[NewsMax] Historian and conservative political commentator Victor Davis Hanson shared an update on his health on social media, saying his recovery from a serious medical condition has been "slowed" by unexpected complications.
In a Monday morning post on X, Hanson, 72, began with encouraging news, saying surgeons successfully removed a "cancerous lung mucinous adenoma carcinoma" along with the lower right lobe of his lung in early January.
But Hanson said his recovery has been "slowed" by a post-operative aneurysm that required additional time under anesthesia and "about 5 blood transfusions."
"As a result, over the last 30 days, I developed low red blood counts, fatigue, and bouts of arterial fibrillation," he wrote. "All that has sort of slowed my recovery."
Hanson also offered more detail about his diagnosis, saying "this type of nonsmoker's lung cancer has a rare genetic/mutation profile" and can recur roughly 40% of the time even after successful surgery.
He added that the "removed and biopsied lymph nodes" as well as "adjacent vascular/pleural samples" all came back negative for cancer.
"And the pre-op PET scan shows no signs of malignancy outside the lower right lung lobe," Hanson wrote.
He said he is weighing whether to begin chemotherapy and immunotherapy, which, he said, provides a 5%-10% "edge" in preventing recurrences.
"I'll do a cost-benefit analysis, depending on how quickly I regain energy, to determine whether to start the preventative drug regimens," Hanson said.
"The bottom line," Hanson told his followers, "is that I'm hoping to come back as soon as possible."
"But I don't know exactly when I'll be back to near normal," he said. "In the meantime, I hope to post things now and then on days when I feel better."
Hanson also thanked his readers and listeners for their "wonderful expressions of concern and reassurance" during his absence.
The update follows Hanson's announcement in December that he was stepping away from his show after suffering a "serious" health problem.
He did not disclose at the time that he was battling lung cancer but later shared that detail in mid-January, saying he was "recovering" well from surgery.
A familiar voice to many viewers, Hanson has been a fixture in conservative media for years and has appeared numerous times on Newsmax.
He has also been a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, once describing him as the outsider America needed after "decades of drift." Hanson authored "The Case for Trump" in 2019.
He has frequently criticized Democrats and liberal policies, telling Mark Levin in 2022 that the country was experiencing an outbreak of "craziness" during then-President Joe Biden's presidency.
"We're in a revolutionary situation," Hanson said at the time. "It's out to destroy a particular person: Donald Trump."
Hanson joined The Daily Signal in January 2025 and serves as a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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[Regnum] A white couple living in the US state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against a fertility clinic claiming they gave birth to a black child due to medical error. This was reported by The New York Post.
Tiffany Skor and Steven Mills claimed that a reproductive endocrinologist at the clinic implanted another patient's embryo into Skor's uterus. After the girl's birth, they immediately realized something was wrong, seeing her features as "non-Caucasian," the lawsuit states.
Genetic testing confirmed that the child is not genetically related to either parent. Furthermore, Skor and Mills fear that their embryo was implanted in someone else, and that their genetic child is being raised in a different family.
However, the plaintiffs have no intention of giving up the girl. They stated that they have fallen in love with her and want to raise the child.
Skor and Mills' lawsuit demands that the clinic notify all potentially affected patients, pay for extensive genetic testing, and disclose whether the embryo mix-up affected other families.
In October 2025, it was revealed that a Japanese pensioner who had lived in extreme poverty was a wealthy heir. This came to light following a dispute over the businessman's inheritance between his children. The younger children recalled their mother's story about fears that her eldest son might have been switched at birth. They conducted a DNA test and discovered that he was not their biological child. The identity of the person with whom he had been switched was also established.
A couple was on their honeymoon, lying in bed, about ready to consummate their marriage, when the new bride says to the husband, "I have a confession to make, I'm not a virgin."
The husband replies, "That's no big thing in this day and age."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A man sparked an evacuation at a French hospital after doctors discovered an eight-inch-long live World War I artillery shell in his rectum.
The unnamed 24-year-old rushed to the Rangueil Accident and Emergency unit in Toulouse, in the south-west of the country, late on Saturday night.
‘He was in a state of extreme discomfort, having inserted a large object up his rectum,’ said an investigating source. "I fell in the shower"
‘Emergency surgery was carried out, and the object was found to be an artillery shell dating back to the First World War.
‘Worse still, it had not exploded, and so bomb disposal experts had to be called to diffuse the shell, with the fire brigade standing by.’
