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The nova (left) and the same patch of sky four days earlier. (Yuji Nakamura/NAOJ) According to reports in The Astronomer's Telegram, a star in the region of the constellation of Cassiopeia has just gone nova, and the glow is still visible in the night sky. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and have even a basic telescope, you might want to head out and point it in that direction. The first detection was made on 18 March 2021 by amateur astronomer Yuji Nakamura from the Mie Prefecture in Japan. In four frames captured using a 135-millimeter lens and a...

Joe Biden has counted on face masks to control the Covid-19 pandemic. On his first day in office, the president issued an executive order requiring masks on federal property and called for their widespread use for 100 days. More recently, the Centers for Disease Control has mandated masks on airplanes and mass transit, though most airlines and transit systems already require them. These recommendations mark the latest step in a thorough reversal of the pre-pandemic public-health consensus that masks are useless or counterproductive. Yet the evidence underlying this reversal turns out to be quite weak. Widespread use of masks throughout...

WASHINGTON, Friday, March 22. A MESSENGER AT SUMPTER. A dispatch has reached this city from Charleston, which states that Dr. Fox, of the United States Navy, a special messenger from the Government to Major ANDERSON, had reached that city, and had visited Port Sumpter by permission, in company with Captain HARTSTEIN. Of course the exact nature of his mission was not publicly known, but there was little doubt that it related to the evacuation of the Fort. The Charlestonians were much excited relative to the visit, and developments were awaited with much anxiety. THE PROPOSED EIGHT MILLION LOAN. The Secretary...

Here's a musical take on Cuomo's struggles of late.Take It Sleazy (to the tune of Take It Easy, with apologies to Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey)Well I'm a just a horny toad tryin' to loosen my load, I got seven women from behind. Four don't want to screw me, two that want to sue me, One has got me in a bind. (click title for full version)

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A glamorous couple 'born in the wrong era' claim they're regularly stopped in the street by people wowed by their 'time-warp' wardrobes. Anne and Danny Shearer, from Roberton, South Lanarkshire, share a mutual love for vintage-style clothing, and regularly pick up classy 1940s and 1950s-style clothing for just a few pounds in charity shops and on eBay. It's not just the pocket-friendly prices of the stylish clothing that appeal to 52-year-old college lecturer Anne and 57-year-old college manager Danny, but also the more ethical and sustainable nature of shopping in this way.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered his “sincere condolences” to people who have lost loved ones to the pandemic on the one-year anniversary of lockdown. “The last 12 months has taken a huge on us all, and I offer my sincere condolences to those who have lost loved ones,” Johnson wrote in a statement shared on social media.

Construction workers were seen frantically building new tent cities to house migrant children in Texas as the Biden administration announces that the San Diego Convention Center will act as a shelter for unaccompanied kids. Workers were seen rapidly transforming a 40-acre site into what's being reported as a permanent processing structure and shelter for unaccompanied migrant minors in Donna, Texas. Images showed pizzas being delivered into the living area of the tented facility. Meanwhile, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and County Supervisor Chair Nathan Fletcher said in a joint statement that the convention center would become a temporary shelter for...

A Chicago suburb has become the first in the nation to approve reparations to black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices. Evanston established its reparations program - the first of its kind in the US - in 2019, committing $10 million over a decade using funding from the city's three per cent tax on recreational marijuana sales. ... Black residents are eligible for the housing program if they, or their ancestors, lived in the city between 1919 and 1969 or if they can show they suffered housing discrimination due to the city's policies. ... The...

The Rev. Billy Graham said here yesterday that General of the Army Douglas MacArthur had once told him that he turned down an offer by Emperor Hirohito to make Japan a Christian nation.

Miami Beach was calm on Monday evening after raucous weekend where officials called a state of emergency and enforced a curfew to curb the wild partying and resulting riots. Officers along Ocean Drive moved in on a crowd of partygoers after the 8pm curfew fell, as many took off running. One person was detained, but the area was much calmer than the night before, Local 10 reported. Dan Gelber, the mayor of Miami Beach, stressed in a video statement on Monday that many of the vacationers are not 'college kids on their vacation,' but rather visitors who are traveling with...

The old “if I could have only one gun” argument is among the most commented on and fun discussions. It may even be enlightening. Heaven forbid we had to get by with only one gun. But the fact is, we do get by with one gun most of the time. I carry one gun — sometimes a backup goes along. When going on a road trip or hiking, I carefully consider which piece to pack. By extension, it is obvious these handguns might be at the top of the list if I were limited to only one gun. In...

The CEO of Goldman Sachs has responded to complaints from junior bankers, saying management is going to work harder to give them Saturdays off after a group complained they were being forced to work 100 hours a week. CEO David Solomon made the promise on a voice memo to staffers on Sunday, days after a group of junior bankers' PowerPoint presentation complaining of work conditions leaked in the media. The 13 first-year analysts, who make $91,000 a year before bonuses that can double their compensation, complained they were working nearly 100 hours a week and sleeping five hours a night...

The national media will tell you #MiamiBeach issued a state of emergency and shut down because of the crowds and some will lie and say it's because of Covid. That's only half the story. Here are some videos of what is really going on.

Interesting that a man killed ten people and not one story gives the details of how he did it. Hmm... The police are not going to tell how everything happened. The only thing they are reporting is an officer was killed and nine unidentified people were killed. Not many other details.

Police could be seen leading a handcuffed shirtless man from the scene with an apparently bloodied leg Ten people were killed, including a veteran police officer, during a mass shooting Monday inside a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., authorities said at a late news conference. The officer was identified as Eric Talley, 51, who served on the force since 2010. He was the first officer at King Soopers, the crime scene, after the shooting occurred at about 2:30 p.m. His actions were called heroic. Talley was the father of seven, his youngest seven years old, his father told the Denver...

Those events truly highlighted the absolute worst in what we are as a nation and they shouldn’t be forgotten. Each even gave us questions on where our society has gone wrong, what role our modern culture of music, movies, video games, and of course guns played in allowing those horrific events to unfold. Yet, the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history has largely been left out of the conversion. Few today even remember the Bath School Massacre, and it is rarely – if ever – even mentioned by the media alongside those other mass killings. The reason is that it...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps discussed attacking a US military base using an explosive-laden boat. Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps discussed attacking a US military base, according to the Associated Press. The Fort McNair Army base is a 10-minute drive from the White House and is located in the US capital. The National Security Agency intercepted the communications in January and they include discussions of using some kind of explosive-laden boat as was used in a 2000 attack in Yemen against the USS Cole. “The intelligence also revealed threats to kill Gen. Joseph M. Martin and plans to...

Action figures and bobbleheads are yesterday’s news for the nation’s top infectious disease expert, who’s due for a tribute in a new children’s picture book scheduled for release this summer.Publishing company Simon & Schuster announced Sunday the upcoming release of "Dr. Fauci: How a Boy From Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor."The 48-page, hardcover book chronicles the life and career of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the central figure in the country’s fight against the COVID-19 crisis."Before he was Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci...