Doreen Cook never thought she’d live long enough to see her granddaughter’s wedding, but she defied the odds and celebrated in the best way possible—with an all-night dance party. Several years ago, doctors diagnosed the 93-year-old with aortic stenosis, a heart condition that blocks blood flow in the aortic valve. In 2023, she was told the condition had worsened, and there was no treatment to help. Her doctors said it was time to prepare for the inevitable, and her time would be short.  But Doreen proved her doctors wrong when she headed to Marbella, Spain, for her granddaughter Rhea Cross’ week-long wedding celebration. One video from the trip shows the proud grandma owning the dance floor and wowing the guests with her karaoke skills. According to SWNS, via Good News Network, Doreen spent the next day napping on the beach. Grandma’s Favorite Memory Was Watching Her Granddaughter Say, “I Do” Rhea said her grandma was “living her best life all night and really became the life and soul of the party.” “It was so wonderful having her there for the entire trip,” she shared. “Especially knowing the doctors didn’t think she’d make it.” “We took every day as an opportunity to have fun,” she added. After returning to her home in the UK, Doreen needed two blood transfusions, and now she’s recuperating from seven nights of pure joy. “It was fantastic. I loved it,” she told the publication. “My favorite part was watching my granddaughter get married, after being worried I wasn’t going to make it.” This story’s featured image is by Andrei Beiu via Shutterstock. The post Grandma Told She Wouldn’t Live To See Granddaughter’s Wedding Became “The Life And Soul Of The Party” appeared first on InspireMore.

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President Joe Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Presidential Race

In a political earthquake, President Joe Biden announced Sunday he is ending his bid for a second term and won’t seek reelection. The stunning and virtually unprecedented move comes in the wake of the president’s COVID-19 diagnosis on Wednesday, which prompted more calls from within his own Democratic Party for him to drop out of the race. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” he said in a statement on Sunday. “And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus soley on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.” “I will speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision.” pic.twitter.com/RMIRvlSOYw— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 21, 2024 Almost two-thirds of Democrats wanted Biden, 81, to withdraw from the presidential race, according to an AP Poll released Wednesday.   Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told Biden it would be best if he dropped out, according to ABC News. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said he could jeopardize the Democrats’ chances of taking back the House of Representatives or holding the Senate in November if he remained the nominee. Biden, 81, committed a number of gaffes at a disastrous press conference on July 11 at the conclusion of the 75th NATO Summit in Washington, D.C., including making a reference to “Vice President Trump” and calling the chairman of the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff the “commander in chief,” a title usually reserved for the president.  Four House Democrats called for Biden to drop out of the race after that press conference, bringing the number of Democratic members of Congress who have withdrawn their support for the president to 20 at that time. “For the sake of American democracy, and to continue to make progress on our shared priorities, I believe it is time for the president to step aside as our nominee,” Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., said in a statement. At the time, Stanton was the 15th Democrat to abandon the president. Liberal news talk-show hosts, lawmakers, and Democratic operatives all expressed horror and confusion at the sitting president’s recent performances, expressing concerns that Biden should step down and allow someone with more vigor to go up against former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, in the upcoming election. Biden appeared to lose his train of thought about 10 times over the course of almost an hour at the news conference, interrupting himself and trailing off by saying, “Anyway … ” He was asked first whether he thought Vice President Kamala Harris was ready to be president. “Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president [if I thought] she’s not qualified to be president,” Biden replied.  