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Israel looks set to approve a US plan for a ceasefire with the Iran-backed Hezbollah on Tuesday, a senior Israeli official said, clearing the way for an end to the war which has killed thousands of people since it was ignited by the Gaza conflict 14 months ago. Israel’s security cabinet is expected to convene later on Tuesday to discuss and likely approve the text at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the official said. This would pave the way for a ceasefire declaration by US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron, four senior Lebanese sources...

Months after the United Methodist Church’s largest overseas jurisdiction voted to cut ties with the denomination over their support of same-sex marriage, resulting in a loss of over a million members in a single day, UMC leadership has revealed their plans to retaliate against them: cut off all funding and take their property. Earlier this year, The United Methodist Church in the Ivory Coast (EMUCI), which has been vocal about the denomination’s drift, held an extraordinary session on May 28th and pulled the trigger, casting their votes to disaffiliate “For reasons of conscience before God and His word, the supreme...

What is wrong with Canada? It seems being visibly Jewish is no longer acceptable in Montreal when near a pro-Palestinian mob. A local rabbi and his family were instructed by police to leave the downtown area simply because he looked visibly Jewish (wearing a kippah)

President-elect Donald Trump’s new border czar Tom Homan is putting together an extensive deportation plan for when he hits the ground running after they are both sworn into office in January.

O’Keefe Media Group on Monday released its first undercover video in its NIH Tapes series. In OMG’s first video release, Raja Cholan, Chief of Health Data Standards Branch US National Library of Medicine, said the Covid health initiatives were completely made up. “I probably shouldn’t be saying this out loud. They might have funded a lab in Wuhan, China and Pfizer and Moderna are getting a bunch of money from all of these vaccine mandates,” Raja Cholan said to the OMG undercover journalist. “I don’t even know if these vaccines stop you from getting COVID. They don’t,” Raja Cholan said,...

In another dangerous escalation in the war in Ukraine, the Kiev regime has fired long-range US-made ATACMS missiles into Russian territory again. This time the attacks appear to have centered around the area of the Khalino airfield. This is the third time Ukraine shoots NATO-supplied and authorized missiles into Russian territory. Forst we had BREAKING: Ukraine Reportedly Carries Out First Strike Inside Russian Territory Using US-Made Long-Range Missiles. Then, it was followed by WW3 WATCH: One Day After First US-Made ATACMS Strike, Ukrainians Shoot British-Made Storm Shadow Missiles into Russia’s Kursk Region (VIDEOS). Russia responded with a strike with a...

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) pushed back against the idea that the Russian war in Ukraine could end in peaceful negotiation, saying those who hold that view “may be deceiving” themselves. In a speech at the Halifax International Security Forum this weekend, Rounds called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “tyrant” and suggested he would be surprised if Putin were satisfied with any concession from the West. “It’s time to take a hard look at this thing and really ask ourselves, do you believe that this tyrant, if you offer him a part of a free country, do you think he’s going...

The woke leaders of Austin, Texas' vision of a totally electric bus system for the city has run into a few snags. The 46 new buses they bought for $1 million each will have to sit idle for at least a year because the current charging system can't handle the load. You see, diesel-powered buses can run nearly 24 hours on each tank of fuel. Electric buses need to be recharged every 10 hours. They also breakdown twice as often as the diesel buses. This problem is complicated by the bankruptcy of the Biden Administration-favored Silicon Valley-based Proterra, which is...

Elon Musk has appeared to back a petition calling for a fresh UK general election. The petition, created at the end of last week, demands a rerun of the July 4 contest because of the Government “going back on its promises”. It has surpassed two million signatures. Responding to a post marking one million signatures on the petition on Sunday night, Mr Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly Twitter, wrote: Asked about the petition during an interview on ITV’s This Morning, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: “Look, I remind myself that very many people didn’t vote Labour...

New research reveals that many prenatal vitamins don't contain enough of the nutrients that are essential for a healthy pregnancy, while others contain harmful levels of toxic metals. The researchers tested a sample of 47 different prenatal vitamins (32 nonprescription and 15 prescription products) bought from online and local stores where people commonly shop. The Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine recommends dietary reference intakes for choline at 450 mg/day during pregnancy and 550 mg/day during lactation, with a tolerable upper limit of 3,500 mg/day. For iodine, the recommended dietary reference intake for females aged 19 and...

We live longer and longer, and as we age, a lot of us develop a series of health issues and chronic diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is found in around 600 million individuals globally. However, only half of them know they have the disease. COPD patients often experience shortness of breath, persistent cough with mucus, wheezing and frequent respiratory infections, which can make everyday activities difficult. Now a study suggests that a form of vitamin B3 may be the key to improving quality of life for these patients. "In the study, we show that nicotinamide riboside, also...

