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Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former Attorney General Bill Barr is right for criticizing former President Donald Trump on his handling of government materials. Friday on Fox News, Barr said, “People say this was unprecedented, but it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put him in a country club. And how long is the government going to try to get that back? You know, they jawboned for a year. They were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. They then went and got a subpoena. They were deceived on...

The Democrat party’s pick for Secretary of Labor says CEOs are being victimized by a shortage of immigrant workers. Companies want to hire another 11 million people, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Fox News on September 2, adding: If those 11 million jobs had to be filled tomorrow, we certainly don’t have enough people in the United States to fill those jobs … the issue of workers has to be addressed and the only way [emphasis added] you can do it is through immigration. “When I talk to CEOs from companies all across America, they’re all in favor of immigration...

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he will release a report on Tuesday from the solicitor general on his predecessor Scott Morrison being secretly sworn into five ministries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Albanese said it wasn't suggested Morrison's actions were illegal but they raised questions over political conventions and checks on power in a democracy. "There is a basic fundamental weakness in checks and balances. If no-one knows who the minister is, then how can they be held to account for decisions which are made?" Albanese told reporters on Monday.

Joe Biden is planning to sign a new Iran nuke deal without anyone knowing what is in it. Fifty lawmakers, including thirty Democrats, want to see what’s in it before Biden signs it, and asked for transparency in letter. “We are deeply concerned about multiple provisions that reportedly may be contained in the final language of any agreement with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” the letter, spearheaded by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), states. The letter raises concerns about reported provisions of US sanctions on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Iran bank. The lawmakers...

Poetry in motion. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With ScienceWhen this song first came out, I at first thought the main lyric of the song was "She Blinded Me With Silence", which puzzled me at first. This was before I saw the video on MTV (which was played frequently) and was introduced to the "The Home For Deranged Scientists", a rather palatial rest home staffed with young svelte nurses in which mostly elderly scientists cavorted about in various stages of mental illness or dementia. The featured scientist, the one that repeatedly exclaimed "Science!", as well as ""Good heavens, Miss...

The NHS is calling for volunteers as it relaunches the Covid-19 booster programme which will offer a jab to everyone over the age of 50 this winter. The new booster campaign will target those clinically at risk from the virus and people aged 50 and above, a total of 26 million people, NHS England said.Steward volunteers help at vaccination sites with non-clinical tasks, including moving patients through the process and identifying people who require additional support.Shifts are flexible across a variety of centres around England, and can be booked with the GoodSAM mobile phone app. Expenses are covered and no...

Oz has agreed to participate in five debates, but Fetterman still has not accepted any invitations and declined to participate in what would have been KDKA’s September 6 debate. On Tuesday, the Oz campaign announced a number of snarky concessions it would make if Fetterman participated and asserted they would “pay for any additional medical personnel he might need to have on standby.” In response, Fetterman claimed his opponent’s campaign “think[s] it is funny to mock a stroke survivor,” as Fox News noted. “I chose not to participate in this farce,” he continued, adding he would not be partaking “in...

Alvin Bragg campaigned on Tracy McCarter’s innocence. Once in office, that was apparently less politically expedient.When Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was still a candidate for his position, there was a defendant he took a special interest in. "I #StandWithTracy," he tweeted in September 2020. "Prosecuting a domestic violence survivor who acted in self-defense is unjust." There was a subtext to that message. He was referring to Tracy McCarter, a woman who was charged with murder for killing her estranged—and allegedly highly abusive—husband. It was Cy Vance, who Bragg was seeking to replace in office, who brought that charge against...

Democrats had an online meltdown after hosts from their leftist network CNN dared question President Biden’s use of the military during his fiery primetime attack on his Republican rivals. Hosts Brianna Keilar and Jeff Zeleny were just a few of the people upset at the commander-in-chief using Marines to back him during his speech — sparking demands for their axing and an outright boycott of the left-wing network. “You are clearly a shill for the RNC,” one person whose Twitter bio includes a #BidenHarris2020 hashtag tweeted Zeleny just for saying that using the Marine Band was “a break with White...

