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Australia has a critical shortage of climate scientists, leaving it at serious risk of not delivering essential climate and weather services to groups like farmers, coastal communities and international organisations, a report has found. The report into the nation’s climate science capability by the Australian Academy of Science found the climate science workforce needed to grow by 77 full-time positions over the next four years, with 27 of those positions urgently required. The Australian Academy of Science’s investigation was prompted by the CSIRO announcement in 2016 that the research agency was going to sack about 100 climate scientists – a...

Late night MSNBC anchor Brian Williams on Friday cheered the “moral courage” of John McCain and two other Republicans to derail ObamaCare repeal efforts. The journalist also hoped for GOP “heroes” in the mode of Republicans who stood up during Watergate. Narrating McCain’s vote against repeal, Williams touted, “In the well of the Senate, it came down to one very dramatic moment... Much was made of that moment, a moment of moral courage, a man staring down his own mortality yet again.”  Not wanting to leave out the other two GOP moderates, he asked former radio host Charlie Sykes: “My...

If you’re one of those students who dreads math — especially algebra — you’ll soon get a bit of a break at the California State University system. For years, intermediate algebra had been a prerequisite for the system’s general math classes, meaning even students who weren’t majoring in math or science related fields had to complete the course before they could complete their math requirement. Beginning in the fall of 2018, students whose majors aren’t math or science heavy will be able to fulfill their math requirements without slogging through intermediate algebra first — part of a larger effort to...

RUSH: Right before the program started today, mere moments ago, the president’s new legal immigration plan was outlined, Senators Cotton and Perdue, Cotton from Arkansas, Perdue from Georgia, announced Trump’s new immigration proposal. And again, this is legal immigration. And, folks, the Democrats and the media are having a daily conniption fit. They are beside themselves today because Trump’s immigration program is merit-based, English language is preferred, exactly like Canada has, by the way, exactly like New Zealand and Australia and many other countries that the left hail as enlightened, and in fact much the way our legal immigration used...

A report released two weeks ago by Interpol publicized identifying information of 173 Islamic State operatives suspected to be headed towards -- or already in -- Europe. The report warns that it's easier for non-European operatives to slip into the continent than for European citizens of the terror group. Today, a new report from Belgian media outlet HLN provides additional details on these ISIS operatives, and on one known Belgian operative in particular:

It’s a picture of a cartoon mother drowning her young daughter in the bathtub. Underneath the picture, it reads “When your daughters (sic) first crush is a little Negro boy.” An assistant police chief in Estherwood, Louisiana posted that to his Facebook page on Sunday, according to multiple reports and screenshots taken by social media users.

This is a very powerful testimony of a man who's not only a former atheist, but was violently and criminally disturbed. He attempted to kill his father, and only by the grace of God did his father survive. He was diagnosed as antisocial (sociopathic) while in prison. It was a Christian cellmate who over time, by his example, led him to question his atheistic beliefs and think about turning to Jesus.

SNIP Shortly after saying “I do,” a Tennessee bride was arrested for pulling a firearm out from beneath her wedding dress and pulling the trigger on her new hubby. Police said Kate Elizabeth Prichard, 25, and her groom had started fighting only hours after their nuptials in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, according to news station WTVF. SNIP “She pulled out of her wedding dress a 9 mm pistol. Pointed it at her new husband’s head and pulled the trigger,” Murfreesboro Police Sgt. Kyle Evans told WTVF. SNIP

Cleaner jailed after blackmailing pensioner out of £10,000 by threatening to say he'd sexually assaulted her Linda Thomas was only caught because bank staff queried why her vulnerable victim was withdrawing huge sumsA manipulative cleaner who blackmailed a “vulnerable” pensioner into paying her £10,000 to stop her making false allegations of sexual assault against him has been jailed. Linda Thomas’ actions were only revealed when diligent bank staff quizzed her elderly victim after she demanded a further payment of £10,000. Thomas, 62, got the man in his 80s to hand over £10,000 but was caught after she demanded the same...

Organizers of an international robotics competition in the U.S. capital believe the disappearance of six teens from Burundi may have been "self-initiated." As the competition was wrapping up Tuesday, their chaperone discovered his kids were missing. He looked in the college dorms where the six teens — ages 16 to 18 — had been staying. Their bags were packed and gone. Officers swept through DAR Constitution Hall. They were nowhere to be found. Police now say that two of the six were seen crossing into Canada, and they don't suspect foul play with any of them. A member of the...