Staff and patients were evacuated from Rangueil Hospital, and a security perimeter was set up around the accident and emergency unit, before the pointed 1918 shell, which was almost 8 inches long and just over an inch in circumference, was declared safe.
The patient, a French national, was set to be interviewed by police this week, as prosecutors contemplated legal action against him for handling ‘category A munitions’, according to an officer.
There was no initial explanation as to why the shell ended up in the man’s body, but local media speculated that it might have had something to do with his social life.
One suspects so.
La Dépêche newspaper writes that medical staff in Toulouse are ‘accustomed to treating victims injured during sexual games’.
The 37mm brass-and-copper shell was 20cm long and used by the Imperial German Army towards the end of the First World War.
Such shells were date-stamped, and hundreds of thousands were used against British and French forces in major set-piece battles across the Western Front between 1914 and 1918.
They are regularly discovered in the so-called ‘Iron Harvest’ – the annual collection of often unexploded ordnance from the two world wars found on farmland, building sites, and other disrupted land.
But this is not the first time France has seen a case of this nature.
In 2022, doctors were left shell-shocked after an 88-year-old Frenchman arrived at a hospital with a World War I bomb stuck in his bottom.
The unnamed senior citizen arrived at the Hospital Sainte Musse in Toulon, southern France, in the hope of having the eight-inch-long artillery shell removed from his anus.
His arrival sparked a bomb scare as hospital officials feared the antique explosive would detonate.
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Old guy : In 2022, doctors were left shell-shocked after an 88-year-old Frenchman arrived at a hospital with a World War I bomb stuck in his bottom.
[FoxNews] A Massachusetts homeowner accidentally set his house on fire while trying to melt ice buildup during a brutal winter stretch of arctic misery that has frustrated millions of Americans.
The fire broke out at a home in Milton, Massachusetts, after the man used a blowtorch to melt ice on his roof, Milton Fire Deputy Chief John Earner said. Flames quickly spread into the attic, turning what appeared to be a small flare-up into a major fire.
Witnesses said the fire escalated rapidly.
"He gets down, and then we see the flames just in the gutter," one neighbor told WCVB-TV. "All of a sudden, smoke was coming from everywhere. It just seemed like the whole roof was consumed."
They say the average IQ is 100. And it doesn’t take a genius IQ to live within your means, just a little self discipline.
[JustTheNews] President Trump is set to launch a critical minerals stockpile with $12 billion in seed money from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, according to a report.
A Trump administration official told Reuters about the plan, the newswire reported Monday.
The venture, called Project Vault, will combine a $10 billion loan from the EXIM Bank with private funding to acquire and stockpile the minerals for automakers, technology companies, and other manufacturers.
EXIM’s board is set to authorize the 15-year, $10 billion loan in a vote later Monday.
Trading firms Hartree Partners, Traxys North America, and Mercuria Energy Group would manage the procurement of raw materials for the stockpile, according to the official.
One of the goals of the venture is to allow for a 60-day supply of minerals for emergency use, the official said.
Following a media hiatus of several weeks, the FLA rebels of northern Mali claimed an IED attack against a "patrol of the Malian army" in the Kidal region on January 30, alleging that an armored vehicle was destroyed and several soldiers killed, however local sources reported… pic.twitter.com/F61sklBLtb
Following a media hiatus of several weeks, the FLA rebels
…in French Front de libération de l'Azawad, in English the Azawad Liberation Front, a Tuareg Berber nationalist movement in parts of Mali and northern and western Niger. The big cities are Timbuktu and Gao…
of northern Mali claimed an IED attack against a "patrol of the Malian army" in the Kidal region on January 30, alleging that an armored vehicle was destroyed and several soldiers killed, however local sources reported that the vehicle was owned by a civilian trader, as seen in circulated images.
[Reuters] Germany will build an encrypted military constellation of more than 100 satellites, known as SATCOM Stage 4, over the next few years, the head of German Space Command Michael Traut told Reuters on the sidelines of a space event ahead of the Singapore Airshow.
He said the network would mirror the model used by the U.S. Space Development Agency, a Pentagon unit that deploys low-Earth-orbit satellites for communications and missile tracking.
The potential deal comes as Europe's top three space firms - Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab, Thales (TCFP.PA), opens new tab and Leonardo (LDOF.MI), opens new tab - are seeking to build a European satellite communications alternative to Elon Musk's Starlink.
[Reuters] A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal protections for more than 350,000 Haitians in the U.S., preventing their potential deportation to a country that has been ravaged by gang violence.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., halted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's effort to terminate Haiti's Temporary Protected Status. The move would have taken effect on Wednesday despite spiraling violence there that has displaced more than 1.4 million people.
