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Upstate New York’s Siena College is coming under fire for inviting a medical professor to speak on campus — despite her claiming that Zionist doctors could pose a threat to US medicine and public health. “The presence of Zionism in US medicine should be examined as a structural impediment to health equity,” Dr. Rupa Marya, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, posted on X last week. “Zionism is a supremacist; racist ideology and we see Zionist doctors justifying the genocide of Palestinians,” she continued. “How does their outlook/position impact priorities in US medicine?”

Even Pat McAfee has had enough of the Aaron Rodgers drama. The ESPN host announced at the start of “The Pat McAfee Show” on Wednesday that the Jets quarterback has made his final appearance of the season. “There will be a lot of people who are happy with that, myself included to be honest with you,” McAfee said. “The way it ended, it got really loud. I am happy that he’s not going to be in my mentions going forward, which is great news.” Rodgers was originally scheduled to appear throughout the playoffs, The Post’s Andrew Marchand reported.

They’re being paid to protest. What many have suspected has now been confirmed by this newspaper and a few courageous Canadians: pro-Palestine — and, increasingly, pro-Hamas — protestors are being paid to protest. To block highways and roads. To intimidate and threaten Jews and non-Jews. To cause chaos. They’re being paid. In years past, anti-Israel protests were typically small, disorganized and ineffective. Not many people came out. Since Oct. 7, when 1,200 Israeli men, women, children and babies were slaughtered, and hundreds taken hostage, the protests have been dramatically different. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, participate. They’ve got professionally-rendered signs and banners....

Nick Saban’s retiring as the University of Alabama football coach, ESPN reported Wednesday afternoon, turning a long inevitability into a stark reality and sending shockwaves throughout the college football world. It ends arguably the greatest run in college football history where the once famously-nomadic Saban finally planted roots and rebuilt a decaying empire. By reviving a struggling Crimson Tide program — winning 80.6% of his games and seven national titles — Saban placed his name among the all-time greats. That includes Paul “Bear” Bryant, the Alabama coach from six whose national title mark Saban passed in 2020.

A millionaire conwoman has been accused of swindling the US Army out of $100million over six years by putting cash into her fake military youth business and splurging it on 31 homes and more than 70 supercars and motorcycles. Mello worked for the US Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas as a CYS Financial Program Manager. In 2016, she allegedly created a shell company, Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development, which she fraudulently used to collect money from the 4-H military partnership grant. The firm, which was meant to help the children of army personnel, allegedly never...

Mark 1:29-39 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus heals many of the townspeople of Capernaum. His healing of physical ailments points to his spiritual healing—to his being the doctor of the soul.The Gospels are filled with accounts of Jesus’ healing encounters with those whose spiritual energies are unable to flow. Much of Jesus’ ministry consisted in teaching people how to see (the kingdom of God), how to hear (the voice of the Spirit), how to walk (overcoming the paralysis of the heart), and how to be free of themselves so as to discover God.Jesus was referred to in the early Church...

Chris Christie was seemingly just caught on a hot mic from the livestream before his N.H. town hall. Of Nikki Haley, he said "she's going to get smoked, and you and I both know it. She’s not up to this." He also said Ron DeSantis "called me, petrified."

The Ohio House on Wednesday voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine's, R, veto of a ban on gender-related treatments for minors and transgender participation in school sports on teams that do not align with their sex. The House voted 65-28 in favor of overriding his veto of House Bill 68, The Hill reported. Republicans have a supermajority in the state Senate and are expected to hold their own vote later this month. DeWine last month vetoed the gender treatment restrictions and the transgender sports ban, saying "I believe parents rather than government should be making those important medical decisions." His...

A South Carolina couple was found dead in their house over the weekend after police said the home heater reached 1,000 degrees, according to a police report. Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said Monday officials were still investigating the deaths of the man and woman. The names of the victims were not released. More news: Heavy rain, high winds move into the area Tuesday: Here are the expected impacts In a report from the Spartanburg Police Department, police said they and medics were called just after 6 p.m. Saturday to the home on Woodview Avenue by the family to make...

In the vast depths of the ocean, scientists have made an amazing discovery in a seemingly unassuming creature: the sea squirt. Researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria have uncovered how sea squirt oocytes (immature egg cells) utilize friction within their interior compartments to trigger developmental changes after conception. This revelation opens a new chapter in our understanding of the forces that shape life.

Rescue teams are searching for potential victims at a famous ski resort near Lake Tahoe after an avalanche. Palisades Tahoe said its patrol and mountain operations teams were searching the area after the avalanche, which occurred at about 9:30 a.m. local time Wednesday, shortly after ski lifts typically open. The Placer County sheriff’s office tweeted it was also responding to the avalanche.

