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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 5. The very latest intelligence from the theatre of war in Georgia and South Carolina, is brought by the Richmond papers of Saturday, the 3d inst., received here to-day. The tone of their talk grows more boastful than ever. No longer content with predicting that SHERMAN will have accomplished nothing, even if he should get out to the coast, they now brag that he never will reach the seaboard at all, or if he does, it will, we are told, be with a loss of half his army. The following is...

Missouri State Senator David Gregory has prefiled a bill that would create new penalties for undocumented immigrants entering and residing in the state. The proposed legislation establishes the offense of "trespass by an illegal alien," making it a felony punishable by imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole. Exceptions apply if the federal government takes the individual into custody within 24 hours for deportation. Under the bill, those convicted would be prohibited from voting in any election, obtaining a driver license, receiving public benefits, and becoming legal residents of Missouri. The measure also directs the Missouri Department of Public Safety...

Can lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic help treat cancer? A new study led by researchers at the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute and published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has revealed a connection between COVID-19 infection and cancer regression. The team’s discovery could pave the way for novel cancer treatments. In an unexpected twist, researchers observed that the RNA from the SARS-CoV-2 virus – responsible for COVID-19 – triggered the development of a unique type of immune cell with anti-cancer properties. These cells, dubbed “inducible nonclassical monocytes (I-NCMs),” were found to attack cancer cells and could potentially be harnessed...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Chinese-owned fishing vessel with 18 crew members aboard was hijacked last week off the northeastern coast of Somalia, local authorities said Friday. An official in Xaafuun district in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland, where the vessel is being held, told journalists that the hijackers include the ship’s security guards, who later joined forces with armed men from the coastal region. The European Union’s anti-piracy naval force, Eunavfor Atalanta, brought global attention to the incident after issuing a statement on Thursday that confirmed the local maritime authorities had notified it and investigations revealed that armed men...

A man was severely injured Tuesday morning when he leaped onto a polar bear to protect his wife from being mauled in the Far North community of Fort Severn. A neighbour showed up soon after and shot the bear, which then retreated to the woods. A spokesperson for the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service said the man is recovering from severe injuries to his arm and legs and is expected to make a full recovery. The attack took place in the early morning in the community, which is on the coast of Hudson Bay. Police were dispatched when they received reports...

A Charlotte, North Carolina, woman claimed Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) refused to cover a minor window repair after Hurricane Helene, instead offering her a month-long stay at a costly hotel. Susan Lewis, 74, said the small window crack would cost $200 to fix, but said FEMA proposed placing her and three others in the Charlotte Marriott SouthPark hotel for a month — an option she said would cost the agency thousands of dollars, according to WSOC-TV. Lewis said she had to pay for the repair out of pocket because she had a $1,000 home insurance deductible....

The Los Angeles Times’ owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday revealed he has been working “behind the scenes” to create a “bias meter” for every article that comes out of the newspaper. He said he hopes the new tool, which will be backed by artificial intelligence, will be released by January. It’s the businessman’s latest project to balance out the newsroom, after he vowed to bring more conservative voices to the paper and faced heated backlash for blocking the paper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

My ears always perk up when I hear that a lifelong Democrat has thrown his or her support behind President-elect Donald Trump. One of the biggest surprises of the 2024 election cycle was the sheer number of people who did just that. Two key factors drove this shift. First, many working-class voters finally grasped that the Democratic Party, which they had blindly supported for decades, had abandoned them. The second factor concerned Democrats at the opposite end of the economic spectrum — a group that included tech billionaires, hedge fund managers, and the ultrawealthy, many with direct access to the...

Employers in the United States added 227,000 workers to their payrolls in November, the Department of Labor said Friday, and the unemployment rate edged up to 4.2 percent. Economists had been expecting 215,000 after storms and strikes saw the Labor Department report a much-worse-than-expected growth of just 12,000 in October. They had also forecast that the unemployment rate would rise one-tenth of a point from 4.1 percent. The October report was revised up by 24,000, bringing the estimate up to 36,000. The September jobs number was revised up by 32,000, from a gain of 223,000 to 255,000.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated that he can protect certain illegal immigrants because “We’ve done it already” with how they handled the surge of migrants to the city, which was better than any other city. Adams said that while the sanctuary city law has gone too far in some cases, “[W]e’re telling our residents here, if you have children, put them in school. If you need medical care, our medical facilities will do so. If you’re a victim of a crime, you don’t have to be afraid to go to...

