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Is Tucker Carlson a traitor for talking with Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov? That's sure what our media want us to think. Professor Jeffrey Sachs is one of the few clear thinkers who may help us to avoid nuclear annihilation. He says that Sergei Lavrov is in another league from our current, brilliant "diplomats", and that, as reviled as he was in the Cold War American press, Andrei Gromyko also was a great diplomat. (At least we didn't get nuked during the Cold War.) This is important because by some accounts we have cut off all regular contact with the...

Zanet Nachmia, the last Holocaust survivor from the city of Ioannina, Greece died shortly before her 100th birthday the Jewish Museum of Greece announced on Wednesday. Nachmia was born in Ioannina in 1925, one of the six children of Haim Nachmias, who ran a taverna, and his wife Revekka (née Mordechai), and grew up within the walled Kastro, opposite the synagogue. She attended primary school at the Alliance Israélite Universelle until the fifth grade, when she left to help her mother with the chores of their large household. On March 25, 1944, the entire Jewish community of Ioannina, including Nachmia...

A strange, new illness festering in the heart of Africa has killed 179 people and counting – and most of the victims are teenagers, authorities said. The unidentified disease has infected at least 300 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since November 10, causing flu-like symptoms including fever, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties and anemia, that country’s health ministry told the BBC. Most of the dead have been between 16 and 18, authorities said. The government has dispatched a medical team to the Kwango Province, where the disease is most common, to investigate the strange outbreak, Reuters reported. The...

Lawyers of three men who repeatedly visited a French home to rape a woman while unconscious Wednesday (Dec 4) pleaded for leniency, with one arguing that her "wolf" of a husband had manipulated his client. In a trial that has shocked France since it opened in September, the main defendant, 72-year-old Dominique Pelicot, has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife Gisele Pelicot, now 71, after drugging her with sleeping pills. Prosecutors have sought a maximum 20-year jail term for Dominique Pelicot, and 10 to 18 years in prison for 49 of the 50 other co-defendants accused...

Washington — Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican who is nearing the end of his Senate term, warned in his farewell address on Wednesday of those who "tear at our unity," urging America to uphold the nation's values as he capped more than two decades in public service. "I have learned that politics alone cannot measure up to the challenges we face," Romney said. "A country's character is a reflection not just of its elected officials, but also of its people. I leave Washington to return to be one among them."Romney announced in September 2023 that he would not seek...

Victor Willis, writer of “YMCA,” wants to clarify something: the song is not gay themed. “There is nothing gay about it,” he says in a Facebook post. Willis is thrilled Donald Trump likes the song, especially since the Village People singer says he’s made millions from it since Trump started using it. Willis also says his wife will start suing people who insist the song is gay themed. Whoever Willis’s wife is, she’s pretty busy according to him carrying out their efforts. He says “my wife” more often in his post below than the word “fiancee” is used in a...

Not just in America, but in many nations around the world, business operators can choose the products they wish to offer consumers. If they assess the market correctly, they'll succeed. If not, they close down. But California. As in that's not what is happening in California, where authorities now are demanding consumers file reports on retailers if they don't have an adequate "gender-neutral" selection of children's toys.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the typically chatty New York Democrat and majority leader, often resorts to repeating a single terse phrase when he doesn’t want to answer a question. “I’m with Joe,” was his mantra for two long weeks in July as he was barraged with questions about whether President Biden needed to withdraw from the presidential race after his devastating debate performance. Mr. Schumer took the same approach on Tuesday as he tried to avoid passing judgment on the fraught subject of Mr. Biden’s full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter. “I’ve got nothing for you on that,” he...

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) is ceding his position as top Democrat on the powerful Judiciary Committee amid a tough challenge from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), — a stunning shift on a powerful committee that’s sure to play a considerable role in the oversight of the second Trump administration. In a letter to colleagues, Nadler said he’s endorsing Raskin for the spot. The move marks a stunning fall for Nadler, a fiery Manhattan liberal and 34 year veteran of Congress, who rose to the top of the Judiciary panel in 2017 and helped to guide the two impeachments of President Trump....

Nigel Farage says Britain should 'pretty much' close its borders following a period of record migration. The leader of the Reform Party said anti-white discrimination is becoming systemic in institutions like the RAF, and warned that parts of English cities are not recognisably English. He advocated for 'net zero' migration and said he intellectually admires Enoch Powell. Farage slammed Tory leadership contenders as 'nobodies' and discussed increasing threats to his security. Steven Edginton also cited census data from 2001 and 2021, which showed the white population in Britain declined from 87% to 74%. .....