Amid Democrats’ growing concerns about Biden’s capacity to stay in the race against Trump, the president told reporters that no one was telling him he couldn’t possibly defeat Trump in November.  “I’m determined on running,” the president said. When asked about taking a cognitive test, he said, “I’ve taken three significant and intense neurological exams.” Actor George Clooney said Democrats are “not going to win in November with this president.” In June, Clooney had hosted a fundraiser for Biden three weeks earlier. The actor wrote July 10 in a New York Times opinion article, however, that he noticed at the fundraiser that Biden is no longer who he was in 2010, or even 2020.   TMZ obtained secretly recorded audio of ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos saying he does not think Biden could serve a second full term. The liberal anchor—a former top adviser to a previous Democratic president, BIll Clinton—had interviewed Biden a few days earlier for the July 7 edition of his news-talk show, “This Week.” Billionaire donors Mark Pincus, Christy Walton, Michael Novogratz, and Reed Hastings had all called for the president’s stepping aside for another candidate. After Biden faced Trump in the first presidential debate on June 27, Trump in a TruthSocial post on June 29 wrote: “This past Thursday night was a defeat not only for Biden, but for the entire Radical Left Democrat Party and the Fake News Media, who have been lying to the American People as our Country was being destroyed.” After the debate, first lady Jill Biden insisted, however, that her husband was fit to remain in the race and seek a second term. “As Joe said earlier today, he’s not a young man,” she told attendees at a fundraiser on June 28 in New York City’s Greenwich Village, The Washington Post reported. “After last night’s debate, he said, ‘You know, Jill, I don’t know what happened. I didn’t feel that great.’” Jill Biden said she told her husband in response: “Look, Joe, we are not going to let 90 minutes define the four years that you’ve been president.” Concerns about Biden’s mental and physical acuity had built up throughout his first presidential term. The White House issued 10 corrections for a Biden speech at a campaign event with the NAACP at the end of May. “When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic, and what happened was, Barack [Obama] said to me, ‘Go to Detroit! Help fix it,’” Biden said. The White House transcript of the speech crossed out “pandemic” and replaced it with “recession.”  The White House’s other revisions showed that Biden said “inspiresing” instead of “inspiring,” “irrectionists” instead of “insurrectionists,” and “organization” instead of “award” before referring to the NAACP as “NAAC.”  In February, Biden reportedly said he spoke at a 2021 meeting to a European leader who has been dead for years. Twice, he confused then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel with Helmut Kohl, who served as chancellor from 1982 to 1998 (West Germany from 1982 to 1990 and a reunified Germany from 1990 to 1998) and died in 2017, according to Fox News. Biden appeared to forget the name of the terrorist organization Hamas in a February press conference. “There is some movement, and I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, let me choose my words—there’s some movement,” Biden said. “There’s been a response from the, uh, there’s been a response from the opposition, but umm … .”  A reporter in the audience could be heard saying “Hamas.” Biden responded, “Yes, I’m sorry. From Hamas.” Fred Lucas contributed to this report. This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. The post Joe Biden Drops Out of 2024 Presidential Race appeared first on The Daily Signal.

