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EMBARRASSING segment for @NikkiFried who says her biggest weakness is not having a national profile like @RonDeSantisFL . No surprise considering she clearly isn’t ready for prime time. @PoppyHarlowCNN takes her to task on Dem losses in FL statewide races & being wrong on COVID.

The body of 34-year-old Catherine Serou was found Saturday in a wooded area near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. She had been missing since Tuesday. Her mother, Beccy Serou, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, told U.S. National Public Radio that her daughter had last texted her: “In a car with a stranger. I hope I’m not being abducted.”

For all the trumpeting of women’s rights, leftist policies frequently demean, disempower, or even endanger women.Everyone knows the political left disdains men — at least, white heterosexual men who aren’t confused about their sex. But it also has a serious misogyny problem. For all the trumpeting of women’s rights, leftist policies frequently demean, disempower, or even endanger women.Women are expected to shoulder burdens not imposed on men, all to promote what’s touted as a greater public good. Besides, is there anything more dismissive and denigrating of women’s value and humanity than referring to them as “menstruators,” “birthing units,” or “uterus...

The embattled Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has used campaign funds to hire private security after receiving death threats, according to reports. Cheney has spent thousands of dollars in security after the former House Republican conference chair was removed from her leadership post, in addition to voting for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, the Hill reported.

The Hubble Space Telescope is currently offline. On Sunday 13 June, the telescope's payload computer went offline, and engineers here on Earth are currently performing operations to get it up and running again. The payload computer, as you might expect, is vital to Hubble's continued science operations. It's the 'brains' of the instrument, coordinating and controlling the various instruments with which Hubble is equipped. It also monitors the telescope for issues. Initially, NASA engineers speculated that the cause of the halt was a degrading memory module. An attempt to restart the computer failed, so, on Wednesday 16 June, the Hubble...

When British environmental geochemist Jon Hawkings arrived in Greenland for the first time in 2012, he was impressed. “It’s mind-blowing: You look onto the horizon and it’s just ice and it goes on for 150, 200 kilometers at least.” He went to the Arctic with a group of international scientists. Their goal was to investigate the relationship between nutrients entering coastal ecosystems from glacial meltwater. But the group’s research took an unexpected turn. The scientists analyzed samples from meltwater rivers and fjords and found concentrations of dissolved mercury among the highest ever recorded. Despite it being a pristine and remote...

Another Biden move that is likely to reassure Putin is a shift in national security policy to focus on domestic terrorists rather than foreign threats. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas explained that “while foreign actors can bomb facilities and kill Americans they can never overthrow the government. The same can’t be said for those who follow Trump. They were successful in seizing control of the federal government in 2016 and ruled for four years. After Trump was defeated in the 2020 voting a hard-core cadre of Trumpists tried to overturn the election by occupying Congress on January 6th. They...

A 13-year-old Michigan boy has died just three days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer brand COVID-19 vaccine. Preliminary autopsy results indicate that following his vaccination, the boy’s heart has become enlarged and surrounded by fluid, a symptom similar to those documented in other teen boys who have experienced severe and potentially lethal side effects following their COVID vaccination. “A week ago today my brother’s 13-year-old son had his 2nd covid shot,” Jacob Clynick’s aunt, Tami Burages, posted in a tweet, providing a photo of his vaccination card for proof. “Less than 3 days later he died.” She...

You can’t make this up. As Milwaukee suffers from skyrocketing auto thefts, two Milwaukee aldermen have concluded the problem is the carmakers, essentially saying, “It’s the car’s fault. The car made them do it.” The last part is hyperbole, but not far off. The news release from Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs and Alderman Khalif J. Rainey blared, “Council members ask automakers KIA and Hyundai to build vehicles with more effective anti-theft systems.” There have been 4,367 motor vehicle theft cases in 2021 so far to date, compared to 1,490 in 2020. That’s a spike of 193%, according to the Milwaukee...

Power companies in Texas are remotely raising temperatures inside of some customers’ homes amid the state’s ongoing energy shortage.Houston resident Brandon English, whose home has an internet-connected smart thermostat installed, was shocked to learn of the practice after his wife and infant daughter “woke up sweating.”Speaking with KHOU 11, English stated that despite his wife turning down the temperature before taking a nap with their 3-year-old child, the temperature in their home rose significantly.“They’d been asleep long enough that the house had already gotten to 78 degrees,” English said. “So they woke up sweating.”English, who expressed concerns over the potential...

Israel is facing several local COVID outbreaks as more schools reported new cases Monday. In two schools, nine staff members contracted COVID-19 even though they are vaccinated against the coronavirus. Due to the uptick in coronavirus cases, the town of Binyamina-Givat Ada in central Israel has been declared a "yellow" zone, with a moderate coronavirus infection rate, on the so-called traffic light system developed by the Health Ministry. This is the first local authority to be defined as such since May, when all cities and zones in Israel were declared green. On Monday afternoon, after a situation assessment on the...

While wind turbine and solar power platforms are beginning to take to the sea, another, more established form of power might also avoid hiking real estate costs. A Copenhagen-based startup just raised funding to the sum of eight figures in Euros to begin construction of a new kind of cheap, flexible, portable, and unyieldingly safe nuclear reactor, according to a press release shared by the company, Seaborg Technologies. ...Called Compact Molten Salt Reactors, the new reactors are roughly the size of a shipping container,

A man charged with the 2008 murder of a UW-Madison student was found competent Thursday to stand trial, and will face a preliminary hearing next month. David A. Kahl, 54, who was charged last year with first-degree intentional homicide for the death of Brittany Zimmermann, 21, agreed after an examination that he is competent to assist in his defense. Kahl’s attorneys had sought the determination in March. At a brief hearing, Kahl, appearing by video from the Oshkosh Correctional Institution, told Circuit Judge Juan Colas he agreed with the findings of the exam. His attorney, Benjamin Gonring, informed the court...

(CNN) - Don’t worry about that shaking in Florida. It’s just a massive military explosion. An “experimental explosion” triggered by the Navy about 100 miles off Florida’s Atlantic coast registered as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake Friday. The blast is known as a “shock trial,” an explosion meant to test a ship’s ability to withstand nearby detonations. The Navy was testing its new aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford.

A confidentiality agreement shows potential coronavirus vaccine candidates were transferred from Moderna to the University of North Carolina in 2019, nineteen days prior to the emergence of the alleged Covid-19 causing virus in Wuhan, China.The confidentially agreement which can be viewed here states that providers ‘Moderna’ alongside the ‘National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) agreed to tranfer ‘mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates’ developed and jointly-owned by NIAID and Moderna to recipients ‘The Universisty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’ on the 12th December 2019…

Being a police officer in 2021 kiiiiiiinda sucks, since, you know, everyone will hate you and you'll constantly be in fear of someone throwing a brick at your head or burning out your cop car just because. Well, we at The Babylon Bee have gathered up nine career choices that are MUCH more appealing than being a police officer in the current year. Check it out: 1. Honeybadger catcher - Instead of trying to wrangle up Antifa members, just try to catch some wild honeybadgers. Much easier! 2. Land mine tester - Much less deadly than policing in a Democrat-controlled...

Despite China’s success in reining in COVID-19 cases, a recent outbreak in Guangdong, China’s most populous province, has apparently spread even further despite lockdown measures that were first imposed in late May, before being tightened earlier this month. And on Monday, Reuters reported that despite these restrictions, the outbreak has spread to the manufacturing hub of Dongguan, which is also situated in Guangdong Province. The city launched mass testing on Monday and even blocked off certain communities after detecting the first infections tied to the current outbreak. Officials have said that the “Delta” mutant strain – first discovered in India...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that the UK may have to reimpose lockdown restrictions during the winter months, despite previously promising that the end of lockdowns will be “irreversible”. Speaking to reporters during a visit to a laboratory in Hertfordshire on the day that was initially slated as “freedom day” before being delayed to July 19th, Mr Johnson refused to rule out reinstating lockdowns during the winter.

California residents were asked to voluntarily conserve power again Friday as a heat wave baking the U.S. West strained the state’s energy grid and raised the possibility of rotating outages. As temperatures spiked on Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an emergency proclamation that suspended certain permitting requirements, allowing power plants to ramp up operations if necessary to meet the demand for electricity. The proclamation cited the “extreme heat peril” facing the state this week. The California Independent System Operator, which runs the energy grid, issued a Flex Alert for 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. During those hours, people are urged...

Iran’s new president said Monday he will not meet with President Biden — refusing to negotiate over Tehran’s ballistic missile program, demanding America “lift all oppressive sanctions against Iran,” and insisting Iran will continue funding regional militias. Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline judge who was elected president last week, is taking the helm in Iran as the Biden administration is engaged with world powers on rejoining the nuclear deal — talks that have been underway since April in Vienna. ​