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With the Artemis II mission successfully completed NASA has set itself a high bar to prepare Artemis III to fly next year, at least it's a high bar compared to the 3 years between flights 1 and 2. It has to assemble a rocket, decide on the mission and then make sure the other parts of the mission are ready for the flight. Scott Manley examines the logistical hurdles and critical milestones required to keep the Artemis program on schedule. The discussion explores the readiness of hardware, the competition between HLS providers, and the evolving mission plans for future lunar...

Federal funds totaling $73 million will be withheld from New York by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday. Secretary Sean Duffy said the state failed to revoke “illegally issued nondomiciled commercial learner’s permits and commercial driver’s licenses.” An audit of 200 sampled records found 107 – 53.5% – were issued in violation of federal law. New York defaulted to eight-year licenses to foreign drivers for non-REAL ID licenses, regardless of when legal status for the individuals expired. In a Dec. 12 release, the state was ordered by the federal agency to begin revocations;...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is delaying his special session on redistricting, issuing a proclamation on Wednesday that the state Legislature would convene between April 28 and May 1 instead of next week. The rescheduled special session will also focus on issues related to artificial intelligence and medical freedom. DeSantis initially called for a special session next week to take up the Sunshine State’s congressional lines but indicated earlier this week that there could be a delay as lawmakers finish budget negotiations. “It’s possible you could do a little tweak, but you can’t really push it very far. You got...

Long before modern geopolitics turned the strait into a global flashpoint, there was a thriving port city called Hormuz. It sat on the southern coast of present-day Iran and later moved to an island nearby for security reasons. Medieval travellers wrote about it with awe. Merchants from India, Persia and the Arab world docked there. It became one of the richest trading hubs in the region between the 13th and 16th centuries. The waterway gradually took the name of the port. In other words, the strait was named after the city, and not the other way around... Most historians trace...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his plan to open a $30 million city-run grocery store in the heart of New York City. While that may seem like a lot of money, this isn't your average Kroger. Take a look at the following list of amazing features the new taxpayer-funded grocery store will have: 1. Choice of two different brands of products: Have your pick between carrots or potatoes. 2. A mandatory 3-hour wait time at the register to ensure fairness across all lines: Finally, justice for all. 3. All the cashiers will be ex-cons out on work release: Checkout has never...

The Federal Trade Commission, along with a coalition of states, took decisive action today to stop collusion between the nation’s largest advertising agencies that distorted America’s modern public square. Starting in 2018, major U.S. advertising agencies WPP, Publicis and Dentsu—who buy digital ad inventory on behalf of advertisers—unlawfully colluded to impose common “brand safety” standards across the digital advertising industry, according to the FTC’s complaint. The ad agencies, together with their primary competitors Omnicom and IPG, operated through trade associations to establish a common “Brand Safety Floor” to target “misinformation.” The complaint alleges firms like NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation...

Beloved, can you count it all joy in all of this world's trials and testings (James 1:1-9)? Is the Good Lord more than enough to meet each one of our tribulations (2 Cor. 12:6-12)? Dear friends, it is in the trials of this life that Jesus seeks to disciple us under His most gracious yoke, to teach us in His RIGHTEOUS ways, and to reach the lost as His Personal ambassador -Prov. 3:5-6, Matt. 11:28-30, Gal. 2:20, Eph. 2:10, Phil. 2:13, James 1:1-6). Beloved, by faith, count it all joy when you do fall into the many-faceted testings of this...

A day after Ketanji Brown Jackson once again showed herself to be the worst justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas reminded us why he’s the best. The current court’s longest-serving member delivered a resounding speech at the University of Texas on Wednesday commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Drawing on his own life story growing up in the segregated South, the Bush 41 appointee gave a full-throated defense of America’s founding ideals and principles. “The second paragraph of the Declaration proclaims, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that...

Join RSBN for full coverage of President Trump’s “Build the Red Wall” rally with Turning Point USA, as grassroots supporters gather to energize voter turnout. The pre-program will feature speeches from Congressman Andy Biggs and Erika Kirk, followed by a keynote address from President Trump. RSBN will be LIVE with crowd interviews and full-day coverage starting at 11 AM EDT for this must-watch event. The pre-program begins at 3 PM EDT, with President Trump scheduled to deliver remarks at 5 PM EDT.

