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President Donald Trump is not only ahead of Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in a prospective 2024 GOP primary, but he also is leading President Joe Biden by 3 points in the latest Harvard-Harris Poll released Tuesday. Trump leads DeSantis and a large GOP field by a wide 42-point margin, securing 59% support despite a range of candidates put up against him: Trump 59% DeSantis 17% Mike Pence 9% Nikki Haley 2% Sen. Ted Cruz 1% Mike Pompeo 1% Sen. Tim Scott 1% Sen. Marco Rubio 1% Someone else 2% Don't know/unsure 5% Biden has a much smaller lead among...

"[O]ne of the biggest revelations in the motion is that Danchenko himself was a confidential paid human informant!" Special Counsel John Durham's request to unseal a motion in limine pertaining to the trial of Igor Danchenko, who has been identifed as the "primary source" behind ex-British spy Christopher Steele's dossier, has been granted. A motion in limine is a "pretrial motion asking that certain evidence be found inadmissible, and that it not be referred to or offered at trial," according to Cornell's Legal Information Institute. The Special Counsel's motion to include the evidence against Danchenko reveals that the FBI was...

The levels of long-term blood sugar, HbA1c, can be used to accurately determine the risk of a person with type 1 diabetes developing eye- and kidney complications. A study has shown that this level should be lower than 53 mmol/mol (7%). The study has followed individuals for more than 30 years after the onset of type 1 diabetes. People with diabetes may experience damage to the small blood vessels in various organs. The reasons for this are unclear, but it has been known that good control of blood sugar levels reduces the risk of complications. It has, however, not been...

US Senate: Bolduc beating Morse 38/34 (52% in) - Bolduc likely Victor US House District 1: Leavitt beating Mowers 34/26 (47% in) - Leavitt likely Victor US House District 2: Burns beating Hansel 32/31 (38% in) - too close to predict

Moscow’s forces began evacuating a major city in southern Ukraine and Kyiv’s shot down an Iranian-made Russian drone Tuesday, as Ukraine’s lightning counter-offensive continued. Russian troops were seen fleeing from Melitopol, a city in the southern portion of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia province, exiled mayor Ivan Federov said on social media. “The occupiers ran from Melitopol towards the temporarily occupied Crimea,” Federov said on the messaging app Telegram. He added that “columns of military equipment” from Melitopol were seen passing through Chonhar, some 70 miles to the southwest and bordering Crimea. “This was expected — the rapid Ukrainian offensive leaves them no...

A physician-scientist has identified a novel combination immunotherapy regimen that demonstrated significant response in a subgroup of people with recurrent metastatic colorectal cancer. The study, developed and led by Marwan Fakih, M.D., enrolled 29 patients with chemotherapy-resistant metastatic colorectal cancer who had a biomarker known as microsatellite stable (disease). The participants received a combination immunotherapy treatment consisting of ipilimumab and nivolumab, plus the targeted therapy regorafenib. Of the 22 patients whose cancer had not yet spread to the liver, more than 50% are still alive after 20 months. The seven patients whose disease had spread to the liver also received...

ExploreIGO, a Twitter fan account devoted to icy worlds, asked its community yesterday what to call a spacecraft visiting the big blue world. Embedded with the tweet is a 2021 proposal by three scientists led by Amy Simon, a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The group told the U.S. decadal survey of planetary science that a spacecraft to Uranus is a "journey whose time has come." Uranus was voted the top destination by the community in April after this proposal process, which was led by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The decadal committee called...

Heather Richards arrived on the beach with a damp dress 'full of sand' A bride from Swansea woke up at the crack of dawn the day after her wedding day to go paddle boarding in the Gower in her dress. Heather Richards married Richard Selwood on Friday at Oxwich Bay Hotel and on Saturday she took her paddleboard for a quick dip at sunrise. The 47-year-old said she woke up, opened the curtains, saw the tide was in and told everyone to get up and get out. New husband Richard pulled on his shorts while Heather got into her...

