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Researchers at NYU have unlocked fresh evidence as to why human hair loses its natural color over time — which could help prevent people from graying. The new study, conducted using mice and published in Nature, a peer-reviewed journal, closely examined the melanocyte stem cells known to control hair color. Earlier in life, these cells can be remarkably dynamic, but with age, as hair is lost and regrown, the McSCs tend to slow down, getting trapped in what’s known as the hair follicle bulge, meaning they don’t get a chance to finish the job they were created to do.

Dozens of Portland firefighters battled a blaze at a former tavern that neighbors say had been taken over by squatters for more than a year. "It was clearly a time bomb waiting to go off, and our concerns fell through the cracks," Dusty McCord, who lives near the former Farmer's Barn Tavern, told The Oregonian. "The level of negligence is breathtaking."

In case you need yet another reason to support defunding the United Nations, the organization is promoting the idea that minors can consent to sex with adults. The International Commission of Jurists published a report claiming that “sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law.” According to the ICJ, “criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.” WHY IS...

Caitlyn Jenner escalated her war of words with Dylan Mulvaney, ripping the trans influencer as “fringe” and “not good” for the LGBT movement. “I have never spoken to her, nor will I,” Jenner, 73, told The Post, dismissing any possibility of a sit-down between the two trans titans. “I try to be, for the LGBT community, the adult in the room. She is not. She is bouncing around all over the place. I have nothing in common with her. “I think Trump is going to win this thing … He is a great man and he did tremendous things for...

President Donald Trump shared some insight into the process of building the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem when he was president, highlighting an important 2016 campaign promise that he fulfilled during his first term in office.“We built the embassy in four months…we not only improved it…but we also GOT IT BUILT,” he declared to a packed house of Republican supporters in Lee County, Florida. “…We had the best location – we had a beautiful, beautiful building.”JUST NOW: President Trump touts 1.2 million vote lead over DeSantis in Floridahttps://t.co/51trJuVq0K— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) April 22, 2023More of Trump’s remarks in Florida on Friday...

Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives are signaling defiance of their fellow Republican, Gov. Bill Lee, after he proposed legislation to allow law enforcement officers to temporarily seize firearms from persons if a court agrees that they pose a threat of harm to themselves or others. Tennessee policymakers have considered a number of new laws since the March 27 Covenant School Shooting, in which an assailant killed three children and three employees at a private Christian school in Nashville. In the days after the shooting, Lee proposed a revised state budget that included additional spending for school security. In...

a whistleblower from within the IRS criminal division came forward on Thursday to allege that the investigation into Hunter Biden’s probable criminality was being obstructed for political reasons. The person in question didn’t just bring idle claims either. According to the whistleblower’s lawyer, they not only have proof of scandalous misconduct, but they also have documented evidence that AG Merrick Garland committed perjury in furtherance of a cover-up. Ironically, instead of shutting up, Hunter Biden’s lawyer is now freaking out over the matter. On Friday, he asserted that the whistleblower likely committed crimes in coming forward despite the fact that...

Former President Donald Trump will highlight the difference between the MAGA movement and the Republican establishment and tell the Lee County GOP audience, “The old Republican Party of RINOs, Neo-cons, and Globalists is GONE—and it is NEVER coming back,” according to excerpts of prepared remarks provided by Trump’s campaign to Breitbart News.Trump will speak about how the MAGA movement “revolutionized politics and redrew the political map” when he defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Trump notes that before his 2016 victory, “Republicans were on the verge of losing this nation forever,” citing Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss to former...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Friday she replaced the state’s director of early childhood education, due to the use of a teacher training book that Ivey said teaches “woke concepts.” “The education of Alabama’s children is my top priority as governor, and there is absolutely no room to distract or take away from this mission,” Ivey said in a statement. “Let me be crystal clear: Woke concepts that have zero to do with a proper education and that are divisive at the core have no place in Alabama classrooms at any age level, let alone with our youngest learners.” The...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. James Martin on homosexuality: ‘Christians shouldn’t do everything’ the Bible ‘commands’The heretical Jesuit priest has issued an outreach 'guide' on homosexuality that only serves to ignore and obscure Scripture.Dissident Jesuit priest Father James Martin has claimed Christians “shouldn’t do everything” the Bible “commands” in his new “Outreach Guide to the Bible and Homosexuality.”Martin attempts to show how an explicit defense of homosexual behavior can be reconciled with Christianity in his “guide,” citing biblical scholars who allegedly help interpret Biblical passages on homosexuality. However, the advice of Martin as well as the scholars boils down to this: Even...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry stated that wind and solar power will become “far more price competitive than oil and gas” if oil and gas companies see their costs rise because they “have to spend huge amounts of money for carbon capture and storage and utilization.” Kerry said, “I would say to you, Andrea, that, frankly, I’m surprised, pleasantly, on the positive side, by the amount of things that are just taking hold. We see remarkable progress on batteries and battery storage. We’re seeing the price of wind and solar...

