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LIMA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Peru barred Bolivia's socialist former president, Evo Morales, from entering its territory on Monday, Peru's government announced in a statement, a decision Morales later derided as an attack meant to distract from rights violations. The move to ban Morales, along with eight other unidentified Bolivians, follows weeks of deadly protests in Peru targeting President Dina Boluarte... ...The statement from Peru's interior ministry said Bolivian citizens have entered the country in recent months to carry out political activities, violating immigration laws while undermining national security.... ...Shortly after the ban was announced, Peru Prime Minister Alberto Otarola...

Children and adolescents should be proactively evaluated and treated for obesity, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics around childhood obesity. The guidelines note that treatments, including medications and weight loss surgery, can be effective and can help reduce the risk of developing other health conditions.... ... for teens with severe obesity, weight loss surgery is a safe and effective option....

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The sex-trafficking case against Andrew Tate is “basically built on lies,” according to two women who say they’re being treated as accusers despite repeatedly stating that they are “not victims.” The official Twitter handle of the still-jailed influencer was among those sharing an interview of two of the women listed as victims of what Romanian investigators have called a violent organized gang. “This is very unfair. They don’t deserve it,” said one of the women, neither of whom was named in the clip he shared but who described them both as social media influencers. “I don’t understand … the prosecutors...

Ana Walshe's husband, Brian Walshe, searched how to dismember a body amid the Massachusetts mother's disappearance – a detail his defense team may have a tough time explaining, an expert told Fox News Digital.... ...Two law enforcement sources told CNN that police found internet records showing that the convicted art swindler had searched how to dismember a body and "how to dispose of a 115-pound woman's body."... ...In an interview with investigators, Walshe failed to mention that he'd gone on a shopping at Home Depot on Jan. 2, in violation of his probation, to buy $450 in cleaning supplies....

NEWQUAY, England, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Britain's attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said its rocket had suffered an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit. The "horizontal launch" mission had left from the coastal town of Newquay in southwest England, with Virgin's LauncherOne rocket carried under the wing of a modified Boeing 747 called "Cosmic Girl"... ...Virgin Orbit had initially said on Twitter that LauncherOne had reached earth orbit, a tweet it later deleted.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Manny Diaz, the former Miami mayor who had pledged to rebuild the Florida Democratic Party after years of losses, abruptly announced his immediate resignation as party chair on Monday amid growing calls for his ouster. Diaz’s departure came after Florida Democrats suffering some of their worst losses ever, including the re-election of Gov. Ron DeSantis by 19 points over Charlie Crist, the election of a supermajority in the Florida Legislature and the flipping of several counties including once-reliable blue Miami-Dade County. Diaz, in a statement to Democrats Monday, said he was unable to carry out his plans...

After a historic and prolonged battle over the Speakership, House Republicans on Monday moved to wrap up some unfinished organizing business that was put on hold due to opposition to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — including picking who will lead key panels. The House GOP Steering Committee, a panel of around 30 lawmakers consisting of leadership and elected regional representatives that makes selections for most chairmanships and committee assignments, made its choices for chairs of panels that were uncontested in December. But it put its selections for four key contested chairmanships — for the Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Budget,...

A Louisiana woman shot and killed a man who broke into her home during the early morning hours on Sunday, according to law enforcement officials. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to reports of shots being fired at a residence on Klein Road just after 5 a.m. on Sunday.

Many people were surprised when Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie decided to throw his support behind House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week. In the past, Massie has often been at odds with leaders of his party in Congress, so there was some surprise on Capitol Hill when Massie didn't join the 20 Republicans who voted against Kevin McCarthy for Speaker last week. “I’m almost surprised I didn’t join them," Massie told Spectrum News. "You have your 'never Kevins' I was kind of a 'barely Kevin.'" Instead, he backed McCarthy in all 15 rounds of balloting. That's a major change from...

The House Republican majority passed a bill Monday night to claw back $72 billion from the Internal Revenue Service The passage of the bill - which will die in the Democrat-run Senate - makes good on a pledge to voters to 'repeal 87,000 IRS agents' The Inflation Reduction Act included $80 billion in funding for the IRS to up tax enforcement to offset spending on climate and healthcare initiatives

CNN reporter Jamie Gangel said Monday on “The Situation Room” that reports that President Joe Biden had classified documents from his time as vice president in his personal office was a political gift to former president Donald Trump. Anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “In that ’60 Minutes’ interview Biden did on September 18, 2022 about a month or two before these classified documents were found in his private office here in Washington, he said, ‘How could this possibly happen? How anyone could be that irresponsible? That’s what he said then, and then they discovered these SCI, these very sensitive classified documents...

after listening to this, i went outside and dead lifted my truck.. https://twitter.com/i/status/1612645687371390979

Look for former President Donald Trump, the only declared 2024 presidential candidate, to begin making campaign speeches later this month. Insiders said that he would then begin hosting rallies in February, maybe one a month, ramping up to a busier campaign schedule by late spring. They are hoping to overcome what some viewed as a lackluster opening to his campaign. But with Trump getting credit from incoming House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for helping him win the post, Trump’s allies see a “sweet opening” to hit the trail and prove recent polls that he remains the most influential Republican on the...

MEXICO CITY — President Biden understated the number of deaths caused by fentanyl Monday when raising the issue with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — after critics blasted Biden for not paying enough attention to the deadly scourge. Biden said that fentanyl has killed “100,000” Americans, when official data actually link the potent synthetic opioid to about 196,000 US deaths in 2018-2021 alone. The toll in 2022 is feared to be even worse than the 71,000 fentanyl deaths in 2021, potentially putting US fatalities over five years close to 300,000 as the drug is increasingly mixed into non-opioid drugs...

Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Vadym Skibitskyi said that around January 15 conscription would begin and that it would take Russian forces around two months to organize its formations. The Kremlin will mobilize up to 500,000 Russians for a spring offensive, Ukrainian Defense Ministry representatives predicted on Friday. Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Vadym Skibitskyi told The Guardian that it was expected that around January 15 conscription would begin and that it would take Russian forces around two months to organize its formations. While Skibitskyi said the mobilization could include 300,000 on the lower end, both he and Ukrainian intelligence representative Andriy...

Throughout the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Washington Post and all the other corporate media propagandists claimed Russian influence was what made Hillary Clinton lose. Every minuscule story that even hinted about Russia using bots and spreading pro-Trump messaging on social media was blown up to be massive front page news. They’ve finally published a story about Russian influence in the 2016 election that didn’t make the front page. In fact, you’d have a hard time finding it on their website if you weren’t looking for it specifically. This is because it highlights a recent study that shows Russia’s...

Keean Bexte @TheRealKeean BREAKING: CTV News field reporter has some sort of medical emergency on camera. Unrelated: Bell owns CTV.

The promise of bipartisan action in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last week made for nice speeches but when it came time to get work on Monday, it appears to have disappeared. The first day of the special session that Gov. Tom Wolf ordered to focus on passing a proposed constitutional amendment to give past survivors of child sexual abuse some justice failed to see any action in the House except forming a six-member bipartisan committee to try to break the logjam. House Speaker Mark Rozzi, D-Berks County, issued a statement following a day of inaction by the chamber on...

Stop, stop he's already dead. Never seen anything like this.