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New Delhi: The deep fissures in Israeli society came out in the open this week when a mob of lawmakers and far right groups stormed an Israeli base where soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner are being held pending their trial. Some Israelis have called it one of their most distressing days, while right-wing Israeli lawmakers, including those from the ruling Likud, have justified the rape of Hamas prisoners, claiming it is legitimate due to the atrocities committed during the October 7 attacks, which Israel says resulted in approximately 1,200 deaths: “A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud...

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched a brutal attack on the U.S. government during his speech at a recent Bitcoin conference, accusing it of hypocrisy and secrecy. Carlson highlighted the government’s stance on privacy and document classification before dropping the F-bomb over his views. “With no privacy, there’s no freedom,” Carlson stated.

Nearly half of the nation's National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers required universal masking in key clinical areas during the winter 2023–2024 COVID-19 surge, according to a study by Tulane University researchers. Overall, 41.8% of these 67 centers required some universal masking, according to the study, which was published in JAMA Network Open. Further, 12 NCI-designated centers (18%) required universal masking in all areas. Masking policies were even more common in northeastern states and in centers with longer NCI designation, more funding and higher care rankings. Those with cancer face higher risks from COVID-19 infections, long COVID, infection-related delay of...

FOX News host Jesse Watters covered RealClearPolitics's Susan Crabtree's reporting that a Secret Service counter-sniper wants to blow the whistle on the agency's failures on the day former President Donald Trump was a victim of an assassination attempt. JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS: A Secret Service counter-sniper is predicting another assassination attempt before November. In an email obtained by RealClearPolitics, a Secret Service agent with 20 years' experience on the counter-sniper team is announcing he's going to blow the whistle until all of his supervisors are fired. The counter-sniper says his mission is to prevent another JFK-style assassination, and the only...

Topline Print sales of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s 2016 book “Hillbilly Elegy” soared 13,000% in the week he was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate, according to data from Circana, an increase that drove Publisher Harper Collins to order a new print run for the memoir to meet demand.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) appeared to challenge Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) shooting skills, saying that the vice presidential hopeful cannot hunt pheasants like he can. “That’s what JD Vance’s stick is, talking about guns. I guarantee you he can’t shoot pheasants like I can,” Walz said Tuesday on “Anderson Cooper 360°.” “And that’s a part of saying, but you know what, I guarantee I don’t want weapons of war in classrooms. And there’s no reason that you can’t have reasonable restrictions around that without infringing on your Second Amendment,” he added. Vance has heavily leaned into his personal story...

Operation Warp Speed enacted under former President Donald Trump provided the pharmaceutical community with free reign to create a vaccination for immediate use. COVID-19 was perceived to be such a threat that standard operations for testing and researching a vaccine were no longer applicable. The need for a vaccine was so urgent that pharmaceutical companies were granted total immunity from prosecution, which came in handy after countless debilitating ailments and deaths were later attributed to those vaccinations that offer neither protection from transmission or infection. In line with our disease cycle that heats up in 2026, the medical community is...

María Corina Machado says president should understand he lost vote, amid international doubts over victory claim The opposition leader battling to bring the curtain down on Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime has urged the Venezuelan strongman to accept that his exit from power is inevitable. The call came as thousands of protesters hit the streets to repudiate Maduro’s disputed claim to have won a third term in power. Venezuela’s incumbent president was officially proclaimed the victor of Sunday’s election by the government-controlled electoral authority on Monday morning. Maduro called his supposed victory “irreversible” despite widespread international doubts over the veracity of...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov today strongly condemned the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian group Hamas, in a drone strike on his residence in Tehran, saying it undermines prospects of ending the conflict in Gaza. At a press briefing in Moscow, Peskov stated that the attack was detrimental to peace efforts in the region and risked destabilising the situation. “We strongly condemn this attack, which resulted in Mr. Haniyeh’s death. Such actions undermine attempts to establish peace in the region and could significantly destabilise an already tense situation,” he emphasised. In a separate...

Record numbers of children are being reported to the Government's anti-extremism services for expressing 'far right' ideology. More than 2,100 under-15s were referred to Prevent in 2022/23 over fears they were being groomed by extremists or at risk of radicalisation. Of them, 462 expressed 'extreme right wing' ideologies compared with 182 'Islamist' referrals. Eighty-eight were flagged over their interest in school massacres, with six suspected 'incels' also on the list. Prevent, ran by the Home Office, aims to stop terror attacks on British streets. Officials work with local authorities and community organisations to 'support and protect vulnerable people'. But the...

