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Some doctors call it “walking Ebola” – symptoms of the rare Bundibugyo strain appear to worsen slowly, leaving patients sick enough to spread the virus but not so unwell to stop them moving through their communities. The pattern emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo resonated with virologist Corri Levine, who devoted her doctoral research to Bundibugyo years before it caused the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. Studying the virus in a biocontainment laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Levine found it replicated more slowly than the Zaire strain responsible for a devastating epidemic that swept West Africa...

It’s been a tough week for Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico on the sexual abuse front, who is now battling with the public learning that his largest financial backer is listed in the Epstein files, is facing condemnation from an abuse victim’s family for lying, and is refusing to condemn a political ally who consorts with a sexual predator. Earlier today, it was revealed that Talarico had been receiving millions from billionaire Epstein-associated Reid Hoffman. Hoffman was featured prominently in the Epstein files for making trips to Jeffrey Epstein’s island and to other Epstein residences, as well as exchanging...

Thank you for all your prayers and support. The encouragement you've shared, along with the many testimonies of how this ministry has impacted lives, has been deeply moving. We are excited to announce that we are coming back! Our social media content, blog, and online deliverance sessions will be returning. We're also introducing several new offerings, including content featuring Gina Witt, Director of Healing Ministries. Another team member, Grady Connolly, will also be sharing digital and written content highlighting the beauty of the Catholic faith around the world, inspiring stories, and resources related to deliverance and exorcism. On September 1,...

woman thrashed on the floor while others screamed, shook and collapsed during a celebrity pastor’s book signing at a Barnes & Noble. The scenes unfolded as Kathryn Krick, the self-described ‘apostle’ and lead pastor of Five-Fold Church in Los Angeles, addressed more than 200 people at the Houston bookstore. Krick, 35, practices what her ministry calls spiritual ‘deliverance,’ which it describes as freeing people from demonic forces. She characterized the attendees’ intense physical reactions as encounters with God’s power and evidence of a religious ‘revival.’ Footage shared by Krick shows one woman approaching the signing table visibly emotional as her...

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told Newsmax that some elements of the U.S. Senate were "founded" on racism. Ocasio-Cortez declined to distance herself from a Democratic Socialists of America proposal calling for the abolition of the Senate, instead criticizing parts of the institution while stopping short of endorsing its elimination. Speaking Thursday with Newsmax congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt outside the Capitol, AOC repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether she rejects the DSA platform plank. "I mean, again, I'm not running for any larger office presently," she said when asked about the proposal. AOC added that abolishing the Senate "is, of course,...

Friday marks as sad milestone. It was 30 years ago that TWA Flight 800 exploded in midair off of Long Island minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Paris

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Trump’s speech didn’t make the case, while sowing voting distrust. President Trump broke into prime-time TV on Thursday night to talk to the nation about election security, but it must have been a letdown for anybody expecting a thrilling plot twist in Mr. Trump’s long yarn about his 2020 defeat. Instead he made a sales pitch for a bill that can’t pass, using doubts it wouldn’t address. Mr. Trump released documents that he said show vulnerabilities in U.S. election systems, and some of them are real, though they run the gamut. He said voter files on millions of people, including...

New Gallup data show that people are growing increasingly distrustful of major technology companies such as Meta, Apple, and Google, as well as a newer player in the surveillance industry, Flock Safety. Some people are even taking matters into their own hands by destroying the AI-powered surveillance cameras appearing in communities across the country. Flock Safety, a private surveillance technology company founded in 2017, has been earning a reputation as a herald of the much-feared Orwellian “surveillance state.” Although a private company, Flock’s business model operates by selling AI-powered camera and audio detection systems to local and state governments for...

An employee at a Colorado Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center allegedly shot a female protester Thursday night while trying to get to work. Brandon Booth, 42, an employee of the GEO Group, which operates the Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado, was waiting in his car on a nearby street with other workers as a demonstration blocked their access to the facility, according to police. Two female protesters reportedly instigated a verbal confrontation and took pictures of the detention center employees’ cars before walking away. Booth then allegedly fired a single shot towards the direction of the two...

