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Explanation: The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other's grand spiral star systems. As for the view from the Milky Way, this sharp telescopic...

ATLANTA — A member of the Georgia House of Representatives is facing federal charges after prosecutors accused him of fraudulently collecting thousands of dollars in COVID-19 unemployment benefits while continuing to work and earn income. Federal prosecutors announced that Dexter L. Sharper, 54, of Valdosta, was charged with making false statements to obtain unemployment assistance funds administered by the U.S. Department of Labor. According to the criminal information, Sharper allegedly applied for pandemic unemployment benefits between April 2020 and May 2021 while serving as the state representative for House District 177, which includes portions of Lowndes County. Prosecutors say Sharper...

Where Americans Get the Most Quality of Life for Their MoneyKey Takeaways:Tucson ranks first with a quality-of-life-per-dollar score of 300, followed by Jacksonville (297) and San Antonio (295).Nine of the top 10 cities are in the South, Midwest, or Southwest, while New York ranks last at 134.Tucson’s score is more than twice New York’s, highlighting how strongly living costs can affect the value residents get from their city.Where can Americans get the most quality of life for their money? This graphic by Valerii Emelianov uses the Numbeo Quality of Life Index to compare 41 major U.S. cities after adjusting quality...

Mark Sutherland interviews Dr. R. Mark Mark Musser, a missionary currently serving in wartime Ukraine. Dr. Musser has served in the former Soviet Union for 30 years, living in four different countries.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Mayor Justin Elicker is urging for changes at Tweed New Haven Airport in response to recent alleged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity there. Elicker formally asked Tweed to “discontinue providing any preferential parking to ICE,” facilitate demonstrators, and post signage notifying community members of their rights, among other requests that the airport “not exceed any federal requirements by extending additional assistance to ICE.” A Tweed spokesperson said clear parking and access procedures help them keep everyone safe and the airport orderly, adding Tweed has no visibility into (or influence over) enforcement activity. …...

Use of tuition aid, free school lunch programs and more could be grounds for denying applications for legal permanent residency under a new rule. States and cities are suing.Immigrants applying to live permanently in the United States can be rejected if they receive public benefits, beginning this week. Use of Medicaid, food stamps, tuition assistance and free school lunch programs, among other government assistance, could all be grounds for denying a green-card application. The policy from President Donald Trump’s administration, which took effect Friday, marks a dramatic change to a long-standing federal policy consistent with the president’s efforts to restrict...

The order calls on a group of experts to meet and create, within two months, a guide for the state to strengthen its AI safety and security laws. Those enhanced laws may include a requirement for independent third parties to write safety plans for frontier AI companies, or mandating that companies develop a “kill switch” to shut down their models in case of emergency, according to an announcement from Newsom’s office. While Trump has called fears of AI safety a “hoax,” Democrats have largely rallied around calls for stricter regulations. And those with presidential ambitions have been among the loudest...

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Executives, others at OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledge they could undermine their content sources, according to filing in New York Times’ copyright lawsuit Top staff at OpenAI and Microsoft knew that scraping news websites to train their artificial intelligence models may eventually damage or even destroy those publications. They did it anyway, according to a legal filing unsealed Thursday in a high-stakes copyright infringement case. “Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time,” Brent Hecht, Microsoft’s director of applied science, wrote in an internal...

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and his wife have emerged as two major donors seeking to block a California ballot measure that would establish strict voter ID requirements. The media boss gave $1 million towards the effort to stop Prop. 39, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship and personal identification in order to vote — which backers claim is necessary to stamp out voter fraud. Hastings’ donation came on Sept. 3, according to Secretary of State records, as California Dems rally against Prop. 39. The Netflix boss’ wife of 35 years, Patty Quillin, gave a cool $1.5 million...

