New York City councilman Joe Borelli blasted the city’s health department on Friday for describing “safe” opioid-crisis” target=”_blank”>drug use<. “No, [NYC Department of Health, heroin addiction is not empowering. This is the opposite of ‘harm reduction.’ This normalizes injecting deadly life-changing drugs,” Borelli wrote on social media Friday. DEA LAUNCHES ‘NATIONAL FENTANYL AWARENESS DAY’ TO…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been tallied globally. The cases have been found in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the virus. The agency still described the reported monkeypox outbreaks as “containable,” although there are still many unknowns about what triggered the infections…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took a jab at world-regions Friday and said he hopes “no occupiers” will attend the upcoming Group of 20 summit this year. Zelenskyy announced Friday that he has accepted the invitation by Indonesian President Joko Widodo to attend the global-economy, even though Ukraine is not one of the 19 member nations or…
music” target=”_blank”>Alan White, the longtime drummer for progressive rock pioneers Yes< on his Facebook page by his family. The post said he died at his Seattle-area home Thursday after a brief illness. Just days earlier, Yes had announced that due to health issues White would not take part in the band’s upcoming tour of the…
The U.N. Security Council this week urged terrorism” target=”_blank”>Taliban leaders<. The Security Council released its statement Tuesday, two weeks after closed-door discussions, expressing its “deep concern regarding the increasing erosion of respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan by the Taliban.” Former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Kelley…
joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Biden< President Vladimir Putin’s war against conflicts is backfiring, and that the Russian dictator “NATOized” Europe with his brutal war. Biden made the comments at the commencement ceremony for the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2022, as Scandanivian countries Sweden and Finland seek membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in reaction to…
Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz says he’s “blessed to have earned the presumptive Republican nomination for the United States Senate” in the key us-regions Oz, the cardiac surgeon, author and well-known celebrity physician who until the launch of his Senate campaign late last year was host of TV’s popular “Dr. Oz Show,” elections “time to unite” as…
Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick announced Friday that he canceled his scheduled appearance at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston in order to “focus on the families” affected by the crime. The decision comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he would not appear in person at the event, instead opting to deliver…
Nina Jankowicz claimed Thursday the DHS Disinformation Governance Board she formerly headed is supposed to deal with disinformation that could inspire mass shootings, such as the recent shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. The comments came during an interview on the NPR podcast “Fresh Air” on Thursday, where Jankowicz tried to clarify her…
Satellite images from NASA have captured the underwater eruption of the Kavachi Volcano in the Pacific Ocean’s Solomon Islands. One of the most active submarine volcanoes in the ocean, scientists found in a 2015 expedition to the volcano that there were two species of sharks living in what has been dubbed a “Sharkcano.” Hammerheads reside…