Frantic Grocery Shoppers Empty Shelves Before Arctic Blast, Snow Barrels Across US

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. . .Grocery stores are quickly running out of supplies as frantic customers stock up ahead of the Arctic blast and subsequent snowstorm expected to barrel across the country.

Forecasters warned that the weather system, dubbed Winter Storm Fern, will send many cities’ temperatures plummeting well below zero — and could dump anywhere from one to two feet of snow in some parts of the eastern US.

Megan Monroe-Evans, an Alabama resident, shared a startling video on TikTok showing her local grocery store’s barren refrigerators.

“The weather man mentioned a possibility of ice and snow and this is what we here in the south do… buy all the milk, bread and eggs. Like WTF,” she wrote in the caption.

She hoped that the “panic buying” was “just a south thing” — which, so far, seems to be ringing true.

@kym.adams Do you panic buy? #groceryshopping #grocerystore #momlife #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive ♬ As It Was (Instrumental) – KPH

Similar videos were posted by fretful customers at stores in Texas, Oklahoma, and Virginia, but very few from states in the Northeast that could be buried under up to a foot of snow over the weekend. (Read more from “Frantic Grocery Shoppers Empty Shelves Before Arctic Blast, Snow Barrels Across US” HERE)

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TOP SECRET: Thousands of Chinese Pilots Are Trained Every Year in California and Arizona, Strengthening the CCP’s Military Power

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New York Times bestselling author and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer details in his new book how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “using our openness and generosity against us” by sending thousands of future military pilots posing as civilians to the United States to learn how to fly.

Schweizer’s latest exposé, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, delves into the little-known concern of Chinese pilots being sent to the U.S. for training with “virtually no oversight” before returning and serving in their own country’s military.

“The People’s Republic of China has a pilot problem,” the investigative journalist writes in The Invisible Coup. “Beijing needs five thousand pilot cadets every year to meet the demand for both military and civilian pilots. Because the Chinese military tightly controls the country’s airspace, it can domestically produce only about 1,200 pilots a year. So, Beijing quietly erected a system to train three thousand of them a year in the United States.”

“Across the US, at least sixteen flight schools, operating out of taxpayer-funded airports, are training Chinese cadets—sometimes without disclosing their foreign military ties,” he continues. “They do so by sending future military pilots to the United States posing as civilians to learn how to fly.”

This also applies to Chinese helicopter pilots, who receive American training by the thousands after entering the country on student visas with “minimal scrutiny,” Schweizer writes. (Read more from “TOP SECRET: Thousands of Chinese Pilots Are Trained Every Year in California and Arizona, Strengthening the CCP’s Military Power” HERE)

Ghislaine Maxwell To Appear Before Congress In Epstein Investigation

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Ghislaine Maxwell has agreed to appear before the House Oversight Committee in February.

Maxwell is set to testify on Feb. 9 as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s activities, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed during a markup of contempt resolutions against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The former Epstein confidant, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking alongside Epstein — who died in 2019 before facing trial on federal sex-trafficking charges — will provide her testimony virtually, a Oversight Committee spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller.

“Her lawyers have made it clear that she’s going to plead the Fifth,” Comer told Fox News Digital. “I hope she changes her mind, because I want to hear from her.”

The spokesperson told the Caller that Maxwell is expected to “take the fifth” during the deposition before the committee.

(Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell To Appear Before Congress In Epstein Investigation” HERE)

What’s Going on With the Epstein Files? A Month After Deadline, the Vast Majority of Materials Remain Unreleased

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More than a month has passed since the deadline for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all its files related to the investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And while the department has publicly shared thousands of documents since that date, those releases account for only a fraction of the materials it has in its possession—leaving the vast majority of the so-called “Epstein files” still unreleased.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in November, the DOJ was required to release all the Epstein files by Dec. 19. The department began releasing materials that day, but the Trump Administration admitted that it wouldn’t share all the documents by the deadline, claiming that the scale of redactions needed to protect victims’ identities would delay the full release. Since then, the department has released a few batches of documents related to the Epstein case. But it has been weeks since the most recent of those batches was made public, and earlier this month, top DOJ officials revealed that more than two million documents have yet to be shared, meaning that less than 1% of the Epstein files have been released.

