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Former President Barack Obama praised his former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, asserting the country was better off since he took office as president of the United States. “The country is better off than when you first took office,” Obama said, flattering his former vice president. “And we should all be deeply grateful for that.”

A Florida man lost his arm in a grizzly alligator attack, only to spend the next three days wandering the swamp looking for help. Eric Merda, 43, of Sarasota, was visiting the Lake Manatee Fish Camp in Myakka City on July 17 when he got lost in the woods. When he arrived back at the lake, he opted to swim across it as opposed to walking around. “Not the smartest decision a Florida boy could make,” Merda admitted during an interview with 10 Tampa Bay that aired Monday. Not long into his swim, he told reporters, “I look over and...

The artist Evelyn Kreinecker, shows a new view of Christian male images of the Creator and Redeemer in her series of works "SHE". This presentation in the church of St. Wolfgang in Kanning in Ernsthofen is exciting and coherent..

Things are going more or less normally out in sunny ol' California this week... ...but I gotta say, this is more than a little alarming: In case you're having trouble reading that, the message declares: The current heat wave is expected to stress California's grid this weekend. Use the Scheduled Departure setting to ensure your vehicle is charged and preconditioned to your preferences at time of departure, while avoiding charging during higher price evening hours between 4-9 PM. Reading that message like: I mean, look, a few things are very obvious here: There are a ton of government officials in...

On the latest episode of his Youtube show "Real Coffee with Scott Adams," the Dilbert series cartoonist suggested that if the GOP stands any chance of defeating Biden in 2024, Trump must be their candidate. "There's only one way you're gonna beat Biden at this point," Adams began, arguing that Biden has taken a "Trumpian" approach by narrowing in on an issue he knows his voters care about, and riding it hard. "That's what Trump did," he Adams added. "He just picked the scariest stuff, and he rode it hard, and it worked." He went on to suggest that Biden...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is promising “emergency housing” for migrants bused from Texas even as rents in Chicago have skyrocketed for residents. Last week, Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) started busing border crossers to the sanctuary city of Chicago after sending thousands over the last few months to the sanctuary cities of Washington, DC and New York City.

The Regime is so desperate to go after Steve Bannon, one of the toughest and most influential voices in the MAGA movement, that it is willing to pursue state level charges for the sham fraud case for which he received a federal pardon from Donald Trump (Presidential pardons only apply at the federal level).

Ukrainian officials voiced support for deploying United Nations peacekeeper troops to establish a demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Wednesday. Ukraine's support for the move comes one day after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned of a potentially "catastrophic" disaster at the plant. The IAEA deployed a team to Ukraine to inspect the facility last week. IAEA general director Rafael Grossi called for a demilitarized zone around the station. "The first important safety pillar that exists in any nuclear facility is not to violate its physical integrity," Grossi said Tuesday. "And unfortunately…this has happened. This happened and...

In 2015 Canada's Supreme Court struck down bans on medically assisted suicide as a violation of citizens' liberty, writing that "An individual's response to a grievous and irremediable medical condition is a matter critical to their dignity and autonomy. The prohibition denies people in this situation the right to make decisions concerning their bodily integrity and medical care and thus trenches on their liberty. And by leaving them to endure intolerable suffering, it impinges on their security of the person." Those quotes, in a nutshell, explain why the ability to end one's life is an important freedom. Our bodies belong...

This week, we begin a new phase in our COVID-19 response. We are launching a new vaccine – our first in almost two years – with a new approach. For most Americans, that means one COVID-19 shot, once a year, each fall. Starting this week, at tens of thousands of convenient pharmacies, doctor’s offices, and community health centers, and other places, Americans age 12 and older can go get this new fall COVID-19 vaccine. The new vaccines provide the strongest protection from the new Omicron strain of the COVID virus, which did not exist when the original vaccine was developed....

