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Steve Cortes, the ” national spokesman” for the pro-DeSantis SuperPAC Never Back Down, has admitted a presidential rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden “seems inevitable,” during an appearance on the Chicago’s Morning Answer. While laying out the case for Florida Governor DeSantis, Cortes claims voters do not want to see a rematch of 2020, though let slip that Trump’s primary victory appears all-but-certain.“You mentioned earlier about dissatisfaction with a Trump-Biden rematch. On most polling, roughly two-thirds of Americans… do not want that rematch. It is a rematch that nobody wants yet it seems at this moment to be inevitable,”...

To celebrate the iconic show's 30th anniversary, here are the 12 must-see standalone episodes. The X-Files celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, so what better time to look back at one of the most defining TV shows of the 1990s? For those of you who haven’t yet had the pleasure, the Chris Carter-created series followed FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as they investigated a wide range of unexplained supernatural cases. Mulder was the conspiracy theory-obsessed believer, while Scully was sceptical scientist, originally assigned to her partner to debunk his work. The show ran...

A bicycle-mad city in Finland which has a huge problem with bike thefts has its own amateur detectives working hard to reunite stolen bikes with their owners. In a city called Oulu, 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle, where bike theft has reached massive proportions, Ilkka Pulkkinen and his volunteer group, Bike Patrols, are the people to contact, even gaining praise from the police, writes the BBC. Skyrocketing Thefts In A Biker’s Paradise This city, a cycling utopia with over 1,000km of pristine bike paths, is grappling with a rampant bike theft problem, with many of them being stolen...

Former President George W. Bush on Sunday said he was shocked to discover that Yevgeny Prigozhin — the longtime Wagner Group leader — had served him dinner more than 17 years ago. While speaking at the Yalta European Strategy conference, Bush was asked whether he felt the reports of Prigozhin's death in a plane crash were "shocking" to him. The conference was held in Kyiv, but Bush joined via video call. "No, what's shocking to me is I saw a picture the other day of a G8 summit in St. Petersburg, where he was the guy serving me the food,"...

When a man came forward two years ago confessing to three cold case murders, Albuquerque Police called it a ‘gift’ to victims’ families. However, how those confessions were obtained could be thrown out in court. KRQE Investigates has been following the case of accused serial killer, Paul Apodaca, and has the latest from Wednesday’s court hearing. “In a way, that was a gift from the Albuquerque Police Department to her on her birthday that somebody who killed her 33 years later, was charged,” said APD Chief Harold Medina in August of 2021. Two years ago, Chief Medina announced an end...

Explosions and flames wreathed Sevastopol harbor early on Wednesday morning as Kyiv scored another success against Russia's beleaguered Black Sea Fleet, its cruise missiles and drones striking at the heart of Moscow's regional power center. Russia's Defense Ministry said ten cruise missiles and three naval drones attacked Sevastopol, with all three UAVs destroyed and seven missiles shot down. Photos and video from the scene showed Sevastopol's drydock area engulfed in flames, with the Minsk Ropucha-class large landing ship and Rostov-on-Don Kilo-class attack submarine believed to have been damaged. -snip- ighteen months of war have been punctuated with multiple humiliations for...

~ The Star Spangled Banner ~Written by Francis Scott Key (1814) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. The War of 1812 had been a particularly nasty conflict with the British. They had burned down the Capitol and the White House in Washington, and were set on taking the port of Baltimore, which was protected in part by Fort McHenry, just to the south. On September 7th, 1814, during the build-up to the attack on Baltimore, two Americans, Colonel John Skinner and...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) took a shot at former President Donald Trump and criticized him for his lack of “leadership” during his Wednesday announcement that he is not seeking reelection in 2024. Romney criticized Trump for calling “global warming a hoax” in a video statement he released. Romney also said, “neither President Biden nor former President Trump are leading their party to confront” the “critical challenges” facing the country like the “mounting national debt, climate change, and the ambitious authoritarians of Russia and China.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to visit North Korea, Pyongyang's state-run KCNA news agency said on Thursday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un extended the invitation to Putin after attending the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. "Putin accepted the invitation with pleasure and reaffirmed his will to invariably carry forward the history and tradition of the Russia-DPRK friendship," KCNA said. Earlier, on Wednesday, Kim vowed Pyongyang's "full and unconditional support" for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. North Korean state media said the two leaders leaders committed themselves to a "common front to frustrate the imperialists' military threat and...