A 23-year-old DREAMer in Washington state is accused of brutally raping a 19-year-old woman in her apartment complex's gym and leaving her with severe facial injuries -- including a broken jaw and dangling ear. The woman ended up stumbling home with missing teeth, a bloody head and wearing only a black tank top, according to court documents obtained by Fox News. She was working out in the gym in Burien, a Seattle suburb, before the June 25 assault and did not know her attacker, police said. Salvador Diaz-Garcia, an illegal immigrant who was a recipient of Deferred Action on Childhood...

RUSH: The Dow Jones Industrial Average right now 21,992. It was at one point today 22,000, all-time record. And of course that number brought forth all of the negativists who are now claiming, including Greenspan, “It’s gotta burst. It can’t go on. It’s a bubble and it’s gonna blow up and we’re all gonna die. And we’re all gonna be poor, and we’re all gonna lose everything. It’s horrible.” Now, two things about this: 22,000 stock market. Who is that? Who’s getting rich? Answer, hint, clue: It ain’t the people that voted for Trump. Trump’s out there taking credit for...

Jordan Wentzel opened his own place after running a delivery company from his student house A month after graduation, most students are still trying to figure out what they want to do, applying for jobs or off on a spot of travelling. But this ambitious graduate has opened “ Cardiff’s first cheese cafe ” within six weeks of finishing his degree. Jordan Wentzel, who’s 22, opened Munchies on Crwys Road on Friday, after running a successful delivery business from his student house in Cathays. With the help of his girlfriend, the pair delivered freshly-baked desserts to addresses across Cardiff. Jordan...

Posobiec said that after the vote, a staffer near McCain’s office heard McCain say, “Let’s see Donald make America great again now.”

In a Tuesday interviewon The Today Show, Graham said the US should not only take out the country's nukes, but "North Korea itself." "[President Donald Trump] is not going to allow the ability of this madman to have a missile to hit America," Graham said. "If there is going to be a war to stop him, it will be over there. If thousands die, they are going to die there, they're not going to die here."

AMD recently unveiled something truly remarkable today – a server rack that has a total processing power of 1 PetaFLOPs. That’s 10 to the power of 15 floating point operations per second or 20 to the power of 15 half precision FLOPs. Here’s the kicker though: a decade ago in 2007, a computer of the same power would have required roughly 6000 square feet of area and thousands of processors to power. A decade ago, this would have been one of the most powerful supercomputers on Earth, and today, its a server rack.AMD’s Project 47 unveiled: 1 PetaFLOPs of single...

Before long Trump’s cabinet members availing themselves of Bible studies will be smeared as “bitter clingers”, “religious freaks”, “holy rollers” and worse Judi McLeod image By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives August 2, 2017 2 Comments | Print Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us The reaction of the sniping mainstream media to White House Bible study should make it clear that the best way to study the Holy Scriptures of the Bible is to ‘Home School’ one’s self in the Holy Book. Bible Studies should be daily, not weekly and completely free of politics. To do it right you...

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. (AFNS) -- A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen from the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a single test reentry vehicle Aug. 2, 2017 at 2:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time from Vandenberg AFB, California. While not a response to recent North Korean actions, the test demonstrated the U.S.’ nuclear enterprise is safe, secure, effective and ready to deter, detect and defend against attacks on the U.S. and its allies. The ICBM's reentry vehicle, which contained a telemetry package...

Prince Philip, 96, has retired from official royal engagements in his own inimitable style by joking with Royal Marines they should be 'locked up' for their madcap fundraising efforts. As a former Royal Navy officer Philip's last public solo event, after more than 65 years championing his own causes and charities, fittingly featured men from the Royal Marines, an integral part of the Navy. But from the demeanour of the Queen's Consort you would never have guessed he was retiring after carrying out 22,219 solo engagements since 1952. The Duke of Edinburgh waved warmly to the crowds, acknowledging their cheers...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and two Republican senators on Wednesday unveiled a plan at the White House to half the number of legal immigrants to the United States eventually and favor newcomers who speak English. Trump threw his support behind a bill developed by senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia that they say would cut legal immigration by 50 percent over 10 years by reducing the kinds of relatives immigrants can bring into the country. The legislation faces an uphill climb to get through Congress. "This competitive application process will favor applicants who...