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Wednesday on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom” that the Department of Justice is “very close” to the point of having the evidence to indict former President Donald Trump. Co-host Dana Perino asked, “Do you have a view on how it ends?” Barr said, “As I’ve said all along, there are two questions. Will the government be able to make out a technical case? Will they have evidence by which that they could indict somebody on, including him? That’s the first question, and I think they are getting very close to that point, frankly.” He continued, “At...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen warlord who is one of the biggest supporters of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, has said that he wants to quit. In a video on his Telegram channel, Mr Kadyrov said that he had been president of Chechnya in Russia’s North Caucasus for 15 years and didn’t want to “outstay” his welcome... He was promoted as Chechnya’s leader by Mr Putin in 2007 and has been a vocal supporter of the Russian president ever since, backing the initial invasion of Ukraine in February with his fighters. Mr Kadyrov’s father, Akhmat, had fought Russian forces in the...

A decrease in body mass index (BMI) was associated with both a lower incidence of the structural defects of knee osteoarthritis and a lower likelihood that such defects would progress, or get worse. Researchers examined radiographic analyses of knees at baseline and at 4 to 5 years' follow up from adults with and without the structural defects of knee osteoarthritis at the start of the study. The team assessed 9,683 knees (from 5,774 individuals) in an 'incidence cohort' and 6,075 knees (from 3,988 individuals) in a 'progression cohort.' A 1-unit decrease in BMI corresponded to a 4.76% reduction in odds...

Greene mocked Newsom’s directive in a quote tweet where she said, “This is America’s future under Democrat’s green energy scams.” “The America Last Democrats are purposely destroying fossil fuel industries that actually produce plenty of energy and keep the lights & AC on,” Greene insisted.

A federal judge in Louisiana ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration has 21 days to turn over all relevant emails sent by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. Anthony Fauci to social media platforms regarding alleged misinformation and the censorship of social media content. The decision by Judge Terry Doughty, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, came as part of a lawsuit filed in May by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, accusing the Biden administration of suppressing the constitutionally protected right to free speech on elections, the COVID-19 lab leak...

According to scientists, images from the SPECULOOS (‘Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) telescopes, located in Chile and the island of Tenerife, have indicated that a distant planet may harbor the necessary conditions for life. The planet LP 890-9c orbits the star, LP 890-9, which rests 100 light-years from Earth. 40% larger than Earth, LP 890-9c orbits LP 890-9 roughly every 8.5 days, which was confirmed by the MuSCAT3 instrument in Hawaii. Scientists believe that fact permits the supposition that the planet exists in the “habitable zone” around the star. “The habitable zone is a concept under which a...

The Pentagon has stopped delivery of F-35 fighter jets after the aircraft's maker, Lockheed Martin, found a part used in the jet's engine was made in China, the Defense Department and company confirmed Wednesday...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Gov. Kathy Hochul has lifted the requirement to wear masks while riding mass transit during a news conference on Wednesday. New signs will be displayed throughout the mass transit system letting riders know that masks are encouraged but optional. The new guidance is effective immediately. Hochul also stressed the importance of respecting the choices of others.

Missing Republicans plagued pollsters across the board in surveys ahead of the 2020 election, leading to bungled projections and a new round of soul-searching by the industry. Yet as voters prepare for November’s midterm elections, it’s not clear whether the pollsters have solved anything. “In the media polls, no, they have not fixed it,” said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican Party pollster. “I used to think it was incompetence back in 2016. Now I think they do it purposely to tamp down on Republican support.” Election polling, or “horse race” surveys, have another wrinkle: They never know who, exactly, will show...

Officials have released the identities of the victims killed in a string of stabbings across Canada's Saskatchewan province over the weekend. Brothers Myles Sanderson, 30, and Damien Sanderson, 31, are suspected of carrying out the deadly stabbing spree in an Indigenous community in Saskatchewan on Sunday, between the James Smith Cree Nation and the town of Weldon, located northeast of Saskatoon, authorities said.