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University of Cincinnati professor formally reprimanded for banning two-word gender description

NEW YORK POST – A University of Cincinnati women’s gender studies professor has been ordered to complete free speech training after she failed a student for referring to non-trans female athletes as “biological women,” according to a report. Adjunct instructor Melanie Nipper was formally reprimanded for giving student Olivia Krolczyk zero out of 20 points on her Women’s Gender Studies in Pop Culture final project for using what the teacher called the “exclusionary” term, The...

Nexstar Embraces LGBTQ Agenda, Mandates One-Sided News Coverage

CNN — Two news directors at a Michigan NBC affiliate were ousted on Thursday following the circulation of an internal memo calling for scaled-back coverage of Pride Month events and directing the station’s journalists to “get both sides” on LGBTQ issues, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. The email, sent earlier this month by Stanton Tang, news director of Grand Rapids-based WOOD-TV, and Amy Fox, the station’s assistant news director, said the...

Florida’s new DeSantis-backed laws address immigration, Medicare and more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Employers who hire immigrants in the country illegally will face tough punishments and gun owners will have more freedoms when more than 200 new Florida laws take effect Saturday, many of which Gov. Ron DeSantis will highlight as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination. DeSantis has taken a hard line on illegal immigration as he campaigns, saying he'll finish the Mexican border wall his one-time supporter, Donald Trump, promised to build....

Ex-Pfizer employee charged with insider trading on unreleased Covid pill data

CNBC – Federal authorities charged a former Pfizer employee and his close friend Thursday with illegally trading shares based on non-public trial results on the pharmaceutical company’s Covid antiviral pill Paxlovid. The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission both announced respective insider trading charges against Amit Dagar, Pfizer’s senior statistical programming lead at the time of the trades, and his friend Atul Bhiwapurkar. Dagar, who helped manage and analyze Paxlovid clinical trial data, and...

Aspartame sweetener a possible carcinogen

LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - One of the world's most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources with knowledge of the process, pitting it against the food industry and regulators. Aspartame, used in products from Coca-Cola diet sodas to Mars' Extra chewing gum and some Snapple drinks, will be listed in July as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" for the...

Opioids aren’t effective in treating neck, lower back pain, study says

CTV NEWS – Opioids should not be prescribed to treat acute neck and lower back pain, new research suggests. The Australian study, published in The Lancet on Wednesday, found patients given opioid tablets had the same level of pain after six weeks compared to those given a placebo. Researchers looked specifically at neck and lower back pain because "it's a very, very prevalent condition" and opioids are frequently prescribed to relieve it, said senior author Christine...

Foods to avoid to improve ED

Sugar Regularly eating foods that include substances considered unhealthy or drinking beverages containing sugar can lead to weight gain and a high body mass index (BMI). Excessive body weight and an increase in BMI can lead to ED. The researchers state that in 2014, there were 8 million cases of ED that were related to diabetes and obesity. High fat meals People who have high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, obesity, and those who smoke may have an...

Government finally releases COVID documents. What they omitted is even more suspicious

BASED POLITICS | Opinion | We’ve been fighting both the Chinese and US governments for information on COVID-19’s origins for over three years now—a mission of paramount importance as evidence suggests that the US did fund its creation via corrupt animal torture practices that are still ongoing in numerous other labs. Which of course would mean we’re all in danger of the next thing being created and leaking. To be clear, the animal torture I’m referring to here...

Need to Get Plan B or an HIV Test Online? Facebook May Know About It

KFF HEALTH NEWS – Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS’ website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and advertising platforms the products customers viewed. And CVS is not the only pharmacy sharing this kind of sensitive data. We found trackers collecting browsing- and purchase-related data on websites of 12 of the...

Governor’s sex ed curriculum proposal, explained

WBUR – Massachusetts education leaders will vote this morning on advancing Gov. Maura Healey’s recently proposed updates to the state’s sex education curriculum. The new proposal — which is five years in the making — would be the first update to the state’s existing health curriculum framework since 1999. It also doesn’t need approval from the Legislature, where previously proposed updates have stalled. According to a report last year by the group SIECUS, Massachusetts is one...

Lowell Weicker, Senator Whose Star Rose During Watergate, Dies at 92

THE NEW YORK TIMES – Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a liberal Republican who earned a national reputation for pugnacious political independence — first as a young United States senator during the Watergate hearings and later as a third-party governor of Connecticut — died on Wednesday at a hospital in Middletown, in central Connecticut. He was 92. His family announced his death in a statement. Mr. Weicker was an obscure junior senator from Connecticut and a member...

Madonna discharged from hospital

Celebrities send ‘prayers’ as star hospitalized with bacterial infection and tour postponed – THE SUN

Debris and Presumed Human Remains From Lost Titan Are Recovered

Debris from the Titan was returned to land off Newfoundland, nearly a week after an international search-and-rescue effort for the vessel ended and its five passengers were presumed dead.

Eating this food may be a reason why some people live to 100

CNN — Beans, beans, the magical … longevity food? True, these tiny, unassuming morsels are filling and nutritious, and as a basis of a plant-based diet, good for the planet as well. But how could the family of legumes — which includes beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas — help us live longer? “In every blue zone I have visited, beans and other legumes were — and still are — a major component of the daily diet,”...

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