My fellow Americans, the Hispanic vote is crucial to the continuation of the American dream. Like my family and kin, you and yours came to the United States for a reason. And we left somewhere else for a reason. We all come here for similar reasons. It’s just too difficult — too corrupt, too divisive, too politically and economically unstable — where we all came from. So we leave there and come here in search of something better. We leave nightmares for the American dream — and its reality.Hispanics have not turned out to be the angry, Che Guevara-guided proletarians that the vanguard of the Democratic Party wanted.Coming to America is not easy to do, either legally or illegally. Regardless of immigration status, in the aggregate, Hispanics have given a good accounting of themselves in the United States. Your hard work and strong families are real and much-needed American assets.The American dream — our reality — is on the ballot this November. This way of life that you have been enjoying — earning a better life for you and yours — is on the ballot. Sadly, too many Hispanics — based on past voting behavior and present polling — will vote against their principles and economic interests. The Hispanic wall cracked in 2016, and it is showing signs of doing so again.What changed then and now? Donald Trump and four years of Joe Biden.Trump understood what the job site — that is, the American economy — requires from the bottom up. He knows who builds his towers and our cities. He values labor. A good number of Hispanics said to themselves, “Enough is enough. The Democrats want to turn my new home, America, into the old home that I left behind." Enough of you broke with entrenched habits and broke ranks, voting for a candidate who was speaking to your ignored values and interests. The Hispanic vote in 2016 made Trump president. Despite the surprise victory, he did what he promised. Everyone experienced the immediate benefits, seeing and participating in the rising tide of prosperity through their eyes and wallets.Voting for Joe Biden again will make your lives more of an American nightmare than it is right now. Certainly, voting for Biden is the socially accepted and expected choice for Hispanics to make.In case you haven’t noticed it, the Democratic establishment is not that into you. The Democratic vanguard doesn’t like you. Hispanics are working folks, more “deplorable” in their tendencies than the unbearable Democrats would like. You are not the proletarian class they wished you’d become with citizenship.What Democrats don’t like about you, Republicans love. Hispanics let their work and the fruits of their labor speak for them. Hispanics are a daily demonstration project that the American dream exists — in bad times and good — for those willing to put in the work. You show that the American dream exists not just at the top, but at the bottom and middle, too. Instead of becoming a voting bloc that wants to fundamentally transform — destroy — the American capitalist way of life, you have embraced it and are starting to vote for its defense. You want more growth, not less. Your interests are aligned with a growing economic pie, and you get your piece of it through work, not welfare. You don’t want to destroy the American dream. You want to participate in it.And for that, you are being punished by Biden’s border policies. Biden’s extreme border policies are very new. They represent a dramatic break with precedent. They are intentionally flooding the zone. Your zone. If you want to get to the truth behind something that doesn’t make sense at first glance, you should always ask yourself: “Who benefits?”What is the effect of this open-door, amnesty-in-all-but-name policy on the labor markets that you are in? Do nine million new entrants in your marketplace — and in your communities — boost or degrade your pay, job security, and quality of life? Both are headed down and will stay down. Expect to take home less in pay. And for inflation to eat away the purchasing power of less.Are the communities that you live in — and they’re growing daily by the busload — getting better or worse? Are your schools better? Streets safer? To ask unasked questions like these is to answer them. No. They’re getting worse. Your day-to-day, year-to-year, in-sickness-and-in-health, pay-your-bills way of life is more negatively affected by the continuation of Joe Biden’s immigration policies.What’s happening right now — and it will continue and expand if Biden is re-elected — is going to hurt you and yours most. The Democrats are fundamentally transforming your experience and your relationship with the American economy and way of life — for their benefit, not yours. They are raising the political temperature at your expense. It’s your blood type they aim to change. You have not played the central casting role that Democrats had in mind for you. Hispanics have not turned out to be the angry, Che Guevara-guided proletarians that the vanguard of the Democratic Party wanted.Democrats intentionally lifted President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” order, unleashing the chaos we’re currently seeing at the U.S. southern border. If present Democrat-directed trends continue, the United States, your second but only home, will become unrecognizable.The consequence of letting this continue and play out for another four years is an extinction-level event for your way of life.The future of the American dream, the promise of Lady Liberty to the world — to all the tattered and tossed about — lies in your hardworking, family-focused, Hispanic American hands. This election, flip the script: Vote your principles and economic interests. This is your message to send. Send it, and send it loud.If you do, the United States will improve. For you and yours. And for me and mine. For all of us and ours.

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Elizabeth Warren Weakly Says Biden Has 'Really Big Decision to Make,' Pushes for Kamala

University of York Flatfish, such as plaice, turbot and sole, were regularly consumed as part of a medieval meal, according to analysis of fishbone remains found at archaeological sites across Europe. Previous research had shown that people ate flatfish during the medieval period, but until now it was unclear which types of flatfish they would have consumed and what this might tell us about fishing habits at that time. Researchers from the University of York in collaboration with experts from France, Belgium and the Netherlands, identified plaice as the most popular flatfish, with flounder following close behind, and turbot, brill and Dover sole. Not only were they able to identify the types of fish, but they found a pattern in how they were consumed, which suggested that the type of fish that was eaten at meal times was linked to the context in which they were consumed.  Dover sole, for example, was only found in religious contexts, such as at monastery sites.  Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyHistoryAncient TraditionsRead Later 

The court victories kept coming for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday as a court ruled against the Pulitzer Prize board motion to dismiss his defamation lawsuit.

As Ipsos polling shows majorities of U.S. adults and even Democrats wanting President Joe Biden out of the presidential race, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's favorability has reached a four-year high at 40%.