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Vice President Kamala Harris is facing renewed scrutiny after a video emerged showing her laughing and cracking jokes while appearing to sip on drinks at a Christmas party at her residence at the Naval Observatory on Wednesday evening. Critics joked the footage is further evidence of her struggles in the wake of her stunning defeat to President-elect Donald Trump in last month’s presidential election. The clip, circulating widely on social media, shows Harris animatedly addressing a small crowd, telling them, “And I give you permission that if you are going to someone’s house who doesn’t know how to cook, bring...

The Kremlin said Friday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's opposition to Ukraine's use of U.S. weapons to hit Russia "fully aligned" with Moscow's position, hours after it launched a massive aerial barrage on Ukraine. The nearly three-year conflict is escalating ahead of Trump coming to power in January, with both sides seeking to gain an upper hand on the battlefield amid mounting speculation of ceasefire talks. Russia launched one of its largest missile attacks ever in the early hours of Friday, targeting Ukraine's energy grid as temperatures dropped below freezing, in what Moscow called a retaliatory strike for Kyiv firing...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday in favor of raising the hourly minimum wage for tourism workers (including airport and hotel workers) gradually to $30 by 2028.

The family of a nine-year-old girl who was born without her left arm has been told a new prosthetic is 'not medically necessary' by their insurance company. Remy Bateman, from Utah, has lived her whole life with the use of just one arm 'due to an amniotic band in the womb' caused her to lose the limb at birth, according to her mother Jami Batemen. The school girl has always relied on prosthetics, but after recently outgrowing them, her family set their sights on upgrading her to a robotic arm. They traveled to Colorado where Remy got to test out...

Several DC food workers wallowing in Kamala Harris’s landslide defeat promise to make Trump administration officials pay should they decide to visit their establishments, even at the cost of their livelihoods. The Washingtonian on Thursday spoke to industry veterans, bartenders, and servers in our nation’s capital who have made crystal clear that they are willing to sacrifice dollars in an attempt to ‘own’ those trying to make America great again. Nancy, a bartender for a fine dining establishment, said she would not only refuse to welcome certain Trump officials but also make those she decides to serve miserable. “There is...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is leading the charge for Democrats to persuade President Biden to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which would invite a Supreme Court battle.Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is on a mission in President Biden’s final days in office. She wants to convince him that he can rescue his legacy by adding the century-old Equal Rights Amendment, which would explicitly guarantee sex equality, to the Constitution as a way to protect abortion rights in post-Roe America.He could do it all, she contends, with one phone call.Both houses of Congress approved the amendment in 1972,...

The outgoing Biden Administration has quietly extended a pandemic-era measure that protects Covid vaccine makers from being sued for injuries or deaths. Officials at the Health and Human Services (HHS) say it's necessary because there is still 'a credible risk' the pandemic spirals out of control in the next four years, even though Covid deaths and hospital admissions are at historic lows. The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act was initially enacted in 2020, in part to encourage vaccine manufacturers to speed up their research of Covid vaccines without fear of being held legally responsible for things like side...

The woman at the center of the Duke University lacrosse rape case has finally admitted she lied when she accused three young men of sexual assault in 2006. Crystal Mangum, from Durham, North Carolina, came under the spotlight in 2006 when she accused the trio of gang raping her during a party where she was hired as a stripper. The 46-year-old mother-of-three is currently in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife in 2011. It was from prison where she spoke to Let's Talk with Kat, an independent content creator who released...

Paul McCartney’s homespun classic album, Ram, is my favourite Symphony. It has all the grandeur, playfulness and adventure of the Beatles at their best but, unlike any Beatles album, is a total embodiment of love, celebrating his life with his wife Linda partially replacing his former partner John Lennon in his music.. Notes on some of the songs: Too Many People: soaring lead guitars back the primary message to his preaching lefty former collaborator John, pull your head in. Ram.On: the right of men to love. Ride away. Right away. Dear Boy: chattering rhythms reflect the imprecisions of love. It...

Who Is 'Celeb B'? The Mystery Female Who Allegedly Witnessed Diddy & Jay-Z Assault a Girl and Is Now ‘Lawyering Up’. The identity of the female celebrity who is said to have witnessed Jay-Z and Sean 'Diddy' Combs allegedly assault a 13-year-old girl remains a mystery. The incident reportedly took place at an after party following the 2000 VMAs, where the unnamed "Celebrity B" was present. The original lawsuit claimed that Combs raped the young girl while two unidentified individuals, referred to as "Celebrity A" and "Celebrity B," observed. In a recent update to the lawsuit filed in New York,...

