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"Given that the sand sealing the chamber was [40,000] years old, and that the chamber was therefore older, it must have been Neanderthals," who lived in Eurasia from about 200,000 to 40,000 years ago and were likely using the cave, Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar National Museum, told Live Science in an email.While Finlayson's team was studying the cave last month, they discovered the hollow area. After climbing through it, they found it is 43 feet (13 meters) in length, with stalactites hanging like eerie icicles from the chamber ceiling.Along the surface of the cave chamber, the researchers found...

How in the world did the Virginia GOP permit Chuck Todd to take part in the debate between Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe and Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin this week? How did that happen? Has the Virginia Republican Party learned less than nothing in the last 10 years?Chuck Todd works for MSNBC, one of the left-wing cable news networks. He has spouted every single anti-Republican conspiracy theory Democrats have cooked up in recent years. He has personally participated in the censoring of real news and discussions that might harm his allies in the Democratic Party. He pushes for left-wing policy positions...

There is bad news to share for Memphis Grizzlies fans. If you plan on attending an NBA game you will have to provide vaccination papers and wear a face mask. The Grizzlies are owned by people who seem to have an affinity for fascism, which should not be surprising for a professional sports organization that dribbles with the Communist Chinese. The unvaccinated must get a test within 72 hours of a game and must provide official government documents verifying the test results. "FedExForum will require everyone – regardless of vaccination status – to wear a face mask inside FedExForum until...

Seriously? This is who Democrats think can be their secret weapon for the 2022 midterms. Is the bench really that thin? Also, why isn’t Joe Biden at the top of this list? Doesn’t the president have coattails? No. Not right now—and probably not for the foreseeable future. Inflation is spiking, economic growth is slowing, job creation is evaporating, and we’re a mess abroad. Biden’s trust in handling COVID has also dipped. Afghanistan has collapsed and Joe left Americans stranded. There’s not much this administration can tout. The COVID vaccine isn’t one of them. Biden inherited the vaccine from Donald Trump....

Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on Thursday that his top-line spending number for the budget reconciliation package is $1.5 trillion, far below the $3.5 trillion spending goal set by the budget resolution that he and every other Senate Democrat voted for last month. Manchin confirmed that he signed a memorandum of understanding with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) at the end of July setting $1.5 trillion as his spending limit for President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and explained he did so as a precondition for voting for the Senate budget resolution in August. --Developing

A trans-identified biological female alleges that a hospital in New York discriminated by requiring a pregnancy test even though the patient identifies as a male and says the nurses did not use preferred pronouns. Trey Lowery, who identifies as a male and underwent bariatric sleeve surgery at Highland Hospital in Rochester in July, is threatening to file a lawsuit after experiencing "discrimination" at the healthcare facility. Lowery expressed outrage after being asked to take a pregnancy test. As an affiliate of the University of Rochester Medical Center, Highland Hospital requires all biological females with female reproductive organs to undergo pregnancy...

As state and federal laws meant to bring ghost guns into compliance with traditional firearm laws await implementation, local officials and prosecutors across California are increasingly resorting to bans and lawsuits to regulate the weapons in their cities. On 7 September, San Francisco became the first California city to pass a ban on ghost guns – weapons built from firearm parts sold without serial numbers, making them difficult to trace. The measure forbids the sale of unserialized weapons and weapon parts by unlicensed dealers. A week after San Francisco’s board of supervisors unanimously passed its ban, San Diego’s city council...

Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion ‘Build Back Better” plan is in deep trouble. Moderates believe it’s too expensive and radicals think it doesn’t go far enough.But what the Build Back Better plan suffers from is a lack of clarity about what’s in it for the American people. The bill would expand several popular government programs — with dental, vision, and hearing aid benefits added for Medicare, and Obamacare subsidies expanded and extended.But Joe Biden has gotten sidetracked in recent weeks as reality came calling and he had to answer. The Afghanistan debacle and the return of high rates of pandemic infections...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley admitted Wednesday during a hearing that he told his Chinese counterpart he would give him a call if the United States were about to attack. Hartzler told Milley, “I understand your intent, but I think you are articulating that — that you would tell him you would give him a call, I think, is worthy of your resignation. I just think that’s against our country that you would give our No. 1 adversary that information and tell him that.”

