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#10 Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President, Dies at Age 100 - CNN, Collin Rugg, Steve Johnson, JD Vance/Donald J. Trump, POTUS, Vince Langman, and Delta on X
After former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday, the world rushed to offer condolences and shared the accomplishments of the 39th president, who was 100. Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, who served in the US Navy, was president from 1977 to 1981. Championing human rights at the center of US foreign policy, Carter forged a still-standing peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. He also established the Department of Energy in 1977. Shortly after his presidency, Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, established The Carter Center, which has monitored international elections and promoted public health across the world... Funeral associations in Sweden are looking to secure enough land to bury thousands of people in the event of a war, the Associated Press has reported. The Nordic country joined NATO earlier this year amid the US-led military bloc’s growing involvement in the Ukraine conflict. The burial association in Sweden’s second-largest city, Gothenburg, is trying to acquire additional land to ensure casket sites for some 30,000 dead, on top of what is needed for graveyards for regular use, AP wrote on Saturday... Gen Z is turning into Gen Ozempic. A new survey reveals that many young Americans are planning to turn to weight loss medications, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, to help achieve their goals. More than a quarter of Americans are considering these drugs as part of their weight loss strategy, according to Tebra, a digital healthcare platform. More than a quarter of Americans are considering these drugs as part of their weight loss strategy, according to Tebra, a digital healthcare platform. Getty Images The trend is especially noticeable among younger generations... Stunning analysis of the health threat from smoking has revealed how long each cigarette takes off a person’s life. Men lose 17 minutes of life with every one smoked, while a woman’s life is cut short by 22 minutes per cigarette, experts have estimated. This is an increase on previous estimates, which suggested each cigarette shortens a smoker’s life by 11 minutes. The new figures are based on more up-to-date results from studies tracking the health of the population. Researchers from University College London said that the harm caused by smoking was ‘cumulative’ and the sooner a person stopped smoking, the longer they would live... People across Southern California woke up Sunday morning to thick fog blanketing the region, causing hundreds of flights across the region to be delayed during one of the busiest nationwide travel periods ever. According to data from flight tracking service FlightAware, 162 flights at LAX were delayed as of Sunday at 10 a.m., by far the most out of any airport in SoCal. A total of eight flights had been outright canceled as of that time, FlightAware data showed... lon Musk has questioned the cause of death of Suchir Balaji, the former OpenAI researcher who turned whistleblower on the company a month before he was found dead in his apartment. Balaji's death in November was ruled as a suicide by San Francisco authorities, a month after he contacted the New York Times to warn that OpenAI could be using copyrighted data in a way that broke the law. Newsweek contacted OpenAI for comment via email outside of regular office hours... Dr. Leana Wen said Sunday that the lack of testing for bird flu doesn't mean that the virus isn't alive in humans, and that she feels the federal government "should have learned our lesson from COVID" and should be proactive in making tests available for Americans — and not wait for labs to characterize the cases and their severity. "I feel like we should have learned our lesson from COVID, that just because we aren't testing doesn't mean the virus isn't there," said Dr. Leana Wen, a former Baltimore health commissioner, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "We should be having rapid tests, home tests, available to all farm workers, to their families, for the clinicians taking care of them, so that we aren't waiting for public labs and CDC labs to tell us what's bird flu or not," she added... The Guardian Angels are resuming their patrols of the Big Apple’s subways as if it were crime-riddled Gotham in 1979, after the horrifying arson murder of a sleeping straphanger on a train last week, founder Curtis Sliwa said Sunday. The red-beret-wearing volunteer vigilante squad is beefing up its ranks to its level 45 years ago, Sliwa said. “We’re going to have to increase our numbers, increase the training and increase our presence as we did back in 1979,” Sliwa said at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station in Brooklyn where the woman was killed... President-elect Trump on Sunday harshly criticized the House GOP, and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), for voting to raise the debt ceiling in 2023 through Jan. 1, 2025. Trump in a post on Truth Social called McCarthy “a good man and a friend of mine,” but said it would go down as “one of the dumbest political decisions made in years.” Trump appeared to be criticizing the decision to raise the debt ceiling in May of 2023 through Jan. 1, 2025, though in his post, he mentioned a vote in September and wrote that it had extended the debt ceiling through the first six months of the new Trump administration...
#9 NATO State Seeking More Cemetery Space for Potential War Dead – RT, Infowars, Red Ice TV, Julia Poems, and Henrik Palmgren on X
#8 Gen Z Is Skipping the Gym and Turning To Weightloss Drugs — Leading the Ozempic Craze - Adriana Diaz for The New York Post, G Coughlin, Sparky, and Off The Press on X
#7 How Many Minutes Does a Cigarette Knock Off the Life of a Smoker? Ella Pickover for The Daily Mail, Mario Nawfal, NHTV, and Ash Paul on X
#6 Hundreds of Flights Delayed Due to Thick Fog Blanketing Southern California - Will Conybeare for KTLA on Yahoo News, BBlues, Concerned Citizen, Holly Wood, Amazing Pop Culture Podcast, and Babooshka on X
#5 Biden Announces $2.5 Billion in Fresh Military Aid to Ukraine - Steve Holland for Reuters, Mike Lee, Breanna Morello, Liz Churchill, I Love America News, 2VNews, Adam Collett, and A/B Tecky on X
U.S. President Joe Biden announced $2.5 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine on Monday as he uses his final weeks in office to surge military aid to Kyiv before President-elect Donald Trump takes power.
"At my direction, the United States will continue to work relentlessly to strengthen Ukraine’s position in this war over the remainder of my time in office," Biden said in a statement. Biden's announcement includes $1.25 billion in military aid drawn from U.S. stockpiles and a $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package, the final USAI package of Biden's time in office. Under USAI, military equipment is procured from the defense industry or partners, rather than drawn from American stocks, meaning it can take months or years to arrive on the battlefield...
#4 Elon Musk Questions OpenAI Whistleblower's Cause of Death - Theo Burman for Newsweek, Tfipost.com, Collin Rugg/Anti Left Memes, Steven Baker PMP, BG Akins Jr., and Pedro L. Gonzalez on X
#3 Dr. Leana Wen Says for Bird Flu, “We Should Have Learned Our Lesson From COVID” in Testing - Patrick Maguire for CBS News, Collin Rugg, Jeremy Ryan Slate, Chief Nerd, and Emergent Perspective on X
#2 Guardian Angels Resume NYC Subway Patrols for First Time Since 2020 After Shocking Arson Murder - The New York Post, Juanita Broaddrick, amNewYork, and Curtis Sliwa/News12BK on X
#1 Trump Blasts GOP, McCarthy Over Debt Ceiling - Ian Swanson for The Hill, Charlie Kirk News, Amuse/Donald J. Trump, Nick Sortor, and Wall Street Mav on X
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