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For hundreds of years, history left us wondering what disease killed the Aztecs in the mid-1500s. Many assumed the Aztecs were one of many Central American groups to be wiped out by European diseases like smallpox. However, DNA testing has unearthed new evidence about what really killed 80% of the Aztecs. Scientists extracted DNA from Aztec teeth, and discovered the presence of a strand of Salmonella. Research on climate change in Mexico at the time indicates droughts could have precipitated the spread of disease. Some things remain unexplained, however; only continued research can explain how a massive epidemic ravaged the...

Christina Marie Chapman, a 48-year-old woman from Litchfield Park, Arizona, has pleaded guilty in federal court for her role in a scheme that funneled millions of dollars to North Korea. Over the course of three years, Chapman and her co-conspirators helped overseas IT workers pretend to be U.S. citizens so they could illegally secure remote IT jobs in the United States. The scheme involved more than 300 American companies, including some of the nation’s largest corporations. The fraudulent operation, which ran from October 2020 to October 2023, generated over $17 million in revenue. According to prosecutors, Chapman and her team...

Russia will never discuss the exchange of its territories, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Wednesday. "It is impossible. Russia has never discussed and will not discuss the topic of exchanging its territory," Peskov said, commenting on relevant statements of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, News.Az reports, citing TASS. Ukrainian army units in the Russian territory will be destroyed and driven away, the Kremlin spokesman continued. "Certainly, Ukrainian formations will be expelled from this territory. They will be destroyed, [they] will be driven away," he added.

“‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’” (Matthew 5:3). This beatitude was uttered first because humility is the foundation of all other graces and a crucial aspect to salvation (cf. Matt. 18:3–4). The door into Christ’s kingdom is narrow and low, and no one who sees himself or herself too large or too tall will ever pass through. It makes about as much sense to attempt to grow fruit apart from a tree and its branches as to expect the other graces of the Christian life to grow apart from humility. Until we humble...

Every election we hear about how the Democrats have outraised the opposition, or how Kamala has a $1.5B [magic] war chest. I do wonder, actually EXPECT the Democrat donations to plummet with the death/exposure/restrictions on the the grift and money laundering. So DOGE and Trump not only help our budget and deficit but also rip the easy money away from Dem donors. Now we'll see their real $$$ support.

The United States is rapidly becoming a “post-industrial” nation. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers left them, but the pace at which America is doing this is absolutely breathtaking. Nobody can deny that our economy is a complete and utter mess right now, and we only have ourselves to blame. It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes. It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed...

Billionaire Elon Musk has said there is widespread fraud taking place in the payment of "federal entitlements" like Social Security. **SNIP** What to Know Musk wrote on X on February 11: "At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by FAR. It's not even close." It follows another post from February 8 in which Musk said he was told there are currently over $100 billion per year of entitlements payments to individuals with no...

[It] was Candidate Trump talking about retribution and the Left merely thought it was what they were projecting -- namely going after them, when in reality he’s going after their raison d'être for living -- forcibly taking taxpayer dollars and transforming society into their ideal of a communist ‘Utopia.’ ... So, when candidate Trump talked about retribution, his plan was the dismantling of the governmental leviathan, aiming directly at where the Left lives. ... They thought he was going to come after them, and they were correct. But he’s going after their fundamental way of thinking that will shrink the...

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In the Wyoming Legislature, House Bill 172 passed House 50-10 on January 23, 2025. The bill eliminates most gun free zones and strengthens the Wyoming preemption bill for firearms. The bill would allow limited regulation by government entities of government employees’ ability to carry in government buildings and schools.Here are some relevant sections fom the wyoleg.gov:Section 1 W.S. 6-8-105 is created to read:6-8-105. Exceptions for state issued concealed carry permits; penalty. (a)This section shall be known as and may be cited as the “Wyoming Repeal Gun Free Zones Act.” (b) Persons lawfully carrying concealed weapons in Wyoming under W.S. 6‑8-104(a)(ii)...

President Trump and Elon Musk exposes the EX-USAID Chief Samantha Power who accumulate a $30 million of net worth over a matter of years with a $180k annual salary.

Agrowing number of legislators in the United States are formally recognizing racism as a public health crisis. Resolutions introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives seek to highlight the impact of systemic racism on public health and push for federal action to address health disparities. Why It Matters Declaring racism a public health crisis is not just symbolic. Public health experts and advocates argue that systemic racism directly affects health outcomes, leading to higher rates of chronic disease, maternal mortality and reduced life expectancy for communities of color. The COVID-19 pandemic further underscored these disparities, with communities of...

Shocking footage captured the moment three taco truck workers were hauled away by a burly group of men claiming to be ICE agents. Video of the interaction was shared by Memphis taco truck company Taconganas, which said the men 'entered one of our trucks and took away several of our employees' on Monday morning. 'We were not told beforehand, and we have not been told since,' the taco business said on Facebook. The footage showed four men in jeans and hoodies walking up to the eatery and confronting three restaurant workers before escorting them away. Some are wearing balaclavas and...

Rapper Cardi B ranted in a new video that President Donald Trump ruined her Super Bowl experience and should not have attended. Trump made history this past Sunday by being the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl. The event was hosted in New Orleans, just a month after the New Year's Day terrorist truck-ramming attack against Bourbon Street revelers killed 14 victims and injured 35 others, and security was tight. Cardi B, who supported then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election, emphasized in a social media post that the Secret Service went to great lengths to protect...

A judge has ruled that a Gazan family can join a relative in the UK under a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees - leading to fears the decision could pave the way for a new wave of asylum seekers. Norton-Taylor decided that the Palestinian family of six should be able to move to the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme.The initiative was set up in March 2022 to allow Ukrainians fleeing the war with Russia to move to the UK if they had a relative who was a British citizen or had settled status. The scheme ended last year. But...

FIRST ON FOX: President Trump scored a victory on Tuesday when a judge deemed CBS and Paramount’s motion to dismiss "moot" as his election interference and news distortion lawsuit moves forward. Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News in October, alleging election interference over its handling of a "60 Minutes" interview, accusing the network of aiding his Democrat rival Vice President Kamala Harris through deceptive editing one month before the election. Last week, Trump’s legal team amended the original lawsuit after the release of the unedited transcript and raw footage of its controversial "60 Minutes" interview. The lawsuit...

Beck says the Epstein Client list will be released in 10 days.

It all started when Raymond Rice tried to buy a new tire for his tractor. The Westport, N.Y., hay and cattle farmer headed to a Vermont store where, he said, a salesman quoted him $1,800 for a single tire. When Rice learned he could purchase the same tire elsewhere for about $1,450, he thought the shop — which he declined to name — was ripping him off. So, Rice, whose haying operation was struggling, decided to go into the tire business himself. Last spring, the 52-year-old entrepreneur opened Rice Farm and Tires in a modest farm building not far from...

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Tuesday that some Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) employees who worked on "mis-, dis-, and malinformation" were put on administrative leave. In a statement to Scripps News, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote CISA needs to "refocus on its mission," starting with election security. "The agency is undertaking an evaluation of how it has executed its election security mission with a particular focus on any work related to mis-, dis-, and malinformation," according to the statement. As first reported by Fox News Digital, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified in April 2022...