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A new movie starring actress Emma Stone is being criticized for featuring children in an adult sex scene, further raising alarm for how much children are sexualized in Hollywood and in overall culture. In an apparent twist on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” “Poor Things” tells the story of a woman named Bella Baxter, played by Stone, who initially committed suicide while pregnant. A mad scientist finds her body and takes the brain of her preborn child, implants it into Bella’s body, and resurrects her. This results in a living person with an adult woman’s body and an infant’s mind. From the...

Higher power demand and efforts to boost energy security pushed China’s coal production to a record-high level in 2023, ... Chinese coal output rose by 2.9% year-over-year to 4.66 billion metric tons in 2023 ... Coal imports also rose last year, as some domestic mining operations were suspended for some time in 2023 ... Higher demand after the COVID restrictions were lifted and higher domestic coal prices led to record-high coal imports into China, which soared by 61.8% year-on-year to 474.42 million metric tons in 2023, ... In the latter part of 2023, China ramped up coal and natural gas...

There’s a strange idea floating in the political ether. Everyone from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) seems to think there is something unseemly about invoking the 14th Amendment to keep Donald Trump off the presidential ballot, and that his electoral fate ought to be left to the voters rather than the courts. Even Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who voted to impeach the former president over his involvement in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, thinks keeping him off the ballot is undemocratic. It’s a strange idea because none of these people think about any other constitutional...

The Kiev regime has been given free rein to do whatever it wants by the West and “is even allowed to torture and kill Americans,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov charged, referring to the death of US YouTuber Gonzalo Lira in Ukrainian Prison. Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova charged the United States with “consigning an inconvenient journalist to execution.”“Kiev has unbridled freedom, and this permissiveness is manifested in everything it does. This free rein only leads to disaster. And this disaster has already reached the minds of the current Ukrainian regime, and they are leading their entire country there,” the...

Donald Trump Jr. said Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America” that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was “certainly” a contender to be picked as his father’s vice presidential running mate. Anchor Rob Finnerty asked, “So Trump has already said that he’s picked his VP, but he can’t tell us. Back in 2016 de didn’t pick somebody that was running for president. He chose Mike Pence, who at the time was not a candidate for president. Could you see your father running with Ron DeSantis?” Trump said, “You know, I would do whatever I could to make sure it...

Attorney General Austin Knudsen of Montana stopped an abortion ballot proposal from going through on Tuesday, claiming it was “legally insufficient,” according to the Montana Free Press. Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana launched the ballot initiative in November 2023, which would prevent “the government from denying or burdening the right to abortion before fetal viability,” according to the Idaho Capital Sun. Knudsen dismissed the proposal, arguing in a memorandum that it was “legally insufficient” and “logrolls multiple distinct political choices into a single initiative,” the Montana Free Press reported. “Ballot Measure 14 creates an express right to abortion but denies...

During the Iowa battle, Donald Trump Jr, the former President's son was asked an intriguing question whether he would follow father's footsteps and run for the top post and 2028. Trump Jr replied to the voter during the campaign event in Ankney pawing way for speculations. The real estate businessman was present with his fiance Kimberly Guilfoyle. While choosing not to answer the White House run in 2028 question directly, Trump Jr looked in the crowd and probably at Guilfoyle and responded in excitement “Oh God, Hey princess, you ready for this?” "Listen, you never know. I don't want to...

@aphysicist Milei's 2024 Davos talk ... (20 mins or so )

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a veiled rebuke to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday night, pushing back against Blinken’s claim that Israel could not defeat Hamas in Gaza, and that it should accept a Palestinian state. Without naming Blinken specifically, Netanyahu criticized those who, he said wanted to tie Israel’s hands and said that Israel could not win. On Wednesday, reports emerged that Blinken had told Netanyahu last week that Israel would not succeed in destroying Hamas’s military capabilities — an assertion at odds with Israel’s ongoing military success, and strong Israeli public support for the...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton refused the Biden administration's efforts to reclaim control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass after the drowning of three migrants attempting to cross the border through the Rio Grande over the weekend. Paxton, in a letter first reported by conservative news outlet The Daily Caller, responded to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyer who threatened legal action if the state does not remove all barriers blocking access to and allow federal border control agents access to Shelby Park, a stretch of land along the river that has been used as a staging area for...

