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Dr. Niklas Klümper and Dr. Jonas Saal demonstrated a significant improvement in predicting the response to therapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma by incorporating the level of inflammation, which was assessed using two straightforward blood parameters, alongside the conventional imaging-based approach. The research group led by Dr. Klümper has now been able to show that the investigation of two inexpensive and widely available inflammatory markers in the blood (C-reactive protein (CRP) and albumin) significantly improves the prediction of therapy response in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, especially in the large group of patients with disease control in the first...

The French government continuing to move against protest groups. The Interior Ministry closing the environmentalist group Les Soulevements de la Terre shut down accused of involvement in violent protests. Activist Greta Thunberg spoke in Paris on Thursday citing the French government shutdown of the protest group... In Paris today the Yellow Vests protest carried on for Week 241. The Yellow Vests march in Paris today some three hours long as the small group made its way down streets and along sidewalks. France's flag displayed along with some protest signs on cardboard... In Paris today a "Pride March" thousands protesting on...

On this date in 1575* a Japanese soldier was crucified under the walls of his castle … and entered his country’s folklore. Torii Suneemon was a footman of the Okudaira family late in Japan’s fratricidal Warring States Period. The Okudaira, allies of the wars’ eventually-victorious Tokugawa clan, found themselves besieged by the Takeda. This would result in the important Battle of Nagashino.... After an initial Takeda attempt to take the fortress by storm, the Takeda settled in for a brief siege — knowing the defenders to have only a few days’ supplies on hand. Enter Torii Suneemon. Under cover of...

the Trump campaign needs to be aware of an emerging thread of data that suggests that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may do better in the general election. New survey results from Public Opinion Strategies build on previous results and are starting to frame a coherent story about how the general election might look with different Republican candidates. The new survey results indicate that Mr. DeSantis would do better than Mr. Trump in the general election in specific battleground states. For example, in Georgia, Mr. DeSantis leads President Biden by 3 percentage points in a general election matchup. In the same...

Former President Donald Trump rolled out a possible new campaign slogan Saturday night at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C.: 'I'm being indicted for you.' Trump headlined the conference's Saturday night gala and continued to complain about the recent federal charges brought against him for mishandling classified materials, again arguing that he was merely an ex-president 'legally keeping his own documents.' He earned a 'USA' chant from the crowd as he proclaimed, 'I'm probably the only person in history who was indicted and my numbers went up.' 'Everytime the radical left Democrats, Marxist, communists and fascists indict...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A group of seven people prosecutors say are affiliated with gangs are heading to prison, according to the Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors say that on two nights in June and July 2019, approximately 50 cars were broken into in neighborhoods across Cherokee County. The group stole five guns, three cars and other personal items. Six people were arrested when they returned early one July morning to continue the crime spree: Tyjuan “TK” Shecorn Burch, 22 Quinn “Chucky” Chajuan Dawson, 23 Jacquez “Joc” Daquan Ivey, 23 Darell “Rell” Marrion, 21 Two juveniles While prosecuting them,...

Drag queens and LGBTQ activists marched through a Manhattan park on Friday as part of a weekend of Pride celebrations, with a chant of: 'We're here, we're queer and we're coming for your children.'

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Bishop Joseph Strickland gets apostolic visitation from the VaticanThe subject of the visit is unknown, but it’s speculated to concern various public statements that some Vatican officials consider 'imprudent.'Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, TexasTYLER, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – “America’s Bishop” Joseph Strickland has received an “apostolic visitation” from the Vatican which is speculated to be a response to his outspoken criticism of Church leadership’s more controversial stances and actions, according to a new report.Strickland, the bishop of Tyler, Texas, who is well known among LifeSite readers for his outspoken defense of Catholic teaching, is currently receiving an “apostolic...

The outgoing head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says her reasons for stepping down were complicated, driven in part by a desire to take a break from the frenetic pace of the job during a pandemic. Dr. Rochelle Walensky surprised many in public health circles last month by announcing her departure after two years and five months — one of the shortest tenures for a CDC director in recent decades. She resigned as the pandemic's national public health emergency was winding down. "I did what I came to do — which was get us through the darkest...

