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A surrogate mother in the U.S. who thought she was helping an infertile couple have children was horrified to find out her baby had been sold as part of an international baby trafficking scam. Key Takeaways: * Carole-Anne Kelly (a pseudonym) was sent the profile of an infertile couple by her surrogacy agency. * Kelly agreed to work with them and carry their baby, and successfully gave birth. * She later found out that her baby was not biologically related to the couple she was hired to be a surrogate for. * The baby was sold for $100,000 to a...

Benjamin Turland lost both of his grandmothers to Canada's legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide program, known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). While much has been shared about the devastating numbers of Canadians who are dying through the program, less has been shared about the lasting impact those deaths have on the family members left behind. Key Takeaways: * Benjamin Turland said that losing both his grandmothers to MAiD "wrecked" him, and caused lasting trauma. * He explained the difference between watching a loved one die naturally and watching one choose death — and how it affects those left behind....

Voters who are 65 or older are especially passionate about health care – nearly all say access to quality, affordable health care is important to their vote (97%). Nine in 10 voters ages 50 to 64 say the same (90%). Eighty-three percent of voters 50 to 64 and 92% of likely voters 65 and older say a candidate’s stance on improving the response plan for natural disasters is important to their vote. The state’s youngest and oldest voters consider a candidate’s position on housing affordability more important to their vote than those in between. Ninety-two percent of voters ages 18...

A cure for baldness could be on the horizon. Researchers from Taiwan University say they have discovered a serum that could potentially regrow hair in just 20 days. The study, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, showed that fat cells under the skin can restart hair growth. The researchers used mouse skin samples to monitor changes to the fat tissue under the skin, as well as to the hair follicles and the cells that help hair grow, after they caused small injuries to trigger certain reactions, according to a press release. After skin injury, fat cells began breaking down stored...

Williamsport, Pa., is known as the place 12-year-olds make their sports dreams come true at the Little League World Series. This fall, it is also serving the same purpose for a 58-year-old man. Tom Cillo, a Williamsport, Pa., native, is playing defensive line for local Division III Lycoming College and is the oldest active player on a college football roster. Cillo has long been a fixture in the community, and in his late 50s, he decided to finally chase a lifelong dream of playing college football. The Sporting News spoke with Cillo, along with his coaches and friends, to learn...

After taking the helm at New York’s financially troubled Nassau University Medical Center late last year, Megan C. Ryan stumbled upon something baffling in the books: a two-decade-long series of transactions engineered by New York State that may have shortchanged the hospital by a staggering $1 billion in matching funds. As a hospital primarily serving patients on Medicare, Medicaid, or who are uninsured, the medical center qualified for federal matching grants tied to state contributions. Ryan’s discovery indicated that the state was having the medical center itself post its share of the match – for around 20 years at $50...

Semi-artificial organic photocathode in operation. Credit: Celine Yeung Researchers at Cambridge have developed a solar-powered device that imitates photosynthesis to turn CO2, sunlight, and water into valuable chemical fuels. Their non-toxic “semi-artificial leaf” can run continuously and efficiently, producing pharmaceutical compounds with high purity. The discovery could help replace fossil fuels in chemical manufacturing and spark a new era of green chemistry. Sustainable Chemistry Breakthrough Scientists have found a sustainable new method for producing the essential chemicals that make up thousands of products we use every day, including plastics and cosmetics. The global chemical industry manufactures an enormous range of...

Key Points Yum Brands will explore strategic options for Pizza Hut, which has struggled in recent years. Potential outcomes could include an outright divestiture, selling a stake in the chain or a joint venture. The chain’s share of the U.S. pizza market has shrunk from 22.6% in 2019 to 18.7% in 2024, according to Barclays. =============================================================== Yum Brands on Tuesday announced it will explore strategic options for Pizza Hut. “The Pizza Hut team has been working hard to address business and category challenges; however, Pizza Hut’s performance indicates the need to take additional action to help the brand realize its...

While the shutdown is needless, the Democrats are right to be concerned about healthcare cost coverage. MEDICAID EXPANSION FAIRNESS What I’m thinking of is to slightly and generally increase the state Medicaid expansion share to 5% plus the highest rate of state income tax. That would make Medicaid expansion cheaper for no income tax red states like Florida and Texas, and fairer. Right now, California pays for Medicaid expansion at 10% and rakes in 13% income tax from doctors. To help finance likely Medicaid expansion to states like Texas and Florida, the state Medicaid shares (traditional & expansion) would increase...

In an ongoing lawsuit filed by the state of California’s attorney general against two pro-life organizations for promoting abortion pill reversal (APR), an Illinois judge Oct. 29 ordered the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) to release communications with state personnel regarding APR. Seventh Circuit Court Judge Jack Davis of Sangamon County Oct. 29 ordered ACOG to comply with a subpoena requested by the pro-life defendants, Heartbeat International, and RealOptions. California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit in 2023 against the defendants on behalf of the state, alleging that the pro-life groups “engaged in false advertising and deceptive...

