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...The frosty worlds surrounding planets like Jupiter and Saturn may indeed host life. We know there’s liquid water beneath the surface of some of them — it spews out into space on a regular basis — but we’ve yet to venture to those worlds to get a better look. Now, scientists say that the huge balls of ice around Uranus may also be a potential bastion for life....The moons of Uranus have endured impacts from objects in space, just like the rest of the worlds in our system, but there is also evidence that the moons aren’t just frozen wastelands....

Two months after Emory University School of Medicine deans reportedly pressured a pro-life student group to postpone an event on the black abortion rate, the group has yet to nail down a date – or even confirm the event will happen. The invited speaker for the webinar “Is Abortion a Black Issue?” is a black woman, Toni McFadden (above), and Emory Medical Students for Life includes at least one black leader. Yet a black feminist coalition accused the pro-life group of racism and sexism by even broaching the issue of race and abortion, and demanded the administration shut down the...

Vice President Mike Pence asked a federal judge in Texas to deny a Republican congressman’s emergency request for a court order that would essentially allow the vice president to reverse Donald Trump’s election loss during a joint session of Congress Wednesday. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas should have sued the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives if he disagrees with the established way that Electoral College votes are counted, Justice Department attorneys representing Pence said in a filing Thursday.“The vice president -- the only defendant in this case -- is ironically the very person whose power they seek to...

For the last month, attorney Lin Wood has been calling on Republicans to boycott the upcoming Senate runoff election in Georgia. He says voter fraud is so rampant and election results are so untrustworthy, the only way to properly address it is to force Republican lawmakers to act immediately. That includes Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue whose political careers hang in the balance.Wood's friend and fellow attorney, Sidney Powell, has a slightly different take. While acknowledging that voter fraud is rampant and the Georgia election system is corrupt, she is calling on Republicans to still show up at the...

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday predicted that a new, more contagious COVID-19 strain that first appeared in the U.K. will spread across the U.S., but he added that “it does not appear to be more virulent.” “We predicted it would be, when you have so much of it in the U.K., which then spread to other countries in Europe and Canada, it was inevitable that it would be here,” Fauci said on NBC News’ “Today.” “You’ll be hearing reports from other states and more cases in the state that is already reported. Unfortunately, that’s just the reality of the way...

A publicly funded charter school in Nevada created a hostile environment for students by instructing them to associate aspects of their identity with oppression, a new lawsuit alleges. William Clark, whose mother is Black and deceased father was White, claims he felt discriminated against and harassed by various aspects of the course -- including an alleged assertion that by not identifying with an oppressive group, students were exercising their privilege or underscoring their status as an oppressor.

2020 will be remembered for many things: COVID-19, nationwide riots, a divisive election. But the rise of pandemic lockdowns will go down as the most momentous. Never before have the day-to-day lives of so much of humanity been so radically upended. And, outside of wartime, never before has there been such a widespread and extreme rollback of human freedom. How did it all happen so fast? Why did people give in so quickly to such a sweeping assault on liberty, even in America, “the land of the free”? In a word, they let their guard down. They stopped being vigilant....

Join FReepers around the nation and world to pray for President Trump, Vice President Pence, and AMERICA—churches, congregations, families, military, first responders, schools, businesses, health care, and media. Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.1 JOHN 5:14AULD LANG SYNE by Sissel Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward...

Vatican City, Dec 31, 2020 / 09:20 am MT (CNA).- Because of sciatic pain, Pope Francis will not preside at the Vatican's liturgies on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, according to the Holy See press office. Pope Francis was scheduled to lead vespers on Dec. 31, and to offer Mass on Jan. 1, for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, in St. Peter's Basilica. The director of the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni, stated Dec. 31 that the pope would no longer be doing so "due to a painful sciatica." Pope Francis has suffered from sciatica for...

Senior clerics see the arrests as a sign China wants to shut the unofficial Vatican mission in Hong Kong, where the two nuns work. As Beijing tightens control of the city, the local diocese has also moved to rein in pro-democracy voices in its flock.In a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any kind in China. The mission keeps such a low profile that it isn’t listed in the Roman Catholic Church’s formal directory of every priest and property in the city. The...

