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@aaronjmate @AOC accuses her anti-war protesters of "parroting pro-Putin talking points." She has nothing to say about Biden's rejection of diplomacy, nor explain how the Squad-approved billions of dollars in weapons will help end the war. She instead invokes Ukraine's "self-determination."

Pontifical Academy for Life Appoints Pro-Abortion Atheist MemberMariana Mazzucato joins a growing list of members who hold views antithetical to the Catholic Church.VATICAN CITY — The Pontifical Academy for Life has appointed to its list of full members a highly influential atheist economist who supports legalized abortion and whose views on the economy have in part been praised by Pope Francis. Mariana Mazzucato, who teaches the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London and is a member of the World Economic Forum, was appointed on Saturday by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the academy, and Msgr....

Shirley Hughes, the mother of one of murderer Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, is calling out the use of Dahmer’s image for Halloween costumes this year as being exploitative, according to a report by TMZ. In an interview with the outlet, Hughes said it was triggering to see people dress like the man who took her son, Tony Hughes, away. Tony Hughes was a deaf man who was murdered by Dahmer. Dahmer was eventually convicted of killing 17 men between the 1970s and 1990s. His other horrific deeds included sexual assault, the mutilation of his victims, and sex crimes involving minors. Authorities...

Where do you stand — or sit, as the case may be — on a controversial air travel issue? For years people have weighed in on whether they (or other passengers) should fully recline their seats during a flight, especially amid a long flight — because the act of reclining that seat means the person seated behind the airplane chair will have far less space than otherwise. People are vehement on both sides of this issue. (“Yes, go for it! It’s your seat and you paid for it!” some say — while others maintain with equal passion, “No, don’t recline...

a drug used to treat addiction could be what millions of long Covid sufferers around the world need to finally address their symptoms. Naltrexone is a generic drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat both alcohol and opioid addicts. But in small trials it has been able to relieve long Covid patients of lingering ailments like brain fog and fatigue that last months after the initial infection. The drug - sold under the brand name Revia - is now being touted as a crucial piece of the puzzle of long Covid that has stumped experts for over...

It has been a while since studios began releasing movies and shows that retell the stories of serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy. These retellings tend to spark some questionable trends on social media. Most of them involve viewing gruesome crime scene images, or even romanticizing the murderer. Trigger warning: This article contains content that may be disturbing to read. Reader discretion is advised. Following the release of Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, TikTokers have flooded the internet with a trend that attempts to show compassion for the killer. This trend involves people...

Not all senescent cells are harmful "zombies" that should be wiped out to prevent age-related disease, according to research, which found that some of them are embedded in young, healthy tissues and promote normal repair from damage. Scientists have now seen these cells in action in lung tissue, as well as other organs that serve as barriers in the body, such as the small intestine, colon and skin. When they used drugs called senolytics to kill these cells, injuries to lung tissues healed more slowly. "Senescent cells can occupy niches with privileged positions as 'sentinels' that monitor tissue for injury...

@JohnStossel I never thought I’d make a video debunking a TV series. But President Obama’s ignorant Netflix series, “The G Word," deserves debunking. If you don’t want to waste 3 hours watching Obama promote big government, watch this instead:

Lawmakers in New Jersey have introduced a bill that would prevent police from using newborn bloodspots for anything other than detecting disease. The bill, Bill A4642, is a direct response from lawmakers regarding a 2021 rape case. Last year, New Jersey State Police subpoenaed the New Jersey Department of Health in order to obtain the dried bloodspot card of a 9-year-old child. They then used genetic genealogy to identify the child’s father and arrest him for the rape of a 10-year-old girl in 1996 and a five-year-old girl in 2003. Subsequently, the Office of the Public Defender and the New...

KIEV, October 19/TASS/.Air raid sirens went off late on Tuesday night in the Odessa, Kirovograd and Poltava regions, local authorities reported on their Telegram channels. An air raid alert also sounded in the Sumy, Kharkov, Nikolayev and Dnepropetrovsk Regions.

The new commander of the Russian army in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin, said on Tuesday that civilians were being “resettled” from the Russian-occupied southern city of Kherson, describing the military situation in Ukraine as “tense.” “The enemy continually attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops,” Surovikin said in his first televised interview since his appointment last week, adding that the situation was particularly difficult around the occupied southern city of Kherson. “Further actions regarding Kherson will depend on the developing military and tactical situation, which is not easy, and difficult decisions cannot be ruled out,” he said.

