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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is preparing to explore a new region of the Red Planet today on its fifth scheduled flight (3:26 p.m. EDT, or 12:26 p.m. PDT), with flight data coming in around 7:31 p.m. EDT (4:31 p.m. PDT).  Off to new places! The #MarsHelicopter is slated for its fifth flight on May 7, with data coming down at 4:31pm PT (7:31pm ET). The rotorcraft will take off at Wright Brothers Field and will land elsewhere this time, which is another first for Ingenuity. https://t.co/JxLNz7UADw pic.twitter.com/zOGo1j7srt — NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) May 6, 2021 If all goes well, the...

Swiss diplomat Sylvie Brunner was found dead this week after falling from her 17th-floor apartment balcony in Tehran. She was the first secretary of the Swiss delegation and worked in the US Interests Section. Neighbors heard a loud explosion late at night before her death. Her body was found in the garden the next morning. According to reports, Sylvie Brunner was called to Iran to testify about her knowledge of the details of the American accounts who pocketed billions of dollars due to the bribes to lift sanctions against Iran. ...... Snip...... Dan J @DanTCH_ Swiss diplomat who was preparing...

Nikki Goeser is Executive Director of the Crime Prevention Research Center and a victim/survivor of a violent crime. Nikki testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution about her concerns with red flag laws and how gun-control laws can have unintended consequences that can impact good people. Nikki explains how victims of violent crime could end up flagged and unable to protect themselves, compounding their fears and what is already a very difficult situation for them.

A disabled white farmer has sued President Joe Biden’s administration over his (COVID-19) loan forgiveness program, alleging he can’t participate because he is white.Adam Faust, a white resident of Chilton, Calumet County in Wisconsin, is one of five Midwestern farmers who filed a lawsuit on April 6 that accuses the federal government of violating their constitutional rights, (Fox 11 reported.)The other plaintiffs are farmers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Ohio who have direct loans with the Farm Service Agency or USDA-backed loans and are “otherwise eligible for the loan-forgiveness program in ARPA, except for the color of their skin,”...

President Joe Biden was defiant in reaction to the grim jobs and unemployment report released Friday. “Today there is more evidence that our economy is moving in the right direction, but it’s clear we have a long way to go,” he said. The president dismissed media commentary pointing out the disparity between the estimated job creation numbers and the jobs actually created in April. “Listening to commentators today as I was getting dressed, you might think that we should be disappointed,” Biden said with a chuckle.

Meanwhile, hospitals lack water and vaccines are scarceTHE BLACK market in Venezuela has taken a dark turn in recent weeks. In online chat groups, where weary Caracas residents trade everything from detergent to US dollars, covid-19 is the dominant theme. Emotional pleas for medicine are commonplace. The price of oxygen tanks and masks is soaring. So too is rental space for the large refrigerators needed to preserve bodies in the tropical heat, as waiting lists for burials and cremations grow. Switch on state television and it is another world. Every Sunday Nicolás Maduro, the dictator, addresses the nation. Wards of...

A Chinese firm is building a massive wind farm near Laughlin Air Force base in southwest Texas, and both state and federal lawmakers are advancing legislation to stop it. The wind farm project, known as the Blue Hills Wind development, is being managed by GH America Energy, the U.S. subsidiary of the Chinese Guanghui Energy Company according to a 2020 report by Foreign Policy. The project entails the purchase of around 140,000 acres of land located about 70 miles from Laughlin Air Force Base. Guanghui Energy is owned by Sun Guangxin, a Chinese billionaire who reportedly has ties to the...

From restored home video recordings. Alternates mainly between NBC and CBS coverage

Eric Mason, who says white people can never call black people racist, has fully engulfed himself into an anti-gospel cult of skin color. Mason, like we reported earlier, is hell-bent on blaming all of the social ills of black people on white supremacy. In this video, Eric Mason says that black people who don’t stand with other black people to speak out against racism are only doing it because they want the money and power from white people and then jumps into a “massa” routine comparing them to slaves who worked in the white man’s home–also known as “house negroes.”...

In the civil war between Donald Trump and the GOP’s waning establishment, no Republican has crossed the former president and come out ahead. Yet as Rep. Liz Cheney’s likely ouster from House leadership lays bare, Trump has reserved a special fury for the scions of the GOP’s leading families in his attempt to exercise full dominion over the Republican Party. Whether it’s the Cheneys, the Bushes or the lesser bloodlines — such as the Romneys or the Murkowskis — Trump has been relentless in his efforts to force them to bend the knee. Even Cindy McCain, the widow of the...

