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A Russian official is expected to visit Washington, D.C., this week for talks with the Trump administration, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing a U.S. official and two sources familiar with the plans. The official, Kirill Dmitriev, will meet with Steve Witkoff, a Trump administration official, for talks about strengthening relations between the two countries as they seek to end the war in Ukraine, according to CNN.

Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) was projected to win the special election for Florida’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district.

Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) was projected to win the special election for Florida’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district. Fine’s win will come as a relief for Republicans, who grew increasingly worried about the race as Weil overperformed Fine in fundraising and some polling going into Election Day. A Democratic victory in the district, which stretches from South Daytona to St. Augustine, would have been a political earthquake. President Trump and national security adviser Michael Waltz, who previously held...

A Colorado man facing two federal felony charges for allegedly firebombing a Tesla dealership denies a suggestion from the US Attorney General that he was trying to “run” from authorities.Cooper Frederick, 24, of Fort Collins, is charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device and malicious attempted destruction of property in the March 7 attack on Tesla property in Loveland, Colorado. (Snip) Frederick’s attorney called Bondi’s suggestion that Frederick was on the run a “material misrepresentation” of the case.“Mr. Frederick lived in Colorado until March 19 when the decision was made for him to move home to Texas to live...

A handful of Republicans decided to put themselves first and derail President Trump’s agenda for at least a week all because of an obscure issue few people in America care about. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) dramatically resigned from the House Freedom Caucus on Monday, accusing her former allies of betrayal, blackmail, and abandoning “pro-family” values. Luna’s departure stems from her fierce advocacy for a bipartisan measure that would allow new mothers and fathers in the House to vote remotely for 12 weeks following the birth of their child. The proposal, co-sponsored with Democratic Representative...

NEW YORK (AP) — In an unexpected upset, the Jason Statham thriller “A Working Man” took No. 1 at the box office, besting the rapidly declining “Snow White,” according to studio estimates Sunday. Even after a lackluster debut, the Walt Disney Co.’s live-action remake was predicted to remain the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend. Instead, “Snow White,” plagued by bad buzz and backlash, nosedived in its second weekend and dropped 66%. Amazon MGM Studios’ “A Working Man,” directed by David Ayer, beat expectations with a $15.2 million debut. Co-written by Sylvester Stallone, “A Working Man”...

In an absolutely incredible moment, the after-effects of which were caught on camera, ICE agents walked right into a Boston Courtroom and arrested an illegal alien during his trial.Trial over!Deportation starts now! No more wasting US taxpayer dollars and tying up our court systems….those are for citizens only!

The 24-year-old said she didn't want to give money to universities that opposed student protests. Hope Walz called herself a "privileged white woman" and said she was refusing to attend a graduate school that had accepted her application. The daughter of the failed vice presidential candidate posted a video on social media explaining that she was angered by universities shutting down dissent from student protests "I got into grad school. I will not be attending starting this fall though, and I will no longer be attending the university that I originally applied for," she said on the video posted to...

House Republican leaders on Tuesday canceled votes for the rest of the week after a band of GOP lawmakers staged a rebellion on the floor, bringing legislative action to a screeching halt. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) informed lawmakers the next vote in the House would be Monday evening. The announcement came minutes after nine Republicans joined all Democrats in opposing a procedural rule that would have killed a bipartisan effort to allow proxy voting for new parents. The vote also blocked planned votes on GOP priorities to limit the power of federal judges and to require proof of...

A drug typically prescribed for arthritis halts brain-damaging seizures in mice that have a condition like epilepsy, according to researchers. The drug, called tofacitinib, also restores short-term and working memory lost to epilepsy in the mice and reduces inflammation in the brain caused by the disease. If the drug proves viable for human patients, it would be the first to provide lasting relief from seizures even after they stopped taking it. One-third of epilepsy patients do not respond to any known drugs. Hoffman found a protein called STAT3, key to a cell signaling pathway called JAK, at the center of...

“Being on time is white supremacy.” Because what are they always on time to do? Oppress! I'm always going to be 10-15 minutes late. Because that's the correct time. According to my people.

