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Ankara has set a final deadline for Russia and the United States to force Kurdish forces to leave three strategic towns in northern Syria, a Turkish source has claimed. Turkey has warned that the alternative will be a military operation against the Washington-backed forces. The official told Al Jazeera that Turkey has demanded that Moscow and Washington press the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to withdraw within two weeks from Manbij, Tal Rifaat and Kobane (Ayn al-Arab). Turkey will not extend that deadline, according to the official, and has warned that the alternative will be a military operation against the US-backed...

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that the Republicans’ opposition to the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops will lead to polio, measles and rubella outbreaks in schools. Anchor Andrea Mitchell said, “I want to ask you about the final version of the Defense Authorization Bill released by the House because it rescinds the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine for the military, which was opposed by some conservative Republican senators, largely. They say it’s hurting getting the volunteer Army getting geared up and recruitment. But there are so many vaccine requirements. They serve in close quarters....

As a part of a back-to-school questionnaire, students are allowed to choose as many pronouns as they want. Background: Highland Park Middle School. Right: Mandi Jung/TikTok (Daily Caller News Foundation) — A Minnesota middle school teacher is using a class survey to help hide students’ gender transitions within her classroom, according to Fox News. Mandi Jung, a teacher at Highland Park Middle School, uses a back-to-school questionnaire to ask students what name and pronouns they would like her to use in class, according to Fox News. The questionnaire then asks students if “it is okay” for Jung to use the...

Los Angeles County reported more than 10,000 new COVID-19 infections from a three-day period ending Monday, continuing an upward trend in cases that has also pushed up virus-related hospitalizations. The county Department of Public Health logged 5,106 new cases on Saturday, 3,270 on Sunday and 1,713 on Monday. Sunday and Monday figures tend to be lower due to delays in weekend reporting. Overall numbers are also believed to be an undercount of actual virus activity in the county, since many people rely on at-home tests without reporting the results to health officials, while many others don't get tested at all....

Ebnet was named an “Educator of Excellence” in 2017 by the Minnesota Rural Education Association. Roger Ebnet/Yellow Medicine County Jail A Benson, Minn., elementary teacher was charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct Monday after he allegedly molested three different children during the school day while other kids were present. That teacher, 59-year-old Roger Ebnet, has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to Benson Public Schools. Ebnet has been a teacher for more than 30 years and currently works at Northside Elementary School. He was arrested on Friday and booked into the Yellow Medicine County Jail after police...

VIDEODisgraced Twitter censor Jim Baker who was just "exited" by Elon Musk has a history of antagonism towards the MAGA movement which we know he lumps with what he labels as domestic extremists. To get a glimpse of the mindset of Baker whose final act as a Twitter censor was secretly vetting the Twitter files by removing FBI connections with Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.In this video we see the disgraced former FBI General Counsel Baker at a 2019 conference of fellow liberals discussing "Domestic Extremism and International Terrorism" in which the latter topic was almost completely...

Southwest Airlines fired former flight attendant Charlene Carter from her "dream job" for expressing pro-life views. Carter fought the airline and Transport Workers Union Local 556 for nearly six years and won in July. The judge who ruled in her favor issued an order this week requiring the airline to reinstate Carter with full seniority and benefits. What are the details? In July, a federal jury agreed that Carter had been wrongfully terminated for her pro-life and religious views and awarded the former flight attendant a $5.1 million verdict — $950,000 from Local 556 of the Transport Workers Union and...

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. — Severe beach erosion from two late-season hurricanes has helped uncover what appears to be a wooden ship dating from the 1800s which had been buried under the sand on Florida’s East Coast for up to two centuries, impervious to cars that drove daily on the beach or sand castles built by generations of tourists. Beachgoers and lifeguards discovered the wooden structure, between 80 feet to 100 feet, poking out of the sand over Thanksgiving weekend in front of homes that collapsed into rubble on Daytona Beach Shores last month from Hurricane Nicole. “Whenever you find...

Idaho police have addressed a potential "stalker" involving one of the victims in last month's murder of four University of Idaho roommates. The Moscow Police Department said Monday that two males were spotted inside a local business in mid-October, and the two of them parted ways while one proceeded to follow Kaylee Goncalves, one of the victims of the future murder, inside the business. The male suspect also followed her as she exited the building and walked toward her car, though it does not appear he made any contact with her during this, police said in a press release. "Detectives...

EXCLUSIVE: President Biden intends to run for re-election in 2024, and a senior adviser told Fox News that another run is something the Biden family "fully" supports. The White House in recent months has emphasized Biden’s "intentions" to run for re-election, but has not committed either way. Biden, who turned 80 last month, is the oldest president in history. "As the President has said, he intends to run for re-election," a senior advisor told Fox News. "That is something both Dr. Biden and the family fully support." Biden has faced questions about whether he will run in 2024 in part...

India’s relations with China cannot be normal as long as Beijing tries to unilaterally change LAC and continues to build up forces along the border, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. Replying to queries by MPs after his suo motu statement on foreign policy in Rajya Sabha, the minister said India has made it clear to China that it will not tolerate any unilateral change in the Line of Actual Control (LAC). China is reported to have built up military infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. He went on to add that the House should...

PALM COAST, Fla. - A Florida man reportedly crashed into a house after allegedly seeing a "shadow in the road," Sunday morning and attempted to hide from deputies when they arrived at the scene, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office. Authorities said they arrived at a home in the "B" section of Palm Coast and were told by a witness of the crash that the driver – later identified as 18-year-old Aidan Sauco-Maldonado – had run away from the area after slamming a truck into the home. Maldonado was found a short time later and reportedly smelled of alcohol....

Banks should fund community development in Black communities, support the education of the next several generations of Black students and take other steps to atone for the role they played financing and supporting slavery in America, witnesses told a House committee hearing organized by Democrats on Wednesday. The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on "The Role of Financial Institutions in the Horrors of Slavery and the Need for Atonement," which could be the final hearing led by Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., before Republicans take control of the House in January. William Darity, a professor of public policy at...

The midterm elections are officially over after Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated GOP nominee Herschel Walker by nearly 3 percentage points in Georgia’s Senate runoff. While Democrats celebrate their 51st seat in the upper chamber, Karl Rove, a veteran GOP strategist and Fox News contributor, says the Republican loss was avoidable. "It shouldn't have been," Rove told Fox News Digital. "We had a terrible candidate who was well-meaning but plagued with a lot of scandal and was not particularly good on the campaign trail." Republicans' loss in the Peach State boils down to poor candidate quality at the hands of President...

The novel approach combines traditional chemotherapy drugs with a new method of tumor irradiation. A combination of internal radiation and chemotherapy dissolves tumors in 80% of mice across multiple models. Duke University biomedical engineers have demonstrated the most effective pancreatic cancer treatment yet recorded in mouse models. While most mouse trials consider just stopping growth to be a success, the new treatment fully eliminated tumors in 80% of mice across many model types, including those considered to be the most difficult to treat. The approach combines traditional chemotherapy drugs with a new method for irradiating the tumor. The treatment implants...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. is under a House ethics investigation, according to a statement issued by the House Committee on Ethics on Wednesday. The panel will announce its course of action after its organizational meeting in the next Congress, sometime in 2023, the statement said.

An unconventionally split Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over a Republican appeal to determine whether legislators have the power to set federal voting rules without the oversight from state courts, a consequential question that could drastically change the landscape of future elections. The 6-3 majority of Republican-appointed justices raised difficult questions about the arguments presented by the counsel for North Carolina's Republican lawmakers, who are essentially asking to remove the power of state courts to strike down legislature-drawn congressional districts following the state Supreme Court ruling the lawmakers illegally gerrymandered. A broad ruling favoring the Republican lawmakers' argument could require...

The city of San Francisco is reportedly investigating Elon Musk for converting some office space inside Twitter's headquarters into sleeping quarters for employees. What is the background? When Twitter employees returned to work on Monday, they discovered that several conference rooms inside the company's headquarters had been made over as bedrooms. Forbes reported: A photo of one converted bedroom shared with Forbes showed bright orange carpeting, a wooden bedside table and what appears to be a queen bed, replete with a table lamp and two office armchairs just begging for convivial workplace collaboration. One source said that no announcement or...

Supreme Court justices on Dec. 7 grilled an attorney for North Carolina Republicans who was arguing the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures preeminent authority to make the rules for presidential and congressional elections without interference from the courts. The case is important because, if the high court finds for North Carolina, the rules governing how states regulate federal elections could change dramatically. The hearing comes at a time when tensions between Republicans and Democrats over voting procedures have been growing in light of former President Donald Trump’s continuing claims that the 2020 presidential election was marred by massive electoral fraud....