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  • At Least 10 Prominent Athletes Dead or Struck by Anomalous Medical Emergencies in Last 21 Days

    10/21/2026 1:02:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 11 replies
    The Focal Points ^ | 10/20 | Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
    Large numbers of sports stars continue to drop like flies since the mRNA gene therapies were rolled out.Large numbers of prominent athletes continue to die unexpectedly or suffer anomalous medical emergencies since the mRNA gene therapies were rolled out. Across the NFL, NHL, NCAA football, professional rugby, women's basketball, and international hockey, athletes ranging in age from just 18 to 56 have suffered major medical events, including pulmonary emboli, cardiac arrest, an aortic dissection, an emergency heart transplant, and several deaths. In just the first 21 days of OCTOBER 2026, at least 10 cases have made headlines: Jalen Hurts, 28...
  • Settling with one hand, litigating with other: DOJ’s split approach to Camp Lejeune victims

    10/21/2026 8:45:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 9 replies
    Just the News ^ | October 20, 2026 | Ashe Short
    Trump on Tuesday night touted the amount of settlement money his administration has already provided and appeared to urge attendees to get out and vote to keep Congress in GOP control so that additional settlement money can be provided. =================================================================== The first Camp Lejeune water-contamination case will go to trial Oct. 26, with the Justice Department using a questionable expert to argue that the water didn’t cause illnesses at the military base. Meanwhile, the department under President Trump has paid over $421 million in settlements to compensate service members exposed to contaminated water and announced another $175 million in settlements...
  • Ilhan Omar's daughters show up at scene of DC raid as rumors swirl about embattled rep's whereabouts

    10/21/2026 5:45:50 AM PDT · by Libloather · 5 replies
    Fox News via NY Post ^ | 10/20/26 | Peter D'Abrosca, Hannah Brennan
    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. has not been seen in public since a pre-dawn raid of her Washington, D.C. residence last week — but Fox News Digital spotted her daughters descending on the home in recent days. Isra Hirsi pulled black sedan into the driveway of the home under the cover of darkness Saturday night and stepped out of the vehicle carrying a bag with both hands. She walked directly into the front door of the same home that was swarmed by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents a week prior. "What's your problem?" Hirsi said to Fox News Digital after getting...
  • Feds raid NYC adult day cares in sweeping probe into Medicaid fraud involving money-laundering, kickbacks

    10/20/2026 11:14:24 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/20/26 | Steven Vago, Vaughn Golden, Craig McCarthy, David DeTurris
    The feds raided at least two Brooklyn adult day cares Tuesday as part of a sweeping probe into more than 100 sites suspected of Medicaid fraud involving everything from money laundering to kickbacks, officials said. The crackdown is part of a monthslong “massive effort to combat fraud and abuse” involving taxpayer dollars and some of the state’s most vulnerable people, Gov. Kathy Hochul said. “We are targeting providers we believe who engaged in illegal activity ranging from money laundering to kickbacks to improper billing and other fraudulent activities,” Hochul said at an unrelated press conference. The probe has been investigating...
  • Christina Applegate tearfully announces she does not have MS and was 'misdiagnosed' for years

    10/20/2026 8:32:35 PM PDT · by T.B. Yoits · 68 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10/20/2026 | Eve Buckland
    Christina Applegate has revealed her doctor told her she does not have multiple sclerosis (MS) – despite battling debilitating symptoms for more than five years. Applegate, 54, who announced her diagnosis in summer of 2021, made the shock revelation on a new episode of her Messy podcast with co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler – with the pair discussing their respective battles with MS. Speaking of the moment her doctor told her, a tearful Applegate, who was recently hospitalized, said: 'She came into my room and said, "Congratulations, you don’t have MS”. 'I was, like, not happy at all. Everybody else was so...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Penal Platoon’ Hell Marines Found Themselves In After Refusing COVID Jab

    10/20/2026 7:29:09 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 33 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | October 20, 2026 | Francis Kapper - Defense Reporter
    One moment he was refusing the COVID vaccine, the next, Marine Cruz Marquis suddenly found himself placed in a “penal platoon” for his commitment to individual liberty. “This isn’t a story about me,” Marquis told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive interview. “This isn’t a story about any particular individuals who defied a government order. In my mind, this is about a slice of life, a slice of what the state was able to do and what they were able to get away with during the pandemic. This story, though it may be reported, is just the tip...
  • Minneapolis restaurant with no prices will close after years of "trying to prove" that socialism works

