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A Portland woman told a group of homeless men she suspected of stealing her phone that she had no problem with them ripping off “rich scum’’ — just not her, new video shows. The woman — taking a page out of the city’s left-wing activist playbook — was seen in the X footage Thursday pleading with the vagrants at a bus stop in the Oregon city when her phone went missing. “Basically, I am not — if you stole it from rich scum, by all means keep it and sell it,” the woman tells the suspected thieves as she tries...

'Laken Riley's killer never stood a chance.' That was the actual headline on MSNBC's website Friday morning, topping a piece sympathetic to the illegal migrant who savagely attempted to rape Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, before bashing her head in and killing her. Sick, sick, sick. The only person who never stood a chance was Laken Riley. But that's the far-left for you, failing to learn a single lesson from the drubbing they took on Election Day. Failing to be humbled, failing to self-examine, failing to detach from their simplistic, reductive orthodoxy that racializes everything, including a horrific, wholly preventable...

A beer brewed from recycled toilet water has become a hit among attendees at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. "At first their eyes widen," Samantha Thian, a leader of Singapore's youth delegation at the U.N. climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, told the New York Times. "Then we reassure them. They're usually coming back the next day for another." The beer, a hoppy pilsner called NEWBrew, is a collaboration between Singaporean company Brewerkz and the island country's national water agency that aims to "draw attention to, and normalize, Singapore's water reclamation efforts." Singapore lacks major natural freshwater sources. While...

If We Want to Promote the Kingship of Christ, We Must Dethrone False EcumenismNo rational observer familiar with Vatican II or its implementation can truthfully deny that the Council’s ecumenical movement was condemned by Pius XII and his predecessors.“If they elect Roncalli, everything would be saved; he would be capable of calling a council and of consecrating ecumenism.” (Dom Lambert Beaudin, quoted in Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s They Have Uncrowned Him, p. 160)Pope Pius XII’s 1950 encyclical “concerning some false opinions threatening to undermine the foundations of Catholic doctrine,” Humani Generis, was the last forceful condemnation of anti-Catholic errors prior to...

President-elect Donald Trump will name hedge fund mogul Scott Bessent as the next treasury secretary, four sources tell The Post, ending a rough-and-tumble race that saw fierce jockeying among power players across Wall Street. Bessent “got the thumbs up” late Thursday during a meeting with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., one source close to the situation told The Post. A flurry of last-minute media report have floated a slew of candidates. Late Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that financier Kevin Warsh had met with Trump on Wednesday about the Treasury post — and possibly replacing...

Two men have pleaded guilty midway through their trial to people smuggling. Dilshad Shamo, 41, and Ali Khdir, 40, were convicted for their roles in an operation which ran through Europe labelled "Tripadvisor for people smugglers". They brought about 100 migrants illegally to Europe each week, over a period of two years. The pair - based in a car wash in the south Wales town of Caerphilly - offered the migrants bronze, silver, gold and platinum packages, depending on risk. A platinum package could get you a flight, whereas silver might land you a "comfortable ride" in the back of...

Ana Navarro said on Friday on ABC’s “The View” that President-elect Donald Trump’s newest nominee for Attorney General, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, is not a “kook.”Navarro said, “I am glad. I want to acknowledge that they stood up to Donald Trump, that they are doing their jobs of providing checks and balance of doing advising and concept and there is a bridge, a line that they will not cross, and we need them to continue doing this.”he added, “I have known Pam Bondi for many, many, many years. I will tell you, I don’t want to ruin her...

Donald Trump on Letterman May, 1992

Russia launched a volley of missiles toward the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro early Thursday morning, including a new type of ballistic missile that has North Atlantic Treaty Organization members on edge. The powerful next-level, multiple-warhead battlefield weapon, which has been analyzed by the Pentagon, has prompted NATO to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday. Among the cruise missiles intercepted in the assault was what the Defense Department has identified as a variant of the RS-26, an "experimental" intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), a reconfigured Russian intercontinental ballistic missile, according to a U.S. official. While publicly, U.S. officials say Russia likely...

A recent study found there is a stark difference in what Gen Z and Boomers think about financial success. In its study published on Friday, Empower said, “Is there a secret to financial success? Most Americans (52%) say ‘yes’ — and the average salary considered successful is $270,000 per year, and $5.3 million in overall net worth.” For Gen Z, financial success looks like an annual salary of $587,797, while Boomers think it is $99,874.

