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@SenRandPaul Today, at @RobertKennedyJr 's HELP hearing, I made it clear that we need medical freedom. There's such a belief in submission. "Submit to the government. Do what you're told." There is no discussion. There ought to be a debate. RFK Jr. has my vote. MAHA!

Hamas has been involved in a prolonged firefight with bandits trying to loot aid trucks, as the terror organisation struggles to assert control over Gaza. | The incident, which took place near Rafah, began after a large aid-delivering vehicle broke down in open ground and was set upon by armed robbers. | Another stopped nearby, and graphic footage shows the bandits then turning their weapons on a force of Hamas fighters, who style themselves as police, as they approached.It comes as the terror group faces the challenge of providing basic security and services to the people of Gaza, since last...

[Video] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied Gov. Josh Green’s allegation that he caused many deaths in Samoa by discouraging the measles vaccine. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- Gov. Josh Green was in the U.S. Capitol hearing room Wednesday while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied Green’s allegation that he caused many deaths in Samoa by discouraging the measles vaccine. Green responded with profanity on national television. Speaking on CNN and MSNBC cable outlets after the hearing, the governor was clearly angry. It was understandable because during his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. basically called Green a liar. Kennedy, who was nominated by President Donald...

Robert F Kennedy Jr and Sen Bernie Sanders had an explosive clash over the senator's links to Big Pharma as Trump's health nominee came out swinging in the second day of his confirmation hearing. The spat started when RFK Jr, who has been tapped to be head of the Health and Human Services (HHS), promised he would 'make America healthier than other countries in the world.' Sen Sanders questioned how RFK Jr could do so without guaranteeing free healthcare to every American, which appeared to set the nominee off. Referring to an earlier point in the hearing about corruption in...

Fox News obtained exclusive information regarding the crew members aboard the Army helicopter at the time of the accident. The instructor pilot commanding the Black Hawk boasted 1,000 flying hours. Meanwhile, his co-pilot was a woman with 500 flying hours, considered to be a standard level of experience in aviation circles. The revelation that the co-pilot was a woman has reignited ongoing debates about gender roles within military operations. Fox News reported:

Inspiring heroes: Agam, a young IDF lookout refused to break Shabbat during her captivity in Gaza tunnels, mirroring her mother's commitment to keeping the Mitzvah of Shabbat. Gila Isaacson.

President Trump recently attended the traditional church service at the National Cathedral after he was inaugurated. What should've been an inspiring and encouraging message from God's Holy Word was instead a scolding lecture from a woke female bishop with an agenda. Hear what advice Pastor Jack would give to Trump regarding that "church service" and how he should navigate the next four years when it comes to churches and surrounding himself with Christians. Video is 32:24 minutes long

The State Department is no longer issuing U.S. passports with “X” gender markers and has suspended processing all applications from Americans seeking to update their passports with a new gender marker. This suspension, made in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order signaling his administration’s opposition to gender diversity, affects all transgender and nonbinary Americans, including those currently traveling or overseas. ... Trump’s executive order directed federal agencies to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports and visas, reflect sex assigned at birth. Since this order states that it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes,...

Investigators are going to have to look at every possible reason a military Black Hawk Helicopter could crash into an American Airlines passenger jet landing at Reagan Airport in D.C. The calls from air traffic controllers for the helicopter to “return to base” raise serious concerns over what may have caused this crash. We even pulled the altitude and flight tracking data that revealed sharp zig-zags and a sudden drop in altitude moments before the crash. Here are the possible reasons behind the disaster: Mechanical Failure Air Traffic Control Failure Human Error Nefarious Action Pilot Suicide Computer Hack ....

Hira Anwar, 14, lived in two contrasting worlds in New York, where she was born and raised. Outside her home, she was a typical American teenager, laughing with friends, posting videos on TikTok and dreaming of a boundless future. Inside the home, her reality was very different. Her parents, Pakistani immigrants who had settled in the United States over two decades ago, expected her to adhere to their cultural and religious values, which demanded modesty from women. To them, Hira’s bold, expressive online presence was a direct challenge. That tension, familiar in South Asian immigrant households across the West, ended...

Some employees of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, are so discouraged by the removal of tampons from the men’s bathroom they are engaging in their own form of protest by bringing their own.

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An internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety report on the Wednesday night fatal collision between an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter has revealed that staffing at the air traffic control tower at the DC-area airport was "not normal." The internal safety report, reviewed by the New York Times, stated that the number of staff at Reagan National Airport’s air traffic control tower was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic." The controller in the tower Wednesday evening was handling both helicopters in the airport’s vicinity as well as instructing planes that were...

The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion is one of Virginia's largest infrastructure projects, aiming to alleviate decades-long traffic congestion in Norfolk, a key city at the crossroads of the Chesapeake Bay. This $4 billion project will widen nearly 10 miles of I-64, add two new tunnel lanes beneath the harbor, and transform roadways and bridges across the region. The ambitious plan also involves "Mary," one of the largest tunnel boring machines in the world, which has been tunneling beneath the water for over a year. Despite some criticism about its focus on road expansion, the project is backed by a significant...

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that the Democratic Party will not support President Donald Trump’s agenda. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “I want to ask you, what do you think Democrats need to pull themselves out of sort of this hole that they’re in since Trump has been elected, and who do you see as the leader of the Democratic Party at this moment?” Warren said, “So, look, the thing we need to do is get off our butts and get in the fight. I get it. It hurts to lose to Donald Trump. It...

In this last episode of Caroline Glick’s In-Focus, Caroline takes stock of the last year and a half of Israel’s war for survival. We’ll discuss where the war stands, where Israel stands and what awaits us on the eve of PM Netanyahu’s critical visit to Washington on Feb 4. Join us for this final podcast…until next time! Transcript linked below video

Trump answering reporters: 1.30.25. (Monents ago). "They are going to do it. We do a lot for them. So They are going to do it."

[Catholic Caucus] How Pope Pius XI defended the history of Genesis, special creation of St. AdamThe Creation of Adam – Michelangelo, 1511Editor’s note: This article is Part 1 of a four-part study of Pope Pius XI’s understanding of the Catholic doctrine of creation as opposed to the modern scientific proposition of the evolution of mankind.(Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation) — One of the wonderful things about the Kolbe apostolate has been the way that members of our leadership team have been inspired to research different topics relevant to our mission, resulting in all kinds of fruitful discoveries.In recent...

Explanation: Gorgeous spiral galaxy Messier 33 seems to have more than its fair share of glowing hydrogen gas. A prominent member of the local group of galaxies, M33 is also known as the Triangulum Galaxy and lies a mere 3 million light-years away. The galaxy's central 60,000 light-years or so are shown in this sharp galaxy portrait. The portrait features M33's reddish ionized hydrogen clouds or HII regions. Sprawling along loose spiral arms that wind toward the core, M33's giant HII regions are some of the largest known stellar nurseries, sites of the formation of short-lived but very massive stars....

One of these exoplanets, HD 20794d, is likely to be a rocky planet in the habitable zone of its parent star, the G-dwarf HD 20794. This image shows the habitable zone around HD 20794 (green) and the trajectory of the three planets in the system. Image credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz / SMM / IAC. “HD 20794, around which HD 20794d orbits, is not an ordinary star,” said UNIGE astronomer Xavier Dumusque. “Its luminosity and proximity makes it an ideal candidate for future telescopes whose mission will be to observe the atmospheres of exoplanets directly.” HD 20794 is a bright G6V...