Doctors Discover Drug Already on the Market ‘Could Prevent 1 Million New Cases of Alzheimer’s’ a Year

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Alzheimer’s affects nearly 7 million Americans, a number that’s expected to spike to 13.9 million by 2060.

Given the devastating effects of this incurable disease, the hunt is on for a drug that could help prevent or slow its progression.

Now, a new study has found that nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) — a common class of medications for HIV — could dramatically decrease the risk of developing this neurodegenerative disorder.

Analyzing data from over 270,000 patients aged 50 and older, researchers observed that the risk of Alzheimer’s decreased by 6% to 13% for each year the patients were on NRTIs.

These results are — to say the least — incredibly promising.

“It’s estimated that over 10 million people around the world develop Alzheimer’s disease annually,” said Jayakrishna Ambati, founding director of the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Vision Science. (Read more from “Doctors Discover Drug Already on the Market ‘Could Prevent 1 Million New Cases of Alzheimer’s’ a Year” HERE)

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Trump to Sign ‘One of the Most Consequential Executive Orders’ in History

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After teasing that his next message on Truth Social would be “one of the most important and impactful I have ever issued,” President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he would sign an executive order Monday morning designed to cut prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices “almost immediately, by 30% to 80%.”

“For many years the World has wondered why Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in the United States States of America were SO MUCH HIGHER IN PRICE THAN THEY WERE IN ANY OTHER NATION, SOMETIMES BEING FIVE TO TEN TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE SAME DRUG, MANUFACTURED IN THE EXACT SAME LABORATORY OR PLANT, BY THE SAME COMPANY???” Trump began, having made people wait nearly four hours for his post.

“It was always difficult to explain and very embarrassing because, in fact, there was no correct or rightful answer. The Pharmaceutical/Drug Companies would say, for years, that it was Research and Development Costs, and that all of these costs were, and would be, for no reason whatsoever, borne by the ‘suckers’ of America, ALONE.

“Campaign Contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not with the Republican Party. We are going to do the right thing, something that the Democrats have fought for many years.

“Therefore, I am pleased to announce that Tomorrow morning, in the White House, at 9:00 A.M., I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%. (Read more from “Trump to Sign ‘One of the Most Consequential Executive Orders’ in History” HERE)

Police: Councilwoman Incites Mob, Assaults Officers to Stop Arrest of Violent Illegal Alien

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Police are calling for an official investigation and charges against a city councilwoman for allegedly assaulting officers and inciting a violent mob trying to stop the arrest of an illegal alien criminal suspect in Worcester, Massachusetts.

It is another in a slew of incidents where government officials have stepped in to try to block immigration enforcement as the Trump administration cracks down on aliens with criminal records in the U.S.

A local police union argued over the weekend that Etel Haxhiaj, who represents Worcester’s District 5, helped incite the mob into assaulting ICE officers and cops during the Department of Homeland Security operation that escalated out of control Friday. The Worcester Police Patrolman’s Union made the allegations in a statement released Saturday.

The protest by more than two dozen bystanders chanting “no warrant!” and “not the mother!” resulted after authorities came to arrest Ferreira de Oliveira. She is an illegal alien whom local police recently arrested for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a pregnant victim, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

It was unclear how many of the bystanders were just a spontaneous outpouring of “neighbors,” as some news outlets reported, or if the gathering was engineered by anti-deportation activists who got a heads up on the apprehension operation. (Read more from “Police: Councilwoman Incites Mob, Assaults Officers to Stop Arrest of Violent Illegal Alien” HERE)

Soviet-Era Spacecraft Plunges to Earth After 53 Years Stuck in Orbit

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A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.

Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking. The Russians indicated it came down over the Indian Ocean, but some experts were not so sure of the precise location. The European Space Agency’s space debris office also tracked the spacecraft’s doom after it failed to appear over a German radar station.

It was not immediately known how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit. Experts said ahead of time that some if not all of it might come crashing down, given it was built to withstand a landing on Venus, the solar system’s hottest planet.

The chances of anyone getting clobbered by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said.

