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41-year-old Jonathan Watson, a California inmate accused of killing two convicted child molesters with a cane last month, has publicly confessed to the murders. Watson added that he’d given prison officials plenty of warning before the attacks, but it fell on deaf ears. In a letter to Mercury News, Watson confessed to killing 48-year-old David Bobb and 64-year-old Graham De Luis-Conti just one week after he was transferred to California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran. In the letter, he stated that a “child molester” moved into his pod six days into his stay at the prison....

A previously unknown uncontacted tribe has been confirmed for the first time by authorities in Brazil, according to Survival International, an organization that "champions tribal peoples around the world." Very little is known about the tribe, but it’s already clear they are facing a myriad of threats ranging from organized violence to COVID-19. The uncontacted tribe’s presence was recently verified by an official expedition by FUNAI, Brazil’s federal agency for indigenous affairs, in an area along the Purus River in the western Amazon region of Brazil. The expedition did not make contact with the tribe, but confirmed their presence after...

Fans of the Los Angeles Rams will be required to provide proof of vaccination or a negative test to attend the team’s Super Bowl Championship outdoor parade on Wednesday, mere days after pro-restriction elitists, such as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) and plenty of celebrities, failed to apply the rules to themselves yet again, forgoing masks at the game as their latest public display of hypocrisy.

TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) -A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico's southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country's immigration authority to grant them passage toward the U.S. border. The migrants, mostly Central and South Americans, helped each other seal their lips using needles and plastic threads, leaving a small space to consume liquids and using alcohol to wipe away drops of blood from the stitches, Reuters images show. “The migrants are sewing their lips together as a sign of protest," said Irineo Mujica, an activist at the demonstration. "We hope that the National Migration...

In an interview Tuesday on the John Solomon Reports podcast, popular television news host Bill O'Reilly predicted the political demise of President Joe Biden and declared that Canadian Freedom Convoy truckers "won" their battle with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his sweeping COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Liberal governnments across the world "basically said," according to O'Reilly, "'Look, we're going to tell you what to do with the COVID. And you're not going to have a voice in it. So we're going to tell you, 'You got to wear masks, you got to get vaccinated, you got to, you know, stand...

The Tribe that Wants Kids Forever Masked One critical benchmark of a civilized society is how it treats its most vulnerable human populations and how it treats animals. Does the populace look the other way when the elderly, children, the disabled and animals are abused or are perpetrators apprehended and punished to the furthest extent of the law? Are abusers incarcerated, or merely given a slap on the wrist and set free to torment and destroy more of G-d’s miraculous living creations? In general, the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic empowered large numbers of truly awful and unhappy people to unleash their...

A new study uncovered a mechanism for how caffeine in coffee and tea can protect against cardiovascular diseaseDepositphotos VIEW 1 IMAGES Your morning vice might not be that guilty a pleasure after all: coffee seems to have a range of health benefits, but exactly how it affects the body to produce these results remains unknown. A new study has identified specific proteins that caffeine works on, which help the liver remove bad cholesterol from the bloodstream and protect against cardiovascular disease. Several large-scale, long-term studies have revealed that coffee is good for you in various ways. One study tracked the...

Some U.S. media outlets have been spreading “blatant fake news” about the threat of a further Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chairman of Ukraine’s Servant of the People parliamentary faction David Arakhamia said during the Pravo Na Vladu (“Right to Power”) show on the 1+1 TV Channel on Feb. 14. He compared role of U.S. media outlets with Russian propagandists, though the MP added that he thinks “the panic phase (of the crisis) will disappear” in a few weeks. “I think when the phase disappears in two or three weeks, we should do a retrospective analysis of how large, very well-known...

ep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is keeping his lead in the Alabama Senate Republican primary race, a new poll finds. The poll was conducted by the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA) political action committee known as FarmPAC which has endorsed Brooks’ primary opponent Katie Britt. Britt is a former lobbyist with the United States Chamber of Commerce’s Business Council of Alabama. Brooks, according to the poll, commands a lead with 33.7 percent of the vote against Britt’s 28.5 percent. Former U.S. Army Special Operations aviator Mike Durant, backed by political moderates with ties to former President Barack Obama and the Lincoln Project,...

