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Production workers at Nickelodeon’s Animation Studio are fighting for their first contract alongside already-organized artists (writers, designers, colorists, storyboarders and background painters) who have been working under an expired contract for two and a half years. The workers collectively produce animated shows: The Loud House, Rugrats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Spongebob SquarePants. The artists have been members of IATSE Local 839, The Animation Guild (TAG) since 2002, and 3D computer graphics staff joined in 2013. After a vigorous campaign, the production workers joined in January 2023. These workers keep things coordinated, flowing and on schedule. Production workers have lost...

Former President Donald Trump scored his largest lead yet against President Biden Sunday in a new NBC poll, as voters gave the incumbent poor marks across the board. Trump, 77, notched a 47% to 42% lead over Biden, 81, with registered voters, marking an increase from his 46% to 44% edge recorded in a November poll from the outlet.“This is the biggest lead NBC has ever had in 16 polls for Donald Trump over Joe Biden,” NBC’s political correspondent Steve Kornacki told “Meet the Press” on Sunday.NBC has conducted polling on Trump vs. Biden for roughly five years. Historically, Biden...

A New Jersey-based migrant gang is smuggling hordes of illegal immigrants into the US across the Canadian border for a price of $6,000 a head, a new report reveals. The human smuggling gang took root after its founders were briefly detained and cut loose by federal immigration authorities. The ringleaders, migrants from Guatemala and Colombia, snuck across the Mexican border and set up shop in the Garden State, running the lucrative scheme while dodging the feds, according to a report by the Daily Mail. While US Border Patrol agents grapple with an overwhelming flow of asylum seekers from Mexico, the...

Independent, Republican and unregistered voters in New York's Westchester County are being urged to register as Democrats ahead of the Democratic congressional primary between "Squad" member Rep. Jamaal Bowman and pro-Israel candidate George Latimer, mailers obtained by Fox News Digital show. "Community and family transcend politics," Westchester Unites, a group in Westchester County that works to advocate for "community over party," said in mailers to local voters. "Especially when antisemitism is on the ballot." The mailers call on voters to "combat" antisemitic hate by making "our voices heard." "But you can only do so if you are enrolled Democratic by...

Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Joe Biden “has not lost any support among African-Americans.” Anchor Dana Bash said, “President Biden picked up his first official primary win last night in South Carolina. What did we learn about his strength with the key part of his base? Here with me is Jim Clyburn of South Carolina. Thank you for being here. The Biden campaign, with your help, went into South Carolina last night hoping for a show of force in a state where there’s, of course, a large black vote. There had...

El Salvadorian voters will likely re-elect their current president Nayib Bukele but not before he finishes up a trite internet spat with Squad member Ilhan Omar. Bukele, who affectionately calls himself the 'world's coolest dictator,' traded barbs with the progressive legislator last week after she posted on X about 'threats to democracy' in El Salvador. The Central American leader, 42, has spent his time in power cleaning up crime in his country and ensuring that the famously high murder rate plummeted by locking up tens of thousands of violent gang members.

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that it was the Biden administration’s belief long-term peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict can only be accomplished by a two-state solution. Partial transcript as follows: STEPHANOPOULOS: What is the end game here? Do you see any prospect at all – he seems to have been ruling it out, Prime Minister Netanyahu, of some kind of a long-term deal that leads to a Palestinian state? SULLIVAN: Well, the U.S. position on this is very straightforward. The only long-term answer to peace in the region, to Israel’s security in the region,...

Clarissa Nicholls It's been described as a “silent killer” of young, seemingly fit people. The charity Cardiac Risk in the Young estimates that every week, at least 12 people aged between 14 and 35 suffer sudden cardiac death - and 1 in 300 may carry the condition. A leading pathologist has told this programme they believe those figures are an under-estimate. The mother of one young woman who died is campaigning for grassroots sports clubs to give young athletes - who are potentially most at risk - mandatory heart screening by specialists

Donald Trump said that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) are on the short list to be his running mate in the 2024 general election. He also dispelled rumors that he is considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a vice presidential nominee and said his team never reached out to the independent candidates. Speaking with Fox News Sunday host Maria Bartiromo, Trump said he won't announce who he plans to run with in the 2024 ticket for 'a while.'

VIDEOLiberals are now in a state of deep deep DESPAIR due to their beloved J6 trial date, originally scheduled for March 4, 2024 has been DELAYED. Oh the misery! Oh the angst! But not to worry. MSNBC's legal analyst Glenn Kirschner is there to comfort them and talk them down from the building ledge with his warm reassurances that the J6 trial, although delayed indefinitely, will be almost certain to be rescheduled to well before the November election. The only problem, as you can see, is that Kirschner's J6 trial prognostications have not been exactly stellar.

