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A prospective Russian hypersonic missile has been successfully test-fired from a nuclear submarine for the first time, the military said Monday. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Severodvinsk submarine performed two launches of the Zircon cruise missile at mock targets in the Barents Sea. It first test-fired Zircon from the surface, and then launched another missile from a submerged position in the White Sea.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said during a CBS News interview on Sunday that the problem with Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending bill is that people keeping talking about how expensive it is. “The head of your caucus, the progressive caucus, was on another network this morning and Rep. Jayapal said $1.5 trillion is just too small,” host Margaret Brennan said. “That’s the number that Senate moderates, Joe Manchin in particular, want to get down to. President Biden, according to our reporting from Ed O’Keefe, our correspondent, says you’re going to have to settle for about $2 trillion. Is that an...

Some of those named after secret files were leaked to a consortium of journalists that revealed offshore deals. A massive global investigation has exposed the ties between world leaders to the hidden world of offshore wealth collectively worth trillions of dollars. Dubbed the Pandora Papers, the landmark probe, published on Sunday, was conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) – an ensemble of 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries. Digging into more than 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 offshore financial services firms, the ICIJ found that 35 heads of state and government and more...

Hello hello! Tom and Jerry Cat Concerto - Arranged version of Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 by Franz Liszt. Tom and Jerry girl, ain't it? You should go check out my other cool music videos as well :) Follow me on insta: @yannietanmusicTom & Jerry Nostalgia | Yannie Tan plays the Cat Concerto, Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 by Liszt | June 29, 2017 | Yannie Tan

Playboy has put a male bunny on its latest cover, making Filipino-born beauty influencer Bretman Rock its October digital cover model.

Your opportunities to serve me are cascading down upon you now like never before so don't be distracted by life's matters or agendas now but instead clear your calender to serve and respond to only the sound of my voice for I must be your First Fruit of attention and submission in order for you to enter My glory . Dont miss the latter rain and tongues of fire for some minuscule temptation wrather turn your eyes and heart towards me for I AM The Lover of your soul . . . You are My Beloved so come Now and...

About two years before MSM (Main Stream Memory), the Centers for Disease Control still remembered that it had a mission to help Americans avoid bad diseases. Then it became apparent to the CDC, select members within the CDC, and its incestuous partners in Big Pharma that their unlawful patents related to a certain virus might become worth a king’s ransom. Who could resist such filthy lucre with so many zeroes at the end? Certainly no GS-scale government bureaucrat! Plus, this corrupt graft would guarantee a huge paycheck when employed as a Big Pharma advisor.Before you start throwing rotten tomatoes and...

The battle over President Joe Biden’s sweeping clean energy plan isn’t over, but there already appears to be a winner – natural gas. The fossil fuel will likely remain a mainstay of America’s electrical grid for some time, according to energy experts and lawmakers. That’s a big disappointment to liberal Democrats and environmentalists. In protests in cities and campuses nationwide, one of them fronted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, they made natural gas the new climate villain, replacing coal, the dirtier fossil fuel that’s fading in the states. Climate activists had pinned their hopes on the administration’s proposal to...

A unified command consisting of Beta Offshore Amplify Energy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response (CDFW-OSPR) is responding to the oil spill first reported Saturday approximately 3 miles off the coast of Newport Beach, California, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The National Transportation Safety Board says it is now investigating the matter.

“God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). God’s truthfulness and holiness are powerful motives not to sin. Light and darkness are familiar metaphors in Scripture. Intellectually, light refers to truth, and darkness to error; morally, light refers to holiness, and darkness to evil. Intellectually, the Bible reveals God as the God of truth. In Exodus 34:6 God described Himself to Moses as “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth.” Both Psalm 31:5 and Isaiah 65:16 refer to Him as the “God of truth.”...

On this date in 1925 the Chinese warlord Sun Chuanfang had a captured enemy commander beheaded. In so doing, he signed his own death warrant too. Our scene lies deep into China’s Warlord Era, the chaotic decade-plus after the collapsing empire gave way to a fractured republic: f rom 1916 to 1928, leagues of rival generals cut China into jigsaw pieces. The chiefs of these shifting statelets, being warlords, fought numerous wars. Sun Chuangfang, one of the generals of a warlord party known as the Zhili clique, was engaged in the south in 1925 in a campaign whose successful resolution...