Dear Friends, In light of our EXPONENTIALLY deteriorating and growing godless nation, where both political parties are abandoning Almighty God, our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator’s moral and spiritual laws, as well as His natural laws, let us carefully hear from the ghosts of our American Founding Fathers and their prophetic warnings to us in 2026. Dear friends, please do not think President Trump is our American savior. Thank Almighty God that he is seeking to do some good, and he is in many ways doing so, but we are a million miles from the point of NO RETURN, and are moving...

WHAT HAPPENED: A 19-year-old Afghan migrant was arrested in France for allegedly raping sheep and goats at an educational farm near Marseille. The animals were found tied up and injured, prompting the farm owners to install cameras that captured the acts. Police from an anti-crime unit arrested the suspect on April 10 after catching him in the act. Authorities said DNA evidence linked him to multiple abused animals. The suspect, who arrived in France in November 2025 and was awaiting residency, denied the allegations through an interpreter.

A woman accused of fatally shooting a woman and wounding another in Missouri nearly six years ago was arrested in Florida this week, one day after she was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, authorities said. KaShawn Nicola Roper was placed on the most-wanted list Tuesday, and a reward of up to $1 million was offered for information, the agency announced that day. She was arrested the next day in High Springs, around 20 miles northwest of Gainesville, by authorities acting on a tip from the announcement, the FBI said in a statement Wednesday. Roper is accused...

The secular sabotage from fifth-column apostate Americans is almost complete, don't think so? Just look at our deeply rooted anti-God America. You might say also, but Trump, but Trump, but Trump! Well, thank God for the common sense of President Trump; in light of Almighty God's providence, we would now be an ash heap of a nation without him, but we are now living in the era of the new new Republican Party, where common sense may be used, but godless, moral relativism is embraced as frosting on a debauched, maggot filled cake, or as shiny gloss paint on an...

NJ Transit officials formally announced its sky-high $150 round-trip ticket prices for trains headed to FIFA World Cup games at the Meadowlands, confirming controversial reports from earlier this week. To make matters worse, Kris Kolluri, president of the Garden State’s largest transit network, also told reporters Friday that just 40,000 tickets will be made available, and once they’re gone, remaining rail-riding soccer fans will be out of luck. He also said two shuttle buses would be available to take passengers to New York-New Jersey Stadium from Port Authority and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in Nutley at a teeth-clenching cost...

President Donald Trump has announced that the White House is investigating the mysterious deaths and disappearances of eleven officials connected by their work on secret space and nuclear technology. The disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland has intensified scrutiny over a growing number of cases involving scientists and officials tied to sensitive U.S. defense and research programs. The total number is now at least 11 individuals after new links to the suspicious death of anti-gravity scientist Amy Eskridge emerged. McCasland, 68, vanished from his Albuquerque, New Mexico home on Feb. 27 under unusual circumstances. According to...

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

Meet Japanese pensioners desperate to be put in prison. It’s a retirement plan with a difference, as seniors commit petty crimes to get into jail seeking shelter, safety and regular meals. But what does it say about Japan’s justice and welfare systems?

Former President Barack Obama is urging Virginians to vote in favor of a congressional redistricting ballot measure that if passed, could give Democrats a big boost in this year's midterm elections. "By voting yes, you have the chance to do something important — not just for the Commonwealth, but for our entire country," Obama said in the video. "By voting yes, you can push back against the Republicans trying to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms." The video by the former president, who remains one of the most popular former presidents and whose favorable ratings among Democrats remain...

If you read the New York Times or watch the foreign policy establishment’s “best and brightest,” you will be told, with imperious certainty, that America is losing the war in Iran and was stupid to begin it. The conspiratorial wing on both the right and left add that it is all the Jews’ fault, although they usually remember to mutter they mean “Israel” instead of all Jews, a gossamer cloak over what they really mean. If, on the other hand, you watch Fox News or read blogs by conservatives or military analysts, you will be told with equal certainty that...

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