Increasingly, Americans of all generations are suffering from climate anxiety. There are, of course, a growing number of people who are directly impacted by climate disasters — severe weather, extreme heat, wildfires, even sunny-day flooding. But there are also an increasing number of people who are simply prone to worry — and in some cases, outright panic — over the freakish images and disturbing forecasts about the long-term impact of climate change that are now unavoidable. “We have an epidemic of anxiety,” said Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan, a Towson-based psychotherapist whose practice focuses on harnessing nature’s potential in therapeutic contexts. “More...

Eight “gifted and talented” students from the New York City public school system have just been arrested after this viral video showed them brutally beating and assaulting a student on a bus.Here’s the video:https://twitter.com/NYCSchoolSafety/status/1752397170857144769@NYCMayor @DOEChancellor @NYPDSchoolsThis is why we need safe corridors. We need police officers on buses, not just trains.Last Friday, a Mark Twain student was brutally beaten on the bus.Yesterday, 8 students from Mark Twain were arrested in school for the assault. pic.twitter.com/0r3FyOaA58— NYC School Safety Coalition (@NYCSchoolSafety) January 30, 2024Here are links to two news article about this incident:https://nypost.com/2024/02/03/metro/nyc-school-kids-arrested-over-caught-on-video-bus-beatdown/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13042049/Horrific-moment-TEN-Gifted-Talented-middle-schoolers-viciously-beat-student-NYC-bus-saying-weirdo-f-ing-deserved-shoulda-died-cuffed.html

When we talk about the future of competition for air-superiority, often we focus on the most high-profile platform - the current and future generation fighter aircraft. With cutting edge sensors and systems, new generation fighters are likely to give their pilots access to a level of information and performance beyond what even current fifth generation platforms can offer. But situational awareness doesn't have the same value if it can't be connected to a weapon system capable enough to leverage it - which the air-to-air missile comes in. In the past decade, multiple nations have fielded new missiles that challenge or...

Donald Trump is beating out President Joe Biden on several key issues, with just months until the conventions officially kick off the 2024 general election season. Most notably, Trump has jumped ahead of Biden when it comes to voters' view on the two elderly candidates' competence and effectiveness as leaders. In June 2020, Trump, 77, trailed Biden, 81, by 9 percent in this category, but a new NBC News poll released on Sunday shows the former president now ahead by 16 points – 48 percent to 32 percent. Competence has become a huge issue in the 2024 race and the...

4 February 2024 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Cappella Corsini in San Giovanni in Laterano in RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJob 7:1-4,6-7 ©My life is but a breathJob began to speak:Is not man’s life on earth nothing more than pressed service, his time no better than hired drudgery?Like the slave, sighing for the shade, or the workman with no thought but his wages,months of delusion I have assigned to me, nothing for my own but nights of grief.Lying in bed I wonder, ‘When will it be day?’ Risen I think, ‘How slowly evening comes!’ Restlessly...

The great Will Rogers once said he never met a man he didn’t like. US President Joe Biden and Democrats have never met a spending opportunity they didn’t like (except for US border security, of course). Under “Deficit Joe” Biden, Federal budget deficits have soared! And deficits are projected to grow! Over the past year, we have been closely watching the staggering acceleration in the growth of both US debt (the chart below which is just one month old is already woefully outdated, as total US debt just hit $34.191 trillion on the first day of February)… … and global...

Republican presidential candidate former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley attacked rival President Donald Trump in a surprise appearance during the ‘cold open’ of Saturday Night Live last night. Haley, who is trailing Trump by nearly 30 points in the latest poll for this month’s South Carolina primary and nearly 60 points in national polls, was well received by the liberal New York City television studio audience as she sparred with a Trump character during a candidate forum opening skit. The cold open was a mock CNN South Carolina town hall with Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, being baited with...

The principal of an elementary school in Oklahoma who has history performing as a drag queen has resigned following intense backlash. Dr. Shane Murnan, 52, was named principal of John Glenn Elementary School in June but his controversial past, which includes child pornography charges that were later dropped nearly 20 years ago, came to light. He reportedly performed as a drag queen named Shantel Mandalay and read story books to children at local libraries while in costume. Western Heights School District had received threats and was forced to hire extra security and instruct Murnan to mostly work-off site before he...

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has no path to the Republican nomination. It’s an open secret, though the woman vows to fight to the bitter end, like Davy Crockett at the Alamo. She got waxed by Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire and tried to spin both crushing defeats as victories. Liberal donors are keeping her war chest healthy, but this isn’t about country or service. It’s about ego now. Sure, Trump has an ego, but he’s also a former president, real estate magnate, and soon will be the 2024 Republican nominee. He’s winning stuff—period. Haley is not, so...