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Gronk just became even more legendary. Four-time NFL Super Bowl champion Rob Gronkowski was visiting the U.S. Capitol with his French bulldog Ralphie, meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other lawmakers Tuesday. Gronkowski was in the building on behalf of Anivive, a veterinary pharmaceutical company that is working on a vaccine for Valley Fever, a fungal infection caused by the fungus Coccidioides, which impacts dogs. Coccidioides is found in the southwestern United States and in parts of Mexico. During Gronk‘s visit, Daily Caller reporter Joel Gibbons caught up with the NFL legend and had the opportunity to ask him the...

Bodybuilder and former Mr. Olympia competitor Neil Currey is dead at the age of 34. Milos Sarcev, Currey’s former trainer, announced the news Monday on Instagram, calling it “absolutely shocking” and “heartbreaking.” The cause of death is unclear, although initials reports claimed Sarcev’s Instagram post indicated Currey died by suicide. However, Sarcev’s initial Instagram post has been edited and makes no mention of suicide.

A terrier learned a new meaning to the word "bark" when it got stuck in a tree on Sunday. The Hollister Fire Department's San Juan Bautista-based engine was dispatched to help the dog out of the tree. It's unclear how a dog of that size got into the tree. The dog was approximately 20 feet up on the tree and out on a tree limb. Fire crews deployed a safety net to catch the animal, before climbing up and carrying the dog down to earth.

Ms. Conaboy is a journalist specializing in health and the author of the forthcoming book “Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood,” from which this essay has been adapted.Around the time that Mimi Niles became a mother, an upstairs neighbor in her New York City apartment building had twins. When the two women ran into each other in the hallway or on the sidewalk, Ms. Niles would ask the neighbor how she was faring. “Fabulous,” Ms. Niles remembered her saying. “I’m so happy.” Ms. Niles was dumbfounded. She was not feeling fabulous in new motherhood. She was...

Burbank Mayor Konstantine Anthony is facing criticism from largely conservative circles after he was recorded on video being spanked by a drag queen over the weekend, but he’s defending his actions and arguing that some of those critics are responding out of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry

The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter last month is arming Ukraine with more than just military equipment. Maksym Kuzminov, the helicopter pilot who switched sides in a daring defection, is now providing the Ukrainian military with key Russian aviation intelligence, according to an interview with Kuzminov released by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Kuzminov is sharing information about Russia's communication systems and airfields network with Ukraine's intelligence service, the agency said... News of Kuzminov's defection was first made public in late August, but the side-switching itself culminated in a tense showdown in a Kharkiv airfield...

Democrats love to use MAGA as a word to describe Republicans as heartless, anti-government, unpatriotic, dangerous, whatever. MAGA, in fact, is simply a reference to making the United States the strongest, most self-sufficient, generous, fairest, caring, and citizen-friendly of nations. It’s time to quit letting Democrats disparage Republicans and it’s time for Republicans to explain to citizens why MAGA is far better that Democrat liberalism socialistic big over-controlling intrusive government.

A California law ostensibly aimed at restricting the marketing of firearms to minors infringes on the free speech rights of adults, according to a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In its ruling handed down on Thursday morning, the panel vacated a lower court decision denying an injunction against the law’s enforcement and delivered a resounding win for both First and Second Amendment advocates. Writing for the majority, Judge Kenneth Lee ruled that the law forbidding marketing and advertising firearms that “reasonably appear to be attractive to minors” is likely to infringe on the First Amendment, given...

Explanation: Galaxy NGC 4632 hides a secret from optical telescopes. It is surrounded by a ring of cool hydrogen gas orbiting at 90 degrees to its spiral disk. Such polar ring galaxies have previously been discovered using starlight. However, NGC 4632 is among the first in which a radio telescope survey revealed a polar ring. The featured composite image combines this gas ring, observed with the highly sensitive ASKAP telescope, with optical data from the Subaru telescope. Using virtual reality, astronomers separated out the gas in the main disk of the galaxy from the ring, and the subtle color gradient...

