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Eating a diet high in saturated fats can reprogram the mouse immune system, making it better able to fight off infection but more susceptible to systemic inflammatory conditions, including sepsis. The researchers focused on one particular fat found in the ketogenic diet: palmitic acid, commonly found in animal and dairy products. Remarkably, mice fed a normal diet who were injected with palmitic acid also became more susceptible to sepsis. Napier and colleagues learned that palmitic acid can trigger trained immunity. The fat acts as a "brief pulse of inflammation" that alters the function of stem cells in bone marrow so...

OLED screens can also be engineered to be bendable and malleable, without hindering their performance or causing any permanent damage. We’ve already seen devices like TVs and computer displays with a permanent curve to better fill a user’s peripheral vision, and even screens that can be flattened back out again for users who want to frequently switch between the two display modes. But LG is working to bring the flexibility of OLEDs to smaller devices, and today revealed the world’s first 12-inch panel that’s both flexible and stretchable, like a giant piece of rubber band, improving its ability to survive...

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Baghdad — Assailants fatally shot an American aid worker Monday in a rare killing of a foreigner in the Iraqi capital in recent years, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The man, whom the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad identified as 45-year-old Stephen Edward Troell, a native of Tennessee, was killed by unknown assailants in his car as he drove onto the street where he lived in Baghdad's central Karrada district on the east bank of the Tigris River. Police said the man's wife and child were in the car with him but were not hurt.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Problems with dozens of electronic vote counting machines in the battleground state of Arizona on Tuesday were seized upon by former Republican President Donald Trump and his followers, who falsely claimed it was evidence of election fraud by Democrats. The state's Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who has echoed Trump's false claims of a stolen 2020 election, also seized on the machine problems, issuing a "voter alert" on her Twitter account. Trump, Lake and other election deniers have been calling for the end of electronic voting machines, Election Day-only voting, and the use of just paper ballots...

We’re about halfway through Election Day for most of Florida, and the Democrats in Miami-Dade are staring a bloodbath straight in its beady little eyes. A few days ago, I posted about how things were not looking good for Democrats in early voting; see For the First Time Republicans Swamp Democrats in Florida Early Voting as an Electoral Disaster Looms for the Left. When I posted that Republicans had a 176,000 vote lead in early and vote-by-mail ballots, whereas, at the same point in the 2020 election, where President Trump carried Florida by four points, Democrats had a 387,000 vote...

NBA star LeBron James, whose net worth is estimated at $1 billion, endorsed Georgia’s Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock on the day Americans go to the polls for the 2022 midterm elections, saying, “We’ve been oppressed for so long.” James, who sponsored his left-wing “More Than a Vote” campaign in 2020 to fight mythic “voter suppression” in Georgia, claimed in an Instagram post late on Monday evening that he wants “change” in Georgia, and so he urged voters to vote for the same guy who is already in office there. “Obviously, tomorrow is Election Day, and there’s only one choice when...

United States District Judge Carl Nichols has ordered a stay of Steve Bannon's prison sentence, pending appeal. Bannon was sentenced to 120 days for contempt of Congress for not complying with a subpoena from the January 6 Committee.The Order Staying Sentence Pending appeal reads that "the Court finds that the Defendant, Stephen K. Bannon, (a) is not likely to flee or pose a danger to the safety fo any other person or the community if released and (b) that his appeal is not taken for the purpose of delay but rather raises substantial question of law that is likely to...

What is in the Pfizer vaccines? Recently, Dr David Nixon, a Brisbane GP, decided to find out, putting droplets of vaccine and the blood of vaccinated patients under a dark-field microscope. That’s a more radical decision than it might sound. According to Sasha Latypova, a scientist with 25 years of experience in clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies, the contract between Pfizer and the US government prohibits independent researchers from studying the vaccines. They claim it would ‘divert’ these precious resources away from their intended use fulfilling an ‘urgent’ need. Is that true in Australia? Who knows? All the Commonwealth Department...

President Biden steered clear of public appearances on Election Day, taping a single radio interview before calling it a day early. Biden, who has actively campaigned and rallied for Democrats in several races across multiple states, laid low on Tuesday except for an interview taped earlier in the morning with the D.L. Hughley Show, which was expected to air later in the afternoon. The president used the radio spot to tell Americans what the Biden-Harris Administration has delivered to the Black community in less than two years in office.

With more Californians participating in elections through vote by mail, the results for several high-profile races in the Los Angeles area might not be called until days or weeks after Election Day, according to a report. That includes the tightening race between Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, a longtime elected official in southeast LA, and billionaire developer Rick Caruso competing to become mayor of the second-largest city in the nation. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Final results may take days or weeks in certain high-profile races, including a handful of nail-biter congressional contests around the state and a number of...

If you asked me what I think the most likely outcome tomorrow, I’d say the following: The Democrats win in every race, 99% to 1%. Military vehicles fill the streets of the capitals of red states. Fox News gets another “facelift” as it did on Election Night 2020. Tucker Carlson disappears into some CIA “black site,” and gets replaced without explanation by a sneering Chris Wallace. The Fox news anchor blondes give way to stodgy men in brown paramilitary uniforms, who report the results in Romanian. But call me a sunny optimist.... Let’s say we capture both the House and...

Texas congressional candidate Wesley Hunt (R) believes the economy and inflation will lead to a “big red wave, particularly when it comes to Black and Brown people” this midterm season. Speaking to NBC’s Zinhle Essamuah on Sunday, Hunt said Black excellence is needed everywhere and that Black Republicans can bring change to the Black community. “At least we’re in the room to at least add some color, if you will,” said Hunt, who is favored to win his race in a new Texas district. A record 178 Black candidates are running this year as Republicans. Though Black voters make up...

Hey folks, sitting here in the library getting ready to watch the confirmation vote. Amy Comey Barrett, Supreme Court. And it just reminds me. Folks, we don't have a choice in this election. It's got to be Donald Trump. We're not going to have the kind of country everybody thinks we're going to have. This is not the old Republicans versus Democrats where we all have the same objectives, just different philosophies on how to get there. They do not have those objectives anymore. Their purpose is to erase the Constitution, start over, rewriting it, eliminating the concept of the...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said on Tuesday that former President Trump needs better advisers if he plans to announce a 2024 bid for president before Christmas. “Anyone who thinks it’s a smart idea to announce an election, a potential presidential bid, after the election but before Christmas, it’s just the worst time you could possibly do it,” Sununu told reporters after casting his ballot on Tuesday morning.

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The White House Tuesday morning called a lid and stuffed Joe Biden in a basement as the Democrat machine works to steal another election. Hillary Clinton’s scumbag lawyer Marc Elias joined Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman’s lawsuit to have undated and misdated mail-in ballots counted. The left-wing media is already claiming there will be a “red mirage” on Tuesday and GOP leads will crumble in the days and weeks after the election. Arizona poll workers have confirmed Maricopa County tabulators are not working (as planned). Massive voting issues are being reported across the country. Joe Biden won’t even be holding a...

by Becca London | RNNIt's fair to say that Joe Biden is not exactly a popular man in America right now. Joe's public approval rating dipped to 39% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Monday - matching the low of his presidency at the very worst time, the day before a midterm election. But not everyone detests Joe Biden.Thanks to the lawless open-door policies Biden-Harris regime, illegal aliens have been able to do whatever they want. They cross the border when they want. They go wherever they want to go in the interior. They even get to fly free to dozens...

Princess Märtha Louise, the daughter of Norway’s King Harald, said Tuesday she no longer will officially represent the Norwegian royal house following “many questions relating to me and my fiancé’s role.” The 51-year-old princess, who is fourth in line to the Norwegian throne, got engaged in June to Durek Verrett, an American who describes himself as a shaman and a healer on his website. At least one foundation for which Märtha Louise served as a patron subsequently ended its connection with the princess. “I have decided that at the present time I will no longer carry out official duties for...

A Russian military aircraft secretly transported the cash and three models of munition - a British NLAW anti-tank missile, a US Javelin anti-tank missile and a Stinger anti-aircraft missile - to an airport in Tehran in August, the source told Sky News.