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Plans to launch a “game-changing” weight loss jab in the UK have been delayed amid concern supplies could not keep up with demand from obese Britons. Weight loss services and pharmacists were expecting Wegovy to become available this week but have now been warned of an indefinite delay making the product available. The weekly injections had already been backed by the NHS, with the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) recently recommending the drug for tens of thousands of people, and millions more expected to seek it privately. Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer, said it was working to make...

Local elections offices in Georgia will not be allowed to receive private donations under controversial legislation Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law Wednesday. Senate Bill 222, which the General Assembly’s Republican majorities passed along party lines, was prompted by complaints that out-of-state private funds have been flowing into elections offices in large Democratic counties across the country, including a $350 million contribution by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the nonprofit Center for Technology and Civic Life. Legislative Democrats charged the bill was aimed at denying the financial assistance already resource-poor elections offices need to run their elections smoothly. Without the...

--With apologies to Jonathan Swift-- Given the recent cutting edge advocacy for Gender Affirming Care and Surgery (GACS) for transgenders(sic), including minor children, why not expand this coveted GACS to the pet world, and then to the entire animal kingdom? Starting with pets, this therapy could be expanded to other owned animals (beef cattle, chicken flocks, Budweiser Clydesdales), and then to feral animals in the wild. The main benefit of expanding GACS is the massive new revenue stream to veterinarians, doctors, hospitals, and big pharma. The number of Americans who dote over pets is enormous. Pet owners spare no expense...

A 'beautiful' mum who was planning her wedding and had 'so many plans' died after feeling unwell on her return from a family holiday. Ashleigh de Andrade had returned home to Southport, Merseyside, from a getaway at a Haven holiday park in North Wales when she began feeling poorly. The mum-of-three woke up in a sweat and had a high temperature after going for a lie down on April 26. The mental health nursing student was rushed to hospital and suffered several seizures before being put into an induced coma. She sadly died later that day. Ashleigh is survived by...

Friends of a schoolgirl who died suddenly just days after winning a football match have raised thousands for her grieving family. 'Talented young footballer' Kaylee Black, 13, who was a goalkeeper for the U13s Belfast football club Crusaders, died on Monday. Family and friends have raised more than £8,000 following her death. The GoFundMe page also paid tribute to the 'young, beautiful girl' whose death 'has left a massive space in the hearts of her family'. Meanwhile the club she played for, the Crusaders said they were 'devastated' in a statement issued following the youngster's death. Club chairman, Ronnie Millar,...

ATLANTA — Atlanta police said at least one person is dead and at least four people have been injured in an active shooter situation on West Peachtree Street Wednesday afternoon.

Ron DeSantis now has at his disposal $12 million to fly migrants to Democratic enclaves after the Florida legislature passed on Tuesday a new measure that helps fund the controversial program. In September, the Florida governor flew four dozen migrants from Texas to the swanky Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard. The stunt caused an uproar from immigration advocates and Democrats after the migrants had to find ways off the island. DeSantis is expected to announce a run for president in coming months. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is deploying 1,500 troops to the southern border to help with any impending surges...

A local community has been rocked by the shock death of a much-loved teenager who tragically died in his sleep. Heartbreaking tributes are flowing for Melbourne student Balin Menzies, 15, who died suddenly on April 21. It is not yet known what caused his death. Balin was actively involved in various sporting and community groups across Greensborough in Melbourne's northeast. The teen was also a promising street artist who painted murals under the name Posh, including a wall at Greensborough Skate Park. The mural is now surrounded by spray paint cans and flowers in his honour. Greensborough College paid tribute...

The White House Keeps Twisting the Truth About FloridaPresident Biden and his press secretary are trafficking in proven falsehoods to score political points against Ron DeSantis.In late April 2022, the White House named Nina Jankowicz—who believed in the Steele dossier and considered the Hunter Biden laptop story Russian disinformation—its disinformation czar. But the Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board that Jankowicz headed lasted only four months; Jankowicz herself resigned after just three weeks. A year later, it’s hard to ignore the irony that a White House that created an office allegedly to combat disinformation keeps trafficking in it to...

HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — After a report was issued on Tuesday notifying the public about a missing young woman, Pennsylvania State Police have confirmed the entire situation was a hoax. “I think the biggest thing was, this entire community was very scared because of the information we had,” said Trooper Steve Limani. According to initial reports, Chloe Stein, 23, was last seen leaving Sonic in Hempfield Township at 10:30 p.m. on Monday night. She allegedly texted her boyfriend shortly after saying she had been pulled over. Then, she seemed to vanish. Stein was driving a Volkswagen Beetle. The car was...

