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The decision, affecting hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid, has alarmed NATO allies and upset U.S. lawmakers who strongly back the alliance.The Trump administration intends to halt longtime security assistance programs for Europe, including an initiative to fortify the continent’s eastern flank against a potential attack by Russia, as it endeavors to recast Washington’s role within NATO, according to six people familiar with the matter.The decision would impact hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military aid relied upon by some of the alliance’s most vulnerable members. It has alarmed U.S. allies struggling to comprehend the administration’s...

The Trump administration aims to carry out more violent strikes against drug cartels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he met with Ecuador’s president.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the Trump administration wants to help partner governments conduct violent strikes against criminal groups, following the playbook the U.S. military used this week to carry out a lethal attack on a boat in the Caribbean.“Those governments will help us find these people and blow them up,” he said at a news conference in Ecuador. “They might do it themselves, and we’ll help them do it.”Mr. Rubio made his...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Kate Smith worked a 9-to-5 office job, she was burned-out, suffering from daily migraines and thinking, “I can’t do this for the rest of my life.” She didn’t have to. For her next role, Smith landed a remote, full-time marketing job that enabled her to travel the world.Her laptop lifestyle took her to Bali, where she lived and worked for a year-and-a-half. “Every day, I was riding my scooter through the rice fields and thinking, ‘I love my life, this is amazing,’” she said. “And that feeling never fades. ... I feel so grateful for...

Four Democrat-run states have issued their own vaccine guidelines after Florida banned all mandates. The governors of California, Oregon and Washington state announced this week they have formed the West Coast Health Alliance in an effort to 'ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.' The alliance plans to review scientific data and make vaccine recommendations for residents in these states that are independent from federal guidelines. These guidelines will sidestep those enacted by the Trump administration and vaccine skeptic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, including recent restrictions on the Covid shot. It's the first blue-state...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced senators Thursday as criticism mounts over the CDC director’s firing and COVID vaccine access cuts.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert K. Kennedy Jr appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday amid calls for his resignation and defended his stance on vaccines and his decisions to fire personnel in his department. Kennedy has faced criticism, both from within HHS as well as the medical community, for the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez and for reducing access to COVID-19 vaccines.He told lawmakers that he is “pro-medicine, not anti-vaccine.”...

Summary Republican Senator Cassidy contrasts Kennedy's anti-vaccine stance with Trump's 2020 COVID vaccine initiative Kennedy defends firing CDC Director Monarez, vaccine policy changes Democrats, medical groups call for health secretary's resignation WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Democrats and Republicans pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Jr. on his recent vaccine policies and their stark contrast to President Donald Trump's successful first-term pandemic initiative to speed vaccine development during a combative three-hour Senate hearing on Thursday. Half a dozen heated exchanges focused on the details of his decision to fire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, who...

You all support off-label, untested, and irreversible hormonal "therapies" for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You're full of **** and everyone knows it.

[Catholic Caucus] News from Charlotte: Bishop Comes for the Catholic Schools' MassesWe have received a report of the new liturgical directives which Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte wishes to impose on the masses of Paul VI celebrated in the three Catholic high schools under his jurisdiction. The goal is apparently the decatholicization of the new liturgy in the schools under his authority.Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, they are exactly what we would expect, given what we have previously seen of his ideas about “liturgical norms.”The use of kneelers and communion rails for the distribution of Holy Communion is forbidden.There must be...

The Deep State with the HHS is going ALL OUT to sabotage HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to drain the swamp, promote medical freedom, and make America healthy again. Even more ominously, they use an old CIA book to carry out their sinister tasks.Conservative activist Benny Johnson obtained information from whistleblowers showing that career CDC and HHS bureaucrats are distributing a CIA manual entitled “Simple Sabotage,” which was orginally written in 1944, to their subordinates. The CDC ranks are currently carrying out this CIA strategy to the T.SNIPSNIPSNIPSNIP

Democratic Socialist of America members — including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — should leave the Democratic Party and create their own, Rep. Tom Suozzi said. “Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists should create their own party because I don’t want that in my party,” Suozzi, a Democrat, said of the far left policies on CBS New York’s “The Point” show with Marcia Kramer that aired Sunday. Suozzi — whose third congressional district includes parts of Queens as well as Long Island — also said he hopes “he [Mamdani] doesn’t win” the mayoralty because...

