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NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered previously unknown organic molecules, ammonia and benzoic acid, on Mars that could be possible indicators of ancient life. The findings stem from a new technique used by the American space agency in 2017 when the rover's drill stopped working, but the team re-routed Curiosity to place dirt samples into cups pre-filled with a chemical mixture instead of the typical empty containers. The molecules are not biosignatures, evidence of past or present life, but according Maëva Millan, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, they are good indicators of the presence of biosignatures.... The dirt...

The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government's hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF document obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy group, and provided exclusively to the Free Beacon. When a licensed gun store...

I HAVE had a bellyful of COP26. Hypocrisy and harangues dispensed by teenagers, billionaires, royalty, and corporate lobbyists, make a bilious mix. Another week to go. How much more of this phoney righteousness are we expected to swallow? The crack troops of the new world order, individuals who are probably right in thinking that they run the world, arrive in 400 jets to give us our orders in the name of stopping a climate apocalypse. Every measure they suggest will make ordinary people worse off. You won’t drive a car. You won’t go on holiday. Your house will be cold,...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern welcomed signs from the United States of a bigger engagement in the Indo-Pacific region, saying in an interview that her government has "mature" ties with China that allow for disagreement. Ardern will host an online summit next week of leaders from the Asia-Pacific, including the United States, China and Japan, to discuss how the region can recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis. In the interview to air on Sunday on the U.S. network NBC, Ardern said that under President Joe Biden, the United States has "an incredibly important role" to...

At least eight people are dead after a crowd surge during the sold-out Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday, the city's fire chief said. Seventeen people were transported to the hospital after the crush, and 11 who were taken by ambulance were in cardiac arrest, Houston officials said. In all, more than 300 people were treated throughout the event Friday at an on-site field hospital. Around 9:15 p.m. local time (10:15 p.m. ET) "the crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage," Fire Chief Samuel Peña said at a news conference early Saturday. "That caused some panic,...

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” That’s Shakespeare. (And an accurate description of the United Nations today!) Before the Great Bard of Avon was “cancelled” for being a white Englishman, most high school graduates would have known that. Quite a few would have even remembered the line comes from Act I of The Tempest. Now they have scant knowledge of Shakespeare’s works, no idea what a “tempest” is, and most likely think “hell” and “devils” are as “cool” and “misunderstood” as Hollywood portrays them in Lucifer. But, woo-hoo, they know all about “privilege,” “social justice,” “gender pronouns,”...

A limited field of 33,000 runners will jog off the Verrazzano Bridge and wind its way toward Central Park on Sunday as the New York City Marathon returns for its 50th edition after being wiped out in 2020 by the coronavirus pandemic ...The race's 1970 debut — staged entirely in Central Park — hardly resembled the five-borough track that has drawn millions into the Big Apple's streets on the first Sunday of nearly every November since. Adaptation, though, has seemingly always enabled the second oldest of the world's marathon majors to do more of what it does best — inspire...

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) Tuesday held a roundtable discussion on federal COVID vaccine mandates with a panel of people injured by COVID vaccines and scientists from some of the most prestigious research organizations in the world, including The BMJ and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Peter Doshi, a senior editor at The BMJ and associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and Retsef Levi, a health system and analytics professor at MIT, expressed doubts about COVID vaccine efficacy and the failures of the scientific community. “I’m saddened we’re super-saturated as a...

Newsflash: Massive corporations don’t like us...and they don’t need our money either. Yup. Consumers used to have way more pull, but now we’re looking at a future where we all own zilch! Say “sayonara” to the idea of owning your own house, your own car, even your own CLOTHES! This ain’t your crazy aunt’s conspiracy theory either. It isn’t even the future. It’s the PRESENT. It’s happening NOW and it’s called “The Great Reset”. Alex Clark sits down with one of the biggest podcasters in the world, Jack Posobiec-the host of Human Events Daily-to learn all about it. Video at...

Montgomery County, Maryland, health department officials say the first offerings of appointments for kids 5 to 11 years old to receive their COVID-19 shots over the weekend were snapped up within 45 minutes after slots were made available. Mary Anderson, spokesperson for the county’s Department of Health and Human Services, said the county is working to make sure that when clinics are announced, there will be an adequate supply of vaccines. When vaccines were first made available, officials at the state and local levels in Maryland worked hard to overcome any vaccine hesitancy on the part of residents. In Montgomery...

