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The U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee (E&C) has revealed that the Chinese government not only knew of the COVID-19 virus weeks before admitting its existence, but that Chinese researchers had already sequenced the virus's genome. The genome, of course, not only yields clues as to the origins of the virus but may also show genetic relationships to known viruses.The genetic work was done in the late fall/early winter of 2019, two weeks before the Chinese government admitted the existence of the virus.House Republicans said Thursday that the genetic sequence for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two related cases challenging a 40-year-old precedent that requires courts to defer to the judgment of federal agencies in administrative law cases. At the end of three-and-a-half hours of arguments, a majority seemed disposed to overturn Chevron vs. Natural Resources Defense Council, and consign the so-called "Chevron deference" principle to the compost heap of terrible Supreme Court precedents.Ever since the creation of the administrative state during the administration of our first socialist president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, federal agencies have assumed the authority to interpret federal statutes pretty much as they please. This became...

There's been a lot of talk about Donald Trump picking Nikki Haley as his vice president lately, and that hasn't exactly been a popular idea among most conservatives. To be fair, the speculation has been driven by the fact that the former president's campaign steadfastly refuses to rule it out while having no problem panning prospects like Vivek Ramaswamy. Something is afoot. But is there another? According to a new report, Trump is seriously considering Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for the spot. Of note is that RedState's own Ward Clark called this recently. Scoop: Donald Trump is seriously considering House...

A 30-minute walk at moderate intensity temporarily reduced blood pressure in women with rheumatoid arthritis, not only at rest but also under stress. This was the conclusion drawn from a study involving physical and cognitive tests. According to Peçanha, the findings can apply to other autoimmune inflammatory diseases, such as lupus, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory myopia, and juvenile lupus. The 24-hour monitoring test showed that exercise lowered systolic pressure by 5 mmHg on average. "This amount of reduction is significant, correlating with a 14% lower risk of death from stroke, a 9% lower risk of death from coronary arterial disease, and...

Hopelessness is at epidemic levels and taking a toll on people and organizations. Workers of all ages are feeling more hopeless than ever. A national poll released this past spring by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School found that nearly half of Americans under 30 years old reported feeling “down, depressed, or hopeless” at least several days a week. In 2023, U.S. employee engagement fell at a rate 10 times faster than in the previous three years, according to one estimate. Globally, employee stress is at a record high, according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2023...

Two brand spanking new polls out of New Hampshire are very bad news for Nikki Haley, aka Birdbrain, aka Nikki New Taxes, aka Nikki da Neocon. As it turns out, the Coalition of the Lukewarm (heavily suburban, female, college-educated milquetoast independents and Trump-hating Democrats) that she is putting together doesn’t appear to be enough to deliver her the Granite State. The first poll to sound the alarm for Nikki was released earlier today, and it was sponsored by the Boston Globe. The poll shows Trump with an absolutely massive lead with New Hampshire Republicans, and, even worse for Nikki, he’s...

BEIJING -- The effects of China's flagging economy on employment are extending beyond university graduates having trouble finding work, as workers in their 30s face increased risk of termination and struggle to find new jobs. "We're looking to hire people born after 1990, and are unable to offer you a position at this time," a 35-year-old living in Foshan, Guangdong province, was told when he went for a job interview. Born in 1988, the man -- who used the pseudonym Zhao -- was turned away because of his age. Zhao has worked for several manufacturers of automobiles and related parts....

We are told that there are three tickets out of Iowa, and sure enough, when Vivek Ramaswamy came in fourth in 2024, he could read the writing on the wall, and dropped out, leaving President Trump with over 50 percent, and both Governor DeSantis and Governor Haley a very distant second and third. For her part, Nikki Haley decided she needed to show she could be decisive – presidential – in some way, despite her embarrassing Iowa showing, so she announced that she wouldn’t participate in the next debate unless President Trump showed up. A one-on-one debate between DeSantis and...

Do you care about fentanyl, New Hampshire? Every year, more than 400 of your fellow Granite Staters die from drug overdoses, mostly from fentanyl. Nikki Haley promises to keep the fentanyl pipeline open. You can't have missed it -- she says it at every speech, debate, town hall, roundtable, meet-and-greet, TV interview and casual conversation: -- "We have to kick this where it starts. And that means you go to China and say, 'We will end all normal trade relations with you until you stop killing Americans.' We have to be that firm, we have to be that tough." --...

