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The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History is doing its annual monarch butterfly count. They are seeing thousands more than last year. "So the importance of counting is to understand one what's happening with the population overall," said Stephanie Turcotte-Edenholl, the educational volunteer at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. Every year western monarchs are counted across the Western U.S. The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History counts the monarchs at the Butterfly Monarch Sanctuary, behind the Butterfly Grove Inn in Pacific Grove. On Thursday, Oct. 29th, the museum counted 9,544 monarchs. In 2020, the sanctuary saw zero monarchs....

A group of states has sued President Joe Biden and his administration challenging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interim Final Rule (IFR) setting COVID-19 vaccination requirements for a range of employees working at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers and suppliers. On November 10, 2021, 10 states led by Eric S. Schmitt, the attorney general of the State of Missouri, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri seeking a declaratory ruling, as well as preliminary and permanent injunctions enjoining CMS from imposing the IFR’s mandate. Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire,...

Scientists have made what is being described as a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, finding a new plant species on the giant rock of Uluru in Australia. What's more, the fig has been hiding in plain sight for years. Ficus desertorum, or the desert fig, is the name that's been given to the new plant. Before now, it was believed to belong in a sub-category of Ficus brachypoda, a species of fig tree found extensively in the northern and central parts of Australia. A closer look has revealed that this is in fact its own distinct species, with its own distinct regional habitat....

White House officials insisted on Tuesday that President Joe Biden does not consider China's President Xi Jinping an 'old friend' after an interpreter said as much during their virtual meeting on Mondahttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10211263/White-House-insists-Biden-Chinas-Xi-arent-old-friends-following-Monday-meeting.htmly. 'You've heard explicitly from the president himself, that he has a longstanding relationship with President Xi,' said White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates on Tuesday. 'They've spent a great deal of time together. They are able to have candid discussions, be direct with each other, which helps them be productive. 'But he does not consider President Xi an old friend,' Bates told reporters. Biden and Xi spent...

The prosecution for the state against Kyle Rittenhouse committed egregious improprieties with their actions, including the way the questioned Rittenhouse and more importantly the way they handled evidence. Of particular note was the fact that they provided a lower-quality version of the FBI drone video to the defense. The defense has filed a motion for mistrial with prejudice, meaning that if granted by the judge, there will be no retrial. Cont'd pic.twitter.com/JJf97z5VSI — Jacek Posobiec 🇺🇸🇵🇱 (@JackPosobiec) November 17, 2021 Comparing the compressed version of the drone video given to the defense to the HD version the prosecution held, it’s...

South Dakota state Rep. and former House Speaker Steve Haugaard is launching a primary challenge to Gov. Kristi Noem (R). Haugaard is the first challenger – Republican or Democrat – to launch a campaign against Noem, a rising star within the GOP who is seen as a potential contender for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination. Haugaard filed paperwork for his campaign with the South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office on Friday.

President Biden's climate envoy former Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed a question about whether he was concerned that a Chinese company in which he holds a million dollar stake is using slave labor to build solar panels, saying "that's not in my lane." "Look, I don't know every detail about how the solar panels are made, but the fact that the product is solar panels puts it on the right side of the climate crisis," Kerry argued. "It's fossil fuels that are destroying the climate. Anything that can help avert this is worthy of pursuing regardless of the particular...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- In a letter to staff Tuesday, MGM Resorts International informed employees that it is making changes to its COVID-19 testing process for non-vaccinated hourly employees in Las Vegas. According to a letter from CEO Bill Hornbuckle, any Las Vegas based employee who is not designated as “Home Office” for their location and who does not have a vaccine verification sticker is required to participate. Hornbuckle's letter states that beginning Nov. 22, employees will be required to pay $38 per test, which is half the cost the company pays, if they wish to use property onsite testing...

We fully expected the Times to make excuses for Biden. And at first, it looks as though that is what Irwin is going to do, writing that “presidents have less control over the economy than headlines might suggest.” But then he adds that “the current situation is an exception to the rule.” And even more remarkable is what comes next. Irwin writes: "You can draw a direct line from a specific policy decision that Biden and congressional Democrats made this past winter to some of the inflation happening now. "In designing the stimulus that Congress passed in March, Biden’s administration...