People are being urged to avoid 'mass gatherings' in the Congolese province at the center of the mystery disease outbreak that has killed up to 143 people. The country's health ministry also warned people to wash their hands regularly with soap and water and not to touch dead bodies. A total of 376 people have been sickened in the outbreak, that has hit Kwango province in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Patients are mostly children over 15 years old, officials say, and are suffering from a flu-like illness with symptoms including a fever, headache, nasal...

The man wanted for fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Wednesday morning was spotted inside a nearby Starbucks before killing his target, police said. The NYPD released a new photo of the hooded suspect standing in front of the counter at the Starbucks at W. 56th Street and 6th Avenue, just minutes away from the Hilton hotel where he gunned down Thompson, 50. It was not immediately clear how long the gunman, who has yet to be identified, was at the Starbucks or if he purchased anything. Officials said that after firing at Thompson multiple times, with bullets...

Surveillance video showing the chilling moment a masked gunman executed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was released Wednesday afternoon as new details of the targeted shooting death emerged. As previously reported, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot in the chest Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan in what is believed to be a targeted attack. Thompson, 50, arrived before 7 am for a conference when he was shot at multiple times by a masked man who police say was waiting for him to arrive, the New York Post reported. The assailant calmly executed Brian Thompson and...

Israel conducted a daring mission Wednesday to retrieve the body of a hostage who was kidnapped and murdered, and published an analysis that concluded that six other hostages were murdered by Hamas, not killed by an airstrike. Hamas has often claimed that Israeli hostages who have died in captivity were killed by Israeli airstrikes. The purpose of such claims is to dissuade airstrikes on Hamas terrorists, and to demoralize the Israeli public. Such inadvertent strikes have occurred, and last December Israeli soldiers mistakenly shot and killed three escaped hostages in northern Gaza who were trying to signal to them, and...

A group of orcas off the west coast of North America has brought back a bizarre fashion trend not seen since the late 1980s: wearing a single dead salmon on their heads as if it were a hat. Experts are at a loss to explain why orcas would want to wear fish in the first place, let alone why they would want to bring back the practice almost 40 years after it stopped. The salmon hat craze was first observed in 1987 when a female orca in the Puget Sound area of the northeast Pacific was seen carrying a solitary...

High quality video of Biden's nap during his meeting with world leaders in Africa

French lawmakers on Wednesday voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier after just three months in office, a historic move which plunged the country further into political chaos. For the first time in over 60 years, the National Assembly lower house toppled the incumbent government, approving a no-confidence motion that had been proposed by the hard left but which crucially was backed by the far-right headed by Marine Le Pen. Barnier's rapid ejection from office comes after snap parliamentary elections this summer which resulted in a hung parliament with no party having an overall majority and the...

Explanation: Does the Sun return to the same spot on the sky every day? No. A more visual answer is an analemma, a composite of sky images taken at the same time and from the same place over a year. At completion, you can see that the Sun makes a figure 8 on the sky. The featured unusual analemma does not, however, picture the Sun directly: it was created by looking in the opposite direction. All that was required was noting where the shadow of an edge of a house was in the driveway every clear day at the same...

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of his eight-year-old daughter and the attempted murder of her mother in County Wexford. Malika Al Kattib died following an incident at her home in New Ross on Sunday night. Her mother, Aisha Al Kattib, was also injured in the incident and was hospitalized with injuries that are not life-threatening. 34-year-old Mohammad Al Shaker Al Tamimi, with an address at Lower William Street in New Ross, was brought before Gorey District Court this evening. […] An Arabic interpreter translated court proceedings for Mr. Al Tamimi. …

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Tel Aviv University have discovered a large 30 metre wide moat that separated the City of David from Temple Mount.Excavations in the Jerusalem Walls National Park revealed a massive impassable channel up to 9 metres deep by 30 metres wide.Archaeological evidence indicates that the moat was cut when Jerusalem was the capital of the Kingdom of Judah. At this time, the moat would have separated the southern residential part of Jerusalem from the upper city, where the palace and temple were located...The exact date the moat was cut is inconclusive, however, most...