Right-wing media outlets like Fox News and the Washington Examiner are pushing a narrative that the Hillary Clinton campaign tried to “infiltrate” and hack Donald Trump and his presidential campaign in 2016. Trump has picked up on this, saying the people responsible for this deserve to be punished by death. Fox News host Tucker Carlson seized on the story in his show Tuesday night as a way to prove that Trump was right all along in his claims that Hillary Clinton was spying on his campaign, and that Rodney Joffe, an executive at tech company Neustar, intercepted internet traffic including...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the coming week will reportedly announce another change to its masking guidance. Despite the unchanging science of coronavirus transmission, the CDC is expected to create a new standard on masking guidance, “basing it on the level of severe disease and hospitalizations in a given community,” NBC News reported.

The New York Times Opinion section is pushing for everybody to become insectivores in order to join the militant woke crusade against climate change. The video, headlined “The Joy of Cooking (Insects),” pontificated how “Climate-conscious cooking means getting creative” — with bugs. The description for the video by Opinion Video Deputy Director Jonah Kessel, Opinion visuals journalist Tala Schlossberg and Times correspondent Kirk Semple promoted eating bugs as some sort of solution to protect Gaia: “[A]s we explore in the Opinion Video above, a growing tribe of environmentalists, academics and entrepreneurs are arguing that edible insects must enjoy a wider...

Two California Democratic lawmakers took separate aim Tuesday at pandemic disinformation they argue receives a broad audience and misplaced credibility through social media platforms - rejecting concerns that their legislation might carry free speech or business privacy considerations.

Reporter begins mumbling unintelligibly and stares blankly, before appearing to fall over. German TV presenter's black out similar to other fainting spells witnessed in recent weeks, with many suspecting experimental Covid jab to blame. ===================================================================================== A German TV interviewer fainted during a newscast just seconds after she pushed for mandatory vaccinations. The incident happened Tuesday during a live on-air N-TV news broadcast while reporter Clara Pfeffer was interviewing politician Sepp Müller. +++ Breaking +++ German TV interviewer pushes for sooner enforcement of generel vax mandate, then collapses live on air due to climate change. @claudisbest pic.twitter.com/xSgYAwNaob — Corona Realism (@holmenkollin)...

In recent years total neoadjuvant treatment (TNT)—a potent new treatment approach for advanced colorectal cancer that confronts tumors with aggressive rounds of chemotherapy and chemoradiation followed by surgery to remove the cancerous tissue—has emerged as the standard of care. TNT's strength is that, compared with traditional treatment regimens for the disease that sequence the majority of chemotherapy after surgery, it significantly lessens the chances that cancer will later return and metastasize, though research has yet to show it extends life. But TNT can be harsh, impacting quality of life for many patients.. A new paper highlights a variety of new...

DETROIT – Anyone who has ever been temporarily blinded by high-beam headlights from an oncoming car will be happy to hear this. U.S. highway safety regulators are about to allow new high-tech headlights that can automatically tailor beams so they focus on dark areas of the road and don't create glare for oncoming drivers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it issued a final rule allowing what's called “adaptive driving beam headlights” on new vehicles. It will go into effect when published in the Federal Register in the next few days. The headlights, commonly used in Europe, have LED...

Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo I'm so proud of the Asian-Americans in San Francisco who worked tirelessly on the school recall effort for months despite being viciously bullied & smeared as racists. Organize & advocate for your children, because no one else will, especially not the people who claim to care. 8:06 AM · Feb 16, 2022·Twitter Web App

The effects of climate change are well understood: rising sea levels, severe weather, devastating wildfires and crippling drought, to name a few. We also know the consequences: increased mortality, damage to infrastructure, food supply interruptions and economic hardship. But one implication of climate change is often overlooked: threats to our national security. In a stark assessment last fall, the National Intelligence Council said climate change will intensify risks to U.S. national security interests over the next two decades as physical effects of a warming climate mount and geopolitical tensions multiply about how to respond. And last week the U.S. Army...

Americans are growing increasingly pessimistic about the current state and future of the country as the political phenomenon of misery takes hold, presenting problems for President Biden and Democrats ahead of this year's midterm elections. As the national mood becomes gloomier under the Biden administration, a useful indicator for measuring economic pain has resurfaced after years of dormancy: the so-called misery index. Created by the late economist Arthur Okun, the misery index became widely known in the 1970s and early 1980s during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. It adds together two measures of economic pain — the...

The CNN executive who participated in a long-term relationship with former network president Jeff Zucker has resigned after CNN announced she, Zucker and former high-profile anchor Chris Cuomo had all run afoul of company rules.