Mobs overwhelmed U.S. Park Police hours before the U.S. Capitol was breached on Jan. 6, according to government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). According to Park Police radio recordings obtained by CREW, officers had been overwhelmed and left with insufficient resources to control crowds along the National Mall. The recordings reveal that Park Police were confronted with one crowd at the Washington Monument the morning of Jan. 6. The officers were told to do their best to hold them back, but the situation was worsening quickly.

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien they say was intentionally setting fires in the Jacumba Wilderness region on Saturday afternoon. The Mexican national had already lit one blaze and was in the process of starting another when they found him, officials stated.

BREAKING: Marine who appeared with Trump at rally after rescuing baby in Kabul has been placed under investigation by the US military

EMAIL From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Subject:Mandated Vaccinations for Civilian Workforce We have been fielding a lot of inquiries regarding the President’s mandate for civil service employees to be vaccinated. At this time, we have no implementing guidance from either DOD or DAF. When we receive it, we will be moving out on implementation quickly. The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force is led by the White House COVID-19 Response Team, the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to ensure the safety of federal workplaces during the pandemic. The below is a...

If you just narrowly focus on the media news, economics, human morality, and politics in general, then you may prematurely conclude that America is plunging into corrupt decadence, which also ended the Roman Empire, and that there is just too much wrong with America and no easy fix in sight. If you focus on the vanguard of developments in education, science, and technology, then you may conclude that there are a lot of good things going on and that there are a lot of right things going on that offer a lot of hope for many in the near foreseeable...

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday promised a large victory in the 2022 midterms if President Joe Biden’s massive tax and spend agenda is enacted into law. “If Democrats are able to piece together their huge tax hikes, called by another name, it will mean an additional 40 Republican seats in the House and at least a few additional Republican Senators in the U.S. Senate,” Trump stated.

If you like unfunny Liberal comedians, you have a wide range to choose from. Start with the talentless Trevor Noah who only has a job because he’s black, Jimmy Kimmel who used to love dressing up in blackface and using the n-word, all the way up to Stephen Colbert who doesn’t even pretend to be funny. It is here you will find drag queens dancing dressed as vaccine syringes, in a bit they call ‘The Vax Scene’ that is pathetic on every level except for one. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been...

George Orwell correctly predicted that, when the dystopia arrived, one of the hallmarks would be ‘double think’, the idea that you will be forced to hold two mutually-exclusive thoughts in your mind at the same time. We are watching that play out with the New World Order tellings us that the ‘vaccine will save us’, and then watch vaccinated people get COVID anyway that is somehow blamed on the unvaccinated. Vaccinated people are starting to wake up to the idea that the vaccine will not save them. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”...

You don't have to spend much time in China to notice the mystifying glut of half-built apartment complexes, neighborhoods, and even ghost cities. There are certainly legitimate residences getting built, but the buildings I have in mind are concrete frameworks with no doors or window frames. They feature sky cranes and scaffolding but no construction workers. Buildings sit in this condition month after month. China is estimated to have enough unsold "housing" of this type for 90 million people. These empty buildings are a manifestation of China's enormous property bubble. The real estate sector has grown to at least 25...

Researchers Warn Of ‘Dangerous’ Artificial Intelligence-Generated Disinformation At Scale "We just needed a much smaller dataset, half hour of training time, and all of a sudden, GPT was now a New York Times writer," said Andrew Lohn, senior research fellow at CSET. By BRAD D. WILLIAMS on September 30, 2021 at 4:45 AM WASHINGTON: Researchers at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) are raising alarms about powerful artificial intelligence technology now more widely available that could be used to generate disinformation at a troubling scale. The warning comes after CSET researchers conducted experiments using the second and...

According to Panama Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes, recent rush of Haitian migrants is only the beginningNearly 30,000 Haitian migrants have already made their way over the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks, but Panama's foreign minister says far more are on their way – and she has been sounding the alarm for months. In a new interview with Axios, Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes said that since the beginning of 2021 more than 85,000 Haitians have crossed through Panama and that she believes "they all are heading toward the U.S." The Haitians have been coming from Colombia, traveling through the dangerous Darién...