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The H5N1 bird flu virus spreading among cows is infecting more farm workers than experts realized. The CDC tested 115 workers at farms suffering outbreaks and found eight of them tested positive for the virus - an infection rate of seven percent. Many of them had no symptoms, which officials fear indicates H5N1 is spreading much more widely than the official numbers show. Forty-six farm workers have been officially diagnosed with the virus but hundreds of cattle farms in dozens of states are experiencing outbreaks. The CDC is now recommending anyone exposed to infected animals get tested, not just those...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in portions of a New York Times podcast interview published Friday, blamed Vice President Kamala Harris' election loss on President Joe Biden's late exit from the presidential race and the lack of Democratic primary. Pelosi told Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a host of "The Interview," that "had the president [Biden] gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race," the paper said in a story about the Thursday interview. The exchange won't be posted in full until Saturday. "The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an...

Since the Dobbs decision, it is hardly a secret that pro-lifers have struggled in statewide direct democracy elections. Mainstream-media pundits frequently point out that supporters of legal abortion won seven straight ballot questions after Dobbs was decided in June 2022. However, the pro-abortion winning streak was abruptly stopped on Tuesday. Pro-lifers scored some impressive victories, defeating pro-abortion ballot questions in three states: Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Florida’s situation was certainly unique because constitutional amendments require 60 percent of the vote for passage in the Sunshine State. Indeed, Amendment 4, which would have placed legal abortion in the state constitution,...

Gabbard: Biden Trying To "Trump-Proof" The Presidency, Limit His Powers Watch her name the evil coming out of the Biden administration. This needs to be disseminated far and wide. She seems to be telling the world that Bidens changes after the election will not be honored. The change of power needs to happen on the day after the election.

Hidahl died suddenly at his home Saturday afternoon. He lived in the county for 46 years, and he and his wife, Eileen, raised five daughters in El Dorado Hills.John Hidahl, El Dorado County supervisor for District 1, has died. Hidahl, 73, died suddenly at his home Saturday afternoon, according to a news release published Sunday by El Dorado County. His cause of death is undetermined, and details regarding his service will come at a later date, the county said. “We’re all just absolutely shocked and devastated by this news,” said Carla Hass, a county spokeswoman. “We are reeling from...

An athlete from Jalandhar has died due to sudden cardiac arrest at Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana, he was a participant of Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan.In a tragic incident, on Monday, a 54-year-old athlete named Varinder Singh died of a heart attack at Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana. He belonged to Jalandhar. He had participated in Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan Season 3. He collapsed while speaking on the phone. He suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and fell down. All the nearby athletes rushed to help him, but unfortunately, he had passed away by the time assistance arrived. Varinder Singh...

The House Judiciary Committee on Friday put Jack Smith on notice after President Trump won the 2024 election in a historic landslide. The Gateway Pundit asked House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s office if Jack Smith’s team of Democrat activist lawyers will be publicly named. Recall that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team of taxpayer-funded prosecutors were operating in secret. Smith’s team of lawyers was DOUBLE the size of Mueller’s (Weissmann’s) team. Mueller had a team of a dozen angry Democrats and Hillary Clinton donors harassing Trump for two years. Jack Smith, who is tied closely to the Obamas, had more...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday said they uncovered and stopped an Iranian-linked scheme to kill Donald Trump before he was re-elected president. As ABC News reported, the DOJ charged Iranian national Farhad Shakeri along with Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt with murder-for-hire. Rivera and Loadhold have been arrested while Shakeri remains at large. The DOJ believes Shakeri, an alleged asset of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is in Tehran potentially under the protection of the Iranian regime. Iranian officials in September allegedly demanded Shakeri surveil and ultimately assassinate Trump ONE MONTH before the presidential election. ABC News...

Employees at the Biden-Harris Department of Justice and their fellow travelers at the FBI are apparently "shell-shocked" and updating their resumes following President-elect Donald Trump's landslide electoral victory. Federal bureaucrats' apparent fears of a thorough housecleaning are justified, as Trump has made no secret of his plan to "shatter the Deep State and restore government that is controlled by the People." Background In March 2023, Trump announced that on day one, he would reissue his 2020 executive order establishing the Schedule F employment category for federal employees, making it easier to remove insubordinate and poorly performing bureaucrats from an estimated...

