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The demands of the working week can lead to sleep disruption and deprivation. However, new research shows that people that "catch up" on their sleep by sleeping in at weekends may see their risk of heart disease fall by one-fifth. "Sufficient compensatory sleep is linked to a lower risk of heart disease," said Mr. Yanjun Song. "The association becomes even more pronounced among individuals who regularly experience inadequate sleep on weekdays." The authors used data from 90,903 subjects involved in the UK Biobank project, and to evaluate the relationship between compensated weekend sleep and heart disease, sleep data was recorded...

The actions of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, will deprive Israel of its sovereignty and undermine the West’s defense against terrorists and despots. The US must put a stop to it. In a submission to the ICC last week, Khan doubled down on his demands to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant. He was responding to a multitude of submissions made to the pre-trial chamber contesting the arrest warrants he demands. Most of these submissions questioned the ICC’s jurisdiction over Israel. Israel, like the US and many other countries, is not a...

Every time I write about electric cars, there is an explosion of hostile comments online in which readers angrily denounce electric vehicles and the people who drive them. Much of this animus rests on a plausible yet mistaken assumption — that EV owners are all passionate environmentalists, sanctimoniously swanning around in their zero–emission vehicles while disdaining the ghastly, planet-killing masses burning dinosaur juice. Let me disabuse you of this. That stereotype was perhaps partly fair when applied to the Toyota Prius — although even then I suspect it concerned only a minority of owners. In the case of fully electric...

Former President Trump in an interview broadcast late Sunday slammed Vice President Harris as “vicious” and claimed her treatment of former Vice President Mike Pence during a debate was “horrible.” Trump, speaking on Fox News’s “Life, Liberty and Levin,” pointed to the viral moment during the 2020 vice presidential debate when Harris rebuked Pence’s interruption with the phrase, “Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking.” “Now they have Kamala, who they say has many deficiencies, but she’s a nasty person. The way she treated Mike Pence was horrible. The way she treats people is horrible,” Trump said on Fox News.

In a mirror of national politics, California Republicans followed former President Donald Trump’s lead by proposing to end taxes on tips. While Vice President Kamala Harris, who formerly represented California in the U.S. Senate, embraced the measure, California Democrats said no, shooting down the proposed amendment in the California Senate. “Even Trump and Harris both say we should eliminate the ‘tip tax,’” said the California Senate Republican Caucus in a statement. Soon after Trump announced his proposal to a crowd in Nevada, which has the highest percentage of tipped workers in the nation, Harris also came out in favor of...

Daily Readings from the USCCBWhen the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them and went away. Luke 4:28–30It’s hard to believe that those people who knew Jesus, those from the town in which He had been raised, reacted in such a severe way to our Lord. Jesus had just entered the Synagogue and read from the Prophet...

A man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gymnast Kara Welsh in an apartment off campus, authorities said. Welsh, who won an individual national title on the vault for the gymnastics team last year, was allegedly shot multiple times by a 23-year-old man at an apartment about a block from the university’s main campus Friday, police said. Police have not released the name of the suspect, but they said they believe she knew him. The nature of their relationship was not clear. Police said officers arrived just before midnight Friday and found Welsh dead...

The deer stand was one of Zack Tutweiler’s best thinking places. The rain had masked the sound of his climbing up the tree’s nailed-on steps and into the plywood box an hour before dawn. The blind’s roof sheltered him from the rain. For as long as seventeen-year-old Zack had been allowed to go hunting by himself, the blind had been a place he could go without being hassled for choosing solitude. He brought home enough meat that nobody bitched about his disappearing with his compound bow into the forest. Now there was nobody left to bitch at him for anything....

A Wells Fargo employee has been found dead in her cubicle four days after she last clocked in. According to reports, Denise Prudhomme, 60, first clocked into her Wells Fargo office in Tempe, Arizona, on August 16th at 7 a.m. Building security contacted authorities on August 20th regarding a “subject down.” An employee, who spoke anonymously with 12News, claimed that Prudhomme was discovered dead at her cubicle by a colleague who was exploring the building. At 4:55 p.m., authorities declared Prudhomme dead at the scene, according to local outlets citing Tempe police. According to 12News, Prudhomme’s cubicle was set back...

