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As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, some Americans are “dreading” the Republican’s return to office and experiencing increased anxiety, a new report says. Time Magazine reported Friday about 11 “science-backed” activities people can try on Monday to cope with their “sense of hopelessness” about the incoming administration. Psychology experts and therapists suggested a variety of activities that could help those emotional about Trump’s return take their focus off their anxiety and gain a new perspective. Emiliana Simon-Thomas, a psychology expert and science director at the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, recommended exercising, doing a creative activity,...

19 January 20252nd Sunday in Ordinary TimeSt. Henry Catholic Church, Nashville Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 62:1-5The bridegroom rejoices in his brideAbout Zion I will not be silent,about Jerusalem I will not grow weary,until her integrity shines out like the dawnand her salvation flames like a torch.The nations then will see your integrity,all the kings your glory,and you will be called by a new name,one which the mouth of the Lord will confer.You are to be a crown of splendour in the hand of the Lord,a princely diadem in the hand of your God;no longer are...

Washington — Approximately 270,000 migrants are estimated to be waiting on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to get an appointment to enter the U.S. through a system that President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end, according to government figures obtained by CBS News. U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimates that around 270,000 migrants in Mexico are trying to get an appointment distributed by a government app known as CBP One, which the Biden administration has converted into the main gateway to the American asylum system. As of Jan. 16, nearly 919,000 migrants had been allowed into the...

Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed to not “go quietly into the night” and to remain active in politics after spectacularly losing her presidential bid. “You all know me because we have spent long hours, long days and months and years together,” Harris said Friday with a snicker as she completed the tradition of signing the vice president’s desk drawer. “It is not my nature to go quietly into the night. So, don’t worry about that,” she said. The outgoing veep added her signature next to the likes of former Vice Presidents Dick Cheney, Joe Biden and Walter Mondale. She...

The Big Three used the power they derive from investing other people’s money to force compliance with a radical political goal. A recent House Judiciary Committee report details how America’s largest financial institutions, colluding with climate activists, imposed radical environmental policies on the American economy, subverting both our self-government and free markets. It focuses on the successful effort to insert climate activist directors on the board of energy giant ExxonMobil. According to the report, there is “substantial evidence of a ‘climate cartel’ of financial institutions” including the “Big Three” asset managers (BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard), several massive state pension...

PLAQUEMINE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Surveillance cameras were rolling at a Louisiana elementary school Monday when a parent was seen slapping the principal hard enough to knock her out of a chair. It happened during a basketball game after school in Plaquemine. The Iberville Elementary School surveillance video was leaked to WAFB chief investigator Chris Nakamoto Thursday. It shows the principal trying to stop young children from walking onto the basketball court as a game was being played. A review of the video by the WAFB I-Team shows that occurred at least twice. Plaquemine police said the next thing that...

The FDA’s elimination of the 3-month deferral recommendation for men who have sex with men (MSM) when they wish to donate blood could lead to a slightly increased rate of deferrals for blood donations, according to a study published in Transfusion.

Violent crime has created a grim new normal in Big Apple subway stations — the platform wallflower. Skittish straphangers are steering clear of the edge — and pinning their backs to the wall as they await their train, terrified they’ll become the next victim of a random shove onto the tracks, riders told The Post. On two afternoons recently, The Post witnessed hundreds of riders hugging the walls inside stations at East 86th, East 77th, East 68th, East 59th and East 51st streets, and West 18th Street, 14th Street-Union Square, and Wall Street.

A daughter of ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped into outgoing first lady Jill Biden over the weekend — seemingly comparing her to Shakespeare’s power-hungry, ruthless Lady McBeth. The Dem first lady recently took a swipe at Pelosi over the Democratic mutiny against President Biden last summer, and Alexandra Pelosi, the lefty California congresswoman’s daughter, responded by saying her mom is actually one of the few friends Joe Biden has left. “If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my husband’s legacy,” Alexandra snipped to Politico on Saturday.

Emily Damari could not stop smiling as she was reunited with her mother on Sunday following 15 months in the clutches of Hamas. But, as she waved to family in a video call, the scars of her horror were immediately visible. Damari, 28, a British-Israeli citizen, wore a bandage on her left hand where two fingers that blown off in the brutal Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack in which terrorists took her hostage. Damari is one of the three Israeli hostages freed on Sunday — the first of 33 who are due to be released over the next 42 days.

