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Patients with a particular kind of cancer and a particular kind of mutation received a new therapy called dostarlimab and had results not seen in a cancer trial before. To be sure, the trial — led by doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering and backed by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline — has only completed treatment of 12 patients, with a specific cancer in its early stages and with a rare mutation as well. But the results, reported Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine and the New York Times, were still striking enough to prompt multiple physicians to tell the paper...

GenevaNorth Korea, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, has taken over as head of a UN body aimed at striking disarmament deals amid scorn from critics. This year North Korea has tested a flurry of ballistic missiles -- also banned by UNSC resolutions -- and appears to be preparing to conduct a new nuclear test for the first time since 2017. It gained the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament because it rotates alphabetically among its 65 members. "The DPRK remains committed to contributing to global peace and disarmament and...

Acancer treatment has shown astounding results in a small clinical trial. All of the treated patients, who had a specific form of mid-stage rectal cancer, have since experienced complete remission. Though the findings are based on a sample size of just 18 people, they could hold important implications for treating these particular cancers. The results of the Phase II trial were published over the weekend in the New England Journal of Medicine . The study involved researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as well as Yale University, and it was sponsored by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. The trial...

A Norwegian feminist faces up to three years in prison for saying that biological men can’t be lesbians. Yes, really. Christina Ellingsen, of the global feminist organization Women’s Declaration International (WDI), is under police investigation for making the claim in a tweet in which she criticized the trans activism group FRI. “Why [does] FRI teach young people that males can be lesbians? Isn’t that conversion therapy?” Ellingsen allegedly tweeted. She also questioned the legitimacy of FRI’s advisor Christine Jentoft identifying as a lesbian despite being born a biological male. “Jentoft, who is male and an advisor in FRI, presents himself...

In a speech to the graduating class of the US Naval Academy, President Biden revealed that in 1965 Sen. Senator J. Caleb Boggs (R-Del) signed a letter recommending him for admission to the Naval Academy. Biden said he decided not to go to the Academy because his desire to play starting quarterback on the football team was blocked by Roger Staubach—the greatest player to ever play for Navy and later MVP for the Superbowl winning Dallas Cowboys. Biden played football in high school, but graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 with no varsity football experience. In a speech...

State and local election officials in Michigan and other political battlegrounds are gearing up to deal with a new element in this year's elections: a large influx of Republicans seeking to become poll workers, recruited by the Republican National Committee and other conservative organizations to play an active role in administering the midterm elections. The development -- and a recent story in Politico detailing GOP recruitment sessions and how some of these would-be poll workers cling to debunked claims about fraud in the 2020 election -- have raised alarms that Republican election deniers could infiltrate official election operations and undermine...

If the Democrats have a motto, it probably ends with “…for thee, but not for me.” Their recent behavior in Georgia explains why that phrase should hang around Democrats’ necks like an albatross. Like so many thorns in our sides here in Georgia, it all starts with Stacey Abrams. No doubt you’ve heard the stories of how her Fair Fight Action PAC took in $1.34 million and used it to pay off the medical debt of 68,000 Georgians, along with 40,000 others in Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Fair Fight Action hasn’t stopped crowing about it — even buying ads...

So much for Title 42, the court-reinforced order to keep illegal border crossers out of the U.S. to protect the public here during the pandemic.Actually, they're letting them in ... and letting them in. There's no limit.Here's news from just one border city, McAllen, Texas, reported by Fox News:The Texas border city of McAllen says more than 7,000 COVID-positive migrants have been released into the city since February, and more than 1,500 in the past week -- the latest example of growing concern about the potential impact of the border crisis on efforts to control COVID-19 in the U.S.In a...

Singer Kid Rock said he won’t apologize for drunkenly criticizing Oprah Winfrey and Joy Behar while appearing on Tucker Carlson Originals. During a 2019 honky-tonk in Nashville, Kid Rock said “f*** Oprah Winfrey” and “f*** Joy Behar” while on stage, according to TMZ. Carlson questioned Kid Rock on the rant during an episode entitled “Life of a Rockstar” in which Carlson received a tour of Kid Rock’s Nashville Ranch. Kid Rock said he wouldn’t apologize to anyone. “I don’t apologize to anybody. I’m not an Oprah Winfrey fan. I got drunk and f****n’ next thing, I’m on stage ‘f*** Oprah,'”...

