Americans are having far fewer babies for a large number of reasons

Women in the US are having children at the lowest rate since record-keeping began, the National Center for Health Statistics has revealed. Only 3.59 million births were recorded in the country in 2023, the lowest since the 3.4 million figure recorded in 1979, a report by the NCHS has noted. The US population was 225 million at the time, compared to almost 335 million now.

The general fertility rate fell 3% from the year before to 54.4 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (defined as 15-44). The total fertility rate was just 1.61, down 2% from 2022. The US birth rate has been below the replacement level of 2.1 since 2007.

The Hamas terror group has published a new propaganda video showing signs of life from 23-year-old Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

In the nearly three-minute-long video, Goldberg-Polin, who is seen missing one of his hands, identifies himself and asks the Israeli government to return them home.

The video is not dated, but Goldberg-Polin says he has been held captive for "nearly 200 days," indicating it was filmed recently.

Dozens of female teachers have been arrested this year across the nation for sex crimes involving students - as the seeming number of 'cougars in the classroom' continues to grow.

A long line of female teachers allegedly involved with youngsters across the country dominates headlines.

DailyMail.com discovered that 25 female teachers had been arrested in 16 states in only the last 12 months - and it is feared to be merely the tip of the iceberg as there appears to be no centralized data collection to track this disturbing trend.

Once upon a time, linking climate change directly back to homosexuality was almost enough to get you sectioned. Remember 10 years ago, during the floods of 2014, when UKIP local councillor David Silvester was widely mocked after writing a letter to then-PM David Cameron, warning that the bad weather of the day was due to Dismal Dave's acting "arrogantly against the Gospel" by planning to legalise gay marriage, thereby angering God Almighty and causing Him to unleash "storms, disease, pestilence and war" upon us all?

Today, the situation is kind of the reverse, and we are now exhorted to propitiate the angry climate-gods after all - otherwise they will punish those homosexuals who walk amongst us with terrible deluges and inundations of a new kind, as shown by the Daily Sceptic reporting last week on a quite pathetic story in the Independent, headlined 'How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers'. As the DS wrote, "Street-walking in a Muslim majority country undoubtedly has perils", but bad weather is not chief amongst them.

Rain of Terror

According to the Independent, the problem was that "the rainy season was lasting longer" and "winds were stronger", causing clients to stay nice and dry at home and use prostitutes there instead. Even worse, 72% of transsexual escorts in the affected region "had increased expenses" when it rained - how much do umbrellas cost in Java these days? Therefore, it was argued, "climate change makes the vulnerable even more vulnerable". But does it really? If you bother to read the whole report beyond its absolutely mental headline, you will see that most of the ladyboys involved actually enjoyed a, um, happy ending.

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has called for a reassessment of the West African country's relationship with the European Union (EU), saying that the current form of cooperation is complicated.

Faye made the statement at a joint press conference with European Council President Charles Michel in Senegal's capital, Dakar, on Monday night.

He proposed a "renovated partnership" that is "capable of supporting the innovative dynamic" in Senegal-EU relations.

Faye was sworn in as president on April 2 after winning 54.28% of the vote in the African nation's elections last month. His victory over 18 other candidates, including the former government party's candidate, came just days after he was released from jail along with a close associate, Ousmane Sonko, the barred opposition leader he replaced in the election.

Employers will be banned from using noncompete contracts to prevent workers from joining rival firms, regulators said today.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to ban the measures which roughly affect one in five workers today.

Historically non-compete measures have been associated with high-level executives at technology and financial companies but are increasingly used to target lower paid workers such as security guards and sandwich-shop employees.

The agreements usually prohibit workers from jumping to a competing company for a prescribed period of time.

A 2021 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that more than one in 10 workers who earn $20 or less an hour are covered by noncompete agreements.

Dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus, U.S. agriculture officials said Wednesday as they try to track and control the growing outbreak.

The federal order was announced one day after health officials said they had detected inactivated remnants of the virus, known as Type A H5N1, in samples taken from milk during processing and from store shelves. They stressed that such remnants pose no known risk to people or the milk supply.

"The risk to humans remains low," said Dawn O'Connell of the federal Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response.

The new order, which goes into effect Monday, requires every lactating cow to be tested and post a negative result before moving to a new state. It will help the agency understand how the virus is spreading, said Michael Watson, an administrator with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has raised its 2024 forecast for the country's growth, citing domestic consumer and investment demand.

Gross domestic product will expand by 2.8% this year, Economy Minister Maksim Reshetnikov told a government meeting on Tuesday. This compares favorably with the previous forecast of 2.3% GDP for 2024.

"The Russian economy has not only adapted to the new external economic conditions, but has also demonstrated the ability to develop sustainably," the ministry stated.

A child rapist can stay in the UK after arguing being deported would harm his mental health. The fiend, who cannot be named, was jailed for attacking a teenage girl and was to be kicked out in 2014.

But he appealed, claiming he could not be treated for depression or PTSD in his native Eritrea, East Africa.

Last month his appeal was upheld after a doctor witness said he would be more likely to take his life if returned to his home country.


He was also likely to have been punished for evading a military draft by fleeing here as a teenager.

Earlier this month the White House published its new "Pandemic Preparedness" targets.

They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: "Next pandemic is around the corner,' expert warns - but would lockdown ever happen again?"

On April 3rd, the Financial Times asked something similar: "The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?"

Less than an hour ago, the Daily Mail invited us inside "the world's deadliest cave that could cause the next pandemic".

Just two days ago a professional panic spreader wrote for CNN:

The next pandemic threat demands action now!!!