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The Greek diet is regarded as one of the healthiest in the world because it’s based largely on fruit and vegetables, whole grains, fish, and a small amount of cheese and yogurt. When many people think of Greek food, pastitso, moussaka, souvlaki and baklava come to mind. However, a traditional Greek diet is packed with greens, such as horta (wild greens) fasolakia (green string beans), bamies (okra), legumes including fakes (lentils), fasolada (beans), revithia (chickpeas), vegetable dishes, fish and small portions of meat. This array of foods looks a lot like what is regarded as a healthy, balanced diet. Greeks...

Three Columbia University deans have been “permanently removed” from their posts for sharing “very troubling” texts that “disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes,” school officials said Monday. The three administrators — Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick and Cristen Kromm — have been on leave since last month since it emerged they’d been involved in the disparaging text exchange that unfolded during a panel discussion about antisemitism on campus. “This incident revealed behavior and sentiments that were not only unprofessional, but also, disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes,” Columbia president Minouche Shafik said in a statement. “Whether intended as such or not,...

In a stunning reversal of the first round of voting in the French election, President Emmanuel Macron appears to have sacrificed any hopes of political stability in favor of keeping Marine Le Pen from the levers of power. As the results trickled in from yesterday’s second-round voting, it became clear that Macron’s strategic alliances to keep the so-called “far-right” from forming a majority had ushered in a situation that was arguably far worse for France. In the French Parliament, the National Assembly, Macron’s party, Ensemble (ENS), earned just 161 of a possible 577 seats – 76 down from the last...

Hollywood actress Bette Midler has called on President Joe Biden to arrest House Republicans and execute Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan in what appears to be one of her most vile and unhinged rants yet. Midler was one of the main high-profile liberals responding to the Supreme Court ruling granting Donald Trump immunity for his official acts in office.

Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in six swing states, an Emerson/DemNextGen poll found Monday, further fueling fears among Democrats about Biden’s political viability. Trump leads in every swing state by at least three points, except in Michigan, where he leads by one: Pennsylvania – Trump: 48% (+5) Biden: 43% Wisconsin – Trump: 47% (+3) Biden: 44% Michigan – Trump: 45% (+1) Biden: 44% Nevada – Trump: 47% (+6) Biden: 41% Arizona – Trump: 46% (+4) Biden: 42% Georgia – Trump: 47% (+5) Biden: 42% Biden trails Trump in ever key swing state, per new Emerson/DemNextGen poll conducted...

Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most students starting this fall, thanks to a $1 billion donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Tuition will be completely free for medical students whose families earn less than $300,000, with the gift also covering living expenses and fees for students from families earning up to $175,000. Previously, tuition was roughly $65,000 a year for four years. The gift aims to improve declining life expectancy in the U.S. by making medical and nursing school more accessible to lower-income students and diversifying the medical and public health fields. "As the U.S. struggles to recover from...

8 July 2024 Monday of week 14 in Ordinary Time Saint Kilian Catholic Church St. Kilian, MinnesotaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingHosea 2:16,17-18,21-22I will betroth you to myself and you will come to know the name of the LordIt is the Lord who speaks:I am going to lure herand lead her out into the wildernessand speak to her heart.I am going to give her back her vineyards,and make the Valley of Achor a gateway of hope.There she will respond to me as she did when she was young,as she did when she came out of the land...

A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and holding the East in its hot and humid grip. An excessive heat warning — the National Weather Service's highest alert — was in effect for about 36 million people, or about 10% of the population, said NWS meteorologist Bryan Jackson. Dozens of locations in the West and Pacific Northwest tied or broke previous heat records. That was certainly the case over the weekend: Many areas...

George W. Bush, born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, was the 43rd President of the United States. Bush was born to parents Barbara Bush and former President George H. W. Bush. He has five siblings; Jeb Bush, Marvin Bush, Neil Bush, Dorothy Bush Koch and Pauline Robinson Bush. Pauline was diagnosed with leukemia and passed away at age three. He was formerly the Republican Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. Bush was first elected to the White House in November 2000, and officially began his first term as president in January 2001, after he defeated Democrat...

