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On this day in 1901, James Edward Brady was hauled out of his jail cell and hanged from a telephone pole on the corner of Main and Lawrence Streets at Haymarket Square in Helena, Montana. He had been arrested three days before in relation to his attack on Hazel Pugsley, a five-year-old girl. On September 30, Brady, who had arrived in Helena from the city of Boulder, Montana only the day before, waylaid little Hazel while she was on her way to kindergarten. He convinced her to get on a streetcar with him and they didn’t get off until they...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

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Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

New data from the CDC is terrifying, we need to all wear our masks!

..... Pratt is the only surviving Australian winner of the George Cross — the country’s highest civilian award for bravery. The equivalent award in the newer Australian honours system is the Cross of Valour, an award that has been made to only five Australians. Pratt, a 21-year-old policeman and married just three months, was on his way to have a haircut when he earned his medal. He drove his own car, on a day off and unarmed, into the front door of a Clifton Hill bank when he saw three armed and masked bandits enter the bank on June 4,...

Gold is an element, which means you can't make it through ordinary chemical reactions — though alchemists tried for centuries. To make the sparkly metal, you have to bind 79 protons and 118 neutrons together to form a single atomic nucleus. That's an intense nuclear fusion reaction. But such intense fusion doesn't happen frequently enough, at least not nearby, to make the giant trove of gold we find on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. And a new study has found the most commonly-theorized origin of gold — collisions between neutron stars — can't explain gold's abundance either. So...

Precariously balanced rocks (PBRs) are formations found throughout the world where a slender boulder is balanced precariously on a pedestal boulder. They form as blocks preserved on cliffs, or when softer rocks erode and leave the harder rocks behind. They can also form when landslides or retreating glaciers deposit them in strange positions. Despite their delicate balancing act, many PBRs — like the Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire, or Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona — have survived earthquake shaking over thousands of years. They can therefore tell us the upper limit of earthquake shaking that has occurred since they were first...

At the presidential debate this week, the Republican candidate voiced his concern about political violence—left-wing political violence. And the Democratic candidate likewise voiced concern about political violence—right-wing political violence. They were both right. Like a growing number of prominent American leaders and scholars, we are increasingly anxious that this country is headed toward the worst post-election crisis in a century and a half. Our biggest concern is that a disputed presidential election—especially if there are close contests in a few swing states, or if one candidate denounces the legitimacy of the process—could generate violence and bloodshed. Unfortunately, we’re not being...

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California's larger counties will not be permitted to reopen their economies further unless they reduce coronavirus infections in the hardest hit places where the poor, Black people, Latinos and Pacific Islanders live. Under a new state requirement for reopening during the pandemic, counties with more than 106,000 residents must bring infections down in these places and invest heavily there in testing, contact tracing, outreach and providing means for infected people to isolate. Los Angeles is one county sure to be affected, along with others in Southern California. The measure is designed to ensure that test positivity rates in the most...

Incredible video released tonight. Chicago police officers confront a man wanted for stabbing a citizen nearby. Perp has a large knife, overcomes the Tazer and then charges the female sergeant. He is shot 15 times before falling. No word if the officer was stabbed.

The GOP won major court victories in the past 24 hours.In Maine a court sided with the RNC and election integrity. Democrat plans to steal thwarted! *Ban on ballot harvesting *Voter ID requirements *Election Day deadline *Signature match requirements Big news!A Maine court sided with the RNC and upheld the: *Ban on ballot harvesting*Voter ID requirements*Election Day deadline*Signature match requirementsClean sweep in a bogus Democrat lawsuit, and another victory in our fight to https://t.co/tidEkbV9KS!— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) October 1, 2020 TRENDING: FOX News Hack John Roberts LOSES IT! Whines over Twitter Attacks After He Refuses to Accept President Trump's...

In just less than 20 minutes it will be 200 days since the institution of the infamous Flattening the Curve. Two weeks, they told us, for two weeks we need to work from home, close non-essential business, cancel concerts, baby showers, bingo games, etc., yada, yada, you know “the thing” (to show my solidarity with a certain presidential candidate) in order to give hospitals a chance to gear up for huge, terrible, overwhelming waves of ‘rona patients. Two weeks. Instead, two weeks has become 200 days. We can argue as to the exact start date of the implementation of Operation...

A trend of low ratings throughout the NBA postseason has now reached the NBA Finals. And hit it hard. Game 1 of the Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat brought in only 7.41 million viewers to ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That is reportedly the lowest viewership seen for the Finals since at least 1994, when total viewers began to be regularly recorded. The number is down 45 percent from last year’s Game 1

FILE – In this Sept. 9, 2015 file photo, students arrive for the first day of school at Stuyvesant High School in New York. A push to diversify New York City’s most elite public high schools is facing a backlash from the group that makes up most of the schools’ current student bodies: Asian-Americans. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)One of the tenets of the pseudo-political religious cult that is Marxism is that capitalism is doomed by its own “internal contradictions.”Why do I call Marxism a religion? If you look at Marxism through the lens of comparative religion, what do you have?...

President Trump said he and First Lady Melania were awaiting coronavirus test results Thursday night after his close aide, Hope Hicks, tested positive. Trump during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity Thursday night said he had “spent a lot of time” with Hicks, who had flown on Air Force 1 with him to the presidential debate Tuesday night and his Minnesota rally the following day. “I just went for a test and we’ll see what happens. Who knows?” Trump said during the interview. “It’ll come back later, I guess,” he added. Trump later said in a tweet that, “In...

I’ve been pondering the “battleground states” and how they might go depending on the various reports I’m hearing.Apparently, Joe Biden has been doing the same thing. His response, however, looks like one of desperation. It sounds like the word on the ground must not be very good for him. Why do I say this?Previously, Biden’s team had downplayed the fact that Biden wasn’t doing door to door canvassing like the Trump team. Joe Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, told reporters in the middle of September, “While you might hear our opponents spend a lot of time talking about the...

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QUINN SIMMONS Here we go again. The Church of Progressivism has brandished its cancel culture tomahawk once again as it takes the scalp of yet another blasphemer. An American cyclist was suspended by his team for having the temerity to post a tweet expressing his support for President Donald Trump. Quinn Simmons, the 2019 junior road race world champion, placed himself in the woke crowd’s crosshairs when he responded to a tweet posted by José Been, a Dutch journalist. The reporter tweeted to her American friends that she hopes “this horrible presidency ends for you.” She added, “if you follow...