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Human clinical trials reveal that black cumin has anti-obesity and heart-protective effects. Nigella sativa (black cumin) is best known as a flavorful spice used in dishes like korma and paneer, but it also has a long history in traditional medicine across South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Practitioners have relied on the seeds for centuries, believing they support health through their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Modern science has begun to revisit these traditional claims, examining whether the plant’s bioactive compounds can meaningfully influence human metabolism. A team from Osaka Metropolitan University, led by Associate Professor Akiko Kojima-Yuasa of...

Two years ago, in November 2023, my friend Roger Caiazza and I attended a conference put on by a local news source called City & State. They called their conference the “Clean Energy New York Summit: The Path to Sustainability.” I called it the Krazy Klimate Konference, and I wrote about it in a post on November 18, 2023 titled “At The New York Krazy Klimate Konference.” Last year both Roger and I skipped the Konference, and this year Roger again wisely decided to stay home in Syracuse. But I was morbidly curious as to how this crowd of climate...

Today, Israel stands as an oasis of democracy in a Middle East where dozens of its neighbors are Islamic states or still practice monarchy. It is a cruel irony that, in a world of 46 majority-Muslim nations, the presence of a single majority-Jewish nation is seen by many of Israel’s neighbors as one too many. Thirty-one countries still refuse to recognize Israel on their maps. Some of those would love nothing less than to see Israel wiped off the map altogether. And yet Israel persists. Thanks to Israel’s courage and the decisive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by the United...

A new and profound layer of instability looms over the already battered Republic of Haiti. Amid institutional collapse, the escalation of armed gang violence, and a humanitarian crisis that shames the international community, a silent yet deeply significant sociopolitical phenomenon is gaining strength: the exponential growth of the Islamic community. The truth, however raw, is the only solid foundation for a society that respects order and legitimate authority. https://twitter.com/GatewayHispanic/status/1989778176856179020?s=20 This columnist, with more than four decades of experience observing the decline of social structures, has investigated the background that reveals an uncomfortable reality: while democratic institutions sink and public safety...

Footage of antifa stormtroopers and sheer irony that they are claiming to oppose fascism. ..... transcript linked below.

The upbeat, Spanish music still floats through the aisles of Sav/Way Foods, the Latino supermarket in the heart of the bustling and boisterous Plaza Midwood neighborhood. But at 8:30 on a chilly morning this week, the songs on the loudspeakers are about all the Spanish you hear. “It’s been really, really slow,” says employee Bella Duran as a half-dozen shoppers silently mill about the store. “A lot of our customers have been scared to come out.” Some patrons now afraid to leave their homes are taking Sav/Way up on its offer of free home delivery. Inside the store, rows of...

DEMOCRAT & CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER RUNNING FOR MAYOR IN RI Michael English, a Democrat and a CONVICTED child molester, is currently running for mayor in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1998, English pleaded no contest to sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl. He served ONLY 15 months of a 20-YEAR sentence before being released. He then spent an additional 19 months in prison in 2009 after violating a no-contact order with the victim. English does not appear on the RI sex offender registry due to his registry expiring after only 10 years.

Everyone should play by the same rules. That’s the basic idea of fairness most Americans understand. When it befits them, the federal government loves to hold people accountable to its rules, but the feds hate it when they’re forced to obey state law. This is especially true in the case of water rights, where the US Government would see itself as some legally exempt land baron over the state governments. This is why Paul Nettleton, Tim Lowry, Don Pickett, and the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation—represented by Mountain States Legal Foundation—stood up and said enough is enough. Case Background Twenty years...

Students and teachers have been kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school in a terrifying raid amid spiraling attacks on Christians. Armed gangsters stole the children from St. Mary's School in Agwara, in central Nigeria, officials said Friday - the second kidnapping incident in less than a week. Local residents fear that close to 100 students and staff were taken away in the early-morning assault. It comes after 25 schoolgirls were stolen by bandits in the country's northwest on Monday. Donald Trump has threatened military action over the targeted killings of Nigeria's Christians by radical Islamists. The narrative is rejected by...

The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two people familiar with the matter said. Washington has presented Ukraine with a 28-point plan, which endorses some of Russia's principal demands in the war, including that Kyiv cede additional territory, curb the size of its military and be barred from joining NATO. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Kyiv was under greater pressure from Washington than during any previous peace discussions, and that the U.S. wanted Ukraine to sign...