The contradiction may pose problems for the left-wing lawmaker, who has not disclosed her fiancé’s finances Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D., N.Y.) office says she isn’t married. But she has described her fiancé, Riley Roberts, as her "spouse" in forms filed with the House Ethics Committee in 2023, which has a strict definition of that term—"someone to whom you are legally married." That could become a problem for the left-wing darling, since willful misrepresentations on the documents are a no-no—they could subject her to criminal prosecution, the forms state—and members of Congress are required to disclose the financial information of their...

A psychiatrist weighs in on how hazardous social media challenges can beWelcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral medical topics. A Massachusetts teen's death after reportedly consuming a single spicy tortilla chip at the center of a social media challenge is raising alarm. Though the cause of the 14-year-old's death was not immediately clear, his mother told the New York Timesopens in a new tab or window that one of the last things her son ate was a Paqui brand chip from a coffin-shaped container with a...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Wednesday on her show “Deadline” that Mark Meadows, who served as chief of staff under former President Donald Trump, was so “exposed” in the Georgia criminal RICO case he is “naked with his rear end hanging out.” After playing clips from The House Select Committee investigating January 6, Wallace said, “I want to deal with this intent and this knowledge of illegality first, so, Cippolone and Jacob, based on their testimony to the committee, are the ones saying in all of these meetings to anyone that’s listening that the plot is illegal, the fake electors...

During an interview airing on CBS Evening News, Florida’s Governor was blunt about former President Donald Trump’s chances — or lack thereof — of winning the presidency if convicted in any of his upcoming trials. “I think the chance of getting elected President after being convicted of a felony is as close to zero as you can get,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis. “I didn’t think even before all this, that the former President should have run again. I mean, I think that there’s too many voters (for whom) he’s a deal breaker for them,” DeSantis told Norah O’Donnell. The comments...

A Jamaican man revealed he has been growing his dreadlocks for over 40 years and had to stand on a roof to show them off. In the 45-second clip posted on @jamaicaviralofficial‘s Instagram page, the man, whose name was not disclosed, stands on top of a house to let down his dreadlocks. While it’s unclear how long his locks are, his tresses go past his feet. “You haven’t seen any hair like this,” said a bystander. “A real locks this.”

I have a Verizon fios 75/75 internet speed deal but every speed test except Verizon's shows really low times.I can't figure out why the discrepancy between all of the search testers? (All of them show more or less the same similar slow speeds .. except Verizon!)Looking for ideas. Btw: The tests are all done on my android phone. (Haven't run one on my PC yet.)See results below.RANDOM SITE TESTERVERIZON'S TESTER

New COVID boosters that will be available by week's end are receiving some scrutiny due to clinical trials being performed on mice and not humans. The boosters made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna were approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday. On Tuesday, a panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted 13-1 in favor of its broad use for individuals 6 months and older due to fears of increased respiratory illnesses nationwide this fall and winter. The new vaccines will be available at national pharmacies including CVS and Walgreens, and at local...

Researchers are urging people to stop wearing unclean socks to bed after discovering that they often contain the same bacteria found in cockroaches and their fecal droppings. Experts obtained by Mattress Next Day polled 1,017 Brits about their sleeping habits and discovered that 18% wear socks while sleeping. A sickening 70% of those sock-wearers don’t bother changing into a clean pair before bed, instead staying in the same pair that they’ve worn all day long.

A federal judge for the second time found the DACA program unlawful, but held back from ordering the deportation of the nearly 600,000 people who remain in the country as “Dreamers.” The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, first crafted with a 2012 memo under the Obama administration, was likewise found unlawful by federal District Court Judge Andrew Hanen in a similar ruling in 2021. “While sympathetic to the predicament of DACA recipients and their families, this Court has expressed its concerns about the legality of the program for some time,” Hanen wrote in the 40-page ruling. “The solution for...

Alex Rodriguez ratted out his fellow cheating stars. The former Yankees third baseman revealed to federal agents in 2014 he had been told by Biogenesis founder Anthony Bosch that Manny Ramirez, Ryan Braun and one other All-Star player were also performance-enhancing drug clients, according to documents obtained by ESPN. The third All-Star has never tested positive for PEDs and was not named in the story. Rodriguez gave the agents those names when he met with two assistant U.S. Department of Justice attorneys and seven Drug Enforcement Administration agents on Jan. 29, 2014.

Proper nutrition has been shown to reduce cancer risk, noted Dr. Brian Slomovitz, director of gynecologic oncology and co-chair of the Cancer Research Committee at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida. “First, we know that the rate of obesity is high and only increasing — and it’s a risk factor for many cancers,” he told Fox News Digital. “A healthy, balanced diet will help to decrease these cancers.” A healthy diet may also limit fatigue and promote increased physical activity, which can also help with prevention, the doctor added.