Avian flu, also known as H5N1 or bird flu, is quite rare among humans at present. Birds can transmit it to other birds, as well as other mammals, like cattle. For humans to get it, however, they must be in direct contact with an infected bird or mammal, then take...

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An incident during a duck hunt resulted in the death of a teenager, while the man accused of operating the gun that killed him potentially faces decades in prison over the shooting. On Jan. 20, 20-year-old Gaige Zook, 19-year-old Maurizio Justiniano and a third man, Jackson Harbor, went duck hunting...

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Normal people understand that it's a bad idea to let children make decisions that can only be understood by adults. There's a minimum age for drinking. There's a minimum age for driver's licenses. But for Joe Biden's administration, medical professionals establishing a minimum age for girls to have surgery to...

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A tourist has died on a Florida beach, at least the seventh in the past few weeks, as law enforcement pleads with the public to stay out of the water. The most recent victim of deadly beach conditions is 60-year-old Debbie Szymanski. The Missouri native was vacationing at Panama City...

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This could really shake things up in Atlanta. As the clock ticks closer to Thursday's presidential debate pitting former President Donald Trump against President Joe Biden, a report is circulating that Trump could be springing a big surprise on his Democratic opponent. And upending the presidential campaign in the process. NBC...

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Two NASA astronauts are stuck in space for at least another 10 days and perhaps longer as officials try to address problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. On June 5, a Starliner launched flight commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and flight pilot Sunita "Suni" Williams to the International Space Station. Helium leaks...

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A Massachusetts family is calling for changes after one of their own was discharged from a hospital earlier this month and died attempting to get home. The family said not only was 69-year-old Rodney Riviello forced to find his own way home despite limited cognitive functions but that when his...

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This article was sponsored by Streetlight Confidential. Disseminated on behalf of SolarBank Corporation: In a move supposedly guided by the enlightened, progressive principles of so-called clean energy, the Biden administration has moved to put the full weight of the federal government behind an acceleration of domestic production of technologies including...

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This past week, Biden administration officials actually celebrated the job they've done at the southern border. Yes, you read that right. A White House memo making the rounds on social media Wednesday touted a recent 40 percent reduction in border encounters (of course, a 40 percent reduction from the most...

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Former President Barack Obama is ready and willing to do what he can to help the Democrat incumbent stave off a fierce Republican challenger in the 2024 general election -- but he's still pretty worried about it, according to a new report. A fascinating Monday report from New York Magazine...

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Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign sent a letter Tuesday to a Pennsylvania-based Democrat-aligned political action committee demanding it take down a digital ad calling on Trump supporters not to vote by mail-in ballot. The 30-second spot begins with the words on screen superimposed over a picture of Trump saying,...

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I don't need to explain to you how bad social media censorship was in 2020 and the years that followed. We now know that Biden administration officials, in league with all of the most influential social media companies, conspired to suppress information about COVID and the 2020 election. Some of...

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If you're a frequent customer of Kroger grocery stores who has, at one time or another, used the store's self-checkout, you may want to double-check that you haven't been scammed. Police in Elkins, West Virginia, warned the customers of the local Kroger's location that they had discovered a scamming device...

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A California police chief has resigned while under investigation for allegations that he impacted the career of a subordinate while having an affair with the officer’s wife. Former Fresno Chief Paco Balderrama was placed on administrative leave on June 13 as city officials investigated the claims. On Tuesday, he resigned....

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Never underestimate former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger's ability to play the part of the useful idiot for Democrats. He, along with former Rep. Liz Cheney, did so in a big way by being the only "Republicans" on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's sham, anti-Donald Trump Jan. 6 committee. Now Kinzinger's at...

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The Kentucky police chief who was in charge when golf champ Scottie Scheffler was arrested last month has resigned. Louisville Metro Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel resigned Tuesday, less than two weeks after being placed on administrative leave over a sexual harassment case, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her resignation came...

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Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps appeared before Congress Tuesday to urge it to act against doping in Olympic sports. Earlier this year, a report in The New York Times revealed that 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance were allowed to compete in the 2021 Tokyo Olympic...

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For quite some time, the woke left held an unbreakable stranglehold on American culture. If something didn't go their way, all woke activists had to do was screech and scream, blame "racism," and then pretty much everyone would give in. People were fired for holding fast to Christian values. Companies...

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At least since the debut of seminal 1967 film "The Graduate," society and culture at large have asked: Can an age gap within a couple ever be too big? (You can actually probably trace this discussion as far back as to the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, though that story is...

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Even if you're a hardcore NBA fan, you could have skipped draft night 2024. There was no superstar in the making like French phenom Victor Wembanyama in last year's draft. Nor was there an Anthony Edwards, or Tyrese Halliburton, or even a, say, LaMelo Ball. Instead, the entire "cream of...

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It runs in the family, I suppose. On Wednesday, the White House brought out first daughter Ashley Biden for a national LGBT "pride month" celebration on the South Lawn. (The first son, with the tax and gun charges, might have proved to be a bit, um, troublesome.) It was one...

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