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Well, it finally happened: After less than two years in office Joe Biden is now polling worse than his predecessor, President Donald Trump, did at his lowest point in four years of running the country. According to the Rasmussen Reports' daily Presidential Tracking Poll on Friday, just "37% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance" while 61 percent disapprove. President Trump, over his four years in office, never dipped lower than 38 percent approval.

A gunman at an election rally in Nara ended the life of the longest-serving and one of the most popular prime ministers in Japanese history. On July 8, just before 6 PM, it was reported that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had died, according to multiple sources and local media. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Is Shot During a RallyThis is how the day unfolded.Very detailed account follows at the link>

Intriguing new research has pinpointed a special population of T cells—tissue-resident memory T cells—as key players in the development of chronic autoimmune disorders that affect the central nervous system, opening a new window of understanding into conditions such as multiple sclerosis and many others. Tissue-resident memory T cells—technically known as CD8+ TRM cells—are also more familiarly called squatters, or squatting T cells. As the latter name implies, these cells are squatters in specific sites throughout the body, lifelong residents in tissues they are supposed to protect. But researchers writing in Science Translational Medicine are revealing how these cells, critical constituents...

The parents of Highland Park Fourth of July shooting suspect Robert "Bobby" Crimo III had a long list of encounters with law enforcement – involving many domestic disputes, bizarre complaints and allegations of other men pursuing the mother romantically, Illinois police records show. Before their son was accused of opening fire on an Independence Day celebration Monday, killing at least seven and wounding dozens more, Highland Park police had 51 pages of incident reports related to their home.

Three women have been arrested and charged after they trashed a New York City eatery early Sunday morning. The incident happened at ‘Bel Fries’ on the Lower East Side, around 4:00 a.m., reports say. “They wanted extra sauce for the fries, and when we explained that it costs $1.75, they got upset. And that’s where it all started,” a cook, who recorded the video, told Univision.

Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone appeared before the House Jan. 6 committee for an interview Friday and has been willing to answer the panel's questions, a source familiar with the first part of his testimony said. “He’s been a cooperative witness within the parameters of his desire to protect executive privilege for the office of general counsel,” the source said. Cipollone, who panel vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has repeatedly described as a critical witness, arrived for the videotaped and transcribed closed-door interview shortly before 8:30 a.m. ET, and was still meeting with the panel in the...

President Donald J Trump LIVE from Las Vegas. Delivering Remarks On America First Policies on Friday July 8, 2022. RSBN coverage starts 7:30 ET. 8:00 ET, Panel Discussion with Joe Lombardo and Adam Laxalt. 9:00 ET, President Trump Delivers Remarks.

The U.S. will send another $400 million in military equipment to Ukraine, including four more advanced rocket systems, in an effort to bolster Ukrainian efforts to strike deeper behind Russian front lines in the eastern Donbas region, a senior defense official said Friday.

*Canada’s Rogers Communications said on Friday it was working to resolve its network issues that have caused widespread disruptions affecting banks, police and consumers across the country. *The outage comes as Rogers is attempting to take over rival Shaw Communications. The C$20-billion deal has been delayed by antitrust authorities over competition concerns. *Interac, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank Of Montreal said they were impacted by the outage. Canada’s Rogers Communications said on Friday it was working to resolve its network issues that have caused widespread disruptions affecting banks, police and consumers across the country. “We are aware of issues currently affecting our...

Statewide totals: Dems: 1612323 R: 1608203

It’s not another day in paradise for Phil Collins or his ex-wife, Orianne Cevey. Cevey’s former head of security, Franck Pala, has alleged that Collins’ ex paid $30,000 to a black magic expert in an attempt to gain control over the singer, according to court papers obtained by the New York Post. Pala claimed that Cevey had planned to put “some substances” in Collins’ wine – and makes mention of a “black magic” concoction. She allegedly wired the funds to a man in Columbia as payment for his magical services. “Do you know anything about an effort to — I’m...

