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Texas lawmakers passed bills that will help build a Pro-Life culture, but House leadership ignored the biggest threat to women and babies: abortion pills. State officials began the 2025 legislative session in January with a major opportunity to stop the abortion industry. An estimated 30,000 Texan babies are killed each year by out-of-state procedures and abortion drugs, which also endanger mothers. Texas Right to Life urged the Legislature to save these children with two Pro-Life Priority Bills: 1 The Woman and Child Protection Act (SB 2880) to combat abortion pills; and 2 The Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (SB 33)...

One of the major issues that President Trump ran on in the 2024 election was energy. "Drill, baby, drill" was the motto (even if Trump did borrow it from a famous Alaskan), and when he was back in office, the president set about putting our energy policy to rights When you're talking energy and mineral resources, you have to talk about Alaska. In the energy front, much of our development is and will be on the North Slope. On Monday, several key Trump administration members visited "the Slope" to see things for themselves. Three Trump Cabinet members began a tour...

facebook sharing button Share twitter sharing button Tweet email sharing button Email Public Health Scotland published new abortion statistics last week, showing that abortions following a Down syndrome diagnosis or a disability diagnosis rose significantly from 2021-2024. Notably, there were 82% more abortions on children with Down syndrome in 2024 than in 2021. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Abortions for Down syndrome rose 15% from 2023 to 2024 — and 82% since 2021. Despite attempts to restrict abortion for a prenatal diagnosis, Scotland and the UK allow these eugenic abortions until birth. Advocates believe that a prenatal screening tool is partially to blame...

The proposal is regarding 13 million acres of government-owned Arctic land that is part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.. The Interior Department on Monday proposed the restoration of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic after it had previously been restricted by the Biden administration. The proposal is regarding 13 million acres of government-owned Arctic land that is part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, which is a total area of 23 million acres that former President Warren G. Harding set aside in 1923 as an emergency supply of oil for the Navy. The Naval Petroleum Reserves...

While CNN might be trash when it comes to covering incidents of antisemitic terrorism, they still can hide everything Democrats are doing wrong. Remember that dismal 21 percent approval numbers the party had with voters? Well, it got worse. Two new figures from CNN’s polling showed that 16 percent of Americans felt the Democrats had strong leaders. Only 19 percent said Democrats get anything done. All this party does is whine about Trump, cater to their ‘woke,’ unhinged voter sects, and go on MSNBC to repeat pre-packaged and poorly communicated talking points. ... Some of these figures are driven down...

LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's finance ministry said on Friday it would not be paying more than half a billion dollars due to holders of its GDP warrants, marking the first payment default since it created the instruments. The war-ravaged country said it owes $665 million on June 2 to holders of the $3.2 billion worth of warrants, based on 2023 economic performance. Last year, Ukraine's parliament approved a payment moratorium on the GDP-linked securities from May 31. "Ukraine remains committed to implementing a comprehensive, fair and equitable restructuring of the GDP-linked Securities," it said in a statement, adding it must comply...

Researchers have discovered early signs of clinical benefit while testing niraparib, a PARP inhibitor, in patients with advanced melanoma whose tumors had specific genetic changes impacting DNA repair. The single-arm, investigator-initiated phase II trial examined the effectiveness of niraparib in a select group of patients whose disease previously progressed after standard treatment such as immunotherapy, and BRAF/MEK-targeted therapies. The U.S. FDA approved tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy for advanced melanoma in patients who have previously received anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) antibody therapy, and if their tumors are V600 BRAF-mutant, a combination of BRAF and MEK inhibitors. "Despite these available, approved combination...

In a study, researchers explore a surprising phenomenon in which high doses of radiation cause growth in existing metastatic tumors that weren't directly treated with radiation. Scientists had previously observed that radiation can cause distant tumors to shrink after radiation, known as the "abscopal effect." The researchers dubbed the opposite response the "badscopal effect." They believe this unexpected response happens because high-dose radiation increases the production of a protein called amphiregulin by tumor cells that are directly treated with radiation. High amounts of amphiregulin weaken the immune system's ability to fight cancer and make cancer cells better at protecting themselves....