    10/20/2026 6:33:31 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 67 replies
    NotTheBee ^ | October 20, 2026 | Wolfgang Ramsay
    "To each according to his needs, from each according to his ability." It ends in bankruptcy every time! When immigration enforcement ramped up in Minneapolis earlier this year, owner Dylan Alverson rebranded the restaurant as "Post Modern Times." He took prices off the menu and declared he would feed anyone who walked in the door, whether they could pay or not. Well, almost anyone. Federal agents were explicitly unwelcome. The stunt made national news. Donations poured in from around the world. For six months, the restaurant operated as a pay-what-you-can (or pay-nothing-at-all) sanctuary in Minneapolis. But as it turns out,...
  • ‘Super-drug’ 10 times stronger than fentanyl linked to deaths across multiple states (cychlorphine)

    10/20/2026 6:05:16 AM PDT · by Libloather · 24 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/20/26 | Melissa Rudy
    A powerful new synthetic opioid said to be more potent than fentanyl has been linked to dozens of recent deaths in the U.S., prompting warnings from health officials. Tennessee was an early hotspot, with the state’s health department announcing in March that more than 30 fatal overdoses had been associated with cychlorphine since October 2025. An April 2026 notice from the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy cited at least 41 Tennessee deaths between July 2025 and February 2026 and at least 55 deaths nationally. Fatal overdoses have also been reported in Illinois, California and Oklahoma, according to...
  • Nurses Are in High Demand—but They’re Quitting in Droves

    10/19/2026 10:43:27 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 79 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 19, 2026 9:00 pm ET | Te-Ping Chen
    The field can command six-figure salaries, but understaffing and persistent violence are pushing nurses off the front linesPaige Campbell became a nurse during the pandemic, wanting to make a difference. She landed a job after college working in the emergency department at a Fort Walton Beach, Fla., hospital.Since then, she’s been kicked, spat on and shoved to the ground. Last year, after an emergency patient strangled her, she left for a role remotely monitoring patients. Front-line nurses are in high demand, but she needed a break. “All I could think was, ‘I can’t breathe, I’m going to die here, and...
  • Trans New York Times exec threatened to hire ‘hitman’ to ‘get rid’ of his mother-in-law before she allegedly executed him: attorney

    10/19/2026 4:31:32 PM PDT · by Libloather · 30 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/19/26 | Erica Andrews
    The transgender New York Times executive who was allegedly gunned down by his in-laws had previously threatened to hire a hitman to “get rid of” his mother-in-law, her defense attorney has claimed. Jonathan McKinsey was shot dead at Dublin Sports Grounds on Sept. 26, allegedly at the hands of his elderly in-laws, 77-year-old Shili Chen and 77-year-old Shouyong Zhang, who have been charged with murder. But their defense attorney has now revealed a potentially explosive twist in the case, claiming McKinsey previously said he was going to hire a gunman to take out Chen, according to KRON4. Curtis Briggs, who...
  • Kim Jong-un ‘in COMA after suffering brain haemorrhage’, wild rumours claim as tyrant ‘rushed to China for treatment’

    10/19/2026 4:17:49 PM PDT · by Libloather · 86 replies
    The Sun ^ | 10/19/26 | Harvey Geh
    KIM Jong-un is in a coma after suffering a brain haemorrhage, according to wild internet claims. Social media users claim the North Korean tyrant was rushed to a Chinese hospital for urgent treatment following the severe bleed. It is said he was taken out of the country due to the poor medical facilities in Pyongyang. According to online speculation, Kim was taken to the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing where he underwent emergency treatment. He was last seen touring a defence museum at an undisclosed location in Pyongyang on October 11. North Korea analyst Benedict Rogers said he expected...
  • Convicted serial rapist originally sentenced to 124 years walks free after 20, sparking outrage (California)

    10/19/2026 3:26:49 PM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/19/26 | Greg Wehner
    A California man convicted of drugging and raping three women and originally sentenced to 124 years in prison has been released after serving approximately 20 years, sparking outrage from local officials who have raised public safety concerns. Andrew Luster, the great-grandson of cosmetics mogul Max Factor, was released from state prison earlier this month and is reportedly residing in Glendora, California, according to KTLA. Glendora Mayor David Fredendall condemned the release in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, calling it unacceptable that a convicted serial rapist is now reportedly living in the community. "The City of Glendora is beyond...
  • Cattails Are Everywhere. They Produce More Flour Than Wheat. So Why Aren’t We Eating Them?