It is difficult, given what Silicon Valley has become, to convey exactly what it was like in the 1970s and ‘80s. It was a remarkable center of technology, but also the embodiment of the spirit of capitalism at its very best, as epitomized by garage start-ups like Apple. Greed, of course, is always a human motivation, but the early Valley culture was created by entrepreneurial outsiders who genuinely wanted to make the world better. In the early days of the tech revolution, some watchers imagined an almost utopian, communitarian society on the horizon. In 1972, the California writer and zeitgeist...

The NAACP sued Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves after he signed legislation that allows state authorities to exert more control over law enforcement in Jackson, including by expanding the Capitol Police, which shot four people last year without much public explanation. The lawsuit, which was e-filed Friday evening in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, accuses Reeves and other state officials of unfairly singling out Jackson, a predominantly Black city struggling with violent crime and an overburdened court system. The bills Reeves signed Friday create a temporary court system outside city control to be run by appointed judges...

The story the legacy media tried for years to suppress is back with a vengeance. Hunter Biden, the president’s oft-troubled son, is once more in the news and not in a good way. An IRS criminal supervisory agent requested whistleblower protection, claiming the five-year Hunter Biden investigation is being impacted by "preferential treatment and politics." To make things worse for the press, the White House responded to the allegations just days before President Joe Biden is reportedly announcing his re-election campaign. White House spokesman Ian Sams told Fox News Digital that the president has stood by his commitment for Justice...

Summary: Suvorexant, a dual orexin receptor antagonist commonly prescribed to help treat insomnia reduced levels of the Alzheimer’s-associated amyloid beta protein in the brain. The findings hint that the sleep medication could slow or stop Alzheimer’s disease, but researchers say more research is needed to confirm the viability of the approach. Source: WUSTL Sleep disturbances can be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease. Many people eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer’s start experiencing difficulty falling and staying asleep years before cognitive problems such as memory loss and confusion emerge. It’s a vicious cycle: Alzheimer’s disease involves changes to the brain that disrupt...

Invalid "Sacraments" in RomeThe Anglican Vicar David Burrows, rector of Saint Mary's and All Saints in Elland, England, wrote on Twitter.com (April 20), that"I have said Mass publicly as a priest of the Church of England in Churches and at Altars under the direct control of the Bishop of Rome, both within the Vatican and in the City of Rome, each time, each time being given the Tabernacle key."After careful consideration, Pope Leo XIII came to the conclusion that Anglican ordinations are "utterly null and void."

"As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!" -Mehmet Murat ildan (Turkish playwright) That didn't take long. The Mayor-elect of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, responded to a group of teenagers who recently attacked cars and assaulted drivers in the Loop by what sounds like justification for their behavior. While saying he does not "condone the destructive activity" (there's a euphemism) and that it "has no place in Chicago" (when it increasingly does), Johnson added, "it is not constructive to...

It was the story that might well have completely derailed Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. After the dust from that year’s election settled, a significant number of Biden voters told pollsters they would probably have cast their ballots differently, had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. When the New York Post broke the story in 2020, the establishment media and social media companies sprang into action, determined to bury it, lest Biden’s White House hopes were diminished. In the latest twist to the saga, a former deputy director of the CIA revealed the Biden campaign’s direct involvement in...

Washington attorney Mark Lytle represents an anonymous IRS criminal supervisory special agent who wishes to come forward as a whistleblower. On Wednesday, Lytle sent a letter to a bipartisan group of members of Congress that said his client “has been overseeing the ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high profile, controversial subject” and would like to reveal his disclosures to Congress. The letter does not name the subject, but Just the News confirmed the allegations pertain to Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s investigation of Hunter Biden. Although the investigation into Hunter Biden was opened in 2018, it did not become...

House Democrats are accusing the GOP of selectively using evidence to claim top government officials intentionally misled the public on the Hunter Biden laptop case to help then-candidate Joe Biden win the 2020 election. GOP leaders on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday, citing testimony from a former CIA deputy director that Blinken was the acting force behind the push to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. Democrats pushed back on those allegations, accusing Republicans of using “cherry-picked” excerpts to “sensationalize a three-year-old tabloid story.” “To be clear,...