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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he has no plans to tear up President Biden’s State of the Union speech, a stunt former Speaker Nancy Pelosi pulled at the end of Trump’s final State of the Union speech in 2020. McCarthy will sit with Vice President Kamala Harris behind Biden during the State of the Union address tonight, and he tweeted Tuesday that "a lot of people have been asking" if he would repeat Pelosi’s move from three years ago. But McCarthy said it won’t happen. "I don’t believe in the theatrics of tearing up speeches," McCarthy said in a...

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis recently praised a lawyer suing one of former President Donald Trump's biggest allies. On Tuesday morning, DeSantis held a roundtable discussion to discuss defamation and featured attorney Libby Locke, who is currently representing Dominion Voting Systems in their lawsuit against MyPillow CEO and Trump ally, Mike Lindell. "Also joining us here today is Libby Locke, she is a partner at ClareLocke LLP and is an extraordinaire when it comes to First Amendment defamation," DeSantis said as he introduced Locke in the roundtable discussion. The comments by DeSantis about Locke come as he has continued to...

FOREIGNER bassist Jeff Pilson says that there is a "very, very simple" reason his band has not yet been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Artists are eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single. Criteria for inclusion includes "the influence and significance of the artist's contributions to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll."

A gay stepfather has claimed the lead pastor of a Christian academy and church told him he could not pick up his daughter from school because gay couples aren't welcome. Don Williams and Jose Ortega said they were confronted by Heart Cry Christian Academy Pastor Billy VanCamp when they went to collect their 10-year-old daughter's Queen Creek city Baptist school in January. The child is from William's first marriage.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday is expected to tout the nation's economic health in his State of the Union Address, just days after a blockbuster jobs report showed a strong labor market has coincided with a monthslong easing of inflation. Looking ahead, however, Biden is expected to propose solutions for what he considers an ongoing economic ill: income and wealth inequality. The wealth of the top 1% increased by $6.5 trillion in 2021, according to a study the Federal Reserve released last year. That wealthiest sliver of Americans controls 32% of the country's wealth, the study found. The Biden administration's...

The FAA on Saturday shut down air space near the Atlantic as the Pentagon gears up to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon. At 2:40 p.m. ET, just off the coast of the South Carolinas, the Pentagon shot down the spy balloon. On Tuesday, the US Navy posted photos showing sailors retrieving parts of downed Chinese spy surveillance. Images that were posted on Twitter by the United States Fleet Forces show sailors from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recovering a piece of the balloon on Sunday. “US Navy Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude...

After completing a three-year posting with the United States Navy (USN), Chief Petty Officer Luke Brewer was promoted to Warrant Officer on board USN ship USS Canberra in January. Warrant Officer Brewer joined the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 2002, served on board Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates and was part of the HMAS Hobart commissioning crew. During his posting with the USN, he was embedded within the San Diego Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) combat systems alignment team, ensuring radars, sensors and weapon systems were aligned to meet mission requirements and operational tasking. Washington Naval Attaché Commodore Darren Grogan, who...

Gonzalez, who became the center of an international custody battle at 5 years old, was nominated Sunday to Cuba's National Assembly. Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban national whose precarious boyhood arrival in the U.S. in 1999 prompted a fierce international custody battle, is set to become a lawmaker. Gonzalez was nominated by his local municipal assembly on Sunday to serve in Cuba's National Assembly... Gonzlaez was en route to Florida with his mother when their boat capsized on Thanksgiving 1999 and she and other migrants drowned. The boy's fate thereafter became a flashpoint in U.S.-Cuba relations. His father, a waiter named...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property. Key Findings >Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his partners in comedy production owned a network of offshore companies related to their business based in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Belize. >Zelensky’s current chief aide, Serhiy Shefir, as well as the head of the country’s Security Service, were part of the offshore network. >Offshore companies were used by...

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According to the pro-life legal group Abortion On Trial, Curtis Boyd’s Albuquerque late-term abortion mill, Southwestern Women’s Options, is no longer performing late-term abortions, only offering patients abortions throughout 23.6 weeks. Boyd, a former Baptist minister, left the church to commit abortions at a back-alley abortion mill in Athens, Texas. When word got out about his chop shop, he was forced out of Athens and reopened in Dallas, where he continued to rally support for ‘abortion rights.’” In total, he has personally killed 250,000 children in the womb, according to attorneys who have interviewed him. Throughout his abortion mills, he...