We’ve known for a very long time in this country that if you said the wrong thing about the trans issue, you could be canceled. But now, finally, there are people — heretofore on the Left — who are acknowledging that the threat of cancellation has been real. This is just one of the beautiful flowering fruits of the Trump administration: people are now free to say things they weren’t allowed to say before. It’s not clear whether people are deciding that they want to say what is currently more popular or if they genuinely repent having been bullied into...

After burying multiple Democratic Senators intent on trying to destroy his political career, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got his chance to dunk on arguably the most notorious Senators in America. As expected, he did not disappoint. As NBC News reported, Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to answer questions. This comes one week after Kennedy pushed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, Susan Monarez, to resign. The White House fired her when she refused, and three top CDC officials then resigned in protest. The hearing got testy in a hurry after far-left, Big Pharma hack...

Soros-sponsored Larry Krasner radically responds with threats against ICE. A George Soros-backed district attorney is vowing to wage a prosecutorial war against US Immigration and Customs (ICE) enforcement agents and any National Guard troops who may be deployed to his city. Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner has pledged to go after “people who commit crimes wearing a uniform,” likening them to ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is serving a 22 ½-year prison sentence for murder in the death of George Floyd in 2020.Krasner’s eye-opening interview with MSNBC, posted Aug. 31, provided a disturbing look into an urban progressive mindset....

THOSE WHO WISH TRUMP DEAD. A few days ago, a corner of the political world became gripped by the idea that President Donald Trump had died. There was no evidence, of course, and the president is alive today. But that didn’t stop the talk.It started when Trump, who is perhaps the most visible, accessible president in history, was not seen by the press for a couple of days at the White House. That was all it took for social media posters to get to work. They pieced together reports about bruises on the president’s right hand, the result of shaking...

A group of California urgent care workers have been fired after they callously mocked patients in a now-viral TikTok video. The shocking post featured a photo series of employees at the Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara posing with patients' bodily fluids that were left on exam tables. 'Are patients allowed to leave you guys gifts?' reads the text over the first image, showing seven employees in scrubs. The next four slides showed staff members pointing and laughing at stains on the exam table. One woman was seen sticking out her tongue over a mark on a chair. The caption on...

One person has died and at least six others have been injured in a mass stabbing attack that took place at a remote indigenous community in Canada, police say. The suspect also died in Thursday's attack in a First Nations community in the province of Manitoba, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The incident, described by police as a "mass casualty" event, took place in Hollow Water First Nation, about 200km (124 miles) north-east of the city of Winnipeg. Eight people were transported by either air or ambulance to local hospitals, Shared Health, the provincial health authority, told...

The move is noteworthy as Mayor Muriel Bowser has been generally cooperative with the federal effort. D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb brought the suit, however. Washington, D.C., is suing the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard in the nation's capital.The suit states Trump "has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy – that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement," NBC News reported.Trump began the federal takeover last month to crack down on crime. He further assumed direct control of the city's police force and asked for National Guard troops from...

A hero Alaskan man prevented a Labor Day tragedy when he wrestled a loaded gun from an attacker who threatened to use it at a crowded fairground. Jaden Perry, 24, was visiting the Alaska State Fair in Anchorage to help a friend take down a booth when a fight broke out between around eight young men. The fight escalated when one of the men pulled out an extended magazine Glock in the middle of the fair, Perry told the Daily Mail. He didn't hesitate, going for the gun and tackling one of the men while making sure the weapon remained...

A disgraced FBI official tipped off a Chinese company about a criminal investigation while Hunter Biden was pursuing lucrative deals with the CCP-linked business. The since-convicted FBI official who led counterintelligence efforts in New York leaked information to an affiliate of a Chinese company which was linked to Hunter Biden’s business efforts, according to a DOJ watchdog who concluded the leak tipped the Chinese conglomerate off about the bureau’s criminal investigation.Charles McGonigal, the former special-agent-in-charge of the FBI Counterintelligence Division in New York, leaked information to “Person B” – an unnamed businessman who worked for the Chinese energy conglomerate...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interest in the Senate Finance Committee's questioning of the Health and Human Services Secretary reached a new high today, as Stephen Colbert's dancing vaccines were called to testify at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s hearing. The world's most famous troupe of dancing syringes was reportedly brought in to serve as Senate Democrats' surprise witnesses as they grilled RFK Jr. over various controversies that had taken place during the first several months of his leadership. "Is it true that you all lost your jobs due to Secretary Kennedy's policy changes?" asked Senator Elizabeth Warren. "The American people deserve...