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Explanation: Don’t miss the coming great conjunction. In just under two weeks, the two largest planets in our Solar System will angularly pass so close together in Earth's sky that the Moon would easily be able to cover them both simultaneously. This pending planetary passage -- on December 21 -- will be the closest since 1623. Jupiter and Saturn will remain noticeably bright and can already be seen together toward the southwest just after sunset. Soon after dusk is the best time to see them -- because they set below the horizon soon after. In mid-November, the Jovian giants were...

Two Georgia sheriffs are offering their office's investigators to the secretary of state to help him look into cases of voter fraud in the recent election. On Facebook, Oconee County Sheriff Scott R. Berry said he and other sheriffs "stand ready to vigorously investigate voter fraud across this State and to ensure everyone's vote counts." According to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, his office has over 250 open cases related to the election. These elections included possible double voting, absentee ballot fraud, and other allegations. The secretary of state's office only has 23 investigators, but Raffensperger requested assistance from the...

One huge advantage of drones is that these little robots can go places where people can’t, including areas that might be too dangerous, such as unstable structures after a natural disaster or a region with unexploded devices. Researchers are interested in developing devices that can navigate these situations by sniffing out chemicals in the air to locate disaster survivors, gas leaks, explosives and more. But most sensors created by people are not sensitive or fast enough to be able to find and process specific smells while flying through the patchy odor plumes these sources create. Now a team led by...

A group of nine Pennsylvania lawmakers, led by State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, filed a new lawsuit before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court posted to public dockets Monday that called the state’s administration of the 2020 election “so severely flawed it is impossible to certify the accuracy of the purported results.” “There are countless documented election irregularities and improprieties that prevent an accounting of the election results,” lawyers for Metcalfe and his fellow plaintiffs — who include Republican State Reps. Russ Diamond, Dawn Keefer, Thomas Sankey, Robert Kauffman, Kathy Rapp, Stephanie Borowicz, Cris Dush, and Francis Ryan — wrote in their...

President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday said he’s “pretty much” symptom-free following his COVID-19 diagnosis — and could be getting out of the hospital as soon as tomorrow. The 76-year-old former New York City mayor called into his own WABC radio show, apparently from his bed at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington D.C. “I’m doing fine,” Giuliani said. “Pretty much all the symptoms are gone.” “I have no fever, I have very little cough, it’s just about also gone, I’ve been walking around, and I think they’re going to let me out tomorrow morning.” Giuliani said he’s...

The highest point on Earth got a bit higher Tuesday (Dec 8) as China and Nepal finally agreed on a precise elevation for Mount Everest after decades of debate. The agreed height unveiled at a joint news conference in Kathmandu of 8,848.86m was 86cm higher than the measurement previously recognised by Nepal, and more than four metres above China's official figure. The discrepancy was due to China measuring the rock base on the summit and not - as with the new reading - the covering of snow and ice on the peak.

Several years ago, a young Egyptian man abandoned his degree in archaeology to hunt scorpions in the country’s deserts and shores, extracting their venom for medicinal use. At just 25 years old, Mohamed Hamdy Boshta is now the owner of the Cairo Venom Company - a project housing 80,000 scorpions in various farms across Egypt as well as a range of snakes, also kept for their venom. Caught using a coloured UV light, the scorpions are exposed to a tiny electric current to stimulate the release of the venom, one gram of which can produce between 20,000 and 50,000 doses...

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Breaking — Louisiana AND Alabama join Texas case before Supreme CourtLouisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following statement regarding the ongoing controversies over the 2020 federal election and the new motion put forward by the State of Texas before the U.S. Supreme Court. “Millions of Louisiana citizens, and tens of millions of our fellow citizens in the country, have deep concerns regarding the conduct of the 2020 federal elections. Deeply rooted in these concerns is the fact that some states appear to have conducted their elections with a disregard to the U.S. Constitution. Furthermore, many Louisianans have become more...

OK--I've seen a few states starting to join Texas' lawsuit: Alabama Louisiana South Carolina Can people confirm/deny? List others who may be joining...

A man died after getting caught inside a car wash in Irving around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 4. The 39-year-old victim worked at the Wash Masters Car Wash off I-635 and MacArthur Boulevard. First responders arrived and quickly began life-saving measures. The victim, later identified as Luis Enrique Acosta Madrano of Garland, was then rushed to Parkland Hospital where he was pronounced dead. “It seems to just be an unfortunate accident to where the male was working around the machine and it appeared that somehow he ended up getting trapped in the equipment there while trying to get a...

