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One of the most worrying trends in Western societies is the failing institution of marriage. Not only are divorce rates high, but increasingly young people are opting out altogether. A generation ago, 80 to 90 percent of the population in the United States would have been married by the age of 35; the number is now closer to 60 percent and has been falling over the past 10 years. That number matters because marriages are less likely to produce children after 35. In virtually all Western countries, the birth rate is now below replacement, which is almost certainly linked to...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Wednesday he would push to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former head of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response invoked his Fifth Amendment right at a hearing on Capitol Hill. “That’s a vote that will happen in committee next week. It will be in contempt of Congress,” Paul told reporters after the hearing. “We believe that with his … immunity from criminal liability, that he didn’t need to hide behind the Fifth Amendment and that maybe the Fifth Amendment doesn’t...

A new aircraft is coming in hot. JetZero, the California-based aerospace company, is in the midst of ejecting Boeing from the game with its newest prototype — the Z4. The aircraft is a blended-wing-body, and it’s aimed at disrupting air travel. The Z4 is set apart from the traditional tube-and-wing design most airliners have today. JetZero’s new model blends the wings and body into one surface. This creates an aerodynamic lift and could help conserve fuel.

“All 6,600 individuals indicated ‘Yes’ to wanting to register to vote and ‘No’ to being a US Citizen”. DHS found that over 35,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in New Jersey. Gov. Mikie Sherrill claimed that was due to a software ‘glitch’, that only 6,000 non-citizens were registered, only 400 had voted, and announced that she won’t release the names because of “privacy laws.” Privacy laws don’t protect illegal actions or New Jersey’s own violations of voting regulations. Furthermore, the provider is claiming that it wasn’t a software error at all, but a category error. “All 6,600 individuals indicated ‘Yes’...

Health officials located the diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci across nearly a dozen different servers, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on July 27. “It took us about eight months to dig these out of 11 separate servers, where they had been sequestered and secreted,” Kennedy said during an appearance on Fox News. After obtaining the private entries of Fauci, who was the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1984 to 2022, officials with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) handed over the documents to...

US-Saudi airstrikes targeting the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq killed 20 people, including several Iranian military advisers, according to sources within the Iran-aligned alliance and Iranian media. Two sources within the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, told AFP that five Iranian advisers were among those killed in a strike in the central province of Diyala. AFP journalists reported seeing coffins draped in Iranian flags during funerals organized by the PMF in Baghdad. Iran’s Hamshahri newspaper separately reported that four military advisers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in the overnight strikes. Iranian authorities had not officially confirmed the...

Senator Joni Ernst questions Dr. Anthony Fauci about NIH-funded researchers at UNC who allegedly shipped 'humanized mice' to China and used aborted baby parts in research. WATCH: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402410748112 1:07 MIN AND A LONGER 2 MIN SEGMENT https://x.com/SenJoniErnst/status/2082494591417119027

ABC's George Stephanopoulos stoked Anthony Fauci's already supersized ego with a text after one of the disease doctor's many chummy Good Morning America appearances during the pandemic, newly released diary entries show. Fauci claimed that Stephanopoulos heaped praise on him following an interview in July 2020 where the doctor addressed criticism he was receiving from then-President Donald Trump. 'Thank you, Tony. So impressive,' Stephanopoulos, 65, wrote on July 28, 2020, immediately after the interview, according to Fauci. The GMA host had started by asking for Fauci's response to Trump retweets that labeled him a 'fraud.' 'I don’t even read them,...

Over the last 100 years, the world's population has ballooned from less than two billion to 8.3 billion people. However, researchers say our planet cannot sustain this explosive growth for much longer. Now, in a proposal that will remind movie fans of Thanos' plot in Avengers: Infinity War, scientists argue that the population needs to be 'eased' down to four billion by 2200. In their paper, published in the journal Sustainable Development, the researchers write: 'Easing to a smaller and sustainable population would not deprive additional billions of life but instead ensure that when they do arrive conditions will be...

A Texas woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to smuggling unaccompanied illegal immigrant children into the United States from Juarez, Mexico. Dianne Guadian, 33, together with three other members of a smuggling organization, transported foreign children aged 5 to 13 into the country, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a July 28 statement. Candy laced with THC, the major psychoactive constituent in cannabis, was sometimes used to sedate the children. Drivers and co-conspirators would claim to be their parents and show the inspecting officers false U.S. documents. Once the group entered the United States, the children were transported to El...

