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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said early Friday he is “disappointed” by President Trump’s decision to increase tariffs on his country to 35 percent but left open the door for a potential trade deal. After weeks of negotiations with America’s northern neighbor, Trump decided to ratchet up levies on the country alongside sweeping new tariffs announced Thursday. The president again cited what he claimed was a “flood” of fentanyl from the northern border, a statement not supported by data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Carney’s efforts to recognize a Palestinian state also jeopardized talks, Trump said late Wednesday.In his...

The left’s favorite patron and activist billionaire was an early player in the Russian collusion hoax, documents reveal.When special counsel John Durham wrapped up his investigation into the FBI’s handling of the discredited conspiracy theory involving then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and Moscow, his final report was made public. It revealed that, in fact, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign team concocted the Trump-Russia collusion story and then, through a law group, contracted strategic intelligence firm Fusion GPS to gather opposition research that would tie Trump to Russia. But an annex to the Durham report was classified and kept from the public. That...

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education, Indiana’s public-university-system leadership, has announced that the state’s public colleges are responding to a new state law by eliminating or merging more than 400 degree programs on the different university campuses, about 20 percent of the total number of degrees offered. Inside Higher Ed summarizes: The announcement came just before a new state law took effect … setting minimum requirements for how many graduates individual programs must produce at the universities and Ivy Tech Community College, or face termination. […] [The law] says institutions can ask the commission for approval to keep offering degrees...

A JCU researcher has helped discover a new species of stick insect in the Atherton tablelands. Credit: James Cook University ====================================================================== James Cook University researcher Professor Angus Emmott helped identify the new Acrophylla alta species and explained that the most surprising feature of this giant stick insect was its weight, which, at around 44 g, is slightly less than a golf ball. Details of the discovery have been published in the journal Zootaxa. "There are longer stick insects out there [in the region], but they're fairly light-bodied," he said. "From what we know to date, this is Australia's heaviest insect."...

An Ohio-based Kia dealership is fighting to get its name back after a woman whose car was repossessed hijacked the appellation. The matter is the subject of a court case.A Kia dealership that got on the wrong side of an Ohio woman has approached the courts to regain its name after she snatched it. The dispute started with a repossessed car. The dealership, formerly known as “Taylor Kia of Lima,” took back Tiah McCreary’s car in just one month. The dealer sold her a used Kia K5, but claimed in court documents that it was later determined that the McCreary...

Black teens beat white bystanders in downtown Cincinnati as police, media, and public figures stay silent revealing a dangerous double standard on racial violence.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have observed the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), an area of deep space with nearly 10,000 galaxies in the constellation Fornax. This Webb image shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, an area of deep space with thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes on a black background. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / G. Östlin / P. G. Perez-Gonzalez / J. Melinder / JADES Collaboration / M. Zamani, ESA & Webb. ================================================================================= The original HUDF images were pioneering deep-field observations with Hubble published in 2004. They probed...

Hours after data showed cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump implied that Erika McEntarfer manipulated the data for political reasons. Hours after disappointing jobs data reflected cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump said Friday that he planned to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, and implied on social media that she had manipulated the monthly data for political reasons. According to the data released early Friday, U.S. employers added 73,000 jobs in July, less than economists expected, and the unemployment rate rose slightly. The report on also significantly revised down the data on...

"We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified," he added.

Thanks to New York’s bail law, even the most cartoonishly villainous crimes don’t get you thrown behind bars. The latest: Monday’s arrest of Isaiah Gurley, 29, on a laundry list of charges after he was allegedly caught on video dragging a dog into the street in Queens and setting it afire. Gurley confessed to cops that he had kicked the poor pooch, which he was watching for a friend, to death before burning its body. To add insult to injury, he allegedly shoplifted the oil he used to torch the hound. Brutalizing any living creature so cruelly should guarantee reasonably...

VIDEOFAKE NEWS that tries to discredit REAL NEWS by calling it "Russian Disinformation" and you can bet the notorious Mockingbird Media darling of Hunter Biden Laptop fame, Natasha Bertrand, will somehow worm her way into it. Such was the case with the latest bit of Russian Disinformation desperation when Bertrand reposted on X (forever to be known as Twitter) Ben Smith hyping the the fantasy that the John Durham Annex story was the result of Russian Disinformation and somehow didn't say what it clearly said namely that the DAMNING emails implicating Hillary Clinton in the Russia HOAX were "authentic."FAKE NEWS,...