Actor Matthew McConaughey is making a lot of sense.The actor, who hails from Uvalde, Texas, and eschews left-wing Hollywood to live in Austin, has a new book out and has been making the rounds to talk about it. He recently appeared on Russell Brand’s podcast and laid into Hollywood and the leftist elites.Brand asked the Academy Award winner if he noticed any condemnation of ordinary working people emanating from the elites. McConaughey did not hold back.“[There is] a kind of offhandedness, like, ‘Oh, they’re dumb, they’re voting for Brexit, they’re voting for Trump.’ I don’t like it, and I don’t...

On Sunday, December 6, Hayabusa2 delivered a sample of material from asteroid Ryugu to Earth. Thanks to an agreement between JAXA and NASA, NASA will receive a portion of the Hayabusa2 sample, in exchange for a percentage of the Bennu regolith when it is delivered back to Earth by OSIRIS-REx in 2023. Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, a scientist and collection curator with NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES), will oversee the care and safe handling of the U.S. portion of the Hayabusa2 sample. She and her colleagues will go to work inside a brand new lab in Houston built specifically...

“They’re called the Bravest, not the Smartest,” cracked one FDNY member, referring to firefighters who say they will refuse the COVID vaccine. Whatever the reason, that’s the city’s sworn protectors adding to the public’s risks. As The Post’s Sara Dorn reports, a poll found that 55 percent of FDNY firefighters say they’ll skip the shot. First responders are to be offered the vaccine early on, but union boss Andrew Ansbro says some members “don’t want to be on the front of the line.” He notes that 35 percent were already exposed to the virus and thus think they don’t need...

As a general matter, it has always been my view that when you begin a legal argument with a “The Sky is Falling” pronouncement, where the “warning” tells the Court nothing that it does not know already, you are actually insulting the intelligence of the Judge — or in this case the Justices — by wasting time with useless theatrics. This was my reaction to one of the sentences set forth in the opening of the Response filed by the Pennsylvania state defendants to the Emergency Application for Injunctive Relief filed by Congressman Mike Kelly and other Plaintiffs earlier today....

Pennsylvania Democrats accepted mail in ballots for 69 hours later than what is allowed by law, but the U.S. Supreme Court does not care!Pennsylvania Democrats accepted mail in ballots for 69 hours later than what is allowed by law.But the U.S. Supreme Court does not care.Article 1, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution says:“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof”Source: https://constitutionallawreporter.com/article-01-section-04/#:~:text=Text%20of%20Article%201%2C%20Section,the%20Places%20of%20chusing%20SenatorsPennsylvania law says:“NO ABSENTEE BALLOT UNDER THIS SUBSECTION SHALL BE COUNTED WHICH IS RECEIVED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS LATER THAN...

More than 500 people have been hospitalized for an unidentified illness in southeastern India, according to Dolla Joshi Roy, the district surveillance officer of Eluru's West Godavari District. Patients reported a range of symptoms including seizures, loss of consciousness and some nausea over the weekend, Roy said. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's office said that preliminary results from an investigation conducted by an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) team found lead and nickel particulate matter in patient blood samples. The AIIMS team in Delhi tested 10 blood samples and found lead and nickel traces, according to Katamneni...

Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who said he is “pro-choice” on abortion, also said that President-elect Joe Biden (D) “might be right” in his view that “life begins at conception.” On several occasions, Biden has said that “life begins at conception” but he would not interfere with doctors who abort human lives in the womb. At the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Senator Murphy, “Do you agree with Joe Biden that life begins at conception?” Sen. Murphy said, “I’m pro-choice, I think it should be up to, you know, every woman and every individual to make that choice on their own.”...

Southern California residents received an emergency alert from the state on Tuesday, reminding them of the recently enacted stay-at-home order as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rapidly increase. Around noon, the following alert was sent out to cellphones in the region: “State of CA: New public health stay at home order in your area. COVID-19 is spreading rapidly. Stay home except for essential activity. Wear a mask. Keep your distance. Visit covid19.ca.gov.”

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, San Francisco rents have plummeted more than any other major city in the country. The average rent in one San Francisco neighborhood is now to $1,600. Some housing experts even argue the city has turned in to a renter’s market. The mass exodus in San Francisco during the pandemic resulted in more housing supply and less demand but, even after big price drops, San Francisco still retains the title as the most expensive rental market in the country. At $2,700 a month for a one-bedroom apartment, the city tops New York and Los...