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#10 Colorado to Include Trump on 2024 Primary Ballot as State GOP Appeals to Supreme Court - Houston Keene for Fox News
The Colorado secretary of state will include former President Donald Trump on the 2024 Colorado primary ballot after Republicans filed an appeal to the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, the Colorado GOP filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court after the state Supreme Court's decision to remove Trump from the primary ballot. Following the appeal, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that she will include Trump on the primary ballot on the Jan. 5 certification deadline unless the U.S. Supreme Court affirms the lower court's ruling or declines to take up the case.
#9 Despite Backlog of Veterans’ Claims, VA Using Resources to Help Illegal Immigrants - Kevin Killough for Just the News
With hundreds of thousands of veterans’ healthcare claims on backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), top Republicans in the House and Senate are hoping to prevent VA resources from being used to process claims for medical care of illegal immigrants. According to a July report from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency contracts with the VA to process medical claims reimbursements involving illegal immigrants even though they did not serve in the U.S. military. Medical professionals treat illegal immigrants detained by ICE on site, but when specialized or emergency care is required, they are transported to private providers, according to Fox News. The arrangement between ICE and the VA was outlined in a 2020 memo during the Trump administration.
#8 Blinken and Mayorkas Fly to Mexico and Discuss Amnesty for the Millions of Illegal Migrants in the US - Tim Holt for The Gateway Pundit
Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas flew to Mexico on on Wednesday for a meeting with Mexican President Obrador – for three hours. Joe Biden has let in more illegal aliens into the United States than the population of New Jersey, the 11th largest state. And there are thousands and thousands more on the way.
#7 Maine’s Top Election Official Removes Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot - Marshall Cohen for CNN
Maine’s top election official has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot in a shock decision based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows paused her decision pending a potential appeal in state court, which Trump’s team said they intend to file. Bellows, a Democrat, issued the decision Thursday after presiding over an administrative hearing earlier this month about Trump’s eligibility for office. A bipartisan group of former state lawmakers filed the challenge against Trump. “I do not reach this conclusion lightly,” Bellows wrote. “Democracy is sacred … I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.”
#6 Nikki Haley Defends Leaving Slavery Out as Cause of Civil War After Backlash - Nidia Cavazos for CBS News
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday sought to defend earlier comments that failed to mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War as she received backlash on social media. "I mean, of course, the Civil War was about slavery," Haley said on The Pulse of New Hampshire Radio program "Good Morning NH with Jack Heath." "We know that- that's, that's the easy part of it. What I was saying was, what does it mean to us today? What it means to us today is about freedom. That's what that was all about. It was about individual freedom, it was about economic freedom, it was about individual rights," she said.
#5 Fetterman To Carville: 'Shut The F*** Up' Over Biden's Sagging 2024 Prospects - Tyler Durden for Zero Hedge
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman spontaneously ripped into fellow Democrat James Carville, telling the seasoned pundit and former Bill Clinton '92 lead strategist to "shut the fuck up" about President Biden's increasingly dim prospects for re-election. After first saying there's plenty of time between now and the election and that he's not worried, Fetterman opened fire on the 79-year-old quasi-reptilian election sage from Louisiana: "While there are Democrats that are being very critical about the president. ... I’ll use this [as] another opportunity to tell James Carville to shut the fuck up."
#4 Intermittent Fasting Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to The Human Brain - David Nield for Science Alert
Scientists looking to tackle our ongoing obesity crisis have made an important discovery: Intermittent fasting leads to significant changes both in the gut and the brain, which may open up new options for maintaining a healthy weight. Researchers from China studied 25 volunteers classed as obese over a period of 62 days, during which they took part in an intermittent energy restriction (IER) program – a regime that involves careful control of calorie intake and fasting on some days. Not only did the participants in the study lose weight – 7.6 kilograms (16.8 pounds) or 7.8 percent of their body weight on average – there was also evidence of shifts in the activity of obesity-related regions of the brain and in the make-up of gut bacteria. "The observed changes in the gut microbiome and in the activity in addiction-related brain regions during and after weight loss are highly dynamic and coupled over time."
#3 Democratic Former Assistant City Attorney Convicted in $7 Million COVID Relief Fraud to Fund Lavish Lifestyle - Johnathan Jones for The Western Journal
The Democratic former assistant city attorney for Atlanta has been found guilty by a federal jury after she defrauded a COVID pandemic-era stimulus program of millions of dollars. Shelitha Robertson, 62, faces potentially spending the rest of her life in prison after jurors last week found she defrauded the federal government out of over $7 million by taking advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program. According to the Department of Justice, Robertson inflated the number of employees she had for several businesses she owned.
#2 Huge Surf Pounds West Coast and Hawaii, Flooding Some Low-Lying Areas - John Antczak and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher for AP News
Powerful surf rolled onto beaches on the West Coast and Hawaii on Thursday as a big swell generated by the stormy Pacific Ocean pushed toward shorelines, causing localized flooding. A high surf warning for parts of Northern California said waves would range from 28 to 33 feet (8.5 to 10 meters) and up to 40 feet (12 meters) at some locations, the National Weather Service said, adding that there were reports of flooding in low-lying coastal areas. In Hawaii, the weather service forecast surf rising to 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) along north-facing shores and 18 to 22 feet (5.5 to 6.7 meters) along west-facing shores of five islands. - And Surfers Gotta Surf!
#1 FTC Sues Grand Canyon University Over Alleged Deceptive Advertising - Sarah Fortinsky for The Hill
The complaint, filed in federal court in Arizona, names as defendants Grand Canyon Education (GCE) Inc., GCU, and Brian Mueller, who is the chief executive officer of GCE and president of GCU, which is already appealing a record-setting $37.7 million fine from the Department of Education over alleged deceptive practices. The FTC claimed the defendants violated the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule and asked the court to “provide redress to consumers and prohibit the institution from further violations of the law.” “Grand Canyon deceived students by holding itself out as a non-profit institution and misrepresenting the costs and number of courses required to earn doctoral degrees,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a press release.
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Let's Kick off the New Year Right—Here Are 55 New Year's Resolution Ideas for 2024 - Megan Grant for Parade
For 2024, why not shake things up a bit and try creating resolutions of a different variety? Whether you choose one New Year's resolution or all 55, you'll be better off for it.Let us know what Your New Year's Resolutions are for 2024!
