For Rep. George Santos, the clock is ticking dangerously close to midnight. The House is set to vote Friday on a resolution to expel the embattled New York Republican, marking the third and most serious attempt to boot Santos from Congress amid his mounting legal and ethical troubles. The first-term Long Islander easily survived the […]
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Fighting resumes in Gaza as cease-fire breaks
The ceasefire in Gaza ended Friday morning after Israel said Hamas fired rockets into Israel and it responded with airstrikes in the territory, following a weeklong pause in the fighting during which hostages were exchanged for Palestinian prisoners. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that Hamas violated the terms of the ceasefire […]
Do Cold medicines actually work?
When you stroll down the cold and flu aisle in a drugstore, it’s easy to get lost in the dizzying array of products promising to clear sinus pressure, dry up sniffles and stop plaguing coughs. Some concoctions even offer it all in one magical pill. But doctors say the science behind some of those claims […]
Record number of suicides in USA in 2022
More Americans committed suicide in 2022 than in any other year on record, according to data released by the CDC on Wednesday. The National Center for Health Statistics recorded nearly 50,000 suicides last year, up 2.6 percent increase from the prior year. The 2022 suicide rate of 14.3 per 100,000 Americans is the highest since […]
AT&T is secretly surveilling your cell phone calls
Imagine that every time you make a phone call, someone is listening in and recording your conversation. They also track who you are talking to, when, where and for how long. And they don’t stop there. They also monitor the calls of the people you talk to, the people they talk to and so on. […]
Postal worker indicted in $24 mil. check scheme
A U.S. postal service employee and two others have been charged over a scheme involving stolen checks worth more than $24 million, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. Nakedra Shannon, 29, the postal worker, and Donnel Gardner, 27, and Desiray Carter, 24, all of Charlotte, N.C., have been charged with one count of conspiracy […]
Nordstream blast planned by Ukrainian officer
The mystery of who was behind the Nord Stream explosion, which cut pipelines funneling natural gas from Russia to other parts of Europe, has allegedly been solved with the key suspect being Ukrainian officer Roman Chervinsky. Confusion surrounded the September 2022 blasts in the Baltic Sea, with different theories emerging about who could be behind […]
Govt’s new gender pronoun policy “Orwellian’
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has rolled out a new gender pronoun policy that one Heritage Foundation expert and former HHS official says violates employee rights and will result in firings for “misgendering.” “All employees should be addressed [by] the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves,” the email to HHS […]
Joe Biden received laundered $40,000 from China
New bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee purportedly show a complicated series of money transfers that ultimately resulted in President Biden receiving $40,000 that originated with a Chinese company affiliated with CEFC China Energy. Biden received a $40,000 personal check from an account shared by his brother, James Biden, and sister-in-law, Sara Biden, […]
What happens if China gets into our Wars?
Global disorder is growing rapidly even as domestic political support for the post-war order that America’s power underwrote is diminishing. The prospect of a direct war between two or more of the world’s great powers, something that has been avoided for 78 years and counting, seems more likely now than at any time since the […]
House to vote on Jim Jordan for speakership
Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is bringing the House back to the floor Tuesday to vote on whether he will succeed ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy and finally end the chamber’s prolonged paralysis amid deep GOP divisions. Jordan picked up key support from holdouts heading into Tuesday’s vote, which comes two weeks after McCarthy’s […]
Gaza strikes ‘No Longer Self Defense’ says China
Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have gone “beyond the scope of self-defense,” China’s foreign minister has said, as the encroaching possibility of an Israeli ground attack threatens to further endanger Palestinian civilians who have been caught up in the fighting. Protecting “the basic needs of the people in Gaza” is a priority and […]