The partial releases—and the heavy redactions made to many of the documents that have been made public—have sparked outcry from politicians, survivors of Epstein’s abuse, and the public. Days after the December deadline, lawmakers threatened to take action against the Trump Administration for not releasing all the documents in the case, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slamming the DOJ for what he called a “blatant disregard of the law.”

Here’s what to know about the latest developments in the situation.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California—the two lawmakers who co-wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act—requested an independent expert to ensure that the DOJ complied with the federal law and released all its Epstein materials. But on Wednesday, a federal judge denied the request, saying that he didn’t have the jurisdiction to oversee the DOJ in this matter. (Read more from “What’s Going on With the Epstein Files? A Month After Deadline, the Vast Majority of Materials Remain Unreleased” HERE)

House Committee Finds Bill and Hillary Clinton in Contempt of Congress After Skipping Epstein Depositions

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A House committee voted on a bipartisan basis Wednesday to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress, teeing up a full vote in two weeks’ time in the lower chamber that could result in criminal charges.

The House Oversight Committee voted 34-8 to hold the 42nd president in contempt for refusing to comply with their subpoena to testify about his relationship with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The resolution stated that Bill Clinton “impeded an Oversight Committee investigation” into the government’s handling of probes into Epstein and his imprisoned madam Ghislaine Maxwell.

It also claimed he had obstructed their inquiries into “the circumstances and subsequent investigations of Mr. Epstein’s death,” “the operation of sex-trafficking rings and ways for the federal government to effectively combat them,” “ways in which Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell sought to curry favor and exercise influence to protect their illegal activities” and “potential violations of ethics rules.”

“President Clinton’s willful refusal to comply with the Oversight Committee’s subpoena constitutes contempt of Congress and warrants referral to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for prosecution as prescribed by law,” a 20-page report accompanying the resolution noted. (Read more from “House Committee Finds Bill and Hillary Clinton in Contempt of Congress After Skipping Epstein Depositions” HERE)

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Palantir CEO Warns That AI ‘Will Destroy’ This Type of Job — While Boosting Vocational Careers

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Workers with college degrees in philosophy and other humanities will have a hard time finding jobs as artificial intelligence takes over the US economy, Palantir CEO Alex Karp cautioned Tuesday.

Karp issued the warning after BlackRock CEO Larry Fink asked him if AI will “create jobs or destroy jobs overall” during a wide-ranging discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“It will destroy humanities jobs,” Karp replied. “[If] you went to an elite school and you studied philosophy — I’ll use myself as an example — hopefully you have some other skill. That one is going to be hard to market.”

Karp, 58, is known for his unorthodox path to leading a top-tier tech company. He earned a a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Haverford College, a JD from Stanford Law School and later a Ph.D. in philosophy from the prestigious Goethe University in Germany before cofounding Palantir alongside billionaire Peter Thiel in 2003.

The Palantir boss did not point to specific fields that would face job losses, though graduates in the humanities often pursue careers in academia, law and government. (Read more from “Palantir CEO Warns That AI ‘Will Destroy’ This Type of Job — While Boosting Vocational Careers” HERE)

Trump Announces ‘Framework of a Future Deal’ Regarding Greenland, ‘Entire Arctic Region’

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President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte have established a framework for a future deal regarding not only Greenland, but “the entire Arctic Region.”

Trump took to Truth Social after meeting with Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, hours after he said the United States would not use force to take Greenland.

“Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” he wrote.

“This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations. Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st,” he added.

As the possibility of a near-term trade war over Greenland faded on Wednesday, stocks began to rise. (Read more from “Trump Announces ‘Framework of a Future Deal’ Regarding Greenland, ‘Entire Arctic Region’” HERE)

ICE Detains U.S. Citizen in His Underwear During ‘Targeted Operation’ Searching for Sex Offenders

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A US citizen was dragged out of his Minnesota home in his underwear by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a search for two sex offenders who allegedly lived at the property.

ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who has no criminal record, was napping when his daughter-in-law woke him up to tell him that ICE agents were banging on the door of their home in St. Paul on Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the ICE raid was a “targeted operation” seeking “two convicted sex offenders” at the address.

“The individual refused to be fingerprinted or facially ID’d. He matched the description of the targets,” DHS said.

But Thao told the AP that only he, his son, his daughter-in-law and 4-year-old grandson live at the rental home and neither they nor the property’s owner are listed on Minnesota’s sex offender registry.

The confusion may have been related to Thao’s son, Chris, getting stopped earlier in the day by ICE while driving a car that he borrowed from his cousin’s boyfriend. The boyfriend shares the first name of a separate Asian man convicted of a sex offense, court records show. (Read more from “ICE Detains U.S. Citizen in His Underwear During ‘Targeted Operation’ Searching for Sex Offenders” HERE)

The Exercises That Could Help You Live Longer — and the Ones That Matter Less

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All movement can benefit your health, but new research suggests that how you move — and how often you vary your activity — may play a meaningful role in how long you live.

A large new study published in BMJ Medicine examined how different forms of physical activity relate to the risk of early death, finding that some exercises appear to offer stronger longevity benefits than others. The findings also suggest that mixing up your workouts may be just as important as how much you exercise overall.

Researchers analyzed data from two major long-term studies involving more than 111,000 adults — roughly 70,700 women and 40,600 men — who regularly reported how often they engaged in various forms of physical activity each week. Those activities ranged from walking, running, cycling, and swimming to tennis, rowing, weight training, yoga, gardening, and stair climbing.

To compare the health impact of each activity, scientists used metabolic equivalent (MET) scores, which measure how much energy an activity requires based on intensity and time spent exercising.

Among all activities studied, walking stood out. Participants who walked the most during the week had a 17% lower risk of dying prematurely compared with those who walked the least. The findings suggest that even low-impact, accessible exercise can have a powerful effect on long-term health.

Variety also mattered. People who engaged in the widest range of physical activities experienced a 19% lower risk of death from any cause, indicating that mixing different types of movement may provide added protection.

Simple daily habits appeared to make a difference as well. Regular stair climbing was linked to a 10% lower risk of early death, reinforcing the idea that small lifestyle changes can add up over time.

When looking at specific activities, racquet sports such as tennis and squash were associated with a 15% reduction in early death risk, followed by rowing at 14%. Weight training and running each showed a 13% reduction. Cycling offered a smaller benefit, with a 4% lower risk, while swimming did not show a strong independent association in the data.

Researchers cautioned that more exercise is not always better. The benefits of physical activity appeared to level off once participants reached about 20 MET hours per week, suggesting there may be a threshold beyond which additional exercise does not significantly improve longevity.

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WATCH: Teacher Tells Student Defending ICE, ‘Just Because You’re Alive Doesn’t Mean You’re Intelligent’

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Videos emerging online reveal teachers in different states blatantly indoctrinating their students in the anti-ICE narrative after the shooting death of leftist agitator Renee Good by a federal officer in Minneapolis.

One video shows Dr. Heather Abrahamson, a social-studies teacher and Gender and Sexuality Alliance adviser at Becker High School in Becker, Minnesota, getting into a heated discussion with students who were defending the ICE agent’s action as Good’s car appeared to have raced toward him. . .

“It was a split second,” one student asserts.

“No,” the teacher replies, “because watch the video. He was not in danger!”

A student tells her: “Just because you’re yelling does not mean you’re winning.”

The teacher fires back: “Just because you’re alive doesn’t mean you’re intelligent.” (Read more from “WATCH: Teacher Tells Student Defending ICE, ‘Just Because You’re Alive Doesn’t Mean You’re Intelligent’” HERE)