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King Charles was once behind the wheel of a UFO that zipped across the skies of a tiny coastal community in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1975. At least, he did if you take the word of a Canadian diver featured in a new documentary exploring the British royal family’s ties with aliens. Dan Costello told The King of UFO’s director, Mark Christopher Lee, that he saw the then-Prince of Wales inside a prototype craft at Sandy Point. At the time, Costello alleged, Charles was positioned nearby at HMS Endeavour serving as a helicopter pilot when he was summoned for a...

Multiple surgeries could lead to cognitive decline, a study has found, using data from the United Kingdom's Biobank to analyze half a million patients aged 40 to 69 and followed over 20 years of brain scans, cognitive tests and medical records. Many families have stories of how repeated surgeries and hospitalizations worsened the reaction time and memory of elderly relatives. Now, a study has revealed multiple surgeries have a small effect on memory, reaction time, task-switching and problem-solving for older patients with each additional surgery. The study also found brain MRIs of people who had surgeries also showed physical differences...

The Fisher-Price company is recalling more than 2 million of its Snuga infant swings, after the suffocation and deaths of five infants who went to sleep while in the swings. Photo by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission/HealthDay News The Fisher-Price company is recalling more than 2 million of its Snuga infant swings, after the suffocation and deaths of five infants who went to sleep while in the swings. "The swing should never be used for sleep and bedding materials should never be added to it," according to an alert from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which announced the recall....

Russia’s top envoy to the United States has ended his term, leaving behind an ominous forecast about the risk of deteriorating bilateral ties escalating into a nuclear-armed clash over the ongoing war in Ukraine in an exclusive interview with Newsweek.The Kremlin announced on Thursday that Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov had been officially relieved of his duty after seven years of service. In the lead-up to his departure, Antonov spoke with Newsweek about the troubled state of relations between Moscow and Washington, which show no signs of improving as the war in Ukraine continues and NATO doubles down on military support...

Former President Donald Trump will participate in an all-female Fox News town hall in Georgia, specifically covering “issues impacting women,” airing on October 16 — mere weeks ahead of the election. Fox News made the announcement Friday, noting that it will be a one-hour town hall in Cumming, Georgia, hosted by Harris Faulkner. The town hall will focus on “issues impacting women,” and the audience will be “entirely composed of women,” according to Fox News. “Women constitute the largest group of registered and active voters in the United States, so it is paramount that female voters understand where the presidential...

The longest-living survivor of progeria has died at the age of 28. In a Facebook post, the Progeria Research Foundation announced that Sammy Basso passed away Saturday. “Sammy was the embodiment of kindness, warmth, resilience and wisdom, serving the Progeria community with many years of outstanding dedication to scientific progress toward the cure for Progeria,” the organization wrote in a Facebook post. “He will be forever missed.” Progeria is a rare disease that causes rapid aging in children and adults. Experts say those diagnosed with progeria often appear normal at birth but grow much more slowly and don’t gain the...

The race for the US presidency is a nail-biter, so two Kamala Harris supporters have taken matters into their own manicured hands and launched a line of nail polishes themed around viral moments from the Democratic campaign. "We wanted something that was playful and fun, something that was approachable" for people who are not highly engaged in politics, said Amy Rosenthal, co-founder of "Colors for Kamala". She wants the brand to provoke "regular human conversations with people who might not agree with you at all about politics, but you know what? They like the same (shade of) red". Rosenthal and...

Rudy “Junior” Zevallos' family is remembering the 18 year old as "a remarkable friend, student, brother, and son"A Missouri family is mourning the death of a high school senior who “tragically and very unexpectedly" died after crossing the finish line of a half marathon over the weekend. Rudy “Junior” Zevallos was rushed to the hospital after he collapsed at the finish line on Saturday and was pronounced dead, according to The Kansas City Star. Zevallos was 18, according to his family, who launched a GoFundMe fundraiser over the weekend to help the family with funeral costs. “Junior was a...

Former President Donald Trump has not played golf since an apparent assassination attempt near one of his courses on Sept. 15, and he will not do so until after the election, according to a person close to the campaign and another person familiar with the situation. A third person familiar with the conversations said Trump was told that federal agents could not ensure his safety to a degree that they were comfortable with if he were to play. The concerns were conveyed in two conversations with Trump since the September incident: one with Ronald Rowe, the acting director of the...

