Political commentators joked that Biden’s staff is panicking after the gaffe-prone president said he would be "happy" to debate Trump during an interview with Howard Stern Friday.
"I don't know if you're going to debate your opponent," Stern said.
The president replied, "I am, somewhere, I don’t know when. I'm happy to debate him."
Biden's comments represent a shift from past remarks about possibly debating Trump. Last month, he told reporters it would depend "on his behavior."
Trump was quick to challenge Biden to debate him, declaring on Truth Social, "Everyone knows he doesn’t really mean it, but in case he does, I say, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, an old expression used by Fighters."
Conservative social media accounts had similar responses on X, many of whom referred to Biden’s "handlers" being unhappy with his response.
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Political commentators joked that Biden’s staff is panicking after the gaffe-prone president said he would be “happy” to debate Trump during an interview with Howard Stern Friday.
“I don’t know if you’re going to debate your opponent,” Stern said.
The president replied, “I am, somewhere, I don’t know when. I’m happy to debate him.”
Biden’s comments represent a shift from past remarks about possibly debating Trump. Last month, he told reporters it would depend “on his behavior.”
Trump was quick to challenge Biden to debate him, declaring on Truth Social, “Everyone knows he doesn’t really mean it, but in case he does, I say, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, an old expression used by Fighters.”
Conservative social media accounts had similar responses on X, many of whom referred to Biden’s “handlers” being unhappy with his response.
]]>A new equation shows a surprisingly simple relationship between pressure and the temperature needed to melt any solid substance into a liquid
A professor has developed a groundbreaking theory that provides a universal method for predicting melting points, addressing a century-old challenge in physics and offering significant benefits to materials science.
A longstanding problem in physics has finally been cracked by Professor Kostya Trachenko of Queen Mary University of London’s School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. His research, published in the Physical Review E, unveils a general theory for predicting melting points, a fundamental property whose understanding has baffled scientists for over a century.
For decades, our understanding of the three basic states of matter – solids, liquids, and gases – relied on temperature-pressure phase diagrams. These diagrams depict the conditions under which each state exists, with distinct lines separating them. However, one crucial line, the melting line – marking the transition between solid and liquid – lacked a universal description.
Professor Trachenko’s theory bridges this gap. By developing a new framework that incorporates recent advancements in liquid theory, he demonstrates that melting lines can be described by a simple parabolic equation. This not only offers a practical tool for predicting melting points but also reveals a surprising universality across different material types. This universality comes from observing that parameters in the parabolic equation are governed by fundamental physical constants such as the Planck constant and electron mass and charge.
“The simplicity and universality of this result are particularly exciting,” explains Professor Trachenko. “It suggests that melting, despite its complexities, exhibits a fundamental unity across diverse systems, from noble gases to metals.”
This discovery holds significant implications beyond theoretical physics. Accurate prediction of melting points is crucial in materials science, with applications ranging from drug development to designing advanced materials and other areas where predicting phase diagrams is important. Professor Trachenko’s work paves the way for a deeper understanding of phase transitions and the creation of new materials with tailored properties.
]]>Jean-Pierre, who made history in May 2022 by becoming the first black and first openly gay person to hold the position, had developed the exasperating habit of reading canned answers directly from a binder to reporters at her regular briefings — offering what her superiors viewed as a less-than-compelling pitch for the 81-year-old Biden as he readied his re-election campaign.
De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.
“There were a number of people she asked to engage Karine,” said one source who heard of the strategy directly from Dunn, whose role as senior adviser has been filled during the past three presidencies by Jared Kushner (Donald Trump), Valerie Jarrett (Barack Obama) and Karl Rove (George W. Bush).
The source also told The Post that Dunn had claimed White House chief of staff Jeff Zients knew about and supported the cloak-and-dagger scheme to push Jean-Pierre out of the West Wing.
]]>Top aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this past fall to replace White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting outside allies to nudge her out the door, The Post has learned.
Jean-Pierre, who made history in May 2022 by becoming the first black and first openly gay person to hold the position, had developed the exasperating habit of reading canned answers directly from a binder to reporters at her regular briefings — offering what her superiors viewed as a less-than-compelling pitch for the 81-year-old Biden as he readied his re-election campaign.
De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.
“There were a number of people she asked to engage Karine,” said one source who heard of the strategy directly from Dunn, whose role as senior adviser has been filled during the past three presidencies by Jared Kushner (Donald Trump), Valerie Jarrett (Barack Obama) and Karl Rove (George W. Bush).
