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In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, scientists investigated the associations between intake of added sugar and various sugar-sweetened foods and beverages and risk of 7 cardiovascular diseases in 69,705 participants aged 45-83 years (47.2% female) from the Swedish Mammography Cohort and the Cohort of Swedish Men. They found that eating too much added sugar increases your risk of stroke or aneurysm, but eating a few treats is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases; meanwhile, drinking sweetened beverages raises stroke, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation risks. Cardiovascular disease comprises various diseases of the...

LG's new TV creates a nifty illusion of on-screen content floating in mid-air After stealing the show at CES 2024 in January, LG's totally transparent TV is finally available to buy. The 77-inch Signature OLED T can be yours for an eye-watering US$60,000. With that kind of scratch, you could buy three top-of-the-line 85-inch Samsung 'The Terrace' Full Sun Neo QLED 4K outdoor TVs designed to be used in direct sunlight – or a 2025 BMW 5-series car. Anyway, you're here about the Signature OLED T. We're talking about a 4K 120 Hz OLED TV you can literally see through...

Swedish rapper Gaboro has been shot dead in a car park as his killer filmed the execution - just six months after award-winning rapper C.Gambino was also killed in a car park. A disturbing video allegedly showing the murder of 24-year-old Gaboro, whose real name was Ninos Khouri, is circulating on social media. Footage which was filmed by the gunman appears to show him ruthlessly shoot his target over and over again as Gaboro tried to get away. Police were informed of a shooting in a parking lot in central Norrköping at around 8pm last night. Once they arrived at...

Rand Paul suggests replacing Mike Johnson with Elon Musk as Speaker of the House. Paul said that 'nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk' as House speaker. The chaotic collapse of the continuing resolution spending bill is putting House Speaker Mike Johnson’s, R-La., leadership under the spotlight and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has floated the idea of replacing him with Elon Musk, President-elect Trump's pick to co-chair his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In a recent statement, incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan issued a stern warning to state leaders that may seek to defy federal border policies. While highlighting the importance of upholding national security and the integrity of immigration regulations, Homan stressed that any state actions contrary to federal laws would not be tolerated, emphasizing consequences if they refused to comply with mass deportation efforts. After Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs declared she would not cooperate with President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies, Homan speculated that Hobbs may face “multiple” criminal charges and jail time “on day one” of Trump’s term. Hobbs...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy warned Thursday that the staggering influx of drone sightings over the Garden State the past few weeks — though harmless — is a “wake-up call” to the country’s vulnerability to potential foreign drone attacks. “Now we can say this based on the most sophisticated drone detection systems on the planet that started to arrive in New Jersey last Friday and Saturday, there is no public threat here, period. I could say that unequivocally,” Murphy said on News 12 New Jersey’s “Ask Gov. Murphy” program. But that doesn’t mean Jersey or the country as a whole...

THIS is the powerful moment a British journalist bravely challenges Vladimir Putin and labels him as a "weaker leader" than Donald Trump. Fearless Keir Simmons launched the rare full-frontal attack on the mad despot at his bizarre annual call-in event with Vlad left red-faced with rage. Simmons was allowed to ask the Russian leader a question at yesterday's marathon conference as he took the opportunity to lambast Putin over his unsuccessful 2024. The top NBC journalist said directly to the tyrant: "Mr President you have failed to reach the objectives of your special military operation. "Large numbers of Russians have...

President Biden on Thursday said he would be attending President-elect Trump’s inauguration next month. When asked by MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas if he would attend the event, Biden said, “Of course I am. The only president I avoided the inauguration of is the guy about to be inaugurated.” The White House said last month that Biden and first lady Jill Biden would be attending Trump’s inauguration. In August, the president suggested he would attend a January 2025 inauguration for Trump if he were reelected. “The president promised that he would attend the inauguration of whomever won the election. He and...

A study offers evidence that dietary changes may help reduce cancer cell growth in patients undergoing active surveillance. The findings show a diet low in omega-6 and high in omega-3 fatty acids, combined with fish oil supplements, significantly reduced the growth rate of prostate cancer cells in men with early-stage disease. To determine whether diet or supplements can play a role in managing prostate cancer, the team conducted a prospective clinical trial, called CAPFISH-3, that included 100 men with low risk or favorable intermediate risk prostate cancer who chose active surveillance. Participants were randomly assigned to either continue their normal...

working-class Americans that Unmute Captions Fullscreen Share Pause Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) spoke out against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s involvement in governmental affairs, saying the tech billionaire is “horning his way” into decisions. “I was with a few Republicans yesterday as Musk was rage-tweeting and giving his orders, and they were completely apoplectic,” Swalwell said on MSNBC on Thursday night. “And I told one of them, I said, ‘If you let him do this, if he does this and you don’t stand up to him now, he is going to own you for the next Congress.'” “‘Every bill that is...

