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The evidence keeps accumulating that olive oil can help people lose weight and reduce the risk of heart disease and dementia. Getting enough? We have been writing about the health benefits of olive oil for decades, although at one time doctors thought it was too high in saturated fat to be healthy. Data from long-running cohort studies continues to bolster our enthusiasm. They suggest that as little as half a tablespoon of olive oil might reduce mortality from heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and respiratory illness. People who consume olive oil are also less likely to die from dementia. A...

President Donald Trump says he would back raising taxes on the richest Americans to help pay for his domestic agenda...Trump also proposed closing the "carried interest loophole," a feature of the tax code taken advantage of by Wall Street investors, NBC News reported.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is appointing Fox News star Jeanine Pirro, a former prosecutor and elected judge, to be the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — calling her a “powerful crusader.” Pirro previously served as the district attorney of Westchester County, New York, from 1994 to 2005, and before that, she was a judge on the Westchester County Court from 1991 to 1993. Since joining Fox News in 2006, Pirro has cohosted the network’s weeknight program “The Five.” After her legal career, she became a television personality and is now currently known for...

House Republicans are trying to find the right cocktail of tax reductions and new revenue to pass President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" by Memorial Day. No taxes on tips is politically popular and is a key campaign promise of the president, but a coalition of deficit hawks could block that if the GOP fails to find revenue to cover the gap. That is why the president pushed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., this week to raise taxes on the super rich. Trump is considering allowing the rate on individuals making $2.5 million or more to increase by 2.6%, from...

The left has curiously continued its efforts to destroy President Donald J. Trump even though that stance played a large role in returning him to the White House. But that strategy did not play out too well for former White House press secretary Jen Psaki when she mocked Trump for not striking any trade deals. “It’s been more than a month, if you can believe it, since Donald Trump announced his sweeping and pretty ridiculous tariffs. But Mr. Art Of The Deal, as he calls himself, has not yet struck a single trade deal. Not a single one. With any...

Biden and Jill are on the View, and Biden is asked if there is any truth to his mental decline. So he starts talking about the insurrection on January 6 or something and he just kind of goes downhill from there. It’s actually very funny.

BURLINGTON, VT — In a heroic move that sacrificed his own resources, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he had bought yet another house to make sure the rich people don't get all of them. The selfless act reportedly set the Vermont senator back a bit financially, but his new beachfront home in the Hamptons area of Long Island, New York, would now be prevented from being sold to any wealthy oligarchs from the private sector. "I am willing to take this hit for our cause," Sanders told reporters. "It's not easy to be a man in my position and take...

The family of the five-year-old boy who was subjected to racial slurs from a white woman during a viral altercation at a Minnesota playground are calling for her to be charged. Video of the woman, identified as Shiloh Hendrix, was recorded at Soldiers Field Memorial Park showing the white tattooed woman holding her toddler while being confronted by a man who accuses her of calling a young black boy the 'N-word.' When questioned, Hendrix does not deny the accusation and responds, 'If that's what he's gonna act like,' before repeating the slur toward the man filming and making an obscene...

While predicting the exact timing is tricky, scientists say said an eruption could occur later this year or even tomorrow. Deep below the Pacific, a restless seafloor volcano off Oregon is showing signs it may soon stir again. Axial Seamount, a submarine volcano located nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface, is flexing its geologic muscles. Perched on a hot spot along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, where the Pacific and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates are slowly pulling apart, the volcano is steadily inflating with magma, increasing the frequency of small earthquakes. Researchers with the National Science Foundation’s Ocean...

Ximena Arias-Cristobal, a 19-year-old who was brought to the US illegally as a child, is in ICE custody after she was pulled over for illegally turning right on red The Department of Homeland Security is defending the detainment of a Georgia college student who is in the U.S. illegally after she was pulled over for traffic violations and arrested. Ximena Arias-Cristobal, a 19-year-old Mexican national, was arrested by police in Dalton, Georgia, on May 5 after illegally turning right on red and driving without a license, according to an arrest report obtained by WTVC in Chattanooga. The report states that...