Archaeologists have re-examined a 2500-year-old residue found in bronze jars at an underground shrine in Paestum, Italy, previously identified as a wax/fat/resin mixture. Using a multianalytical approach, the authors have detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs. Paestum honey: (A) underground shrine in Paestum, Italy; (B) one of the hydrias on display alongside a Perspex box containing the residue at the Ashmolean Museum in 2019; (C) graphic representation of the arrangement of the bronze jars inside the shrine; (D) sample from the core of the...

Friday, Aug. 1, is World Lung Cancer Day, a day to raise awareness for the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. While the number of new cases of lung cancer continues to decrease, due in part to fewer people smoking, rates are increasing in certain groups who are non-smokers. One woman, Randi Marcus, said she had never smoked before her diagnosis. "Never smoked a day in my life," Marcus said. "Not even tried it. I felt perfectly healthy. I had no symptoms." However, the 65-year-old's cancer was an "incidental finding," according to her doctor. A diagnosis that...

Explanation: A small, dark, nebula looks isolated near the center of this telescopic close-up. The wedge-shaped cosmic cloudlet lies within a relatively crowded region of space though. About 7,000 light-years distant and filled with glowing gas and an embedded cluster of young stars, the region is known as M16 or the Eagle Nebula. Hubble's iconic images of the Eagle Nebula include the famous star-forming Pillars of Creation, towering structures of interstellar gas and dust 4 to 5 light-years long. But this small dark nebula, known to some as a Bok globule, is a fraction of a light-year across. The Bok...

Vice President JD Vance blasted an AP reporter who suggested he is “protecting pedophiles” during his visit to a steel factory in Ohio to promote tax cuts. During a Q&A session, the reporter stated: “I guess I’m going to be that person. There are some protestors outside accusing the GOP of protecting pedophiles.” “We’re wondering what you think are the reasons the U.S. government should shield the client list of Epstein from the public?” Vance didn’t hold back in his response. “Well, let me just say a couple of things. First of all… we’re not shielding anything. The President has...

At the Federal Reserve policy meeting that concluded Wednesday, governors Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman dissented from the decision to leave rates unchanged, believing that a rate cut was justified. It looks like they had a point. The intrigue: At 8am ET Friday morning — half an hour before the jobs report — Waller and Bowman issued statements explaining their dissents. It's clear they were worried about exactly the kind of labor market cracks that exploded into plain view with the new revisions. What they're saying: Waller's statement says that "while the labor market looks fine on the surface, once...

A British man has died after travelling for a hair transplant in Turkey. The 38-year-old from the UK had travelled for the operation in the country, a popular destination for the trending treatment. He had the procedure at a private clinic called CINIK in Istanbul’s Besiktas area and he became unwell after the surgery, according to Turkish outlet OdaTV. However, the clinic has told Metro that the patient became unwell ‘unexpectedly’before the hair transplant procedure began during the ‘preparatory phase’ rather than during the operation. The CINIK clinic said that it had carried out ‘all necessary medical evaluations and tests’...

Meta-analysis assessed trials of SSRIs, esketamine, and psilocybinKey Takeaways: -In a comparison of depression treatment trials, control group outcomes in trials of psilocybin were lower than those in trials of SSRIs and esketamine. -This may suggest that psilocybin's antidepressant efficacy has been overestimated compared with other depression treatment options. -This could be due to a nocebo effect in the control arms of psilocybin trials, a study author said. Control group outcomes in randomized trials of psilocybin indicated less improvement in depression scores compared with trials of other antidepressants, according to a meta-analysis, suggesting that psilocybin's efficacy may be lower than...

The lies concocted by Hillary Clinton’s campaign team cannot go unpunished.About half the country has almost a decade's worth of rage that has been building and building over the utter lawlessness atop the Democrat Party. What's sad is that the angry half doesn't seem to include any Democrats. The utterly horrific Russiagate scandal, which gets worse with every disclosure emanating from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, isn't just pulling off a scab and re-exposing old wounds. Because there has never been a scab. The wound has never healed. It has gone untreated for years. It's septic and at least...

LACEY, Wash. - A verdict has been reached in the trial of a Lacey father and mother accused in an attempted "honor killing" of their own teenage daughter. A jury found 44-year-old Ihsan Ali not guilty of second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault. However, Ali was found guilty of second-degree and fourth-degree assault, and unlawful imprisonment. The backstory: Ali was captured on video appearing to choke his 17-year-old daughter on the ground outside Timberline High School in October 2024. The assault happened after the teen ran away from home, claiming her parents planned to forcefully send her to Iraq to...