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Like any spinning object, Earth is subject to centrifugal force, which tugs on the planet's fluid interior. At the equator, where this force is strongest, Earth is more than 26 miles larger in diameter than at the poles. Gordon said true polar wander may occur when dense, highly viscous bumps of mantle build up at latitudes away from the equator. If the mantle anomalies are massive enough, they can unbalance the planet, and the equator will gradually shift to bring the excess mass closer to the equator. The planet still spins once every 24 hours and true polar wander does...

<p>Democrat Rep. Marcia Fudge had been a potential candidate for House speaker. Now she’s backing Nancy Pelosi for the job.</p> <p>Fudge says she wanted to “ensure diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels” in the House and she’s “now confident” they can “move forward together.”</p>

<p>Migrants camped in Tijuana after traveling in a caravan to reach the U.S were weighing their options after a California court blocked President Donald Trump’s asylum ban for illegal border crossers.</p> <p>Walter Matute said he has been deported from the U.S. twice and fears jumping the border would end his ability to get asylum. But he believes others will now take a chance in light of the court ruling blocking Trump’s ban on asylum for illegal border crossers.</p>

Currently, the two most popular methods for producing fusion power are the inertial confinement approach, and the tokamak reactor. In the former case, lasers are used to fuse pellets of deuterium (H², or “heavy hydrogen”) to create a fusion reaction. In the latter, the process involves a torus-shaped confinement chamber that uses magnetic fields and an internal current to confine high-energy plasma. Whereas other tokamak reactors rely on magnetic coils to keep a plasma torus stable, the Chinese EAST reactor relies on the magnetic fields produced by the moving plasma itself to keep the torus in check. This makes it...

The number of Americans who renounced their citizenship in the third quarter of 2018 has declined for the third consecutive year, according to data released by the Treasury Department, reversing a rapid uptick that took place during President Obama’s tenure in office. According to IRS data published in the Federal Register on Monday, 1,107 people renounced their U.S. citizenship or terminated their long-term U.S. residence in the third quarter of 2018. That’s a 20-percent decline from the Obama-era record for the same period when 1,426 people renounced in the third quarter of 2015. It’s also a decline for the same...

The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 33rd annual survey of classic items found on the Thanksgiving Day dinner table indicates the average cost of this year’s feast for 10 is $48.90, or less than $5.00 per person. This is a 22-cent decrease from last year’s average of $49.12. “Since 2015, the average cost of Thanksgiving dinner has declined steadily and is now at the lowest level since 2010,” said AFBF Chief Economist Dr. John Newton. The featured food on most Thanksgiving tables – the turkey – cost slightly less than last year, coming in at $21.71 for a 16-pound bird. That’s...

President Donald Trump reminded a reporter that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter works at Facebook after the reporter asked the president about bias on the social media platform. Trump had blunt words for the reporter, who asked him a question on Facebook bias as he left the White House for the Thanksgiving holiday. “Schumer’s daughter works for Facebook, which I just found out today. And if you look at what Facebook’s been doing, they having some real explaining to do,” Trump said. “How they are so Democrat oriented — all of them.” Trump added. The New York Post reported...

Holocaust Survivor Who Cheated Death In Pittsburgh Shooting Is Pro-Trump October 30, 2018 By Alyssa FisherHolocaust survivor Judah Samet said he doesn’t believe President Trump’s harsh rhetoric bears the blame of the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, where 11 people were killed at prayer, the Washington Post reported.Samet narrowly avoided the shooting — he was four minutes late to morning services at the Tree of Life Congregation on Saturday, enough time for officers to stop him in the parking lot, the Forward reported.He expressed fear at the rise in anti-Semitism and white nationalist groups but said he doesn’t think...

Robert De Niro and his wife of over 20 years, Grace Hightower have split, Page Six has exclusively learned.

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Looney Governor Jerry Brown blamed the rash of apocalyptic-level forest fires on Global Warming deniers. His nonsensical and rash comments will not be missed. Many will remember him for endangering Californians by ignoring the infrastructure needs of the state. Oroville Dam’s maintenance had been slipshod since its completion in 1968. Flakey inspections by state agencies risked the lives of hundreds of thousands of North State dwellers during the heavy rains and spillway collapse in February 2017. The failure will cost taxpayers more than $1 billion to repair. No one has estimated the hundreds of millions it cost 180,000 people to...

Full title...............................Obama suggests Trump is a confused, angry racist and has 'mommy issues' that are making him incapable of fixing the country's problems............................Former President Barack Obama hinted that Donald Trump's 'mommy issues' are part of what makes him incapable of fixing the nation's problems. Obama told the audience at a talk at the Obama Foundation summit, held at the Mariott Marquis hotel in Chicago, on Monday that the world 'badly needs remaking.' And he insisted fixing issues around climate change, education, agriculture and so on are not nearly as complicated as they are made out to be. Without mentioning Trump...

Christian music artist Kari Jobe recently joined a group of worship leaders for a special meeting at the White House, and she posted some profound thoughts about the kingdom of God being seen on earth and the urgent need for prayer for America's leaders. The Christian artists, including Tauren Wells and Danny Gokey, were invited to a "Faith Briefing" which was held to show what the Trump Administration is doing in the area of faith-based projects. Jobe posted about the visit on Instagram, calling it an honor. "Cody and I were honored to be invited," she said. "As I stepped...

RUSH: The saga continues. A household name in all four corners of the world: Your host, Rush Limbaugh, surfing most days below the media radar. But that all changed over the weekend, and it goes in cycles. But all of a sudden over the weekend… You know, yesterday we had these nine audio sound bites featuring your host, and the upshot of all of them… There were two different shows. One was an NPR podcast and the other was Steve Kornacki at NBC with a new book trying to explain the modern partisan divide, and I, your host, am now,...

Department of Homeland Security officials are gathering information on the migrant caravan moving through Mexico to the U.S. border via paid undercover informants and the monitoring of group text messages, NBC News reports. The migrants use WhatsApp message groups to coordinate their journey, according to the report. DHS officials have joined these groups to monitor the caravan’s size and activity, combining the information with that of paid informants and DHS officials working with the Mexican government to prepare for the migrants’ arrival. The caravan consists of roughly 4,000 migrants, mostly from crime-ridden Honduras, seeking a new life in the U.S....

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the newly-elected Congresswoman from New York and faux socialist in the $3,505 designer pantsuit, is backing the Justice Democrats — a socialist insurgent group within the Demonrat Party which opposes “Democratic incumbents who are demographically and ideologically out-of-touch with their districts.” Note: Just as the Left have corrupted the rainbow by appropriating it as an LGBT symbol, they’ve also corrupted the word “justice” by equating it with Marxist socialism, as in “social justice” and “Justice Democrats”.

SALT LAKE CITY — It's Congressman-elect Ben McAdams after election results were certified Tuesday. The Democratic Salt Lake County mayor's lead over Republican Rep. Mia Love was at 694 votes following the final vote canvass throughout the 4th Congressional District, just 21 votes more than would have allowed for a recount. McAdams was confident enough about the 739-vote lead he held after Monday's results to declare victory, saying he saw no way Love could catch up to him in the final county totals........

RUSH: You know, I’m watching the news here, and I’m so happy I’ve turned over a new leaf, at least for a while here. I just need a break. I am not — well, I’m gonna try studiously to avoid being led by the Drive-By Media in terms of what I choose to discuss here and when. For example, what’s going on right now. The media all day has been trying to disrupt our relationship with Saudi Arabia. They claim they’ve got evidence that the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, actually ordered the death of a so-called Washington Post journalist,...

Senators: “If these active duty servicemembers have completed their primary tasks of laying concertina wire, welding, and providing logistical support to Customs and Border Protection, there is no need for them to remain separated from their families”Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) sent a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis to urge him to send active duty servicemembers currently at the U.S. southern border back to their home bases in time for Thanksgiving. In their letter, the senators described the politically-motivated appearance of the operation, and pointed out that the Department of Defense...

Facebook has come under fire for a "barbaric use of technology" that allowed the sale of a child bride to be held on its site. An auction was held on the social media platform for a 16-year-old girl in South Sudan which sought payment for her hand in marriage. Facebook said the post was taken down as soon as the company learned of it, but that wasn't until after the girl was married. According to children's rights organization Plan International, the girl was bid on by five men, some of whom were reportedly high-ranking South Sudanese government officials. Activists are concerned that...