Simon Ateba of Today News Africa is the mouth that roars at the White house press briefings. He sits in the back row in seats assigned to members of the White House Correspondents Association who skip the briefings. From there, he shouts questions in a booming voice that others won't ask. On Tuesday, he stumped the dim-witted Karine Jean-Pierre. Today News Africa is a small web site that runs on donations only. After he dared embarrass Jen Psaki on the last day of her job by asking why she ignored questions from the back row, the WHCA threatened to suspend...

When CalMatters’ Emily Hoeven broke the story Tuesday night that California Governor Gavin Newsom was, in fact, where we all thought he was for 4th of July — at his in-laws’ ranch in the Bitterroot Valley in Montana — one of Newsom’s comms staffers went after her for pointing out that the state was now on California’s “no travel” list, meaning that the state could not pay for travel to Montana due to its supposedly anti-LGBTQ laws. Hoeven also pointed out that Newsom recently named Montana as one of the states he believed was likely to institute an abortion ban...

The authors of the book imply that antiquities dealer Alexander McDuffie and historian Joseph Musso faked inscriptions and fraudulently authenticated artefacts that were set for a revamped Alamo site A defamation lawsuit brought by two experts in the history of the Battle of the Alamo claims that the authors of the book Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth dragged their names through the mud by implying fraudulent authentications, phony inscriptions and bloated prices. One purported victim of the alleged fraud is Phil Collins, the British rock drummer and singer/songwriter who once fronted the band Genesis....

The smartphone app that allows people to self-report COVID-19 infections and then alerts other app users who may have been exposed will stop operating on July 27. The state health department says COVID Alert PA, in use since early in the pandemic, is no longer an essential tool, even though the threat isn’t over. “As we move forward through this phase of the response, the COVID Alert PA app is no longer critical regardless of the current volume of COVID-19 cases. The department will continue to stay alert and monitor COVID-19 cases,” health department spokeswoman Maggi Barton said. As of...

LifeSiteNews) – Since the fall of Roe v. Wade on June 24, the mainstream press has offered up a nonstop stream of nightmare scenarios that they claim will result from pro-life laws in red states across America. As I noted in this space back in May, one of their favorite accusations is that women who suffer miscarriages will be charged with murder under the suspicion that the natural deaths of their pre-born children were actually a result of abortions. To validate this claim, stories from Latin American countries where abortion is illegal are posited as proof. Over the coming months...

We need to clearcut the government regulations hampering efforts to effectively battle wildfires.Last summer, my family spent days smelling smoke and seeing thick plumes from the wildfires that surrounded our piece of Arizona. At night, flames licked above the rim of Sycamore Canyon from the Rafael fire, which ultimately burned 78,000 acres. The vulnerability of the bone-dry West to lightning strikes and jackasses with matches is a fact of life with which residents learn to live. But while we've made our peace with clearing brush and packing go-bags with necessities in case we need to run, we expect the U.S....

Be alert! There is a critical nationwide shortage of Dobutamine, used for heart failure, blood pressure and stress testing, expected to last through October.

After being shot Abe was airlifted to a hospital but he was not breathing and his heart had stopped, officials said. He was declared dead hours laterJapan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe succumbed to his injuries on Friday after being shot during a campaign speech in western Japan earlier in the day. Earlier, as the news of the attack alarmed people across the world, Chinese nationalists began to celebrate the incident on Weibo and terming the attacker a 'hero'. The post was shared on the Twitter handle of Badiucao - a Chinese political cartoonist, artist and rights activist based in...

U.S. prosecutors charged two men with professional ties to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with participating in what federal officials have described as a “transnational repression scheme” that involved spying on and harassing political dissidents in the United States on behalf of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC). Craig Miller, a DHS deportation officer who has worked out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the last 15 years, and Derrick Taylor, a former DHS law enforcement agent and private investigator in Irvine, California, were indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury, alongside three other men. “We will defend the rights...