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Four people are dead and ten are injured after a horror shooting broke out at a banquet hall in Stockton, California at 6pm PST. The incident happened close to a Dairy Queen at a children's birthday party on Saturday night. San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Heather Brent called the incident 'unfathomable' and said: 'Early indications suggest this may be a targeted incident.' The shooter is still at large and Brent added: 'Our number one priority is identifying a suspect. 'This is a very active and ongoing investigation, information remains very limited at this time.' She said that the victims'...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born in her native habitat and was estimated to be about 141 years old, zoo officials said. She died Nov. 20. It's not clear exactly when the tortoise arrived at the San Diego Zoo, but zoo officials said she came from the Bronx Zoo in either 1928 or 1931 as part of their first group of Galapagos tortoises. As the world changed around her, she delighted visitors...

Charging documents alleged that on November 11 and 12, Caines committed three similar attacks in the area, spitting directly into the faces of unsuspecting women at close range, according to The Post. 'It felt targeted, even though I don’t know who he is. For some reason, I was the chosen victim.

I was not sure what to expect when I first interviewed Shannon Pinkerton, but I knew I was in for an epic conversation about adoption, Down syndrome, and what it means to be a family. Shannon (49) and Troy (53) Pinkerton are raising six adopted young men with a learning disability on forty acres in Wyoming, U.S.A. Five of them have Down syndrome, and one has dwarfism and other special needs. They also look after Marybeth, 63, who has Down syndrome. I interviewed Shannon over two phone calls. The second call occurred during a bout with a stomach bug. All...

In November, the Chinese startup Lonvi Biosciences announced the development of anti-aging pills that it said would allow people to live to 150. The remarks by company head Liu Qinghua came a few weeks after an infamous conversation in which the leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea were overheard talking about precisely that subject. “Forecasts show that there is a chance to live to 150 in this century,” Xi Jinping said at the end of a chat that, it turned out, was being recorded from the Chinese side. Over the past decade, scientists have indeed made significant progress in...

Drinking a maximum of 3–4 cups of coffee a day may slow the "biological" aging of people with severe mental illness, by lengthening their telomeres—indicators of cellular aging—and giving them the equivalent of 5 extra biological years, compared with non-coffee drinkers, finds research. But no such effects were observed beyond this quota. Telomeres sit at the end of chromosomes and perform a role similar to the plastic tips on the end of shoelaces. Telomeres are sensitive to environmental factors, including, possibly, diet. They included 436 adult participants from the Norwegian Thematically Organized Psychosis (TOP) study, recruited between 2007 and 2018:...

….How Are the 15 Best Diamond-Selling Hard Rock and Metal Albums Certified?We've ranked these 15 albums in terms of quality, but we've also included the certified sales for each one. Those stats came directly from the Recording Industry Association of America's website.While some albums — such as Metallica's Black Album — were re-certified as recently as 2025, others — such as ZZ Top's Eliminator — haven't been re-certified in decades. That means some of the albums on this list have sold more — possibly millions more — copies than their certifications indicate. Nevertheless, in the interest of fairness and accuracy,...

Rosie O'Donnell has claimed her autistic child is lashing out at Donald Trump for supposedly forcing them to leave the US. The diehard liberal actress and comedian has been living in Ireland in 'self-imposed exile' after Trump's landslide electoral victory over former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. 'My daughter is now saying, "Damn him. Damn Trump" and smashing her hand on the table,' O'Donnell said on Friday's edition of the Jim Acosta Show. As she motioned a fist furiously slamming down, O'Donnell added: 'And she said, !He made us move in order for our own safety. And it's now,...

Chicago Public Schools are now allowing illegal immigrant students to miss class if they or their parents fear being targeted by immigration enforcement. An internal document obtained by education watchdog Defending Education states that students without legal status can be marked as 'excused' if a parent tells the school they are afraid of federal immigration authorities. 'If a parent/guardian reports an absence and attributes it to fear of federal representative-related procedures, schools CAN excuse the absence under “concern for student health and safety,"' the policy states. 'Additional information should not be provided in the memo box to respect student/family confidentiality.'...

Pete Hegseth has done an admirable job, restoring standards and respect for the US military after Democrats had been reducing it to a social engineering lab focused on promoting DEI and sexual psychosis. For this, the liberal establishment punishes him: Comedy Central animated series South Park took aim at President Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Wednesday, calling him a “douchebag,” in an episode that aired on the same day that two National Guard members were gunned down by a radicalized Afghan migrant in Washington D.C. Other liberals actually blame Hegseth for this act of terror. The cartoon characterizes...