Federal, state and local governments in the United States increased their employment by a combined 48,000 workers in April, according to the numbers released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From March to April, the number of workers employed by government in the United States climbed from 21,543,000 to 21,591,000. Local government employment increased by 32,000, rising from 13,685,000 to 13,717,000. State government employment increased by 7,000, rising from 4,970,000 to 4,977,000. Federal government employment increased by 9,000 during the month, rising from 2,888,000 to 2,897,000. The long-term trend has been for government employment to increase in the United...

Hunter Biden's emails reveal his close relationship with the Chinese-American secretary who worked for him when he went into business with the man he called the 'spy chief of China.' The mysterious young assistant wrote the president's son flirty messages, sent him opposition research for Joe's White House run and encouraged him to draw funds from the company's accounts when the joint venture collapsed and even ended up with Hunter's military dog tags. In 2017 Hunter went into business with Patrick Ho, secretary general of Chinese oil giant CEFC. Hunter described Ho in a call recording on his abandoned laptop...

The split between House Republican Conference chair Rep. Liz Cheney and her largely pro-Trump Republican colleagues played out before her vote to impeach the former president – as it was revealed Friday she helped put together an extraordinary letter from top military members. The letter she helped assemble contained a stark warning from 10 Defense Secretaries from both parties -snip- The letter stated that the time for questioning election results 'has passed' and said involving the military in electoral disputes would take the nation into 'unlawful and unconstitutional territory.' 'She was the one who generated it, because she was so...

A cruel Pennsylvania couple kept their three young sons locked in an empty coal cellar called “the hole” for days at a time, police said. Richard Hayes, 37, of Mount Oliver, and Natosha Bell, 26, of Rankin, were arrested Wednesday at McClure Elementary School in White Oak, where Hayes’ 11-year-old son refused to get into his car at dismissal time, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The frightened boy said he didn’t want to be handcuffed again as he clung to a school employee, a witness told police. Hayes opened the minivan’s door and a school...

Eating disorder campaigners have hailed a decision by the American plus-size model Tess Holliday to announce she is receiving treatment for anorexia, saying that it is helping to stop the idea that “only very underweight people can have anorexia”.

Circuit de Barcelona-CatalunyaFirst Grand Prix1991Number of Laps66Circuit Length4.675kmRace Distance308.424 kmLap Recordnull null (null)

Why is most of the Arctic ice still there with all the doom-and-gloom predictions over the last 100 years? You know the ones: that global warming would cause the ice to melt rapidly and coastal cities to be destroyed? At the end of April 2021, Arctic Sea ice was 5,340,000 square miles. This was 158,000 square miles above the record low and 328,000 square miles below the 1981–2010 average. It is more than 94% of the average, which is not even close to being gone, as is continuously predicted when leftists seek to scare the public with repeated warnings that...

width =45%> Particle accelerators are machines that propel charged particles at incredible speeds, generally to collide with other particles. It's highly advisable that the particles the high-speed particles collide with should not be part of your head, as one man learned the hard way. On July 13, 1978, particle physicist Anatoli Bugorski was working his job at the U-70 synchrotron, the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union. The 36-year-old was inspecting a piece of equipment that had malfunctioned when the accident happened. Unbeknownst to him, several safety mechanisms had also failed, meaning that when he leaned over to...

One of the reasons that conspiracy theories and internet sleuthing are on the rise is because there’s a critical breakdown in trust between the public and the government. That breakdown can be organic and it can also be manufactured. Either way, it breeds distrust, suspicion, and drives a frenetic need in the public to uncover the “truth.” We saw that happen in 2016 with the left’s obsession over all things “Russia.” Those conspiracy theories ran amok for four-plus years, and were fueled by political leaders and the mainstream media which convinced a large swath of the public that Vladimir Putin...

On this date in 1323, Jourdain de l’Isle-Jourdain, lord of Casaubon, was “stripped naked, drawn on a hurdle from the Chatelet to the gibbet, and hanged there.” (Source) This robber-baron‘s offense had been nothing less than the years-long defiance of his every actual and potential liege — consequence of the wide scope of action available to feudal nobles before the ascendance of absolutism. Jourdain was the younger son of a lord, but managed to inherit a good chunk of land and marry into more of it … giving him power well beyond his merely nominal aristocratic rank. Jourdain’s stomping ground...