A while back somebody over at Ace of Spades mentioned that with 2 or 3 exceptions, every member of Dubya's administration turned into a Democrat. My first thought was "that can't be right", and then I got thinking. And it wasn't pretty. So I decided I'd go through and get the backup behind Ace's assertion. After going back and editing, this post feels like Apocalypse Now's Captain Willard and his trip up the river that starts out OK and slowly but surely becomes a nightmare. I report; you decide: Press SecretaryAri Fleisher - Not as bad as most of this...

A menace left a mysterious liquid-filled jug outside a Manhattan NYPD precinct — with an ominous letter warning that “chlorine gas is a *(*(*,” law enforcement sources said. The unidentified man dropped off the gallon-size glass jug outside the 6th Precinct stationhouse on West 10th Street near Hudson Street in the West Village around 4 p.m. Thursday, the sources said. An attached note said, “I seriously hope you didn’t open that jar because chlorine gas is a bitch,” according to the sources. The note also warned that the next jar or bag would be a bomb, and that it’s heading...

Condos and hotels in Sunny Isles Beach, Surfside, Miami Beach and Bal Harbour are at risk.. Miami’s barrier islands are home to many tall luxury buildings .. about three dozen are sinking. Thirty-five luxury condos and hotels across Florida's Sunny Isles Beach, Surfside, Miami Beach and Bal Harbour have faced subsidence in the past handful of years.. ... The sinking of the high-rises amounted to 2-8 centimeters over a multiyear span running 2016 through 2023.. High-rises expect to see "up to several tens of centimeters" of settlement "during and immediately after construction," the University of Miami Rosenstiel School said ......

Elon Musk's joining with Donald Trump is going to prove to be one of the greatest things ever to happen to this country. The enormity of this can be measured in democrat discomfort, whining and umbrage. Speaker Mike Johnson promised us that there would no last minute piled on continuing resolution as in the past and it would be clean. But here it is. 1547 pages, when it should have been around 50 pages. It was unceremoniously dumped in the laps of House members on Wednesday, and they were expected to read it all and vote by Friday. I asked...

“The nation appears to be having a kind of moment involving a gross, naked emperor and a bunch of people noticing this isn’t a nudist-friendly zone.” — Jeff Childers. Hitler was dead, to begin with. As dead as ein Türnagel. At least no one had heard him squawk since the Russkies cracked bottles of Dunkelbrau at the Brandenburg Gate, April, 1945. Nobody ever called Joe Biden “Hitler,” but around his gloomy place-of-business, known as the “White House, they sometimes called him “Joe Biden,” with a titter and a smirk, as they called “a lid” on his bewildered day and stuffed...

Public Law 100-463 100th Congress An Act Oct. 1, 1988 [H.R. 4781] Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1989. Arms and munitions. Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1989, for military functions administered by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I MILITARY...

Friday 20 December 2024 20 December Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 7:10-14The maiden is with childThe Lord spoke to Ahaz and said, ‘Ask the Lord your God for a sign for yourself coming either from the depths of Sheol or from the heights above.’ ‘No,’ Ahaz answered ‘I will not put the Lord to the test.’ Then Isaiah said:‘Listen now, House of David:are you not satisfied with trying the patience of menwithout trying the patience of my God, too?The Lord himself, therefore,will give you a sign.It is this: the maiden is with...

Another day, another campus hate crime hoax. This time it is at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. “Thanks to the tireless efforts of our Campus Safety officers and the Memphis Police Department, the investigation into the hate crime that occurred recently on our campus has ended with the identification of the perpetrator and the conclusion this incident was fabricated,” Rhodes College told The College Fix via email on Thursday. “This individual has admitted responsibility,” the media team told The Fix. “This matter has caused enormous pain to our community, and we are taking the appropriate steps to hold this individual...

Without them, there would be no United States of America: The Founding Fathers, a group of predominantly wealthy plantation owners and businessmen, united 13 disparate colonies, fought for independence from Britain and penned a series of influential governing documents that steer the country to this day. All the Founding Fathers, including the first four U.S. presidents, at one point considered themselves British subjects. But they revolted against the restrictive rule of King George III—outlining their grievances in the Declaration of Independence, a powerful (albeit incomplete) call for freedom and equality—and won a stunning military victory over what was then the...

ROME — President Joe Biden has announced he will travel to Italy in January to meet with Pope Francis, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Italian President Sergio Mattarella. The White House said Biden spoke with Pope Francis by phone on Thursday, during which he “graciously accepted His Holiness Pope Francis’s invitation to visit the Vatican next month.” Pope Francis will receive Biden, only the second Catholic to serve as U.S. president, in the Vatican on January 10 to “discuss efforts to advance peace around the world,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.