A much-loved moggy called Rosie, believed to be the oldest cat in the world, has died at the ripe old age of 33. The tortoise-shell walked into the hallway of her home in Norwich, Norfolk, lay down and passed away, said her devoted owner Lila Brissett, 73. Rosie was born in 1991 and turned 33 on June 1, which in cat years is an extraordinary 152. Lila never got around to registering her pet as officially the oldest in the world, but the current Guinness World Records holder, a cat called Flossie from Kent, is a mere 28 years old....

It was bad enough that professional woke author Ta-Nehisi Coates chose to go all in on antisemitism and Islamic terrorism with his new book of essays ‘The Message’ (which I reviewed today), but Random House, an ex-Nazi corporation that publishes all of his screeds, chose to release it in time for the Oct 7 anniversary of the Hamas attacks. Coates had signed a letter after Oct 7 which claimed that, “after sixteen years of siege, Hamas militants broke out of Gaza.” CBS News then decided to schedule a featured morning interview with Coates to promote his hateful book which makes...

Model, 20, who died suddenly at home ‘was an inspirational and beautiful girl’More than £12,000 has been raised for the family of a ‘beautiful’ young model who died suddenly at her home last week. Andreja Siaucilaite, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk was found dead in her home last Tuesday. An inquest into her death found that her cause of death was a ‘fatal pressure on her neck’, and she was identified by her mother. Senior coroner Jacqueline Lake adjourned her the full hearing until next year. The 20-year-old had modelled wedding dresses and was described as an ‘inspiration’ and a ‘beautiful...

Tim Walz' wife is spending her time on the campaign trail reading gay books to kids about gay dads taking care of their cats in case you were wondering. An excerpt from the book Walz' wife was reading to children shows them all riding the gay dad while he puts a vacuum cleaner up to his mouth. I'm sure it's nothing. From: Bathe the Cat.

Most finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the BRICS group of countries did not attend a high-level meeting in Moscow on Friday ahead of a BRICS summit later this month, sending more junior officials instead, official documents showed. Finance ministers from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates and the head of Iran's central bank were present as Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov called for the creation of an alternative to the Western-dominated global financial system. But finance ministers and bank chiefs from China, India and South Africa stayed away, sending deputies or more junior officials instead, a day after...

Hurricane Milton produced dozens of tornadoes and rainfall estimates that topped more than a foot across west-central Florida, but a sight now opening up across many counties is that of sinkholes. Large sinkholes were reported in both Polk and Hillsborough counties, where local authorities warned residents to stay alert in the aftermath of the storm, as the terrain features can expand without warning. Photos shared by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office showed pipes, part of a sidewalk and a roadway all being devoured by a sinkhole in the residential community southeast of Tampa. The sheriff’s office didn’t report any damage...

Six young women bludgeoned two people with a hammer and robbed one of them in a brutal attack over the summer inside a Bronx tattoo studio, cops said this week. The baby-faced crew used the tool to bash a 29-year-old man in the arm, before punching him in the face inside Flow Gangsta Tattoo on Third Avenue near East 152nd Street in Mott Haven minutes before 9 a.m. Aug. 17, authorities said. Then they pummeled a 41-year-old woman, battered her with the hammer, and snatched her cell phone and credit card, police said. The woman was taken to Lincoln Medical...

During a town hall set to air on Univision, the vice president emphasized a “humane pathway to earned citizenship for hardworking people.”Kamala Harris has vowed to strengthen President Joe Biden’s asylum crackdown at the border. But she hasn’t committed to using that same unilateral authority to offer a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as Dreamers. In a town hall hosted by the Spanish-language television giant Univision set to air Thursday evening, Harris spoke forcefully about establishing an “orderly and humane pathway to earned citizenship for hardworking people.” And asked by...

A free market for housing is one that benefits both renters and landlords.It should go without saying, but the United States became the world's most-prosperous large nation by generally allowing the market economy to work. By contrast, Argentina has remained a poor backwater thanks in part to its far-reaching price controls. So it's ironic that "free-market" America needs to learn a key economic lesson from down south, at least on the issue of rental housing. Argentina's governments have since the 1940s reflected to some degree the Perón-ista worldview, named after Juan Domingo Perón and his authoritarian-populist government. Last November,...

The International Guild of Realism Fall online show. The paintings are some of the best out there. My painting, Golden Cholla, is in the show.

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