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Michelle Obama says fears about the 2024 White House race keep her up at night. “I am terrified about what could possibly happen,” Obama said of this year’s presidential election in an interview on Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast, released Monday. “Because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit — it affects us in ways that sometimes I think people take for granted,” the former first lady said when asked to name some of her biggest fears keeping her awake at nighttime. “The fact that people think that government, does it really...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging vaccinated Americans to “help” unvaccinated friends and family members who have questions about the vaccine, urging them to address “misinformation” and ultimately calling on them to identify the root of their concerns and “help make their vaccination happen.”“The amount of information—and misinformation—about #COVID19 vaccines can be overwhelming. Help friends and family who have questions about the vaccines by listening to their concerns without judgment and identifying the root of their concerns,” the CDC said in a Wednesday tweet, accompanied by a guide on how to have these discussions with...

When did it become acceptable for everyone to bring their Stew Pet dogs to the mall? I just wanted some vegetables and chicken for dinner so I stopped at our mega mall here in San Jose and grabbed my chow at Sarko. Yum So, I am sitting there taking my first sip of my Diet Coke and I start to hear the whining of a little dog. Concerned, I look around and don't see it. Then this lady walks past me and she has two dinky dogs on a leash. I probably know the breed but, whatever. The dinky dork...

PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES SALE OF CALIFORNIA TO MEXICO WASHINGTON (AP) –23 June 2017 President Trump disclosed that he has reached an agreement with Enrique Pena Nieto, President of Mexico, which provides for the sale of substantially all of the State of California to the country of Mexico. President Trump noted that this deal, which he claims “is his largest real estate deal ever” is a win-win for everyone involved. One of the benefits he says he will highlight during a prime time address from the oval office later this evening, will include using the proceeds received by the US from...

With the Federal Reserve printing trillions upon trillions of dollars to keep the economic system afloat, many investors and financial pundits have surmised that the fundamental economic problems facing the United States during the crash of 2008 have been resolved. Stocks are, after all, at historic highs. But the insiders know different. And if there’s any single person out there who understands U.S. monetary policy and its long-term effects on domestic and global affairs it’s former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. As the head of the world’s most powerful central bank for nearly two decades he’s privy to the insider...

North Korea could carry out an underground test of a nuclear weapon as early as Tuesday night as the North's reclusive leadership dramatically tries to up the stakes with the U.S. and the West, U.S. officials told NBC News. U.S. officials say North Korea may already have an arsenal between 12 and a "few dozen" far more advanced weapons, many more than generally believed.

In this archival video from Free To Choose Network, Milton Friedman explains why he believes people allow their liberties to be eroded. The question -- and Friedman's answer -- could have come up today. This video was taken at Cornell University in around 1978.

by 2nd Lt. Bryon McGarry 354th Fighter Wing Public Affairs 1/19/2007 - EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AFNEWS) -- The "Iceman Team" recently accomplished an enormous undertaking the Air Force way -- Airmen taking care of Airmen. Following the end of its 20-year Sprucewood Homes development lease in August, Eielson leaders made the difficult decision to relocate 241 families on very short notice. "Following unresolved negotiations with the Sprucewood Homes development ownership to continue our lease, we had to move quickly to make sure our families were taken care of before the lowest winter temperatures hit," said Brig. Gen. Dave Scott, 354th Fighter Wing...

The federal government has mapped out a few places that could be targets for a major terrorist attack. NORAD, in Colorado Springs, Colo., for one. The West Wing of the White House. Or another New York City landmark. But the director of an organization that analyzes the country's level of disaster response offers up one more — Tucson's elementary schools. In his new book "Americans at Risk," Irwin Redlener blasts what he calls a slow emergency response by the government to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and last year's Hurricane Katrina. He lists five worst-case scenarios to further illustrate...

In a city haunted by Katrina, the question is: Will it happen again? By Francis Harris in New Orleans (Filed: 13/05/2006) Hurricane season is approaching New Orleans like a recurring nightmare. Very soon, the great storms which brew in the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters will once again race landwards and attack the city's protective levees. Meteorologists are predicting an "active" six month season. It is a frightening prospect for a city still punch-drunk from last year's flooding. The authorities are making a huge effort to shore up the system. Across the semi-deserted metropolis, engineers are working day and night...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2006 – The Air Force's aeromedical evacuation system is unlike any system that's ever been fielded and has contributed greatly to the joint service team, the Air Force surgeon general said here today. Since the war on terror began, the Air Force has moved more than 31,000 patients back to the U.S. for treatment and has saved countless lives, Air Force Lt. Gen. (Dr.) George Peach Taylor Jr. said at the State of the Military Health System 2006 Annual Conference. "When you couple an expeditionary medical team with a great air evacuation system, miracles can happen," he...

SACRAMENTO – In his strongest terms yet, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would call a special election this fall "no matter what," saying the magnitude of the changes he is seeking are almost certain to require voter approval. "We are going to call the special election no matter what. I can guarantee you that," Schwarzenegger said on KFBK-AM in Sacramento. " . . . I cannot think of a compromise that I can come up with that will make us happy because in order to change the budget one has to literally have the vote of the people. In order...

Newt Gingrich is back. Is failure never permanent? The former House speaker resigned from Congress in 1998 after the GOP lost five House seats in midterm elections, a crushing rarity for any party that is not in control of the presidency. As it turned out, he was also having a long, secret extramarital affair with a much younger aide even as he voted to impeach President Clinton. And some fishy political funding of his lecture series had cost him a $300,000 ethics violation fine in 1997.

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'We know something will happen again - and soon' By Damien McElroy in Riyadh and David Wastell (Filed: 13/06/2004) The white saloon, its boot wide open, sits on a Riyadh highway in front of an American-owned hotel for two days. The hotel security staff gaze at it but take no action. The occupants of a police car drive by and ignore it. In a city where nerves are on edge, it is a frightening spectacle - a suspect vehicle that the security forces haven't towed away. It confirms the fear of expatriates that Saudi security remains too lax to cope...

If Iraq attacks Israel in response to a U.S. assault, Israel's citizens will not be expected to sit in sealed rooms or shelters on and off for weeks, as they did in the previous war in the Gulf in 1991. This time, the defense establishment is determined not to have a repeat scenario of the Gulf War. "What happened last time will not happen again," the heads of the defense establishment stress. At the most, IDF officers predict, the authorities will declare an emergency situation for a few days, after which the United States will eliminate the missile threat from...

What was the spark that set off the rumors about a massacre in Jenin's refugee camp? It's been weeks since the controversy broke out during the hard battle the IDF conducted there during Operation Defensive Shield, and now two stories have come up that might be able to shed some light on how the rumors spread. At one point in the fighting, the army used loudspeakers calling on all the men between the ages of 16 and 50 to turn themselves in. Many came out and were sent to Kafr Salem for questioning. Some of those questioned were sent for...