Nick Saban is calling it a career. The longtime Alabama head coach told his team on Wednesday afternoon that he was retiring, according to ESPN's Chris Low.

Small study showed less "disgust" among care home workers compared with controlsHealthcare workers were less likely to be grossed out by things that might make others queasy, British researchers found. In a small, non-peer-reviewed study, people who worked in care homes had lower levels of self-reported disgust and were less likely to look away from unpleasant images than controls who didn't work in healthcare, reported Edwin Dalmaijer, DPhil, of the University of Bristol in England, and colleagues in medRxivopens in a new tab or window. Some of those images included "heavily soiled toilets and bloody bandages," Dalmaijer told MedPage Today...

Plane passengers have been horrified after a fellow traveler pooped their pants on their flight - and left the feces 'spread out like peanut butter' all over the seat. One of the disgusted travelers took to Reddit to share their dismay over the situation - and it quickly went viral, while sparking some suggestions that it may have been a fabricated story. The Reddit user explained that they were on an early morning Delta flight from Birmingham, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, with their eight-year-old daughter on Christmas Eve, and about 20 minutes after takeoff, they started to smell something 'terrible.'...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel must cooperate with the United Nations in Gaza to get aid to civilians as Israel enters its fourth month of war with militant group Hamas. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell pressed Blinken on why there is still a lack of humanitarian aid entering Gaza. Blinken said it’s necessary for Israel to work with the U.N. to get the much-needed aid into Gaza, where 90 percent of the population is eating less than one meal a day. “It is imperative that Israel work with the United Nations. It’s imperative that this assistance get in, that more...

CUMBERLAND, Thursday, Jan. 7, 1864. A dispatch just received from Col. THOBURN, commanding at Petersburgh, informs me that the rebel force threatening him for several days past has retreated toward the Shenandoah Valley. The force was a formidable one, consisting of three brigades LEE'S WALKER'S and ROSSER'S all under the command of Gen. FITZHUGH LEE. Deserters report that it was the intention of LEE to capture the garrison at Petersburgh, take New Creek and Cumberland, destroy our stores, break the railroad by burning the bridges, &c., &c. I am happy to inform you that the great raid undertaken by Gen....

Parents and pols are outraged that students were booted from a Brooklyn school to make room for nearly 2,000 migrants during Tuesday’s storm — and warned it could become part of the city’s playbook as officials stumble to keep pace with the runaway migrant crisis. “We never know what’s going to happen with the weather,” state Assemblyman Michael Novakhov (R-Brooklyn) said outside James Madison High School. “They can be moved here again depending on the weather conditions,” Novakhov said. “If the weather is bad again are migrants supposed to be moved to this school again? Because schools are not the...

Openly, flamboyantly gay rapper Lil Nas X’ (Montero Lamar Hill), perhaps best known for his hit ‘Old Town Road’ and releasing the controversial ‘Devil’s shoes’, continues to intentionally and deliberately troll Christians. A month ago, he announced he was entering into his ‘Christian music phase’. He followed up this claim with a real real action, revealing he was releasing a new single on January 12 titled ‘J Christ.’ Billboard explains: “The cover art for the new track sees the rapper taking Jesus’ place on a crucifix as five bystanders begin to raise him off the ground. A second video clip...

Donald Trump won’t deliver his own closing statement at his New York civil fraud trial after all — after the judge said he needed to stick to “relevant, material facts.” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron emailed Trump attorney Christopher Kise Wednesday saying he was assuming the 77-year-old former president wouldn’t agree to the “lawful limits” and “therefore, he will not be speaking in court tomorrow.” Kise first notified the judge in a January 4 email that after the lawyers give their arguments in the $370 million case on Thursday, “President Trump plans to present argument at closing as well,”...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is one of the vilest denominations in America. Pro-homosexuality, pro-choice, and posessing a preternatural hatred for the Bible, it’s populated almost exclusively by spiritually decrepit senior citizens and virtue-twerking LGBTQ twenty-somethings. Less than 1% of the congregants in the denomination are saved, as you can only submit to a satanic pastor for so long without getting a little demonic yourself. We’ve written about them before, in Lutheran Pastor Promotes Hookups, Polyamory, and Premarital Sex , ELCA Leader in a Polyamorous/’Ethically Non-Monogamous’ Relationship, the time where After Annual Meeting, Lutheran Leadership+ Pastors Celebrate in...