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A former Corning Inc. scientist has been charged in connection with an alleged scheme to steal technology from a government-funded project he was working on and transfer it to China. Wang Ji, 59, was indicted late last month by a federal grand jury in Rochester, New York, on charges of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, and unlawful exports. According to the recently unsealed indictment, Wang, who worked for the company from 1998 to 2019, was assigned as the lead scientist to work on a project initiated and partly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA injected...

Podcasters, some of whom I respect, but others whom I find alarmists beyond their acumen about geopolitical intrigues, are more and more these days forecasting fears of attacks on America. Many of the assaults they talk about involve cyberspace invasions and the like. But increasingly, the talk is of direct military action—invasion of our nation from the north and the south. Russia, they say, will invade from the north, I suppose in concert with the cooperation of the Canadian government. China, they fear, already has troops in large numbers ready to cross the U.S. southern border. Mexico, I suppose, along...

WASHINGTON—Beijing is showing “a sign of weakness” with its escalating “war with faith,” says former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for international religious freedom Sam Brownback. “It’s a sign of a regime on its last legs,” Brownback told The Epoch Times at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington on July 14. “It’s gotten harsher, not more open. It’s gotten more brutal, not more liberating. It’s taken on tactics of bullying rather than open cooperation.” By contrast, a “confident regime” openly acknowledges its flaws rather than going after its critics, Brownback said. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) increased harshness and brutality, as well...

Former 'Empire' star Jussie Smollett, 39, is continuing to maintain his innocence as he faces new charges for allegedly lying to police officers about a January 2019 attack He was seen entering court in Chicago on Wednesday wearing a blue suit with a lighter blue blazer to face six counts of felony misconduct for allegedly lying to the cops about the racist and homophobic attack On his way into court, Smollett insisted he was innocent and called the proceedings a 'dog and pony show' Smollett had claimed in January 2019 that two masked men approached him as he was walking...

Researchers affiliated with several institutions in the United States has determined that the increase in the number of hurricanes forming in the Atlantic over the past several years is not related to global warming. They suggest instead, in their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, that it is simply reflective of natural variable weather patterns. Over the past several decades, scientists studying satellite data have found that the number of hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean has been increasing. Many in the field have suggested that this is due to the impact of global warming. A warming ocean, they...

(h/t Cathi)ransomnote: longer video clip at link Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.From Yazid Bouziar8:28 AM · Jul 14, 2021·Twitter Web App Disclose.tv 🚨 on Twitter: "NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France. https://t.co/YrP4l0tXwy" / Twitterransomnote: Prayers up for the French protesters!

Almost 200 duplicate found when ballot images made public A duplicate write-in vote for singer Kanye West was a big clue that some absentee ballots had been counted twice in Fulton County. Digital ballot images made public under Georgia’s new voting law show nearly 200 ballots — including one for West — that election officials initially scanned two times last fall before a recount. There’s no indication any vote for president was counted more than once in official results. The discovery of identical ballots provides evidence to back up allegations of problems in the presidential election, but on a relatively...

As the global population exceeds 7.8 billion people, some French people have made the decision not to have children — a radical choice born out of a desire to help the planet and do their part to reverse global warming. “Having a child would be totally against my principles. I’ve never wanted children and am more certain of this decision the older I get,” says Manon, 26. “I don’t see why I would impose another consumer on this world. In the Western world, we consume more than the resources available,” she adds. Like Manon, more and more young adults are...

WELLFLEET--I had been trying to avoid this question for a long time. But I guess Shark Week is the perfect time to admit that you're "shark weak," so here we go. It started with this: "Are you too scared of sharks to swim in the ocean?" This cut deep. I have been wrestling with the shark thing for a few years now. For most of my Cape life, boogie boarding in Wellfleet with my family was the absolute top of Joy Mountain, and I think the happiest I have ever been was when all four of us were riding the...

Mj Rodriguez has made history.If you’re unfamiliar with the name, Mj stars in the FX television drama Pose.Here’s the trailer for Season 3 — Pose’s final installment: As described by Variety, Rodriguez is known for “her fierce and formidable portrayal of house mother and nurse Blanca Rodriguez on FX’s ballroom culture period drama…”But the actor’s soon to be renowned for something new: Mj Rodriguez is the first transgender performer to be nominated for an Emmy in a major (non-guest) capacity.The category: best Lead Actress in a Drama Series.The other contenders:Uzo Aduba, TreatmentOlivia Colman, The CrownEmma Corrin, The CrownElisabeth Moss, The...