@realAtlasPress Though Britain had been a global power since the early 17th century, it wasn’t until Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 that it emerged as the dominant power. By eliminating France from the world’s stage, Britain was left without a serious competitor. The Vienna Treaty that followed favored the Brits, granting them territorial possessions like modern-day South Africa, Trinidad, and Sri Lanka. These territories served as strategic naval bases Britain used to control its immense empire from all corners of the globe. The century following Napoleon's defeat is sometimes called the “Pax Britannica,” because of the relative prosperity enjoyed...

One of the illegal migrants accused of raping and killing little Jocelyn Nungaray and dumping her body in a Houston bayou allegedly raped another victim before the youngster’s vicious slaying, the former district attorney revealed — as she expressed concerns with her successor’s lax prosecution style. During Democrat Kim Ogg’s investigation into the 12-year-old’s barbaric murder a year ago, a woman came forward claiming that Franklin Jose Pena Ramos sexually assaulted her while she was vacationing in Costa Rica, the former DA told Fox 26 Houston Thursday. Ogg has known about the rape allegation since late last year as she...

New research has revealed that regular, moderate-intensity exercise helps maintain crucial vitamin D levels during the darker months—even without weight loss or supplements. Researchers found that people with overweight and obesity who completed a 10‑week indoor exercise program over winter experienced significantly smaller drops in vitamin D levels compared to those who didn't exercise—even though their body weight was deliberately maintained. The program involved four sessions per week: two treadmill walks, one longer steady‑state bike ride, and one high‑intensity interval bike session. Notably, exercise completely preserved the body's active form of vitamin D (1,25(OH)₂D₃), which plays a key role in...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says that most of his fortune will be spent on improving health and education services in Africa over the next 20 years. The 69-year-old said that "by unleashing human potential through health and education, every country in Africa should be on a path to prosperity". Speaking in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, he also urged Africa's young innovators to think about how to build Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve healthcare on the continent. Gates announced last month that he would give away 99% of his vast fortune - which he expects to reach $200bn (£150bn) - by...

Why do @ICEgov agents wear masks? ICE Director Todd Lyons emotional…saying his agents are being doxxed, harassed, and sent death threats. People even threatening the agents children.

In Boulder, Colorado, eight elderly Jews were torched alive in a park. They wore red T-shirts bearing the names of hostages seized by Palestinian terrorists over 600 days earlier. Some carried Israeli flags. Walking peacefully in memory and solidarity, they were attacked with fire as a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails created flames as high as a tree. An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor was among the injured. The attacker, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is reported to be an Egyptian national in the country illegally. He now faces murder charges. This third such targeted attack on American Jews in three months confirms a disturbing...

It was the easiest thing in the world to predict: The media’s moment of half-hearted contrition for “missing” President Joe Biden’s obvious physical and cognitive decline has given way already to a fixation on President Trump’s health. The journalists have no choice, you see. They’re humbled now. Their renewed zeal for the truth compels them to correct for the reporting mistakes of the Biden era. Therefore, they must now be unrelentingly suspicious of Trump’s mental and physical health. They learned their lesson! The mea culpas seem awfully hollow now — more like a thin cover for a public relations reset,...

Female police officer suffers broken ankle and nose in Phoenix.

The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2025 is 4.6 percent on June 2, up from 3.8 percent on May 30. After this morning’s releases from the US Census Bureau and the Institute for Supply Management, the nowcasts of second-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and real gross private domestic investment growth increased from 3.3 percent and -1.4 percent, respectively, to 4.0 percent and 0.5 percent.

"OMG even California Democrats are GHOSTING their representatives. This guy is preaching about going after Trump to a dozen people. NOBODY likes the Democrats anymore." GuntherEagleman X (Video)

Tucker Carlson said he's not sure he can support the Republican party after a Florida congressman called for Gaza to be nuked. Congressman Randy Fine, who was recently elected to replace Mike Waltz in Florida as the preferred candidate of President Trump, made the jaw dropping comments in a Fox News interview last month. He said: 'In World War 2 we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. 'We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender. That needs to be the same here in Gaza. 'There is...

Sowell's top 10 worst US presidents.I think he's nailed to top five. 1. bammy 2. LBJ 3. FDR 4. Wilson 5. Carter