RFK Jr. Urges US Ranchers to Ramp Up Beef Production

(The Epoch Times)—Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged American ranchers to boost their beef production while on stage at CattleCon on Feb. 5.

“I’m begging you to increase the size of the herds,” Kennedy said during a discussion with National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Buck Wehrbein in front of a packed ballroom of cattlemen in Music City Center.

In 1972, the United States had 132 million head of cattle, and that total livestock inventory dropped to 92 million in 2025, the HHS secretary said during Thursday’s event.

“A lot of producers are now, because of fluctuations and the market’s uncertainty, slaughtering the breeding cows, and I’d ask you to stop doing that,” Kennedy added.

America’s cattle inventory has dropped due to years of drought and rising costs, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Born to Be Good: The Science Behind Children’s Inner Moral Codes

By Arsh Sarao 

Five-year-olds know right from wrong.

In a 2025 study, researchers showed young children videos of either a robot or a peer grabbing something that wasn’t theirs or refusing to share. Then they asked a simple question: Was the behavior right or wrong?

The children’s verdict was clear. Stealing and refusing to share were always wrong, period. It didn’t matter whether the bad actor was a playmate or a machine programmed to misbehave.

The children even attributed guilt to the robot, as if it should have known better. “Morality is present even in the youngest children—and it is powerful,” Antonella Marchetti, a professor of developmental and educational psychology known for her work in children’s moral development, said in a press release.

The study naturally invites a question: If five-year-olds condemn wrongdoing, do these judgments begin even earlier—before language?

Chugwater Ranch Rehabs Million-Dollar Racehorses Once Thought Doomed

CHUGWATER — The horses are all warm and chocolate, white and creamy, brown and caramel, their tails calmly swishing as their wide and curious eyes watch farrier Meghan McGann working on the hooves of a fellow horse. 

“This foot isn’t going to look pretty and be comfortable to her,” McGann tells Cowboy State Daily, pointing at a deep notch in the hoof. 

The cuticle was damaged in an injury and, just like fingernails, likely won’t ever grow back correctly. It's dangerous because the notch could catch on something and tear up the horse's entire hoof, so it has to be trimmed. 

McGann's goal, as with all the horses, is minimal intervention. 

Governor Hochul Signs Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Steven Ertelt |   Feb 6, 2026   |   7:38PM   |  Albany, New York

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul [pictured right] signed a dangerous bill legalizing assisted suicide, a move pro-life advocates blasted as putting vulnerable residents at extreme risk of coercion, abandonment and premature death while undermining the sanctity of life.

The amended Medical Aid in Dying Act, signed Friday, theoretically only allows mentally competent, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to request life-ending medication from physicians.

Religiously oriented home hospice providers can supposedly opt out while ensuring patients can kill themselves elsewhere, and violations are defined as professional misconduct under state education law.

The law takes effect in six months to allow for regulations and training.

At the American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU), we don't do comfortable. We do Constitutional. And sometimes the Constitution isn’t easy.

Lori Roman (pictured here).*

I've spent my career fighting for the Constitution, the whole thing, not just the parts that are politically convenient on any given Tuesday.

So, when FBI Director Kash Patel went on Fox News last week and declared, “You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want,” I was concerned. Let's clarify, Director Patel. 

Carrying a gun at a peaceful protest is constitutionally protected. But carrying while committing a crime, such as interfering with law enforcement operations, brings additional criminal charges. Criminal behavior while carrying accelerates the risk to everyone.

The Second Amendment doesn't evaporate because someone is also exercising their First Amendment rights. That's not how the Bill of Rights works. They're not multiple choice. 

13-Year-Old Swims 4 Kilometres to Save Stranded Family

2/4/2026:  

A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero by netizens all over the world after he swam around four kilometres (approximately 2.5 miles) to get help for his stranded mother and siblings.

Austin Appleby was on holiday in Quindalup, Western Australia, and enjoying a day in the water with his mother Joanne, 47, and siblings Beau, 12, and Grace, 8.

The family got into trouble when their inflatable kayak and paddleboats were swept out to sea off the West Australian coast around noon.

Montana’s junior senator has thrown his support behind the Trump administration’s push to end birthright citizenship.

Montana Public Radio | By Shaylee Ragar, published 02/05/26, at 5:29 pm, shaylee.ragar@mso.umt.edu.

President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining citizenship was challenged and is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy [pictured here] signed on to a brief supporting the administration’s policy.

Trump’s order relies on a narrow application of the U.S. Constitution’s citizenship clause. It would end automatic citizenship for children of parents who are unlawfully or temporarily in the country. The administration argues such parents are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

California Girl Taking on Kaiser Permanente

An 18-year-old California girl is taking on one of the nation's largest medical groups. Chloe Cole alleges that Kaiser Permanente coerced her into transgender medical treatment that she says was grossly negligent and resulted in permanent mutilation and damage to her body.

Cole, who has since de-transitioned, is planning to sue Kaiser, alleging that doctors and staff convinced her and her parents that she should undergo treatments by saying that medical transition was the only way to resolve her gender dysphoria and address her high risk of suicide.

In 2017, Cole says a Kaiser doctor prescribed a puberty blocker for her. In addition to testosterone treatment, doctors recommended surgery and removed Cole's breasts in a 2020 double mastectomy. 

A year later, Cole told her doctor she regretted it.

Virginia assisted suicide bill dies in Committee. Unfortunately, other bills prevailed.

Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, pictured below. 

I have amazing news. The Virginia assisted suicide bill died on February 5 (today) by a vote of 8 to 7 in the Virginia Senate Committee on Education and Health.

Congratulations to everyone who worked with the coalition and/or contacted their state representatives. Lives have been saved by the defeat of this bill. 

Legalizing assisted suicide in Virginia, which is to poison people to death, has been a goal of the assisted suicide lobby for many years.

France Spirals Down EU Wealth List Towards ‘Third-World Status’

The Sunday Times, February 3, 2026:

The French are falling behind the north Europeans and are being caught up by those in the east. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Poles will be richer than them within ten years.

While small countries such as Luxembourg and Ireland have a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita that is more than double the European average, if that average is set at 100 then Germany, the bloc’s biggest economy, is ranked at 116, the UK is 99 and France is 98, according to Eurostat’s figures for 2024, the latest available.

As for the Italians, who were 10.1 per cent poorer than the French in 2020, they are now on almost exactly the same footing, a separate study by the European Commission has found. The GDP per capita at purchasing power parity — a measure of income per person accounting for currency differences — is $59,453 in Italy and $59,683 in France.

The figures are all the more striking because the EU as a whole is falling ever further behind the US in terms of economic clout, analysts say. They have provoked an outpouring of despair from commentators, particularly those on the right. 

Mother's Son Killed by Euthanasia.

Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition interviewed Margaret Marsilla, the mother of Kiano Vafaeian (26) who was poisoned to death by euthanasia in Vancouver by Dr Wiebe on December 30, 2025. This 15 minute video - One Mother's Mission, explains how Kiano died by euthanasia.

Kiano was not terminally ill. Kiano was a diabetic that resulted in him becoming legally blind and experiencing some neuropathy. But Kiano was driven to seek death by euthanasia based on his mental health. 

Kiano's mother explains in the interview how shocking it was for her to learn on January 3, 2026. Kiano was originally approved to be killed by euthanasia in September 2022, but his death was averted, at that time, when his mother launched a social media campaign, with the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, to change the mind of the euthanasia doctor.