This is UFC Middleweight Champion Sean Strickland. Sean has a blackbelt in telling journalists to get rekt, which he'll demonstrate in this next clip. Here a fake sports journalist asks him about his previous comments on the LGBTQIA+ community, and Strickland comes with the full TKO. I'll quote Strickland below for those of you who don't want to hear 84,000 F-bombs. [Warning: Language, lots of language] VIDEO AT LINK............. Reporter: We've got a pretty supportive gay and lesbian community in this city. I did want to ask you about something you wrote a couple years ago. You said, "if I...

CNN airs Oct. 7 clip from Nir Oz showing 'evidence of beheadings' by Hamas. January 18, 2024, 12:00 am CNN airs footage from Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, saying it shows a terrorist “sawing at the necks of dead Israelis, evidence of beheadings.” The US network says an unnamed Israeli source provided the CCTV footage from Kibbutz Nir Oz, which is censored and edited to highlight the use of the knife. WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE. ⚠️ Disturbing Content ⚠️Footage obtained by @CNN shows a Hamas terrorist attempting to behead two Israeli victims in kibbutz Nir Oz.A quarter of the 400 kibbutz residents...

A population-based cohort study of more than 10,000 persons using gabapentinoids found that their use was associated with an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. This study supports the warnings from regulatory agencies and highlights the importance of considering this potential risk when prescribing gabapentin and pregabalin to patients with COPD. Gabapentinoid drugs are anticonvulsant drugs indicated for the treatment of epilepsy and neuropathic pain. Despite limited indications, its prescription has surged across North America and Europe, which may partly stem from excessive off-label prescribing. However, these drugs have been reported to cause central nervous system depression,...

The Walgreens exec John Driscoll asked global lawmakers to tax millionaires like himself more. As it stands, the American dream is in danger of extinction, Driscoll said. Driscoll joined over 250 billionaires and millionaires in supporting the Proud to Pay More campaign. A business tycoon is taking an unexpected stance on taxes. Walgreens Boots Alliance's executive vice president, John Driscoll, wrote a letter asking lawmakers in the US and abroad to tax the wealthy more. Driscoll echoed the pleas of entrepreneurs, an heir, and activists in his demand to save the "rapidly diminishing" American dream. As the grandchild of Irish...

Former Obama aide Stuart Seldowitz has reached a sweetheart deal doing “anti-bias” training to get hate crime charges dropped over his vile Islamophobic rants at a Big Apple halal cart vendor. Seldowitz, 64, will submit to a “26-week Anti-Bias Program through Queens Counseling for Change,” Judge Beverly Tatham ruled Wednesday at the prosecution’s request. If he completes it and has no new arrests or violations of the victim’s protection order, the hate crime charges against him will be dropped, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office confirmed to The Post.

Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism," the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday. Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more. The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been conducting oversight of federal law enforcement’s "receipt of information about American citizens without legal...

A photo taken from Miami International Airport showed a notice from the Transportation Security Administration indicating that migrants entering the U.S. at the airport did not have to supply a photo or have their photo taken in order to enter the country. Political commentator Dave Rubin snapped the photo, tweeting, “This is the state of absolute insanity happening at our airports. I’m in the Pre-TSA line, where migrants don’t have to have an ID to get through security and it’s their choice whether they want their picture taken. There is a plan to destroy America.” The sign read, “U.S. airport...

In an initiative that could redefine space safety, the Japanese-based startup EX-Fusion plans to test a ground-based fusion laser system to “capture, remove, or push out” objects operating in Earth’s orbit. In a statement announcing a partnership with the Australian company EOS Space Systems, EX-Fusion said they aim to use ground-based laser systems to address the mounting problem of space debris, a growing concern for global space agencies and satellite operators. “In recent years, the number of space debris around the Earth has increased significantly, leading to catastrophic collisions with valuable space assets essential to life on Earth, such as...

China is a serious threat to America’s dominance in the world, and when America’s dominance collapses, so does America’s lovely standard of living. Nothing happening within the U.S., especially on Biden’s watch, will change that. However, China is at very profound risk from its internal problems. The latest one to catch the headlines is China’s continuing and, indeed, accelerating demographic collapse. China famously instituted its one-child policy in 1979 when it was afraid that its population growth was out of control. Not only did the policy have the effect of lowering the birth rate, but it also decimated the number...

Congress is racing to greenlight a short-term spending bill and avoid a government shutdown ahead of a winter storm that is set to hit Washington and parts of the Northeast and Midwest. Government funding is set to expire at midnight on the end of Friday, but the looming weather is pushing lawmakers to wrap up work sooner than that. The Senate and House are expected to OK another continuing resolution (CR) that would keep the government open on another two-deadline track through March 1 and March 8. The Senate locked in a time agreement on Wednesday night to set up...