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The U.S. Supreme Court may have overturned Roe v. Wade, but abortion has not been completely eliminated — not if leftists in corporate America have anything to say about it, at least. Following the collapse of Roe, many businesses reportedly announced funding for abortion-related travel expenses, in a major victory for leftists pushing corporate America to adopt woke environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. ESGs provide a smokescreen for left-wing bigwigs in C-suites to force radical leftist politics on shareholders, according to former McDonald’s CEO Edward Rensi. Utah State Treasurer Marlo Oaks called ESG “the greatest threat to our freedoms...

During the state visit of the 46th President of the United States of America, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to Israel next week, President Isaac Herzog will award him the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor in a festive ceremony at the President’s Residence in recognition of his true friendship with the State of Israel, the people of Israel, and the Jewish People; his uncompromising decades-long commitment to Israel's security; his contributions to deepening, strengthening, and enhancing the strong and unwavering alliance between Israel and the United States of America; and his struggle against anti-Israeli and antisemitic hatred around the world. The...

California Democratic governor Gavin Newsom reinforced his trend of violating his own restrictions by vacationing with his family this week in a state he placed on a no-travel list last year, CalMatters reported on Tuesday. Newsom in July 2021 barred state-funded travel to 20 states including Montana, citing laws in the states that prohibit biological males from competing in girl’s school sports. Newsom spokesman Anthony York said the vacation to an in-law’s ranch was not state-funded but did not comment on whether a security detail joined the governor’s family. Newsom has a history of flouting restrictions he has imposed as...

Norwegian Sun also known as the ICEBERG SHIP. It is in trouble as I speak. https://www.cruisemapper.com/?imo=9218131 It sat in Seattle for close to week after the incident 10 days or so ago. Sailed yesterday on an 8 day trip. Only 24 hours out and enroute back. Says Victoria BC now

Hollywood star Natalie Portman has expressed her love that Disney-Marvel’s latest Thor sequel is being received as the “gayest” Marvel movie ever made. In an interview with the actress, entertainment journalist Andrew Freund laid out his hypothesis about Thor: Love and Thunder, which opens in the U.S. on Friday. “Is it safe to say that this is the gayest movie ever made in the MCU [Marvel comic universe]?” Portman replied, “I love that reading of it. Yes! I love that.” Freund went on to elaborate his theory, citing sequences where the characters are flying on rainbows. The actress said, “That...

'Failure will have serious consequences' Left-wing activists are threatening to shut down the Congressional Baseball Game five years after a far-left gunman shot up the bipartisan event, almost killing House Republican Whip Steve Scalise. A climate activist group called Now or Never on Wednesday unveiled a three-part plan that starts with shutting down the annual game to force action from Democratic leaders, who the group says are guilty of refusing "to act boldly" on issues like climate change, abortion, and voting rights "for fear it will be too ‘polarizing.'" Now or Never's parent organization, the Action Network, is located at...

The only clinic performing abortions in Mississippi, the state at the heart of the US Supreme Court's historic about-face on women's reproductive rights, closed its doors Wednesday for the final time. The Jackson Women's Health Organization, nicknamed the Pink House because of the building's colorful walls, performed its last pregnancy-ending procedures before a law banning all abortions goes into effect in the conservative, impoverished state in the US South. 'Today is a hard day for all of us @ the last abortion provider in Mississippi,' The Pink House Fund, which raised donations to keep the institution running, posted on Twitter....

Stiff person syndrome spectrum disorders are rare autoimmune and neurological disorders that most often cause muscle stiffness and spasms in the torso and limbs. According to a study released today, a blood treatment called plasmapheresis, also known as therapeutic plasma exchange, may be a safe way to treat stiff person syndrome spectrum disorders. Researchers also found that many study participants also experienced an improvement in symptoms or function, or both, while being treated with this therapy. For people with these disorders, symptoms may come and go early in the disease, but eventually become constant. Stiffness and spasms usually begin in...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) expressed worry over the “toxicity in our public discourse” despite having publicly yelled “F*** Clarence Thomas” the previous week. While speaking at a press conference about public safety on Tuesday, alluding to the weekend violence toward police in Chicago and the Highland Park parade shooting north of the city, the Windy City mayor expressed concern that “people are losing respect for the institutions of our democracy.” Lightfoot then said, “the toxicity in our public discourse is a thing that we should all be concerned about,” and stated how she would like to see the community...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared to respond to a report that had twins with one of his top executives. According to a report from Insider, court documents show he quietly had twins with Shivon Zilis last November. In April, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the names of the twins to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name.” The petition was approved by a Texas judge. Insider noted the twins were born just weeks before Musk and Claire Boucher had their second child via surrogate. Zilis now holds...