We really are living in the end times, and the coming year is going to be filled with crisis after crisis. All of human history has been building up to this last chapter and it’s time to ask if you are ready for what is to come? According to the Institute for Economics & Peace, the number of military conflicts that are currently active is the highest that we have seen since World War II… Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia… and so on. There are up to 56 active conflicts in the world,...

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I just had to write in to say thank you for explaining that Bitcoin was just a trading asset, not some new currency that would replace the dollar. I understand that money must be elastic to grow with society in economic booms and population. I just read a quote reported by Bloomberg: “After four years of political purgatory, Bitcoin and the entire digital-asset ecosystem are on the brink of entering the financial mainstream.” I know a programmer who said you were correct that the Deep State created blockchain. Has this recent rise been orchestrated to get us...

Move over cocaine sharks, here come the fentanyl dolphins … An alarming number of bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico were found to have traces of fentanyl in their system, shocking scientists with a horrifying twist to the drug epidemic. Traces of the powerful synthetic opioid was first found inside a dead dolphin that was floating in the gulf water when it was then examined by researchers from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in Sept. 2020. What was supposed to be a routine analysis of blubber turned into years-long research — with more than a third of the dolphins tested also...

This week, Daniel Penny’s defense attorneys flagged Judge Maxwell Wiley to what they say are improper and misleading actions by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office working with the media. Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran, is on trial for the death of Jordan Neely, whom Penny restrained on the NYC subway last year after Neely allegedly threatened passengers. The defense says Bragg’s office has been aggressively pushing the media to add in their coverage that there’s no mandatory minimum sentence if Penny is convicted on the second-degree manslaughter charge. “The District Attorney’s efforts to have the jury speculate as to...

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Summary Islamist-led rebels are now just 1km from Syria's third largest city, Homs, according to a war monitor Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing as the anti-government forces advance Russia - a key ally of the Syrian government - is now urging its citizens to leave the country The rebels seized Hama to the north on Thursday, a second major blow to President Bashar al-Assad who lost control of Aleppo last week Their goal is the overthrow of Assad's regime, the leader of the Islamist militant group HTS says in a CNN interview

The Department of Justice was obliged to open an internal investigation into Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office in June of 2023 because of allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, but the investigation went nowhere, and now the House Judiciary Committee is demanding answers. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday sent a letter to Jeffrey Ragsdale, Counsel for the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility expressing concern about OPR’s “refusal to take prompt investigative steps,” and urging him to preserve all records related to its highly suspect “investigation.” After stonewalling the committee for months, OPR officials finally briefed the committee on the investigation...

A sultry 23-year-old Colombian woman known as “The Doll” and labeled a “dangerous hitwoman” was arrested in connection to several targeted gangland killings — including the recent ambush murder of her ex-lover, according to local reports. Karen Julieth Ojeda Rodriguez — known to police by the alias “La Muneca” (“The Doll”) — was cuffed for her alleged involvement in several high-profile murders in the municipality of Barrancabermeja allegedly carried out at the behest of the Los de la M gang, Spanish-language outlet Libertad Digital reported Thursday. Rodriguez was arrested alongside an accomplice, Paula Valentina Joya Rueda, 24, who is known...

California went right, but Dems flipped 3 Republican House seats.. December is here, the election has been over for a month, Trump has picked out his cabinet and California is still counting the votes. And will go on counting them until the Dems win. Considering Trump’s landslide victory, California had a difficult task ahead of it, but it has already managed to flip the seats held by Rep. Mike Garcia, Rep. Michelle Steel and just stole the seat held by Rep. John Duarte. In Duarte’s 13th congressional district, California Dems have taken a month to count a little over 210,000...