The Justice Department on Friday announced federal charges against three people in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election. According to court documents, Iranian officials asked one of the men charged, Farhad Shakeri, in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump. Shakeri is still at large in Iran, the Justice Department said. This is a newly disclosed plot and marks yet another alleged attempt on Trump’s life by the Iranian regime. Prosecutors allege Shakeri – who participated in recorded conversations with law enforcement – was originally tasked by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Visits Italian ‘Abortion Icon’For those who don’t know who that is, Bonino has been the face of abortion in Italy for decades, having first established a facility in the country in the 1970s which she successfully used as a launching pad to push for its legalization years later.She has also spent decades as an elected official in the Italian and European Parliaments advocating for left-wing causes like recreational drug use and lax divorce laws.According to LifeSite journalist Michael Haynes, Bonino is credited for being “at least partially responsible for over 6 million abortions,” including 10,141 illegal...

The Iranian government instructed one of its agents to stalk and assassinate former President Donald Trump this past September, according to a bombshell indictment unsealed by Manhattan federal prosecutors Friday. The indictment, which charges Iranian Farhad Shakeri and two New Yorkers with murder for hire and conspiracy, states that an unnamed official in Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) instructed Shakeri in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.” Prosecutors say that when Shakeri noted that the plot would “cost a ‘huge’ amount...

The brass on the seventh floor at FBI headquarters in Washington are walking around in a daze and wary of a housecleaning since President-elect Donald Trump won his reelection on Tuesday, according to inside sources. The Washington Times learned through several anonymous bureau sources that senior executives who run the agency were “stunned” and “shell-shocked” by Mr. Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. “You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” the first FBI source said, referring to the agency’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re...

The progressive crime agenda, largely pushed by liberal megadonor George Soros, suffered a major defeat in deep blue California this week after voters soundly rejected progressive prosecutors and policies, which experts tell Fox News Digital represents a major sea change. "I think that this is broader than just a message from people who care about crime," Cully Stimson, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and co-author of the book "Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America's Communities," told Fox News Digital. failure. And on the criminal law side, were deadly."

Philippe Reines has a well-earned reputation as one of the most odious operatives in politics. No wonder Hillary Clinton made him a close adviser! Reines is the guy who taunted Donald Trump, Jr., writing that every time he was intimate with his wife, she was fantasizing about a former Latino boyfriend. Even Chelsea Clinton found Reines' comment "vile." Reines turns up regularly on CNN This Morning, and on today's show said: "Donald Trump is about as complicated to some of us, and to me, to figure out as a clogged toilet is to a plumber."Get the rest of the story...

Sara Haines told her co-host Friday on ABC’s “The View” that “not everyone who voted” for President-elect Donald Trump was racist and misogynist. Partial transcript as follows: HAINES: We need to be introspective. If we voted for Kamala Harris, we need to say what didn’t resonate with the voters. You know what didn’t resonate with the voters when they were saying we don’t feel safe and the left focus on defund the police and bail reform. When they were focused on renaming schools, there were people saying, “Hey, students are destroying colleges. I paid for that. I sent them there....

SYDNEY (Reuters) - As U.S. election exit polls began to point to a second presidency for Donald Trump, many Americans were already looking for another kind of exit: moving abroad. Google searches for "move to Canada" surged 1,270% in the 24 hours after U.S. East Coast polls closed on Tuesday, company data shows. Similar searches about moving to New Zealand climbed nearly 2,000% while those for Australia jumped 820%. Late Wednesday evening on the U.S. East Coast, Google searches about emigrating were hitting all-time highs for all three countries, according to a Google official.

... On Wednesday morning, Steve Bannon invited General Michael Flynn on The War Room to discuss the election results and the important next steps for President-elect Donald Trump. ... General Flynn on Wednesday warned Trump’s inner circle to expect another assassination attempt before President Trump reaches the Oval Office in January. ..

78% in. 770,000 ballots to go. She needs about 52% of the rest to win and the trend is moving her way.

If there were any lingering doubts about whether Democrats did the right thing by pushing Joe Biden off the ticket in July, any remaining thought that maybe the president — even in a somewhat diminished state — was right to think that he could have beaten Donald Trump, then the exit polls from this week’s election should have put them to rest. Because however history remembers Biden (and I think it will be kinder), it’s clear that a solid majority of Americans have determined his presidency to be a decisive failure. In Pennsylvania and Georgia, states Biden narrowly won in...