Michigan spends six figures begging residents not to commit suicide
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spent more than $3.1 million in advertising across social media on 68 media campaigns from 2024 to 2025, according to documents obtained through a records request.
The department ran ad campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Snapchat, TikTok and LinkedIn. The state of Michigan also spends taxpayer dollars to buy your attention through advertisements on gas pumps and highway billboards.
The documents show what state lawmakers can or should do with taxpayer money.
The state health department spent $111,260 from 2024-25 urging residents not to kill themselves. The funding was advertised for the suicide hotline. Click here to read more.
Extremely Promising’: New Vaccine Could Prevent Recurrence Of Deadly Colon, Pancreatic Cancer
A new experimental vaccine has been developed that appears to be successful in preventing recurrences of the deadly colorectal and pancreatic cancers.
A study led by the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, tested the ELI-002 2P vaccine on 25 patients previously treated for pancreatic and colorectal cancers.
The vaccine could “help prevent or delay cancer recurrence in high-risk patients whose tumors are driven by KRAS mutations, which are responsible for half of colorectal cancers and more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, researchers noted,” The Hill reported.
The patients were tested a year after the vaccine had been administered, and the average relapse-free survival times were significantly greater than historical norms.
Oncologist Dr. Thomas Marron told News Nation the results are “extremely promising. Pancreatic cancer and colon cancer are really terrible cancers, and oftentimes even if patients can have curative-intense surgery, unfortunately this cancer tends to come back as microscopic bits of the cancer have already spread. Click here to read more.
Education Dept places five Virginia school districts on high-alert status over transgender bathrooms
The Department of Education on Tuesday announced it was placing five northern Virginia school districts on "high-risk status" within the federal grant system, after they declined to obey the department's directive to change their policies regarding transgender students using bathrooms that align with their chosen gender identity.
The school districts made their respective decisions to reject the department's Voluntary Resolution Agreement last week.
The Education Department found last month that Arlington Public Schools, Alexandria City Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and the Prince William County Public Schools violated Title IX by allowing students access to "intimate, sex-segregated facilities" based on the students' chosen gender identity instead of their biological sex. Click here to read more.
Trump vows admin won't approve wind or solar: 'Days of stupidity are over'
resident Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed that his administration would not approve wind or solar projects, calling the alternative energy sources part of the "scam of the century!"
Trump has long criticized the alternative energy forms, notably pointing to the impact of wind turbines on the bird population. Earlier this week, he called for stopping windmill operations due to an energy crunch.
"Any State that has built and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTS," Trum posted on Truth Social. "THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!! MAGA."
Last month, Trump called windmills a "con job" and warned European leaders against their production, in part due to them being made in China.
Man who tried to rape 7-year-old agrees to be castrated as part of plea deal
VERNON PARISH, La. - A Louisiana man agreed to be physically and chemically castrated as part of a plea deal.
Thirty-seven-year-old Thomas Allen McCartney, of Leesville, pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted first-degree rape of a child under the age of 13.
As part of the plea deal, McCartney also agreed to serve 40 years in state prison, according to the Vernon Parish District Attorney’s Office.
When McCartney was arrested in 2023, authorities said he had been caught sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl. He was already a Tier 3 sex offender in Louisiana, having been previously convicted of attempted aggravated rape in 2011. Click here to read more.