Skip the bacon and those holiday hot dogs: A new study finds eating processed red meats raises your odds for dementia. Overall, just two servings per week of processed red meat was linked to a 14% rise in dementia risk, compared to folks who ate less than three servings per month. The finding made sense to Heather Snyder, vice president of medical and scientific relations the Alzheimer's Association, given what experts know about diet and the brain. "Prevention of Alzheimer's disease and all other dementia is a major focus, and the Alzheimer's Association has long encouraged eating a healthier diet...

U.S. — Democrats continued their long-standing tradition of holding whites-only gatherings this week with the new "White Dudes for Harris" campaign.The Zoom call, featuring prominent politicians and celebrities, upheld the Democratic Party's proud heritage of gathering a large group of white men together to talk about black people just like the party did for decades with the Ku Klux Klan and other whites-only meetings."We're Democrats. It's what we do," said angry white man David Hogg. "We'd be remiss if we didn't seek to carry on the age-old Democratic Party tradition of having meetings that were only for white males. It's...

Clinton’s Gimmick Shifting to Short-term Funding to Reduce Interest Expenditures. I wrote as a guest columnist for the Wall Street Journal back on April 19, 1995, dealing with an issue that seemed to go over everyone’s head. At the time, President Clinton (1993-2001) was able to balance the budget, and nobody seemed to understand how he managed to do that. Much of it concerned the shift in capital flows as capital poured into the United States, fleeing South East Asia. That led to the Asian Currency Crisis in 1997. US Interest rates rose sharply in 1994 which also was attracting...

Canadian triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk was seen violently throwing up after swimming through the River Seine ...the Canadian - who finished in ninth place - was the only athlete to be seen throwing his guts up, Olympic star vomits on live TV after being forced to swim race in polluted Paris river Updated 15:19 31 Jul 2024 GMT+1 Published 14:31 31 Jul 2024 GMT+1 Olympic star vomits on live TV after being forced to swim race in polluted Paris river Canadian triathlete Tyler Mislawchuk was seen violently throwing up after swimming through the River Seine Joe Yates Joe Yates An Olympian...

Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) said Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that former President Donald Trump used a dog whistle when he said foreign leaders would walk all over Kamala Harris if she were president. Host John Berman said, “Former President Trump, in an interview with Fox, was attacking the vice president with comments that I think there were people they found offensive. Listen to what he said. On Fox News, Trump said, “They look at her and they say we can’t believe we got so lucky. They’re going to walk all over. And I don’t want to say as to...

The presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday that it has secured ballot access in three more states and has submitted signatures for certification in nine others. The campaign will also host a ballot access briefing on Wednesday afternoon. In a press release on Monday, the Kennedy campaign announced that the ticket of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicole Shanahan secured ballot access in three more states, including Alaska, Indiana, and Nebraska. According to certification paperwork shared by the campaign along with the release, Kennedy will appear on the Indiana ballot under the We The People Party...

In this gripping episode, Dr. Phil delves into the life and experiences of Victor Avila, a retired special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

For most of his life, Sergio Covarrubias Garcia tried his best to avoid interactions with law enforcement. As a 17–year–old, Garcia prayed police wouldn’t stop the Chevy truck used to smuggle him and other undocumented men across the border. His nerves only continued. Garcia longed for officers to look away each time he drove to work or school. Despite his efforts, Garcia attracted the attention of California’s top law enforcement officer — then-Attorney General and now-presidential candidate Kamala Harris — in 2012. At the time, Garcia was enduring a yearslong and publicized struggle to become the first licensed undocumented...

The Democratic National Committee slated former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden to speak during its convention in mid-August. It is typical for former presidents and high-profile party leaders to speak at conventions, but it is unusual for a sitting president to give a speech at a convention. Lyndon Johnson, who did not run for reelection in 1968, did not even attend the Democratic National Convention (DNC) that year. Biden, however, will speak at the 2024 DNC, presumably to defend his administration’s policies of open borders, soaring inflation, and foreign chaos. “I’ve cured the economy and the environment and...