Dawn Wells, the real-life Mary Ann Summers of “Gilligan’s Island,” was just as sunny and down-to-earth off-screen as she was on-screen, her co-star Tina Louise, the show’s only surviving cast member, told The Post Wednesday. Louise, who played the indelible flame-haired Ginger Grant on the CBS show, spoke fondly of Wells, who died at age 82 Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling COVID-19. “I’m very sad,” said Louise, who infamously declined to appear in revivals and reboots or discuss the show over the decades since it ended in 1967. “Dawn was a very wonderful person. I want people to remember...

The Massachusetts state Senate joined the state House of Representatives Tuesday in passing legislation that enshrines abortion rights in state law and expands access to 16-year-olds. The move by the two chambers overrides Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of the measure last week. The ROE Act, as it's called, will allow abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy in cases with a fatal fetal anomaly and in instances when a physician deems it necessary "to preserve the patient's physical or mental health." It also lowers the age at which individuals can seek an abortion without the consent of a parent or a...

Daily coronavirus cases spiked in the Midwest during the fall but have since been declining while daily cases in the South continue to remain high. However, the largest spike in recent weeks has been in the Golden State, Mercury News reports. New cases in California are rising so dramatically that the otherwise declining rates of new infections across the rest of the country are largely cancelled out, causing daily US coronavirus cases to plateau....The northern part of the state, however, is not experiencing such a dire situation. ICUs in the Bay Area, while caring for a lot of patients, have...

Let’s face it–2020 sucked big time—it was a train wreck. 2020 was to good years as former president Bubba Clinton is to monogamy, Joe Biden is to having a sharp mind, and/or Chuck Schumer is to putting the love of country before politics. The year started with China giving the WHO a half-true about the discovery of COVID-19, the Democrats impeaching President Trump on a bogus charge, and me being put in Facebook jail for about a month. It ended with the fraud-laden presidential election of a man who is obviously suffering from a loss of mental capacity, congress creating...

When Barack Obama appointed Michael Horowitz to be the inspector general for the Department of Justice in April of 2012, it might have seemed a safe choice for the entitled petty nobility who really run things in Washington. Horowitz earned his law degree from Harvard, magna cum laude, no less. Horowitz spent eight years as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, nicknamed the “Sovereign District of New York,” for its ability to resist Republican presidents who think that winning an election gives them the right to run things. But there were signs even then that Horowitz...

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Fulton County Began Shredding Ballots — Within 4 Hours of Appointment to Inspect Them! Pulitzer told Monica Matthews today that as soon as he was tasked with auditing the Fulton County ballots, trucks pulled up to the facility and the ballots were being loaded into the trucks and were being shredded. Jovan Pulitzer — “I’d like your permission of you and your fine audience that as I answer you that I have your permission to piss you off… The very minute that order went through and that order was followed, and all the legal notices were done, it didn’t even...

You must pay attention when voices from both left and right come together to express a common concern. In this case, those voices are Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson. Both share dismay at the unprecedented power corporate America has acquired. They are right to be worried. In 1986, I heard Arthur Miller speak in Dallas. This wasn't Arthur Miller, the playwright and husband to Marilyn Monroe, but Arthur Miller, a former Harvard Law professor who is one half of Wright & Miller's Federal Practice and Procedure, possibly the most famous American legal treatise. Professor Miller described the dangers to privacy...

Nuns arrested as Beijing turns up heat on Church in Hong KongIn a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any kind in China.The mission keeps such a low profile that it isn’t listed in the Roman Catholic Church’s formal directory of every priest and property in the city. The two monsignors who staff the outpost have no formal standing with Beijing or the Hong Kong government, and they don’t conduct official work, not even meeting Hong Kong officials. The tenuous foothold is a...

As trong, 62% majority of registered voters believe that Americans should have to provide photo identification when submitting a mail-in ballot, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. Just 23% of respondents said voters should not be required to include their photo ID with mail-in ballots. Responses in favor of a photo ID requirement include 78% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 60% of independents. An equal number of white and Hispanic respondents favored the rule, as did 51% of black voters...