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The world’s second-leading cause of death is expected to affect more than 90% of people by 2050, either through their own diagnosis or that of a close relative New cancer cases are projected to nearly double worldwide by 2050, with the disease expected to affect more than 90% of the global population in some way, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.In a report released on Wednesday, the agency said cancer remains the world’s second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular disease, claiming more than 26,000 lives daily. It estimates there are currently nearly 10 million deaths and 20.6 million new cases…

A controversial World Cup loss turned into an international incident on Tuesday after Egyptian coaches reacted angrily to the Israeli flag following their loss to Argentina. The stunning scene unfolded in the moments after a highly controversial penalty against the Egyptians took away a goal that would have given the North African country a 2-0 lead. As Breitbart’s Paul Bois reports: Egypt had an incredibly strong start against the favored Argentina when the team secured a 2-0 lead with an impressive goal from Mostafa Ziko following a pass from Mo Salah at the 58-minute mark. However, the moment of victory took…

The number of people filing for unemployment benefits edged down last week, the Department of Labor said Thursday. Initial jobless claims declined to 215,000 from the upwardly revised 217,000 in the prior week. Economists had forecast 219,000 new claims. New claims are a proxy for layoffs. Over the past six months, very few Americans have lost their jobs, defying predictions of widespread job losses to artificial intelligence. Continuing claims, which are reported with a week’s delay, came in at 1.81 million in the week through June 27, an increase of 8,000 from a downwardly revised estimate released last week. The labor market’s…

Escalation against Russia does not guarantee a peaceful resolution, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has warned The Czech Republic remains skeptical about NATO’s strategy of continued military support for Ukraine, to which it does not contribute financially, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said as he left the bloc leaders’ summit in Ankara, Türkiye on Wednesday.Babis’ party won last year’s election on a nationalist platform that included reversing the Ukraine aid policy championed by his predecessor, Petr Fiala, and urging a diplomatic resolution of the conflict with Russia instead.The declaration approved by NATO leaders in Ankara this week highlighted a pledge of…

Actor John Leguizamo has claimed that European colonizers stole 500,000 tons of gold from Latin people despite evidence showing that only 220,000 tons have been mined in human history. Leguizamo, who will be starring in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic The Odyssey, revealed his thoughts about European colonization during an appearance on the One Nightstand podcast. “The cultural annihilation that happened to Latin people is the worst in the history of the world,” he claimed. “The theft of all our wealth and gold. And our gold funded the second half of the Renaissance … 500,000 tons of gold that was taken…

The far-left group Progressive Victory is unveiling a troubling allegation against a potential candidate to replace Democrat Graham Platner in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, alleging that this individual “struck a female colleague with a bottle he threw at her” during a disagreement, corroborated by several witnesses. Platner is facing more than an uphill battle after yet another controversy bubbled up. This time, a woman alleges that Platner broke into her home and sexually assaulted her. Jenny Racicot, 41, the alleged victim, told Politico that she was dating Platner on and off. In 2021, she alleges, he came into her home…

Susan Collins’ fight to hold onto her seat just got messier. Republicans had welcomed Graham Platner as a foil to Collins, who is trying to win a sixth Senate term in a state that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. But now, while Maine Democrats prepare for an intense two week sprint to replace Platner, Collins’ team will have to start from scratch in their strategy against a new nominee — who may not be known until close to the party’s July 27 deadline to declare one. And according to a person familiar with the campaign’s thinking, Collins’ team had…

If bloc members continue to ramp up their spending, they will eat themselves from the inside, and Russia won’t have to lift a finger On the eve of this week’s NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, the bloc released a report titled ‘Defense Expenditure of NATO Countries (2014-2025)’.On the surface, the report shows a staggering increase in the level of defense spending by several NATO members over the course of the previous decade, with Lithuania leading the way with an increase of some 777%. In aggregate, NATO members, in seeking to meet the 2% GDP threshold for defense spending set by…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This report is based on a growing body of economic indicators, labor market behavior patterns, and on-the-ground observations across multiple U.S. states. While the official economy continues to show stability on paper, independent data sources and field accounts suggest a rapidly expanding informal labor structure operating outside traditional reporting systems. Readers should be aware that the reality described below reflects a widening gap between measured economic performance and lived financial conditions across large segments of the population. At 5:03 a.m., in a suburban parking lot outside Atlanta, the day has already begun long before the official economy wakes…

The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards called America “a bit of a disappointment at the moment” in a recent interview. After being asked if The Rolling Stones’ new song, “Ringing Hollow,” is an anti-Trump track, Richards told Sunday Times that the lyrics are about having “a nostalgic love affair with America, and [it being] a bit of a disappointment at the moment.” The British-born guitarist — who has lived in Connecticut for four decades — refrained from specifying whether or not the band’s new song alludes to President Donald Trump. “Ringing Hollow” will be found on The Rolling Stones’ upcoming album, “Foreign Tongues” — which reportedly has themes involving U.S. political and social…