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Another major insurer is pulling back on its offerings in California, forcing tens of thousands of customers to find other options. SafeCo, a subsidiary of California’s fourth-largest home insurer, Liberty Mutual, has announced that it will stop offering policies for new rental and condo customers on January 1, 2025. Existing customers will be able to keep their current policies until 2026.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday temporarily banned unmanned drones from flying over parts of New Jersey without special permission from the government, which will remain in effect through January 17.Mysterious uncrewed drone sightings have been a frequent theme in New Jersey over the past month, and federal agencies have not been able to explain some of the reports. But the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Pentagon have repeatedly assured Americans that the drones do not pose a threat to American safety.The FAA said that the drone restrictions began on Wednesday, and include the areas of Bridgewater,...

Comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan reflected on the “madness” of the legal battles President-elect Donald Trump faced before the 2024 election, rebuking the “corruption” of these charges with guest Rod Blagojevich. Blagojevich, former Democratic governor of Illinois, was discussing the legal battle and trial that he faced in the early 2010s that saw him be convicted on corruption charges in 2011. The former governor explained how tapes related to his legal trial were not played after he provided his testimony, calling it “a total f***ing frameup” that was very similar to what Trump has faced over the last two...

House Republicans have reached an agreement on a pathway to stave off a looming government shutdown — and President-elect Donald Trump is calling on all members of the conference to pass it as soon as Thursday night. The new funding deal would keep the government’s lights on for three months, re-up farm aid, add a two-year suspension of the debt limit until Jan. 30, 2027, and replenish disaster relief, while cutting out other aspects of a prior deal that went up in flames on Wednesday, according to the 116-page bill’s text. “Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come to...

Canadians waited longer than ever for medical treatment in 2024, says the Fraser Institute. This year’s edition of its annual survey of physicians from across Canada reports a median wait time of 30 weeks from referral by a family doctor to consultation with a specialist, and then from the consultation to actual treatment. The 30-week wait is the longest ever recorded by the Institute — longer than the 27.7 weeks in 2023, 20.9 weeks in pre-pandemic 2019, and 222 per cent longer than the 9.3 weeks in 1993, when it began tracking wait times. “While most Canadians understand that wait...

Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday as the H5N1 bird flu virus moved from the Central Valley to Southern California dairy herds, while federal officials confirmed the first U.S. case of severe illness in a hospitalized Louisiana patient — a concerning development as the virus continues to spread throughout the nation via migrating birds. The declaration by Newsom will allow for a more streamlined approach among state and local agencies to tackle the virus, providing “flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules to support California’s evolving response,” according to a statement. “Building on California’s testing and monitoring...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), retiring at 77, accomplished more during his single term than many senators do in decades. Though it helped that he entered the chamber with the gravitas of an elder statesman, having served as the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, the reason he proved so effective was his willingness to work across the aisle and prioritize the interests of the country over his party.Mr. Romney joined a group of 10 senators — five Republicans, five Democrats — who cooperated closely in 2020, during the covid-19 pandemic, to hammer out a stalled relief package. They subsequently helped shepherd into...

The world’s richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by promoting false and misleading claims about it.When President-elect Donald J. Trump picked “the Great Elon Musk,” the world’s richest man, to slash government spending and waste, he mused that the effort might be “the Manhattan Project of our time.” On Wednesday, that prediction looked spot on. Wielding the social media platform he purchased for $44 billion in 2022, Mr. Musk detonated a rhetorical nuclear bomb in the middle of government shutdown negotiations on Capitol Hill. In more than 150 separate posts on X, Mr....

Dozens of people were reportedly sickened by norovirus at an event unveiling the Los Angeles Times’ list of the 101 best restaurants. The party at the Hollywood Palladium earlier this month left more than 70 people feeling ill... ...Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Wednesday advised of tainted oysters, including those under the Fanny Bay brand, which Times spokesperson Hillary Manning confirmed were served at the event. Fanny Bay Oysters originating from British Columbia, Canada, were sourced by Santa Monica Seafood, a sponsor and the seafood vendor of the event, and provided to one of the featured restaurants...

