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An idyllic city known for its historic buildings and Southern charm has been beset by homelessness and drug use under a Democratic mayor. Savannah, Georgia has long been promoted as one of America’s prettiest cities, with more than 20 public squares framed by churches, town houses and other historic buildings covered in Spanish moss. But …
President Donald Trump’s administration claimed to have bombed a “narco-terrorist supply complex” that was a cattle and dairy farm, according to a new report. The administration’s bombing campaign of vessels allegedly carrying drugs off the coast of Latin America was expanded in early March when the U.S. began conducting joint military operations alongside Ecuadorian forces. …
Factcheck: According to multiple independent reports, between 2006 and 2018 Israel exported about 23,000–24,000 small arms (including military-grade rifles) to Mexico for use by Mexican security forces such as police and military. This was part of Mexico’s effort to combat drug cartels during that period. ✔️ Investigations — including research by human-rights groups — …
Mexican Resort Towns Burn As Special Forces Kill Jalisco New Generation Cartel Boss "El Mencho" https://t.co/kQcnsbDn37 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 22, 2026 Mexico’s Ministry of Defense announced on X that a military operation targeting the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in the Tapalpa area resulted in the death of cartel leader Nemesio “Mencho” Oseguera. According …
We prioritize the health and safety of anyone who comes to us for care. https://t.co/jJE9jONCWT pic.twitter.com/G57wkdrsqo — VCU Health (@VCUHealth) January 27, 2026 A nurse at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health has been fired after making a series of videos suggesting ways to harm ICE agents. “Following an investigation, the individual involved in the social …
How deep does cartel corruption go when a former DEA official is accused of laundering $12,000,000? 🚨 BREAKING: The Deep State is scrambling after Obama DEA official gets criminally INDICTED for helping the cartels, agreeing to launder $12 MILLION dollars Democrats support terrorists. It’s confirmed. ROOT IT ALL OUT! pic.twitter.com/TGRxJ0NHg5 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December …
NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-level agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain military-grade firearms and explosives for a Mexican drug cartel, according to an indictment unsealed Friday in New York. Paul Campo, 61, of Oakton, Virginia, who retired …
On November 19, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to sevabertinib (Hyrnuo, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc.), a kinase inhibitor, for adults with locally advanced or metastatic, non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have HER2 (ERBB2) tyrosine kinase domain (TKD) activating mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test, and who have …
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum just said fighting a war against drug cartels is unlawful because it would violate the rights of drug traffickers and it would be "fascist." "Returning to the war against the narco is not an option. First, because it is outside the framework… pic.twitter.com/yxv5q83HwF — George (@BehizyTweets) November 6, 2025 Mexican President …
🚨 TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE DEAL TO CUT WEIGHT-LOSS DRUG PRICES President Trump is set to announce a deal Thursday at 11 a.m. to lower the cost of certain weight-loss drugs, sources told CBS News. The agreement with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk would reduce prices for some obesity… — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) November 6, 2025 …
It started small. A pill for seizures that quietly moved into everything else. Back pain. Hot flashes. Restless nights. One drug that keeps finding new problems to solve, even the ones it was never built for. “What do hot flashes, back pain, and insomnia have in common? Increasingly, they all lead to the same prescription: …
In a briefing, the official who leads the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, T. Elliot Gaiser, said the administration did not think the operation rose to the kind of “hostilities” covered by the 60-day limit, a key part of a 1973 law called the War Powers Resolution, according to several people familiar with the matter. …
🚨BREAKING: President Trump and SecWar Pete Hegseth just blew ANOTHER narco-terrorist boat out of the water. HEGSETH: "These strikes will continue, DAY AFTER DAY." 🔥 "The Department of War carried out yet another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated… pic.twitter.com/ni00YUBlRA — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 23, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The …
MARK CUBAN EXPOSES PBM SCAM COSTING PATIENTS BILLIONS BEFORE SENATE Mark Cuban just testified before the Senate explaining how Pharmacy Benefit Managers are a bigger monopoly than Amazon, controlling drug access for 270 million Americans while driving prices up, not down: “PBMs auction off access to their formularies to the highest bidders. Drug companies pay …
