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The Israeli military says its forces have entered Gaza’s Shifa hospital, the site of a lengthy standoff. The army had surrounded the facility as part of its ground offensive against Hamas, claiming the terrorist group conceals military operations in the hospital complex. But with hundreds of patients and medical personnel inside, it had refrained from entering. Early Wednesday, the army said its forces were carrying out “a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area” in the hospital. It gave no further details but said it was taking steps to avoid harm to civilians. In a statement, the...

Rumours are circulating that Vladimir Putin has died, and that his corpse is being stored in a freezer in his luxurious woodland palace. The General SVR Telegram Channel, supposedly led by a Kremlin insider, claimed the Russian President had succumbed to a number of health issues last month. A heart attack was said to have been the final blow, with a body double now filling in for the despot. The channel continues to state that Putin is dead despite the Kremlin refuting the claims. A Telegram post earlier this week said the body was "in the freezer at his residence...

The British government's plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled. Lord Reed rules that there were substantial grounds to believe that genuine refugees sent to the country could be at risk of being returned to countries from which they have fled. The home secretary's appealed is therefore dismissed, Lord Reed says.

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En-darkened modernists claim scientific neutrality as a general operating assumption. Two applications of modernist thought evidence this: deconstructionism (destructive criticism/critical theory) and evolution (anti-creation account/relentless change/relativism), an inverted exegesis that deconstructs and reduces man in the spiritual image of the Trinity to evolved ape. Along with evolution, deconstructionism is a form of relativism or nihilism that for more than eighty years has been spilling into and contaminating our moral and culture sustaining institutions from seminaries and Biblical scholarship to academia, law, media, arts, and politics, thence our minds, individually and collectively. (2)The origin of the neutrality principle is the Garden...

Bill Gates is buying up massive amounts of farmland while investing in patented fertilizers, fake meat and bankrupting small farmers. A new book aimed at “exposing the billionaire class” called “Controligarchs” examines billionaires like Bill Gates and their levers of power that dominate everyday life.

THE LATEST FROM LONDON: Christmas decorations are a cause of oppression and suffering so have been replaced with something equitable and tolerant.Reviewers: “All the Nativity plays were stopped in schools years ago. Someone is stopping all Christian celebrations. It is a disgrace.““London was once famous for its beautiful christmas lights and decorations . This is disgraceful and very sad indeed .”

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House lawmakers on Tuesday attended a screening on Capitol Hill of the video assembled by the Israeli government which shows footage of Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel on October 7. The roughly 45-minute video includes graphic footage of the murders and atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel that day. Some of the footage was taken from the terrorists’ body cameras. The screening was attended by lawmakers from both parties, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Greg Casar (D-TX), and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). According to Jewish Insider, lawmakers left the screening largely in grave silence, visibly shaken, several...

The shooter, who has not been officially named, had been on a terror watchlist He was flagged to the FBI before he killed elite Texas cop Jorge Pastore Saturday Three others who died were Eman Ahmed El Nemr-Nassar, a mother, Ahmed Mohamed Nassar, 35, her son and Riad Mohamed Nassar, 32, her other son The gunman who shot dead a hero Texas SWAT officer during a hostage situation was on the terror watchlist, DailyMail.com can reveal. The FBI had investigated members of the shooter's family before Saturday's killing of top cop Jorge Pastore, law enforcement sources said. Cops responded to...

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a multifaceted complication of diabetes that lacks effective treatments. Berberine (BBR), a bioactive compound from Rhizoma coptidis, has potential therapeutic implications, but its precise role in diabetic cardiomyopathy has yet to be defined. In a new study, a diabetic cardiomyopathy model was established by administration of a high-fat diet and streptozotocin injection to C57BL/6J mice. Concurrently, the mice received BBR treatment daily for a duration of eight weeks. After the treatment period, myocardial injury, cardiac function, and the levels of oxidative stress and apoptosis were assessed. BBR significantly ameliorated cardiac dysfunction and histopathological damage caused by diabetic...

