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Donald Trump has picked TV personality and former Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz as his nominee to lead the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The 78-year-old president-elect said Oz, aged 64, will work closely with Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the 'industrial illness complex'. Oz lost his Pennsylvania Senate race in 2022 to John Fetterman after beating the now U.S.-Senator-elect David McCormick in the Republican primary. Prior to running for the Senate, Oz hosted the Dr. Oz Show and was a frequent guest on Oprah Winfrey’s show. His syndicated talk show...

Brazil’s first lady Janja Lula da Silva, 58, set off a diplomatic firestorm after she delivered an expletive comment to Elon Musk at a panel on disinformation and regulating social media at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. After a ship’s horn sounded, she made what was apparently meant to be a quip, saying: “I think it’s Elon Musk. I’m not afraid of you, – you, Elon Musk.” The comments reminded her audience of the bitter battle waged between the tech billionaire and Brazil’s Supreme Court over free speech on Musk’s X platform earlier this year, which...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he was picking Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Trump said in a statement that Oz, who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate two years ago, would work closely with Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.” “Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country,” added Trump, 78. “He...

A mother-in-law has been accused of murdering her heavily pregnant daughter-in-law after reportedly claiming she used 'witchcraft' to seduce her son. Zara Bibi was seven months pregnant when Sughran Bibi, with the help of multiple accomplices, allegedly killed her and then chopped her body into pieces before scattering the remains across the city of Daska in Pakistan. The 30-year-old mother was reported missing last week before local police officers made the grizzly discovery of her body parts in three separate bags. Deccan Herald, an Indian english language newspaper, reported that Sughran had issued a confession to the murder. Senior police...

Photographer Harry Borden shares his experience with Hillary Clinton in a post-election [2018] photoshoot. Photographing Hillary Clinton Was Awful. [UK photographer Harry Borden shares his experience - video]

Kamala Harris leads her closest potential 2028 Democrat presidential contender by 33 points, according to polling from Echelon Insights. Here’s the breakdown: Vice President Kamala Harris — 41 percent California Gov. Gavin Newsom — 8 percent Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — 7 percent Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — 6 percent Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — 6 percent On one side of the scenario, you can see why Democrat voters still support her, even after her decisive loss to President-elect Donald Trump two weeks ago. She still has the best name recognition. She’s been vice president for four years. She never...

We should have lost the Venona Transcripts, intercepts of Soviet cold-war espionage activity. Word came down from the FDR White House to kill the Venona program, perhaps under the influence of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau who had an important assistant in secret-Communist Harry Dexter White. As it was the military officials responsible for the intercepts continued to accumulate them and the accuracy of Senator Joseph McCarthy's estimates of Communist infiltration of the State Department would ultimately be confirmed nearly to a "T". Military Intelligence revealed itself in that instance not to be an oxymoron. Every shift of the Joint Chiefs...

Explanation: What's happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of that is true. In terms of clouds, the formation is a chance superposition of impressively periodic undulating air currents in Earth's lower atmosphere. Undulatus, a type of Asperitas cloud, form at the peaks where the air is cool enough to cause the condensation of opaque water droplets. The wide-angle nature of the panorama creates the illusion that the clouds converge over the hill. In...

The communist left seem wholly unprepared for a Trump win, darting about, running into each other to quickly divorce themselves from the admiration of “democracy” they’ve been claiming for the past year, hoping to vault themselves into a position to deny Trump his rightful exertion of power as President of the United States. All the powers they claim Biden (Obama) had to remake the bureaucracy into his private gestapo and the people into the KGB for their causes of forced transgenderism and illegal immigration, they claim does not apply to Trump. When in power, the communists raise up to the...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has privately committed to back an effort led by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to block biological men from using women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol. Mace announced Monday she would introduce a resolution to ban transgender women (biological men) from using biological women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol. Johnson, during Tuesday morning’s weekly House Republican Conference meeting, said transgender women won’t be allowed to use women’s restrooms in the Capitol, Politico reports. “He said there’s not going to be any biological men using our restrooms,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Politico. Mace confirmed Greene’s account,...