‘The Chosen’ director and creator Dallas Jenkins previewed a scene from the upcoming season of his hit TV show, featuring an interaction between Judas and Jesus that is patently unbiblical and goes against the clear teaching and narrative of the scripture. In the scene from the upcoming season 5 that was shared by Jenkins during his live Q&A on his YouTube channel, we see this interaction: Jesus: “You have a choice to make, Judas.” Judas: “I’m listening.” Jesus: “Who you belong to. Who has your heart. I want it, and I’ve had it before. You followed me willingly. Judas: “I...

EDWARDS AFB, Calif.— Congress wants more information from the Pentagon on what authorities and technologies it needs to protect military installations from the threat of drone incursions, as a spate of high-profile incidents spark concerns that adversaries could use drones to exploit weaknesses in US base security. The compromise version of the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, released on Saturday, includes several provisions aimed at improving the US military’s response to potential drone threats to its installations, including the creation of a counter-drone strategy. In addition to the mandate for the strategy — which was originally included in the...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, was rushed to the hospital on Friday while on a foreign trip. Pelosi was in Luxembourg with a bipartisan congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. 'Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation,' her spokesperson Ian Krager said in a statement. Krager said she is receiving 'excellent treatment' from doctors and medical professionals. As a result of the injury, she will be canceling the rest of her engagements on the congressional delegation trip. A source told...

Adrone has crashed into the ground in New Jersey amid repeated reported sightings of the unmanned flying devices along the East Coast, according to local law enforcement. Police scanner reports in Morris County, New Jersey indicated that a drone had crashed in the area on Friday morning, with one officer reporting that more remote-controlled aircraft were spotted in the sky around the scene of the crash. The news comes after a surge in drone sightings that have baffled New England Law enforcement, as well as the FBI, since November, with authorities unsure about the nature and origin of the drones...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is pleading directly with President Biden for federal aid in determining why his residents see unexplained aircraft dotting the sky night after night. In a letter, he said state and local police are “hamstrung” in dealing with drones, so action falls “squarely on the shoulders of the federal government.” “New Jersey residents deserve more concrete information about these [unmanned aircraft systems] sightings and what is causing them,” Mr. Murphy, a Democrat, wrote Friday. You Might Also Like Recommended by A professional engineer designed this nail clipper for seniors all overPAID A professional engineer designed this...

Just days after news leaked that President Joe Biden was quietly selling unused border wall construction materials via online auction, presumably as a gesture of defiance against incoming President Donald Trump, a mysterious user named "OrangeMan47" swooped in to purchase every listing. Evidence indicated OrangeMan47 was a new account on GovPlanet, the online auction house used by the Biden administration. The account has zero user feedback and an incomplete profile, but President Biden was unconcerned. "Money is money," the president said. "Whether it comes from someone in the United States... or Ukraine... or China... or... or... wherever. I'm happy to...

Medically-assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – accounted for 4.7% of deaths in Canada in 2023, new government data shows. The country's fifth annual report since euthanasia was legalised in 2016 showed around 15,300 people underwent assisted dying last year after being successful in their applications. The median age of this group was more than 77. The vast majority – around 96% - had a death deemed "reasonably foreseeable", due to severe medical conditions such as cancer. In the small minority of other cases, patients may not have been terminally ill, but sought an assisted death due to...

Fear of spiders becomes a phobia when it consumes your thoughts, interferes with your daily activities and keeps you from socializing with your family and friends. Symptoms of arachnophobia include sweating or shaking and tightness in your chest or rapid heartbeat. Behavior therapies along with relaxation and breathing exercises are the main treatment options

[Catholic Caucus] What Do We Make of the Rainbow-Colored Signs of Apostasy in Rome?The pro-LGBTQ movement and the anti-Catholic movement are arguably the two driving forces of the Synodal religion. Almost every week, we hear reports of some persecution of Traditional Catholicism along with some promotion of the pro-LGBTQ movement.In a December 10, 2024 article about the Vatican’s inclusion of “an LGBTQ+ pilgrimage event during the upcoming Jubilee Year of 2025,” the pro-LGBTQ New Ways Ministry reflected on how much LGBTQ initiatives had advanced in recent years:“While 2025’s event may seem like a small step, when compared with how the...

A UCLA student is suing multiple California health care providers and hospitals for medical negligence, alleging she was wrongly diagnosed with gender dysphoria and then “fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging” puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery, according to her lawsuit. Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, said she experienced sexual abuse as a young child, and by the time she was 11, she “began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy,” according to her suit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior...