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It is a wonderful sign that airlines are touting that they are opening their countries to Israelis. It is disconcerting when our newly anointed prime minister visits Ben-Gurion Airport and suggests that Israelis should not travel abroad. It is a sign that the air transport industry is returning to normal when airlines are taking their respective countries to court to try to encourage more tourism. Far less encouraging is when the Health Ministry releases a document warning all passengers that if anyone on their plane is diagnosed with the Delta variant of COVID-19, everyone on board must go into quarantine....

KILLEEN, Texas (KTRK) -- Police have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in the mass shooting in downtown Austin that killed a tourist and wounded more than a dozen others, authorities said Thursday. De'Ondre Jermirris White was arrested in Killeen around 2:30 p.m. He was taken into custody without incident and transported to the city jail.

Harrison Ford hurt himself rehearsing a fight scene in Indiana Jones 5, sources tell Deadline. The extent of his injury wasn’t immediately known, but it involves his shoulder. Director James Mangold will continue to shoot around him while the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated. The filming schedule will be reconfigured as needed in the coming weeks. Disney has set the Lucasfilm action thriller for a July 29, 2022 release date. Production on Indiana Jones 5 got underway earlier this month in Pinewood and other U.K. locations. Ford stars alongside Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson and...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - More than three decades after a Fort Carson soldier was found strangled to death, justice is being served. On Thursday, a jury found a man guilty of murder for the killing of Spc. Darlene Krashoc in 1987. The sentencing is scheduled for Friday as he faces life in prison. Arrest papers obtained by 11 News detail how authorities tracked the alleged killer down. Police found DNA evidence on the victim's body, but it took years to identify a suspect. The arrest papers lay out how authorities linked distant family members through a DNA ancestry organization...

A bronze monument depicting Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, situated in front of New York City’s American Museum of Natural History will be relocated over claims that the statue symbolizes colonialism. On Monday, The New York City Public Design Commission unanimously approved a measure to relocate the statue, which depicts Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by a Native American and black man on foot, to an institution celebrating Roosevelt’s legacy. The monument has been in place since 1940. The development comes as dozens of statues depicting historic Americans have been removed across the country following protests and...

KUALA LUMPUR – The U.S. Navy carried out a high-tempo exercise this week in the Indian Ocean involving the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group along with the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force. The drills come at the start of the 27th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise series with CARAT Sri Lanka on June 24, which will include USS Charleston (LCS-18) and the first official participation of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer JS Yugiri (DD-153). USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), Carrier Air Wing 5 and its escorts carried out the two-day exercise with the Indian...

Explanation: Grand design spiral galaxy Messier 99 looks majestic on a truly cosmic scale. This recently processed full galaxy portrait stretches over 70,000 light-years across M99. The sharp view is a combination of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared image data from the Hubble Space Telescope. About 50 million light-years distant toward the well-groomed constellation Coma Bernices, the face-on spiral is a member of the nearby Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Also cataloged as NGC 4254, a close encounter with another Virgo cluster member has likely influenced the shape of its well-defined, blue spiral arms.

A man suspected in the stabbing death on a downtown Chicago street of a Maryland graduate student over the weekend is also wanted for attacking two other women, police revealed Thursday in a community alert. The man, who is possibly homeless, is suspected of stabbing to death 31-year-old Anat Kimchi, 31. She was walking along a downtown street Saturday afternoon when she was attacked. Kimchi was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Her family says Kimchi, who was in a University of Maryland doctoral criminology and criminal justice program, was in Chicago visiting friends. According to...

Over the past several years, I’ve watched WorldCon repeatedly implode. Well, not exactly. It imploded in 2018 in a very spectacular way. WorldCon 2019 didn’t exactly implode, but then again, Jeanette Ng’s “acceptance” speech of the John W. Campbell award (now renamed “Astounding”) was her long awaited stab at a long-dead science fiction icon which spawned more of her displeasure at the “stale, pale, male crowd,” as well as a long list of other award renamings. The irony is that Ng also won a “Best Related Work” Hugo for 2020 because she complained about Campbell the year before. A rant...

Nuclear transmutations are better facilitated by alloys over pure metal cathodes in electrolysis. Kumar Ankit , Rajeev K. P., Pala Raj Ganesh, Jain Panka Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Email:ankt@iitk.ac.in, kpraj@iitk.ac.in, rpala@iitk.ac.in, pkjain@iitk.ac.in Recently, various studies have shown Nuclear signatures in low energy physical and chemical processes (“Cold fusion” edited by Jean-Paul Biberian). One of the most effective methods to realize low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) is via electrolysis. Our primary objective is to explore the importance of alloys as opposed to pure metals as cathodes for LENR. To explore this question, we evaluated four systems: Pure Ni, pure Cu,...