On Thursday, I wrote that leftist judges on the bench are creating a form of tyranny, for they have arrogated to themselves the constitutional power of the Executive branch of government. There is no more balance. According to the Democrat appointees on the bench, none of Trump’s actions are solely within the discretion of the democratically elected chief executive. Instead, all are subject to judicial review and approval. The day after I wrote that essay, Trump issued a statement via Truth Social voiding every document that was signed with an Autopen during Joe Biden’s presidency and threatening Biden along the...

Researchers report that lower plasma LDL cholesterol is associated with a higher risk of incident type 2 diabetes in adults followed in primary care, independent of statin use. In the study, investigators asked whether plasma LDL-C predicted incident type 2 diabetes during long follow-up and examined whether statin therapy altered that relationship. A cooperative of 140 general practitioners provided the data collection. Each doctor contributes to a shared electronic medical record that follows patients across visits. More than 200,000 adults appear in the system, with age and geographic distributions that naturally mirror the city of Naples. Slightly more than half...

A favorite leftist trope is that if wimmin ruled the world, whirled peas would abound. Well, we're seeing how stupid that idea is in real time as the claque ruling and ruining Venezuela gets a good look under the hood. According to El Mundo of Spain, which has a click-on English translation, Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, pretends to be a sweet little doting grandmother who lives to support her Maduro, writing: But don't be fooled: Cilia Flores is not the sweet 69-year-old grandmother (six years older than Maduro) who participates in Bolivarian feats and in the television marathons of the...

Weather forecasts are calculated by computer models (or dynamical models) that describe the evolution of the real atmosphere using mathematical equations.

In yet another shocking example of radical left ideology infiltrating public schools, a “non-binary” Baltimore high school English teacher has come under intense fire for sharing explicit kink-related content on social media, including videos where he role-plays as a pregnant woman with enormous prosthetic breasts. James Roman Stilipec, 50, who goes by “Jay Aress” online and teaches ninth-grade students at Reach! Partnership School, has been blasted by parents and conservative groups for flaunting his fetishes publicly, raising serious questions about his fitness to be around impressionable teens. Stilipec, a former U.S. Navy veteran with 36DDD breast implants he proudly calls...

The next time you notice a pigeon acting suspiciously, you may need to notify the authorities, as news broke this week that Russia had launched a flock of remote-controlled cyborg spy pigeons. Putin scientists unveil 'spy pigeons fitted with brain implants and cameras that can be controlled like drones' https://t.co/t1lUBm1zAf— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) November 27, 2025This confirms what many had long feared: the pigeons cannot be trusted. As reported by the Daily Mail: A state-linked Moscow neurotechnology firm boasts its operators can steer flocks of the flying pests across the sky at will. Researchers have launched field tests of so-called...

This is actually amazing. In a time of team sport politics and polarization, it takes an actual observer of sports to see through the nonsense. And Stephen A. Smith didn't disappoint in his analysis of Mark Kelly and the Seditious Six. [Language] 🚨NEW: Stephen A. Smith *GOES NUCLEAR* on Mark Kelly for telling military to disobey TRUMP🚨"How dare you do that!? I'm not a military person and I know better than that! You don't tell military men and women to ignore an order from the commander-in-chief! You don't do that!"… pic.twitter.com/gQgQeNiJGg— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 27, 2025What the hell...

A bar in Idaho is offering to give out free beer for a month to those who help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identify and deport illegal immigrants. The bar, Old State Saloon, has made headlines before when it declared June "Heterosexual Awareness Month." The bar posted to X, "ALERT: Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!" The post, which has gone viral on the social media platform, also caught the attention of the Department of Homeland Security, which posted a dinosaur dropping a cup...

If you doubt that the Democratic Party is hostile to the USA, consider this: Nearly half of all households with noncitizen parents are accessing federal benefits, a category that includes both legal and illegal immigrants. The Trump administration is trying to end these programs, but Democrats are pushing back. Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and Washington, D.C., have filed a federal lawsuit challenging new USDA guidance that they say unlawfully restricts legal immigrants’ access to SNAP benefits. That is, the Democrats ruling these states want to overrule the president so as to enslave US taxpayers to foreigners, a high...

Hay fever, also known as allergic rhinitis, is the condition responsible for seasonal allergies or allergic reactions to other environmental allergens. A new study describes a large-scale survey of hay fever sufferers, comparing those who use eye washing as a preventative measure. The study reports that those using eyewash experience improved symptoms. While eyewashes containing benzalkonium chloride as a preservative have been shown to exacerbate certain eye diseases, a preservative-free eyewash has a generally good safety profile and is endorsed for reducing symptoms of allergic conjunctival diseases. However, robust research was lacking on the use of eyewash for hay fever....