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction. (Read more from “Soviet-Era Spacecraft Plunges to Earth After 53 Years Stuck in Orbit” HERE)

Archaeologists Stunned by Royal Discovery Behind ‘Massive’ Granite False Door

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Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a recent Facebook post in April.

The tomb was found at the Saqqara archaeological site in the Giza Governorate of Egypt.

The tomb belonged to a prince named “Userefre” or “Waser Ef Ra,” the son of King Userkaf.

Userkaf was the founder of the Fifth Dynasty, which lasted from the early 25th century B.C. until the mid-24th century B.C.

The tomb was concealed by a “massive false door,” according to Egyptian officials, and was made of pink granite. (Read more from “Archaeologists Stunned by Royal Discovery Behind ‘Massive’ Granite False Door” HERE)

Complaint Argues Racial Discrimination Inside Law Firms Trump Sanctioned

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Americans for Equal Opportunity has filed a charge of race discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of three white members, alleging some of the nation’s largest law firms and the nonprofit that selected and placed summer interns with those legal giants unlawfully discriminated against white Americans in the name of diversity. The EEOC charge filed this morning accuses the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) and its 44 partners — some of the country’s most well-heeled law firms — with operating a summer law fellowship program in violation of Title VII.

Title VII is the federal statute which prohibits employers, as well as employment agencies, from discriminating in employment on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, or religion. And the EEOC charge filed by Americans for Equal Opportunity, a recently formed membership organization dedicated to “promot[ing] and protect[ing] the right of the public to be free from discrimination on the basis of race,” details how SEO allegedly violated Title VII through its discriminatory law fellowship program.

To support its EEOC charge, Americans for Equal Opportunity, or AEO, points to SEO’s own words. “SEO is the nation’s premier summer internship and training program targeting talented African American, Hispanic and Native college students,” the nonprofit’s Form 990 from 2019 boasted, adding: “Each year, SEO Career recruits, interviews, selects and trains several hundred interns and fellows for partners in banking, law, alternative investment and corporate leadership … To date SEO has recruited over 8,900 interns for its U.S. Partners.” A few years earlier, “SEO held itself out to prospective Sponsor Firms as ‘the nation’s only summer internship program for pre-law students of color.’”

Those sponsor firms included a veritable “who’s who,” of the nation’s top law firms, with the EEOC charge identifying the 44 entities who partnered in the SEO Fellowship program. Under the fellowship program, the law firms allegedly paid “SEO to recruit and place SEO Fellows in summer internship programs” for law-school bound college graduates, branded “0L,” in contrast to law students called 1L, 2L, or 3L, based on their year in law school. As the charge notes, large law firms rarely offer “0L” programs outside the SEO Fellowship, and, in fact, only a few top law students even obtain internships as 1Ls. (Read more from “Complaint Argues Racial Discrimination Inside Law Firms Trump Sanctioned” HERE)

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Dow Jumps Nearly 1,000 and S&P 500 Climbs 2.6% Following a 90-Day Truce in the US-China Trade War

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U.S. stocks are leaping Monday after China and the United States announced a 90-day truce in their trade war. They agreed to take down most of their tariffs that economists warned could start a recession and create shortages on U.S. store shelves.

The S&P 500 was 2.6% higher in early trading and back within 5.5% of its all-time high set in February. Since falling nearly 20% below that mark last month, the index has been roaring higher on hopes that President Donald Trump will lower his tariffs after reaching trade deals with other countries. The index, which sits at the heart of many 401(k) accounts, is back above where it was on April 2, Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he announced stiff worldwide tariffs that caused worries to spike about a potentially self-inflicted recession. . .

It wasn’t just stocks surging following what one analyst called a “best case scenario” for US-China tariff talks. Crude oil prices jumped more than 3% because a global economy less weakened by tariffs would be hungrier for fuel. The value of the dollar climbed against everything from the euro to the Japanese yen to the Swiss franc. And Treasury yields jumped on expectations that the Federal Reserve won’t have to cut interest rates so deeply this year in order to protect the economy from the damage of tariffs. (Read more from “Dow Jumps Nearly 1,000 and S&P 500 Climbs 2.6% Following a 90-Day Truce in the US-China Trade War” HERE)

Paris Issues Denial of Macron Cocaine Bag on Ukraine Train

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President Emmanuel Macron’s office decried “disinformation” after footage showed him self-consciously snatching a small white object from a conference table while sitting with Britain’s Sir Keir Starmer and Germany’s Friedrich Merz.