Police are investigating after a pregnant woman had a drink thrown over her and staff at McDonald's were assaulted. Customers at the fast-food chain in Week Street, Maidstone, witnessed a group of unruly girls throwing drinks and arguing with security. It is thought the youngsters were unhappy about being removed from the restaurant and claimed the staff were heavy handed in removing them. The group were then seen outside McDonald's shouting and swearing at security, staff and customers who recorded the incident on Sunday evening. One girl can be heard shouting "you pulled her by her hair," while another member...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his forces have reclaimed 6,000 square kilometers of occupied territory from Russia since starting a major counteroffensive last month. Western media is presenting events near Kharkiv as an absolute rout of Russian forces, with other sources cautioning there’s little that can be verified, also amid the question of whether regained territory can actually be held and permanently controlled by Ukraine. Ukraine’s defense minister Oleksii Reznikov himself admitted in a Monday Financial Times report that a prime worry remains the ability to hold on to the territory amid superior Russian munitions and supplies. “A counter-offensive...

A couple are locked in a battle with a fitness club chain after a £30,000 Rolex watch was stolen from a locker room. Lee Briggs visited the David Lloyd health club in Kings Hill on June 6 this year to play tennis with his business partner. He entered the locker room to get changed and stashed his Rolex in his shoe before putting it in a locker - securing it with a padlock bought from the club. He was gone for 30 minutes but during that time the locker was broken into and the watch stolen. Mr Briggs, 40, says...

What was an Orthodox Jewish man doing working for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arguably the world’s most vocal antisemite?17 when Orthodox Jewish lobbyist Nicholas Muzin was paid millions of dollars to lobby for the Emir of Qatar to introduce him to the leaders of right-wing pro-Israel organizations, in an effort to curry favor with a Qatar-weary Donald Trump. Some of the most important right-wing activists for Israel were later ensnared in the controversy, exposed by national media outlets and in a huge investigative story by The Wall Street Journal. All said that they were traveling to Doha for Israel, even as,...

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Following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, a special on Iranian Channel 1 was broadcast on Friday. Show host Pejman Karimi said that the Queen’s death was “good news” for the world’s oppressed people, and Iranian academic Foad Izadi of Tehran University’s Global Studies Department said that the Queen was “one of the greatest criminals in the history of mankind.” Karimi proclaimed that “the Queen of England is dead, and this is considered good news for the world’s oppressed people. After 70 years on the throne, this Queen has left a grade sheet full of crime, abomination and filth.” Then...

Mike Lindell, the controversial CEO of MyPillow, said Tuesday that his cellphone had been seized by the FBI. In an episode of his show, the Lindell Report, the election skeptic said the seizure took place at a Hardee’s drive-thru while driving back to his home in Mankato, Minnesota. Two cars blocked his vehicle in the pickup lane and Mr. Lindell, according to a clip of the show at The Post Millennial, told his traveling buddy that “that’s either a bad guy, or it’s FBI.” The CEO and ally of former President Donald Trump said he asked the officers if they...

New interceptions of phone calls of Russian soldiers in Ukraine demonstrate – many of them are in despair and want to save their lives after the start of Ukrainian large-scale counter-offensive on the eastern and southern front lines. At the same time, they are afraid that surrendering is dangerous for them – Russian state propagandists make sure that of that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph8z8kTDnbg

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday the grain leaving Ukrainian ports after a blockade that fuelled a global food crisis was mostly reaching Europe instead of developing nations and questioned the merits of the deal. The United Nations and Turkey brokered an agreement with Moscow and Kyiv -- the first between the two since the February launch of Russia's military campaign -- restoring frozen Ukrainian grain deliveries across the Black Sea. But Moscow has voiced increasing frustration with how the agreement was being applied. An amendment to the deal also allowed Russia to get open access to fertiliser shipments and...

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The segment on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” comes after The Washington Post Editorial Board wrote in an op-ed this week that Fetterman “should release his medical records for independent review.” “He stammers, appears confused and keeps his remarks short. He’s held no news conferences,” the op-ed said. “The Fetterman campaign squandered credibility by concealing from the public for two days after his stroke that he had been hospitalized,” the op-ed continued. “It waited weeks longer to reveal a more complete picture of his medical history, including that he had been diagnosed in 2017 with cardiomyopathy.” “Last week, we told you in...