U.S.—In a bit of exciting news for firearms enthusiasts and those who wish to deter their government from becoming tyrannical, Bass Pro Shops has announced that its semi-annual 2-for-1 nuke sale will be kicking off this weekend. Every nuclear weapon in the company's arsenal will be completely free with the purchase of any other nuclear weapon. "Running low on your supply of nukes for home defense, hunting, target practice, or overthrowing the government? Come on down!" says a salesperson in a commercial for the sale. "Whether you're looking for an intercontinental ballistic missile, a short-range tactical nuke, or even a...

“Dog bites man” stories don’t generate headlines, or clicks. This one should. Big Tech is attacking The Babylon Bee. Again. The right-leaning, God-fearing humor site is under steady assault from both the press and social media platforms like Facebook. For example, The New York Times bullied the Bee in print, forcing the site to lawyer up. The Bee demanded a retraction from the far-left paper for maligning the site and its mission. The newspaper relented earlier this month. hat’s just part of the story. Facebook has been attacking The Bee for years, falsely claiming its satirical articles are “Fake News”...

The Arizona Audit continues on Thursday and the long-awaited results will soon be released. The paper analysis phase is still set to be completed by Saturday. The left is in total meltdown, nearly admitting guilt in an attempt to discredit the audit and hide the results. One America News Network’s Christina Bobb provided another amazing real news report today on the status of the forensic report and potential litigation.

It's The Great Reset. It's the New World Order. It's the End Times. It's likely all of these things and more, and that's not hyperbole. Ivermectin is all the evidence we need that the agenda is against us all. Ivermectin saves lives. It is so effective against Covid-19, particularly in the early stages of the disease, that one could argue an effective and safe vaccine wouldn’t be necessary, let alone these experimental injections being passed off as vaccines. And therein lies the rub. If a cheap and readily available drug is enough to fight Covid-19 and diffuse the multi-billion dollar...

The upcoming Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force report, due to arrive in Congress on Friday, signals a religious sea change in America. Meanwhile, the media’s campaign to normalize UFOs is seeding our minds with alien life forms. ..... Snip..... On June 8, the former director of the U.S. government’s latest, no-longer-secret UFO program, Luis Elizondo, told the Washington Post he’s convinced these aerial phenomena are “beyond next generation technology…50 to 1,000 years ahead of us.” Naturally, he postulated extraterrestrials. But it only got weirder from there. “This could be something that is extra hyper dimensional,” he speculated, “in a quantum...

"It is a commonly held belief amongst UFO researchers that other countries are waiting for the USA to take the lead on this investigation," says Ian Dubin, himself a UFO researcher based in Hong Kong. "Who knows what might come out?" [...] Congress is expected to receive on Friday the findings of a government-wide review into cases of documented but unexplained aerial phenomena and what might have caused them. Some details of the report have already been leaked, indicating that despite some compelling encounters Washington is not about to reveal the existence of "little green men." But those who have...

The Wisconsin State Senate sent a bill Wednesday to the desk of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The 2021 Assembly Bill 293 will add “restrictions on enforcing federal laws regulating firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition, the use of public resources to confiscate firearms” and enforce those restrictions with “a penalty.”

Joseph Bolanos was a pillar of his community. President of his Upper West Side block association for the past 23 years, he looked out for his neighbors during the pandemic. He dropped off masks and kept extra heaters in his rent-controlled apartment for seniors. He raised morale with a weekly street dance to show his support for essential workers. A Red Cross volunteer after the 9/11 attacks, the 69-year-old security consultant once received a police commendation for heroism after saving a woman from being mugged. Unmarried, and caring for his 94-year-old mother, he was a well-loved character in the quiet...

Karen’, a main character in pop culture, is now officially a real main character in an upcoming movie. Video clips of white women being racist and disturbing the public have popped up all across the country, with this type of person being dubbed a ‘Karen.’ It’s become such a common label, that the name dropped in popularity for newborns in 2020. that, a chaotic moment in an otherwise normal day, the movie trailer shows what can happen from prolonged exposure to a ‘Karen’ who has deep dark motives. And people aren’t excited about it. No one asked for a movie...

TAKEAWAYS The Senate has voted to repeal the True Lender Rule using the Congressional Review Act, a measure allowing Congress to disapprove of agency actions and nullify recently adopted administrative rules. The True Lender Rule is a recent Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rule designed to identify which party in a partnership between a national bank and a third party is deemed the “true lender.” Without the rule, these partnerships now face regulatory uncertainty, with legal and compliance requirements potentially determined on a case-by-case basis. On May 11, 2021, the Senate voted to repeal a Trump Administration regulation...