White House aides covered up President Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, shielding the aging commander-in-chief from the public and even rearranging his schedule after scatterbrained performances, an explosive report revealed Thursday. The lack of access to the nation’s oldest-ever president has been well known in Washington — with Biden hosting the fewest large press conferences in modern history and frequently descending into gaffes at the podium when he appeared — but how much the White House made up for the haziness had until now been hidden, according to aides, Democratic lawmakers and donors who spoke...

A study provides new insight into the complex interactions of the "tumor-immune-gut axis," and its role in influencing immunotherapy responses in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer. The findings emphasize the role of the patient's microbiome—the collection of microorganisms in the body—and lay the groundwork for future clinical trials aimed at improving treatment outcomes. That goal is critical, because epithelial ovarian cancer, fallopian tube cancer and primary peritoneal cancer—all categorized under the umbrella of ovarian cancer—are the deadliest gynecological malignancies, with a five-year survival rate of less than 50%. Most deaths occur as a result of disease that is refractory, or...

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The very unpopular "Congressman" from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory - All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself. Republican obstructionists have to be done away with. The Democrats are using them, and we can't let that happen. Our Country is far better off closing up for a period of time than it is agreeing to the things that the Democrats want to force upon us. Biden is President, and it's his obligation to properly lead. We're there to do the right thing, and we can't...

MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle will reportedly need to take a pay cut if they want to remain in their anchor chairs as the struggling cable network continues to cut costs. The left-leaning news channel — which recently gave star anchor Rachel Maddow a $5 million-a-year haircut from her annual $30 million haul — has been negotiating with Reid and Ruhle on new deals at reduced salaries, according to the Ankler newsletter. The controversial Reid is believed to be earning $3 million a year to host her nightly 8 p.m. show, “The ReidOut,” according to the Washington Free Beacon....

US intelligence assessments before Israel escalated its conflict against the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group in September said that such a move risked sparking an all-out war in which hundreds — if not thousands — of Israelis would be killed, three US officials and one Israeli official told The Times of Israel... ...the US officials said, acknowledging that both countries’ assessments proved wildly inaccurate within days, as the IDF methodically took out much of Hezbollah’s missile and drone capabilities, dismantled its military infrastructure in southern Lebanon, picked off almost every member of its senior leadership and killed or wounded thousands of...

Cavuto’s contract concludes at the end of this month and is not being renewed. According to a report from Mediaite, the host will bid farewell to his viewers at the end of Thursday’s episode of Your World. The report explains: Cavuto is one of the few remaining on-air talent still with the network after joining at its inception in the late 1990s. A beloved presence at Fox, his exit is not the consequence of any bad blood, but rather an increasingly common industry reality: Cavuto was offered a new contract, which he declined to accept his new deal. Fox wanted...

Rep. Luna [FL-13] was just on FoxNews Cavuto to push this new bill.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) criticized President-elect Trump for allowing SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to “govern” through a series of social media posts that effectively helped to delay passage of a stopgap funding bill that would prevent a government shutdown ahead of the holidays. “It’s one thing when you have Donald Trump governing by tweet, as he did in his first term, where he was in communication with Congress, but now you have Elon Musk, an unelected oligarch, governing by tweet,” Goldman said Wednesday on CNN’s “AC360.”

Patients with intermediate-risk breast cancer had similar rates of 10-year overall survival whether or not they underwent chest wall irradiation (CWI) after mastectomy, according to results from the BIG 2-04 MRC SUPREMO clinical trial. He explained that while guidelines vary, CWI is commonly used to treat patients with intermediate-risk breast cancers, defined as patients with one to three positive lymph nodes or patients who have no positive lymph nodes but whose cancers exhibit other factors that increase the risk of recurrence, such as grade 3 histology and/or lymphovascular invasion. To evaluate the impact of post-mastectomy CWI in patients with intermediate-risk...

The survival rate for children with a rare but deadly cancer could one day be improved by adding an existing drug—which is currently used to manage excess copper in the body—to their treatment. The drug can be used to weaken tumors and strengthen the fighting capacity of immune cells, increasing the success rate of a cancer treatment for high-risk neuroblastoma from 10% to 50%, new research in mice. The findings offer hope for those with neuroblastoma, which accounts for 15% of childhood cancer deaths. Despite aggressive treatments, children diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma have a 1 in 2 chance of surviving...