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During Missouri’s rifle-hunting season, state conservation officials in more than two dozen locations spend 12 hours a day removing and testing lymph nodes from the heads of deer carcasses brought in by hunters. They are looking for chronic wasting disease, a deadly and incurable condition on the rise across the country. “It’s a growing problem,” said Erin Shank, a biologist at the Missouri Department of Conservation. “It’s going one direction and it’s not the direction we want it to go.” The disease was first found in a captive deer in Colorado in the 1960s and in wild deer in the...

Fresno, CA – A pregnant woman was stabbed to death and set on fire in an alley just days after she was the guest of honor at a baby shower celebration, according to police. The Fresno Police Department (FPD) and the Fresno Fire Department (FFD) responded to a dirt access road behind 4488 North Cornelia Avenue at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 13 after receiving a report of a dead woman who appeared to have been set on fire... “When they arrived, they saw a victim who had been set on fire, completely engulfed in fire,” FPD Chief Paco Balderrama...

On a brisk recent Sunday, a band of teenagers met on the steps of Central Library on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn to start the weekly meeting of the Luddite Club, a high school group that promotes a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology.(snip) They marched up a hill toward their usual spot, a dirt mound located far from the park’s crowds.(snip) After the club members gathered logs to form a circle, they sat and withdrew into a bubble of serenity. Some drew in sketchbooks. Others painted with a watercolor kit. One of them closed their eyes to...

I’d like for you to imagine a scenario where employees in the federal government reached out to Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather a few weeks before an election and convinced them to not do a news story that could affect the outcome. Just called them up and said, “Hey, we know you have the facts of a story exactly accurate, but what if you hold off on running that story until after the election, because it might hurt our guy’s chances…” Like they do in, you know, Communist China. "Twitter Gate" exposes how government manipulates Big Tech for their own...

One of the highest-ranking officials in the United Nations said that the intergovernmental organization has "serious concerns" about the future of Twitter. Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, reacted Saturday to the suspension and reinstatement of several journalists on the Twitter social media platform. Musk announced Saturday that he had lifted the suspensions of journalists who had allegedly violated the platform's "doxxing" policy following the results of a poll he conducted among Twitter users. "Good news that journalists are being reinstated [on] Twitter, but serious concerns remain," wrote Türk.

Former President Donald J. Trump unveiled a free-speech policy platform on Thursday to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime and reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.”The 45th president shared a video to his Truth Social account where he details a number of policy steps he would enact, if elected president, to prohibit censorship by government agencies and big tech companies.These plans include revising Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, establishing a cooling-off period requiring former employees of the FBI, CIA, and other government agencies to wait seven years before joining tech companies that have “vast quantities of...

President Vladimir Putin has sought proposals from his armed forces commanders on how they think Russia's military campaign in Ukraine should proceed, during a visit to the operation's headquarters, the Kremlin said on Saturday. A series of defeats in 10 months of fighting, resulting in Russian withdrawals from areas around the capital Kyiv and Ukraine's second city Kharkiv and most recently from the city of Kherson, have forced Putin to call up reservists and generated rare public criticism from military bloggers and some allies. -snip- In video footage released by the Kremlin on Saturday, Putin presided at a meeting of...

Luke Warford is vying to become a top sheriff overseeing the state’s powerful oil industry — and to replace a self-dealing ‘political animal.’

I sat at the Livingston table for this 2013 trial while a Moore descendant sat at the other table.Trial Before Christmas The Trial in Photos Hint: the good guys won in the real trial. No idea what Hallmark will do with it. First showing tonight: Hallmark Channel, Saturday, Dec 17, at 8 p.m.

Basic services were being restored in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Saturday after the latest wave of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure, as residents navigated a city gripped by fog and girded for a holiday season marked by uncertainty. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a quarter of Kyiv remained without heating but that the metro system was back in service and all residents had been reconnected to water supply by early morning. Only around one-third of the city remained without electricity, he said, but emergency outages would still be implemented to save power. "Because the deficit of electricity is significant," he...

For decades, astronomers assumed that Mars was geodynamically dead — a planet without rumbling earthquakes and erupting volcanoes. Though remnants of towering volcanoes exist on the surface of the Red Planet today, these colossal structures have been dormant for millions of years. With little to no heat firing the planet's engine, scientists reasoned, Mars became dormant long ago. However, over the last five years, this assumption has been proven wrong. NASA's InSight mission has detected quakes and even evidence of recent volcanism around one Martian region, known as Elysium Planitia. And now, they think they know why this activity is...

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit to bar two transgender athletes — Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood — from competing in the 2020 spring outdoor track season on a girls team at a Connecticut school. According to ADF: Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools, a lawsuit filed on behalf of four female athletes who were consistently deprived of honors and opportunities to compete at elite levels because the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference adopted a policy that allows males who identify as female to compete in girls’ athletic events. Starting in 2017, two male athletes began competing in Connecticut...

This year, the capital’s main Christmas tree will be an artificial one, measuring 12 meters tall. It will be decorated with energy-saving garlands that will be powered from a generator, though they will only be lit at specific intervals. Charging stations for electronics are also planned to be installed around the tree.The top of the tree will be crowned with the coat of arms of Ukraine.The generator was also provided by benefactor, leading Klitschko to claim that money is not being spent from the municipal fund on the tree. He also stated that there will be no mass entertainment events,...

As reported earlier – On Thursday the National Archives released thousands of the never disclosed JFK documents. But the FBI-CIA would not allow the release of all of the documents. Around 3% of the JFK documents are still being withheld from release by the government to the public — more than 50 years after the assassination. What are they hiding? Tonight Tucker Carlson provided the answer to this question on Thursday night. According to Tucker Carlson the answer is that the CIA was involved in the assassination of JFK. Tucker Carlson: “We spoke to someone who has access to these...

The radical left-wing Washington Post has lost 500,000 subscribers since January of 2021, as more and more Americans reject their woke ideology. The Washington Post’s affinity for all things radical is perspicuous. Indeed, the Washington Post promoted the Russia Collusion hoax.

A Biden administration official recently told members of Congress that Ukraine has the military capability to retake Crimea, but some officials are concerned any large-scale offensive that threatens Russia’s hold on the peninsula could push Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons, say two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The late November Ukraine briefing to some members of Congress included discussion of the reasons Ukraine will continue to need U.S. weapons and equipment for the foreseeable future. The two officials said a Biden official, when asked during the briefing about continued support for the Ukrainian military and whether it would...

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said the European Union’s massive corruption scandal had presented an opportunity to “drain the swamp” in Brussels.

LAST SUPPER OF A BLESSED NATIONTwo millennia ago, Jesus Christ gathered the Apostles for His Last Supper to offer them a New Covenant, to bring His Gospel and Light to a world that desperately needed it.In my painting I used the “Da Vinci - Last Supper” to represent the Covenant our Lord has made with the people of this land. Christ lays His hand upon the hourglass of time and sits in judgement upon this nation.Twelve Presidents represent the rise and fall of American culture, the great demise of our nation’s honor and virtue, as this country’s destiny is laid...

After the 2021 Election, there was an unstoppable effort to get to the bottom of the 2020 Election in Arizona’s Maricopa County. Eventually, an audit was voted on, approved and performed in the Arizona GOP-led Senate. There was much discussion then on who would perform the audit and where it would be performed. Eventually, it was determined that the audit would be performed at the Maricopa County Veterans Memorial Coliseum. There also were months between when the audit was voted on and when it started. The audit did occur, but based on the information we know today, the ballot count...

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.