The liver is an essential organ responsible for detoxification, bile production, fat breakdown, and energy storage. However, it is known as a silent organ, as liver problems often go unnoticed until they become severe. On the “Health 1+1” program, Jonathan…

St. John’s wort begins to bloom around St. John the Baptist’s birthday, June 24—hence its name—and continues until August. There is a myth that St. John’s wort sprouted at the site of the beheading of John the Baptist. It was believed that the plant’s healing…

In the early 1900s, Americans consumed about 18 pounds of butter per person per year—and that doesn’t include the butterfat they got from whole milk, cream, and cheese. Today that number stands at about five pounds, a slight increase over the last few years…

Former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon’s husband has been released “pending further investigation”

The State Department has banned four members of Georgian judiciary from entering the US, in a move condemned by Tbilisi

Maryland attorney general reports over 600 cases of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore

Business people from various sectors have flocked to New Delhi as the two countries seek to push bilateral trade to $50 billion this year

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Back to the Future, or whatever. As predicted by this column and echoed by Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president.
This should be welcome news to all Americans of both parties.
The Democratic Party…

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The First Amendment is at a critical juncture. Recent congressional hearings on the Twitter Files brought the matter into full public view. Freedom of speech and of the press are hanging by a precarious thread. Do we want a future in which information…

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The state of California has finally released its latest Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for the year ending June 2021, months after the previous State Controller left the building. This is supposed to be issued within 180 days, not…

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Recent press reports show that a veteran Democratic political operative played a large part in restarting the case against Donald Trump that the prior Manhattan District Attorney, the Justice Department, and Alvin Bragg himself previously declined…

We now have U.S. fatality data for 2022, which should be mostly complete. Fatalities for the year still ran well above pre-pandemic levels but were down from 2020 and 2021.
Prior to the pandemic, there were about 2.8 million fatalities each year in the United…

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Congress seems determined to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned video-sharing app that stands accused of being a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The vast majority of Americans, according to recent Pew findings, also support a ban.…

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In the great search for metaphors to justify the largest-scale violations of human rights in our lifetimes, the disease managers finally hit on the term “pause button.” We were merely pressing it for a while to get our bearings, un-overload hospitals…

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After Nottingham, I was invited to speak at Solihull, one of the last places in England that presented their Hong Kong March cultural festival. Among the speakers was Timothy Bateman, an activist who helps new immigrants, including those from…

New York City’s school system went on a spending spree during the pandemic, thanks to the $7.5 billion in federal money it received as part of a $189 billion national relief package aimed at addressing education problems incurred by lockdowns and school closures.…

China’s communist regime is destabilizing global security and encouraging nuclear proliferation among nations, according to a new report.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal…

LOS ANGELES—House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on April 5, in a rejection of saber-rattling by the Chinese communist regime.
McCarthy (R-Calif.) and a bipartisan congressional delegation welcomed Tsai at…