    10/19/2026 10:10:33 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 66 replies
    Intelligent Fly ^ | October 19, 2026
    You know those weird brown corndog-lookin’ things growing in ditches, ponds, and marshes all over America? The ones you’ve probably driven past a million times without giving them a second thought? Those are called cattails, and apparently, we’ve been ignoring one of nature’s most interesting food sources while spending billions of dollars growing, harvesting, and processing the foods we actually eat. Yes, I went down another rabbit hole, and found something that blew my mind… ready for this one: An acre of cattails has the potential to produce around 6,400 pounds of flour. By comparison, an acre of American wheat...
  • No, Really, Your Kids Need to Do Chores

    10/18/2026 2:21:35 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 30 replies
    ParentCo. ^ | May 17, 2024 | By Mark Oliver
    ...when it’s time to do chores around the house, I turn on Netflix, plop my son in front of the TV, and let Disney babysit for me. He is, after all, four years old.. I didn’t realize how much this was affecting him until we passed by a toy ship from his favorite show, Jake and The Neverland Pirates. “It’s The Mighty Colossus,” my son told me, not so much speaking as shrieking. “I need it!” I said no. He erupted. He couldn’t understand why we couldn’t afford to buy every toy we saw. Soon he was in tears, thrashing...
  • Obama's star power gets a reality check from Black voters in crucial Senate race: 'It's a turnoff'

    10/18/2026 12:02:44 AM PDT · by Libloather · 32 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/16/26 | Robert Schmad
    DETROIT — Former President Barack Obama’s endorsement of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is getting a mixed reception among Black voters in Detroit, with some undecided voters saying the former president's backing isn't enough to win them over. Fox News Digital spoke with more than a dozen Black voters in Detroit, most of whom said they plan to back El-Sayed in November, but several undecided voters said Obama's endorsement had not persuaded them to support the Democrat. The reactions come as Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers seeks to win over disaffected Democrats, including Black voters in Detroit, a key...
  • Is Parkinson’s Disease a Man-Made Epidemic?

    10/17/2026 7:55:48 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 10/17/2026 | George Citroner
    Twelve million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s disease. That number has nearly doubled in six years. Unlike many neurological conditions, researchers say Parkinson’s may largely be something we are doing to ourselves. For most of history, Parkinson’s has been a very rare disease. Although records of possible Parkinson’s disease can be found in very early texts, the first clear medical documentation was written only two hundred years ago in 1817. “The principal causes of the disease are not in our DNA but outside in our environment,” Dr. Ray Dorsey, a neurologist and co-author of “The Parkinson’s Plan,” told The...
  • ‘No Kings’ protesters spurn organizers' rules: ‘This is as partisan as you can get’

    10/17/2026 7:04:34 PM PDT · by Libloather · 36 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/17/26 | Asra Q. Nomani
    ALEXANDRIA, Va. — On South Washington Street, 26-year-old environmental engineer Nayely Cruz Hernandez had a straightforward message for voters as she joined a phalanx of protesters lining the street for nationwide "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump: "Vote blue." "We got to take the power away from Trump, from the Republicans," Hernandez told Fox News Digital. "So we got to win the House, we got to win the Senate, not only in Virginia, but across the country." Standing beside her boyfriend, Noah Schwarzott, 25, their 13-year-old Maltese-poodle, Maybellene, in her arms, Hernandez acknowledged that national No Kings organizers had...
  • Minnesota Senate race takes bizarre turn after dark family history uncovered (Flanagan)

    10/17/2026 6:53:52 PM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/17/26 | Elaine Mallon
    A dark chapter in the family history of Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan has made its way into the race, but it is unclear whether voters will hold the alleged sins of her long-dead grandfather against her. Earlier this week, Alpha News revealed the troubled mental health history of Flanagan's grandfather, John Jacob Hartmann, supported by old newspaper accounts and court records. He spent decades in psychiatric custody, escaped twice and was suspected in multiple killings, though never charged. The reporting comes just weeks before the midterm elections, in which Flanagan, the state's lieutenant governor, faces former television sports...
  • Democratic governors’ group dumps $4.3M into desparate Hochul’s campaign

    10/17/2026 5:04:08 PM PDT · by Libloather · 14 replies
    NY Post ^ | Rich Calder
    A Democratic Governors Association-backed Super PAC is pouring more than $4 million into boosting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s re-election bid as she desperately tries to fend off Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman in the tight race. Greater Empire State — which began releasing anti-Blakeman attack ads Saturday — reported receiving $4.34 million in donations between late July and Oct. 2 to hype Hochul, according to its latest state campaign filings. A big chunk of the money came from former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg; the Greater New York Hospital Association Management Corp.; and Leadership for New York, a super PAC run by Jay...
  • AG Ellison took money to stop Somali investigations. He is done!!

    10/17/2026 6:56:49 AM PDT · by Racketeer · 45 replies
    X ^ | 10/16/2026 | A Zeleny
    True story: Ellison describes the scheme in his own words.