“the Trump administration said it had “determined that the United States is in a non-international armed conflict with these designated terrorist organizations” and that Trump directed the Pentagon to “conduct operations against them pursuant to the law of armed conflict.”” 👍👍 — Dhead2023 (@head99691) October 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States struck another …
AI DISCOVERS REVOLUTIONARY NEW WAY TO REVERSE LUNG DAMAGE An AI system didn’t just design a new drug for pulmonary fibrosis; it first figured out which protein was causing the damage (TNIK), then designed a molecule to shut it down. In a 12-week trial, patients on the highest dose gained almost 100 ml of lung …
TRUMP EFFECT: Eli Lilly to build $5 billion drug manufacturing plant in Virginia https://t.co/BU2uRGfE9b — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 16, 2025 https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-announces-plans-build-5-billion-manufacturing-facility INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced that it plans to build a $5 billion manufacturing facility just west of Richmond, Virginia, in Goochland County. …
Trump Announces Crackdown On Drug Ads On TV, Potentially Disrupting Billions In Ad Spending https://t.co/Sn678w3tTp — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 10, 2025 President Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Tuesday that calls on federal health agencies to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose more side effects in their ads and enforce existing rules about misleading ads. The …
Two Venezuelan fighter jets closed in on the USS Jason Dunham within 1,000 yards in international waters, a maneuver the Pentagon called highly provocative. That label masks the intent: a calculated message wrapped in speed and steel meant to elicit a response. The flyover was not a mistake; it was a signal of capability and …
As "Ketamine Queen" Jasveen Sangha pleads guilty in relation to the death of Matthew Perry – the last of five people charged to do so – Sky News takes a look at the world of Hollywood assistants and ketamine use in the US, both legal and illegal. 🔗 https://t.co/LMSbpJmsLH pic.twitter.com/O1HWZZrryC — Sky News (@SkyNews) September …
This ruling strips the government of one of the few tools that was actually making cartels afraid. By halting strikes, the courts have signaled weakness, and weakness is always read as opportunity by organized crime. Every cartel boat that slips through will not just carry drugs, it will carry proof that U.S. sovereignty can be …
UnitedHealth Group is not just under review. It is under federal criminal investigation, and the scope keeps growing. What started as questions over Medicare Advantage billing has now expanded into OptumRx’s prescription management services and the way the company reimburses physicians. “The investigation is looking at how OptumRx negotiates drug prices and reimburses pharmacies,”reported Bloomberg,noting …
Mexico is burning. The state claims to govern, but the cartels pull the strings. Power has become a theater of fear, and ordinary citizens are the casualties. The institutions that should protect them are complicit, silent, or terrified. Every day that passes under this shadow, the nation bleeds a little more. And when a single …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has ordered the deployment of U.S. air and naval forces to the Southern Caribbean Sea to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, two sources briefed on the decision told Reuters on Thursday. The sources had few details of the operation, but President Donald Trump has wanted to use the …
Trump claims he’s cut drug prices by “1,500 percent” pic.twitter.com/n9meMZxS6R — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2025
It’s getting really out of control. A new form of techno-spirituality is spreading like wildfire across the internet. Thousands of people are claiming that ChatGPT is sentient and that the AI is a type of all knowing God, or that it has been sent from the future or an alien civilization to save us. Is …
This price gap isn’t an accident—it’s the result of Big Pharma’s monopoly power and Washington’s corruption. Xifaxan’s manufacturer holds patent exclusivity while lobbying to block generics, allowing them to charge Americans 60x Mexico’s price. Medicare could negotiate these… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) May 14, 2025
While most of the world goes about daily life unaware, the United States Navy is fighting a war no one talks about. Drug submarines packed with cocaine try to sneak past Navy ships and helicopters armed with machine guns. These missions rarely make headlines and receive little public attention, despite involving billions of dollars linked …
Democrats are saying this will lead to less new drug development, while Republicans are saying it will stop price-gouging by Big Pharma. Both parties were saying the exact opposite a decade ago. https://t.co/j39IM8b2EH — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) May 12, 2025
