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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Tuesday that it has arrested an illegal immigrant charged with felony rape by force, threat, or intimidation; abduction by force, and assault on a family member in Herndon, Virginia. Officials say the man illegally entered the United States on an unknown date, at an unknown location, and without being inspected or admitted by an immigration official. "This undocumented Honduran national has proven to be a detriment to our community and a threat to Virginia residents," said ERO Washington D.C. Field Office Director Russell Hott, "ERO Washington remains committed to apprehending criminals who are released...

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a rally on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Hialeah, FL. The rally will take place at the Ted Hendricks Stadium at Henry Milander Park. Rally speakers will deliver remarks at 5:00 p.m. ET before President Trump takes the stage at 7:00 p.m. ET. RSBN will be LIVE with all-day coverage beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET.

Five Republican presidential candidates will debate in Miami tonight.

Republican candidate Bob Anderson claimed victory Wednesday morning in the race for Loudoun County Commonwealth’s attorney while leading incumbent Buba Biberaj by 0.76%, according to vote tallies. Anderson claimed victory in a post on X while leading by 1,021 votes, according to the Virginia Department of Elections, Fox 5 DC. Biberaj ran on an agenda of reducing incarceration in 2019, and received significant financial support from a super PAC funded by George Soros. Biberaj gained notoriety after she personally prosecuted Scott Smith, who was arrested during a raucous June 22, 2021 school board meeting in Loudoun County, for disorderly conduct....

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) says his state’s vote Tuesday to enshrine abortion rights “was a gut punch” for anti-abortion officials such as himself. In a lengthy post online, Vance, who campaigned against the effort to ensure abortion access, attempted to parse out why the measure won with support from nearly 57 percent of voters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday welcomed the European Union executive's recommendation to open membership talks with Kyiv, describing it as the "right step in history." "Ukrainians deserve this both for their protection of European values, and for the fact that even at times of a full-scale war, we keep our word by developing state institutions," he said on Telegram messenger. Top European Union officials recommended Wednesday that Ukraine be invited to begin membership talks as soon as it meets final conditions, taking Kyiv a step closer to its major strategic goal even as it struggles to repel Russia's invasion.

A network of "sophisticated" high-end brothels in greater Boston and eastern Virginia provided sex for pay to "elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors," and others, federal prosecutors said Wednesday...Charged in the case were Han "Hana" Lee, 41, Junmyung Lee, 30, and 68-year-old James Lee.

AbstractNitazenes are a group of compounds developed in the 1950s as opioid analgesics, but they were never approved to market. As such, they are not well known outside of academic research laboratories. A characteristic of nitazenes is their high potency (e.g., hundreds to thousands fold more potent than morphine and other opioids and tenfold more potent than fentanyl). In the past few years, several nitazenes, including “designer analogs,” have been detected in the illicit drug supply and have been implicated in overdose mortality, primarily due to their exceptionally high potency. In the street drug supply, nitazenes are often found mixed...

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FKTs are dropping like flies. But the strategy for making miles might be impacting hikers' health. Updated MICAH LING After seven weeks of what felt like non-stop motion on the PCT, Nick Fowler began seeing things. Boulders looked like objects. Trees became people. He had endured every different kind of weather, and while the scenery was non-stop beautiful, he was spending most of his time looking at his feet, and the rocks he was tripping over. “I don’t know if these were hallucinations, or if I just really wanted them to be there, but multiple times when I had only...

The drug ketamine can reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and symptoms of depression in patients as early as a day after injection. That is the key finding of my team’s new meta-analysis, just published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Ketamine is an anesthetic that is sometimes used as a substance of abuse but is increasingly being explored as a treatment for a range of mental health conditions. We analyzed six randomized controlled trials representing 259 patients with moderate to severe PTSD. In all trials, about half were injected with ketamine. The rest received either salt...