More than a dozen volcanos are erupting at the same time worldwide, and three new eruptions joined the list this week. The Smithsonian Institute’s Global Volcanism Program tracks new eruptions and updates its list of currently erupting volcanos on Wednesdays. The most recent update shows three new eruptions, bringing the list’s total to 19 eruptions at once. The list doesn’t include all erupting volcanos. The new volcanic eruptions have some people voicing their concerns on social media. “Volcanoes erupt simultaneously in Italy, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Philippines, etc. Below is a volcanic activity map of 2013 vs 2023.Totally normal, right?”...

A year ago today, Oba Chandler was executed by lethal injection in Florida for the brutal triple homicide of a Willshire, Ohio mother and her two teenage daughters. Thirty-six-year-old Joan Mae “Jo” Rogers and her daughters Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14, were vacationing in Florida when they vanished on June 1, 1989. Three days later their bodies turned up in the Tampa Bay. All three were naked from the waist down and had their hands and feet bound, their mouths taped shut, and concrete blocks tied to their necks. Michelle had managed to free one arm before she drowned. The...

While high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking are well known heart disease risks, not everyone who has a heart attack has them. In fact, previous research has shown that 14% to 27% of heart attack patients have none of these risk factors. Now, a new study finds that these patients had one thing in common: they all tended to have high levels of coronary calcium. Results of the study show that scans that detect this kind of plaque buildup should be considered as part of their standard care, even in the absence of the four standard modifiable risk...

Nearly everyone can lower their blood pressure, even people currently on blood pressure- reducing drugs, by lowering sodium intake, reports a study. "In the study, middle age to elderly participants reduced salt intake by about one teaspoon a day compared with their usual diet. The result was a decline in systolic blood pressure by about 6 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), which is comparable to the effect produced by a commonly utilized first-line medication for high blood pressure," said Deepak Gupta, M.D., MSCI. "We found that 70-75% of all people, regardless of whether they are already on blood pressure medications...

Hundreds of Jewish people headed to Tuesday’s pro-Israel rally in DC were left stranded when bus drivers staged “a deliberate and malicious walk-off,’’ a major Jewish organization said. The “anti-protest” left a charted flight from Detroit — about 300 people — on the Dulles Airport tarmac for about 11 hours before being sent back home, causing them to miss the entire March for Israel event. “I thought it was nuts, I thought it was crazy that we’re blocked from getting to the rally,” Jonathan Kaufman told The Post, adding that there were “frantic” calls to find out what was happening...

EXPOSED: Catholics for Choice is NOT Catholic. Surprised? We're not. This 5 minute video explains the background and digs deep into who "Catholics for Choice" really are. Follow the money.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — New Hampshire's secretary of state plans to announce the date of the first-in-the-nation primary Wednesday afternoon. Secretary of State David Scanlan has some options for when he can schedule the primary and comply with New Hampshire state law, which mandates that the presidential primary be held seven or more days ahead of a "similar election." If the primary can't be on a Tuesday, the secretary of state can call a special election for other days of the week. Scanlan has previously said that Saturdays are on the table if needed. Iowa has already set its caucus date...

Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Alabama-born Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for her portrayal of Mildred Ratched, the sadistic, tyrannical nurse who presides over the hospital ward which houses Jack Nicholson’s Randle Patrick McMurphy in Miloš Forman’s moving tragicomedy. Thanks to her perfectly calibrated performance, the character became a byword for institutional abuses of power, not to mention one of the most memorable movie villains of all time

A young Ohio man has pleaded guilty to attempting to burn down Community Church of Chesterland in Ohio in an attempt to halt the church from hosting its Drag Queen Story Hour. Aimenn D. Penny, 20, threw two Molotov cocktails at the church on March 25 the weekend before two planned drag queen events. He is slated to be sentenced in January, and could spend up to 20 years in prison for violating the Church Arson Prevention Act with a mandatory sentence of 10 years, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The federal law was enacted in 1996 following...