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NASA is planning to build a base and a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2026 and is inviting proposals from companies ready to take on the challenge. [T]he plan will involve the construction of a 10-kW class fission surface power system to be used for demonstrative purposes. The plant is to be manufactured and assembled on Earth and then shipped to the Moon on a launch vehicle. This vehicle will take the plant to Moon orbit, from where a lander will take it to the surface of the satellite. The demonstration will continue for one year, and if...

[...] Upon checking in to a physical voting site, counties with electronic records, like Sacramento County, will be able to immediately see whether a voter has cast his or her mail ballot. If the mail ballot hasn’t been cast, the voter will receive a regular ballot, and their mail ballot will be automatically canceled via an intelligent barcode. [...]

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Supporters of religious and political party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) march during a protest against the cartoon publications of Prophet Mohammad in France and comments by the French President Emmanuel Macron, in Karachi, Pakistan November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of a hardline Islamist party clashed with police on the main road into Pakistan's capital city on Monday following protests over the recent use of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in France, and several people were injured. The protesters from the Tehrik-i-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party that has made blasphemy its rallying cry are demanding that...

Former President Barack Obama expressed his belief that racism was a “defining feature” in the United States of America. The president spoke about his memoirs with National Public Radio host Michel Martin and discussed the “fever of racism” that still existed during his presidency and continued to exist in the United States. “That fever, as you said, that’s been a defining feature of a lot of our life,” Obama said, adding that he never believed that Americans were living in a “post-racial era.” Obama argued that some Americans had a backlash to his presidency simply because he was the first...

Alex Jones vows to head to Georgia and protest the theft of the Presidential Election, and calls on Patriots from all over to joins him.

CNA Staff, Nov 16, 2020 / 10:30 am MT (CNA).- Police halted a baptism in a Baptist church in London on Sunday, citing the country’s coronavirus restrictions that include bans on weddings and baptisms. The restrictions have been criticized by the Catholic bishops of England and Wales. A pastor at The Angel Church in London’s Islington borough held a baptism with approximately 30 people in attendance, in violation of the country’s public health restrictions. Metropolitan police halted the baptism and stood guard outside the church to prevent anyone from entering, BBC News reported on Sunday. After the baptism was stopped,...

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Moscow, November 16, Interfax - Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations, said he regrets that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has views that contradict the teaching of the Catholic Church, to which he belongs. "It is very important that his civil position should be in line with the position of the religion to which he belongs. We know the teaching of the Catholic Church on the value of human life, on abortion, on sex change operations. Mr Biden has repeatedly stated views that contradict this teaching," the metropolitan said on the program Church...

@paulsperry_ DEVELOPING: DOJ IG Michael Horowitz is actively investigating the FBI's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop & whether it failed to act in a timely manner to investigate potentially criminal material on it --in a repeat of the FBI's attempt to bury the Weiner laptop emails in 2016

Christian leaders launch legal challenge against ban on services in England and Wales More than 100 Christian leaders have launched a legal challenge against the ban on communal worship in England under lockdown restrictions. They claim worship has been “criminalised” and the ban has “inflicted a terrible human cost” on congregations for whom collective worship is a core element of their religious life. The restrictions on public worship, they argue, breach article 9 of the European convention on human rights which protects the right to freedom of religion. The claim for judicial review by 122 church leaders from different traditions...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A box of ballots was discovered Monday afternoon at the Pulaski County Election Commission, according to a letter from the director of elections to the chair and two commissioners. Later the box was determined to be mislabled. Early on Monday, Director of Elections Bryan Poe said that during the sealing of absentee provisional boxes, he found a box labeled "Count-OVI signed" in a secure storage area, that was set apart from the other boxes. After inspecting the box he said he saw a "full absentee ballot packets, including the mailing envelope, ballot only envelope and voter...

Church said restrictions targeting houses of worship violate the First AmendmentThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is turning to the Supreme Court over coronavirus restrictions that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed that include limits on how many congregants can gather for religious services. The emergency court filing, submitted Thursday, compares the prohibitions houses of worship face with the relative freedom afforded to many businesses under an order that Cuomo issued in October, in which he designated color-coded zones with varying degrees of limitations. “While this Executive Order effectively closes churches and other houses of worship, all businesses deemed 'essential'...

Halfway through Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson put to rest supposed rumors that his show would leave his current network. Instead, Carlson said the show was not leaving, and instead, it was expanding its presence within Fox News.

Celebrating Thanksgiving by entering someone’s home and spreading a lethal infectious disease is a little too darkly ironic anyway. Take the opportunity to think about what you love most about the day. Focus on how to re-create that, and even build on it. Maybe learn to cook one of the dishes that someone else usually brings to dinner. Think of the people you actually look forward to seeing, and call them. Think of the people you don’t look forward to seeing, and don’t call them. Appreciate that you can’t get cornered by some annoying second cousin; you save money on...

Ep. 1394 The Left is Terrified of This Question About the 2020 Election LISTEN TO LATEST PODCAST: The Left is Terrified of This Question About the 2020 Election (Ep 1394) Show Notes/The Dan Bongino Show Ep. 1394 The Left is Terrified of This Question About the 2020 Election by Team BonginoPosted: November 16, 2020 Fight tech tyranny. Join Dan on Parler @dbongino. AUDIO ONLY: DOWNLOAD PODCAST Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | iHeartRADIO | Stitcher | Android | RSS | SoundCloud | Spotify | Rumble | YouTube In this episode, I discuss the troubling issues with the software used to tabulate the...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris claim they are scheduled to receive a national security briefing on Tuesday, despite the fact that the election results are still being challenged and ballots are still being counted. Forbes reporter Andrew Solender tweeted a press release from the “transition team” about the meeting on Monday evening.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's National Security Council is preparing for "a very professional transition," because it looks like Joe Biden has won the election, national security adviser Robert O'Brien said in comments that aired Monday. His remarks stood in stark contrast to those of the president, who tweeted falsely just before midnight Sunday, "I WON THE ELECTION," as he continued to make baseless claims of widespread fraud. Twitter put a warning label on the tweet, noting that "official sources have called this election differently." The president's top security official, known as a Trump loyalist, offered a different view....

t’s 2020, a year of endless misery and despair, but things are finally looking up: Barack Obama is publishing yet another autobiography. Yay! It’s his third one, I think. Or is it his fourth? After a person writes a certain number of autobiographies, I start to lose count. But thank goodness he’s still here, in every form of media known to man, to scold us all. At a mere 768 pages, Obama’s A Promised Land is volume one of two. He has so much more to tell us about himself, and it’s only $27 a copy in hardcover. Compared to...

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