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Days after a deadly eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in Democratic Republic of Congo, the threat of another eruption forced the evacuation of much of the city of Goma. But that ended up in a traffic chaos… Tens of thousands of residents tried to escape the major city in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, after authorities issued an evacuation order warning that Mount Nyiragongo could erupt again. People jammed highways, crowded boats and set off on foot to flee this major African city on Thursday, seeking an escape from the rumbling threat of Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s...

Explanation: The reddened shadow of planet Earth plays across the lunar disk in this telescopic image taken on May 26 near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On that crisp, clear autumn night a Perigee Full Moon slid through the northern edge of the shadow's dark central umbra. Short for a lunar eclipse, its total phase lasted only about 14 minutes. The Earth's shadow was not completely dark though. Instead it was suffused with a faint red light from all the planet's sunsets and sunrises seen from the perspective of an eclipsed Moon, the reddened sunlight scattered by Earth's atmosphere. The...

ANNAPOLIS — Vice President Kamala D. Harris told graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy Friday that the military has entered an era of new security threats such as pandemics, cyber-attacks and climate change. “A gang of hackers can disrupt the fuel supply of a whole seaboard,” the vice president said. “One country’s carbon emissions can threaten the sustainability of the whole earth. This, Midshipmen, is the era we’re in,” she said. “The challenge before us now is how to mount a modern defense to these modern threats.”

May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and there is no better time to highlight the manipulative attitude with which liberals and Democrats have behaved toward Asian Americans—specifically during this past year and the COVID-19 pandemic. Many Americans have heard about the surge in hate crimes against Asians across the United States. For weeks now, liberals and Democrats have tried their hardest to forge a connection between the horrific hate acts suffered by Asians and the evil of ‘America’s oldest sin’ of racism and white supremacy. This notion soared to front-page news after a white man killed several people...

This isn't even new. They knew from the start this came from the Wuhan lab. They covered it up because a crisis launched by a hostile foreign country's government -- even if due to incompetence and sloppiness rather than intent -- would benefit the current president. Who was Trump, of course. Knowledge that China created this in the lab would have created a rally-round-the-flag effect for Trump. And they couldn't have that. So they lied. They "fortified" an election. With lies. And media and social media defamed and censored anyone who tried to tell the truth. A source reminds me...

😱 https://t.co/GxLcLLAz6U— Dr. Kelli Ward 🇺🇸 (@kelliwardaz) May 28, 2021Joe Biden looks at a little girl in the audience, the daughter of a veteran, and says "I love those barrettes in your hair. Man I’ll tell you what, look at her she looks like she's 19 years old sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed." pic.twitter.com/DbH8ihG2Mj— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 28, 2021

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett agreed to forming a coalition government with Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid, N12 reported. The two sides agreed that Bennett will serve first as prime minister until September 2023, when Lapid will take over until November 2025, according to N12. The swearing-in ceremony is expected to take place in 10 days, following an announcement of the new government either on Saturday night or Sunday.

The governor called Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin's executive order "an irresponsible, self-serving political stunt" that subverted the decisions of local officials. Idaho Gov. Brad Little repealed an executive order banning mask mandates across the state Friday morning, 24 hours after Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin issued the surprise action while the governor was out of town. In a statement, Little slammed McGeachin issuing the executive order as "an irresponsible, self-serving political stunt" that subverted the decisions of local officials and the people of Idaho. McGeachin was serving as acting governor when she issued the order banning mask mandates statewide among state...

Judicial Watch Sues Chicago Mayor for Racial Discrimination Against Reporter Judicial Watch Seeks Information on Shooting of Ashli Babbitt on January 6 Judicial Watch Attorney Testifies On Left’s Election Law Gambit Congress’s VIP Air Marshal Program Canceled after Maxine Waters Debacle Memorial Day – Honor Their Sacrifice Judicial Watch Sues Chicago Mayor for Racial Discrimination against Reporter On May 18, 2021, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office informed multiple reporters that she would grant one-on-one interviews “ only to Black or Brown journalists .” The next day, the mayor released a letter doubling down on her discriminatory policy. Since that...

@mirandadevine BOMBSHELL! Dr Fauci in 2012 wrote that “gain of function” research to juice up bat viruses was worth risking a pandemic: “the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature” @SharriMarkson scoop

Youth summer camps to reopen without capacity limits and mask mandates provided everyone at a camp is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The CDC had previously had a more stringent mask guideline is place, as vaccinations across the country were just getting underway. The new guidelines also follow children as young as 12 earlier this month becoming eligible for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, according to CBS News.

22 minute video of an obstacle course a man built in his backyard to make squirrels go through in order to get to a vault of walnuts.

Hunter Biden boasted that he “smoked crack” as a college student with then-Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry, according to a recording that surfaced Friday. During the 8-minute, 15-second audio clip, President Biden’s son and another man were debating whether slain civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi ever used cocaine when Barry’s name came up. “Although the mayor from DC did,” the other man said.

An elementary school physical education teacher in Virginia was placed on leave after an explosive speech in which he told his school board he wouldn't "affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa,"

I live about 20 minutes south of the Canadian border, which used to be called the longest undefended frontier in the world. People moved freely back and forth across it all day every day. But now it’s been closed for over a year. At one point my daughter asked me to drive her up there, because there was a 30-minute opportunity for people on one side to talk to their friends on the other. “Sad!” as President Trump would say. It was like Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during the Cold War, except that both sides are now like East Berlin....

A Trump appointee serving on West Point's advisory board has repeatedly spread a conspiracy that the Biden administration is bringing in non-White immigrants as part of a "grand plan" to have them outnumber White Americans of European ancestry in the United States. In another interview, he also attacked women serving in the military in combat roles. The comments were made in April and May by retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, who was appointed to West Point's Board of Visitors in the waning months of the Trump administration, and uncovered in a CNN KFile review of his recent comments. Macgregor also...

The message to African American parents from city leaders, community activists and Black clergy must be resoundingly clear: You are responsible for the actions of your children. Not the mayor, the governor, the police chief, business leaders, school administrators, government agencies or the community at large. You and only you are responsible for your children. As concerned community members who love the city of Minneapolis, we must not be afraid to ask African American parents questions like these, and hold them accountable for their answers: It's 10 a.m. on a school day. Why is your son not in class learning...

Famed civil liberties attorney Alan Dershowitz won a procedural victory in court Tuesday that will allow his $300 million lawsuit against CNN to proceed to depositions. Attorneys for CNN filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in November but a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida did not agree with their argument and said Dershowitz can proceed. The lawsuit claims that CNN unfairly edited comments from Dershowitz about whether former President Donald Trump could have been impeached if he committed an illegal act that he believed was in the public interest. Dershowitz says in...

Pennsylvania logged only 21 flu-related deaths and fewer than 4,000 confirmed cases during the recently-ended flu season, state officials said Friday. Those are far fewer than a normal flu season, when up to 2,000 Pennsylvanians die after coming down with the flu. Only 45 people were hospitalized with the flu during Pennsylvania’s flu season, which officially ended on May 22. Officials attribute the decline to a record number of people getting vaccinated against the flu as well as tactics used to prevent spread of COVID-19, such as face masks, frequent hand washing, staying home and refraining from shaking hands. Those...