TThe U.S. State Department has asked the United Nations for help ending “systemic racism.” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken gave the United Nations a “formal, standing invitation” to send human rights experts to the U.S. in order to address “systemic racism” in a press release sent out Tuesday. “It is in this context that the United States intends to issue a formal, standing invitation to all UN experts who report and advise on thematic human rights issues,” Blinken said. “As a first step, we have reached out to offer an official visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms...

Did you ever imagine there would be a leader in the White House who would refuse to condemn communism by name?At one time most of us probably thought it could never happen. Unfortunately, we seem to be there right now and that’s a chilling thought.An evil ideology that we’ve fought for decades, responsible for the deaths of millions. and the Biden team seems incapable of even calling out the “c” word.Fox’s Peter Doocy definitely put Jen Psaki on the spot big time today.As we reported earlier, Doocy asked a great question in regard to the situation with the runaway Texas...

Domestic dogs show many adaptations to living closely with humans, but they do not seem to reciprocate food-giving according to a study, publishing July 4 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, led by Jim McGetrick and colleagues at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria. The researchers trained 37 domestic dogs to operate a food dispenser by pressing a button, before separating the button and dispenser in separate enclosures. In the first stage, dogs were paired with two unfamiliar humans one at a time. One human partner was helpful—pressing their button to dispense food in the dog's enclosure—and one...

"That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" is a 1971 song performed by Carly Simon, and the lead single from her self-titled debut album Carly Simon (1971). Her friend and frequent collaborator Jacob Brackman wrote the lyrics and Simon wrote the music. The song reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Elektra staffers were worried the single was too emotionally complex to be released as Simon's first single. With subject matter that includes "the parents' bad marriage; the friends' unhappy lives; the boyfriend's enthusiasm for marriage but controlling nature; the woman's initial resistance and ultimate...

Democratic leaders announced Wednesday that the special congressional committee created to investigate the Jan. 6 riot would hold its first hearing on July 27. The hearing will feature testimony from police officers who were at the Capitol during the riot, according to The Hill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the committee's creation earlier this month. She created it after the Senate blocked the Democrat-backed 9/11 style commission to study the riot. Democrats have yet to announce how many or which of the officers will testify during the hearing. Approximately 140 law enforcement officers from both the United States Capitol Police...

At first consideration, it would seem like a farfetched notion – that a religious leader, and one that is supposed to represent Christianity, would wind up being the Beast, a man the Bible foretells will make his appearance during these Last Days. But after contemplating some of the characteristics attributed to this soon to be revealed entity from off the pages of prophecy, maybe a case could be made for the possibility that such a person as the Antichrist could emerge from a religious institution. And what better place to start than Rome, a city that has been very prominent...

A new study from the University of Missouri found the unanticipated transitions to virtual schooling due to COVID-19 exposed the lack of digital resources among Black families in the United States, including access to Wi-Fi and technological savviness. As two-thirds of the country's Black children are born into single-parent households, the findings help explain the extensive stress virtual schooling caused for many Black families trying to keep their children learning and engaged online while at home during the pandemic. "What we found was parents and caregivers often felt disempowered in the rapidly changing environment, as they did not necessarily feel...

General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, likened Donald Trump’s effort to hold on to power after the 2020 election to Adolf Hitler, saying the president was preaching “the gospel of the Führer” with his lies about the election being stolen, according to a new book by two Washington Post reporters. Milley was disturbed by the sight of Trump supporters rallying to his cause in November, calling them “Brownshirts in the streets.” Leonnig and Rucker wrote that Milley “believed Trump was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and call...

Newly unsealed court documents show the Trump Justice Department sought a court order for the communications records of three Washington Post reporters in the final days of William P. Barr’s tenure as attorney general in 2020, as prosecutors sought to identify sources for three articles written in 2017.The papers also reveal the service provider that was the recipient of the secret court order: Proofpoint Corporation, a firm that supplies data security services. Using Proofpoint as a means of trying to get the reporters’ email records suggests prosecutors were thinking creatively about where they might be able to find reporters’ data,...

Explanation: What happens when a black hole destroys a neutron star? Analyses indicate that just such an event created gravitational wave event GW200115, detected in 2020 January by LIGO and Virgo observatories. To better understand the unusual event, the featured visualization was created from a computer simulation. The visualization video starts with the black hole (about 6 times the Sun's mass) and neutron star (about 1.5 times the Sun's mass) circling each other, together emitting an increasing amount of gravitational radiation. The picturesque pattern of gravitational wave emission is shown in blue. The duo spiral together increasingly fast until the...