On Friday, I did something I hadn’t done since before COVID-19, I went and saw a movie premiere on the day it opened in an actual movie theater. With my childhood friend Susan, whom I’ve known for more than five decades—a dyed-in-the-wool conservative just like me—we went and saw Reagan. And unlike most critics on Rotten Tomatoes who rated it at 18% and elsewhere, we loved it along with a virtually unprecedented 98% of Rotten Tomato viewers.Right up front, I can say that Reagan is not without flaws. The cinematography in much of the movie is quite dark, especially in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The woman who got 13 U.S. Service members killed in Afghanistan has issued a statement condemning a man for going to comfort the families of the fallen soldiers. "How dare Trump go lay flowers on the fallen soldier's tombs, just because their families asked him to," said Vice President Harris. "It's disgusting -- showing up to a memorial service you were invited to. Anyway, why should he be the one invited when I'm the one who got them killed?" According to sources, Trump has been accused of accepting invitations from multiple Gold Star families to a solemn...

Bodycam footage has captured the mayor of a Florida town trying to distance herself from her title — telling cops, “Don’t call me the mayor” as she struggled to keep her balance during a field sobriety test after she allegedly ran over a neighbor’s mailbox. Teresa Heitmann, the mayor of Naples, was seen attempting to perform sobriety tests Wednesday evening after she was caught driving with a blood alcohol level over twice the legal limit, NBC2 News reported. “I think the mayor is drunk, and she just, she just literally … oh, she just drove over our mailbox,” a man...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a Russian TV interview on Sunday that Moscow would prefer seeing Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House next year because she is more “predictable” than her opponent Donald Trump. Peskov’s comments were delivered with a dash of sarcasm, as the Russian government insists it has no preferences in foreign elections and never interferes with them. Peskov therefore treated the question about who the Kremlin favors in the 2024 U.S. presidential election as laughable. His interviewer, regime-friendly TV personality Pavel Zarubin, also made a point of laughing out loud when he asked the...

As the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, I find myself asking out loud a question I’ve whispered to myself often since the Twin Towers came down: Is the U.S. relationship with Israel worth it? This was a lot easier to answer during the Cold War, when the U.S. supported Israel in order to counterbalance Soviet influence in the region. But, that was a long time ago, and though the Russians are still active in the Middle East, it’s not on the same scale. Stable oil markets are also a longtime reason we have supported Israel, but that situation is changing too,...

How do accomplished radicals elect a mediocre far-left presidential candidate? The task might at first seem impossible. Kamala Harris is currently a radical incumbent vice president. For more than three years, she was second in command to an unprecedentedly unliked Democratic president, his failed policies and his unpopular record. Harris herself had compiled a hard-left trail over her own entire career while loudly boasting indiscreetly to leftist audiences of being proudly “woke” and “radical.” Most challenging for a Harris candidacy makeover was the long, entrenched Democratic Party’s reluctance to remove a debilitated President Biden from the Democratic ticket. Why? Because...

Our discussion today with US Senator Rand Paul covers the censorship of opinions and ideas related to the pandemic, emphasizing the importance of free speech and the marketplace of ideas. This conversation touches on the history and current state of bioweapons research, including concerns about the potential creation of highly infectious and deadly viruses and the need for independent oversight mechanisms. We also touch on the politicization of science and conflicts of interest during the pandemic, including the manipulation of scientific evidence by pharmaceutical companies and the multimillion-dollar grants by scientists who supported certain origins of the pandemic.

From "stolen valor" to petting the wrong dog, your guide to MAGA's bumbling attempts trash the Democrats' salt-of-the-earth VP candidate With his selection as candidate for vice president, Tim Walz has burst onto the national political scene as one of the most folksy and estimable Democratic standard bearers in recent memory. Walz’s background includes having been a teacher, a football coach, a National Guardsman, a member of Congress, and one of the most accomplished progressive governors in the country. In the aftermath of the Democratic convention in Chicago, Walz is the the only member of either ticket with a positive...

President Biden on Monday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a hostage deal, adding pressure on the Israeli leader to reach a cease-fire agreement after six more hostages were found dead in Gaza over the weekend. Biden was asked by reporters outside the White House on Monday if Netanyahu was doing enough to reach a hostage release agreement, to which he said, “No.”

The big debate is coming up and I think Kamala will pull out. I could be wrong, but a lot of people agree with me. And she should chicken out – she’s bound to make a fool of herself. Let’s just say that Kamala Harris is not great at public speaking. She did a 41-minute interview with Dana Bash that couldn’t have been more softball if CNN had put a Nerf on a tee in front of her and let her swing away until she hit it. They only released about 18 minutes of her babbling. Where is the rest?...