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Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, is one of the most lethal infections in the world. Scientists at UC San Diego have isolated a molecule that could help us fight back. Credit iStock/Gilnature. =================================================================== Key Takeaways Brain-eating amoeba (primary amoebic meningoencephalitis) is nearly always fatal and progresses so rapidly that current treatments are often too slow or too toxic to be effective. UC San Diego researchers discovered a marine-derived molecule that kills the parasite faster and more selectively than current treatments. Findings could lay the foundation for future treatments that fundamentally improve survival rates, especially when combined with existing therapies. =======================================================================...

Well, would you look at this… A new group of former federal prosecutors and so-called “human rights” activists has decided that America’s Justice Department isn’t doing its job, so they’re going to step in and start building criminal cases against government officials themselves. And as you’d expect, they’re funded like a well-oiled left-wing machine. And guess who’s high on their list of targets… ICE agents, of course. The organization calls itself the “Rule of Law Project,” and it’s promising to investigate alleged corruption and misconduct that it claims President Trump’s Justice Department has been ignoring. Sounds awfully official, doesn’t it?...

A history refresh and if-then logic to counter the demoralization campaigns on the upcoming midterm elections. The struggle sessions will continue until morale improves. After a year of infighting within the right in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, we cannot allow history to repeat with the CCCP and the CCP. The Bolsheviks under Lenin destroyed the White Russians under Pyotr Wrangel because they were unified and their opposition was not. The Communists under Mao destroyed the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek because they were unified and their opposition was not. Will America share the same fate? Demoralization campaigns have intensified...

[Catholic Caucus] James Martin’s ‘ministry’ posts ‘LGBTQ confiteor’ calling on ‘queer saints’ A lesbian’s blasphemous, pro-LGBT rendition of the Confiteor, posted on Fr. James Martin’s website, diminishes sin and invokes ‘spiritual ancestors.’An essay published on Father James Martin’s heterodox Outreach site includes an “LGBTQ Confiteor” that blasphemously invokes “queer saints.”In her October 25 essay for Outreach entitled “An LGBTQ Catholic guide to the Mass: Praying the Confiteor,” Ariell Watson Simon, a woman who is “married” to another woman, discusses her experiences praying the Confiteor at Mass and claims that the faithful overly focus on sexual sin.At the end of her...

American who lives and grew up in Los Angeles just took a 5 day trip Miami, Florida She says she can’t believe how clean it is there, how there are no homeless and how much less expensive it is “I didn't realize just how dirty and gross and expensive LA actually is just because I'm used to it. I live here, I live in it. I saw 2 unhoused people the entire time I was in Miami. The whole week I saw 2 unhoused people, and we went to a bunch of different parts in Miami. And the cost of...

After preparing five victims of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre for burial, members of Pittsburgh’s New Community Chevra Kadisha stood in a circle and held hands. They had gathered like this before, taking a moment after their work to process what they had done. This time, they were caring for people murdered in their own community. Volunteers from outside Pittsburgh had come to help. David Zimmer, a longtime member, remembered one visitor bringing a custom from another chevra kadisha. “He passed around a piece of chocolate,” Zimmer recalled, “so that there should be something sweet.” Eight years later, NCCK...

You’re arguing with psychosis. They’re screaming about things that aren’t there. The first task of defeating political opponents is to understand who they are. What is it that Democrats think they’re doing? And what they think they’re doing in 2026 amounts to a relentless ritual hallucination in the service of an institutional status quo. They’re making up a fake world in their heads to protect their paychecks: in media, in academia, in government, in the results-not-required world of the nonprofit organization. If you doubt that, go read the opinion pages of The New York Times, the agenda-setting newsletter of the...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is a premier member of the leftist establishment, and so she is unlikely to suffer any serious penalties for her misdeeds, but the evidence for those misdeeds is piling ever higher. Omar has not handled this very well, responding “Not to my knowledge” when asked if she actually married her brother in order to commit immigration fraud and playing her torn and frayed “racism” and “Islamophobia” cards against other allegations, and now she has gone even farther in her efforts to project a serene and untroubled business-as-usual front. This time, however, her gambit could easily backfire....

President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to ban the term “artificial intelligence” after lashing out at The Wall Street Journal in a Truth Social post. Trump posted to his social media platform complaining that the the news organization had yet to adopt his preferred term, “super intelligence:” When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be. In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, “AI/Artificial Intelligence,” in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its...