‘Follow the science,” we’ve been told throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. But if we had paid attention to history, we would have known that once a disease becomes newsworthy, science gets distorted by researchers, journalists, activists and politicians eager for attention and power—and determined to silence those who challenge their fear-mongering. When AIDS spread among gay men and intravenous drug users four decades ago, it became conventional wisdom that the plague would soon devastate the rest of the American population. In 1987, Oprah Winfrey opened her show by announcing, “Research studies now project that 1 in 5—listen to me, hard to...

A Romanian billionaire was killed — along with his wife, son and five other people — when the plane he was piloting crashed into a building in Italy on Sunday, local media reported. Dan Petrescu, 68, one of the richest men in his home country, was operating a single-engine Pilatus PC-12 that was seen in flames before it slammed into an office building undergoing renovations in San Donato Milanese, a town southeast of Milan, authorities said. The fatal wreck took place minutes after the plane took off from Milan’s Linate airport at about 1 p.m., according to aviation agency ANSV,...

EXCLUSIVE - Casey DeSantis, the wife of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. "I am saddened to report that Florida’s esteemed First Lady and my beloved wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer," the first term Republican governor said in a statement shared first with Fox News on Monday. "As the mother of three young children, Casey is the centerpiece of our family and has made an impact on the lives of countless Floridians through her initiatives as First Lady. As she faces the most difficult test of her life, she will have not only...

A laundry basket and a sign reading “Dirty Laundrie come clean” has appeared at a memorial for Gabby Petito outside her fugitive boyfriend’s home in Florida. The display — which includes the sign, a box of detergent, and a bottle of bleach — has stoked outrage online after a photo was posted by Fox News reporter Michael Ruiz. Also in the basket is a can of a Monster energy drink, a reference to the beverage company’s Energy Ultra Gold container Dog the Bounty Hunter came across during his search for Laundrie in a Sunshine State campsite. “That basket does not...

An arrest report made public Sunday morning gives more information about the shooting of University of Utah Football player Aaron Lowe and a woman at a house party last week. Buk Buk, 22, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail Sunday morning on charges of aggravated murder, attempted murder, and felony discharge of a firearm.

The story behind Coleman Gillespie’s execution on this day in 1900 actually begins on February 21, 1856: on that winter’s day, a small group of hostile Rogue River Indians murdered more than half of Christina Edson’s family at their home in what would become the state of Oregon. The victims included John Geisel, Christina’s husband of 13 years, and their sons Andrew, 5, Henry, 7, and John, 9. Christina, her three-week old infant Annie and her thirteen-year-old daughter Mary were spared and force-marched into captivity at an Indian camp twelve miles away. Along the way they had to pass the...

NYPD seeks skateboarder caught on video tossing paint on George Floyd statue in Union Square A skateboarding vandal was caught on video released Monday tossing paint on the George Floyd statue in Union Square. The NYPD said they’re searching for the skateboarder, who was described as light-skinned, wearing black and green and carrying a green backpack.

In a recent article for the Martin Center, Duke professor Mike Munger asked an important question: should “a political board composed of nonacademics…be empowered to evaluate faculty proposals on hiring and curriculum in the first place?” He argued that, in practice, boards have already ceded that authority. For many years, shared governance, at least on the issue of hiring and tenure, has been reduced to faculty governance. Evidence of this is readily visible. During the recent controversy surrounding Nikole Hannah-Jones and the UNC Hussman School of Journalism, faculty voiced their belief in the faculty-dominance model. Deen Freelon, an associate professor...

Former President Trump in a new interview said he would beat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) if the two Republicans faced each other in a 2024 primary, but noted that he does not believe the governor will run against him. “If I faced him, I'd beat him like I would beat everyone else,” Trump said during an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, set to be released on Monday. However, the former president said he does not think he will face DeSantis in 2024, adding that “I think most people would drop out, I think he would drop out.” Trump’s comments...