In June, the Supreme Court struck down the White House’s plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt. Biden’s debt cancellation plan would have been the biggest student debt handout in history, had it not been wildly unconstitutional. Undeterred, the Biden administration has rolled out smaller debt relief programs in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision, and it has announced that it is in the process of developing an even larger debt cancellation plan in the near future, one that will likely also be challenged in court. However, as important as these legal and political battles are, a...

On Feb. 6, 1974, the House of Representatives considered a historic question: Should it authorize an investigation that might lead to the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon? House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino (D-N.J.) argued for the initiation of a probe under his committee’s purview. “We are going to work expeditiously and fairly,” he told his colleagues. “When we have completed our inquiry, whatever the result, we will make our recommendations to the House. We will do so as soon as we can, consistent with principles of fairness and completeness.” When the resolution to launch the inquiry came to...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that MAGA Republicans were “in sync” with “the most evil person in the world,” referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “My point is if there’s improprieties, do the legal thing take it to court and make it show us what it is. It’s not enough to say, well, so-and-so said this is what it it is. No, they wanted to find out what did the last guy do? Here’s all the stuff he did. If there’s stuff they’re saying, not you, but if there are things...

After he was charged in June with mishandling national security papers, former president Donald Trump asked to be allowed to discuss classified evidence in the case right where he allegedly kept the documents: Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home and private club. On Wednesday, the federal judge overseeing the case appears to have told him no. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon issued a 16-page protective order granting prosecutors’ request for a set of rules about how classified information and documents should be handled in the case — rules that stick to the general practice of federal courts. Government lawyers had...

A new flag policy for the Temecula Valley Unified School District was passed, banning most flags, including Pride flags, from being displayed on school campuses.

Leftist UK reporter asks GOP Rep Scott Perry "What actual evidence do you have"? Perry gives her the evidence, and she says to him, "It's political revenge".

Student math scores at The Math & Science Exploratory School in Brooklyn have tanked 26% since 2018. The system’s “solution”? Change the name to The Exploratory School. That’s right: District 15’s Community Education Council unanimously voted to eliminate MS 447’s STEM-focused moniker, rather than address the reasons why it was failing at its mission. Because the drop was a direct result of the CEC’s 2018 decision, engineered by the de Blasio administration, to scrap selective middle-school admissions across the district in the name of “equity.” So a school that once served higher-achievers suddenly faced admission by lottery, and a large...

The Biden administration has awarded an anti-terrorism grant worth more than half-a-million dollars to an LGBTQ activist group, which distributes condoms and “sex education” material, to expand its “in-school support for LGBTQ+ youth” as young as age 6. The manifesto of its school-based group—which is based on the Black Panthers—calls for the “abolition” of the police, the erasure of the U.S. border, and the “reclamation” of all “stolen lands” by Indigenous people. President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced that the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League had received a $530,000 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention grant late last week....

Five cars have been destroyed at Sydney Airport after a battery from a luxury electric car burst into flames. About 8.30pm on Monday, firefighters were called to a parking lot on Airport Drive in Mascot after flames engulfed a luxury electric car before spreading to another four vehicles. Research officers from Fire and Rescue’s Safety of Alternative and Renewable Energy Technologies team have also been at the scene. Fire and Rescue NSW Superintendent Adam Dewberry said … “There had been some problem with the car and the battery had been removed, we believe that the car has suffered some mechanical...

An IRS whistleblower's contemporaneous notes of his October 2022 meeting with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss quotes the prosecutor as saying he was "not the deciding person" on charging Hunter Biden with tax crimes, according to documents transmitted by his lawyer to Congress on Thursday, IRS Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley's handwritten notes, obtained by Just the News, call into question both Weiss' representation to Congress as well as other witness testimony released in recent days, according to the letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith from Tristan Leavitt, the president of the Empower Oversight whistleblower center and...

Following Morocco’s devastating earthquake last week, videos emerged online of what appeared to be mysterious lights in the sky before the tremor hit. Blue lights in the sky can be seen flashing above Agadir at the foot of the Atlas Mountains in just hours before Morocco’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck. The sightings have baffled onlookers. “The [Morocco] earthquake happened at nighttime,” geophysicist Dr Friedemann Freund told The Washington Post. “The condition for earthquake lights to be seen by people and maybe even recorded by cameras would be relatively high,” he said. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK.......... The unusual lights are thought...