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Americans spend billions of dollars every year on dietary supplements that claim to promote almost every aspect of our health. But how much do you know about the supplements you’re taking? A recent government study found that nearly 60 percent of adults take vitamins, minerals, fish oil, herbal capsules, melatonin, probiotics and other types of dietary supplements.

CNN analyst Van Jones suggested Monday that President Biden push back against concerns around his age in this week’s State of The Union address by emphasizing that a “good grandpa” is better than “a bad grandpa.” “Unfortunately he cannot get any younger, so there’s not much they can do about it. He has a chance this week though, to remind people sometimes having a good grandpa on the case is better than having a bad grandpa on the case,” Jones said of the president during an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. “And that’s really … he’s got to lean...

This is a broadcast clip on the 11 worst airports in America according to a Wall Street Journal survey. Here they are from worst to 11st worst:NewarkNew York JFKDallas-Ft. WorthOrlandoFt. LauderdaleNew York LaGuardiaMiamiSan Juan, Puerto RicoDenver and Charlotte (tied)11. Chicago ORD

On Oct. 17, 1974, forty-nine years ago today, President Gerald Ford made an historic appearance before Congress to testify about his pardon of former President Richard Nixon, which he had issued on Sept. 8. Nixon had resigned on Aug. 9 to avoid certain impeachment and removal from office for his cover-up of the Watergate break-in and other misdeeds. As a member of the subcommittee hearing Ford’s testimony, I challenged the president about the pardon, the only one to do so, asking him about a “deal” and the suspicious way the pardon was issued. Now, nearly a half century later, I...

Two people in black wolf costumes got into an altercation in Huntington Beach on Saturday after a man who was recording them refused to leave - with some commenters suggesting that he is a scorned ex-lover of one of the participants. The incident, which was caught on video, happened at a Sunset Beach Bonfire 'furmeet' where hundreds of Furries were out in full force. It appeared to start after a man was filming the group and had his phone in the face of one member who warned him to leave. The man in the furry costume then struck him in...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden ominously called China a “ticking time bomb,” warning “bad folks” can “do bad things,” according to a pool report of the Thursday fundraiser. The full context of Biden’s menacing forecast was not clear, though the pool report said he noted China’s high unemployment and aging population. “When bad folks have problems, they do bad things,” Biden said at the Park City, Utah, home of Mark Gilbert, a former US ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. The 80-year-old president also said he wanted to have a “rational relationship with China,” declaring “I don’t want to hurt...

On Thursday’s “Pod Save America” podcast, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that people in the middle class “doubt” whether they have a future and that people have negative views of the economy because “people look at the economy six months ago” and it’s “still in their heads today.” Schumer said the messaging strategy for Democrats on the economy is “to focus on what we’re doing. The two things people want the most, our data shows, are, get my costs down. They know that wages are going up. But when the costs go up and eat up the...

MSNBC host Joy Reid garnered backlash after she claimed that members of the Republican Party are no longer allowed to say that slavery was terrible. On Thursday, Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis swiped at Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., continuing to defend the state's new school history curriculum. DeSantis' comments came after Donalds took issue with one of the lines from the new state standards, arguing "the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted." He called the rest of the standards "good, robust and accurate."

NASHVILLE, TN — Early reports from Nashville's CMT awards are confirming that against all odds, country music has managed to somehow get even worse."We're as shocked as you are," said local music critic Bubba Bordeaux. "We really didn't think it could get any more awful than this, but once again, Nashville managed to shatter our expectations with how audaciously bad their music can be! How do they do it year after year? Amazing!"Experts say that after over a decade of looping snap tracks, breathy pop, and Taylor Swift, most believed that the genre had finally discovered its bottom, only to...

Share Tweet ... More As the new year approaches, it is time to consider how 2023 might unfold. Of course, the starting point, the contemporary context, would be the recent history of COVID lockdowns; massive government spending and inflation and constrictive energy policies driving up energy and food prices, as well as most “downstream prices,” and wiping out retirement savings; Fed strategies depressing the market; war in Ukraine threatening nuclear confrontation; China’s rising political aggression; political corruption of government institutions and apparent government-led attacks on the First Amendment, at least according to the “Twitter Files”; rising urban crime; a surge...

(NEXSTAR) – Unless you live in one of four states, the flu situation looks to be growing dire near you. Nearly every state is reporting “high” or “very high” flu activity, according to tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only four states – Alaska, Michigan, New Hampshire and Vermont – have “low” or “minimal” activity. Two more states, Hawaii and West Virginia, have a “moderate” level of influenza infections.

Happened in Paris. Lithium batteries...when they get in the 200°F-250°F range, go into a RTE (Runaway Thermal Event). When it happens, Run Away!!. This will become more common as more lithium battery EV's are on the road.

Fifty-one percent of independents say President Joe Biden’s economy is very bad, while two percent of independents said it is very good, a Wednesday Civiqs poll revealed. The Civiqs poll averaged 759,856 responses tracked between January 15, 2015 — September 20, 2020. The Civiqs tracking model captures the shifts in attitudes of various groups over time across all 50 states and Washington, DC. These changes can happen either rapidly or over time.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is now warning of a “pretty bad flu season,” urging Americans to get flu shots when they become available this year. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, is stepping down after the midterm elections and warned in an interview this week that the U.S. is expected to face a “pretty bad flu season” this year

With rising prices, escalating crime rates, and the approach of year three of a global pandemic, 7 in 10 voters think it was another bad year for the country — and over half feel it was bad for them personally. The new Fox Business survey of registered voters finds 70 percent say 2021 was a clunker for the country. While that is better than the 78 percent who felt that way about 2020, it’s still much worse than the 38 percent who called 2019 bad.

A Connecticut judge has found Infowars owner and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones liable in a defamation case brought by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. The judge in the case ruled that because Jones failed to produce documents he had been ordered to hand over by the court, including his financial records, he was liable by default, The New York Times reported on Monday. The families of 10 victims in the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school sued the far-right media personality for defamation in 2019 after he suggested on his program the assault,...

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who was blamed last year for giving former U.S. President Donald J. Trump COVID-19 appears to have caught a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) during his tenure with ABC News. Christie, since hinting he is running for President in 2024 has been fixated on his former boss since being cast off the Trump island. When asked by his ABC co-worker George George Stephanopoulos about the former President, “Is he [Trump] winning this fight?”

South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that the ban on mask mandates in schools is constitutional. https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1443607570879586307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Shocking, as in we're shocked a car company would release footage this bad. But UAE hypercar company Devel has a legit 5,000-horsepower, 12.8 liter V16 engine, multiple prototypes, and now a super-lame test video of this spectacularly audacious machine. Fifteen years later, the company is still trying to get the thing built. Perhaps that shouldn't be surprising; take a look at the promises here. The track-only top model promises more than 5,000 horsepower, with a street version not too far behind at around 3,000 ponies. This from a custom-built 12.3-liter V16 engine running four massive 81mm turbochargers. There's apparently a...

As an Indonesian navy submarine crewed by 53 men glided below the surface of the Bali Sea during a routine training exercise, it may have been hit by an invisible but powerful force that dragged them to the deep. Indonesian navy officials suspect an internal solitary wave, known to occur in the seas around Bali, may have caused the sinking of KRI Nanggala 402, and the loss of its 53 crew. The vessel sank to a depth of 838 metres, far beyond the reach of rescuers. As the personal effects of crew members floated up and the oxygen supply on...