Uri Geller reckons aliens will stop Vladimir Putin if he tries to fire his nuclear weapons. The spoon bender thinks they will use advanced technology to scramble the Russian dictator’s warheads. Uri, 75, said: “With one click of a button we can stop the traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and we can knock out radar systems. “We can do anything with cyber today – you can imagine what extraterrestrials can do” Uri thinks aliens could visit us in the next five years – and will come in peace. He predicts they will land at an iconic...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating fake accounts on Twitter for potential violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, expanding the Lone Star State’s push to look under the hood of the prominent social media platform to learn how it operates. Inauthentic accounts at Twitter have received fresh scrutiny in recent weeks, as billionaire Elon Musk has expressed reservations about his looming acquisition of the platform in light of the number of automated and anonymous accounts potentially representing a greater share of users than the company has suggested. Mr. Paxton issued a civil investigative demand to Twitter this...

The numerous casualties of bats at wind turbines (WT) have a negative impact on the populations of affected species and potentially far-reaching consequences for the biodiversity in rural areas. Until now, it could only be assumed that the death of bats had further consequences. Now, a team of scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) show in a paper in the scientific journal "Conservation Science and Practice" that natural food chains are interrupted, which can have far-reaching negative consequences for agriculture and forestry. The study demonstrates the extent to which the functional importance of bats for...

Conservative radio host Tara Servatius of The Tara Show has had it with...Trump. [She said]...Trump's recent candidate endorsements have been nonsensical...

U.S.—Chick-fil-A has finally come around to celebrating pride month this year. The fast-food company has announced that throughout June, all waffle fries will be covered in salt from Lot's wife. "Other companies go in for rainbow flags and squeezing in PRIDE everywhere they can, but we wanted our celebration of pride month to be a bit more...biblical," said Dan Cathy at a recent press release. "Now with every delicious, perfectly seasoned bite of waffle fry customers will be reminded how God celebrates Pride." "Wow! That IS salty. Man, I needed this reminder to flee from sexual sin," said Chick-fil-A patron...

Multi-Millionaire Washington Nationals’ pitcher Sean Doolittle recently joined a webinar hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America to speak about socialism and baseball. The event held Sunday was put on by the DSA’s Baseball Caucus, the Democratic Socialist Labor Commission, and the DSA’s National Political Education Committee. “Join us for a webinar about baseball workers brought to you by DSA baseball fans featuring Simon Rosenblum-Larson (founder of More Than Baseball and Tampa Bay Rays affiliate), Max Gerboc (SEIU Local 1 stadium worker organizer), and Sean Doolittle (DSA member and Washington National).” Doolittle, who is a proud socialist, signed a five-year...

Weeks after State Sen. Doug Mastriano won the Republican primary for governor, the party is doing its best to coalesce around him. In some cases, the support is begrudging. Mastriano’s win was an upset for the party’s establishment, who believed his focus on disproven 2020 election fraud theories and vocal support for no-exception abortion bans would make him unelectable against Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democrats’ consensus nominee. Insiders tried to coordinate a last-minute coalition to box Mastriano out in the crowded Republican primary, but it failed decisively. Mastriano won with about 44% of the GOP vote. One Republican operative,...

A man’s outburst at a judge was not a reason to extend his prison sentence, according to a recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling. In a 4-3 decision the high court ruled that Manson Bryant’s profanity-laced courtroom outburst after receiving a 22-year sentence might have warranted a contempt of court finding, however, the trial judge could not increase the prison sentence by six years saying that the outburst showed “no remorse” for the crime. . . . . Bryant was on parole at the time of his 2018 arrest for a home invasion in Paniseville. He was found guilty of aggravated...

Patriots have known for a long time that we have two major foes within our own government. Both the Democrat Party and the Deep State are working against us and the nation itself in their ongoing efforts to bring down America. But as Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed on yesterday’s show, the two entities are essentially one in the same. Michael Sussman, the former attorney for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign who was deeply rooted in the Russiagate scandal, was working so closely with the FBI that he had a keycard to enter their headquarters in Washington DC. At the...

Russian state TV personality Vladimir Solovyov has warned that if NATO keeps supporting Ukraine in President Vladimir Putin's war, there will be a "massive nuclear strike" that will see only "mutants" survive.

In Australia, where nearly everyone is vaccinated, the government reported deaths this year were 10% above normal, excluding COVID-19.That alarming statistic in the government's May 25 report is consistent with figures in the United States spotlighted by insurance industry executives as well as analysts who point to the correlation with the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns.Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson noted that Australia had no excess deaths, and little COVID, in 2020 and much of 2021.That undermines the explanation that the spike is the result of delayed medical care or "long COVID," Berenson argued.In the United States, as WND reported,...