Conservative talk show host Candace Owens said Friday that government campaigns to induce children to receive the COVID-19 vaccine resemble “Stalin youth programs” and are designed to have kids do “whatever the state wants.” “We can always look to history to see where everything’s come from,” Owens told “Fox News Primetime.” “This is so reminiscent to me of when I studied Stalin youth programs, Hitler youth programs. We are talking about schools and the government issuing these brainwashing doctrines down to say to children it’s okay: do this or do that because they are trying to raise up children to...

“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life" (Proverbs 6:25-26).

The U.S. government is expected to launch an operation next week to send court documents to 78,000 migrants who were not processed for deportation after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization this year, two people briefed on the plan told CBS News... ...The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plan, dubbed "Operation Horizon," is designed to place tens of thousands of migrants who received ad hoc processing near the southern border into deportation proceedings...

Multiple people have reportedly been injured at the opening night of Travis Scott's sold-out Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas on Friday. Dozens of ambulances, multiple medics and other personnel were seen tending to people at the third annual festival, a sold-out concert featuring multiple acts. Videos posted to social media showed officials giving CPR to some fans in the crowd as Scott continued to play. Some appeared to have been badly bleeding, as fans say they saw some people appearing lifeless. The Houston Fire Department told ABC 13 CPR was performed on at least two people, and Zack Tawatari, a...

A law professor who was caught on tape pressuring a Native American student to apologize for 'trap house' party, pushed Yale to host a diversity trainer who reportedly told students anti-Semitism is a form of 'anti-blackness' and that the FBI artificially inflates hate crimes against Jews. Yale’s director of diversity and inclusion Yaseen Eldik invited 'kinky' sex education and diversity trainer Ericka Hart to the university after the board 'publicly expressed' it would 'implement implicit bias and antiracism training.' ... ...Hart's presentation allegedly included examples of 'perfectionism,' 'objectivity,' 'a sense of urgency,' and 'the written word' as examples of white...

Electrodeposition of Hydrogen Adatoms on Graphene Quan-feng He, Lianhuan Han, Dongping Zhan* , Zhong-Qun Tian State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces; Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Energy Materials of China; Engineering Research Centre of Electrochemical Technologies of Ministry of Education; Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; and Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xiamen University; Xiamen 361005, China. E-mail: dpzhan@xmu.edu.cn Conductive carbon materials, such as graphite, glassy carbon, carbon black, carbon nanotube, graphene, etc., are used extensively as electrode materials or catalyst carriers in various electrochemical researches because...

Democratic New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, who is projected to lose his bid for reelection against a little-known truck driver, is talking about "recently found" ballots to support his refusal to concede the race. The defiant incumbent released a statement to the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday that explained why he is not ready to admit defeat to his Republican challenger The results from Tuesday’s election continue to come in, for instance there were 12,000 ballots recently found in one county,” Sweeney said in an email, not naming the county. “While I am currently trailing in the race, we want...

Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert was wearing a dress that had the words “Let’s Go Brandon” during a Thursday event at Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.Boebert wore the dress in an apparent reference to Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mid-September performance with a “Tax The Rich” dress at the Met Gala.The Colorado rep. posted a photo of herself alongside Trump on Twitter, captioning it, “It’s not a phrase, it’s a movement! #LGB.”

TRENDING: Virginia secedes from Biden's party Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky is declaring that masks can reduce the chance of infection from COVID-19 by 80%, contrary to studies by the CDC itself and real-world data. Further, Walensky indicated that masks could become a staple of American life, adding that they "also help protect from other illnesses like common cold and flu." Her guidance came in a tweet Friday spotlighting a video produced by the CDC... Yale Law School professor Samantha Godwin said the CDC director has made "a specific empirical claim for which no data exists."...

More than three dozen Democrats are taking heat for voting against a House resolution sponsored by a fellow Democrat calling for solidarity with Cubans after historic anti-government protests in the summer led to a brutal crackdown by authorities. The 40 Democrats, mostly from the progressive caucus, voted "no" Wednesday to “expressing solidarity with Cuban citizens demonstrating peacefully for fundamental freedoms, condemning the Cuban regime’s acts of repression, and calling for the immediate release of arbitrarily detained Cuban citizens.”...