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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) touted bringing home the bacon to Kentucky and his “unfinished business” perpetuating a national defense strategy crafted in the 1980s in a Senate floor speech Thursday announcing his retirement. McConnell, who turned 83 Thursday, has been expected to retire following his resignation under pressure as Senate Republican Leader in early 2024, but reports of his upcoming retirement announcement Thursday morning still reverberated across Washington. In his speech, the longtime Senate leader told colleagues, “I’ve only really answered to two constituencies, the Republican Conference and the people of Kentucky.

COVID is back. But then, it never really left. And the respiratory disease’s late-summer resurgence might be a preview of an even bigger surge this winter. Experts say the latest bump in infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States and other countries, in the fourth year of the novel coronavirus pandemic, was inevitable three years ago—when anti-science extremists all over the world began politicizing the then-brand-new vaccines.

San Diego, Calif. - One of the most notorious Islamic terrorist groups in the Middle East is reportedly making a new home just south of the border. The Shi’a Muslim group Hezbollah is “recognized by many experts as the “A” team of Muslim terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. intelligence official told 10News in San Diego. Hezbollah’s 1985 manifesto lists “Israel’s final departure from Lebanon as a prelude to its final obliteration” as one of its four main goals,