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MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MA — In the wake of the assassination of the UnitedHealth CEO, former President Barack Obama stepped forward to calm tensions by reminding Americans not to be too hasty to find and assassinate everyone responsible for the healthcare crisis. In an only slightly nervous statement to the nation, a visibly sweating Obama reminded people not to jump into hunting down and killing everyone who might be considered responsible for causing the terrible state of American healthcare. "Now, now, let's not get carried away here," said Obama, tapping the floor faster and faster as an eyebrow inadvertently twitched. "Surely...

TORONTO — Canada long sold itself as a beacon for immigrants, who were widely viewed as key to economic growth in a vast nation with a small and rapidly aging workforce.“Study, work and stay” was the slogan of a government campaign to lure international students, part of a broader push that included recruiting temporary workers and resettling refugees. After President Trump banned travel to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries in 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada’s doors were open. “To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith,” he wrote on...

For the ninth straight year, the Dallas Cowboys are the world’s most valuable sports team, worth an estimated $10.1 billion—the first to cross the 11-figure threshold and $1.3 billion beyond their closest competition. But there is plenty of movement among the top 50 teams, with 12 NBA franchises now flooding the ranking, double the six on last year’s list and led by the Golden State Warriors, worth an estimated $8.8 billion and No. 2 overall. To be fair, that increase is due in part to a change in the timing of Forbes’ list, but basketball’s march up the financial leaderboard...

It is easy to mock Argentine president Javier Milei, with his crazy hair, cloned dogs and claims of expertise at tantric sex. He was, after all, nicknamed “El Loco” (The Madman) as a teenage goalkeeper and seems often determined to perpetuate this reputation with his egotistical boasts and brutal attacks on critics. Yet, when this explosive character said recently he was one of the two most “relevant” politicians on this planet alongside Donald Trump, he might just turn out to be right. For the self-styled “anarcho-capitalist,” who campaigned with a chainsaw as a symbol of his desire to slash the...

Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has called the top ranks of the bureau “a threat to the people” and published a list of enemies, vowing retribution for investigations of top Republicans.He appears — at least for now — to be on a glide path for confirmation, with Republican senators lining up enthusiastically behind him.As Mr. Patel made the rounds on Capitol Hill this week ahead of his confirmation hearing, he received almost universal praise from G.O.P. members, even those who had raised concerns about some of Mr. Trump’s other picks.“Kash Patel is the...

LeBron James appears to be searching for answers as he steps away from the Lakers amid a worrying decline and swirling trade rumors. “LeBron is not with the team right now,” Redick told reporters while at practice on Wednesday. “He’s out for personal reasons, excused absence.” James missed his first game of the season on Sunday against the Blazers — a 107-98 victory — after previously setting a goal to play all 82 in his age-40 season. Redick added that James would “take some time” after struggling mightily in his last few games, including an 0-for-20 stretch from beyond the...

In a video released Dec. 2, Julie Hartman says she spent eight hours in the hospital with Dennis. “So many of you are asking for information… All we want is information. This is going to be weeks, months for him to recuperate. If we’re not telling you information, it’s not because we are withholding it. We don’t have information… Dennis is 100% mentally there. He even said it to me with his limited ability to mouth words.” I find it odd how everybody who knows Prager’s condition won’t say much about it. It must have to do with his boss...

This morning a TSA agent tried to bully me into getting my photo taken after I tried to opt-out of the facial recognition software that TSA is trying to implement. Apparently it’s the norm now to get your photo taken on top of giving TSA your ID every time you want to get on a flight. To add insult to injury, 2 illegals went through TSA right before me and didn’t have to undergo facial recognition. Your daily reminder that we shouldn’t even have to be opting out of this and forcing Americans into facial recognition before getting on a...

“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a ‘Bill of Temporary Privileges.’ And if you read the news, even badly, you know that the list gets shorter and shorter.”—George Carlin Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch. It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on it by seizing greater power and using those powers against the American people. We’ve seen...