The NYPD released video early Monday of a masked suspect in the weekend shooting of a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old boy in a Bronx McDonald’s. The footage shows the alleged perp strolling around the fast-food eatery on White Plains Road in the moments before the gunfire erupted late Saturday. It shows the suspect wearing a surgical face mask while pacing through the McDonald’s with his hands stuffed inside the pockets of a hooded sweatshirt.

Two influential Democratic operatives are circulating a memo that lays out a plan for a “blitz primary” before the party’s convention in August to replace President Biden if he can be convinced to bow out, a new report says. Georgetown University law Professor Rosa Brooks, a volunteer policy adviser on Biden’s 2020 campaign, and venture capitalist Ted Dintersmith, a deep-pocketed donor, authored the detailed memo being distributed to party contributors, executive branch officials and the president’s campaign staff, Semafor reported Monday. “We can limp to shameful, avoidable democracy-ending defeat. Or Democrats can make this Our Finest Hour,” the memo says....

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Republicans roundly mocked President Joe Biden on Monday for doing a “Morning Joe” interview by phone on MSNBC in which he defiantly vowed to stay in the presidential race. Biden, who is said to watch “Morning Joe” every morning, called into the show to renew his pledge after a total of nine Democrat lawmakers reportedly called for his resignation. “They’re big names! But I don’t care what those big names think,” Biden said when asked about his opposition. “I’m getting so frustrated by the elites … the elites in the party.” “All the data, all the data shows that...

Don't let Biden's age distract from Trump's lunacy or Project 2025

An expert on Parkinson’s disease from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, including at least once for a meeting with President Biden’s physician, according to official visitor logs. The expert, Dr. Kevin Cannard, is a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders and recently published a paper on Parkinson’s. The logs, released by the White House in response to a request from The New York Times, document visits from July 2023 through March of this year. More recent visits, if there have been any, would not...

Pro-abortion state Attorneys General (AGs) are suing pro-life pregnancy centers for “false and deceptive” marketing in places like New Jersey, New York, and California. City council ordinances have targeted pregnancy help centers as well, parroting the claims mouthed by a slew of pro-abortion organizations. They claim that these centers (which offer most, if not all, services for free, including baby items, parenting classes, and more) are lying to women, tricking them into keeping their babies, and deceiving them by connecting them with doctors who offer progesterone in an effort to counteract the effects of mifepristone (the first drug in the...

A bystander filmed the moment of impact in Kiev clearly showing a NATO supplied NASAMS missile striking.

[H/T Melian]A pair of well-connected Democrats have issued a bombshell memo detailing their wild plan to replace President Joe Biden on their 2024 ticket.It would require Biden to step down as the head of the ticket by mid-July to pave the way for other Democrats to throw their hats in the ring for a 'blitz primary' that would feature celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Oprah, according to Semafor.The six candidates with the most votes from delegates would also have to vow to run a positive-only campaign.The plan is the brainchild of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who served...

A woman could not believe her eyes when she saw how much it would cost her to buy a fast food meal for her family as inflation chokes people across Democrat President Joe Biden’s America. The woman, identified as Josie, posted a video on TikTok after she pulled up in the fast food joint’s drive-thru lane to choose what she wanted from the menu, the Daily Dot reported Sunday. “I remember when a 12-piece family meal was $12.99. Now it’s $43.00,” she said in the video. The caption of the video read, “I did not buy. I went home and...

The Chinese grab dredge that desecrated the wrecks of two famous WWII warships off Malaysia has run into trouble with the law once more. The notorious Chuan Hong 68 has been detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) again, this time over paperwork violations. Last year, Malaysian authorities detained Chuan Hong 68 off Johor for allegedly crushing and removing the wreckage of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse, which were sunk by Japanese forces during the invasion of the Malay .Peninsula in December 1941. Both are protected war graves. In May 2023, local...