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After orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Bennu for nearly two years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched down and reached out its robotic arm to collect a sample from the asteroid's surface on Tuesday. That sample will be returned to Earth in 2023. To achieve this historic first for NASA, a van-size spacecraft had to briefly touch down its arm in a landing site called Nightingale. The site is the width of a few parking spaces. The arm reached out to collect a sample, which could be between 2 ounces and 2 kilograms. Then, the spacecraft backed away to safety.

MANILA, Philippines – The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested in Pasay City two suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group wanted for the 2002 kidnapping and killing of members of Jehova’s Witness. NBI Officer-in-Charge Director Eric Distor identified the suspects as Jamar Ibi and Raden Jamil. The two were arrested by members of the NBI’s Counter-Terrorism Division (NBI-CTD) by virtue of arrest warrants issued by the Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 266. NBI-CTD Officer-In-Charge Darcy Binaya said the two were among those charged with six counts of non-bailable charges of kidnapping and serious illegal detention with ransom before...

JUST IN: Rudy Giuliani just confirmed on Greg Kelly’s show (Newsmax) that there are pictures of underage girls on Hunter Biden’s hard drive. The information has already been turned over to Delaware State Police.

Chelsea Clinton says President Trump just can't get her mother out of his head. "He's obsessed with her!" the 40-year-old author and daughter of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton exclaimed in a Monday interview on the daytime talk show "The Real." "I mean, he talks about her all the time," Clinton said. "He talks about her in interviews. He talks about her in rallies. He tweets about her," she continued in response to a question from co-host Garcelle Beauvais about remarks Trump made earlier this month in a Fox Business interview about his former political opponent's use of a...

Tucker Carlson just announced breaking that Chinese Nationals are heading up Facebook's Censorship Team. An editor of NY Post Sohrab Asmara was Tucker's guest who broke the story.

Just curious, If the microphones of Trump and Biden are going to be shut down while the the other is speaking so they can't interrupt will the moderators mike be shut down so he/she can't interrupt the candidate that is speaking.

A Hollywood sign-style with letters spelling out “TRUMP” appeared on the side of a California freeway for the second time on Tuesday. The sign appeared in Corona in Riverside County along the 91 Freeway on Tuesday, NBC Los Angeles reported. It was unclear if it was related to the sign previously erected off the 405 Freeway earlier this month. State workers removed the “TRUMP” sign that appeared in Sepulveda Pass hours after it was first reported. The authorities said the Hollywood-style sign celebrating the president presented a visual distraction as vehicles were slowing down to take photos, Los Angeles station...

A new photograph has emerged of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden posing with Hunter Biden and Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakh oligarch who reportedly worked with the former veep’s scandal-scarred son. The snap, first published by a Kazakhstani anti-corruption website in 2019, follows last week’s bombshell Post exposés detailing Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and a report claiming Rakishev paid the Biden scion as a go-between to broker US investments. In the undated photo, shared by the Kazhakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery, the former vice president can be seen smiling with Kazakhstan’s former prime minister Karim Massimov and his son, who...

ATTACK - The Pantin mosque will have to close its doors on Wednesday evening and for a period of six months. The cause, in particular, a video relayed on the Facebook page of the place of worship likely to have facilitated the savage murder of Samuel Paty on October 16 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine as well as the controversial personality of the imam. The faithful met this Tuesday morning near the mosque consider the decision unfair and disproportionate. "I have tears in my eyes," laments a mother, who has been practicing in this place of worship for a year. "The Pantin mosque...

Universities in the United States reported $6.5 billion in previously undisclosed gifts and contracts from foreign sources as a result of an investigation by the Department of Education. Federal law requires universities to disclose substantial foreign gifts and contracts to the Department of Education (DOE) twice a year. Many have for years failed to do so, while others have underreported. After the department opened an investigation into the matter in 2019, 60 schools that had never complied with the law disclosed $350 million in previously unreported foreign funds, according to a report (pdf) released by the DOE on Oct. 20....

