten in 1913 and 1914 in Zurich, Switzerland, by Einstein and his colleague...

Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis will act as governor while Newsom is out of the state, as required by the state constitution. This is why the Governor’s Office usually announces anytime Newsom leaves the state, even if just for a few hours. That’s one reason why Newsom was widely criticized earlier this month for not disclosing his whereabouts for more than a week. Newsom had been scheduled to attend an international climate conference in Scotland. But he withdrew at the last minute, citing “family obligations.” That marked a 12-day stretch where Newsom held no public events. His office would not say...

The churches in Mosul's St. George monastery were rebuilt with US funds and support of Christian group, L'Oeuvre d'OrientAn aerial view of the Chaldean Monastery of St George (Mar Korkis) in Iraq's northern city of Mosul clicked on Nov. 19. (Photo: AFP)Cymbals, prayers and Chaldean Catholic liturgy resounded on Friday in Mosul's Saint George monastery, where Iraqi faithful marked the restoration of two churches destroyed by jihadists in their former stronghold. Dozens gathered in one of the monastery's churches that have been rebuilt in stone six years after the Islamic State group (IS) pulverised them, in a city home to...

Context matters. When Abraham Lincoln said during the Gettysburg address that the founding fathers were "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," the context of where and when he was speaking is important. The same goes for when Martin Luther King Jr. said, "I have a dream," and when Ronald Reagan said, "Tear down this wall." For all of them, their message was specific to the time, place, and audience.