US President Donald Trump indicated Wednesday that he is seeking to “blow up” Iran’s nuclear centrifuges through an agreement with Tehran, but is also prepared to blow them up in an attack if necessary. Asked during an interview on conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt’s radio show whether the US told Iran to choose either to turn over its nuclear centrifuges and uranium or to “get bombed,” US President Donald Trump responded, “It’s that simple.” For their part, Iranian officials have asserted that they will never dismantle their nuclear centrifuges. “I would much prefer a strong, verified deal where we...

An evil animal abuser who tortured animals including bunnies to death on YouTube has launched a GoFundMe to try and stop Donald Trump deporting her. Anigar Monsee, 28, was convicted of felony animal cruelty on Wednesday and faces seven years behind bars - but is now playing the victim on her fundraiser. 'Hi, my name is Anigar Monsee, and I’m a single mother doing my best to raise my daughter on my own,' wrote Monsee, a Liberian national who now lives in Delaware. 'Right now, I’m facing the most terrifying moment of my life—I may be sent to jail or...

In a new advancement for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, Brad Smith, the first nonverbal patient to receive Neuralink’s brain implant, has demonstrated how he edited and narrated video footage using only his brain signals. Smith is currently living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that impairs voluntary muscle control. In the video posted on YouTube last month, he demonstrated how he relies on Neuralink for all forms of communication. Smith is now the third person in the world to receive Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip, and the first with ALS. In January, Musk seemingly confirmed Smith’s participation...

A Brooklyn teen was busted for allegedly making multiple threats to schools across Texas and Florida – even personally targeting a relative of one of the victims of the 2022 Uvalde school massacre on TikTok, authorities announced this week. The 16-year-old boy was picked up May 1 at his Brooklyn home and charged with one felony count of making terroristic threats, the Uvalde Police Department said Wednesday. In addition to the threats to the Uvalde shooting victim’s family, he is accused of making multiple “swatting” – or false report – calls and sending threats to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School...

A lawyer who was jailed last year for spiking his pregnant wife with abortion drugs has been arrested again after violating a protection order. Mason Herring, 40, was sentenced last February to 180 days in jail for putting an abortion drug, Misoprostol, in his ex-wife's water, which led to the premature birth of their child. As a result of Herring's actions, his wife, Catherine, became ill, and their child was born with developmental delays. Herring has since served his sentence, but he was arrested again on Wednesday for twice violating the protection order barring him from coming within 500 feet...

Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the intellectual New Englander who disappointed Republicans and delighted liberals by slowing a conservative transformation of the high court, died May 8 at his home in New Hampshire. He was 85.

Before the Black Death of 1348 the language of power in England was Anglo-Norman French. The plague changed everything. 00:00 A catastrophic plague 00:57 The eve of destruction 08:16 The end of the world 10:59 The aftermath 16:18 Turning back the clocks 20:53 Revolution in the air 24:11 English is back How the Black Death Saved the English Language | 27:24 LetThemTalkTV | 611K subscribers | 10,809 views | May 8, 2025

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seemingly at odds amid a U.S. truce with Houthis in Yemen and the President seeking to peacefully negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran without plunging the United States into another endless war. According to Axios, Trump met with Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in private on Thursday to discuss upcoming nuclear talks with Iran and Israel’s Gaza campaign. Dremer also met with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and special envoy Steve Witkoff. Trump is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates on...

That’s rich! Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders refused to apologize for chartering private jets to ferry him across the country as part of his campaign to rip the wealthy — snapping, “You think I’m gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United … while 30,000 people are waiting?” Sanders (D-Vt.) defiantly defended his mode of transport after he was widely ridiculed for opting to fly private during his recent “Fighting Oligarchy” tour alongside far-left New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “No apologies for that,” Sanders, 83, told Fox News’ “Special Report” late Wednesday when asked about the backlash. “That’s what campaign...

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week that he will run on a new ballot line as part of his campaign for New York City Mayor. Cuomo still intends to seek the Democratic nomination. In a statement Tuesday, Cuomo’s campaign said he will create the Fight and Deliver Party, a separate political line that will appear on the general election ballot if it successfully collects the necessary petition signatures. The campaign described the effort as a way to build a broader coalition of support among disaffected Democrats, independents, and Republicans to secure “the biggest possible mandate.” The campaign also stated that...