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As other presidential candidates will be preparing for the April round of primaries next year, former President Donald Trump will be in court for his New York City trial on charges of falsifying business records in 2016. The date of March 25 was set Tuesday during a hearing in which Trump appeared by video from his Florida home. When the date was set, Trump shook his head but made no comment to the court, according to The Washington Post. Although a dash for relevance has led many states to move their presidential primaries as early into 2024 as possible, April...

THERE'S only one day left for Americans to claim a one-time $4,000 direct payment. A nonprofit in California called Jewish Family Service has partnered with the city of San Diego to launch the Recovery Action Fund for Tomorrow. San Diego residents can expect a $4,000 direct payment Applications went live on May 8, but they are coming to a close on May 21. The application window shuts down at 11.59pm, so time is running out for those who are eligible to apply. The nonprofit outlined the payments to go toward needy residents who will be able to spend the cash...

Animals are at much greater risk of extinction in China than in other countries, with habitats threatened by urbanisation and human encroachment, according to a Chinese government assessment published this week. In a bid to reverse the damage done to its environment by rapid growth, China has been setting up national parks, nature reserves and an ecological "red line" scheme aimed at putting vulnerable habitats beyond the reach of human activity, with 30% of the country's territory now protected. But significant numbers of species remain at risk as a result of rapid urban expansion, disruptive infrastructure development and animal exploitation,...

A 25-year-old man was jailed Wednesday for six months for he attempted to “buy” a Covid-19 vaccination certificate from a nurse with HK$1,000 without actually getting the shot. The defendant Cheung Chin-hang had earlier pleaded guilty to offering an advantage to an agent, breaching the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. Passing the sentence in West Kowloon Court today, Acting Principal Magistrate Veronica Heung Shuk-han said it was selfish of Cheung to ask the nurse to assist him in getting a fake vaccination record when the government spared no effort to keep the severe epidemic situation under control. Given the offense’s serious...

VIDEO James O'Keefe of the O'Keefe Media Group (OMG) exposed John Fetterman's staffer, Luke Borwegan, who presented a very scathing yet highly accurate assessment of Joe Scarborough.

I attended a training course for volunteer first responders in Arizona. I’ve met the heroes who train to protect our kids and our neighbors from a murderer who wants them dead. My superheroes are real. This is what I saw.

R.F. Kuang's novel offers a literary exploration of cultural appropriation taken to a new degree. Who is she? R.F. Kuang is an award-winning Chinese American author, known for her best-selling fantasy novels in The Poppy War trilogy. Yellowface, her latest work, focuses on a writer and thief named June Hayward, who finds herself stumped with little professional success. Athena Liu, however, is her extremely successful, sort-of friend and peer from Yale. After Athena chokes to death on a pancake with June watching on, the fate of her unfinished manuscript, and the aspects of her identity woven in, are taken into...

Heather Dubrow is grateful that she’s been sharing her family’s story. On Tuesday, the 54-year-old reality star opened up to PEOPLE about the reactions she’s received after sharing that her 12-year-old child had come out as transgender and goes by the name Ace at the Alliance For Women In Media Foundation's 48th Annual Gracie Awards Gala in Los Angeles. “Honestly, the support has been really incredible," The Real Housewives of Orange County star told PEOPLE. "What's been most rewarding to me is being able to affect change in other people's families.” “When we first started talking about our children, there...

View Witch Joy Behar Claims Justice Thomas Has No Clue What It's Like to Be Black in America

Abbott Labs lays off another 199 workers at Westbrook COVID-test plant By Kay Neufeld May 23, 2023 Abbott Laboratories, one of the country’s largest producers of COVID-19 test kits, on Tuesday said it has laid off 199 workers at its Westbrook manufacturing facility because of dwindling demand for the tests. The job cut follows one in February, and brings the number of Maine-based Abbott employees who have lost their positions over the past two years to more than 800. In February, the Chicago-based pharmaceutical company did not provide an exact count of laid-off workers, though a notice sent to the...

LiquidPiston says its new XTS-210 solves the efficiency, lubrication and fuel type issues of Wankel rotary engines. This supercharged, liquid-cooled two-stroke claims 5X the power of an equivalent size or weight diesel engine, and 3X the torque. Targeted at military, commercial and aerospace applications, the XTS-210 is about the size of a basketball, weighs in at 19 kg (42 lb), and displaces 210 cc. It'll run on multiple fuels, including diesel and kerosene/jet fuel. The company is shooting for about 20 kW (26.8 hp) and 29.4 Nm (21.7 lb-ft) of torque, both at 6,500 rpm. These numbers compare favorably against...

