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China’s Chang’e 4 mission is currently exploring one of the lesser-known areas of the moon — the far side, which faces away from Earth. Previously it found minerals which may have come from deep beneath the lunar surface, and now it has found something even stranger: An oddly-colored “gel-like” substance of unknown origin. The mission consists of not only the Chang’e 4 lander, but also a smaller rover called Yutu-2. It was Yutu-2 which stumbled across the unexpected blobby mystery, as reported by space.com. The discovery occurred on lunar day 8, or July 25 here on Earth, and it was...

On Saturday, August 31, 2019, 11:59:49 AM PDT, John Lucas wrote: Jimmy Regan was a sergeant in a Ranger company (3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment) who was killed in action in Iraq in February 2007. He was a real star. Before joining the Army, Jimmy had a lot of options — He was a standout lacrosse player for Duke, graduated with a degree in economics, had a job offer from UBS in NY and had been accepted to SMU law school. He gave all that up to join the Army and the Ranger Regiment. His decision was influenced by the...

As we celebrate the 56th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, it looks like Maria Hinojosa has come up with a slight variation of what was perhaps its most famous line. As Hinojosa would recast it: "I have a dream that people will be judged by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character." Appearing on MSNBC's AM Joy, and during a discussion of the Democrat primary, Hinojosa said: What does John Delaney offer? I’m sorry, I was with him last week, and this is a moment we have to have...

FULL TITLE:Trump slams 'disgusting and foul-mouthed' Omarosa who was 'despised by everyone' in series of tweets warning that he's suing ex-aides for 'violating their confidentiality agreements' after PA Madeleine Weserthout resigned President Donald Trump has slammed 'disgusting and foul-mouthed' ex aide Omarosa Manigault Newman who he says was 'despised by everyone' in a series of scathing tweets, posted Saturday morning. The president fired off a series of tweets taking aim at a host of former White House staffers for 'violating their confidentiality agreements'. He posted: '...Yes, I am currently suing various people for violating their confidentiality agreements. Disgusting and foul...

China’s worst nightmare may be happening: Mainland Chinese citizens are now participating in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, according to recent reports. Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that a “small cohort of mainlanders have joined the demonstrations, taking extraordinary risks to support a society that offers freedoms unavailable back home.”

Police arrested 17-year-old Deangelo Parnell and charged him with nine counts of attempted murder, according to Sergeant LaDerrick DuBose with the Mobile Police Department.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has had a relatively lax campaign as far as opposition goes, with ideological ally Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) refusing to criticize her. However, other campaigns are ramping up their opposition research and planning to take Warren on in the next debate, according to campaign aides who spoke to Politico.

Two men carried out a stabbing attack in a suburb of Lyon, France, killing one person and wounding nine others. One of the attackers was armed with a knife, while the other carried a skewer. Police have arrested one of the attackers,...

For many thousands, it was the last glimpse of Africa. Through a door, made narrow so that they would have to walk through in single file, Africans trudged out of the darkness of Ghana’s Elmina Castle or nearby Cape Coast Castle into the blinding sunlight bouncing off the Atlantic Ocean. Then they were chained and stacked like cordwood onto awaiting boats. That “Door of No Return” was the grim gateway west to a life of enslavement in Brazil, the Caribbean, and America. “When you walk out of that door today, even now, it is terrifying,” said Debra Santos, an Atlantan...

Three civilians were killed and over 70 others were wounded in a large-scale attack by the Taliban on Kunduz, Afghanistan, government officials said Saturday. .....

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The clown prince of crime is alive and mentally unwell in Gotham City in Todd Phillips' grippingly atmospheric supervillain origin story, Joker. While a never-better Joaquin Phoenix paints on the famed maniacal smile with his own blood at one memorable climactic moment of messianic rebirth, what's most noteworthy about this gritty entry in the DC canon and the lead actor's sensational performance is the pathos he brings to a pathetically disenfranchised character — just like countless others in a metropolis in which the social chasm separating the haves from the have-nots has become a pit of incendiary rage. The smart...

Are today's young evangelicals becoming more liberal?This is the main question behind Central Michigan University political scientist Jeremiah Castle's new book, Rock of Ages: Subcultural Religious Identity and Public Opinion among Young Evangelicals, published this month by Temple University Press.For the most part, Castle found young evangelicals to be just as conservative as older evangelicals, with a few notable exceptions.Looking at ideological identification, political party identification, issue positions and issue priorities, young evangelicals look like their older peers.Book cover for "Rock of Ages: Subcultural Religious Identity and Public Opinion among Young Evangelicals" (2019) by Jeremiah Castle. | Temple University Press...

The public is treated to a continuous barrage of stories saying how we might be headed to a recession. The source of all the negative reporting on the economy is that almost all of the media wants a Democrat elected in 2020 and people who pretend to be journalists know that if the economy is going well and people feel good about the economy, it would be likely that Trump would be elected. Pocketbook issues win. Like everything else, whether it is fictitious Russian collusion, claiming Trump is mentally incompetent, claiming everyone hates us overseas, and playing the race...

Few understand how big an influence Hong Kong money is on the PRC. Over two decades ago I followed that money. In The Year of The Rat days in the late nineties, as the financial crimes investigator for the House Committee on Rules, I followed the actions of one of the wealthiest men in the world. Based in Hong Kong, multi-billionaire Li Ka-shing was one of the most important and richest men in Asia. His financial empire, Hong Kong based, was an important PRC early indicator of Chinese ruling class money and influence in their emergence into global financial markets....

The New York Times “1619 Project” is being lauded by the media and many Democrats for what they believe is a long overdue discovery of the hidden truth of America -- that it was founded on white racism and the enslavement of blacks, and that even today the belief in white racial supremacy is so endemic to America that it’s a part of our national DNA. The Project will likely be used to advance policies in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country that purport to remedy this alleged injustice. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal.) has already...

Gaffney, South Carolina — In the past month alone, Joe Biden has confused New Hampshire for Vermont, compared poor kids to white kids, and said he met with students from the 2018 Parkland shooting while he was vice president. He told an audience he wasn't "going nuts," after he failed to remember the exact location of a speech he had just given. And a story he told about awarding a war hero turned out not to be entirely true. The string of summer slip-ups would seem to reinforce Biden's gaffe-prone reputation and raise questions about his central pitch of electability....

Organizations that advocate for the health of the climate and the urgency of global warming are praising CNN after the network announced that its climate-focused town halls next week will run for seven hours. On Sept. 4, the network will broadcast 10 back-to-back town halls with Democratic presidential candidates focused on climate change, running from 5 p.m. ET to midnight. Network anchors and hosts Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Erin Burnett will do the questioning. "Tackling the climate crisis is one of the top polling issues among voters this election, which is why it is important that...

Telegram, a popular encrypted messaging app, will allow users to cloak their telephone numbers to safeguard Hong Kong protesters against monitoring by authorities, according to a person with direct knowledge of the effort.