The field of quantum computing has taken a giant leap forward with the development of the Willow chip. Over a decade in the making, this achievement stems from a vision to harness the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics for scientific discovery, problem-solving, and transformative applications. The Willow chip represents a major step toward realizing large-scale, commercially useful quantum computers.A critical hurdle in quantum computing has been error correction. Qubits, the foundational units of quantum computation, are notoriously fragile and prone to interacting with their environment, leading to errors. These errors increase with the number of qubits, often rendering the system...

Hegseth: "I don't feel the need to respond to CNN"

Just counting down the days. Americans are anxiously looking ahead to the future, and praying that Trump will soon unburden us and the world from the scorched earth programs, policies and economy that the Obama/Biden/Harris globalist regime is leaving behind.

The importance of this technique becomes even clearer when considering the larger context. An astonishing 100 million Americans are affected by obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders, notes S. Thai Thayumanavan, a distinguished biomedical engineer and chemist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. "We were really excited about this work," he says. The brilliance of this method lies in the nanogel itself. These tiny carriers are packed with a synthetic thyroid hormone drug called a thyromimetic. While thyroid hormones are crucial for liver metabolism, they often prove ineffective and cause adverse side effects when taken systemically. "We came up with a...

WASHINGTON—The icy region at the top of the globe, lashed by wildfire and pelted with increasingly heavy precipitation, has tipped into “uncharted territory,” scientists reported Tuesday. The Arctic tundra has shifted from storing carbon in the soil to becoming a carbon dioxide source, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its partner researchers concluded in their 19th annual Arctic Report Card. As a result, the Arctic’s ability to help regulate Earth’s temperature is significantly compromised. Emissions from warming permafrost regions must be thought of as an increasing risk to a planet already being transformed by the overburden of fossil...

Vladimir Putin has been alerted that Russian military personnel and equipment are now "stranded" in Syria following the dramatic downfall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. The dictator escaped Damascus over the weekend and was flown to Moscow at Putin's personal request. However, Anastasia Kashevarova, a Russian blogger known for her criticism of her country's military leadership - but not Putin himself - warned the President about the precarious situation left behind. In a post on Telegram, she detailed: "Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow, and our military is stuck and blocked in Syria, Libya, Africa." She added: "Our bases have been completely...

Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter. This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a...

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju capped a stunning ascent to the pinnacle of chess by dethroning China’s Ding Liren to become the youngest ever world champion on Thursday in Singapore. The 18-year-old from Chennai dramatically snatched the decisive victory from a dead-drawn position in the final contest of their best-of-14-games showdown when Ding made one of the worst blunders in the 138-year history of world championship matchplay. The 32-year-old defending champion resigned moments later after a game that lasted 58 moves and just over four hours, sealing Gukesh’s 7½-6½ win in the three-week match and rendering moot the widely expected prospect...

A few years ago, West Virginia, which has the highest obesity rate in the nation, quietly began a small and unusual pilot program that would touch hundreds of lives: It started covering obesity drugs for state employees—even as many other insurers balked at what they considered expensive “vanity” drugs. The program was, by health measures, a success. Patients shed as much as 120 pounds, their cholesterol dropped, their prediabetes faded, and they cut down on blood-pressure meds. As word began to spread, more patients wanted to join. A school nurse told me her weight loss inspired at least six other...

Enter New Jersey State Rep. Brian Bergen who attended a Department of Homeland Security meeting eager for some answers, or even possibly a plan of action, but said he came away with neither. After an hour of frustrating nothing burgers, he saw the writing on the wall and walked out. “I walked out because it was worthless,” Bergen began. “It was the biggest amateur hour presentation I’ve ever seen about anything, ok? It was ridiculous, there were no answers.” “They don’t know where the drones are coming from, they don’t know who’s doing it, they don’t know why they’re doing...

I think if you were writing a movie about the comeback of Donald Trump, and you tried to sell it, people probably would have told you that they wouldn't buy it because no one would believe it. But it happened, with him ultimately winning in triumph despite all the efforts against him, including impeachments, convictions, and assassination attempts. Trump rang the morning bell at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday morning, a precursor to ringing in a new age in Washington and the country come January. --------SNIP-------- While there were other people on the shortlist for Person of the Year...