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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea test launched its first domestically produced space rocket on Thursday in what officials describe as an important step in the country’s pursuit of a satellite launch program. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the three-stage Nuri rocket succeeded in delivering a dummy payload – a 1.5-ton block of stainless steel and aluminum – into orbit 600 to 800 kilometers (372 to 497 miles) above Earth....

Dampwood termite worker head capsule and brain. Credit: Sean O'Donnell, Drexel UniversityNew research on dampwood termites (Zootermopsis angusticollis and A. nevdensis) shows select members of the colony will experience brain changes in anticipation of cognitive demand.In a dampwood termite colony only a select few will, quite literally, see the light. The insects are unique due to their mating flights and the adaptability of their role within the colony, which is based on the overall needs of the group. King and queen termites must leave the nest and are the only members to go outside—briefly —to partner off and tunnel into...

In an effort to combat the supply chain crisis and the rise of China’s economic influence, Rep. Chip Roy is introducing a bill to incentivize companies to bring their manufacturing back to the United States. The BEAT CHINA Act — introduced on Wednesday — looks to push manufacturers producing goods abroad to move to the US by providing tax advantages to eligible companies. Under the legislation, non-residential property purchases made by companies that shift their operations domestically would be “considered 20-year property instead of 39-year property,” which would make them eligible for full and immediate expensing. The bill would also...

Multiple sheriffs in jurisdictions near Chicago said they will not respond to fill the potential gap in police manpower created by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Lightfoot has vowed to fire the Chicago police officers who fail to comply with the mandate she ordered, which could result in the loss of thousands of officers.

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Special counsel John Durham provided 81,000 pages of discovery to indicted Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann in his criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation, court filings show. The reams of documents, which reveal details from grand jury subpoenas sent to 15 individuals and organizations likely including opposition research firm Fusion GPS, were produced this month after lawyers representing Sussmann, who denies any wrongdoing, demanded more information while calling the allegations that he lied to the FBI five years ago vague and confusing.... ...Among these documents, the special counsel said, were those "received in response to grand jury subpoenas issued to fifteen...

President Biden has repeated a story about an encounter with an Amtrak conductor for the fifth time - even though the man in question was already dead at the time the chat was supposed to have taken place. The president recalled the encounter with Angelo Negri Wednesday during an appearance touting his ‘Build Back Better’ infrastructure plan in his native hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He claimed their chat about him traveling two million miles by rail had happened in the seventh year of his vice presidency - 2015 - even though Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993, and died in...

Australia delivered a withering denunciation of China's trade policies Thursday, accusing Beijing of undermining the World Trade Organization and foot-dragging on promised economic reforms. During a usually routine WTO review in Geneva, Canberra's representatives said China had benefited "significantly" from 20 years of WTO membership but was not keeping its end of the bargain. ... ..."China has increasingly tested global trade rules and norms by engaging in practices that are inconsistent with its WTO commitments," the Australian government said in a statement. "By undermining agreed trade rules China also undermines the multilateral trading system on which all WTO members rely."...

A federal appeals court decided 2-1 Wednesday to overturn a nationwide order requiring federal immigration authorities to monitor and possibly release detainees at high risk of dying or suffering long-term complications from COVID-19. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said a Riverside-based federal district judge overreached when he issued a preliminary injunction in April, 2020 requiring the government to identify and track immigration detainees with certain health risks and establish directives for release during the pandemic.... ...In court filings, ICE argued that concern about detainees contracting the virus amounted to "mere speculation” and releasing large...

The Washington, D.C., chapter of climate-activist organization Sunrise movement canceled its speaking appearance at a rally for D.C. statehood and federal voting legislation over Zionist Jewish groups’ participation in the event. Sunrise DC cited the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism as groups that support Zionism and the State of Israel in its withdrawal letter.... ...“Given our commitment to racial justice, self-governance, and indigenous sovereignty, we oppose Zionism and any state that enforces its ideology,” the statement read. The organization then accused Israel, which it called a...

[H/T Fractal Trader] Recently, Dr. Pablo Campra Madrid, the researcher who has been analyzing vaccination vials and working hard on a final and definitive expert report that will be published during this month, sent exclusive photographs of possible microbiota observed under electron microscopy to La Quinta Columna.All of these photographs are part of the 'Campra archive' and, in part, are photographs that will be included in the final report. It's worth mentioning that, except for some identifiable materials, such as graphene oxide, the microbiota in the vaccination vials from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Janssen, and Moderna laboratories are completely unknown at the...

While on a jog, a hungry President Bill Clinton (Phil Hartman) stops at a McDonald’s, where he talks to customers and eats their food as he answers political questions. With Chris Farley and Kevin Nealon. [Season 18, 1992

Molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright on Wednesday posted a letter from the National Institute of Health (NIH) showing that an NIH grant did fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, contrary to what Dr. Anthony Fauci had testified to the Senate.Fauci testified to Senators at a hearing in May that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.However, the NIH’s October 20 letter to House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) showed that the NIH grant, which was awarded to EcoHealth Alliance and then sub-awarded to the...

October 18th, 2021Saint Francis Xavier church, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA By MamaGeek at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17971316Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingRomans 6:19-23 ©Now you are set free from sin, and slaves to GodIf I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification. When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness, and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you blush, since...

NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods that could benefit our health and our warming planet.

"China building Bio Weapon that can target people based on race. China has been amassing a disturbing amount of genetic data from the rest of the world, and it's been doing it for something nightmarish." China’s Nightmarish New Bio Weapon Targets Race and Ethnicity (16 min video)

'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host examines why drugs are flowing through the southern border.

“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house” (Proverbs 21:9).

"We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government," the burger chain said The West Coast-based burger chain In-N-Out was widely praised on social media after it was reported that the company refused to enforce a San Francisco, California vaccine mandate for customers that resulted in the city temporarily closing one of its locations. The fast-food chain trended on Twitter Tuesday after the company told the city of San Francisco "we refuse to become the vaccination police for any government" and was closed temporarily by the city’s health department for not demanding customers show proof of vaccination against the...

Duly elected representatives and staff will not be allowed to work inside the nation’s center of democracy.. Canada’s federal government will ban democratically elected Members of Parliament and staff who have not had COVID jabs from accessing the nation’s center of democracy, the House of Commons. In a statement sent yesterday, the Board of Internal Economy, which is the body responsible for regulating House rules, announced the new draconian mandate. “Effective Monday, November 22, 2021, individuals must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be allowed within the House of Commons Precinct,” the board said in its statement. “This requirement will...