In an ironic twist, San Francisco Pride’s campaign to push back against transphobia, to be unveiled this week, has been disrupted by its own brush with transphobia. SF Pride was all set to make a big statement this week about anti-LGBTQ attacks by announcing that the battle cry for this year’s event would be the iconic Twisted Sister rock anthem, “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” Choosing the 1984 song was intended to show how the community was going to push back on the hundreds of pieces of anti-LGBTQ and anti-drag community legislation being passed around the country and the endless...

A California YMCA which was at the center of a locker room controversy has re-opened its doors after a $70,000 remodel. The new facilities at Cameron Family YMCA in Santee, San Diego County, come after multiple protests erupted when a teenager claimed she ran to hide in the showers after seeing the bare backside a transgender woman in the locker room. The month-long project included adding privacy stalls in both the women's and men's locker rooms to allow members to change behind closed doors. Rows of benches surrounded by raised walls and a door to allow people to change without...

One of the biggest perks of electric vehicles (EVs) is that they’re low-maintenance. They never need oil changes, and the electric motors and battery packs are relatively maintenance-free. However, the rubber keeping it on the road is one of the costliest maintenance items for an EV. EV tires can already be hard to find at an affordable price, but a low rubber supply this year has made that task even more difficult. Here’s everything you need to know about EV tires. Why Do EVs Need Special Tires? Electric vehicles are heavier than their gas-powered counterparts. An extreme example is the...

Carlson had for years been explicit — increasingly so — about his views of race and diversity in America...And then there was the replacement theory. Over and over, Carlson suggested that immigrants were being brought to the United States to shift the electorate to the left...This was a white-nationalist trope, now airing on the country's most-watched cable news channel in prime time.

[H/T Red Badger]Here is a high-level review of the manufacturing contracts between US DOD and Moderna. Moderna’s injection, mRNA-1273 is co-owned with the US Government, as the company has been funded by the defense research grants for years and also received intellectual property transfers from the US Government, in addition to preclinical and clinical research work conducted for Moderna by the NIH Vaccine Research Center. The NIH and Moderna each have a separate Investigational New Drug number for this product.Moderna entered 2 types of contracts with the US Government for Spikevax injection:“Vaccine” contract and amendments that specifies R&D projects that...

If your day is going wrong in a thousand little ways — whether you sent an email to the wrong person, your printer seems to be permanently offline, or your mail was all delivered to the wrong address — it's not you. It's Mercury. Today is the start of three weeks of mistakes, miscommunications, and minor mishaps, all courtesy of that little red planet. And while it can't do much about the planetary alignment, Wendy's is at least here to make your Mercury retrograde a little brighter with free food. Mercury will be in retrograde through Sunday, May 14, and...

Elvis Presley’s stepbrother revealed what the King thought of Kiss when the pair listened to Alive! together. The moment took place around 1975, soon after Billy Stanley had seen a Kiss show for the first time and bought the album, then played it in the basement of Graceland. “I got it cranked up, playing air guitar,” Stanley told Artists on Record in a new interview. “Elvis comes down [and asks] ‘What are you listening to?’ ‘It’s a band called Kiss.’ … And I showed him the album cover and he said, ‘Uh … OK.’ He sat down on the couch,...

[Catholic Caucus] Women religious voice gratitude for synod voting rightsROME – A leading umbrella group of women religious has thanked Pope Francis for his recent decision allowing women to have voting rights in his upcoming Synod of Bishops on Synodality, saying the move is a step toward helping the church be more inclusive.In a statement Wednesday, Sister Nadia Coppa, president of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) said they welcomed the pope’s decision “with great joy and gratitude.”“This decision, promulgated by Pope Francis, to enlarge participation in the Synodal Assembly, is the outcome of our ongoing rich reflection, as...

SNIPLast week, NATO’s top commander, US Army General Christopher Cavoli stated that the Russian army operating in Ukraine is larger than when the Kremlin launched its special military operation and the Ukrainians “have to be better than the Russian force they will face” and decide when and where they will strike.SNIPHe said at one point in his written testimony, “Russian air, maritime, space, cyber, and strategic forces have not suffered significant degradation in the current war. Moreover, Russia will likely rebuild its future Army into a sizeable and more capable land force… Russia retains a vast stockpile of deployed and...

The European Commission in Brussels has backed a scheme by the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Netherlands that would see thousands of farms shut down in order to comply with EU climate goals. On Tuesday, the governing arm of the European Union officially threw its support behind plans by the Dutch government to buy out thousands of farmers from their lands in order to meet the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme to protect certain environments. The plan, which would offer farmers 120 per cent of the value of their farm, could see some 3,000 so-called “peak” emitters...