The source also told The Post that Dunn had claimed White House chief of staff Jeff Zients knew about and supported the cloak-and-dagger scheme to push Jean-Pierre out of the West Wing.
]]>During an hour-long live sitdown with the famed shock jock, Biden was asked whether he would agree to a general election face-off against Trump, prompting the president to insist he was up to the challenge.
“I am, somewhere, I don’t know when, but I am happy to debate him,” Biden stated.
Biden’s agreement to go one-on-one with his predecessor comes after the five major television news networks and the Associated Press prepared an open letter begging both the Trump and Biden campaigns to participate in open debates prior to the election.
“We, the undersigned national news organizations, urge the presumptive presidential nominees to publicly commit to participating in general election debates before November’s election,” the letter reads.
Trump, in a seeming effort to distract from his ongoing criminal trials, has tried pressuring the president into agreeing to a public shadow while urging the Commission on Presidential Debates to add more debates to the schedule. The ex-president has repeatedly taken to his social media site Truth Social to say he is willing to show up “anytime, anywhere, and anywhere” while mocking Biden for not yet committing to any debates.
Of course, at the same time, the ex-president backed out of participating in any of the GOP primary debates this election cycle. Throughout the primary, he repeatedly declared that he saw no reason to debate his Republican opponents because he was leading in the polls, calling them “losing candidates” who were “not going anywhere.”
The commission, meanwhile, has tentatively scheduled three presidential debates in September and October of this year. Meanwhile, it was the Republican National Committee that unanimously voted to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates in April 2022, citing their dissatisfaction with the way the 2020 presidential debates were handled.
Prior to seemingly committing to a debate during his Stern appearance, the president and his campaign have deflected questions over whether he’d agree to any faceoffs this fall. After Trump called for the two to debate “immediately” in February, Biden attempted to troll his opponent by telling reporters: “If I were him, I would want to debate me, too. He’s got nothing else to do.”
Following Biden’s insistence to Stern that he was “happy” to debate the former president, Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita reacted by tweeting: “Ok let’s set it up!”
When reached for comment, a representative for the president’s campaign pointed back to Biden’s statement and said it speaks for itself.
]]>President Joe Biden told Howard Stern on Friday that he would “be happy to” debate his Republican rival Donald Trump, marking the first time the president has explicitly said he would debate Trump this election cycle.
During an hour-long live sitdown with the famed shock jock, Biden was asked whether he would agree to a general election face-off against Trump, prompting the president to insist he was up to the challenge.
“I am, somewhere, I don’t know when, but I am happy to debate him,” Biden stated.
Biden’s agreement to go one-on-one with his predecessor comes after the five major television news networks and the Associated Press prepared an open letter begging both the Trump and Biden campaigns to participate in open debates prior to the election.
“We, the undersigned national news organizations, urge the presumptive presidential nominees to publicly commit to participating in general election debates before November’s election,” the letter reads.
Trump, in a seeming effort to distract from his ongoing criminal trials, has tried pressuring the president into agreeing to a public shadow while urging the Commission on Presidential Debates to add more debates to the schedule. The ex-president has repeatedly taken to his social media site Truth Social to say he is willing to show up “anytime, anywhere, and anywhere” while mocking Biden for not yet committing to any debates.
Of course, at the same time, the ex-president backed out of participating in any of the GOP primary debates this election cycle. Throughout the primary, he repeatedly declared that he saw no reason to debate his Republican opponents because he was leading in the polls, calling them “losing candidates” who were “not going anywhere.”
The commission, meanwhile, has tentatively scheduled three presidential debates in September and October of this year. Meanwhile, it was the Republican National Committee that unanimously voted to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates in April 2022, citing their dissatisfaction with the way the 2020 presidential debates were handled.
Prior to seemingly committing to a debate during his Stern appearance, the president and his campaign have deflected questions over whether he’d agree to any faceoffs this fall. After Trump called for the two to debate “immediately” in February, Biden attempted to troll his opponent by telling reporters: “If I were him, I would want to debate me, too. He’s got nothing else to do.”
Following Biden’s insistence to Stern that he was “happy” to debate the former president, Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita reacted by tweeting: “Ok let’s set it up!”
When reached for comment, a representative for the president’s campaign pointed back to Biden’s statement and said it speaks for itself.
]]>Two Trump cases converged in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a penetrating question. What’s to stop a “creative prosecutor” from using a “vague statute” to prosecute a president, especially, a prosecutor from the “opposing party”?