President Donald Trump declared Americans love both kinds of football now. Trump celebrated the USA’s fresh crush on soccer and traded compliments with FIFA President Gianni Infantino during a glowing reception on Friday in New York City, in honor of the 2026 World Cup coming to a close. “This guy, he came to me with this crazy idea [to host the World Cup]. I said ‘Are you crazy? We’re not a soccer country!'” Trump said after taking the microphone. “It turned out we were a soccer country, and I think it’s going to remain [one]." His remark follows the World...

Days after Lithuania said its intelligence services had caught Russia preparing sabotage against the infrastructure that ties the Baltics to Europe, Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys drew a public line. If those plans are carried out, he said, Vilnius will not treat the results as accidents. “If there is damage, or if there are casualties, it will be treated as an act of aggression, with all the due consequences,” Mr. Budrys said in an interview with The Washington Times at the foreign ministry. That means, he added, “not only the country’s self-defense but the collective defense of the alliance.” The warning,...

Are you there, Claude? It’s me, Margaret. Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the way we get information. If you have questions about the factors that underlie a medical diagnosis or how best to invest your savings, asking an AI chatbot for guidance can give you quick, easy and often surprisingly accurate information in a conversational form. But people are also turning to AI to explore deeper questions than they might ask a physician, financial adviser or professor — questions that, for millennia, were the province of religion. Today, millions are seeking moral guidance from AI chatbots. It might seem reasonable...

Anyone notice Amazon delivery is getting unreliable lately? I mean the past two months or so? I just a run of bad luck for me?

A car ride would have only taken 16 minutes.(Singapore) What could have been a 16-minute car ride turned into a spontaneous 2.5-hour trek to Changi Airport for a group of three young women. The trio's journey was documented on TikTok by user Angie, and was posted on Thursday (July 16). Captioned "peak unemployment activity", the video has garnered over 180,000 views in one day. According to a Google Maps screenshot shared in the video, the three's journey from Tanah Merah would take two hours and seven minutes. They set off at 2.42am, hoping to make it in time for their...

Sweltering Iranians were warned by their rulers Friday to shut off their air conditioners during peak hours as the regime claimed the country’s power grid came under strain from US attacks. Tehran’s Ministry of Energy said in a statement that shutoffs were necessary “to help ensure a stable electricity supply in the southern provinces, which are currently facing extreme heat and attacks on electricity supply facilities.” The statement did not specify whether power plants, transmission lines or other equipment had been attacked. CENTCOM declined to say whether the US military hit Iranian power plants or other energy targets, but a...

A recent article from The Cut received a huge amount of attention: ‘It’s Hard to See My Parents Live So Lavishly While We’re Struggling’. The piece includes vignettes of Millenial hardship:…his dad, Steve, sold his company to a private equity firm about five years ago, which enabled him to retire comfortably in his mid-60s…Two years ago, Joe asked his dad for a loan. He wanted to start a lawn-care business and needed capital for commercial-grade equipment and a trailer, at least $15,000. He presented Steve with his business plan, which included a schedule to pay back the money. Still, Steve...

FIFA has no plans to move Sunday's World Cup final, even as dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires leaves a haze over New York City, reports claim. Spain is due to face Argentina in a blockbuster final at MetLife Stadium and there have been warnings that the combination of heat and 'terrible' air quality constitutes a 'very dangerous and powerful one-two ​punch to the human body.' On Thursday, the air quality in New Jersey, site of the stadium, was rated 'unhealthy for sensitive groups' by several air-quality measurement platforms. According to Bloomberg, FIFA and Andrew Giuliani - who heads of the...

A top Missouri prosecutor was booted for having an affair with an illegal migrant her office was probing for sex assault — and because she slept with two other men in glaring conflicts of interest, too, court papers allege. Disgraced Ray County Prosecutor Camille Johnston was yanked from her position Thursday when a judge signed off on Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s petition laying out a slew of misconduct allegations against her during her three and a half years in office, Hanaway announced. Johnston — an elected official who took office Jan. 1, 2023 — compromised the integrity of her...

WASHINGTON — The highest-ranking woman in the House of Representatives is calling for a “bright-line rule” prohibiting lawmakers from having sexual relationships with congressional staff after The Post revealed Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) slept with at least two aides to Texas Democrats. Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), chairwoman of the House Republican Caucus, told The Post that “Senator Gallego’s relationships fall short of the standard the public expects from elected officials.” “Congress should have a bright-line rule that Members should not have romantic or sexual relationships with congressional staff,” the No. 4 House Republican said. “Even if a relationship is consensual,...