“The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a ‘warrior board’ of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals”

Fledgling social media upstart Bluesky has enjoyed a surge in new users over the past week, more than doubling its user base to over 15 million as leftists flee from X/Twitter. However, the rapid growth has also brought significant moderation challenges for the young company. The overwhelmingly leftist userbase has been flooded the company with flagged posts, requests for censorship, and even child pornography. The New York Times reports that in the midst of significant changes in the social media landscape, Bluesky, a relatively new social network, has experienced an unprecedented surge in growth. Founded by former Twitter CEO Jack...

A Memphis florist has received massive backlash after saying she won't do business with Donald Trump supporters after his 2024 election win. Kristin Wolter, 49, made the announcement on the now-private Instagram account for her business, Everbloom Designs. 'I won't do business with people who support the president-elect,' she said in the video, which circulated widely social media beginning last week. 'It is because I need to create a safe place for me, my staff, and my family.' Wolter said she was shocked that her 'community chose financial concerns and economy over human rights and decency,' Newsmax host Todd Starnes...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of his transition team, to be commerce secretary — saying Lutnick also would receive a major role in foreign trade policy. Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, had been widely rumored as a contender for the more prestigious post of treasury secretary but appeared to have lost momentum in recent days to hedge fund manager Scott Bessent. “I am thrilled to announce that Howard Lutnick, Chairman & CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, will join my Administration as the United States Secretary of Commerce,” Trump, 78, said in a...

Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres · 9m Kamala spotted on vacation in Hawaii today while Ukraine launches U.S. missiles at Russia. Democrats lost every single lever of power on November 5, and Kammy is still smiling. America was saved from 4 years of hell by President Trump.

A resurfaced video shows President-elect Donald Trump warning that the world has never been closer to a third world war than it has been under President Joe Biden’s leadership. The video has resurfaced following Biden’s authorization allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles supplied by the United States to conduct strikes inside Russian territory. In the resurfaced video, Trump warned, “We have never been closer to World War III than we are today under Joe Biden. A global conflict between nuclear-armed powers would mean death and destruction on a scale unmatched in human history; it would be nuclear Armageddon.”Trump, who issued...

Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 62 days until President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in, and today we’re talking about keeping things normal. Normal, of course, is subjective. As anyone who’s getting ready to attend a Thanksgiving dinner knows, often families can’t even agree on what normal looks like. My own Ohio grandmother used to make lobster in aspic for our special meal. Her Depression-era upbringing made her believe it was the height of fancy-pantsy, but it still gives me nightmares. When it comes to Trump’s Cabinet picks, most of them so far are anything but ordinary. “Normally, you let...

NASA spent millions on DEI and ‘Environmental Justice’ grants while laying off real scientists doing actual research and innovation. In an exclusive report, the UK Daily Mail says NASA staffers want President-Elect Donald Trump’s co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk to ‘clean house’, as insiders reveal the agency squandered millions of taxpayer money on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

NATIONAL CARBONATED BEVERAGE WITH CAFFEINE DAY Unique food holidays, such as National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day, give us opportunities to break out of our everyday norms. On November 19th, explore the variety of carbonated beverages with caffeine. Some people cannot have caffeine due to medical reasons, and others choose to avoid caffeine as a personal choice. Then there are the millions of people who reach for the caffeine every morning and sometimes all day long. The same applies to carbonated beverages. Today's celebration combines the two of them. In 1767, Englishman Joseph Priestly suspended a bowl of distilled water...

As justifiably alarmed as Democrats are by President-elect Donald Trump’s radical agenda and his nominations of unqualified candidates for Cabinet positions, these actions may be even more terrifying for Republican senators up for reelection in 2026. (What follows certainly applies to vulnerable GOP House members as well, although they, of course, play no role in confirming nominees.)The 2026 map is somewhat more favorable to Democrats than it was in 2024. For example, the reelection campaigns of Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Thom Tillis of North Carolina will be two of the most hotly contested races. While they hail from...