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In a time when many Americans are struggling to make ends meet, President Joe Biden is ensuring that terrorist-sponsoring regimes stay well-funded. Biden made a commitment to provide hundeds of millions in taxpayer dollars to the Palestinians at a meeting with Palestinian authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on his Israel trip while reaffirming his commitment to the “two-state solution.” “Now, as president of the United States, my commitment to that goal of a two-state solution has not changed in all these years,” he said. “Two states along the 1967 lines were mutually agreed. The swaps remain the best way to achieve...

Researchers say they have debunked the urban myth that healthy underweight people “eat whatever they want and burn it off with exercise”. A study of healthy Chinese adults considered underweight, according to the widely used Body Mass Index (BMI), found they not only do not eat as much food as people with a “normal” BMI, they are also less physically active. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. “Our data suggests they eat about 12 per cent less than adults with a normal BMI,” the team of scientists wrote in an...

President Biden faces a Monday deadline to forestall a freight train rail strike that could further aggravate the nation’s supply chain problems. Railroads and union workers have been unable to reach an agreement on a new contract and the rail companies are now seeking intervention from the Biden administration, which is weighing the appointment of an arbitration board to recommend a settlement. The unions and rail companies are at the end of a 30-day “cooling-off” period that ends Monday, and without presidential intervention, a strike could be imminent.

X-rays conducted on a Vincent van Gogh painting have revealed a previously unknown self-portrait hidden on the back, according to a BBC report Wednesday. The discovery was made when experts at the National Galleries of Scotland scanned the work ahead of an upcoming exhibition. On the back of the early work Head of a Peasant Woman (1884), conservators noticed the profile of a bearded man wearing a brimmed hat and a neckerchief beneath the layers of glue and cardboard. Even though only the left side of his face is visible, the sitter maintains an intense, inescapable gaze. The discovery came...

ussian President Vladimir Putin has scheduled an operational meeting with members of the Russian Security Council, as rumors swirl that Russia and Belarus are moving toward a unification process. "On Friday, the president will hold an operational meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council in the middle of the day or in the afternoon—it will depend on other events," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Russia's state-run news agency TASS as saying. -snip- Russian political scientist and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky said in an interview with TSN.ua that Putin may, during Friday's meeting, sign a "pact to unite"...

A West Virginia judge was accused of waving a Colt 45 handgun at lawyers in his courtroom during a case over fossil fuel royalties where he mocked the defense's security team for wearing a 'sissy-a** purse' and carrying smaller guns than him. Attorney Lauren Varnado filed a report to the FBI against Circuit Court Judge David Hummel Jr., who oversaw sees cases in New Martinsville, after he allegedly pointed a gun at her and her team on March 12. Varnado - who represented the EQT Production Company against landowners suing over the royalty payments from fossil fuels extraction on their...

Rally being moved to Friday, July 22. Heard from someone associated with Prescott Valley Police Department. They do not know the reason why.

Disgraced actor Armie Hammer may be working as a timeshare salesman in the Cayman Islands after all. After his lawyer denied the claim last week that the 35-year-old actor — who is accused of sexual abuse — ditched the spotlight to work at a resort, a source claimed to Variety that that is indeed what he’s doing because he’s “broke.” “He is working at the resort and selling timeshares. He is working at a cubicle,” the source alleged. “The reality is he’s totally broke and is trying to fill the days and earn money to support his family.”

Unvaccinated Americans were up to eight times more likely to die from COVID-19 this spring than those who received the jab for the virus, data shows. People ages 5 and older in the US who weren’t vaccinated had a six-time greater “risk of dying” in April when compared to those who had at least one primary series of vaccines by Moderna, Pfizer-BioTech and Johnson & Johnson, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. But the disparity grew even larger among unvaccinated Americans ages 12 and older, who were eight times more likely to die from COVID-19 that month...

Greg Kelly: It's a Biden-run America filled with tragedy, soft mainstream news and self-centered career politicians - a perfect time to remind the world why Trump was like no other..