A grizzly bear attacked a group of elementary school students and teachers in Canada, leaving 11 people injured. Two people were left critically injured, and two sustained serious injuries following the attack at Acwsalcta School on Thursday in Bella Coola, northwest of Vancouver. Emergency Health Services spokesman Brian Twaites said in a statement that two ambulances and a helicopter were called to the scene. 'Paramedics provided emergency medical treatment to four patients and transported them to hospital. Two patients were in critical condition and two were in serious condition,' he said. Police corporal Madonna Saunderson said she did not yet...

By Nono Shen, The Canadian Press Posted November 20, 2025 10:13 pm.Last Updated November 21, 2025 1:40 am.A grizzly bear has attacked a group of elementary school students and teachers in the B.C. central coast community of Bella Coola, leaving two people critically injured and two others seriously hurt.B.C. Emergency Health Services said seven more people were treated at the scene of the attack in the community about 700 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, which was called in just before 2 p.m. on Thursday.Veronica Schooner said her 10-year-old son Alvarez was in the Year 4-5 class that was attacked while on...

Viral footage purports to show a pregnant young child visiting a Pakistani market with her elderly husband, sparking outrage over the Muslim child-bride practice. “This is one of the most viral videos I’ve seen, it has 2.6 million likes,” wrote popular X user @WallStreetApes on Wednesday, cross-posting a video from TikTok which was captioned, “This is a clip of a muslim child in pakistan a pregnant girl going to the market with her husband.” This is one of the most viral videos I’ve seen, it has 2.6 million likes“Thisis a clip of a muslim child in pakistan a pregnant girl...

... Carlson pulls no punches: he traces his own journey from a Weekly Standard neoconservative to the leading voice of America First nationalism, recounting the exact moment in Baghdad in 2003 when he realized he’d been “used” to sell a disastrous war. With unflinching honesty, he admits his past mistakes, explains why he now rejects both libertarian economics and neoconservative foreign policy as “false religions,” and declares that any government not putting its own citizens first has no legitimacy. The conversation then dives into the ongoing civil war inside conservatism—paleocons vs. neocons, Buchanan vs. Buckley 2.0—and why the old gatekeepers...

Florida authorities are pushing back on social media rumors about a "serial killer on the loose" in Jacksonville after three women were found dead in separate incidents over three days. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) addressed the speculation directly on Tuesday, emphasizing that the cases are unrelated and urging calm as investigations continue. "JSO is aware of rumors circulating about a serial killer on the loose in Jacksonville. We can confirm these claims are FALSE," the agency wrote Tuesday on social media. The department added that detectives are investigating each case individually, "following the facts and evidence," adding "there is...

Mollie Hemingway -- author, political pundit, frequent guest on Gutfeld!, as well as editor of The Federalist, recently appeared on FOX News and stated that the Democrat party’s base is now primarily made up of angry women. Hemingway is clearly correct, as any honest person who hasn’t lived incommunicado in a wikiup deep in the Brazilian rainforest for the past, say, 30 years, would have to admit. Whenever I see a Prius Subaru vehicle on the road with more than four bumper stickers, I know there is a 95% chance its owner is a member of the far-left community. If...

In the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s election victory earlier this month, it became clear that socialism is more of a rising threat on the left than ever before. It’s also clear the GOP could no longer coast along by proclaiming “Vote for us because he’s a socialist,” assuming that people would forever have a knee-jerk reaction to that word. One issue that defined New York’s mayoral race – and, increasingly, politics throughout the country – is affordability. For millions of Americans, being able to afford rent, grocery bills, health care, and buying a home seems further out of reach than...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(11/21/25)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel’s “Messiah”Zechariah 9:9-109 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of...

Rep. Eric Swalwell announced Thursday that he will run for California governor, the latest Democrat to join the crowded race to succeed outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom. Swalwell, who has served in Congress since 2013, will face a list of high-profile Democrats that includes former Rep. Katie Porter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and activist billionaire Tom Steyer, who entered the race to lead the deep-blue state on Wednesday. Swalwell announced his gubernatorial run on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" On his new campaign website, the California Democrat focused on the need to...

Jasmine Crockett calls out Republicans for accepting donations from a “Jeffrey Epstein” — but it was a complelety different person than the pedophile Democrat donor we all know and loathe. Someone in Rep. Crockett’s staff got this one seriously wrong—I assume that it was her staff because she told us that “they” found the reference to Epstein contributing to GOP campaigns. Here is the story: Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett was called out for dropping the names of a series of Republicans who took donations from Jeffrey Epstein, but she got the wrong Jeffrey Epstein. The Texas lawmaker and rising star...