The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts@solari_theYour Opportunity to Weigh In on Federal Vaccine Policy — Deadline Sunday Sept 20Only 27,771 responses so far regarding Secretary Kennedy’s question on whether federal government should change federal vaccine policy to favor informed consent, personal autonomy, and religious freedom as federal vaccine policy.You may leave your public comment here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/24/2026-17250/request-for-information-categories-used-in-federal-vaccine-recommendations-and-the-role-of-shared September 17, 2026

President Donald Trump baselessly claimed on Tuesday that the July 2024 assassination attempt against him was a plot by Democrats, including then-President Joe Biden and FBI Director Chris Wray, to push him out of the election. The president posted on Truth Social that Biden's FBI "didn't do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA," referring to gunman Thomas Crooks, who was 20 years old when he shot at Trump during a campaign rally, grazing his ear, killing a bystander and injuring two others before the Secret Service fatally shot him. Politics: Trump...

Men, if you've been married for any length of time, then you've no doubt fallen prey to a trap question. Women love asking questions they don't want answers to, just so they can start a fight. It's in their nature. But we got you, fam. Check out these common trap questions wives love to ask and how you should respond to each: Q: Which one of my friends is the prettiest? A: You have female friends? I never noticed. Q: Do you think Sydney Sweeney is attractive? A: What is a "Sydney Sweeney"? Q: Does this dress make me...

According to journalist Xavier Poussard, Natacha Rey died of cancerPARIS, September 18. /TASS/. Journalist Xavier Poussard reported the death of his French colleague Natacha Rey, the originator of the story that the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte, was born a man. According to him, she died of cancer. "It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Natacha Rey, which occurred on September 13 in Saintes (Charente-Maritime [department]) after her battle with cancer. Natacha Rey, who was one of the first to report about Brigitte Macron, will be buried today at 4 p.m. at the...

Several female Pennsylvania college students were brutally assaulted by a mob of agitators who had invaded their off-campus house during an apparent illegal street takeover. The unidentified coeds, who attend York College of Pennsylvania, were dragged by the hair, punched, kicked, maced and beaten unconscious in the attack as they were sitting on the front porch of their rental home Saturday morning, according to Fox 43. “After the first punch was given, all these girls started to rush us, and that’s where it kind of gets blurry because I think people were coming at me… I turn and see my...

Any of you ‘ gavones ’ miss Rush? At the noon hour, for decades, I would tune in on my Walkman, just to find some sanity. I literally choose my train runs to give a few minutes to listen in. How I miss those moments when that fuzzy little fuzzball would keep meon the straight and narrow. May the good Lord keep and protect his kind soul.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett quick shut down an offer to respond to President Donald Trump's flurry of public attacks against the high court, saying she 'does not want' to talk about anything the commander-in-chief has to say. Her remarks came just days after Trump excoriated Justice Barrett and two of her conservative colleagues, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, for blocking his effort to crack down on mail-in voting in the fast-approaching midterm elections. Just two justices - Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito - sided with the Trump administration in the case, prompting the president to unleash fury...

The Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team at SpaceX has been awarded the 2026 Neil Armstrong Space Prize in the Innovation category for proving that rockets could be recovered, refurbished and reused — a feat much of the industry once considered impossible. This video traces how that breakthrough happened, from early NASA and Air Force reusability research to the moment engineers watched a booster descend out of the darkness and land perfectly upright.Team members, including Jon Edwards, Yoshiaki Kuwata, Lars Blackmore, Shana Diez and Eduardo Valazquez, describe the persistence behind hundreds of engineers' work, and how those lessons carry forward into...

Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude technology to break into OpenAI’s ChatGPT systems, underlining the immediate dangers of AI even as regulators fret over its long-term risks. The effort, part of a bug-hunting program, was the latest in a series of cybersecurity breaches aided in large part by fast-developing AI technology, The Wall Street Journal noted. Axios cited business executives and ex-government officials voicing worry over AI-powered cyberattacks threatening critical infrastructure, while The Washington Post noted the Pentagon’s “antiquated computer networks” had resulted in an explosion of cybersecurity risks. As a new research paper put it, recent breaches have been the result...

While some Americans are looking for a few good communists and socialists for their midterm elections, they are also nervously debating the dangers of AI. Largely speaking, AI already has them completely fooled as it searches throughout our world for the Antichrist. AI will trick some, fool some, and make a few mistakes, but it will never be as deadly as it’s going to be until it ends up under the exclusive hand of the Antichrist. If it weren’t such a serious matter, it would be a subject for a comedy skit, but there’s absolutely nothing funny about it. One...