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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Marty Makary to be FDA Commissioner. Dr. Makary is a professor of surgery and public policy at Johns Hopkins University.I am very pleased to nominate Marty Makary MD, MPH, FAGS, for FDA Commissioner. FDA has lost the trust of Americans, and has lost sight of its primary goal as a regulator. The Agency needs Dr. Marty Makary, a Highly Respected Johns Hopkins Surgical Oncologist and Health Policy Expert, to course-correct and refocus the Agency. He will work under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to, among other things, proper1y evaluate harmful chemicals poisoning...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Brooke Rollins as his pick for agriculture secretary. On Saturday, Trump praised Rollins’s small-town upbringing and commitment to work and support the local farmer. He applauded her promise to protect “American Food Self-Sufficiency and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns." “A proud Graduate of Texas A&M University, Brooke earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Agriculture Development, and J.D., with Honors," Trump’s statement read. "From her upbringing in the small and Agriculture-centered town of Glen Rose, Texas, to her years of leadership involvement with Future Farmers of America and 4H, to her generational Family Farming...

The New Zealand Ministry of Health released a long-anticipated report this week, stating that there is limited evidence supporting the use of puberty-blocking drugs for children suffering from gender identity issues.The ministry called for a more cautious approach to their prescription, aligning with a growing global trend towards tightening regulations on what critics had for years argued were experimental practices. The ministry stated in a release there is "a lack of good quality evidence to back the effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers when used for this purpose." The government agency also announced a public consultation process, inviting submissions until...

Did the Democrats learn anything from the 2024 results? I think that it’s fair to say that voters sent a clear message on issues like men in women’s bathrooms or competing against their daughters.Enter Rep. Nancy Mace, who doesn’t want a man in the women’s room even if the person in question is a “trans woman” elected in Delaware. Well, here is the story:Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said Tuesday that her effort to ban transgender women from using female bathrooms at the U.S. Capitol is a direct response to the election of Sarah McBride, who is set to be the...

Claire Grimes Boucher, better known as Grimes, has opened up about her personal struggles with Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, as she reflects on their relationship and his political transformation. In a candid post on X (formerly Twitter), Grimes shared how Musk’s change in political views and personal beliefs has affected her and their family.Grimes Reflects on Separation from MuskGrimes, who shares three children with Musk, revealed that the hardest part of her recent life experience has been “detaching from the love of my life as he becomes unrecognizable to me.” She suggested that Musk’s rightward political...

People take a tour of the USS Beloit (LCS 29), a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy, after the commissioning ceremony at Veterans Park on Saturday November 23, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wis.

Boy howdy, this article by The Associated Press is very telling. First, it’s worth remembering that in the fine print of the USMCA deal, Mexico and Canada must comply with North American parts origination for anything they want to manufacture for sale into the United States. Meaning, all trade manufacturers must either create their component parts domestically, or purchase them from the U.S, Mexico and Canada. It’s the core point of the USMCA trade agreement. Secondly, in an aspect exclusive to the U.S. part of the deal that President Trump and USTR Lighthizer insisted upon, if either Canada or Mexico...

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said Friday he would invite Benjamin Netanyahu to visit his country and that he would guarantee that an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister would "not be observed." Orban's remarks stand in contrast to a long list of European leaders who promised to respect the court's decision. Ireland's prime minister Simon Harris said Friday that his country would be prepared to arrest the Israeli prime minister if he came to the country. “We support international courts and we apply their warrants,” Harris told national broadcaster RTE when asked if Netanyahu would...

Joe Rogan has claimed liberal media outlets are hemorrhaging readers due to Americans no longer trusting them. Rogan, 57, had been speaking about a recent op-ed from Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, adding: 'you're not accurate, you're delusional.' Bezos had published the opinion piece, titled 'The hard truth: Americans don't trust the news media', in late October.

Matt Walsh reveals unreported facts about the alleged rape by Pete Hegseth. The video is 21 mins long. Let’s Talk About The Facts Of The Pete Hegseth Allegations (Matt Walsh)

The summit has agreed for richer countries to aim for $300bn in funding per year to support poorer countries dealing with the impact of climate change. It is a far cry from the $1.3trn experts say is needed, and from the $500bn that vulnerable countries like Uganda had said they would be willing to accept. But in the end they were forced to, knowing they could not afford to live without it, nor wait until next year to try again, when a Trump presidency would make things even harder.

Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance. The British Transport Police policy allows recently transitioned officers to intimately search women if they have been issued a gender recognition certificate. ... It comes after the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) was forced to withdraw similar guidance in January after concerns were raised about women's safety. The guidance, seen by the Mail, reads: reads: 'British Transport Police recognises the status of transgender and non-binary detainees/staff from the moment they permanently identify in that gender with or without a GRC [gender recognition certificate]. 'This means that even when a person has...

Yemen’s Houthi rebel forces launched two missile attacks on the Panama-flagged Turkish cargo vessel Anadolu S within 24 hours in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The ship’s crew survived both attacks unscathed.

The parachute that the infamous hijacker DB Cooper used to make his getaway out of a plane with $200,000 may have finally been found. The enigma behind DB Cooper, the man who jumped out of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with thousands in cash after handing a stewardess a note demanding the ransom, has long stumped the FBI. Nearly a decade later, the FBI has begun unofficially looking back into the case after the children of Richard Floyd McCoy II contacted YouTuber Dan Gryder in 2020 with possible evidence. After Chanté and Richard III 'Rick' McCoy's mother died, they got...

Mitch McConnell is retiring, prompting an election in the GOP Senate caucus to select a new leader. For reasons that were not clear to me, Florida’s Rick Scott was the favorite of some MAGA Republicans. But the caucus elected John Thune, who served as Whip under McConnell. In an interview with Breitbart, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson had some strikingly candid comments about the contest for Majority Leader. I have a lot of respect for Johnson, a successful businessman who is serving in politics out of principle and has three times overcome underdog status to win Senate elections in Wisconsin: “John...

Nov 22 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's request to sanction Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony for the regulator's probe into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco said sanctions over Musk's Sept. 10 absence were unnecessary, after the world's richest person testified on Oct. 3 and agreed to pay the SEC's $2,923 of travel costs. "Because the present circumstances forestall any occasion for meaningful relief that the court could grant, the SEC's request is moot," Corley wrote.The SEC had...

A teacher who warned Donald Trump supporters not to start a fight with her or they would lose, and die, says she would consider a more peaceful approach. Annie Dunleavy, 30, resigned from Chapman Elementary School in Cheshire, Connecticut, amid backlash against her Snapchat video. She went viral after the video she posted to a private channel vowing to leave Trump supporters 'on a stretcher... forever' if they 'tested their gangster' on her. Dunleavy was put on a temporary leave from the school as the institution investigated her post-election rant, and quit soon after. Losing her dream job gave Dunleavy...

President-elect Donald Trump’s big plan to have Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy shape federal cost cutting has a new partnership with the Senate. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) will take charge of a new Senate DOGE Caucus, which will work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Musk and Ramaswamy. The DOGE group will be eyeing massive cuts to federal spending and the government workforce. The commission has been tasked with coordinating with and advising the White House and Office of Management and Budget. “The tables are finally turning, the knives are out, and waste is on the...

King Charles left comedian Matt Forde in fits of laughter over his joke at the Royal Variety Performance which played off Donald Trump's 'they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs' comments. The monarch met the political satirist, who is known for his impressions, following the show, which he had to attend without Queen Camilla by his side. Mr Forde joked about unfounded claims made by Donald Trump during the recent presidential campaign that illegal immigrants from Haiti were eating locals' pets in the small Ohio city of Springfield. Imitating Donald Trump, he said: 'They're eating the cats, they're eating...

... U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Saturday announced the largest seizure ever of counterfeit Gibson electric guitars. Working with U.S. Homeland Security and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, agents recently seized more than 3,000 counterfeit guitars at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest seaport complex. ... All three agencies will be on hand with Gibson officials Tuesday morning in Carson, just a few miles north of the Port of Los Angeles, to detail the seizure and — in advance of the holiday shopping season — to caution consumers about fraudulence products sold on e-commerce platforms...