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Demi Lovato shared a heartfelt message of support to the non-binary and transgender community on Tuesday - after being forced to clarify why she went back to using she/her pronouns again. Taking to her Instagram stories, the singer, 32, quipped: 'If you are trans or non-binary like me, please know that I see you, I feel you, I am with you, you are validated, you are loved and you are not alone. 'No one can take away our identities and no one can tell us who we are or aren't. We will get thru this. I love you.' Demi, who...

President Trump credits the popular social media app TikTok for earning a greater percentage of the youth vote than previous campaigns. President Donald Trump gave his first Oval Office interview on Wednesday addressing a wide range of problems facing the United States, but assuring the nation that they are "all solvable." “They’re all solvable problems … with time, effort, money — unfortunately — but they’re all solvable," President Trump said in the interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. He also reiterated his belief that this election was the most consequential in history. “We can get our country back,” he...

Executive decree says US government must be 'vigilant' in issuing visas and ensure recipients support 'do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists.' By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff. 21 January 2025. Trump order appears to target some foreigners participating in anti-Israel protests. An anti-Israel protester appears to be wearing a Hamas headband and carrying an approximation of the terror group's flag at a rally in New York City on May 18, 2024. (John Lamparski / AFP) An executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to target, among others, foreign nationals who participated in...

Dr Anthony Fauci was given a pre-emptive pardon by outgoing President Biden on Monday - likely due to fears he could be charged with perjury by Trump's DOJ. The former White House advisor has long been accused of misleading Congress under oath about funding risky virus research in Wuhan before the Covid pandemic. While Fauci had not been charged with a crime, there were growing calls among Republicans - including Elon Musk - to charge the 84-year-old with perjury, which carries a prison sentence of at least five years. In a May 2021 Senate hearing on the origins of Covid,...

A left-wing dark money group is bankrolling a “war room” to oppose environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary. The same organization supported his presidential campaign.Last week, Axios reported that the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which is allowed to receive unlimited contributions from anonymous donors, “plays both sides on RFK Jr.”“During the campaign, a super PAC it funded, Retire Career Politicians, tried to boost RFK, with ads claiming he ‘isn’t afraid to tell the truth about vaccines,’” Axios reported. “More recently, the Sixteen Thirty Fund is accepting donations on behalf of a new ‘Stop...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a large-scale raid in Boston, targeting criminal aliens, including MS-13 gang members, murder suspects, and a Haitian gang member with 18 prior convictions. The operation led to the arrest of over 300 individuals. In an exclusive report from Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin, ICE Boston executed a targeted operation against egregious criminal aliens, resulting in eight high-profile arrests. The operation resulted in eight arrests, including multiple members of the notorious MS-13 gang, suspects wanted on Interpol Red Notices for murder and rape, and a volatile Haitian gang member with an alarming record...

SNIPRecent credible polling shows that his prior widespread popularity has been smashed as a war-weary public grows less trusting of his leadership and more suspicious regarding rampant corruption in Ukraine. In a large survey taken by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, 52 percent of Ukrainians say they "trust" Zelensky now, down from the 77 percent who trusted him in 2023. The percentage saying they "do not trust" Zelensky has almost doubled over that same time period. Not surprisingly, Zelensky's support is weakest in the eastern and southern parts of the country, where most of the warfighting has unfolded.SNIPBut the...

President Donald Trump's sweeping executive orders have drawn comparisons to Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping the federal government under a Republican administration. Newsweek examines the similarities. Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email. Why It Matters Project 2025, a 900-page document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, set out plans to expand executive authority, replace civil servants with ideologically aligned appointees, limit abortion rights and impose much tougher restrictions on immigration. Democrats have painted the initiative as a road map for Trump's second term in an attempt to portray him as ideologically extreme. Trump...

Ministers are planning a major overhaul to how knives are bought online after Southport triple killer Axel Rudakubana purchased weapons off Amazon before carrying out a sickening rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party. Rudakubana, who on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, bought the kitchen knife used in the attack from Amazon when he was 17 despite having a conviction for violence. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the House of Commons yesterday that it was a 'disgrace' that Rudakubana was able to buy knives on...

