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Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine A team of researchers at the University of Houston may have developed a "vaccine" blocking the ability of the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl to enter the brain. The findings, published late last month in the journal Pharmaceutics, have been described as a potential game changer in addressing an epidemic that has claimed thousands of American lives. Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. A dose of only 2 milligrams – the size of two grains of rice – could potentially be...

A GOP mega-donor said that he would no longer support former President Trump after his announcement of a third presidential bid in 2024 on Tuesday night. Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone, told Axios in a statement that the Republican Party should nominate someone else who will represent a new generation of leaders. “America does better when its leaders are rooted in today and tomorrow, not today and yesterday,” he said. “It is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and several celebrities are being sued in a class action that seeks to recover damages following the company’s dramatic collapse. Oklahoma resident Edwin Garrison filed a complaint on Tuesday in Florida federal court. In the complaint, Garrison notes that the class action lawsuit could involve thousands “if not millions” of consumers nationwide that were enrolled in yield-bearing cryptocurrency accounts with FTX, which Garrison contends constitute unregistered securities. In addition to Bankman-Fried, the defendant is also targeting Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors, Shaquille O’Neal, Udonis Haslem, David Ortiz, William Trevor Lawrence, Shohei...

Knesset member Ahmad Tibi is expected to fly to the United States to participate in a conference of a Palestinian-American organization under the title "End Apartheid". Tibi himself will speak on the panel about the issue of the Temple Mount.MK Ahmad Tibi, chairman of the Hadash-Ta'al faction, will participate next week in an anti-Israel conference to be held in the city of Chicago in the United States, under the title: "End (so-called) apartheid". The conference on behalf of the "Organization of Muslims in the United States for Palestine" on November 24-26, where MK Tibi is expected to speak alongside a...

On November 14, the US Army announced that it had awarded a $521 million contract to Lockheed Martin for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to replenish GMLRS provided from the Department of Defense (DoD) inventory to Ukraine.

Thank God for Donald Trump, but ultimately our job is to put our trust in the Divine Providence of God Almighty who miraculously birthed our nation and I think getting ready to miraculously recover and restore our nation. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and cursed is the man that trusts in man (Jeremiah 17:5-8). With loving Trump and trusting in God not man as our framework, I’ll say this: unconstitutional federal takeover of state sovereignty is NOT a good precedent. Trump needs a Constitutional Amendment for the feds to interfere with state elections including presidential elections....

The average cost of a Thanksgiving meal for 10 people in 2022 is estimated to be around $64 dollars, according to a new report from the Farm Bureau, marking a 20 percent increase from the $53 total measured in 2021. The organization’s 37th annual survey found the price of turkey alone costs 21 percent more this year than last, at $28.96 for a 16-pound bird. However, the increase for this Thanksgiving staple can be attributed to more factors than just general inflation. The U.S. inflation rate in October was 7.7 percent, down from 8.2 percent measured in September. “The higher...

Even worse, today politicians make us pay more for energy while forcing us to do things that hurt the environment. Their restrictions on fossil fuels drive people to use fuels that pollute more. In Europe: "They're going back to burning coal! What we've done is have our energy systems designed by bureaucrats instead of engineers," complains Mills. "We get worse energy, more expensive energy and higher environmental impacts!" I like electric cars. But I won't pretend that driving one makes me some kind of environmental hero. "There'll be lots more electric cars in the future," concludes Mills. "There should be,...

WHITTIER, Calif. - A group of law enforcement recruits who attend the S.T.A.R.S. C. Academy in Whittier are in critical condition after they were hit by a car during their morning run, authorities said. Video at link................. The California Highway Patrol said the incident was reported at 6:30 a.m. near the intersection of Mills Avenue and Telegraph Road. SkyFOX was over the scene and showed the debris from the wreckage as well as additional patients being triaged by medical personnel. The victims have been rushed to area hospitals and the suspect is in custody. No further information was immediately released....