Congress reintroduced the Civics Secures Democracy Act, a bill that creates a national curriculum in history and civics that federalizes teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Action Civics in every K-12 classroom in America. The lack of civics produces students who are ignorant about American history and government. This has led to an explosion of “woke” college students opposed to free speech and the open exchange of ideas, who support disinviting speakers they don’t agree with, and who use violence to silence them. The misleadingly named Civics Secures Democracy Act has everything to do with the federal government’s plan to...

Gordon was reported missing on May 5 after he was last seen during his overnight shift at Industrial Recycling & Recovery, Inc. in Greer, South Carolina, KTLA sister station WSPA reports. On June 10, the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office was contacted after tests returned positive results for Gordon’s DNA. The coroner’s office asked a forensic anthropologist and a forensic pathologist to examine the material recovered by a Spartanburg County Sheriff Detective. According to the coroner’s office, the machine where Gordon was found was viewed at least four times. The first time was by the plant and Gordon’s father. After his...

The campaign to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón handed in 717,000 signatures to the county registrar on Wednesday — 26% more than the required target of 566,857 voters, in case some of the signatures are rejected. According to Bill Melugin of Fox News, the campaign surpassed its goal of 700,000, and brought in an additional 150,000 in the few weeks since two police officers were ambushed by a man who was only free because of Gascón’s lenient policies. The campaign reached its target — 10% of all registered voters in Los Angeles County — in mid-June, but...

Margaret Thatcher recites the poem attributed to St. Francis of Assisi:

A small asteroid the size of a bus will make an extremely close approach to Earth on Thursday (July 7), passing within just 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers)...And just a few days ago, no one knew it was coming The asteroid, named 2022 NF, is expected to pass safely by our planet, according to calculations by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Astronomers discovered the sneaky asteroid using data from the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) — a system of cameras and telescopes based in Hawaii with the primary goal of detecting near-Earth objects, or NEOs. On...

Worldwide, breast cancer (BC) is the second most common cancer. Pharmacologically targeting cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 (CDK4 & 6) has proven to be a successful therapeutic approach in patients with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer. Abemaciclib is the first FDA-approved CDK4 & 6 inhibitor (CDK4 & 6i) approved for the adjuvant treatment of HR+, HER2–, node-positive early breast cancer (EBC) at high risk of recurrence and a Ki-67 score ≥20%. Differences have been observed in both efficacy and severity of neutropenia among the available CDK4 & 6i, generating interest in a possible mechanistic explanation. In their study published in...

Farmer protests continued in The Netherlands on Thursday. And now the movement is spreading.Farmer protests were launched in Italy and Poland on Thursday.Farmers in The Netherlands blocked supermarket distribution hubs on Monday, July 4th.The farmers are outraged over new government regulations that force them to reduce their nitrogen fertilizer compounds and limit their number of livestock. The farmers argue that these policies will bankrupt their family business.

PARIS, July 7 (Reuters) - The French state has said it will fully nationalise EDF, the debt-laden utility that runs the nation's nuclear power plants and which the government has so far struggled to restructure. It has not said whether it will buy out minority shareholders on the market or take control by law. But however it is nationalised, it doesn't guarantee a fix for EDF's mountain of debt or its corroding reactors and it won't reduce the cost of shielding consumers from sky-high energy prices. SO WHY DOES THE GOVERNMENT WANT TO NATIONALISE EDF? Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said...

Latest estimate: -1.9 percent — July 7, 2022 The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2022 is -1.9 percent on July 7, up from -2.1 percent on July 1. After this week's releases from the Institute for Supply Management, the US Census Bureau, and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, the nowcasts of second-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and real gross private domestic investment growth increased from 0.8 percent and -15.1 percent, respectively, to 1.3 percent and -14.9 percent, respectively, while the nowcast of the contribution of the change...

Outpatient antibiotic management of selected patients with appendicitis is safe, allowing many patients to avoid surgery and hospitalization, and should be considered as part of shared decision-making between doctor and patient. Of 726 participants who were randomized to receive antibiotics, 46% were discharged from the emergency department within 24 hours. Outpatient management was associated with fewer than 1 serious adverse effect per 100 patients in the week after their discharge. Outpatient management was shown to be safe across a wide range of patients and was done in up to 90% of antibiotic-treated patients across all study sites. Compared to hospitalization,...