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Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try.Viruses such as measles (pictured here) can be used to attack cancerous cells. Credit: Eye Of Science/Science Photo Library A scientist who successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses has sparked discussion about the ethics of self-experimentation. Beata Halassy discovered in 2020, aged 49, that she had breast cancer at the site of a previous mastectomy. It was the second recurrence there since her left breast had been removed, and she...

A panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit appeared to voice skepticism this week regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority to unilaterally modify a 2019 settlement agreement with Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook. The settlement, which required Meta to pay a record $5 billion fine and enhance its privacy protections, is now the focal point of a legal dispute over the FTC’s attempt to impose additional obligations on the tech giant. *** In 2019, amid revelations of data misuse … the FTC filed a lawsuit against Meta to enforce...

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) suggested Democrats may have won the presidency if President Biden stepped aside sooner, saying “it would have been different.” “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told The New York Times. “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.” “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened,” she added in...

Democrats’ midterm mirage By Chuck Todd The biggest difference between the successes of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who both got re-elected, and the failure of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris team to win four more years was their midterm experiences.

Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who backed President-elect Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bureaucracy should be winnowed down. Before the election, Trump had floated Kennedy as having a role in his administration, namely targeting federal agencies that oversee health care, food, and drugs. “There are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA ... that have to go—that are not doing their job. They’re not protecting our kids,” Kennedy told MSNBC on Wednesday. When he was asked if he would remove any health agencies, Kennedy said, “to eliminate the agencies, as...

Finger-pointing has erupted over the Kamala Harris campaign blowing up to $20 million on swing-state concerts Monday night, hours before the VP’s spectacular election loss to Donald Trump — prompting concern that everyday staff and vendors won’t get paid amid reports the campaign is in debt by the same amount. Members of the defeated Harris team tell The Post that the concerts had a ruinous effect on the Democratic campaign’s coffers and that fact was no secret — with one planned performance by ’90s alt-rock goddess Alanis Morissette getting scrapped to save money. The seven swing-state concerts on election eve...

Qatar has reportedly informed Hamas leaders they are “not welcome” in the country, according to sources cited by Israeli broadcaster KAN on Friday. The move follows recent pressure from the United States, KAN reported, and comes just days after Donald Trump became the president-elect, ushering a new era of foreign policy into the White House. For years, Qatar hosted members of Hamas leadership, ostensibly to support dialogue during negotiations, including those around hostage situations. However, three sources familiar with the recent discussions revealed that Qatar’s stance has shifted, telling Hamas leaders to leave the country. Egyptian sources also told Lebanese...

A federal judge in the Southern District of Illinois issued a permanent injunction Friday enjoining the state from enforcing the “assault weapons” ban contained in the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA). The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) was among the plaintiffs in the case. SAF founder Alan Gottlieb responded to the decision, calling Friday “a great day for gun rights.” The judge’s order allows 30 days before the injunction goes into force, giving the state that period of time in which to file an appeal.

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Hispanic Americans cast their vote in historic numbers for Republican President-elect Donald Trump, flipping historically blue counties red. According to an NBC national exit poll, 54 percent of Hispanic/Latino men went for Trump. In Maverick County, a border region including Eagle Pass, 59 percent of the vote went to Trump while 40 percent went to Kamala Harris—a 19-point victory for the Republican. In 2020, the county vote went to Biden by 9.5 percentage points.The county voted Republican down the ballot, choosing U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Congressman Tony Gonzales, and voted only for Democrat Eddie Morales for state representative. Maverick...

Brace yourself, America – the fight for the future of this country has begun. In the 48 hours since President-elect Donald Trump delivered a schoolyard booty stomp to Wokeistan, one thing has become frighteningly clear: Despite unequivocal evidence of an outright MAGA romp (an electoral college avalanche, a rare Republican popular vote victory and a likely GOP-controlled Congress) left-wing lunatics are still clinging to their oat-milk latte delusions like Joe Biden to a baby's foot on Halloween. To the progressively deranged – they may have lost the election night battle, but the war is still raging. And with Donald 'Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin/Lex...

Republican leaders are projecting confidence that they will keep control of the U.S. House as more races were decided in their favor Thursday, while Democrats insist they still see a path toward the majority and sought assurances every vote will be counted.

A federal disaster relief official ordered workers to bypass the homes of Donald Trump’s supporters as they surveyed damage caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Daily Wire and confirmed by multiple federal employees. A FEMA supervisor told workers in a message to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid, internal messages viewed by The Daily Wire reveal. The supervisor, Marn’i Washington, relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team, multiple government employees told The...

One of the most harrowing aspects of the Hamas-led massacre on October 7, 2023, which claimed the lives of 1,200 Israelis, was the glee with which the Palestinian terrorists livestreamed their atrocities for the world to see. Just 13 months later, Jews on social media were once again confronted with footage of an anti-Semitic rampage, one that shook Amsterdam on Thursday evening, following a soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax. After the game, social media was flooded with videos of hundreds of jeering and cheering attackers marauding through the city, throwing Israeli soccer fans into the river, beating...

Alex Strenger @TheAlexStrenger White Dude For Kamala Harris Meltdown In Front Of Austin City Council.

Democrats will keep their majority control of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives next year after holding onto a Johnstown area seat Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee President Heather Williams said retaining the House majority was “one of the most challenging yet important priorities of the cycle,” and that her party will be “a critical check on Republican extremism.” Burns, a conservative Democrat who supports gun rights and opposes abortion, has regularly found himself voting against his fellow House Democrats. He has long been an electoral target of Republicans, while many other similarly situated western Pennsylvania districts long ago flipped to...

Measure Z, Santa Cruz’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax, is set to pass according to the latest elections results. With 21,510 votes ballots cast, the Yes on Z campaign has 51.62% of the vote, while No on Z trails with 48.38%. The measure will implement a 2 cents per ounce tax on sweetened beverages and raise $1.3 million a year for improving parks, providing safe routes to schools, expanding recreational programs and health initiatives. Measure Z was drafted by the Santa Cruz City Council, following the example of cities like San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, which implemented their own similar taxes. “(I’m)...

House Republicans on Friday demanded in a letter that special counsel Jack Smith preserve his records in relation to his prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump. They have requested documents and messages relating to meetings between the FBI and officials within the Department of Justice (DOJ) with Smith’s office before a search warrant was executed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2023; documents or communications relating to the hiring of staff; and all documents and communications between his office, the attorney general’s office, and the deputy attorney general’s office. “With President Trump’s decisive victory this week, we are concerned that the Office...

Opposition research is one of the most important parts of running a political campaign. Whether you’re using it to highlight your opponent’s ideological inconsistencies or reveal a more salacious personal indiscretion, conducting thorough opposition research is necessary to running a competitive campaign.

Some leftist women are inexplicably shaving their heads in protest of President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory. These distraught women, sharing their hysterical videos to social media, claim to be shaving their heads in protest the “patriarchy,” despite the fact that millions of American women voted for Trump. In one video, a woman in a purple shirt states that she is “giving up on America,” making the statement while shaving the side of her head. She concludes during her rant that basic beauty standards should be completely forgotten, because that is what the “patriarchy” wants.