While the legacy media is busy pearl-clutching over President Trump's pardons, they have been mum when it comes to Joe Biden's pardons and commutations including his commutation of the death sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row.Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) joined Erin Burnett on CNN, and he pointed out the glaring hypocrisy.While Burnett whined about the release of J6 political prisoners, once Mullin got started, she could do little more than hang her head in shame."President Biden changed all this. Remember the 37 murderers that he commuted their sentences," Mullin stated."Remember two of them? One that...

Huntington Beach City Council members unanimously agreed to ignore California’s sanctuary state law on Tuesday night, ordering police officers to work with federal immigration authorities and notify federal officials when they are about to release an undocumented immigrant from jail. It comes as Surf City launched a lawsuit against the state claiming the current rules are unconstitutional.

Brittany Watts was arrested in 2023 and charged with abuse of a corpse following a stillbirth in her Ohio home, and her subsequent attempt to flush the second-trimester baby’s body down the toilet. Now, Watts has filed a lawsuit against the hospital, the City, two nurses, the OB/GYN overseeing her care, and multiple police officers. All charges were dropped against Watts in January 2024 when a grand jury refused to indict her, and she is now suing for damages — including mental and emotional distress, alleging that the police and hospital staff conspired against her. While the lawsuit provides more...

According to a Phys.org report, archaeologist Xingtao Wei of Zhengzhou University and his colleagues analyzed residues preserved on three 8,000-year-old pottery tripods recovered from Xielaozhuang, a site in northern China belonging to the Peiligang culture. The researchers were examining the pottery with scanning electron microscopy to study how alcohol was made when they detected the crusty residues. Additional testing with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and analysis of starch granules revealed that the residues contained compounds and minerals typically found in bone. They also detected traces of wild plants, including acorns and adlay millet. Wei and his colleagues suggest...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Thank you! A California Army National Guard Handcrew stands ready at Rose Bowl Stadium’s Incident Control Point (ICP) at Pasadena, CA, Jan. 17, 2025. Soldiers from various units of the California Army National Guard volunteered to become handcrews, wildland firefighting personnel who undergo a week of rigorous training from CAL FIRE to safely operate near the wildfires happening around Los Angeles County. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Spc. William Franco Espinosa).Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of...

Benjamin Netanyahu is piling pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to restore all arms licences for Israel. The Israeli PM ‘raised the issue’ of Britain having suspended around 30 licences in a phone call yesterday just hours after Donald Trump became US president. A readout from the Jewish State’s government press office stated that Sir Keir ‘said that an evaluation of the issue is being carried out’.

The Battle of the Granicus was Alexander's first major clash with the Persian Empire, signaling the start of his conquest of Asia Minor. The victory not only demonstrated Alexander's military brilliance but also opened the gateway for his future campaigns that would ultimately dismantle the Persian Empire and lay the foundation for the Hellenization of large parts of Asia. However, this Hellenization was relatively short-lived, as about a century later, the rise of the Parthian Empire saw large parts of the former Achaemenid territories reclaimed under Iranian rule...The research team used ancient texts to map Alexander's journey to the Granicus....

It may seem a bit of harmless fun, but not for the owner, who claims the 10-bedroom home set in almost 3 hectares (7.4 acres) of land near the village of Partridge Green is unsaleable in its current state. The planning statement says the Grade II-listed house is surrounded by grounds with “roaming deer, mature oak, cedar, Scots pine and lime trees” and views towards the South Downs. It was built at the start of the 20th century and a ballroom was added in 1940. In the 1970s it was converted into the “convent of the visitation” and the ballroom...

@WillCainShow_ @RandPaul (R-KY) joins @willcain to discuss President Trump pardoning Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

According to the West Valley City Police Department, callers from West Valley City, Taylorsville and even Murray reported hearing the loud boom just before 3 a.m. Wednesday. Outdoor home surveillance camera footage from one residence also showed a flash of light. Officers responded in the area of some reports and couldn’t locate any odd activity or objects that could have fallen. Then, the reports kept coming. “If we get like a shots fired call then, you know, we’ll get several calls within a neighborhood or maybe a quarter mile,” Merritt said. “But to get calls that are coming in miles...

Rep. Finke (D) just sent an angry mob to storm MN's House to block Republican control: