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Lee Waters Deputy Minister for Climate Change announced decision on Tuesday Plans for a third Menai bridge and the Red Route in Flintshire will not go ahead The Welsh government has axed all the country's major road-building projects to put environmental concerns first. The decision was announced on Tuesday by Lee Waters, Deputy Minister for Climate Change, who said all infrastructure projects in future must now 'reduce carbon emissions and support a shift to public transport, walking and cycling'. It follows a year-long review by the Welsh Roads Review Panel which was set up in September 2021 and led by...

Is the military handling of a Chinese balloon, identified as a surveillance device, and other unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) in recent days, just being hyped by the lapdog media to divert attention from the news that the Democrat administration of POTUS Joe Biden may have blown up the Nord Stream pipeline? That is a question on the minds of many Americans and many other people around the world. Answers are not so easy to come by as the Democrats have long and rambling press conferences to try to explain why such massive military action has been taken and what the...

Cockpit audio of pilots trying to figure out what the unidentified object over Lake Huron has been released. The audio was authenticated by the US Airforce. The US military decommissioned another “object” over Lake Huron on Sunday. The Pentagon said the ‘octagon-shaped’ object shot down on Sunday likely fell into Canadian waters on Lake Huron. No debris has been recovered. “I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I don’t know what… I can see it outside with my eyes,” one pilot said. “It’s so slow and so small you can’t see it.” “It’s just some kind of dark object. You...

Scientists are reporting a breakthrough discovery: A $3-per-pill epilepsy drug may be used to “switch off” autism symptoms in mice, according to a new peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in Molecular Psychiatry journal. Autism spectrum disorder is a complex developmental condition that impacts how an estimated 5.4 million (2.2% of) adults — and one in 44 children — in the United States perceives and socializes with others. It is often accompanied by abnormalities such as epilepsy or hyperactivity, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. A team of experts at Germany’s Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research found that...

The Biden administration has denounced the actions of China's military after a new significant incident involving the Philippine and Chinese Coast Guards. It happened on Feb.6, but has only this week been revealed.State Department spokesman Ned Price in a Tuesday briefing blasted China’s "provocative and unsafe" interference aimed at disrupting Philippine vessels' "lawful operations" in the South China Sea. "More broadly, the PRC’s dangerous operational behavior directly threatens regional peace and stability, infringes upon freedom of navigation in the South China Sea as guaranteed under international law, and undermines the rules-based international order," Price said. Specifically, the allegation is that...

New research found that fluoride exposure via drinking water may increase the risk of hypothyroidism in pregnant women. In a smaller subset of participants, the researchers found lower IQ scores between boys whose mothers had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism compared to boys whose mothers had normal thyroid levels. Earlier research found an association between maternal fluoride exposure in pregnancy and lower IQ in boys, and this new research may explain these earlier findings, according to Ph.D. student Meaghan Hall. In the study, a half-milligram-per liter increase in drinking-water fluoride levels, which may not sound like much, but is roughly the...

President Biden’s recent admission in the State of the Union that the United States will need oil for at least another decade was a significant understatement.While there may be a relatively large reduction in demand in a decade due to the growth of alternatives, the U.S. will remain heavily dependent on oil.By way of example, in 2014 Norway was where the U.S. is today in terms of EVs on the road, seven years later it had only reduced oil demand by 8%.During President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union Address, he relayed an anecdote that I believe explains his stance...

A new report has put a price on exactly what the "work from home" trend has cost the office-laden city of Manhattan: a stunning $12 billion per year. Working at home means that office workers who would normally be out and about are spending $12 billion less than what they spent before the pandemic, according to a new Bloomberg News study.The average worker is spending about 30% less time in the office, meaning that spending on food and entertainment has fallen by about $4,700 per person, data from Stanford University shows.On a per-person basis, the figure is higher than anywhere...

The D.C. Court of Appeals just upheld a Washington D.C. law that will require that workers providing pre-K child care have at least an Associate’s Degree to provide child care in the city.The decision comes after a long-running court battle between childcare workers and the city. The requirements were adopted in 2016 and are just now being implemented.A four-year legal battle over D.C.’s new requirements that many child care workers get a college degree has seemingly come to an end.Last week the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. dismissed a long-running lawsuit challenging the education requirements,...

Cancer is a disease driven by gene mutations. These mutated genes in cancer fall into two major categories: tumor suppressors and oncogenes. Researchers studying mutations in tumor suppressor genes have dedicated significant focus to p53, the most frequently mutated tumor suppressor gene in human cancers. However, while research has shown that these therapies are effective at inducing p53 activity, they generally can't kill cancer cells. New research illuminates the mechanisms at work that prevent p53 activation from triggering effective cancer cell death. They show that inhibiting two distinct repressors of p53 can elicit cancer cell death through activation of a...