The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany made a then-secret trip to Ukraine on Friday evening for joint events on Saturday, travelling from Poland to Kyiv by overnight train provided by the Ukrainian government. In the now-familiar travelling conference room used by dozens of world leaders on their trips to Ukraine during wartime while air warfare makes executive jet travel impossible, the three men met for a brief photo-call with their attendant journalists.

After these images and the trip were made public, footage of President Macron himself sitting at the head of the conference table before noticing a small white object on the table and snatching it to his pocket spread on social media along with claims that it had, in fact, been a bag of cocaine.

The assertion gained sufficient traction that the Élysée palace itself, the private office and residence of the French President, felt forced to deny the claims. Sharing high-resolution images of the interior of the railway carriage, the palace said, with apparent contempt: “this is a tissue. For blowing your nose”. (Read more from “Paris Issues Denial of Macron Cocaine Bag on Ukraine Train” HERE)

New Secret Nuclear Site in Iran Revealed

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The major Iranian opposition group known as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, or PMOI/MEK, on May 8 exposed a secret nuclear facility in Semnan Province. Known as “Ranginkaman” (Rainbow), the site operates under the guise of Diba Energy Sina, a company claiming to produce chemicals for the oil and petrochemical industries. In truth, however, it is part of the SPND – an Iranian organization tasked with building nuclear weapons.

The facility’s primary objective is to design warheads for missiles with a range exceeding 3,000 kilometers. Its use of tritium, a radioactive isotope, raises serious concerns for global security. . .

Recent reports in regime-aligned media suggest Iran and the U.S. may be exploring nuclear cooperation, including joint uranium enrichment in a third-party country. Some sources even speculate about a potential meeting between Iran’s president and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Regardless of their accuracy, these rumors must be approached with skepticism. The Islamic Republic has repeatedly violated its nuclear commitments – such as breaching the 3.67% enrichment cap set by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA (the “Iran nuclear deal”) and enriching uranium to 60%.

The revelation of yet another hidden nuclear site serves as a clear warning: Complacency in confronting Tehran’s nuclear ambitions could once again plunge the region into crisis, as history has already shown. (Read more from “New Secret Nuclear Site in Iran Revealed” HERE)

Chicago Public Schools Pays $2.6M For Allegedly Forcing Students To Participate In Hindu Ritual

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When a school program tells students not to tell their religious parents about an activity, there is a problem. That is what reportedly happened in Chicago Public Schools when it allegedly forced students to practice Hindu-based Transcendental Meditation (TM) twice a day.

This week the Chicago Board of Education and the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace settled a class action lawsuit, agreeing to pay out $2.6 million to former Chicago Public Schools high school students who say they were forced to participate in TM for 15-20 minutes in the morning and again in the afternoon.

Court papers show the board of education first signed a $170,000 contract with the foundation to implement its “Quiet Time” program from March through June 2018.

“The key component of Quiet Time is an evidence-based stress reduction and cognitive development technique known as Transcendental Meditation. … If youth choose not to meditate, they are free to select another quiet activity such as sustained silent reading, resting, or quiet sitting,” the contract reads.

But former student Kaya Hudgins, now 22, testified in a deposition that she was told Quiet Time participation was mandatory. And, although the contract calls for permission slips to be signed by parents, Hudgins said students were told not to tell their parents. Hudgins, who grew up in a Muslim home, was 16 when the Chicago school allegedly started to indoctrinate her into TM. Hudgins said she asked if she could do some of her five daily prayers instead during Quiet Time and was denied, and she was sent to the dean’s office for complaining about the program. (Read more from “Chicago Public Schools Pays $2.6M For Allegedly Forcing Students To Participate In Hindu Ritual” HERE)