In the Age of Trump, the answer is nothing. That’s precisely what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is doing to the former president in a New York courtroom. And Fulton County DA Fanni Willis in Georgia. And special counsel Jack Smith in both Washington, D.C. and Florida.
Kavanaugh’s query came during oral arguments over the issue of presidential immunity asserted by Trump in the January 6th case brought by Smith. But the capacious meaning was crystal clear. It was echoed by another Justice, Neil Gorsuch, who worried aloud about the use (or misuse) of “criminal law to target political opponents based on accusations about their motives.”
Of the four criminal indictments of Trump, the Bragg case is the most egregious example of this nightmare scenario. It is exactly what it appears to be: a politically motivated case conjured up by an unscrupulous prosecutor to fulfill a campaign promise to nail President Joe Biden’s rival, Donald Trump. To accomplish it, Bragg creatively exhumed not just vague statutes, but expired ones, that do not remotely support the conduct charged.
Any neutral and objective judge who is knowledgeable in the law would have long ago dismissed Bragg’s sham charges. Instead, the case went to Judge Juan Merchan whose anti-Trump bias is on conspicuous display whenever he takes the bench. His unconstitutional gag order on the leading candidate for president is but one in a string of head-banging pronouncements.
For more than two centuries, candidates have been promoting positive stories and concealing negative ones. As Fox News contributor and former federal prosecutorAndrew McCarthy pointed out, “It’s not a crime for a candidate and his supporters to try to influence an election —that’s what a political campaign exists to do.”
What is arguably illegal, however, is to conspire by “unlawful means.” But that’s not what happened in this so-called “hush money” case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. She demanded cash and Trump capitulated. She signed a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for her silence. No crime there. Completely legal.
Purchasing the rights to someone’s salacious story with no intent to publish it is also lawful. Why? Because there is no victim, and there was mutual assent by two parties. Daniels pocketed the handsome sum of $130,000 and signed a contract with the National Enquire that imposed no duty on the tabloid to actually run her story. So, once again, there’s no crime.
Realizing this, Bragg’s surrogates tried to have it both ways. Assistant D.A. Matthew Colangelo argued during opening statements that what Trump really did (wink, wink) was violate federal campaign laws. Except, of course, he didn’t.
Only the feds have jurisdiction over federal elections, not local district attorneys. Both the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department concluded that Trump’s payments to Daniels did not qualify as a campaign expenditure. Therefore, no crime was committed.
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Two Trump cases converged in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a penetrating question. What’s to stop a “creative prosecutor” from using a “vague statute” to prosecute a president, especially, a prosecutor from the “opposing party”?
In the Age of Trump, the answer is nothing. That’s precisely what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is doing to the former president in a New York courtroom. And Fulton County DA Fanni Willis in Georgia. And special counsel Jack Smith in both Washington, D.C. and Florida.
Kavanaugh’s query came during oral arguments over the issue of presidential immunity asserted by Trump in the January 6th case brought by Smith. But the capacious meaning was crystal clear. It was echoed by another Justice, Neil Gorsuch, who worried aloud about the use (or misuse) of “criminal law to target political opponents based on accusations about their motives.”
Of the four criminal indictments of Trump, the Bragg case is the most egregious example of this nightmare scenario. It is exactly what it appears to be: a politically motivated case conjured up by an unscrupulous prosecutor to fulfill a campaign promise to nail President Joe Biden’s rival, Donald Trump. To accomplish it, Bragg creatively exhumed not just vague statutes, but expired ones, that do not remotely support the conduct charged.
Any neutral and objective judge who is knowledgeable in the law would have long ago dismissed Bragg’s sham charges. Instead, the case went to Judge Juan Merchan whose anti-Trump bias is on conspicuous display whenever he takes the bench. His unconstitutional gag order on the leading candidate for president is but one in a string of head-banging pronouncements.
For more than two centuries, candidates have been promoting positive stories and concealing negative ones. As Fox News contributor and former federal prosecutorAndrew McCarthy pointed out, “It’s not a crime for a candidate and his supporters to try to influence an election —that’s what a political campaign exists to do.”
What is arguably illegal, however, is to conspire by “unlawful means.” But that’s not what happened in this so-called “hush money” case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. She demanded cash and Trump capitulated. She signed a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for her silence. No crime there. Completely legal.
