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A staunch ally of Vladimir Putin lamented the destruction of the Black Sea Fleet, dealing the Russian president a double blow as his Navy was forced to hold a muted annual parade on Sunday. In a rare admission of Russia's military failures, Yevgeny Fyodorov from the ruling United Russia party complained that Ukraine has disabled such a large proportion of Putin's prized Black Sea Fleet that it is essentially "gone." -snip- "The Russian fleet as an operational mechanism in the Black Sea does not exist! Not physically, but in terms of its actual combat presence. This is a fact," the...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- During the height of the pandemic, many Bay Area school children took part in what families say was advertised as free COVID-19 testing at schools covered by the CARES Act. But now three years later, some families say they're still receiving bills from the lab that conducted the tests. That lab is now suing health insurance companies for reimbursements they say they're owed. As COVID raged during the early pandemic, COVID testing at schools was critical and welcomed. "The testing was supposed to be free testing that we got that was performed by a laboratory that...

Kamala was asked why young people don’t approve of her work as VP. She blamed climate change. (37 second video in the link below) https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1817653654280643058

Dave Stewart of Butler, PA, released video footage showing the sniper’s nest. Stewart's cell phone was initially confiscated by the FBI and recently returned, allowing the video's release. (7 minute and 35 seconds in link below) https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1817958729389924389

Russian forces are staging their heaviest assaults near the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv's military said Monday, threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian troops struggling to fend off Moscow's 29-month-old invasion. Pokrovsk, a transport hub with a pre-war population of 61,000, lies on a main road that serves as an important supply route to other embattled Ukrainian-held outposts, such as the towns of Chasiv Yar and Kostiantynivka. Russia's defense ministry said Sunday that its forces had taken the villages of Prohres and Yevhenivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. Both settlements sit east of Pokrovsk.

Soccer Coach Bev Priestman was sent home after a complaint was lodged against Canada’s national women’s soccer team for allegedly recording an opponent’s training session with drone technology, according to a report published Sunday. FIFA decided to punish Canada Soccer by banning Priestman for one year, imposing a $226,000 fine and docking six points from Canada in the Olympics women’s soccer tournament, The Associated Press reported. Canadian officials reportedly expressed concerns about a “systemic ethical shortcoming” in its soccer program. Kevin Blue, CEO and general secretary of Canada Soccer, acknowledged a possible incident involving the team using drone technology to...

If you simply understand “woke” as a synonym for “stupid and crazy,” you won’t go far wrong. The latest illustration can be found in the absurd and offensive opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics, which involved a parody of the Last Supper, with transsexuals, drag queens, exposed testicles and a fat, blue-painted, semi-clad man apparently intended to represent Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. After a storm of international protest, the organizers have issued a weak we’re-sorry-if-you-were-offended apology. They say they were shocked that anyone was bothered by what they say was a testament to inclusion. But its biggest sin...

Tensions were running high on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border on Monday in anticipation of an escalation in hostilities, after Israel’s security cabinet authorized its leaders to decide on the nature and timing of a military response to a deadly rocket attack from Lebanon over the weekend. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, received the authorization from the cabinet members in a meeting on Sunday night, the prime minister’s office said. Visiting the scene of the strike on Monday, Mr. Netanyahu said of the victims: “These children are our children, the children of all of...

Saturday Night Live alum Rob Schneider is boycotting the ongoing Paris Olympics over a controversial opening ceremony that he sees as Satanic display that 'disrespects Christianity.' 'I am sorry to say to ALL the world's GREATEST ATHLETES, I wish you ALL THE BEST, but I cannot watch an Olympics that disrespects Christianity and openly celebrates Satan,' the 60-year-old wrote on X. Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept behind it Sunday.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood test to be used for colorectal cancer screening among average-risk adults 45 and older. The maker of the test, Palo Alto, California-based biotechnology company Guardant Health, announced Monday that this is the first blood test to be approved by the FDA as a primary screening option for colorectal cancer, and it’s the first approved blood screening test for colorectal cancer that meets requirements for Medicare reimbursement. For patients with commercial insurance plans, the cost of the test may vary depending on their individual plan coverage. The list price for the...

