Pence, McConnell, and McCarthy To Skip Trump's Departure Ceremony
At least three top Republicans plan to miss President Donald Trump's farewell ceremony. House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy will attend church with Joe Biden. Vice President Mike Pence is unable to make it due to logistical issues, says Business Insider. Many people see this as the final snub to Trump from his once-closest allies. Others may also fail to attend but none so far have been confirmed outside of these three. Joe Biden is set to take office tomorrow and become the 46th President of the United States.
You won't see any movies about it or hear many stories but India made massive contributions to WWI and WWII. In 1939, at the beginning of WWII, India's army had 200,000 men. By the end of the war, it reached 2.5 million soldiers, all of them were volunteers, making it the largest volunteer army ever.
NICKY Zahorcak, from Los Angeles, wasn’t expected to live past his first birthday when he was diagnosed with Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (known as EB) at birth. But now, the 24-year-old has surpassed all expectations while living with the painful skin condition. EB causes skin to blister, and even fall off if there’s too much friction. Nicky admits it has impacted his entire body, and he can no longer walk because of the condition. Despite this, Nicky and his mother Silvia are determined not to let the disease define him. He’s an avid gamer and even has dreams of being a pastry chef. Silvia lives in hope that a cure can be found for the disease, and is fundraising to help pay for Nicky’s growing medical bills. Silvia told Truly: “Nicky has been really strong and hopeful. When he was born, we were told we might see a cure in a decade, which seemed like forever, but now he’s 24. I know there’s hope out there.” Nicky is also certain new research can help understand the condition, and benefit others living with the same skin disorder. He told Truly: “I have faith there will be future developments to prolong my life and others who are suffering.”
Nicky and Silvia’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/PrincessSilvia/videos
Silvia’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ebmom/
Nicky’s fundraising page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nicky039s-medical-fund
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy with a rare form of dwarfism has defied doctors' predictions that he would never walk. Jonathan Kremer, from Hadamar, Germany, is one of only 200 people worldwide with Microcephalic Osteodysplastic Primordial Dwarfism Type 1 (MOPD1). Tiny Jonathan stands at only 80cm (31.5 inches) tall and has the prominent eyes and nose characteristic of the condition. Doctors realised during pregnancy that Jonathan wasn’t growing like a healthy child, but didn’t know why. “I was frightened, he was so small,” Jonathan’s mother Simone said. “A couple of weeks after he was born, they told us that he would never learn to crawl, to walk, to talk, to eat from a spoon or even reach his first birthday.” But after connecting with specialists on MOPD1 and learning more about the condition, Simone is now the founder of the 'Walking with Giants Germany', an organisation bringing together the families of those suffering from primordial dwarfism in Germany - and Jonathan is a happy little boy playing on his stroller and riding horses as part of his riding therapy. Jonathan's father Andreas said: "Jonathan loves the horses and riding them. He has proven the doctors wrong, he’s already five years old, he’s crawling, laughing, eating and smiling - everything they expected him not to do.”
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathan_ein_leben_mit_mopd1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JonathansStory
Walking With Giants:
https://walkingwithgiants.de/
https://www.walkingwithgiants.org/
https://stichtingwalkingwithgiants.nl/