Although people have always said that having a light and early dinner is better, a study has provided the scientific grounds for this argument. According to a study, consuming more than 45% of our daily calorie intake after 5 p.m. is associated with an increase in glucose levels, with the harmful consequences that this has for health, regardless of the individual's weight and body fat. The study included 26 participants between the ages of 50 and 70 who were overweight or obese, and had prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. The participants' glucose tolerance levels were compared, and they were divided...

A large international team of medical researchers has found that people who drink coffee regularly have much more of one type of gut bacteria than people who do not. In their study, the group analyzed stool and blood samples from a large number of patients and also studied similar data in large medical databases, looking for impacts of coffee drinking on the gut biome. In this new study, the research team sought to learn more about the impact of a single food, or in this case a beverage, on the gut biome. They chose coffee for two reasons: First, because...

The right-wing media sphere flew into a frenzy on Thursday when several users on social media pointed out that U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York had removed her pronouns from her bio on X, formerly Twitter. The overarching sentiment was that Ocasio-Cortez's decision to remove her pronouns from her bio underscored President-elect Donald Trump's decisive victory in the 2024 election, and was an inflection point in "woke" ideology—a derisive term that many conservatives use to describe identity politics and progressive values.

Researchers now understand why taking an investigational white button mushroom supplement shows promise in slowing and even preventing prostate cancer from spreading among men who joined a phase 2 clinical trial studying "food as medicine." Looking at preclinical and preliminary human data, the scientists found that taking white button mushroom pills reduces a class of immune cells called myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), which has been linked to cancer development and spread. "City of Hope researchers are investigating foods like white button mushroom, grape seed extract, pomegranate, blueberries and ripe purple berries called Jamun for their potential medicinal properties. We're finding...

In Los Angeles no immediate decision to release Erik and Lyle Menendez... Two elderly Israelis hurt in a late-night rocket attack... Two Syrians hurt in an Israeli air attack... Tonight, President-Elect Donald Trump promising tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico...Mr. Trump's statement triggering a phone call tonight from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau... Prosecutors in France asking for a maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot in the "Mazan rapes" case... Tonight Israeli officials noting no concrete certainty of any ceasefire materializing as it appears Israel, France and the US will say they agree... Biden Administration Special Prosecutor Jack Smith...drop...

A research team has shown that combining pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy drug, with standard chemotherapy can improve treatment outcomes for patients with small cell bladder cancer and small cell/neuroendocrine prostate cancer. Small cell carcinomas can arise in various tissues—including the bladder, prostate, lung, ovaries and breast—and are known for their rapid progression, tendency to relapse after initial treatment and poor overall survival rates. The survival time for patients with advanced small cell bladder cancer is only about 7 to 13 months and only 7 to 9 months for patients with small cell/neuroendocrine prostate cancer. The early-stage study showed that using pembrolizumab...

US Capitol Police union members tell me Ashli Babbitt killer Capt. Byrd is "DEI hire" promoted up ranks despite failing multiple training tests/mishandling firearms. He's "reckless"+racist "hothead" who was "trigger-happy" on J6 b/c he shot Trump rioters out to kill blacks Newly released USCP records reveal the cop who killed unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt previously was referred for disciplinary action six (6) times and was suspended for at least 40 days without pay. Nonetheless, Lt. Michael Byrd was promoted to Captain last year. In new letter to USCP,House investigators want to know if it "treated [Capt] Byrd more favorably...

Gorka, President-elect Donald Trump's pick as senior director for counterterrorism, made several statements in favor of Israel recently, including that "Palestine" doesn't exist and that IDF generals should forget about diplomacy and focus on defeating terrorists militarily. Gorka, who had served as deputy assistant to Trump from January to August 2017 during Trump's first term in office, broached the issue of Palestine in an interview on Nov. 16 with a host for RT, a Russian state-controlled international news television network. "Why can't you talk about genocide[sic] in Gaza? And is that the same with all of the Trump team?" the...

One of the planks in the Harris platform was “The rich don't pay their fair share!” Really? In part, this plays on the emotion that most people don't like the rich. On the other hand, by-and-large, most people seem very supportive of the poor. Why is that? Were you hired by a poor person?First, let's look at the “fair share” part. The “rich” (i.e., the top 10% of wage earners making approximately $450,000 and up per year) pay about 72% of total IRS tax collections. The top 1% ($660,00/yr and up) pay 40% of all taxes. The bottom 50% (about...