These days, it is often considered tantamount to professing allegiance to Nazi ideology to openly oppose homosexuality as a matter of Christian conviction.This vitriol towards basic Christian sexual ethics and cultural values has caused many a believer to cower apologetically or even downright support LGBT lifestyles to avoid being branded as “hateful.”Even the most right-wing conservatives often pour their energy into defending their views and trying to make them more palatable to the secular left according to the left’s own values.I’ve expended quite a lot of breath on this subject myself, but the truth is, it is far too easy...

As Singapore eases an indoor mask mandate this week, some residents like Tao, 50, will continue keeping their masks on. While Tao, a naturalised Singapore resident originally from China's Wuhan city, believes the city state's decision to relax its pandemic restrictions is based on scientific evidence, he still fears his family will catch Covid-19 again. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. "Singapore's epidemic control has achieved remarkable success, but I still hope there are stricter regulations," says Tao, who asked for his surname to be used. "I will insist on...

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For boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), vamorolone, a structurally unique dissociative steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, is effective and safe over a 24-week period, according to a study. Michela Guglieri, M.D., from the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, and colleagues examined whether vamorolone is able to retain efficacy while reducing safety concerns in DMD in a randomized, double-blind, multicenter study including boys aged 4 to younger than 7 years. The study included four treatment groups: placebo; prednisone 0.75 mg/kg/day; vamorolone 2 mg/kg/day; and vamorolone 6 mg/kg/day. One hundred twenty-one boys were randomly assigned to...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the USSR, has died at 91. On the one hand, that sounds pretty good. A long life, a long career, world fame, a one-time politician, then a popular public speaker and leader of a think tank. He outlived his wife by over 20 years, and stayed active and vocal until the end. In many ways, it sounds like a life that one would envy, doesn't it? However… What kind of a politician was he? And what kind of think tank did he run? What did he stand for in life? What did he advocate...

Researchers have found a link between a common back ailment and a type of heart failure. Once considered rare, the heart disease, called transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy, is now thought to be a more common but underdiagnosed cause of heart failure. The disease is caused by proteins called transthyretin that can clump together and create amyloid deposits in the heart, the spine, ligaments, and other tissues. In the heart, the deposits stiffen the walls and reduce the amount of blood the heart can pump. Until recently, no treatment was available for this type of heart failure. But in 2019, the FDA...

While they might not be the super records of years past, guns and overall firearms sales are still going through the roof. According to newly released FBI data, background checks exceeded 2.51 million in August, which was consistent with the previous two summers. However, Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates August 2022 U.S. firearms unit sales were at about 1.4 million units, a year-over-year decrease of 3.8 percent relative to August 2021. The decrease affected the handgun segment (−2.7 percent) significantly less than it did the long-gun segment (−7.2 percent). SAAF’s firearms unit sales estimates and forecasts are based...

The legal fight between former President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice escalated Friday morning when the DOJ released a detailed inventory of the documents seized in last month's Mar-a-Lago raid. The inventory list comes following an order from Florida Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who is deciding whether to appoint a "special master" to the case. On "America Reports" on Friday, former Attorney General Bill Barr criticized Trump's push for a "special master" as a distraction from the details of the case and argued it is not likely to be granted.

Set aside the creepy red lighting, the curious pre-Labor Day timing and the callous attempt to condemn half of America in a "basket of deplorables" that would make Hillary Clinton proud. The better question is why President Joe Biden decided to step into the national conversation at all when he fired the opening political salvo of the midterm elections in Philadelphia last night. After all, the prevailing narrative heading into the last official weekend of summer was one of Democratic momentum. Gas prices were "down" to $3.80. Inflation had been "tamed" to 8.5 percent. Senate Democrats had resuscitated their legislative...

Thousands of dead fish and other marine life carcasses are washing ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area, creating a foul smell. Experts point to an unprecedented "red tide" algae bloom as the mostly likely cause. Abnormal numbers of dead crabs, bat rays, striped bass, white sturgeon and more have been spotted throughout the Bay area over the last week, officials say, notably at Oakland's Lake Merritt. The start of the fish die-off could date back even further—as the harmful algae bloom has been spreading since late July. The carcasses are worrying environmental scientists, as they mark a devastating loss...

It's no secret that we are in the midst of a cultural slump rife with bad films, television, music, and books. Fortunately, there hasn't been a complete absence of great modern art, as evidenced by these three films.