In the 2011 film Moneyball, Brad Pitt portrays Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, who listens as his scouts enthusiastically praise an up-and-coming baseball player. Beane, unimpressed, asks a simple question. “If he’s a good hitter, why doesn’t he hit good?” This question should be asked about America’s elite universities, particularly in light of the ongoing Cornell Seven controversy. If these institutions are, as some describe them, bastions of rape culture, misogyny, and the institutional protection of sexual predators, why do so many young women desperately want to attend them? And why are their parents willing to spend or borrow...

LOLOLOLOLOL. We really love Abdul El-Sayed ... Jewish safety depends on a real multiracial democracy. This is a major belief of the Left. They think that allowing one people group to be the majority will lead to racism, which will lead to racial nationalism, which will lead to Hitler. Everyone must therefore be crammed into the same geographic area, ethnic tensions and all, in order to guarantee mutually assured destruction. This man wants to live in a country where, ... the majority can't just decide that the minority doesn't deserve the same freedoms. What's funny is that he's describing a...

‘The person they picked on was about as vulnerable as they come’ ↗ Dementia patient kidnapped so investors could steal his home, authorities sayDementia patient kidnapped so investors could steal his home, authorities say HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Two real estate investors, plus a realtor and a notary, are all accused in a scheme to defraud a dementia patient out of his Hollywood home. Investigators said the realtor kidnapped the victim and dumped him in Miami Gardens as part of the scam. Leer en español According to a news release from the office of Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar, the...

BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly FLED Brazil in anticipation of communist dictator Lula persecuting him after the outcome of the rigged election He crossed the border into Argentina and took a private flight to the US. Democracy is dead.

UPDATE (Oct. 21): Mobile Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis said the city scam that led to the transfer of $15 million to a “fraudulent entity” involved the new Regions Arena. PREVIOUS REPORTING MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile transferred $14.7 million to a ‘fraudulent entity’ after it was the target of a criminal scam. According to a city news release, the city has notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service. “We are cooperating fully with investigators and taking every available step to recover the funds and bring the responsible party to justice,” the release read. City officials...

Federal authorities arrested six people associated with Community Home Health Care on fraud charges following a federal grand jury indictment, months after The Maine Wire visited the company’s South Portland office and the state suspended its ability to bill MaineCare. “Today’s arrests have dismantled an elaborate alleged fraud ring dedicated to fleecing a system meant to help those in need. Instead of taxpayer funds paying for the care of our friends and neighbors, these six individuals are accused of fabricating services and pocketing the money to enrich themselves,” said Homeland Security Investigations acting Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Grimming. A...

The shift to the right across South America has been stopped. One of President Trump’s key regional allies has been defeated. The global left, and most of the centre, has been celebrating the victory of President Lula over Flávio Bolsonaro in a closely fought election this weekend. There is just one problem. As the brutal sell-off of financial assets demonstrated, Brazil has also voted for economic chaos. That rarely ends well. While the left were toasting victory on Monday morning, investors were furiously dumping Brazilian equities and, more importantly, debt. On Monday the Bovespa – Brazil’s main stock market index...

A nonprofit daycare that claims to have “over 40 locations” across California and received an $18.2 million award “for more [than] 1,048 children in at-risk" communities” actually has just one facility providing care for no more than six children, an investigation by The Center Square found. The William Law Foundation did not open its first daycare until October 2026, according to Executive Director William Edwards — more than three years after the nonprofit was awarded $18,216,131 through the California Department of Social Services’ 2022-23 General Child Care and Development Program grants. "It's been a slow start," Edwards conceded to The...

Initial finding: Catholic Charities USA's national finances warrant detailed examination, particularly its program expenses, federal grants, transfers to other organizations, and financial disclosures.

Leftist gaming site commentator Hasan Piker and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., met up in Minnesota to cohost a campaign event on Monday night, bashing President Donald Trump's administration as well as Democrats who are willing to work with him. Piker, who streams his commentary on Twitch, called Republicans "terrorists" during the event, and Omar referred to the party as the "pedophile protection party." They made the comments during a Q&A session led by failed Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh. "Trump's obsession with us started in 2016, when he arrived at the airport and begged for our vote. We said, no...

A Chicago man has been put in the slammer for two years for conducting a fake robbery scheme to help noncitizens obtain U-visas, which can be offered to those in the US if they are victims of specific types of crimes. Parth Nayi, 29, of Woodridge, has been sentenced for organizing hundreds of these fraudulent robberies between 2022 and 2024, and was found out after one of them took a turn for the worse, and a "suspect" accidentally shot a store clerk in the abdomen, critically injuring the victim. Nayi recruited people to pose as "victims," would pay the store...