This story continues to change by the hour. The Pentagon NOW says there were SIX Chinese spy balloons spotted over US territory during the Trump years. But no one was notified in leadership in the Trump administration or the US intelligence department. And General Keith Kellogg, who was the Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States National Security Council in the Trump administration, says he was never notified!

SANTA FE – Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed an emergency petition Monday challenging a series of anti-abortion ordinances passed by communities in eastern New Mexico in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court decision. In a 27-page filing, Torrez asked the state Supreme Court to strike down the ordinances, arguing they violate civil rights guaranteed by the state Constitution. The city- and county-level measures also infringe on the state’s authority to regulate health care, Torrez said, and they attempt to create a series of local abortion bans. “It is simply inappropriate, unlawful and unconstitutional for local governments to use their...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is a large Chicago police and SWAT presence in Lakeview Tuesday afternoon after three dogs were reported shot. Police said SWAT responded to the 1000-block of West George Street for reports of an armed individual in a residence. Police said shortly before 2 p.m., a woman was walking two dogs off leash in the area of Seminary and George in Lakeview. CPD said the dogs approached a man, and he and the dogs' owner exchanged words. Police said the man then walked around the corner into an alley and the dogs followed, at which point the...

Tagrisso (osimertinib) nearly doubles disease-free survival in earlier-stage patients whose lung cancer is driven by a mutation in their EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) gene, researchers report. After four years of follow-up, disease-free survival was 73% in the Tagrisso group versus 38% in patients who received a placebo, updated results showed. The drug also cut patients' cancer recurrence in half compared to placebo, 27% versus 60%. In addition, patients were less likely to develop cancers in other parts of the body. "One of the main benefits of this drug is that it has good brain penetration and it's a whole-body...

Jeffrey Epstein’s associates could face federal criminal prosecutions based on the available evidence, but and building a case against them could take years, sex trafficking legal experts say. Epstein kept a detailed list of his contacts in a little black book and was photographed with many powerful figures, including former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom, former President Donald Trump and more

A Catholic high school student in Canada was reportedly arrested Monday after being suspended for protesting against transgender people’s use of bathrooms and saying there are only two genders – and now he’s appealing to Ontario’s human rights tribunal. Josh Alexander, 16, said the leadership of St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, told him his continued attendance would be “detrimental to the physical and mental well-being” of transgender students, according to The Epoch Times. The high school junior tweeted that the Ontario Police arrested and charged him after he attempted to attend class in violation of an exclusion...

It's time for tea: More than 30 research papers published between 2000 and 2022 have confirmed that a chemical component found in green tea can help fight various types of coronaviruses, including variants of COVID-19. A trio of scientists including Manikarna Dinda compiled the takeaways in a review article published this month. The goal of the collaborative report was to pave the way for tea's translation into antiviral medications. The chemical compound found in green tea—epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG for short—has been of interest to medical researchers for many years. Now, the interest has grown. "Recently, EGCG's strong antiviral activity...

Scientists have discovered that a high-fat diet allows the immune system to eliminate a parasitic worm which is a major cause of death and illness. Parasitic worms affect up to a billion people, particularly in developing nations with poor sanitation. One of these parasites known as "whipworm" can cause long lasting infections in the large intestine. Researchers have discovered that a high-fat diet allows the immune system to eliminate the parasite. Dr. Evelyn Funjika said, "The cheapest diets are often high in fat and at-risk communities to whipworm are increasingly utilizing these cheap diets. It has been previously shown that...

Late for their flight to Belgium on Tuesday (Jan 31), one couple realised they needed to buy an additional ticket for their baby only after they arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. The pair elected not to fork out money for the extra ticket. They left their child at the check-in counter’s baggage conveyor belt and made a dash to clear security in an attempt to board their Ryanair flight to Brussels. The pair, who hold Belgian passports, were informed by staff at the closed check-in counter that they had to buy an extra seat for...