After promising in 2016 that "for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two centrist Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia," Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has had the last laugh repeatedly, and election night 2023 is no exception. Although the ink is still drying on the exit polls and outstanding ballots are still being counted, there is no way of getting around it: Republicans once again widely underperformed, and they did so in the races that faced the most national scrutiny. Above all, the string of disappointments suffered since 2018 makes clear that the...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The President of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, announced today that the university has installed Jew detectors at all entrances. "This is a step in the right direction," President Gay told reporters. "It might not be the last step. We are always looking for a final solution to the Jewish problem on campus." The move to install Jew detectors at all entrances comes amidst a wave of anti-semitic attacks on campus. The hope in using the detector system is that, once detected, Jewish students can be safely concentrated away in a location or camp where they will be...

New York City has led the US with the sharpest increase in the number of reported shoplifting incidents since before the pandemic, according to a study. The Big Apple saw a 64% increase in reported incidents of retail theft during the four-year period between mid-2019 and June of this year, while Los Angeles experienced a 61% surge in the same metric, according to the Council on Criminal Justice. Despite the spike in reported shoplifting incidents, New York City saw an 8% decrease in the first half of 2023, according to the study. A New York Police Department spokesperson pointed to...

20:30 - The security bodies in Brazil together with the Mossad thwarted an attack planned by the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The Mossad: "We thank the security forces in Brazil for arresting a terrorist cell. These days, against the background of the war in Gaza, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continue to operate around the world to carry out terrorist attacks." 20:27 - IDF spokesman, Lt. Col. Daniel Hagari, updated that the updated number of abductees stands at 239. In the daily statement to the media, Hagari said: "We captured many weapons - including more than 700 RPGs. We hit the...

On Tuesday, reports of a gas leak at a polling place that extended vote-counting hours had many armchair observers wondering if this was a repeat of the infamous State Farm Arena incident in 2020, when a water leak was reported in the early hours of Election Day. But the Democratic faithful were quick to fire back that there was no basis to believe that the gas leak had anything to do with the Democratic incumbent Andy Beshear’s declared victory in the deep red state. Officials are refuting online claims that a gas leak at one polling place in Kentucky’s largest...

A new Covid-19 variant, named JN.1, has spread to at least 12 countries since it was first detected in September. However, the virus still makes up only a tiny proportion of Covid cases, meaning there is not enough data to understand if it is more transmissible than previous variants – or whether vaccines will be able to protect against. JN.1 is a descendent of the BA.2.86 variant known as Pirola, an Omicron substrain which first emerged in the summer. It initially caused concern given the high number of mutations compared to Omicron, which remains the dominant strain behind current infections....

The Republican Party checked itself into a rehab facility this morning, having hit rock-bottom in the throes of its addiction to losing. "Once we got that first taste of losing, we just couldn't stop," said Ronna McDaniel, Chairwoman of the Republican Party. "Next thing you know, you have to lose even bigger just to match the thrill of that first crushing defeat. It's a vicious cycle." Over the last several years, friends have watched the Republican Party steadily descend into addiction, with one loss inevitably leading to dozens more. "The Republican Party kept saying it didn't have a problem, that...

A grandad who became an online meme after eating half a tub of paint he thought was yoghurt has died. Bobby, also known as ‘Paint-Eating Grandpa’ from New York, gained fame in 2019 when his granddaugther Alex shared a picture of him eating the paint. She later confirmed on Instagram that her granddad died peacefully in his sleep earlier this year in June. Alex posted an emotional statement alongside a compilation of pictures and videos of him which was shared on TikTok. The caption read: ‘Today would’ve been Bobby’s 92nd birthday. ‘For those who don’t know, he passed away peacefully...

The House Oversight Committee issued three subpoenas on Wednesday for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, his brother, James Biden, and a Biden family business associate, Rob Walker. These are three of the most consequential subpoenas that House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has filed during his investigation. The subpoenas are for depositions for testimony related to the House GOP's ongoing impeachment inquiry. Hunter Biden and James Biden are centerpieces of Comer’s investigation into Biden and his family’s overseas business. Through their investigation, they have found that Hunter Biden received millions from foreign oligarchs and companies. Walker was a business...