President Donald Trump, after a series of successful strikes against Houthi jihadis, is offering the Houthis a choice between ceasing their terror operations or being destroyed. The Houthi jihadis have been attacking shipping in the key Red Sea passage, damaging trade for America, Israel, and other nations, since before Trump took office. But now Trump, unlike Joe Biden, is tired of Islamic terrorists pushing America around. So the president just warned the Houthis and their Iranian sponsors: “the real pain is yet to come.” On his Truth Social platform Monday, Donald Trump posted in his usual confident style, “The Iran-backed...

Democrats run an economy of 'Grifterism,' where Billionaires, Productives, and Dependents fuel a system designed to keep the ruling class in power while stifling real economic freedom.I am a political junkie and a political conservative. Like so many conservative political junkies, I spend a good portion of my waking hours trying to understand what the words and actions of Democrats actually mean. Like the Politburo of the former Soviet Union, the words of Democrats often bear little resemblance to the actions their words embody. “Equity” is an excellent example, as when Democrats say “equity,” they really mean highly inequitable policy...

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius Are you familiar with the "butterfly effect"?Wikipedia describes it thusly:"In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state."Basically the idea is that the flutter of a butterfly's wings will initiate a sequence of events that will ultimately create a result of dramatic significance, like a war or a cure for cancer.I believe the most important butterfly effect of recent memory is when Barack Obama derisively mocked Donald Trump on the stage...

A new open-source model of brain metabolism—the most complex ever generated—has shown how altering key chemicals could restore aged cells to their youthful activity and resilience. The researchers have found that reducing blood glucose, as well as increasing blood ketone and lactate levels, could help restore metabolic function in aging brains. Potentially, these could all be achieved through lifestyle changes, including exercise and the food we eat. The findings come from the most comprehensive computer model of brain metabolism to date, which incorporates more than 16,800 biochemical interactions between proteins and chemicals across brain cells, supporting cells, and the blood....

86-year-old Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters recently commented on President Donald Trump's action on illegal immigrants and said Trump should first look at Melania's records. "We don't know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look," water said at a rally at the weekend in Los Angeles. “If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania," Maxine said. “When he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he’s going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows...

Past studies have shown that the human sweet taste receptor conveys sweet perception in the mouth and may help regulate glucose metabolism throughout the body. At the same time, the anti-inflammatory medications ibuprofen and naproxen are structurally similar to inhibitors of the sweet taste receptor and have been associated with metabolic benefits. Researchers have published a study that indicates these drugs could be another way to reduce the risk of metabolic diseases. In the team's cellular studies, ibuprofen reduced molecular signaling of sucrose and sucralose in human kidney cells made to express the sweet taste receptor. In addition, to mirror...

RNC has been virtually MIA ever since Lara Trump left her post following November 5th. Chairman Whatley already slept on several key house races, and now Florida, but especially Wisconsin stand to be lost or too close for comfort with today’s special races. They have been left virtually bereft of major funding and RNC focus. Trump can’t be expected to handle all that, and laugh at David Hogg and DNC all you want but 2026 is around the corner and leadership is needed ASAP. Who gets to fire and decide those in charge?

Female Anglican bishop ‘concelebrates’ Mass with Catholic priestsThe incident in El Salvador has been condemned by the Apostolic Nuncio as a violation of liturgical and canon law.Anglican clergywoman (2nd from left) joining Catholic priests on the altar in El SalvadorThe Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador has issued a correction after a female Anglican prelate joined Catholic clergy on the altar to concelebrate a recent Mass.On March 24, a Mass was held to mark the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. Held in the chapel of the Hospitalito La Divina Providencia, where Romero was assassinated, the Mass was...

Senate Republicans are facing crunch time on a long-overdue budget resolution, which has divided their conference over the possibility of cutting Medicaid and adding language to increase the debt ceiling by as much as $5 trillion. Whether they move on the bill this week could depend largely on a key ruling from Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has told colleagues that he wanted to get the budget to the floor this week, but that timeline is already slipping as GOP senators have yet to coalesce around the proposal, and it has yet to get the...