Joe ain’t nice (vanity) Good Ole Uncle Joe – the blue collar worker from next store – the guy everyone wants to have a beer with is anything but nice, anything but decent, anything but kind, anything but loving, anything but in it to help the little guy – look at how he treats his son – that says it all. I am not excusing Hunter’s behavior in any way, shape or form. He is an adult. Joe Biden knows his son is an addict, knows his son is not stable, knows his son needs help and knows that he...

BOSTON — Joe Biden is considering Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker for a cabinet post if the Democratic presidential nominee wins the Nov. 3 election. "It wouldn't be a shock for Biden, especially given the kind of campaign he's running as a unifying figure to find a Republican figure to put in his cabinet," David Hopkins, associate professor of political science at Boston College, said. "Baker would be the kind of Republican Biden would want: a moderate Republican who is not a Trump supporter." Politico reported Tuesday that Biden's team is looking into the backgrounds of some Republicans as they put...

New Tax Story: As Trump raises questions about Hunter Biden and China, his tax records show China is one of three foreign countries where he has reported having a bank account. He paid $188,561 in taxes in China in 2013-2015

Liturgy expert: Worldwide spread of Novus Ordo has diminished belief in Real Presence 'I'm afraid it's impossible to deny the connection.' Would you say there is a connection between the postconciliar liturgy and the dwindling belief in transubstantiation? Yes, I’m afraid it’s impossible to deny the connection. The classical Roman rite as it developed over so many centuries acquired numerous and very expressive gestures of adoration and care toward the Holy Sacrament, precisely because it is not a mere “thing,” but under the signs of bread and wine a divine Person is really present. How we treat Him is how...

Top-ranking Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday asked the U.S. Secret Service to provide information about Hunter Biden's travel history following last week's apparent bombshell report regarding emails between Hunter and a Ukrainian national that suggested the former may have been selling political access to his father Joe Biden. ... On Tuesday, in a letter to U.S. Secret Service Director James Murray, Johnson—the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee—asked Murray for several records pertaining to Hunter Biden's travel history with Secret Service details. In the letter—also signed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley—Johnson noted that...

A majority of likely voters believe Joe Biden when vice president had a conflict of interest in his oversight of Ukrainian corruption, considering his son was on the payroll of a Ukrainian energy conglomerate being investigated for corruption in that country, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen When asked, 53% of likely voters agreed with the proposition that Biden's oversight posed such a conflict. Twenty-six percent found no moral issues with that arrangement, while 21% were uncertain. Joe Biden has for years faced questions about his son Hunter Biden's tenure on the board of...

Watch poll workers marking in ballot bubbles with a pen in front of election observers. This link takes you to 27:20, where you can see poll worker looking around before marking up his ballot with pen. But also check lady at 28, 37:20 & 38:40 clearly writing in the ballot, 43:25 lady in gray cardigan. Hat tip to thedonald.win for this

Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th U.S. president and a decorated war general, once said: "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." If Europe wants to preserve peace, it should find it paramount to deliver justice against an Iranian diplomat soon to be prosecuted on terrorism charges. Moreover, from a political perspective, European nations need to send a powerful message to Tehran's terrorists that the age of terror campaigns is over. Tehran's 2018 bomb plot was the stuff of detective novels, yet there was nothing fictional about it. It could have led to an astounding level of carnage.In June...

German priest says new papal encyclical has ‘Masonic’ tone, links it to St. Gallen group 'In this apocalyptic time of the False Prophecy,' he writes, 'in which the diabolical lie is limping around, the Church of the Lord has the duty to proclaim Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as the only Savior and true Redeemer.' October 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Father Frank Unterhalt, a diocesan priest of Paderborn, Germany has written an analysis of the new papal encyclical Fratelli Tutti, whose tone of religious indifferentism and the call to universal fraternity reminds him of the language and program of...

Explanation: Saturn and Jupiter are getting closer. Every night that you go out and check for the next two months, these two bright planets will be even closer together on the sky. Finally, in mid-December, a Great Conjunction will occur -- when the two planets will appear only 0.1 degrees apart -- just one fifth the angular diameter of the full Moon. And this isn't just any Great Conjunction -- Saturn (left) and Jupiter (right) haven't been this close since 1623, and won't be nearly this close again until 2080. This celestial event is quite easy to see -- already...