California legislators are authorizing $50 million of taxpayer funds to help resist efforts by the incoming Trump Administration to deport persons who entered the United States illegally. State Sen. Budget Committee Chair Scott Wiener (D-San Fran) said "California faces two massive challenges. First, horrifically destructive wildfires in Los Angeles have rendered thousands of residents homeless. Second, an incoming federal administration has vowed to deport immigrant Angelenos." "Clearly, we lack the funds to do much about the damage that the fires have done," Wiener admitted. "However, the fires are a only a local problem of a transitory nature. The deportations that...

Two days ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, chants of "No Trump! No KKK! No Fascist USA!" echoed off the Victorian facade of Cincinnati's Music Hall. It came from a crowd of about 100 people gathered outside in Cincinnati's Washington Park on a gray and rainy Saturday morning.

VIDEOIt was a ban that lasted only a few hours but, HOO-BOY, did it ever inspire mass panic among the TikTokers in the brief time TikTok was offline. Here we see the TikTokers trying to cope with life WITHOUT TikTok. Oh, and fortunately one savvy TikToker was able to give credit for the return of TikTok where credit was due... President Donald Trump.

Explanation: What would it look like to land on Saturn's moon Titan? The European Space Agency's Huygens probe set down on the Solar System's cloudiest moon in 2005, and a time-lapse video of its descent images was created. Huygens separated from the robotic Cassini spacecraft soon after it achieved orbit around Saturn in late 2004 and began approaching Titan. For two hours after arriving, Huygens plummeted toward Titan's surface, recording at first only the shrouded moon's opaque atmosphere. The computerized truck-tire sized probe soon deployed a parachute to slow its descent, pierced the thick clouds, and began transmitting images of...

The top executives of a company accused of abandoning junked wind-turbine blades across Iowa say they shouldn’t be held liable for their companies’ actions. Last fall, the State of Iowa sued a Washington-state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws. The lawsuit alleges that for over seven years, Global Fiberglass Solutions failed to properly dispose of decommissioned wind-turbine blades and stockpiled them at multiple locations in Iowa. The lawsuit, filed in Iowa District Court for Jasper County, seeks payment of civil penalties and a court injunction...

(Note: I am not the original author of this post. I swiped it from Facebook. This is just my way of celebrating tomorrow.... early...) OK, I know I'm late to the party on this, but as a photographer I want to comment on Donald Trump's new official photo (below). Three things jump out at me: 1. He looks totally PO'd like he is about to rip your throat out. This expression is clearly intentional and pre-meditated. 2. The under-face/side-face lighting is something photographers use on portraits to deliberately create a disturbing sense of menace and/or uneasiness. 3. The American flag...

Germany’s ambassador to the United States reportedly warned that Donald Trump’s incoming administration will undermine “basic democratic principles” and seek a “redefinition of the constitutional order.” While European leaders have been relatively muted in their response to the re-election of Donald Trump, particularly compared to the hysterical reaction to his victory in 2016, the panic has apparently merely been confined to backrooms rather than in public. According to Reuters, a confidential document briefing Berlin on the incoming administration signed by Ambassador to the U.S. Andreas Michaelis warned that the incoming administration would seek “maximum disruption” and usher in “a redefinition...

BUCKHOLTS, Texas (AP) — On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep rummage through pasture, casually bumping into one another as they remain committed to a single task: chewing grass. The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S. and in the plain fields of Texas. In Milam County, outside Austin, SB Energy operates the fifth-largest solar project in the country, capable of generating 900 megawatts of power across 4,000 acres (1,618 hectares). How do they manage all that grass? With...

Leave It to Beaver highlighted the Cleaver family’s traditional family values. A large portion of the show revolved around two brothers—Beaver and Wally Cleaver—as they constantly weaseled their way in and out of trouble. The sitcom, which was one of the first shows portrayed from a child’s perspective, pushed the limits of ’50s television. Despite today’s nearly nonexistent level of censorship, TV in the ’50s was extremely conservative! Shows were not allowed to use bathroom or toilet footage, but Leave It to Beaver decided to stretch censorship boundaries. In the original pilot episode “Captain Jack,” Wally put a small alligator...

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