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Ellen DeGeneresand her wife Portia de Rossimoved to England back in November 2024. During a recent sit-down interview in the town of Cheltenham, UK, with journalist Richard Bacon, the former TV host gave a detailed update on what life has really been like across the pond. First and foremost, the couple quickly adapted to the country lifestyle and at one point in time were riding lawn mowers on a daily basis, just to keep their pastures down for the horses. The constant maintenance frustrated Ellen and she recalled that she told Portia: "We just can't keep up with this." Portia...

Ending military dependence on America.A welcome and significant change has come to European politics: an admission that the European Union (EU) has relied too heavily on the US for its military defense. Only a few years ago, any suggestion that Europe had not been pulling its weight in defending its own continent, or had outsourced its military might to the US, would have been met with scorn and derision. Yet Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now not only acknowledged this reality, but has gone as far as saying the continent has been “free-loading” off the US. A single power dominating...

Surprise! Image credit: Han Tian, Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research (2025) (CC BY 4.0) Getting accurate information on animal species can be quite a challenge, especially when they live deep within the sea. One of those animals is the Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus pacificus), which, despite its widespread distribution, remains quite elusive – so it was a surprise to scientists carrying out an experiment in the South China Sea when eight of them turned up. The scientists were planning to investigate the processes that occur when a whale carcass falls to the sea floor. To simulate this, they dropped a cow carcass at...

"CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil is pushing back at the liberal outrage towards his network's cancellation of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." "The business is broken," Dokoupil said of the late-night industry on Tuesday. "And what no one seems to acknowledge is that the politics also changed. The business changed and so did the politics, and it got way more one-sided than anything Johnny Carson was ever doing. I think we should reflect on those changes as well. It's been a big shift culturally in that regard also." Dokoupil and his morning colleagues reacted to the scathing monologue from...

Ghislaine Maxwell was seen carrying a mysterious box back into her Florida prison after meeting with a top Justice Department official on Thursday. The 63-year-old convict was transported in a white sedan back to a gate at the FCI Tallahassee complex, where she’s been serving her 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking young girls to Jeffrey Epstein, according to drone footage captured by WCTV. The disgraced British socialite, wearing all brown, was handcuffed in the front and led through a barbed-wire-laced fenced-in area in front of the prison. One officer carried the bin behind Maxwell as she was escorted back inside....

See new posts Conversation Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher 🚨 BREAKING STUDY: mRNA Injections Induce Severe, Long-Lasting Genetic Disruption Linked to Cancer and Chronic Disease 🧪 Using high-resolution RNA sequencing on blood samples, we discovered that COVID-19 “vaccines” SEVERELY disrupt expression of THOUSANDS of genes—triggering mitochondrial failure, immune reprogramming, and oncogenic activation that can persist for MONTHS to YEARS post-injection. 🧬Differential gene expression analysis compared mRNA-injured patients (cancer, adverse events) to 803 healthy controls — revealing widespread transcriptomic CHAOS: ⚠️ Mitochondrial failure – Complex I breakdown, oxidative stress, energy collapse ⚠️ Immune reprogramming – Chronic inflammation, ACE2 suppression, TLR hyperactivation ⚠️...

Remember during Trump's first term when he used Twitter as a tool to communicate to the people? This was done to avoid having his words manipulated and filtered by corrupt big media and their pro-big government propaganda machine. Genius! Remember when a certain segment of the country protested and mocked Trump using the Internet in this manner? They told us Tweets were not presidential! They told us it was an undignified...A juvenile way to speak to the people! Trump was an embarrassment according to these people! The reality is most of those people did not want Trump speaking directly to...

Explanation: Meteors from the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower are captured in this time-lapse composite skyscape. The minor meteor shower, with a radiant not far from its eponymous star Kappa Cygni, peaks in mid-August, almost at the same time as the much better-known and better-observed Perseid meteor shower. But, seen to have a peak rate of only about 3 meteors per hour, Kappa Cygnids are vastly outnumbered by the more popular, prolific Perseid shower's meteors that emanate from the heroic constellation Perseus. To capture dozens of Kappa Cygnids, this long term astro-imaging project compiled meteors in exposures selected from over 51...

Archaeologists working at the ancient Hittite settlement of Kayalıpınar, located in Türkiye's Sivas province, have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved clay tablet containing a bird omen text...The discovery was made as part of an ongoing excavation led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Maner of Koç University's Department of Archaeology and Art History. The site, historically known as Samuha, holds immense historical importance as a major administrative and religious center of the Hittite Empire...The tablet offers insights into Hittite divination practices, particularly the interpretation of bird movements as omens. Known as "bird oracles", these texts were central to Hittite spiritual and state...

