Good news if you felt a little guilty about that mid-morning donut at work. Turns out thinking burns calories so if you have a long cognitive-filled workday ahead of you, you will at least work off some of that tasty carb. Ewan McNay, an assistant professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at the University of…
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Flashback: That Time Joe Biden Said You Can’t Rely On FBI Reports Into Sexual Misconduct Well, look at what we have here. From NTK Network, a flashback from the Clarence Thomas hearings, who also face allegations of sexual misconduct from Anita Hill. Thomas was eventually confirmed, but by a razor thin margin. There was an…
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President Trump spoke for the second time in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City Tuesday morning. During his remarks, Trump touted U.S. domestic accomplishments on the economy, went after China for their corrupt business practices, slammed Iran for its role in the destabilization of the Middle East, addressed human rights…
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DALLAS — In their first head-to-head matchup of an increasingly contentious U.S. Senate campaign, Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O’Rourke clashed bitterly over issues ranging from gun rights to health care to immigration. Cruz, a polished debater going back to his days at Princeton University, would likely be considered the winner on style…
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exas Democratic Sen. Candidate Beto O’Rourke said Wednesday during a town hall event that he believes law enforcement officers target black people because of their skin color and that police are the “new Jim Crow.” “Talking about criminal justice reform, let’s talk about where this problem started,” he said at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. “When…
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Special elections aren’t the best gauges for predicting the results of an election year, but since the liberal media touted such wins as a harbinger for the GOP apocalypse, let’s pop the champagne for the clutch win in Texas last night. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has to be happy. This special state Senate election saw…
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Much has been made of Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s invitation to testify before an open hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee next week — but it’s not yet set in stone she will actually show. Fox News is told that the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday night reached out to Ford’s…
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The White House said Monday that the Senate Judiciary Committee is leaning toward inviting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser to testify before the panel, as the woman’s attorney said she would be willing to appear. Christine Ford, a California-based professor, revealed her identity in a Washington Post report on Sunday, following her letter to…
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Iran is “feeling the pain” from the sweeping sanctions revived by President Trump in August, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, told Fox News exclusively in a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday. “They feel weak and we are suffocating them to the point that they have to address ballistic missiles; they have to…
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Apple on Wednesday introduced three new versions of the iPhone, including the premium Xs and Xs Max. The company placed a big bet on the iPhone X, a $999 device that arrived one year ago. Consumer demand for the iPhone has lagged, but the more expensive iPhone X helped drive a 20 percent increase in…
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Catastrophic flash floods, life-threatening storm surge, tropical storm-force winds – and even tornadoes – are expected as Hurricane Florence barrels toward the United States east coast Thursday, even as the massive storm was downgraded to a still-deadly Category 2 hurricane. A rash of late evacuations continued as officials warned the storm will still pack a…
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President Obama is mighty confused. In a fiery campaign speech at the University of Illinois, the former president suggested that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 by the “powerful and the privileged.” He also railed at voters for failing to show up, and for permitting such a damaging “threat to our democracy.” But here’s the…
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Former National Football League player Colin Kaepernick is back in the spotlight. The ex-San Francisco 49ers QB is now the face of Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ campaign. It’s controversial. That was the intent, to give the middle finger to hard-working, American patriots. It was a shot across the bow of Trump’s America, rural America, conservatives, and those…
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UPDATE: President Trump calls anonymous op-ed “gutless.” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has called for this official to resign (via Daily Caller): White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called for the resignation of an anonymous official who wrote an op-ed in the New York Times disparaging President Donald Trump. Sanders continued “This is a…
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The wife of the legendary military sniper, Chris Kyle, reacted today to Nike’s poor decision to use second-rate social justice warrior former quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the face for their most iconic and widely used ad slogan, “Just Do It.” Taya Kyle absolutely destroyed Nike for their ridiculous PR move in a way that we’ve…
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The chaotic start to Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing was coordinated from the top by Democratic senators who wanted to stall the Supreme Court nomination process amid complaints about access to documents. Kavanaugh returns before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday for the start of formal questioning. He has delivered only his opening statement so far,…
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President Trump stepped up his criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday, hammering him over criminal charges recently brought against two Republican congressmen, which may jeopardize the GOP’s chances of holding those seats in the midterm elections. “Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well…
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California state Democrats are distancing themselves from the state party’s chief after he called for the boycott of a beloved burger chain after it donated cash to the state’s Republican Party. The political feud began last week when Eric Bauman, head of the California Democratic Party, called for the boycott of California-based In-N-Out over its…
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LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Wednesday, supported by news of a fall in Iranian crude supplies as U.S. sanctions deter buyers, but gains were limited by evidence of a rise in U.S. inventories. Benchmark Brent crude oil was up 50 cents at $76.45 a barrel by 1330 GMT. U.S. light crude…
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Report all of Hillary’s emails were secretly routed to Chinese operatives prompts Trump to demand probe A Chinese state-owned company reportedly hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2015, then inserted code that forwarded them a copy of virtually every email she sent or received after that — a revelation President Trump is demanding…
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