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Now she’s in the spirit of giving. Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Eric Adams’ former chief advisor, hosted her annual toy drive in Brooklyn Friday night and belted out the lyrics to Beyoncé’s “Cuff It” during karaoke — one day after she was indicted for allegedly doling out favors to two New York City hoteliers in exchange for bribes. **SNIP** Lewis-Martin took center stage during karaoke, singing and swaying to the Beyoncé track laden with expletives as others moved and grooved nearby. Lyrics to the song include: “We gettin’ f–ked up tonight. We gon’ f–k up the night,” and “Come and cuff...

In the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, people who want euthanasia can become organ donors. (A recent report in Spain showed that 13 percent of those euthanized donated organs.) Let’s call it “kill and harvest,” a policy heartily approved by our ever more crassly utilitarian medical establishment. Indeed, a recent study in JAMA Surgery applauds procuring the kidneys of the euthanized because, after five years, the organs of those killed by doctors and then transplanted have worked well — even better than kidneys donated by people after brain death. From the conclusion of the study, which discusses donation after circulatory...

Arizona governor Katie Hobbs has called for a repeal of the state’s abortion reporting law, claiming — inexplicably — that giving people as many facts and statistics about abortion as possible is an “attack on women.” Hobbs statement came as the state’s Department of Health released its annual abortion report. The report gives a variety of data surrounding abortion in the state, including the number of abortions by mother’s age and race, methods of abortion used, gestational age of child, reported maternal reasons for abortion, and more. Absolutely no personal or identifying information is shared, and women do have the...

The video platform, which hosts content creators like gamer Dr. Disrespect, conservative host Dan Bongino and Dana White's Power Slap, will receive $250 million, with the remaining going to a tender offer.The crypto stablecoin venture Tether says that it is investing $775 million in the video sharing platform and cloud provider Rumble, which has become a favorite of conservative hosts and content creators and positions itself as a free speech alternative to its competitors. The companies announced the deal Friday evening. Rumble will receive $250 million in the deal, with the remaining proceeds “to fund a self tender offer for...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing an abortionist to stop her from illegally mailing dangerous abortion pills to people in Texas. The top state law enforcement official has filed a lawsuit Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter of Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine in New York for unlawfully mailing abortion drugs to a Texas resident. The dangerous drugs ended the life of an unborn child and caused the mother to hemorrhage and require treatment in the ER. For practicing without a license and mailing abortion drugs, Paxton has asked the court to penalize the abortionist $100,000 for each violation of the law....

Joe Biden kept the grieving relatives of the Marines killed in Afghanistan waiting for three hours while he napped on Air Force One on the tarmac before a dignified transfer, multiple military families have told Daily Mail.

After years of prayer vigils and outreach, prolife advocates are celebrating the announcement by Planned Parenthood that it has closed its abortion center in Juneau, for good. This follows the 2022 closure of the abortion giant’s clinic in Soldotna. That leaves just two remaining Planned Parenthood clinics in Alaska – one in Fairbanks and another in Anchorage. While there are a number of other abortionists in Alaska, Planned Parenthood is the largest single abortion company in a state where more than 1,200 unborn babies are killed through surgical or chemically induced deaths each year. The closure of Juneau’s abortion mill...

United States President Joe Biden on Friday (Dec 20) approved US$571.3 million in defence assistance for Taiwan, the White House said, as the Democrat prepares to leave office ahead of the January inauguration of Donald Trump. The United States does not officially recognise Taiwan diplomatically, but it is the self-ruled island's strategic ally and largest supplier of weapons. China, which has ramped up political and military pressure on Taiwan in recent years, has repeatedly called for Washington to cease sending arms and assistance to the island, which it claims as part of its territory. Taiwanese officials said China last week...

Coalition Life, the nation’s largest professional sidewalk counseling organization based in St. Louis, Missouri, has issued a statement in response to an order issued by the Circuit Court of Jackson County in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Missouri, seeking to strike down laws that limit abortion. “We are gratified that the court has rightly decided to retain licensing requirements for abortion facilities and doctors who perform abortions even while we mourn the loss of protections that are vital to the safety of women and the protection of preborn children,” said Coalition Life Executive Director Brian Westbrook, who pioneered the...