Before I get into this report, I first want to address anyone who wonders why we sometimes use asterisks like this ** in our article headlines… There is a very good explanation which you can read here if you’re curious: Why Do We Sometimes Write Titles With Asterisks In The W*rds Like Th*s? Ok, now to our main story... Please pray for protection for Don Jr. because Brandon Biggs the so-called "Trump Prophet" who months before President Trump was shot in Butler, PA released a video saying he saw in a vision Trump being shot in the right ear, has...

During a hearing in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon provided compelling testimony about how the Trump administration is rapidly weeding out discriminatory policies and practices across America. Dhillon used the "Ending Illegal DEI Discrimination & Preferences: Enforcing Our Civil Rights Laws" hearing as a report card on her tenure after the first 100 days in office, in which she said "under the leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi," they have been working diligently to "end illegal DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] for all Americans," including in...

VIDEOThe Democrats are now pretending, in response to the Russia Hoax revelations made by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, that Democrats and the Deep State never claimed that the Russians actively HACKED the election to help Donald Trump or that there was Trump-Russia Collusion. This compilation put together by the Media Research Center puts a lie to that laughable notion. However, one big takeaway is what Chris Cillizza said on CNN years ago: "The FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the former Director of National Intelligence JAMES CLAPPER, they all said this. So to believe that that's wrong you have to believe that...

Michigan has joined four other states who have introduced legislation to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from wearing masks, with the Wolverine state calling for jail time for violators. Democrats in California, New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania also have introduced similar bills as part of an attempt by those lawmakers to “increase transparency and limit the agency’s expanded powers” under President Donald Trump, Newsweek reported this week. As Breitbart News has reported, federal authorities say ICE officers have been wearing plain clothes and using masks during raids to hinder their identification they or their families won’t be targeted...

Ukrainian forces are holding back Russia’s concerted summer push to break through defenses along parts of the front line, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. “They are not advancing. It’s very tough for our guys out there. And it’s tough everywhere,” Zelenskyy told reporters on Thursday, in comments embargoed till Friday. “It’s also very hard for the Russians — and that’s good for us.” With the war now in its fourth year after Russia’s February 2022 invasion of its neighbor, the effort is draining resources on both sides, although Russia has more resources and people to sustain its fight. Ukraine is...

Spectators are used to seeing cars get smashed and crushed during monster truck rallies, but typically it is the cars in the rally arena that face getting smashed, not the cars of passive spectators who show up hoping to have a good time watching a bit of destruction. Not so during a Sunday, July 20 event in Washington, during which a monster, 800-pound wheel flew off a truck, out of the arena, and into the parking lot outside. The incident occurred at the Malicious Monster Truck Tour event at the Thunderbird Arena in Bremerton, Washington. During the fun show, a...

WASHINGTON — Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flouted House ethics rules by accepting more than $3,700 in rented apparel and other gifts for her notorious appearance at the 2021 Met Gala — including a glitzy gown emblazoned with “Tax The Rich” in blood-red letters and a free ticket for her then-boyfriend Riley Roberts — but paying less than $1,000 for the goodies. The House Ethics Committee faulted the Bronx and Queens “Squad” member for not complying with its regulation on gifts and improperly giving Roberts a free ride to the annual charity event put on by Vogue grande dame Anna Wintour...

TALLAHASSEE — An appeals court Wednesday allowed an Okaloosa County couple to pursue a lawsuit over noise from a neighboring gun range, saying a 1999 state law aimed at shielding gun ranges from liability violated the couple’s constitutional rights. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal overturned a circuit judge’s ruling that rejected the lawsuit filed by Eugene and Adrienne Gartman, who in 1998 bought 80 acres of land that includes their home. In 2017, BITN, LLC, and a subsidiary company, Southern Tactical Range, LLC, bought about 200 acres immediately south of the Gartmans’ property and began...

"We just ask that folks look at what she has to say with an open mind, and that’s what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has promised us," David Oscar Markus said Top Department of Justice officials are to interview Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for a second day on Friday.Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, said ahead of her interview with the officials that his client "has been treated very unfairly" for more than five years, and she doesn't have a reason to lie in answering their questions, NBC News reported.Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche first met with Maxwell in Tallahassee,...

Federal authorities in Southern California have charged two workers at the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center accused of interfering with ICE agents trying to arrest an illegal alien on July 8 who fled into the medical facility. One worker was arrested Friday morning, the other is being sought according to a report by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin. Viral video from the hallway: VIDEO AT LINK..................... DHS statement from July 9 on the incident: THE FACTS: ICE officers conducted a targeted enforcement operation to arrest two illegal aliens. Officers in clearly marked ICE bullet proof vests approached the illegal alien targets...

For months we have been working on a mechanism whereby American citizens can vote with confidence in any election. True the Ballot has just been launched out of our own pockets to vet candidates before they get on any ballot in the United States. Think about it. Why would anyone run for office or vote if they were unable to demonstrate fidelity to our founding principles? We looked at every single candidacy form of the State of Indiana. There are twenty. Not a single one of them asks a candidate about their fealty toward our nation and its principles. Using...