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Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva started preemptive radiotherapy sessions this week after being diagnosed with early-stage skin cancer in April. President Lula began receiving the first of 15 planned radiotherapy sessions on Monday after doctors removed a basal cell carcinoma from the 80-year-old’s scalp on April 24 in a procedure carried out at the Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo. At the time, Lula’s medical team, led by cardiologist Roberto Kalil, reportedly detailed that the risk of metastasis for the type of cancer found in Lula’s scalp is minimal compared to other forms of skin cancer. The April surgery to remove…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to trigger embattled late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel after blaming him for the “collapse of liberal comedy.” Kennedy shared a satirical thread on social media, describing it as a “Superb dissection of the shocking collapse of liberal comedy.” “This is the best explanation of how we’ve reached the nader [sic] where Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel can say ‘It’s not my job to be funny.’ As this author shows, he was hired as a comedian but he made himself a priest,’” RFK Jr. shared. Instead of addressing or acknowledging this…

When an Ebola-linked flight bound for Detroit got dumped in Montreal, Canada once again showed how reflexive deference to the US still works Know what I’m getting really sick of as a Canadian? Harmful deferentiality towards the US that persists despite all the “elbows up” rhetoric.In the latest example, an Air France fight took off from Paris, heading for Detroit. Do you see anything Canadian in that at all? Canada does!The airline had royally messed up and let a passenger board from the Congo, the current global headquarters of Ebola. American authorities refused to let the plane land in their…

An eight-year-old Israeli boy recently discovered an ancient treasure while visiting the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert. Dor Wolynitz, who is from Rehovot, was enjoying a family retreat organized by a paratrooper reserve unit when he found a 1,700-year-old Roman statuette fragment, Fox News reported Monday. He told the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) he was searching for things on the ground that he could use for show-and-tell in class and, “Suddenly, I noticed an interesting stone with stripes lying on the ground, and picked it up.” “It seemed like an unusual object to me, so I showed it to Akiva…

The Economic Costs of War Drag Down Consumer Confidence Americans are increasingly gloomy about the U.S. economy. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its index of consumer confidence fell in May. It wasn’t all bad news, however. While views of the present situation fell, the outlook improved slightly. Views of labor market conditions and business conditions six months from now are still pretty dismal, but they improved a bit in May. The year-ahead inflation expectation measure also improved. Last week’s consumer sentiment survey from the University of Michigan delivered a much bleaker picture of consumer views of the economy. Its…

A U.S. Army veteran who owned a President Trump-themed house in Escondido, California, died Sunday after being severely beaten on Wednesday. Sixty-nine-year-old Kerry Sheron was well-known in his neighborhood for the house decorated with American flags and pro-Trump signs, the New York Post reported Monday. The suspect accused of putting Sheron in critical condition was allegedly a Navy veteran identified as 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler. Before Sheron’s death, a family friend told the California Post Butler has “severe PTSD,” the outlet reported Thursday. “Butler’s friend even said he ‘liked’ the house, which Butler lived mere blocks away from, and added…

Washington chose to bring war into a region nearly 7,000 miles from its borders, Foad Izadi told RT The US has “no responsibility” to intervene in the management of the Strait of Hormuz, located nearly 11,000 km (6,835 miles) from its borders, University of Tehran political communication professor Foad Izadi has told RT.The strategic waterway has become a major sticking point in US-Iran peace talks, with Washington maintaining a blockade on Iranian ports and Tehran establishing control over naval traffic and charging for passage through the strait.“The US has no responsibility in this part of the world. The US is…

Senior government officials in Helsinki and Warsaw called out the illegal migration problem coming to Europe from the Middle East and Africa, labeling it as an example of Russian “hybrid warfare” meant to destabilize their countries. Finnish Minister of Defense Antti Häkkänen specifically accused Russia of “shaking up” his country by transporting thousands of migrants, mostly from Islamic countries, to its shared border with the Nordic nation. “Russia started in 2015 instrumentalizing this migration. For example, they gather people from African and Middle Eastern countries to our Lapland, Arctic borders,” Häkkänen explained to Breitbart News.  Häkkänen, a member of the…

Former Gov. Roy Cooper is running for Senate on “making things cost less,” making lower healthcare costs a key plank of his senatorial campaign. However, North Carolinians have paid the highest healthcare costs when he was governor. Forbes found that the Tar Heel State was the most expensive state for health care, with the highest average premiums for residents with “plus-one” coverage through an employer, or $4,781 annually. It also had the second highest average premium for residents with family health insurance through family health insurance through an employer. Cooper’s North Carolina also ranked fifth highest for average deductibles with…

The recent case in Kent highlights a growing trend of asylum seekers lying about their age Ten of the 19 migrants slated to be placed in foster homes or children’s care in Kent, England, turned out to be adults, The Sun reported on Monday.Kent is the primary arrival point for migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats. Illegal crossings remain a hot-button issue, fueling anti-immigrant sentiment alongside a string of high-profile criminal cases linked to migrants. Nearly 1,000 undocumented migrants crossed into the UK in small boats over the past five days alone, according to government data.A group of…