French police were accused of "doing nothing whatsoever" to prevent dangerous Channel migrant crossings following more farcical scenes. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp accused French gendarmes of a “shameful dereliction of duty” after they allowed a suspected smuggler who fired up the dinghy's engine to walk away free as the vessel departed. He said officers could easily have prevented the departure because the water was only “knee deep”. And he revealed how male asylum seekers were so desperate to reach the UK that they pushed women and children off in another day of carnage in the Channel. It comes as...

The food holiday was first celebrated in 1977, when Stan Makowski, the mayor of Buffalo, New York, declared July 29 to be National Chicken Wing Day. The origin of the chicken wing is believed to be traced back to 1964, when Teressa Bellissimo, owner of Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, created the snack for her son and his friends. At the time, chicken wings were typically used for soup stock, but she deep fried them and tossed them in butter and hot sauce.

Zohran, Tribune of the People, has at last unveiled his plan for government-owned grocery stores. The mountain has labored, and here is your mouse. At first glance, it appears to be a display program, something that will enable Mamdani to claim that he carried out his campaign promise without putting himself at political risk. Five stores scattered across the same number of boroughs, each with over a million inhabitants, is not very impressive. But whatever number -- five, five hundred, or five thousand -- the scheme suffers from a crippling flaw that has been overlooked. Ya see, New Yawk is...

Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s short stint as a faux president ended with an embarrassing acknowledgment that he could not, as promised during his campaign, arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. So, this week, Mamdani the Grocer made a reappearance, with details on the five city-run grocery stores that he will open. But rather than deliver discount groceries, Mamdani is selling New Yorkers a bill of goods that will cost them millions. What Mamdani described was a discount food bank dressed up as a grocery. Standing in front of blackboards saying “REDUCED 30%,” Mamdani sounded like a bodega hawker: “Once...

The Trump administration is ending a key health insurance subsidy program that aimed to keep premiums for seniors' prescription drug plans in check, claiming that it benefits corporate insurance companies, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz. Medicare Part D -- the government health insurance program's prescription drug benefit -- is used by tens of millions of older or disabled beneficiaries. The program's subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, the administration announced Tuesday.

SAN DIEGO (KSWB/KUSI) — A dramatic cliff-jumping rescue in the Sunset Cliffs area of San Diego is gaining attention across social media after a 17-year-old was seriously injured while attempting a jump into the ocean. But less than a day later, Nexstar’s KSWB/KUSI found more teenagers making similar dangerous jumps despite seeing the viral video. The video shows the teen jumping from the cliffs before appearing to strike the rock face on the way down and crashing into the water. Witnesses rushed into the ocean to help keep him afloat after he was unable to move on his own. San...

President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are outraged after Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment before a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Fauci declined to answer questions from senators in a GOP-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci first led the pandemic response during Trump’s administration and later under former President Joe Biden. He has been the target of MAGA’s ire for months, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) leading the charge against him. Paul was prepared to grill Fauci over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including asking questions about the origin of the virus and...

Why are so many Democrat officials caught up in deliberate crimes? Dylan Adams was famously caught on camera keying Teslas across the Twin Cities in early 2025. He damaged six of them to the tune of over $21,000. He admitted to investigators that his crime spree was motivated by his hatred for Elon Musk. Yet “Scary” Mary Moriarty, Hennepin County Attorney, declined to file criminal charges against Adams, who is, wait for it, a fiscal policy analyst with the Minnesota Department of Human Services under Gov. “Tampon” Timmy Walz. Adams ended up serving a one-day suspension. Probably got some shopping...

President Donald Trump raged to Fox News’s Trey Yingst about Tuesday night’s surprise attack by Iran on U.S. troops in Jordan, telling him “we are going to beat the ------- ---- out of them.” Yingst, Fox’s chief foreign correspondent, reported on Trump’s comments while joining Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning and noted that Trump added, “We’ll be hitting them hard.” “Yeah, guys, good morning. President Trump reacting to that Iranian attack on U.S. forces overnight in Jordan. President Trump tells Fox News about Iran: ‘We are going to beat the ------- ---- out of them.’ He went on to...

A new analysis reveals that the artificial intelligence company’s most powerful models spent days probing the open internet before breaching AI developer platform Hugging Face. ====================================================================== The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached. Separately, a second AI company confirmed that one of its customers was also targeted by OpenAI’s models during the same event, raising questions about how OpenAI failed to detect the alarming activity...