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A study has found a promising new treatment for patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, the second most common form of dementia in the under 60s—resulting in a stabilizing of what would normally be escalating behavioral issues, and a slowing of brain shrinkage due to the disease. It is the second clinical trial to show that the drug, sodium selenate, may slow cognitive decline and neurodegenerative damage that is the hallmark of many dementias including Alzheimer's Disease. Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a rapidly progressing destructive disease and can occur in people as young as 35 years of age....

A prominent Russian state TV host has warned that opponents of Russia's war in Ukraine will face harsh punishments including 'concentration camps and sterilisation'. Karen Shakhnazarov, a pro-Putin filmmaker, said any 'opponents to the letter Z' - the symbol of Russia's invasion - will face 'no mercy'. 'The opponents of the letter Z must understand that if they are counting on mercy, no, there will be no mercy for them,' Shakhnazarov, who leads the state-backed Mosfilm film studio, said on the state-owned Russian television channel Russia 1. 'It's all become very serious. In this case, it means concentration camps, re-education...

At least blue-chackmarked left-wing ideologue has deleted their Twitter account since Twitter agreed to a shareholder buyout by Elon Musk. However, it remains to be seen if she stays away or comes back. Amanda Duarte writes articles for the entertainment section of the New York Times. She is also an actress in the tv show Accident, Suicide, or Murder on the Oxygen channel. Tuesday evening, she tweeted that “white supremacist lawmakers” would change their views on abortion if their white daughters were “raped and impregnated by black men.” By “white supremacist lawmakers,” she appears to be referring to the Justices...

Bloomberg News had the audacity to claim that overturning the abortion-sanctioning Roe v. Wade (1973) is erasing women’s “economic gains.”

A bit of foreshadowing, perhaps? Big Tech behemoth Amazon reportedly announced it would dole out big money to reimburse employees who travel for treatments including abortions. The news dropped just one day before Politico shared a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion revealing SCOTUS is expected to overturn the notorious 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Liberal billionaire George Soros is throwing wads of cash at a climate plan to control the business world through woke environmental, social and governance standards.

Following the circulation of cringey videos and disproven tweets posted by Nina Jankowicz, the head of DHS' new "Disinformation Governance Board," a video of public remarks Jankowicz delivered in 2021 gives Americans another idea of what sort of speech Biden's so-called Minister of Truth may look to stifle when it comes to expression that's inconvenient for Democrats. In October, Jankowicz spoke at the City Club of Cleveland's annual meeting, delivering an address titled "Disinformation and Democracy: Civic Discourse in the Digital Age." How nice. During her remarks, Jankowicz outlined the supposed threat of disinformation — and she would know after...

SAN ANTONIO (WOAI) – A little warning as summer approaches, beware of the creepy dolls washing up ashore. Beware of creepy dolls that wash ashore the Texas beaches this summer (Photo Courtesy of University of Texas Marine Science Institute)According to the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, they find dolls every month washing up ashore all the time, but they say this last one that washed up was a little bit more on the creepy side. This specific doll was found covered in sand with a goose-neck barnacle living in the eye.

The Howard Stern Show host spoke about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars on the show Wednesday, and compared it to Dave Chappelle being randomly attacked on stage at the Netflix Is a Joke comedy festival. During his radio show, Stern explained why the events — and the reactions to them — were hypocritical. "This guy jumped up on stage and attacked Dave Chappelle," Stern said. "As soon as that happened, did they let him go back to his seat and laugh and sit next to his wife and then give them an award? No! They took him...

Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.Joe Biden has been a complete disaster as president. Maybe that was the plan all along. Biden’s actions have been completely insane. He’s destroyed the Trump economy, created greatest inflation of our lifetime, opened the border to a flood of millions of illegal aliens, highest gas prices ever. His foreign policy has been even worse. He handed over $80 billion in US weapons to Taliban terrorists, emboldened our enemies, and made America an embarrassment on the international stage.A new poll by Rasmussen found that if the 2024 election were held today President Trump...