The Washington Post is being mocked online for its perplexing Monday front page photo showing mourners at the funeral of an 11-year-old girl killed by a Hezbollah rocket strike, which the paper paired with a headline about Israeli airstrikes. “Israel hits its targets in Lebanon,” the large-type front-page headline announces, positioned directly under a photo of anguished family members mourning over the coffin of Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, 11, one of the 12 kids killed by a Hezbollah rocket strike on a soccer field in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights. Another 40 people were injured in the Saturday strike, making it...

VIDEO"Mr Beast" (the worlds largest, and most famous YouTuber) appears to have an ex employee openly claiming that he rigs competitions, and runs illegal lotteries. With a barrage of situations recently bringing his company under a microscope, there are questions that need to be asked about when exactly a YouTube creator, bridges the gap to be held accountable by larger broadcasting laws with regards to lotteries, giveaways, sweepstakes and game shows. With a career built around giving away large sums of money (with seemingly little oversight)... Mr. Beast is sitting in a metaphorical house of cards.

Chilling leaked messages from Trump counter snipers have surfaced, detailing the moments leading up to the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. On Saturday, July 13th, there was a “colossal failure” of security, according to the former Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle. The ‘colossal failure’ resulted in an alleged sniper, Thomas M. Crooks, taking shots at President Trump from the rooftop of the AGR Building in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Gateway Pundit has published exclusive reports indicating the assembled group yelling, which included local patriot Greg Smith. The group could see the sniper...

MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Sunday offered a provocative commentary on Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), criticizing the GOP vice presidential nominee’s position on abortion and saying “he wants all women to have children even if they are raped.” “He wants to force the victims of rape and incest to bear the children of their attacks,” Psaki, the former White House press secretary for President Biden, said on her MSNBC show, “Inside with Jen Psaki.” “That’s his position, a circumstance that he dismissed as a mere inconvenience, and he said that federal intervention might be necessary to prevent women from crossing...

Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy ===================================================================== Perhaps because gastroenterology, immunology, toxicology, and the nutrition and agricultural sciences are outside of their competence and responsibility, psychologists and psychiatrists typically fail to appreciate the impact that food can have on their patients’ condition. Here we attempt to help correct this situation by reviewing, in non-technical, plain English, how cereal grains—the world’s most abundant food source—can affect human behavior and mental health. We present the implications for the psychological sciences of the findings that, in all of us, bread (1) makes the gut more permeable and can thus encourage...

Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to sit for one-on-one interview after becoming the Democrat party’s de facto nominee last week. Harris’s lack of media accessibility suggests she might run a similar campaign to President Joe Biden, who seldomly held solo press conferences and rarely sat for live interviews. It also indicates Harris might be concerned about answering questions related to her radical record. GovTrack’s scorecard ranked her as the most liberal senator in 2019, further left than socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), leading writers of the New York Times to rate Harris as the least electable of ten possible...

The Democrats think they have a meme that will carry them to victory in November.They say Donald Trump is weird.OF COURSE he's weird! Have you seen him dance?. Like your silly uncle after a few beers, he's lovable.

Heather MacDonald documents the self-immolation of the Boy Scouts of America and the denigration of men and masculinity in America.

Mollie Hemingway ... What we are seeing in this race is the result of what was happening when Biden was the nominee. It wasn't just that he was losing to Trump, but losing very much to Trump, he was also facing this down-ballot collapse. Democrats were facing the potential loss of five, six, or seven Senate seats. They were not prepared to do that, even if they understood they might lose the presidency. What you're seeing with these polls is certainly better than what they were doing with Biden. But the fundamentals of the presidential race remain the same, because...

A priest is suing the gay dating and “hookup” app Grindr after the company reportedly failed to protect his data, leading to his resignation from a top position at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). In July 2021, Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill resigned from his post as the general secretary of the USCCB ahead of a report by The Pillar alleging that he had engaged in inappropriate behavior and frequent use of Grindr. The app advertises itself as “the largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people.” Its geolocation feature is popularly known to facilitate sex hookups...