CHILLING footage shows how Vladimir Putin’s typically fidgety hands did not move at all for eight minutes straight during fiery speech. The war-mongering tyrant shifted and moved during his address to the West - but his hand remained oddly motionless. Sped-up version of the eight-minute address show him rooted to the desk with the palms of his hands like a statue. And it has fuelled speculation that the video may be heavily edited amid rumours of Putin's ill health. The clip was his first public appearance after a mysterious two-week public absence.

Researchers have linked chronic diarrhea to a specific pattern of gut bacteria, a discovery that could pave the way for new treatments capable of saving lives. In developing countries, acute and chronic diarrhea is a widespread problem among children and leads to the deaths of half a million children under the age of 5 every year. Acute diarrhea often resolves on its own and can typically be treated with antibiotics. In a study, Nielsen and his Ethiopian colleague Getnet Tesfaw mapped the gut microbiome of more than 1,300 children under 5 years of age in Ethiopia. The study's main conclusion...

Researchers have identified a new target to treat atherosclerosis, a condition where plaque clogs arteries and causes major cardiac issues, including stroke and heart attack. In a study, the team identified an inflammation-reducing molecule—called itaconate (ITA)—that could be the foundation of a new approach to treat such a common and deadly disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women and people of most racial and ethnic groups, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Medications help but don't completely protect patients from cardiovascular risk. So, doctors also recommend lifestyle changes, such as a...

Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams on Wednesday said the Democratic Party was dead and blamed Vice President Kamala Harris' loss in the 2024 presidential election to minority pandering and elitism. "It's insulting when members of the working class, which the Democratic Party has lost entirely in our lifetimes, to insist the economy is doing great," Williams said during an interview with NBC "Late Night" host Seth Meyers. "A 12-pack of Bounty is $40; rich folks don't feel that. Poor folks already switched to Sparkle during the Covid lockdown. I think telling them that the NASDAQ is gangbusters is further...

President-elect Trump’s ill-fated nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to run the Justice Department marked an early sign of his potential limits in moving his nominees and dealing with Senate Republicans, giving him less wiggle room to get his Cabinet in place. Riding high off his electoral win earlier this month, Trump tapped Gaetz to become attorney general in what emerged as a quick test for Senate Republicans, with Trump expecting them to capitulate to him as they have numerous times over the years. But Gaetz turned out to be toxic. His withdrawal served as strike one for Trump’s...

Drinking non-fermented milk may increase the risk of heart disease in women, according to research. The study, which investigated the association between milk intake and the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and acute myocardial infarction (MI), suggests that replacing non-fermented milk with fermented milk could potentially lower women's risks of these conditions. IHD is globally one of the leading contributors to adult mortality, and there is uncertainty about the effects of milk products on the risk of IHD. Fermented milk, found in foods such as yogurt and kefir, is fermented by lactic acid bacteria. Karl Michaëlsson and colleagues conducted...

President-elect Donald Trump, who has faced two assassination attempts, has been vocal about releasing government files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy's assassination has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories for decades, with some believing he was killed as part of a larger plot potentially involving organized crime or government agencies, such as the CIA, and that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. In December 2022, a CIA spokesperson told Newsweek that 95 percent of the agencies' files related to the Kennedy assassination had "been released in their entirety."

Researchers have discovered that changes in sleep patterns as we age are associated with lower odds of successful aging. In the study, researchers analyzed 3,306 participants who were free of major chronic diseases at baseline in 2011 and had reached age 60 or older by 2020. Sleep duration was assessed in 2011, 2013, and 2015 by combining nighttime sleep and daytime naps to calculate total daily sleep hours. The researchers identified five distinct sleep duration trajectories over the nine-year period: normal-stable (26.1% of participants), long-stable (26.7%), decreasing (7.3%), increasing (13.7%), and short-stable (26.2%). Logistic regression models adjusted for factors like...

A senior Russian lawmaker has declared that President Vladimir Putin is justified in targeting NATO nations aiding Ukraine, as tensions escalate over military support to Kyiv. Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Russian State Duma's defense committee, said the supply of Western weapons enabling strikes on Russian territory gives Moscow "every right to strike military facilities in NATO countries" that assist Ukraine, according to Russian news agency TASS. "Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has made a decision that we fully support," Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin stated on his Telegram channel. He described the move as "an appropriate and long-awaited response," adding that the...

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been trumpeting his police department’s homicide clearance rate of nearly 54%, the highest level in recent years. But a deeper dive into the data shows only a fraction of those “solved” murder cases have resulted in an actual arrest or charges, WGN Investigates has found. Most notably, police closed 117 homicide cases this year due to what’s called “bar to prosecute.” Simply put, it means police believe they identified the killer, but prosecutors would not approve charges.