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Nearly 40 years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration put a lifetime ban on the use of blood donations from men who have sex with men (MSM). This act is not only discriminatory and homophobic, but also aids in the national blood shortage. The ban is out-dated and creates a false pretense on HIV blood contamination. To address this injustice, premium denim designer MOTHER is launching The Gay Blood Collection during this month's New York Fashion Week. This collection of art tools are a proactive and progressive stride towards ending the stigma surrounding gay blood. This first-of-its-time collection created...

A stranger bashed a teen in the face with a brick in an unprovoked, broad-daylight Chelsea attack this week, cops said Wednesday. The assailant approached the victim around 11:30 a.m. Monday and struck him with the brick without saying a word on West 20th Street near 10th Avenue, police said. The victim was taken to Lenox Hill HealthPlex in stable condition, with a severe injury to his face. The suspect ran off after the attack. The victim told police he did not know the man who assaulted him and had no prior contact with him. Cops released footage of the...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that the Inflation Reduction Act is “partly about bringing down utility costs, and it’s partly about bringing down healthcare costs.” But admitted it only does so in the long run and stated that “long-term is where, I think, everybody in America would like to see those prices come down.” Host Andrea Mitchell said, “[T]he Inflation Reduction Act, so named, doesn’t really reduce inflation. It brings the deficit down, less than one might have hoped because of Manchin and Sinema taking things out on the tax piece of...

Von der Leyen said in her State of the European Union address that the bloc would come to the aid of Ukraine by opening its seamless single market more to Ukrainian products and said she would “discuss all this with President (Volodymyr) Zelenskyy.” "I stand here with the conviction that with the necessary courage and necessary solidarity, Putin will fail and Europe will prevail," she told the plenary of the European parliament in Strasbourg, France. The EU has already committed billions in aid to Ukraine...

According to multiple reports, in 2013, while Fetterman was mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, he suspected a black man he saw jogging of committing a crime. Rather than call the police, Fetterman, a beacon of racial equality, chose to follow him in a pickup truck and pull a 20-gauge shotgun on him when he confronted the man. Fetterman used the gun to detain him until police arrived. Ultimately, the man was not involved in any wrongdoing. Furthermore, when discussing the incident in a 2013 interview, Fetterman even admitted he probably broke the law but brushed it off because he felt he...

(CNN) - Days before he was gunned down in Los Angeles, rapper PnB Rock talked about fellow artists feeling targeted for robbery. In an interview with YouTuber DJ Akademiks about a week before he was shot and killed during a robbery while at Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles on Monday, PnB Rock said criminals in city were "bold" and shared a story about when he, his girlfriend and his child were being followed. "I be trying to be cool because you don't want to be nervous," he said. "You want [your family ] to be as calm as possible."...

n FBI agent whose identity was withheld in the document’s release on Friday claimed that earlier this year, they “observed markings reflecting the following compliments/dissemination controls: HCS (Human Intelligence Control Systems), FISA, ORCON (originator controlled), NOFORN (not for release to foreign nationals), and SI (special intelligence)”. Meanwhile, according to The Epoch Times, former White House adviser Kash Patel told the Wall Street Journal in mid-August that he thinks some of the FBI’s papers were relevant to the Russia probe. That means other people might be implicated by the information. Patel described the raid as politically motivated. “It had to do...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday mocked the GOP's positions on abortion rights after Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced legislation that would ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy and many of his fellow Republicans dismissed the proposal. "I think what you're seeing there is a conflict within the Republican Party. There are those in the party who think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before," Pelosi told reporters during her press conference when asked about Graham's bill and other Republicans' reactions.

Russia is said to be canceling plans to send new troops to Ukraine as more of its service members are reportedly refusing to fight following humiliating losses on the battlefield. Ukrainian intelligence reported Wednesday that members of the 5th Separate Tank Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces are surrendering their military benefits in order to resign for their refusal to fight. “At the same time, a catastrophic shortage of personnel is seen in the units taking part in the war against Ukraine,” the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said. ... In the latest audio released by Ukraine’s defense...

This couple left California due to the cost of living, crime, taxes, etc. etc. etc. But now they're not so sure they can get used to living in Texas!