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The Wisconsin woman accused of decapitating her lover during a wild meth-fueled escapade last year randomly attacked her own lawyer in the courtroom Tuesday — striking him in the head. Taylor Schabusiness, 25, lunged at defense attorney Quinn Jolly after the judge in the gruesome murder case suggested pushing the trial back two months. Shocking video of the spontaneous and violent outburst shows Schabusiness calmly sitting in the Green Bay courtroom as Judge Thomas J. Walsh recommends starting the murder trial on May 15 instead of March 6 — a suggestion he made at Jolly’s request. Seemingly angered by the...

Justice Department prosecutors investigating the mishandling of classified documents at Donald Trump’s Florida estate are seeking to pierce the attorney-client privilege and want to again question one of the former president’s lawyers before a grand jury, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night. The privilege protects lawyers from having to tell prosecutors about confidential conversations their clients have with them. But prosecutors can get around that privilege if they can convince a judge that the communications they want information about were made in furtherance of a crime — a principle known as the crime-fraud exception. Prosecutors have already...

Nature Magazine reported Tuesday that the second phase of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID origins report has been “quietly shelved…citing ongoing challenges over attempts to conduct crucial studies in China.”This second phase was announced in August 2021, after WHO officials finally admitted problems with the first report, which was released in March 2021. That delegation, led by EcoHealth Alliance’s Dr. Peter Daszak (before we knew just how much involvement he had in the weaponization of coronaviruses) released a report stating that it was “extremely unlikely” that COVID-19 originated in a lab. That report was considered in the media as...

Several breakfast staples saw sharp price increases due to a perfect storm of bad weather and disease outbreaks—and continued effects from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Egg prices increased 8.5% in January from a month earlier and are up 70.1% over the past year, the highest annual rate since 1973. The deadliest avian-influenza outbreak on record has devastated poultry flocks across the U.S., leading the price of eggs to rise more than any other grocery item in 2022, according to Information Resources Inc. U.S. egg inventories were 29% lower in the final week of December 2022 than at the beginning of...

A STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP ON THE WITCH HUNT OF JANUARY 6th Recently, it was shockingly revealed that Twitter colluded with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to Rig and Steal the 2020 Presidential Election in favor of Joe Biden, and to deplatform and illegally censor me. As a key example of the corruption within the FBI, Special Agent Charles McGonigal, the head of the now fully “debunked” Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, has recently been arrested for being “paid off” by receiving large amounts of money from, get this, Russia. The Russia Witch Hunt was extremely detrimental...

Journalist Soledad O’Brien alerted reporters on Monday that the term “woke” has now become akin to a “racist slur” or “the n-word.” From her Twitter account, the ex-CNN anchor posted an image of a tweet from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., commenting on the Super Bowl pregame show. Greene wrote, “Chris Stapleton just sang the most beautiful national anthem at the Super Bowl. But we could have gone without the rest of the wokeness.” O’Brien tweeted in response, “So reporters… for many people, ‘woke’ means (b)lack people. Or more likely—a racist slur. So maybe do a better job in interviews...

https://howiecarrshow.com/donald-trump-nikki-haley-bill-barr-and-the-balloon-the-howie-carr-show-2-14-23-hour-2/ 15 min President Donald J. Trump joins Howie to discuss our declining national security from the Mexican border to the unidentified aircraft in our atmosphere. The former president discusses the atrocities that have occurred against the American people since January 6 and censorship from Twitter to AT&T. Tune in for Trump’s takes on Elon Musk, Bill Barr, and Nikki Haley! Howie Carr, Boston station

(LifeSiteNews) — Today’s episode of The John-Henry Westen Show comes at you from Kampala, Uganda, where I had the privilege of interviewing Archbishop Paul Ssemogerere. (Stay tuned the rest of this week, as we have more content from our African trip lined up as well In this episode, Archbishop Ssemogerere shares his thoughts about the massive outside pressure from other nations, and even Pope Francis himself, to get African countries like Uganda to decriminalize sodomy. His Excellency says bishops in Uganda are very much aware of the outside pressure to conform to LGBT ideology and have been discussing ways to...

Society self-destructs while playing pretend.Vladimir Legoyda, the official spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church and the Patriarch, recently spoke on the Radio Vera program “Bright Evening” about, how a society handles gender issues can provide a window into the state of that society, suggesting that the viability of the society itself can be measured by its reaction to the gender issue. Legoyda went on to explain how the fact that Western society seriously entertains the idea of more than two genders, suggests that it is suffering from a serious, life threatening disease, arguing that such a society must "come to...