Smoking Harms Immune System Years After Quitting
Dreamstime From Newsmax The harms of smoking are many, but new research delivers evidence of another troubling type of damage: Lighting up alters your immune system, leaving you more vulnerable to disease and infections even years after quitting. “Stop smoking…
Why Is Claudine Gay still the President of Harvard?
The main gate and the Massachusetts Hall, the oldest (1720) building in the Harvard university campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Wiktor Wojtas/Dreamstime.com) By Susan Estrich From Newsmax It’s time for Claudine Gay to step down as president of Harvard University. The embattled new…
AP, Reuters, CNN disavow foreknowledge of Israel attack
screenshot Newsmax TV By Nicole Wells From Newsmax The Associated Press, Reuters, and CNN on Thursday disavowed any foreknowledge of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel that killed more than 1,400 Israelis and left hundreds more injured or taken hostage…
New COVID variant less threatening than first feared
Adobe Stock From Newsmax When new COVID variant BA.2.86 emerged in late July, scientists had concerns about its ability to evade immunity. But early lab tests seem to be easing those fears, as well as concerns over the variant’s ability…
Trump sues CNN for $475M, says it’s defaming him to thwart 2024 run
By Jeffrey Rubin From Newsmax Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against CNN for defamation, according to a Bloomberg news service report. It said the ex-president claims the cable news network has escalated a campaign of libel and slander against him because…
Coronavirus: US admits ‘failing’ on testing, says Fauci
From BBC A top health official in the US says that the testing system for coronavirus is currently failing. “The system is not really geared to what we need right now… let’s admit it,” said Dr Anthony Fauci from the…
Runaway cat traveled 1,200 miles over five years before being apprehended
By Mike Wehner From BGR Sasha is a good cat. His owner, Viktor Usov, hadn’t seen him for five years after the frisky feline disappeared from his Portland home. He had no idea where Sasha went, but when an animal…
Mexico ambush: Boy, 13, walked 23km for help after gun attack
From BBC A 13-year-old survivor of the attack by suspected Mexican drug cartel gunmen on a convoy of US Mormons hid six siblings in bushes before walking 23km (14 miles) to get help, his family said. Eight children survived Monday’s…
Former Yale professor sexually assaulted five students, report says
By Rob Frehse,From CNN (CNN)A former Yale psychiatry professor sexually assaulted five students and engaged in other sexual misconduct, according to an independent report released by the university.Eugene Redmond, who was on the faculty for 44 years, is accused of misconduct and…
How China is heavily contributing to Middle East drone and missile proliferation
By Paul Iddon The New Arab China has supplied armed drones to several Middle East countries, contributing greatly to the proliferation of these weapons in the troubled region in clear contravention of the MTCR’s noble objectives. The People’s Republic of…