An absolutely incredible moment you have to see from heroic Florida Sheriff Deputies who rescued a 7-year old child who was being strangled by an armed criminal. They could not have handled this any better than they did. HUGE KUDOS to this professional team and thank you for rescuing that child!! Watch the incredible moment right here: VIDEO AT LINK.................. Backup here if needed: 🚨 WOW! Heroic moment as Florida sheriff deputies in Tampa Bay EXPERTLY save a 7-year-old child from being CHOKED by an armed criminalSuspect: "You are gonna be shot!"Officer: "Let me see your hands! I will kill...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said drugmakers have recalled over 580,000 bottles of a blood pressure medication due to concerns it may include a potential carcinogen. According to CBS News, the agency said that “New Jersey-based drugmaker Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and drug distributor Amerisource Health Services issued voluntary nationwide recalls earlier this month of over half a million bottles of various strengths of prazosine capsules.” The FDA says more than 580,000 bottles of a blood pressure medication have been recalled over concerns that it may contain a cancer-causing chemical. https://t.co/bDF57lel3N— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 31, 2025CBS News shared more:...

As many people have pointed out, it's basically the case that we don't actually like the taste of "fish." After all, one of the worst things you can say about a food — particularly fish! — is that it smells or tastes "fishy." So you can imagine how difficult it was for this Portuguese family when their son started smelling, well, exactly like that. Via Live Science: Shortly after eating different types of fish, the child would develop an odor of rotting fish emanating from his body. The smell was noxious and powerful, especially around his head and hands. He...

““New Colorado clinic offers third-trimester abortions for ‘any reason you have‘” The clinic is called the RISE Collective, RISE stands for “Reproductive Health, Inclusive Care, Support and Empowerment.” (Video also available on Substack, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.) Colorado was already infamous for being one of the few states, a least for a while, that had a late-term abortion clinic, or as they put it, “a historic legacy of all-trimester abortion care.” But then Dr. Warren Hern, who’s in his late eighties, retired earlier this year and their clinic closed. So for at least a few months Colorado wasn’t aborting any...

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The former CEO of Evolve Bank sought sex from someone he thought was a 15-year-old boy whom he met on Grindr, according to court documents submitted by an FBI agent. The FBI agent said that they signed onto Grindr on October 19, 2025, and pretended to be a 15-year-old boy. They said they received a message from someone on Grindr going by the name "Tomm." That user asked the agent, pretending to be a 15-year-old boy, "Hey any chance u would hu with an older and chill guy?" according to the agent. Authorities later identified "Tomm" as...

One woman has found a solution to having her Government Cheese cut off…. She’ll just start eating the White People! And honestly I don’t think she’s joking…. Watch here: DEMENTED: Black Woman Says She's Going To Start EATING White People VIDEO AT LINK................. TRANSCRIPT: I just wanted to come real fast just to make this video, just to make something very, very clear to the White man. Black Americans do not care about your government shutdown, and Black Americans do not care about you taking away our EBT and our government assistance, because Black Americans never depended on the American...

Former CIA Director John Brennan snapped at a man who confronted him for signing the infamous letter in 2020 that claimed the bombshell Hunter Biden email scandal exposed by The Post had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Brennan, 70, grew visibly incensed and angrily got in the face of the man who pressed about the letter, poking him on the chest repeatedly before backing off. “You misrepresented that,” Brennan shouted at conservative national security consultant Thomas Speciale during the tense clash. “We never said it was disinformation; we said it was Russian influence operations, which is...

Even persons familiar with RFK Jr.’s damning statistics about American health might be surprised by the information contained in Del Bigtree’s new documentary An Inconvenient Study — a film that also depicts with gut-wrenching impact the human misery represented by those numbers thanks to the cowardice, greed, arrogance, and power of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. The film’s Emmy Award–winning producer has been a medical journalist for two decades, first at CBS and later as host of the High Wire internet show. Bigtree’s prior documentary, Vaxxed (2015), brought him to national attention when the film, which had been touted by...

I do believe that the climate alarmists have reached the "depression" stage of grief, where they're beginning to realize that the hysteria they've built their lives around is actually rather meaningless. Popular Mechanics reports: The ocean is humanity's greatest ally in the fight against anthropogenic climate change. According to the United Nations, the world's oceans produce 50 percent of the oxygen we breathe, absorb around 30 percent of atmospheric carbon, and capture 90 percent of the excess heat produced by greenhouse emissions. Without the ocean, we'd be well and truly cooked. However, the ocean's role as a carbon sink is...