The 8,000 mysterious drones that have been reported in various locations around the country have generated anxiety and fear among the population. Some are demanding action be taken to neutralize the "threat." Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said "we can't shoot them down because they are operating legally and lawfully. I have been informed that China paid Hunter Biden a $5 million fee for a 90-day permit to fly these information gathering aerial devices wherever they please in our country." "I am also disconcerted that US military bases are included in the agreement between the President's...

Why the mighty Stonehenge was built around 5,000 years ago has long been one of the great mysteries.But according to a new study, we may finally have an answer.Scientists say Wiltshire's famous stone circle was built as a symbol of unification between three distinct corners of Britain.We know that Stonehenge's rocky slabs were transported as far afield from southwest Wales and northeast Scotland.So the scientists, from University College London and Aberystwyth University, theorise that Scottish and Welsh people brought their own local stones down to Wiltshire as a well-meaning contribution to assembling the structure.In that sense, it represented a powerful...

George Eastham, a member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad, has died at 88, his former club Stoke City said on Friday. SNIP Known for his lethal left foot and creativity, Eastham is a legend at Stoke, famously scoring the winner in the 1972 League Cup final, helping the club win their first major trophy in a 2-1 victory over Chelsea. The Blackpool-born player is also remembered for his crusade against the old 'retain and transfer' system which allowed a club to keep a player's registration as a means to force them to stay. When Eastham's contract with Newcastle expired...

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Press Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its final 17,000-page staff report detailing the Select Subcommittee's findings about the Biden-Harris Administration's weaponized federal government. Final Report on the Weaponization of the Federal Government by the Biden-Harris Administration

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Research published in the last week revealed that for the first time in more than a decade, obesity rates among US adults fell slightly last year, decreasing from 46% in 2022 to 45.6% in 2023. While we might need a few more years of data to conclusively tie these results to the rise of semaglutide drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic, it feels impossible to ignore the timing, with Novo’s sales booming in recent years and hitting a record ~$10 billion in its latest quarter.Sales of these GLP-1 treatments — drugs that mimic the effects of blood-sugar-regulating hormone GLP-1, a feature...

<p>Where does Elon fit into this? Where do the other very wealthy people coming into this administration fit into this?</p><p>Number one, these guys were all progressive Democrats in Trump’s first term. Look at Bezos, Zuckerberg, and all these guys coming to kiss the ring. With Elon — look, he wrote a quarter of a fucking billion dollar check when we had no money, when Trump had no money. He and I are disagreeing on just about everything, particularly China. But he didn’t do what most wealthy people do, and got sucked in by the consultant class to do TV ads. This guy came in, with his engineering brain, and said what I’ve been saying: This was a base-plus election. This was all going to be ground game at the end...</p>

From concept to command: Celebrating 5 years of the US Space Force PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) -- The U.S. Space Force officially turns five years old Dec. 20th. The sixth branch of the U.S armed forces was established on Dec. 20, 2019, when PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020. Under this act, Air Force Space Command, headquartered at then-Peterson Air Force Base, ceased space operations, was inactivated and the USSF assumed operational control of the space units previously commanded by AFSPC. From there, the Space Force moved forward with building...

Britain has become the Western capital for sharia courts, with 85 operating throughout the country. The news hardly bodes well for those who still believe we have a functional integration strategy. Not only are British Muslims increasingly turning to the UK’s sharia courts, but they also serve their co-religionists from mainland Europe and North America. Also known as “councils”, they have existed in the UK since the early 1980s and issue Islam-inspired rulings on family life and matrimonial matters. The Islamic Sharia Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, formed in 1982 and based in Leyton, east London, is a...

The perpetrator of the deadly Christmas market massacre that has left at least two dead and nearly 70 injured is an anti-Islam doctor who arrived in Germany in 2006 as a refugee from Saudi Arabia, MailOnline can reveal. The attack, carried out by 50-year-old psychologist Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, saw him ram into a massive crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg on December 20 with a dark BMW. Footage taken in the minutes after the crash, which happened at around 7pm, showed al-Abdulmohsen get arrested at gunpoint by German police. MailOnline can reveal that al-Abdulmohsen, a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy...