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Explanation: What color is the Moon? It depends on the night -- and the time. Outside of the Earth's atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon on Earth, documented by one astrophotographer over 10 years from different locations across Italy. A red- or yellow-colored moon usually indicates a moon seen near the horizon. There, some of the blue light has been scattered away by a long path through the Earth's atmosphere, sometimes laden with fine dust. A blue-colored moon is...

X link to Haley Stevens endorsing Rogers Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens has endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Michigan, delivering a dramatic blow to her party's nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, just days before the November 3 midterm elections. Stevens, who narrowly lost the Democratic Senate primary to El-Sayed in August, appeared alongside Rogers at a church service in Detroit on Sunday, November 1. Her decision marks a remarkable escalation in an increasingly bitter dispute within the Democratic Party over Israel and El-Sayed's political positions. The endorsement came after Stevens was excluded from a planned joint campaign appearance with El-Sayed, which...

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten released his final statistical model for the 2026 midterm elections on Saturday, projecting favorable national environments for Democratic candidates across the U.S. House, Senate, and state gubernatorial races. Enten based his projections on an aggregate of nonpartisan race ratings, generic congressional polling averages, primary voter turnout data, and predictive market models. According to Enten’s analysis of national generic ballot polling, Democrats held a 9-point advantage heading into the final days of the campaign, widening from a 5-point lead recorded a year earlier and a 6-point edge over the summer. He noted that while GOP...

Pity that totalitarian leftists have taken over the words FASCISM and FASCISTS to describe conservatives. As usual they use Alinsky rules to end run around conservatives and are owning the language. While conservatives here and elsewhere parse what FASCIST MEANS they are being tarred with it. Think about this.... THE REAL FASCISTS OF OUR WORLD TODAY... THE ANTIFAS... THE ISLAMISTS....THE SOCIALISTS....THE DEMOCRATS ....THE ANARCHISTS..... ALL ARE USING the term FASCIST in unison to market and sell the idea that you and other conservatives are a murdererous group WHO SHOULD BE KILLED. Madison Avenue never did it better. Solution grab the...

Jerry Koosman, the legendary Mets southpaw who helped lead the franchise to its first World Series title in 1969, died Sunday morning, the team said. He was 83 years old. Koosman was battling multiple illnesses, according to Jay Horwitz. He was surrounded by family in Osceola, Wis. Koosman was the winning pitcher in Game 2 of the 1969 World Series after the Orioles took Game 1, and he also won the Game 5 clincher. A two-time All-Star, Koosman, whose No. 36 is retired by the Mets, had a 3.09 regular-season ERA across 12 seasons with the club. He also had...

That’s how many barrels of oil have made it out of the Hormuz Strait with U.S. military guidance. Voters aren’t happy about gasoline prices as they head to the polls, and it’s now axiomatic in the press that the Iran war is a loser for the U.S. with no good choices except capitulation. So it’s worth noting U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper’s update this week that the U.S. has helped its allies in the Gulf export 1.5 billion barrels of oil since this summer.“When I flew over the Strait” recently, Adm. Cooper said in a video on Friday, “I saw...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday he had a constructive conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump about a potential trade deal and that negotiators would work in the coming weeks toward an agreement, signaling fresh momentum in a bitter trade dispute just days before the U.S. midterm elections. Carney said the conversation built on recent discussions about the outlines of a deal that would create jobs, lower costs for families and protect Canada's languages, culture and sovereignty. "Our teams will now be working in the coming weeks to deliver that outcome," Carney wrote on social media. The upbeat assessment...

Mayor Maria Pacheco of Kerman, California, was alleged to have followed and harassed a random man on Oct. 14 because she mistakenly thought he was an ICE agent. Fresno resident Eric Bridges accused Pacheco, who is listed as “non-affiliated” but was endorsed by Democrats, of pursuing him for 25 minutes to his sister’s house because she thought he was an ICE agent, GV Wire reported. Bridges detailed the encounter in a TikTok video and filed a formal complaint on Oct. 19. “I am not, nor have I ever been, an employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Department of...

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers on Sunday, a major shakeup in the final stages of a top battleground race that could determine which party controls the Senate. “Hey, Michigan, as you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said in a video. “And he’s right, and that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,” she said. “I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign.” The congresswoman’s announcement marks a whirlwind turnabout from...

Whether Paxton wins the senate race or not, I'll be writing my current senator John Cornyn to express my disgust with his recent stances on the election, and his long-recognized treachery toward his Party. They say you should keep such letters polite and to a specific point. How firm should this rule be on an outgoing senator like Cornyn? My rage toward him is bottomless.

1 November 2026 All Saints Solemnity All Saints Catholic Church, DallasReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).First readingApocalypse 7:2-4,9-14I saw a huge number, impossible to count, of...

PITTSBURGH, PA — Language learning app Duo Lingo announced this week that it will be rolling out a new language called "Kamala Harris" to help people understand the former Vice President. Researchers at Duo Lingo say they spent years studying the strange verbal inflections and random sound repetitions of the Kamala language. The task of parsing it out in a teaching module wasn't easy, they said, but they're excited to offer it as a new feature.

"The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery," the statement said in part. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke, according to his chief of staff.Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son's hockey game Saturday, his chief of staff said in a statement. He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a stroke.Murphy was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment.Watch NBC 4 free...

Teachable moment in radio. It's a 'favorite caller' I post from time to time. It starts at minute 19 and goes on for just 10 minutes.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) appeared Sunday at Detroit's Perfecting Church alongside Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, praising his support for Black-owned businesses just two days before he faces the Democratic nominee she previously endorsed. • Stevens then tweeted an endorsement for Rogers.

Trump pushed the late-Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sister to run for his seat, in a race that has become surprisingly close ROCK HILL, S.C.—Darline Graham had just been sworn in to finish her late brother’s Senate term this summer when she was in the Oval Office trying to coax President Trump to support Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill. Trump was reluctant, but her brother had been obsessed with the bill, Graham said in an interview. Graham told the president that he could blame a grieving sister for any fallout. Trump chuckled and told her, “You’re tough.” She said it was then...

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., was inside Detroit’s Perfecting Church on Sunday, standing next to Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers during a service, Fox News confirmed — an unusual scene in a Senate race roiled by Democratic infighting. The appearance came after Stevens was disinvited from a planned church event with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, the man who narrowly defeated her in Michigan’s August Democratic primary. The reversal left Stevens at the same church as Rogers, El-Sayed’s Republican opponent.

Democrats could change the Electoral College to elect presidential candidates by the national popular vote if they win the majority in four state legislatures, warns an election expert. Altering the Electoral College to follow the national popular vote would take power away from the states in electing the president, Trent England, founder and executive director of Save Our States, told The National News Desk on Wednesday. Each state’s political parties nominate people to be presidential electors for that state prior to Election Day. In 48 states, presidential electors for the Electoral College are chosen by a “winner-take-all" system, meaning that...

The verdict was met with a groan from Tommy Robinson’s supporters, who had sat behind the dock throughout his harassment trial. It took more than 11 hours of jury deliberations to find the far-right activist guilty of harassment causing fear of violence to two journalists, enough time for a band of lieutenants and hangers-on to get their hopes up that he might be acquitted. Yet as Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, potentially faces up to 10 years in prison, another narrative has now taken hold. A miscarriage of justice has taken place, according to messages pumped out across...

When a creator is dissatisfied with how the final product turned out, it’s not uncommon for them to use a pseudonym rather than their real name. *snip* There are multiple names that have been used, often created by each individual person, but one name stands above them all. Alan Smithee.