Floyd Newman, a saxophonist who played with many music icons and was the first member invited to be in B.B King’s first band, passed away Tuesday morning, the Stax Museum announced. He was 91. According to the museum, Newman started his career at the Plantation Inn Nightclub in West Memphis, Arkansas along with Ben Branch, Gene “Bowlegs” Miller, Phineas and Calvin Newborn, Willie Mitchell, and hired Isaac Hayes, who went on to become one of the most successful recording artists in history. Floyd Newman and his saxophone (Courtesy: Stax Museum of American Soul Music) He also brought Hayes to Stax...

Microsoft has uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in the United States. The attack is carried out by Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China that typically focuses on espionage and information gathering. Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises. Volt Typhoon has been active since mid-2021 and has targeted critical infrastructure organizations in Guam and elsewhere in the United States....

Joe Biden could have been a good president. All he had to do was leave things alone. Instead, he blundered into the office and wrecked the country. He is like the guy on a Boeing 747 high over the Atlantic Ocean who breaks into the cockpit and says, “I can fly this thing.” “You don’t have to, Joe,” the pilot says, “It’s on autopilot. It flies itself. You know, computers.” Undeterred, Joe presses buttons and flips switches. The plane goes into a nosedive. Which is where we are today. You don’t put a guy like this in control. He is...

A research collaboration has discovered a new compound, named ‘1938’, which can promote nerve regeneration after injury and protect cardiac tissue from significant damage, as seen in heart attacks. Published in Nature, the study reports that 1938 stimulates the PI3K signaling pathway, promoting cell growth. Scientists from UCL, MRC LMB, and AstraZeneca have found a compound, named ‘1938’, that boosts nerve regeneration after injury and shields heart tissue from significant damage. The compound, which stimulates the PI3K signaling pathway linked to cell growth, represents a promising avenue for therapies in a field where there are currently no approved medicines for...

VIDEO AT LINK............ May 24 (UPI) -- A California man who returned a library book that was found to be 96 years overdue said he believes the tome was originally checked out by his deceased wife's grandfather. Jim Perry of Napa said he was going through boxes of books that had belonged to his wife, Sandra Learned Perry, when he came across a copy of Benson Lossing's A History of the United States from the St. Helena Public Library. Perry said he believes the book was checked out by John McCormick, Sandra Learned Perry's grandfather, who would have been 55...

President Joe Biden’s administration canceled a $200 million grant it previously planned to award to a Chinese Communist Party-linked lithium-ion battery maker after Republican lawmakers criticized the deal. Last year, Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) selected Microvast to receive a $200 million federal grant from a fund created under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. Those funds were intended to help America become less reliant on China for critical supplies like lithium-ion batteries.

‘If you go left, they’ll say, ‘You should have gone right,’ and vice-versa,’ reflects the master guitarist.George Benson has described the new album he’s been working on as “something really special,” in a new interview with guitar.com. He also addresses the reaction from some fans to his predilection for crossing genres with his work. He says: “Anytime somebody says, ‘What’s George doing playing this kind of music?’ I want to say, ‘Well, why shouldn’t I?’ I like to challenge myself. One thing I understand about this world, if you go left, they’ll say, ‘You should have gone right,’ and vice-versa....

Women who identify as lesbian or bisexual may have a greater risk for heart disease, according to a new study by the American Heart Association (AHA). Gay and bisexual men, on the other hand, are usually at lower risk of heart disease than men who identify as heterosexual, the study authors found — as long as those gay and bisexual men don’t live in rural areas. The first-of-its-kind study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, reveals the complex relationship between sexuality and the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, a broad category of health conditions that includes heart...

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón reportedly has a 10,000-case backlog, causing further frustration among prosecutors as a local judge reinstated a “no cash bail” policy for non-violent offenses. The reports about the criminal case backlog come from whistleblowers, who spoke to the New York Post: Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is an “authoritarian” and “toxic” manager whose ultra-woke approach has led scores of prosecutors to quit and 10,000 cases to pile up, sources tell The Post. … One former LA prosecutor said Gascón’s policies have eroded trust with the public the office serves, through generous plea...