ABC News mistakenly published a rough draft of its reporting on Ivana Trump’s death Thursday, confusing readers and creating a viral moment on Twitter. Media outlets clamored to quickly get the news out on the passing of Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump, late Thursday. ABC News apparently was so eager that it mistakenly included pre-write notes in its reporting with the headline: “DO NOT PUB Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former President Trump, dies at age 73. In the news business, the words “DO NOT PUB,” indicate that a story is not yet ready to be...

President Biden gave Saudi Arabia’s killer crown prince Mohammed bin Salman a fist-bump Friday as he arrived at a royal palace for meetings — moments after the president shook hands with other Saudi officials at a nearby airport. It was unclear if Biden would shake bin Salman’s hand due to the assessment of US spy agencies that the crown prince had ordered the 2018 operation that murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The White House reportedly planned for Biden to only give fist-bumps during his two-country Mideast tour as a way to wriggle out of looking too chummy with bin...

(CNN)An Indiana doctor who said she recently helped a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio get an abortion in her state reported the procedure to Indiana health officials within a required timeframe, documents show, as the state's Republican attorney general has said authorities are investigating the Ob-Gyn for potential failure to report the abortion and child abuse. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, of Indianapolis, reported the abortion procedure to the Indiana Department of Health on July 2 -- two days after it was performed -- as required by the department, documents CNN obtained from the agency show. The young girl was raped in...

The state of Texas sued the federal government Thursday after the Biden administration said federal rules require hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother’s life, even in cases where state law mostly bans the procedure. The lawsuit, which names the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Xavier Becerra among its defendants, says the guidance issued by the Biden administration earlier this week is unlawful, and that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act does not cover abortions. “The Biden Administration seeks to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Some hospitals in Texas have reportedly refused to treat patients with major pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban, the Texas Medical Association said in a letter this week. The association did not name the hospitals but said it’s received complaints that hospitals, administrators and their attorneys may be prohibiting doctors from providing medically appropriate care in some situations, The Dallas Morning News reported. Texas law bans most abortions after about six weeks of a pregnancy. A total ban — that includes exemptions if a woman’s life or health is danger — will...

The Gateway Pundit and Cygnal Polling conducted a poll of likely Republican voters in Arizona’s August 2nd gubernatorial and US Senate primary elections.The poll found that Trump-endorsed Kari Lake and Trump-endorsed Blake Masters are both leading their primary competitors by double digits with less than three weeks to go before the Arizona primary elections.Both Trump-endorsed candidates will be tough on the open southern border, inflation, election integrity, and putting America First.The liberal Arizona state media continues to push bogus polls in favor of Kari Lake’s closest trailing opponent, Governor Ducey-endorsed RINO Karrin Taylor Robson. According to the new Gateway Pundit-Cygnal...

Joe Manchin’s decision to kill off sweeping US climate legislation has been called “nothing short of a death sentence” for younger people and a livable climate on Earth, amid an outpouring of anger and despair from activists, scientists and even many of the US Senator’s Democratic colleagues. Manchin, the centrist West Virginia senator who has become a millionaire through his founding of a coal-trading company in his home state, dealt a crushing political blow to Joe Biden’s agenda on Thursday night when he made clear he would not support any spending to curb the climate crisis in a proposed bill....

In this installment of Practical Magic, Lisa Stardust talks about how to hex the patriarchy. Always remember that magic is for believers, but this column can also simply serve as a guide to getting in touch with yourself — magically or not. Throughout history, witches have fought back against the patriarchy. In fact, the humble beginnings of magic focus on standing up and rebelling against governments that suppress the disenfranchised and those who lack power in society. The witch is a strong being who stands up to fight back against oppression, advocating especially for women’s power and rights. In the...

Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for President in 2024. But this judgment requires an assessment of Trump’s vices and virtues in the context of our current political and cultural circumstances, as well as an assessment of other prospective Republican presidential candidates. Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute, explains Trump's Virtues.

This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015.UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: “Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?” We provided Volokh with a list of such cases, which he used.Below, we have collected news stories on more cases of permit holders stopping mass public shootings with their handguns (we separately collect cases where concealed handguns are used to stop other crimes). There is no reason to believe that this list is comprehensive, given how little media coverage is devoted...