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New photos of ageing RINO Mitch McConnell being carted around in a wheelchair have become the symbol for the need for term limits. McConnell was caught being pushed around in the wheelchair by a member of his staff after falling at the GOP luncheon on Tuesday. The photo has promoted calls for McConnell’s resignation and term limits. Here’s the photo: [cut] Many on social media are now demanding Mitch retire.

John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, described Friday’s G7 session as focused on the leaders’ “shared support to Ukraine,” including the use of a World Bank fund to deliver billions in economic aid to the war-torn country. He also told reporters Thursday that Biden had “made clear, we’re going to continue to provide additional packages right up until the end of this administration.” But in a sweeping interview published Thursday, Trump signaled a much different foreign policy when he takes office. The soon-to-be-47th president has always been skeptical of — and sometimes combative with — international entities. And...

Explanation: An intriguing pair of interacting galaxies, M51 is the 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog. Perhaps the original spiral nebula, the large galaxy with whirlpool-like spiral structure seen nearly face-on is also cataloged as NGC 5194. Its spiral arms and dust lanes sweep in front of its smaller companion galaxy, NGC 5195. Some 31 million light-years distant, within the boundaries of the well-trained constellation Canes Venatici, M51 looks faint and fuzzy to the eye in direct telescopic views. But this remarkably deep image shows off stunning details of the galaxy pair's striking colors and fainter tidal streams. The...

More New Yorkers were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2023 compared with 2022, but public officials say that doesn’t necessarily mean new diagnoses are on the rise after years of steady decline, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (DOHMH) 2023 HIV Surveillance Annual Report. In 2023, 1,686 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in New York City, up 7.6% from 2022.

[cut] We know what the reported injury was, and it’s not uncommon for someone in their 80s. It’s also a serious injury: She tripped, fell down some steps, and fractured her hip (via NYT) [emphasis mine]:" Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized on Friday after being injured while traveling abroad on a bipartisan congressional delegation to Luxembourg, a spokesman said on Friday. Ms. Pelosi, 84, “sustained an injury during an official engagement,” the spokesman, Ian Krager, said in a brief statement that provided no details on the nature of the injury or how it occurred. He said she was admitted...

***[Elton] John, who had a notorious drug addiction during the 1970s and 1980s but has been clean and sober for decades, made [the following] statement in [an] interview: John now divides his life into pre- and post-sober periods. … Those struggles have made him doubt the wisdom of legal weed. “I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs. And when you’re stoned—and I’ve been stoned—you don’t think normally,” he says. “Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time.”John couldn’t be more right.***We’ve long known that marijuana use damages the brain, especially...

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Police in Concord are investigating after someone vandalized a Satanic Temple holiday display at the State House. The statue, which the city sanctioned after explaining it was allowed because of the First Amendment, was unveiled Saturday night and was damaged shortly after. Visitors to the State House on Tuesday could see a Christmas tree, nativity scene and Bill of Rights display, but the Satanic Temple holiday display was taken down after it was damaged. The display depicted the pagan deity Baphomet and the Satanic Temple's seven fundamental tenets. In one hand, the figure held an apple to honor Isaac Newton...

PHOENIX - President-elect Donald Trump will be back in the Valley next week for an event in Phoenix. Trump is scheduled to speak at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest 2024 at the Phoenix Convention Center. "Those who attend this one-of-a-kind, four-day event will hear from dozens of the nation’s top leaders, network with thousands of like-minded attendees and 100+ partnering organizations, and experience concerts featuring top artists in the country- all while celebrating the greatest country in the world, America," read a description of AmericaFest on the event's website. AmericaFest happens from Dec 19-22. It's unknown which day Trump will speak....

The Democratic response to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson raises questions about the scope and significance of the federal healthcare reform legislation they passed without any Republican votes under former President Barack Obama. President Joe Biden, then the vice president, famously called the enactment of the Affordable Care Act a “big f***ing deal” at the 2010 signing ceremony. But when he sought the Democratic presidential nomination himself 10 years later, he was the only top-tier candidate running on Obamacare rather than other more government-centric healthcare plans. Biden won the nomination, defeating several proponents of Medicare for All, including...

Eighty years ago, on December 16, the Germans launched the Ardennes Offensive, which proved the bloodiest American battle of WW II with 89,000 casualties including 19,000 dead. At the center of the offensive beleaguered Bastogne featured the 101st Airborne withstanding a German siege.However, these 10,000 paratroopers did not alone forge the severe impediment presented to 500,000 Germans troops attacking with tanks. Contributions from the 9th and 10th Armored Divisions, and the 28th Division’s 109th and 687th Field Artillery Battalions provided needed firepower. Remnants of the 9th Armored CCR including the 73rd Armored Field Artillery retreated into the town. The CCB...

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan posted eerie video footage on his X account Friday of “large drones” circling above his house just 25 miles from Washington, DC, echoing concerns from Americans about the unsettling aircraft recently spotted on the East Coast, primarily in New Jersey. Hogan, 68, said he observed “dozens of large drones in the sky” over his home in Davidsonville, Maryland, “for approximately 45 minutes” — but didn’t know himself if the aerial phenomena were “a threat to public safety or national security.”

When the Assad regime fell in Syria, Israel began to move very quickly. Left-wing pundits quickly began to accuse Israel of invading Syria, using the opportunity to attack yet another country, and some even blamed Israel for the fall of Assad’s regime. Many were wondering why Israel viewed the fall of Syria as a good thing for the region when the conquering rebels have the possibility of being an even worse dictator than Assad was. Meanwhile, Israel was making some very quiet, fast, stunning, calculated, and brilliant moves. One week later, the entire scope of this region has changed. Iran’s...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s personal attorney previously lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine, highlighting an influential Kennedy ally who, sources tell ABC News, has been helping interview candidates for top health jobs in the incoming Trump administration. Aaron Siri, a partner at the law firm Siri & Glimstad, has long fought against the widespread prevalence of vaccines. He has also filed petitions seeking to pause the distribution of other vaccines, including Hepatitis B, and to revoke the emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines. The polio petition was made on behalf of one...

Lt. General William G. Boykin FRC Action 801 G Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 Tel: 1-877/372-2808 Dear Robert, I wanted to share some good news regarding the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an important piece of legislation that provides funding and sets policies for the U.S. Department of Defense. First, the effort to "Draft our Daughters" has been thwarted for another year! Language requiring women to register with the Selective Service (which would make them eligible for any future military drafts) has been removed from this year's NDAA. In addition, this year's NDAA includes a provision that prohibits taxpayer...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Drones were spotted flying over the U.S. air base at Ramstein in Germany in early December, a spokesperson for the U.S. Air Force said on Friday.

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Democrats are divided about attending the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. About 60 members of Congress in 2017 reportedly did not attend Trump’s inauguration, but that was before he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in a landslide, shifted 48 states to the right, and earned a mandate to govern. “I’m not quite sure what I would be celebrating with his inauguration,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told USA Today. “I had not gotten to that point yet. Blocked that out.”

RIO DE JANEIRO — Day McCarthy has made hateful comments. Her targets have frequently been children, particularly the children of celebrities. She has called one girl “ugly.” Another child “disgustingly skinny.”And in one racist utterance that outraged this deeply diverse country, the Brazilian social media provocateur once took aim at the adopted Black daughter of two White celebrities, calling the 4-year-old girl a “monkey.”“I say what’s on my mind,” McCarthy, who identifies as half Black, said in an interview. “I’m a polemicist.”Brazil now has another name for her: criminal.Seven years after her bigoted attack on the Black girl, a federal...