Purchasing the rights to someone’s salacious story with no intent to publish it is also lawful. Why? Because there is no victim, and there was mutual assent by two parties. Daniels pocketed the handsome sum of $130,000 and signed a contract with the National Enquire that imposed no duty on the tabloid to actually run her story. So, once again, there’s no crime.
Realizing this, Bragg’s surrogates tried to have it both ways. Assistant D.A. Matthew Colangelo argued during opening statements that what Trump really did (wink, wink) was violate federal campaign laws. Except, of course, he didn’t.
Only the feds have jurisdiction over federal elections, not local district attorneys. Both the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department concluded that Trump’s payments to Daniels did not qualify as a campaign expenditure. Therefore, no crime was committed.
]]>David Earl, 20, is accused of being the mastermind behind a huge fire on an industrial estate in Leyton, east London, on March 20.
Four other men – Paul English, Nil Mensah, Jake Reeves and Dmitrijus Paulauska – have also been charged in connection with the case
]]>A British man has been charged with plotting arson attacks on Ukraine-linked businesses in London after allegedly being recruited as a Russian spy.
David Earl, 20, is accused of being the mastermind behind a huge fire on an industrial estate in Leyton, east London, on March 20.
Four other men – Paul English, Nil Mensah, Jake Reeves and Dmitrijus Paulauska – have also been charged in connection with the case
]]>Fiona Beal, 50, pleaded guilty in court today to the murder of her 42-year-old boyfriend Nicholas Billingham.
Mr Billingham’s partly mummified remains were discovered four-and-a-half months after he was last seen alive.
She previously pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by reason of a loss of control, but denied murdering him between October 30 and November 10, 2021.
Beal, of Moore Street, Northampton, has now pleaded guilty to the murder charge at the Old Bailey in London.
A jury at the Old Bailey heard today that she had changed her plea.
Judge Mark Lucraft told Beal: ‘You have this morning pleaded guilty to murder, which as you have no doubt been told, carries a sentence of life imprisonment.’
He confirmed he will determine the minimum term at a two-day sentencing hearing starting on May 29.
As the jury left the courtroom, a tearful Beal wiped her eyes with a tissue.
]]>A teacher who stabbed her boyfriend to death in ‘cold blood’ and buried his body in the garden has admitted murdering him.
Fiona Beal, 50, pleaded guilty in court today to the murder of her 42-year-old boyfriend Nicholas Billingham.
Mr Billingham’s partly mummified remains were discovered four-and-a-half months after he was last seen alive.
She previously pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by reason of a loss of control, but denied murdering him between October 30 and November 10, 2021.
Beal, of Moore Street, Northampton, has now pleaded guilty to the murder charge at the Old Bailey in London.
A jury at the Old Bailey heard today that she had changed her plea.
Judge Mark Lucraft told Beal: ‘You have this morning pleaded guilty to murder, which as you have no doubt been told, carries a sentence of life imprisonment.’
He confirmed he will determine the minimum term at a two-day sentencing hearing starting on May 29.
As the jury left the courtroom, a tearful Beal wiped her eyes with a tissue.
]]>The Daily Beast’s political reporter Jake Lahut tells The New Abnormal’s co-host Danielle Moodie that some Republicans were hopeful that the former president would still be able to host events like fundraisers while his trial takes place but they have had to go back to the drawing board to work out how he can connect with voters in key battleground states.
Republican operatives have been forced to rework their strategy to deal with Donald Trump’s absence from the campaign trail while he sits in court for his hush money trial in New York.
“It’s become this test of what kind of makeshift improvisations can the Trump campaign make, and what’s the geographic turf in terms of battleground states... where you can realistically hit them pretty hard in this period when you’re limited to Wednesdays and weekends,” he said. “He is really proving to be a weekend warrior.”
Lahut said getting Trump to make impromptu visits to a Harlem bodega or a Chik-Fil-A in Atlanta was being initiated by young Republicans trying to help the former president.
]]>With the former president only having weekends and Wednesdays off they have had to get creative about how best to utilize that time.
The Daily Beast’s political reporter Jake Lahut tells The New Abnormal’s co-host Danielle Moodie that some Republicans were hopeful that the former president would still be able to host events like fundraisers while his trial takes place but they have had to go back to the drawing board to work out how he can connect with voters in key battleground states.
Republican operatives have been forced to rework their strategy to deal with Donald Trump’s absence from the campaign trail while he sits in court for his hush money trial in New York.
“It’s become this test of what kind of makeshift improvisations can the Trump campaign make, and what’s the geographic turf in terms of battleground states… where you can realistically hit them pretty hard in this period when you’re limited to Wednesdays and weekends,” he said. “He is really proving to be a weekend warrior.”
Lahut said getting Trump to make impromptu visits to a Harlem bodega or a Chik-Fil-A in Atlanta was being initiated by young Republicans trying to help the former president.
]]>Sarah Davey was 14 when she and a pal beat gran Lily Lilley, 71, in her terraced home.
Davey - now one of Britain's most notorious young killers - and her friend befriended lonely Lily at her home in Failsworth, Greater Manchester.
After being invited in for a cup of tea, they taunted her, squirted her with shampoo and cut her legs with a knife. Her body was dumped in a wheelie bin before they pushed it through the streets and overturned it into a canal.
They had choked her with a gag tied so tightly that her false teeth were driven down her throat. A framed photo of her son as a baby was thrown into the bin. The pair then took over her house, making hundreds of calls from her phone and used her pension money to buy crisps and chocolate.
Davey - now in her late 30s - was locked up indefinitely in 1999 for what the judge described as an 'unspeakably wicked' murder.
MailOnline can reveal she was released from jail on March 23 after a decision by the Parole Board.
Davey repeatedly breached her conditions for the original murder. She was first released in March 2013 but kept getting recalled - and has been freed seven times before.
]]>A teenage murderer who tortured a gran and dumped her body in a canal has been freed – despite being recalled to jail seven times before.
Sarah Davey was 14 when she and a pal beat gran Lily Lilley, 71, in her terraced home.
Davey – now one of Britain’s most notorious young killers – and her friend befriended lonely Lily at her home in Failsworth, Greater Manchester.
After being invited in for a cup of tea, they taunted her, squirted her with shampoo and cut her legs with a knife. Her body was dumped in a wheelie bin before they pushed it through the streets and overturned it into a canal.
They had choked her with a gag tied so tightly that her false teeth were driven down her throat. A framed photo of her son as a baby was thrown into the bin. The pair then took over her house, making hundreds of calls from her phone and used her pension money to buy crisps and chocolate.
Davey – now in her late 30s – was locked up indefinitely in 1999 for what the judge described as an ‘unspeakably wicked’ murder.
MailOnline can reveal she was released from jail on March 23 after a decision by the Parole Board.
Davey repeatedly breached her conditions for the original murder. She was first released in March 2013 but kept getting recalled – and has been freed seven times before.
]]>Traces of bird flu virus have been detected in approximately one in five samples of commercial milk in the U.S., according to a recent study conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
While the detection of these viral traces does not automatically imply a threat to consumers, the FDA said further testing is key to finding if the intact pathogen is present and remains infectious.
The FDA said in a statement on its website that this thorough examination is crucial in determining whether there exists any potential risk of illness associated with the consumption of the product.
The milk samples subjected to testing by the FDA were sourced from a nationally representative sample.
A higher proportion of positive results were obtained from milk originating in regions where dairy cow herds were infected. However, the FDA did not disclose the exact number of samples that underwent testing.
So far, cases of bird flu have been identified in 33 herds across eight states: Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, Ohio, and Texas.
Earlier this week, the FDA announced the discovery of viral fragments in commercially distributed milk, prompting the Agriculture Department to implement a federal mandate requiring testing of all dairy cows for bird flu before interstate transportation.
However, health authorities continue to maintain that pasteurized milk remains safe for consumption.l
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Traces of bird flu virus have been detected in approximately one in five samples of commercial milk in the U.S., according to a recent study conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
While the detection of these viral traces does not automatically imply a threat to consumers, the FDA said further testing is key to finding if the intact pathogen is present and remains infectious.
The FDA said in a statement on its website that this thorough examination is crucial in determining whether there exists any potential risk of illness associated with the consumption of the product.
The milk samples subjected to testing by the FDA were sourced from a nationally representative sample.
A higher proportion of positive results were obtained from milk originating in regions where dairy cow herds were infected. However, the FDA did not disclose the exact number of samples that underwent testing.
So far, cases of bird flu have been identified in 33 herds across eight states: Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, Ohio, and Texas.
Earlier this week, the FDA announced the discovery of viral fragments in commercially distributed milk, prompting the Agriculture Department to implement a federal mandate requiring testing of all dairy cows for bird flu before interstate transportation.
However, health authorities continue to maintain that pasteurized milk remains safe for consumption.l
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