The Biden administration’s guidelines, promoted by Transgender Dr. Rachel Levine, endorse life-altering abuse of minors, with or without parental consent.The Biden administration’s efforts to impose transgender ideology on the nation’s children and schools are going into overdrive, and leading the charge is Dr. Rachel Levine, the U.S. assistant secretary for health.Levine, a man who became a physician and raised a family before “transitioning,” has been celebrated by leftists and the corporate media as “the first female four-star admiral in the history of the U.S. Public Health Service” and a “Woman of the Year.” But the debate about this has gone...

A film opening in hundreds of theaters across the United States this week uses a flawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election nearly 18 months after it ended. Praised by former President Donald Trump as exposing “great election fraud,” the movie, called “2000 Mules,” paints an ominous picture suggesting Democrat-aligned ballot “mules” were supposedly paid to illegally collect and drop off ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But that’s based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data,...

History unwritten... Earlier this week, a leaked draft opinion revealed that the Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that made abortion a constitutional right. Some companies, including Apple and Amazon , are responding by proactively offering financial support for women who need access to reproductive healthcare. But most companies have so far been silent. Fortune magazine reached out to 30 of the biggest US companies for a reaction to the leak, but almost all gave “no comment.” The Chamber of Commerce declined to comment, and the Business Roundtable (think: a group made...

U.S. stocks plunged Thursday, giving back nearly all the gains from the biggest single-day rally for the S&P 500 in two years, as Treasury yields jumped and investors peeled away from a Fed-induced rally and looked to the impact of the near-term rate hikes on growth prospects for the world's biggest economy. The Federal Reserve, as expected, boosted its benchmark Fed Funds rate by 50 basis points, to a range of 0.75% to 1%, while detailing the first official plans to reduce its $8.9 trillion balance sheet. Chairman Jerome Powell, however, added a dovish caveat to the decision, suggesting that...

Many people on the right are seeking ways to escape the dumpster fire of Twitter. Since it’s Screen-Free Week, this seems a good time to ponder strategies for reducing our consumption of the propaganda and biased garbage proliferated by leftist corporate media and disseminated on social media. While I still read publications like the Washington Post regularly, I really do try to limit my consumption of such outlets for my mental and emotional health. Actually, my personal rule applies to all digital media, regardless of political affiliation. That’s for good reason, given the ever-growing evidence of how digital media affects...

According to news sources, in a speech given near Gainsville, Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis responded to a question about Second Amendment rights. From mainstreetdailynews: DeSantis also responded to a question on 2nd Amendment rights, saying Florida would pass a constitutional carry before he left office. WPLG Local 10 out of Fort Lauderdale confirmed DeSantis made the bold promise to Second Amendment supporters and Constitutionalists on Friday morning, April 29. From local10.com:DeSantis made the political promise while speaking near Gainesville on Friday.“I can’t tell you exactly when, but I’m pretty confident that I will be able to sign ‘constitutional carry’ into...

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A debate among Republican primary hopefuls for the US Senate turned jaw-droppingly personal during a discussion about abortion — when one of the candidates revealed that she was the child of rape. ​”I am so very grateful that our nation is having a very important conversation about life,​” ​Kathy Barnette, an Army veteran running for the US Senate in Pennsylvania, said during a Wednesday night debate. ​ “I am the byproduct of a rape. My mother was 11 years old when I was conceived, my father was 21​.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Eyewitnesses reported Senator Elizabeth Warren donned a buffalo hat and led a group of bloodthirsty insurrectionists up the marble steps of the Supreme Court Building Wednesday morning. According to sources, they are outraged that the murder of babies as a constitutional right is under dispute. Sen Warren, literally shaking, tumbled up the building steps and wailed righteously at the main door of the marble palace as her minions violently assaulted it with poster board and clothes hangers. "The court has been compromised!" she yelled. "They are ruling in a way I disagree with!" "America has fallen! WE DEMAND BLOOD!...

J.D. Vance’s victory in Tuesday night’s Ohio Republican Senate primary is an important and hopeful sign for the future of the GOP. After Trump’s loss in 2020, some were eager for a reversion to the comfortable platitudes of the pre-Trump days. “We can’t let [Trump] define us for the future,” said Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, “because that would just further divide our country, and it would hurt our Republican Party.” Trumpism frightened members of the Old Guard who saw it as their duty to protect the “principled conservative” brand. The Old Guard and the Never Trumpers hoped that all that...