Pakistan launches strikes inside Iran, Pakistan intelligence official says - AFP

Scientists believe that aging can increase the spread of ovarian and other cancers. Now, researchers have found that ovarian cancer cells can spread more easily in tissues that are senescent or aged because these tissues secrete a unique extracellular matrix that attracts the spreading cancer. What they found was that the cancer cells chose to settle down more on the aged tissues; moreover, they settled closer to the aged normal cells in the cell sheets. To figure out what was drawing the cancer cells to the aged cells, the team first wondered if they were being attracted to signaling molecules...

What was a routine food run for the firefighters of Pierce County Fire District 13 Monday turned into a troubling crime when their firetruck was robbed. While inside a Tacoma grocery store, customers alerted the crew a group of people pulled alongside the truck in a U-Haul and ransacked it. “I was in disbelief for a second,” firefighter Alandra Swords said. “It took me a minute to comprehend what they were saying, and then I immediately raced out of the store.” Expensive, lifesaving equipment was stolen, the crew reported. “They got away with all of our saws – our chainsaw,...

Massachusetts Republicans painted a bleak picture Wednesday night of a state spending billions on shelters, tax revenues in decline,residents fleeing for other parts of the country,and a lackluster education system for students. Sen. Peter Durant,a Spencer Republican, offered the stark and dark portrait of Massachusetts in response to Gov. Maura Healey’s State of the Commonwealth address, which cast the state as having a “strong” economy and made clear some of the governor’s spending goals in the fiscal year 2025 budget. But Durant invoked immigration,education, housing, efforts to fight climate change, and underperforming revenues as sore points on Beacon Hill that...

Well, what can we say, 2024 is making itself stand out among the craziest of the 2020's. She's a Nazi, she's trans and she's on a rampage! Fortunately, the FBI got her just in time. Here are the deets. 🚨#BREAKING: The FBI has Arrested Transgender Woman Plotting Violence Against Jews, Black People, and Allegedly Targeting Transphobic Co-workers with Nazi Imagery and Stockpile of Guns and Ammunition⁰⁰📌#CottageGrove | #Oregon The FBI has arrested a 56-year-old transgender… pic.twitter.com/73mHn8VZfa — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 17, 2024 #BREAKING: The FBI has Arrested Transgender Woman Plotting Violence...

Abstract Repeated blood pressure (BP) measurements allow better control of hypertension. Current measurements rely on cuff-based devices. The aim of the present study was to compare BP measurements using a novel cuff-less photoplethysmography-based device to a standard sphygmomanometer device. Males and females were recruited from within the general population who arrived at a public BP screening station. One to two measurements were taken from each using a sphygmomanometer-based and the photoplethysmography-based devices. Devices were considered equal if the mean difference between paired measurements was below 5 mmHg and the Standard Deviation (SD) was no greater than 8 mmHg. Agreement and...

A 33-year-old former jail guard in New Mexico has been arrested for allegedly killing the husband of the woman with whom he was having an affair, using his truck to intentionally run over the man as his wife looked on in horror. Christopher Facey was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with one count each of second-degree murder, accident involving death, and homicide by vehicle in the slaying of Guadalupe Maldonado, authorities announced. According to a news release from the Albuquerque Police Department, Facey met up with Maldonado’s wife in the parking lot of a dog park in the...

Jan 16, N=1398, Trump 52, Haley 38, DeSantis 6

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033, located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). The galaxy is similar in size to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, at just over 100,000 light-years across. (Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the center of this image is a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun that is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. (NASA, ESA, and STScI)...

A group of students, and at least one donor, claim that the Technion's administration is not doing enough against the supporters of the Hamas organization that were discovered at the institution." The Technion began disciplinary proceedings against four Israeli Arab students who allegedly incited or expressed support for the actions of the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7. Against one of the students against whom a criminal proceeding was initiated and her name was mixed with the kidnapping deal as a stop released by Hamas - it was decided at the Technion not to allow her to continue her studies....

CDC later sent alerts encouraging people to get vaccinated. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prepared to alert state and local officials to an emerging connection between heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccines, but ultimately did not send the alert, according to a new document obtained by The Epoch Times. All four COVID-19 vaccines that are or have been available in the United States can cause the heart inflammation, or myocarditis, according to studies, experts, and agencies like the CDC. The first cases were reported shortly after the vaccines became available in late 2020. The CDC sends alerts...