The second-ranking general in the US military has sounded the alarm about China’s weapons development — warning that Beijing may soon have the capability to launch a surprise nuclear strike against America. “They look like a first-use weapon,” Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CBS News Tuesday. “That’s what those weapons look like to me.” Hyten was discussing China’s test of a hypersonic weapon from this summer, which was first reported by the Financial Times last month. “They launched a long-range missile,” Hyten said. “It went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic...

In interviews just days apart, Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted COVID vaccines aren’t effective, but both suggested the solution is to give more boosters to more people.. In two recent interviews, pandemic thought leaders Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates drastically changed their opinions on COVID vaccine effectiveness — and used their newfound concerns to push booster shots for the general population. Last week, in an interview with Jeremy Hunt at London’s Policy Exchange, Gates admitted what many, including the Lancet, have been saying for months — that the vaccines aren’t effective. Gates, who previously referred to the...

@julie_kelly2 Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon shaman," to 41 months in prison. He's been in jail for 317 days already, held in solitary. No violent crime on January 6, mental health issues. No criminal record. POLITICAL PRISONER.

Cilliers says the circumstances around his wife’s death are suspicious. But her final moments were documented on social media. She and 26-year-old Marcela Cabrales, an interior designer who had just moved to Los Angeles from Mexico, were at a warehouse party, when Cabrales apparently met a guy and they were all going to go to an after party in the Hollywood Hills. Cilliers believes at some point overnight, the women became incapacitated. Nearly 12 hours after anyone had heard from the women, Giles’ body was left at a Culver City hospital. Two hours later, Cabrales was taken to a different...

Do Covid early treatment medications have any potential for preventing and/or treating the side effects of vaccines?

Ken Jennings returned for a second stint as guest host. In the episodes that aired last week, he appeared more willing to open up a bit.An old axiom states that no news is good news. For “Jeopardy!,” that mantra has certainly applied to the last several weeks.In August, the sense of stability and solidity the program cultivated over decades evaporated seemingly overnight. Within days of naming Mike Richards as its permanent host to replace Alex Trebek, it had to replace him as host for making a series of offensive remarks, eventually firing Richards as the show’s executive producer too.The show...

When Ghislaine Maxwell came face-to-face with prospective jurors for her federal court sex trafficking trial in Manhattan on Tuesday morning, their candor brought moments of comedy to the staid process of jury selection – including a discussion of a famed TV police procedural and an exchange about fishing. Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is charged alleged sex crimes connected to him. Jeffrey Epstein’s shadow looms over start of Ghislaine Maxwell’s US trial Read more Maxwell, 59, was arrested in July 2020 at a secretive estate in Bradford, a small town in New Hampshire. She is...

As Americans battle soaring gasoline and natural gas prices alongside skyrocketing heating bills, President Joe Biden wants nobody to worry because on Wednesday he will unveil his vision for a green electric future. All it requires is billions of taxpayer dollars to fund electric vehicle (EV) chargers across the country alongside zero-emissions electric cars and trucks of every size imaginable. In 10-15 years time. Perhaps. Biden will visit a General Motors plant in Detroit that manufactures electric vehicles to outline his grand Build Back Better green plan to get drivers out of gasoline-powered cars, AP reports. He’ll use the occasion...

The man who stood behind former Vice President Mike Pence’s Senate dais in a horned, coyote-fur headdress, red, white and blue face paint and a shirtless display of his tattooed torso on Jan. 6 will spend the next 41 months in a federal prison. “He made himself the very image of the riot,” Senior U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said in pronouncing the sentence. “What you did was terrible,” Lamberth added later, imposing the lower end of the federal guidelines. “You made yourself the epitome of the riot.”

A New Hampshire student-athlete is suing his school district after he was suspended from a football game for saying that there are “only two genders.” The lawsuit, filed in Rockingham Superior Court, alleges that the September suspension violated the student’s Constitutional right to free speech and the New Hampshire Bill of Rights because he expressed his religious beliefs, Fox News reports. The plaintiff is also seeking to block the enforcement of Exeter High School’s gender-nonconforming student’s policy because of what he calls an infringement on his First Amendment rights. The district’s policy on transgender and gender nonconforming students “requires that...