Shafaq News/ Russian President Vladimir Putin's limousine was allegedly attacked in a possible assassination attempt as the war in Ukraine rages on, Kremlin insiders claim... In Putin's car, "a loud bang sounded from the left front wheel followed by heavy smoke," it is claimed. The SVR General alleged that Putin's car "despite the problems with control" made its way out of the attack scene to reach the residence's safety. The SUN added. It added: "Subsequently, the body of a man was found driving [the] ambulance, which blocked the first car from the motorcade." Meanwhile, the Telegram channel said details of...

The Senate race between Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock is turning out to be a squeaker. *** Walker looks to have the momentum. Barely. Right now RCP’s aggregate average shows Walker leading Warnock by +0.5. A recent Emerson College Polling survey found that Walker is up over Warnock by 46 to 44 percent. The polling is within the margin of error. The survey was of likely general election voters instead of registered voters, which generally makes the results more reliable. Warnock’s internal polling must be showing Walker ahead, too. Warnock reluctantly agreed to debate Walker in Savannah...

The guns had gone quiet after three days of fighting in Balakliia. Mariya said only when she saw Ukrainian soldiers did she know six months Russian occupation had ended. "I was walking ... when I saw an armored personnel carrier coming onto the square with a Ukrainian flag: my heart just tightened up and I began to sob." At the site of one exhumed grave, Valentyna, the mother of 49-year-old Petro, cursed the war and Russian President Vladimir Putin. "No one can return my son to me." Tymofiyeva said it had been clear Russia, which invaded Ukraine, planned to annex...

Amazon.com Inc. will let brands and merchants send marketing emails to shoppers, a risky bid to boost sales that could inundate inboxes with spam. The company announced the initiative Wednesday at the Amazon Accelerate conference in Seattle, where it demonstrates new features to the independent businesses that sell more than half of the products on Amazon.com. Merchants will be able to send free emails to new shoppers, repeat customers and their biggest spenders through a new "Tailored Audiences" tool, which will also let sellers monitor the results. The tool has been in testing this year and will be available to...

Little do people know that this administration has tried to avert total disaster amid a rail strike set to effect Friday at midnight. Thirty percent of the nation’s freight would be shuttered, and the cost per day to the US economy will be around $2 billion. Most passenger and commuter rail services will also cease operating. Ten of the twelve major railway unions have agreed to the new agreements, though the two largest, which represent engineers and conductors, has not signed off. They still have lingering questions about sick leave and penalties for missing work. Thus far, these two are...

About a third of the jobs added in August were jobs we thought the economy already had. The survey of businesses allows for double counting of some job-holders, and there is considerable evidence that this double-counting has accelerated recently. These figures are the swan song of an anemic economy weighed down by President Joe Biden’s inflation, regulation, and taxation.

Trump predicted a massive terrorist attack by Osama Bin Laden before 9/11.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., accused government health officials of taking a wrong approach in evaluating COVID-19 vaccines by failing to take into account people's previous infections. The Kentucky Republican then implied that there could be a reason for this. Stating that government vaccine committee members have not disclosed what, if any, royalties they have received from companies that make the vaccines, Paul said that if the GOP takes control of the Senate in November's midterm elections they will investigate the matter. "We've been asking you and you refused to answer whether anybody on the vaccine committees gets royalties from the...

European natural gas inventories rose by +76 BCF over past 7 days. EU nat gas storage 85% full. Current inventories at 3243 BCF. 20.9% higher than 1 year ago. EU goal is at least 80% full by Nov 1st for winter. Current projection is for EU to reach 92% by Nov 1st.

Surrounded by prisoners dressed in black, a man identified as Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of a shadowy mercenary group, makes this pitch: Come fight in Ukraine and be rewarded with your freedom — if you can make it back alive. "Nobody goes back behind bars," Prigozhin, founder of the Russian private military company Wagner, can be seen telling men in a video from a Russian prison yard, per a translation from The Wall Street Journal's Yaroslav Trofimov. "If you serve six months, you are free. If you arrive in Ukraine and decide it's not for you, we execute you." He...