Reyes, who was appointed by Democratic former President Joe Biden, issued the ruling in a class-action lawsuit brought by Haitians seeking to stop the administration from exposing them to deportation by ending their legal status.
Reyes said in the ruling that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem likely violated the procedures required to terminate the protected status of Haitian immigrants in the U.S. as well as the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law.
"Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely," Reyes wrote.
The law firm representing the plaintiffs, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, praised the ruling, noting that Haiti remains extremely dangerous.
"This ruling recognizes the grave risks Haitian TPS holders would face if forced to return, and it ensures that they can remain here in the United States – as legislated by Congress - to continue their lives, contributing to their communities, and supporting their families," the firm said in a statement.
TPS is available to people whose home country has experienced a natural disaster, armed conflict or other extraordinary event. It provides eligible migrants with work authorization and temporary protection from deportation.
The Department of Homeland Security has moved to end the status for about a dozen countries as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration, saying TPS was always meant to be temporary and not a "de facto amnesty program."
Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin indicated in a social media post that the ruling would be appealed.
"Haiti's TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades. Temporary means temporary and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench," McLaughlin said.
Haitians were first given TPS in 2010, after a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck their country. The U.S. has repeatedly extended the status, most recently under the Biden administration in July 2024.
The department at that time extended TPS for another 18 months through February 3, 2026, citing "simultaneous economic, security, political, and health crises" in Haiti, fueled by gangs and a lack of a functioning government.
Shortly after Trump took office, his administration tried to curtail those humanitarian protections for Haitians in February 2025, when Noem moved to truncate the Biden-era extension so it would expire in August.
After a federal judge in New York in July ruled Noem lacked statutory authority to do so, her department in November moved to terminate Haiti's TPS status, saying there were "no extraordinary and temporary conditions" in the country that would prevent migrants from returning.
UNICEF estimated in October that over 6 million people - more than half the population, including 3.3 million children - need humanitarian assistance.
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I can understand the Haitians not wanting to go back, but if one argues we can't send them back because the country full of Haitians, it raises the question: Why do we want them here?
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The department at that time extended TPS for another 18 months through February 3, 2026, citing "simultaneous economic, security, political, and health crises" in Haiti, fueled by gangs and a lack of a functioning government.
So it will end in a year even if the judge wins this round, and in the meantime the Haitians here on TPS are getting a strong signal that it’s time to wind up their affairs, and maybe even take an offered payment to go home early. Even if we lose we’ll win.
[Just The News] Feds confirm a researcher's potential exposure to "Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever through an accidental breach of personal protective equipment." NIH director under pressure from lawmakers to "stop this batty research."
Two days before the Environmental Protection Agency was scheduled to further distinguish the Trump administration from its predecessor by phasing out animal testing over criticisms of pointless cruelty, biosafety risks and obfuscation, an anti-testing watchdog exposed another possible leak from a federal research lab on U.S. soil.
This one happened on the current administration's watch, however, months after local media reported National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya toured the Rocky Mountain Laboratories "to demonstrate NIH executive level commitment to RML" amid community fears it would get hit by Department of Government Efficiency cuts.
The watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW) on Tuesday published the minutes from the NIH Institutional Biosafety Committee's Nov. 20, 2025 meeting at RML in Hamilton, Mont., which has a two-year-old "vivarium" that NIH said would expand study of "exotic species (such as bats)." The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases runs it.
Funded with $125 million in COVID relief money, RML's vivarium drew concern from Sens. Joni Ernst and Eric Schmitt before its completion.
The Iowa and Missouri Republicans asked then-NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli for more information about RML's "potentially risky research," since then-NIAID Director Anthony Fauci added a BSL-4 lab that can study "deadly pathogens with pandemic potential," and how Congress and the public will learn of RML's research with "select agents."
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How about a simple Logical Dangerous Lab rule be followed?
REMOTE, ISOLATED LABS ONLY - NO LABS IN POPULATED AREAS.
Eg.
ALL US testing of pathogens, and other dangerous spreadable items, will be done on the Johnston Atoll island.
Once any testing/experimenting of any spreadable substance has started, NO staff or personnel may come, or leave the island site until a 30 day quarantine has taken place and no illnesses have occurred.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] A Massachusetts homeowner accidentally set his house on fire while trying to melt ice buildup during a brutal winter stretch of arctic misery that has frustrated millions of Americans.
[Just The News] Feds confirm a researcher's potential exposure to "Crimean-Congo 