GOD WILL NOT LET YOU FALL My family and I went camping this past summer. We took several hikes down the little river bed as it flowed through the Cuyamaca State Park near our home in San Diego. We stopped for a picnic lunch, and ate with our feet in the cool running water. As I ate my sandwich, I started tracing a trail through the rocks that shot up into the air in front of us. It was an old habit from days gone by of rock scrambling: no ropes, no hardware, no helmet, no brains! As teenagers,...

As the far left keeps on pushing perversion month, these are four more ways that suggest they are acting like a National Socialist party. Question: How do you make sure the solemn promise made to the survivors and the memory of the Holocaust with its call for Never Again is fulfilled, without remembering the history of what really happened? Do you keep on identifying the emerging parallels in current events to what happened in Germany in the 1930s? Maintaining a record of what happened to compare it to new developments so that the same thing cannot happen ever again, presenting...

No aspect of the vaunted “energy transition” screams out the word “fantasy” quite so starkly as projections that the U.S. will have to install 47,000 miles of new high-capacity transmission lines by 2035. That’s the assessment not by renewable energy skeptics, but by the enthusiastic promoters of renewables at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). As part of an assessment published in early March, the DOE stated that much new transmission will be required, assuming moderate load and massive expansion of “green” energy “in line with the future power sector enabled by all currently enacted laws.” In other words, this...

What to expect when you’re not expecting. A West Virginia transgender man who believed he was infertile miraculously became pregnant after a one-night stand with a man he met on Grindr. “I gave up on my dreams of being a parent, then lo and behold, this kid comes out of nowhere,” Ash Patrick Schade, 30, told SWNS. Schade decided to take a pregnancy test in 2020 after feeling more emotional and ravenous than usual, “blindsided” by the positive result. “In the moment I was like, ‘Am I dreaming?’ It just seemed so surreal,” he recalled. “All I could do was...

The core of the accusation against former President Donald Trump is the allegation that he retained and mishandled classified information and national defense secrets. Special Counsel Jack Smith justified this unprecedented prosecution by citing the need to protect classified information and the rule of law. But do we really have “one set of laws in this country”? Here is a list of eight past examples of high-profile individuals who were never prosecuted for the same basic or similar allegations. Hillary Clinton – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was found to have maintained a private email server during her four-year...

Will there be any huge celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 2026, the 250th Anniversary?

Freedom & Faith Coalition hosts 7pm speech by President Trump, begins shortly.

Let’s be real, the “we the people” crowd is the only group in this country truly rooting for President Trump. When it comes to politicians, media, and corporations, it’s all about the ABT — “Anybody But Trump” agenda, which the RNC is currently rolling out with quite a bang. The first debate moderators have just been announced, and they could practically serve as presidents of the ABT fan club. Struggling Fox News will host the debate, with Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum at the helm — the same disastrous duo who made that premature call for Arizona on election night...

Money supply growth fell again in April, plummeting further into negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in twenty-eight years. April's drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. Since April 2021, money supply growth has slowed quickly, and since November, we've been seeing the money supply repeatedly contract—year-over-year— for six months in a row. The last time the year-over-year (YOY) change in the money supply slipped into negative territory was in November 1994. At that time, negative growth continued for fifteen months, finally turning...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Bp. Strickland Gets ‘Visit’ From RomeDicastery for Bishops sends investigators to Tyler, TexasAccording to Church Militant sources, the bishop of Tyler, Texas, Joseph Strickland, is currently undergoing an "apostolic visitation" from the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops.The immediate focus of the examination is unknown at this time, but the increasingly outspoken prelate, dubbed "America's bishop," has certainly irritated high-ranking members of the hierarchy by defending the Deposit of Faith and condemning the more heterodox opinions of various other prelates.He was the only U.S. bishop to attend the June 16 protest against the Los Angeles Dodgers for the team's...

Kayla Lovdahl is the perfect test case as a 13-year-old who was approved for “transgender surgery:” She could not conceive, at the time, of the possibility of suffering a lifetime of disfigurement and chronic pain. Ms. Lovdahl, now 18, has retained an attorney, Charles Limandri, who has employed such emotionally charged words as “barbaric and cruel” to describe the medical team’s actions in causing his client deep physical and emotional wounds. Essential to his case is the claim that Lovdahl was hopelessly ignorant of the statistical reality that nearly half of trans surgeries result in serious and life-threatening complications. How...