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At least 58 people in the U. S. have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year, according to federal statistics. All but two of them had been around cows or chickens, two species in which H5N1 is circulating widely. That’s reassuring to scientists because it suggests the virus is spreading primarily through close contact with infected animals, and not from person to person.
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Less comforting are the results of a study published Dec.
As Pete Hegseth’s chances at becoming Secretary of Defense go downhill, the guy accused of sexual assault, rape, mismanagement of non-profits and routine drunkenness visited The Megyn Kelly show to whine about being “Kavanaughed.”
You may recall Kelly made a big show of being a pro-woman conservative when she confronted Donald Trump over his misogyny.
In today's edition of F*ck Around and Find Out: Meet the steelworkers who voted for Trump and now realize that Trump is going to oppose the $14.9 billion sale of U. S. steel to Japan's Nippon Steel Co. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is reporting that "some steelworkers in Pittsburgh’s Mon Valley who support the deal — and Trump — weren’t happy."
United Steelworkers Local 2227 Vice President Jason Zugai was quoted saying
“I am very frustrated with the news that came out last night.
During the final Task Force hearing into the alleged assassination attempt on Donald in Pennsylvania, where he suffered a scrape on his ear at the hands of a former Trump supporter, MAGA Texas Rep. Pat Fallon clashed with Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe.
After bullying Rowe, Fallon, endorsed by Donald, Jim Jordan, and Ted Cruz, yelled, "Don't bully me!"
Fallon displayed a photo of Donald and others at a 9/11 memorial, and Rowe explained that he was not showing the Secret Service members just off camera.
He said he left "the detail off out of the picture's view, and that is the day where we remember the more than 3,000 people that have died on 9-11."
"I actually responded to Ground Zero," Rowe said.
A manhunt is currently underway as the New York Police Department (NYPD) looks for the gunman who targeted and fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 4.
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Thompson, 50, was in city ahead of his company’s annual investor conference, which police say he was walking to alone when he was shot outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel at around 6:45 a.m.
New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a press conference on Wednesday that the “brazen, targeted attack” was “premeditated,” and the shooter seemed to be “lying in wait for several minutes” before approaching Thompson from behind and opening fire.
Kash Patel wasn’t always a firebrand. Early in his career, as a federal prosecutor and national security lawyer at the Justice Department, Donald Trump’s current pick to head the FBI was thoughtful and level headed, according to a senior national security official who knew him during those years. It was only after Patel began digging into the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election that “it all changed,” the official says.
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Initially, Patel didn’t even want the job that would change his view of the nation’s storied law enforcement agency.