A senior US health official today admitted that controversial Covid manipulation research carried out in a laboratory in Boston was not authorized — despite being funded by taxpayer money. DailyMail.com exclusively revealed yesterday that a team from Boston University had developed a hybrid Covid virus — combining the Omicron and original Wuhan strains — which had an 80 per cent lethality rate. Public records indicate it was partly paid for using a grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the federal government's main research agencies. As part of any Government-funded research grants, teams...

Stevens, the son of prominent U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, was hiking near Seward, Alaska, on Thursday evening when he suffered a fatal medical emergency Email Former Alaska politician Ben Stevens died late last week at the age of 63, after suffering a medical emergency while hiking near Seward. On Thursday evening Alaska State Troopers, U.S. Forest Service officers and medics were dispatched to the Chugach National Forest to respond to a report of a hiker needing CPR on the Lost Lake Trail. Life-saving measures were unsuccessful, according to online dispatch records, and the deceased hiker was later identified as Stevens....

A fire that damaged St. Patrick's Parish in Watsonville on Monday is believed to have been started by arson, according to the church. St. Patrick's Parish told their parishioners that they have video footage showing that the fire was arson. According to the church, the fire occurred in the wall between the piano and the organ. "It damaged two stations of the cross, one stained glass window, probably the organ console, and potentially the digital piano," the church said in its announcement to the public. In addition to the fire damage, the church has to deal with damage from firefighters...

Charles W. Duncan Jr., who got into the energy business as a young Texas roustabout digging pipeline ditches in 1947, and at the height of America’s oil-shortage crisis in 1979 became President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of energy, died on Tuesday at his home in Houston. He was 96. His son, Charles W. Duncan III, said the cause was complications of a recent fall. Mr. Duncan was the scion of a Houston family that made a fortune in coffee. He turned the brand, Duncan Coffee, into a rival of Maxwell House before it was acquired by the Coca-Cola Company. He became...

The mother of George Floyd’s daughter has reportedly announced a $250 million lawsuit against Kanye West, claiming the billionaire rapper and fashion mogul’s recent comments in which he seemed to attribute Floyd’s death to fentanyl and not police brutality have “retraumatized” her daughter. Roxie Washington’s lawyers allege West’s comments constitute “harassment, misappropriation, defamation, and infliction of emotional distress,” according to a letter obtained by Yahoo Entertainment. It remains unclear how West’s remarks are defamatory since the dead cannot be defamed under the law. “The interests of the child are priority. George Floyd’s daughter is being retraumatized by Kanye West’s comments...

A Georgia college student died instantly when he walked into the still-spinning propeller of a small airplane he had rented for a dinner date, officials said. Georgia Southern University sophomore Sani Aliyu, 21, was hit in the head twice at Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport on Sunday night after he got off a plane piloted by two friends who had taken him and a woman to nearby Savannah, according to officials and reports. “They flew to Savannah to go on a date, flew back, landed at the Statesboro Airport, and the young lady got off the plane, and he got off the...

MSNBC host Joy Reid spoke with commentator Dean Obeidallah about Biden turning up the heat in his rhetoric about MAGA Republicans in an early September broadcast. Liberal MSNBC hosts and pundits worried about potential Democratic losses in the upcoming midterm elections, took to Twitter this week to stoke fears of "fascism" if voters supported Republican Party candidates. The liberal anchors were largely reacting to a New York Times poll that found independent voters were turning to the GOP over concerns about the economy. In a melodramatic tweet, MSNBC's Joy Reid bashed anyone who voted Republican as choosing "literal fascism." "It's...

It’s been a real “well, shit” few days for Democrats, for which one could either blame the New York Times or the underlying reality on which the New York Times reports. On Monday, the Times’ Upshot section released a new poll in which Republicans led Democrats by just over three points when respondents were asked which party’s candidate they supported in their district—a gain of about four points for the GOP in the last month on the measure. It was the latest such “generic ballot” question on which Republicans have made gains over that time, and the party has closed...

Florida International University will launch the technology to the International Space Station this fall, although the institution hasn't specified exactly when(opens in new tab) or upon what spacecraft. A test sample will be mounted outside the orbiting facility for at least six months, to assess how well it performs in real life. The properties of the coating have not been publicly released, presumably because the innovation has not yet been patented nor proven. But if the tech performs well in low Earth orbit, there's promise for protecting structures that would be built on the moon for NASA's Artemis program, the...