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Daily Readings from the USCCB“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous...

The launches include Starlink of Vandenberg, including the 700th Falcon 9 overall on the 31st, plus a couple of Electrons from Mahia and a run of Chinese vehicles. Galactic Energy put the first pathfinder for a low-inclination remote-sensing constellation up on a Ceres-1S from an offshore barge, while CAS Space flew the second Kinetica-2 (the liquid RP-1/LOX tri-core version) with another batch of Qianfan satellites. ISRO’s GSLV got NVS-03 into geosynchronous transfer orbit after the previous one’s failure, and Rocket Lab’s 99th Electron carried an iQPS SAR bird. On the bigger picture side, NASA laid out the Artemis Acceleration plan...

Not on its own, and not yet. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would not abolish the Electoral College, but if states with 270 electoral votes join it, they would give their electors to whoever wins the national popular vote. It now has 222 of those 270, according to National Popular Vote, the group behind it. After Tuesday’s midterms, Democrats control enough statehouses to pass it, but nothing has been passed yet. What the compact isIt is an agreement between states. Each member promises to award all its electoral votes to the candidate with the most votes nationwide, rather than...

A glitzy Vogue cover featuring former President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff and Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has caused an uproar online. The only problem? It's not real. Self-proclaimed comedian Brian Marquis posted the fake magazine cover, which was seemingly made with AI, to Instagram on Tuesday. It went viral almost immediately, as thousands of people across the globe believed that the faux photo shoot was legit. The phony cover showed Mamdani standing in a pair of jeans, a black V-neck sweater and a long brown coat. Obama posed next to him in...

That didn't take long. Democrats had barely clinched Congress last night when their supporters were calling for the execution of Elon Musk for being a "traitor to the west." affordability? "We've begun believing through this ridiculous, unhealthy, and dangerous idolatry of innovators that they get to live by an entirely different standard," Galloway said. "Elon Musk is a traitor to the West." "We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall," he continued. "This is a traitor to the West, and he should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West." And the crowd applauded. This...

Phys.org reports that a new analysis of a skull fragment and jaw fragment found in northern China's Xujiayao archaeological site in the 1970s suggests that the fossils belonged to Denisovans. Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and her colleagues identified 18 proteins in the fossils. One of the collagen variants is found only in Denisovans, and not in Neanderthals nor modern humans. Then the researchers evaluated the shapes of the fossils and used 3D computer models to reconstruct the bones. These images were compared with fossils from Neanderthals, modern humans, and other hominins. The study suggests that Denisovans...

Well-preserved Neanderthal hand bones containing collagen have been recovered from northern Spain's Abauntz Cave, according to an IFL Science report. The bones have been radiocarbon dated to 46,000 years ago. "The cave's location is important," said Andión Arteaga of the University of Warsaw and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, and Mikel Arlegi of the Musée de l'Homme. "Abauntz lies along a natural corridor connecting both sides of the Pyrenees. [This makes] it a particularly interesting site for investigating how these late Neanderthal populations moved across the region and how different groups may have interacted," the researchers...

For all the progressive excitement around the bruising beatdown delivered to Donald Trump and the Republican party, Jeffries’ own backers include some of the most notorious power players in the tech industry. Jeffries has a lengthy history of groveling to some of the most divisive tech and weapons corporations on the planet. His donor list includes controversial figures like Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf and his COO Matthew Grimm, who together spent nearly $150,000 boosting Jeffries’ fundraising committees. Some might recognize Anduril as the AI weapons tech corporation co-founded by Palmer Luckey, a tech billionaire whose recent projects include a company...

President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader. Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) issued a stark warning on Wednesday evening after Democrats flipped a Texas Senate seat and the governor’s mansion in the midterm elections. In a lengthy statement shared on social media, the GOP senator said that “Texans will be hurt” by the blue tsunami that swept across the state and country on Tuesday. “Their assault on business will make Texas a much less attractive place to start or grow a small business,” he wrote. “Texas will become more like California if they succeed in halting all new investment into AI.” State Reps. James Talarico and Gina...

A Los Angeles Police Department helicopter narrowly avoided a possible midair collision with a U.S. Navy helicopter over Echo Park Tuesday afternoon, prompting an angry warning from the police pilot over the radio. “You guys gotta pay attention, man. That’s ridiculous,” the LAPD pilot could be heard saying after maneuvering away from the approaching military aircraft. The Nov. 3 incident occurred around 2 p.m. as the police helicopter was circling above a call for service in Echo Park, according to the LAPD. In a statement, police said the helicopter crew received an air traffic alert and spotted a military helicopter...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A woman has been arrested after crashing into a North Charleston church with her young child in the vehicle, authorities say. Aliyah Symone Reese, 21, is charged with unlawful conduct toward a child. North Charleston police responded to Grace City Church on Cosgrove Avenue shortly before noon on Oct. 27 after a vehicle struck the building. Officers found Reese standing near a vehicle with significant front-end damage. Her young child was also at the scene. Both reportedly appeared extremely distraught. Reese told officers she had encountered the child’s father and his new girlfriend at a...

This is the least I have followed politics in a two decades…and maybe that is a sign of the apathy that Republicans had yesterday. I didn’t anticipate Governor Abbott losing but it happened. Republicans need to win or lose on policy and Democrats win or lose on leader charisma. That tells me that Republican policy was bad. I never criticized Abbott before but his anti-data center talk made me change my tune. I voted for him but his negative view on data centers was dumb. Texas was doing an amazing job with data center expansion. Power prices were low because...

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Socialists are moving immediately to squeeze Gov. Kathy Hochul on taxes — even as political insiders argue her re-election on Tuesday was owed more to anti-Trump backlash than to a surging left-wing in the Empire State. The Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City chapter — which saw a record-number of its members win election to the state Legislature — will turn up the heat on Hochul over hiking taxes on the wealthy and other issues, including expanding free childcare and raising the minimum wage. “I’m hopeful that Hochul has seen the energy, the excitement that can come from the...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated that the country will defend its rights under international law and refuse to submit to coercion or externally imposed demands. Pezeshkian made the remarks on Tuesday during separate meetings with the newly appointed ambassadors of Portugal, Switzerland, Türkiye and Nigeria, who presented their credentials in Tehran. Receiving Portuguese Ambassador Waltier Matias, Pezeshkian criticized misleading portrayals of Iran and its people in Western media, saying, “Many of the things published about Iran and our nation in Western media do not correspond to reality.” The president also denounced state terrorism and the targeting of scientists,...

Russia quickly adopted, mass-produced and frequently adapted the Iranian-designed Shahed attack drone during its war against Ukraine. But it took the United States about three years to deploy its own version of the drone, Ryan said. “The technology was equally available to all. What differed was institutional speed,” Ryan wrote in the assessment, titled “Fast Following: Military Emulation and Twenty-First-Century Transformation.” The report says the ability to copy an enemy’s innovations could prove as important as inventing new military technologies. During the war, Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly borrowed each other’s drone tactics. For example, Ukraine quickly adopted fiber-optic drones...

Alaska’s Ballot Measure 2, which would repeal the state’s election laws, is on track to narrowly fail, as of votes counted Wednesday afternoon.

So I guess the first thing the liberals will do in impeach Trump right? Next since the have both House and Senate they'll pass legislation/bills to open up shell companies to funnel funds to themselves too? El-Sayed sure is acting like a muslim fool on stage bragging on how JD will HAVE to swear him in. The whole Ilhan Omar investigation will probably get axed too. What else?

Tonight I joined Jake Tapper on CNN.