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, was in Orlando on Tuesday night to address the Republican Governors Association conference Delivering the keynote address at dinner, DeSantis received an 'enthusiastic' response following his re-election in a landslide last week DeSantis 'recapped the Florida blueprint and the path to winning Hispanics, women, and independents,' sources said The 44-year-old did not mention Donald Trump, who 200 miles south, in Mar-a-Lago, was launching his 2024 presidential campaign Earlier on Tuesday, DeSantis was asked directly about Trump, and replied: 'I would just tell people to go check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night' DeSantis'...

The clashes unfolded at City Hall Park, near City Hall in Manhattan, the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital. A police spokesperson said nine people were arrested and would most likely be given a summons and released. Monday's event was part of the "Let Women Speak" tour being led by Kellie-Jay Keen, a British women’s rights campaigner. The tour is being hosted in several cities and is intended to give women the chance to speak about the effects of gender identity ideology. Last week, activists tried preventing women from speaking at a "Let Women Speak" event in Washington,...

Mob Rule and the Death of TrustAmerica’s elites use lies about race, gender, health, climate, environment, and energy to gut the middle class, explode the dependent class, and transfer trillions into their own pockets.It’s been clear to millions of Americans for decades that the media was biased, that the Democratic Party and their government employee union allies controlled and corrupted big city elections, and that the “climate crises” and the threat of “white supremacy” were being oversold. These and other annoyances were perennial. But for many skeptics, the level of mistrust remained tolerable. The system itself was resilient. Nothing is...

A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia, working with two wealthy donors has found that transferring money from rich people to poor people can increase the level of happiness reported by the poor people who receive the money. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes experiments they conducted that involved transferring money from rich people to poor people in both rich and poor countries. There is an old proverb that says "you can't buy happiness." But that may not be true, at least for people living at the lowest...

Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos is planning to donate the majority of his $124 billion fortune to charities that fight climate change, according to CNN. Bezos, who is the world’s fourth-richest man, said that he was “building the capacity to be able to give away this money” to fight climate change during an interview with CNN. The billionaire did not say what percentage of his money he would give away or offer specifics on where the donated money would be spent.

Hearing loss is thought to affect as much as 15% of American adults, but hearing aids aren’t always easy to come by. A team of scientists exploring low-cost alternatives has turned to Apple’s AirPods as a potential solution, assessing them alongside conventional hearing aids to find they stack up surprisingly well. Not only are hearing aids expensive, obtaining them usually involves a series of medical exams, a prescription from an audiologist and then follow-up visits to ensure they are properly tuned. US authorities have made moves to improve access to these devices, with the FDA recently establishing a new category...

Cats have a bit of a reputation for standoffishness, especially compared with dogs. But if you find your feline friend is a little hard to bond with, maybe you're just not speaking their language. Research shows that it's actually not so difficult. You just need to smile at them more. Not smile in the human way, by baring your teeth, but the cat way: by narrowing your eyes and blinking slowly. In a study published in 2020, scientists observed cat-human interactions, and were able to confirm that this act of blinking slowly makes cats – both familiar and unfamiliar animals...

Former President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated launch of his 2024 White House campaign drew strong reactions Tuesday, with conservatives and liberals alike expressing dismay. “Donald Trump failed America,” read a message posted from President Biden’s personal account during the 76-year-old Trump’s Mar-a-Lago address. The 79-year-old president’s tweet included a video blasting his predecessor’s record on the economy, health care and women’s rights — and also accusing Trump of “coddling extremists” and “inciting a violent mob” on Jan. 6, 2021. The president himself was attending a mangrove tree-planting ceremony as part of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, when a reporter asked...

An irate motorist was caught on camera attacking an NYPD traffic agent after he was ticketed in Brooklyn on Monday, police said. The male agent was issuing a parking summons to the suspect’s vehicle in front of 1602 Avenue Z in Sheepshead Bay just before 1 p.m. when the confrontation occurred, cops said. Surveillance footage provided by the NYPD shows the man, who wasn’t in his car at the time, holding his arms out in disbelief before approaching the agent on the sidewalk and getting inches from his face. The agent can be seen shaking his head at the motorist...

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said Wednesday. The attack on the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon happened Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, a Middle East-based defense official told the Associated Press. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they did not have authorization to discuss the attack publicly. While no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, suspicion immediately fell on Iran. Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, the head of the US...