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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines from starvation, inability to reproduce, heat waves and extreme weather. Climate-related losses have hit albatrosses off the Hawaiian islands, northern gannets near the British Isles and puffins off the Maine coast. Some birds are less able to build nests and raise young as sea levels rise, while others are unable to find fish to eat as the ocean heats up, researchers have found. Common murres and Cassin’s auklets that live off the West Coast have also died in large...

The binary galactic nuclei in NGC 7727. (ESO/Voggel et al.; ESO/VST ATLAS team) Just 89 million light-years away, in the galaxy NGC 7727, two supermassive black holes are destined to become one. New measurements that probe the heart of the galaxy have found that the nucleus consists of a binary supermassive black hole pair. It's the closest such binary we have found to date, beating out the previous record-holder of 470 million light-years by a significant margin. Moreover, the two supermassive black holes are closer to each other than any other supermassive black hole binary we've seen, separated by a...

A Virginia Beach police officer won’t face criminal charges in the fatal shooting of Donovon Lynch, The Washington Post reported Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney Colin Stolle said at a news conference on Tuesday that a special grand jury declined to issue any indictments against Officer Solomon D. Simmons, who shot and killed Lynch. Lynch’s family filed a $50 million federal lawsuit against Simmons and the city saying that Lynch, 25, posed no threat at the time of the incident and was fired upon by Simmons without any warning.

“They’re not going to publish their findings because they are concerned about losing research money from the drug industry.” A leading cardiologist in the UK has warned that a colleague of his is finding it impossible to get research published because it definitively links COVID vaccines to a massive increase in heart attacks. Appearing on GB News, Dr. Aseem Malhotra related how he was contacted by a researcher from a prestigious British Institution who said that he had found concrete links between inflammation of coronary arteries and the experimental mRNA vaccines. Dr. Malhotra added that his colleague told him the...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) ambitions of keeping the Democrat majority in the House of Representatives past the midterm elections next year are dwindling as droves of vulnerable Democrats have announced they are leaving their current seats to either retire or seek a different office instead of fighting in a brutal reelection. Republicans only need to net five seats to pick up the House majority after the midterms. So far, more than triple the amount of Democrats (18 total) have decided to officially call it quits on the House and have left their seats open for a fight, giving Republicans...

Protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court were seen taking abortion pills ahead of the nation’s highest court hearing arguments over the Mississippi abortion law challenging Roe v. Wade. "Abortion pills forever," the protesters repeatedly chant, according to footage posted by Erin Matson on Twitter Wednesday morning. "Epic action from @ShoutYrAbortion — people took abortion pills outside the Supreme Court!," Matson, a feminist activist, captioned the video.

Federal prosecutors have issued a subpoena demanding, as part of a criminal investigation, the financial records of several fundraising organizations founded by former federal prosecutor and Trump attorney Sidney Powell in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. The grand jury subpoena was issued by the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Columbia in September and demanded communications and other documents regarding the fundraising of several groups, including Defending the Republic, according to The Washington Post.

President Biden on Monday repeatedly mispronounced Omicron as he claimed he was on top of the potentially more contagious COVID-19 variant — before wishing reporters a “Merry Christmas” a month early. “It’s called the Omni-cron,” Biden said, mangling the name during a midday speech in the White House Roosevelt Room. The president’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, also botched the name of the variant, which was announced last week by the World Health Organization. The WHO controversially skipped over the Greek letters Nu and Xi, the surname of Chinese President Xi Jinping to land on Omicron. Fauci noted that...

Are other Freepers looking at or considering leaving the US? No problem dying for my country, not sure if my country is willing to die with me. The older folks will stand, the younger? Be blessed! I can handle the flak, so bring it. We are apparently run by non voted in intelligence groups. They failed to do a cognitive test on Biden, not an accident. Oh ya, Trump lost the election, what a joke.

resident Joe Biden announced back in October his intention to nominate Gigi Sohn as Commissioner of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). The FCC regulates all communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States, which makes this even more worrying. Sohn has stated her belief that “Fox News has had the most negative impact on our democracy.” She also believes that Congress should hold a hearing on the network as she believes it to be “state-sponsored propaganda.” For all my concerns about #Facebook, I believe that Fox News has had the most negative impact on our democracy....

Space Force general details how jamming, blinding lasers, cyber attacks, and other satellites have America's space-based capabilities under siege. US. Space Force's General David Thompson said last week that Russia and China are launching "reversible attacks," such as electronic warfare jamming, temporarily blinding optics with lasers, and cyber attacks, on U.S. satellites "every single day. “The Chinese are actually well ahead of Russia. They're fielding operational systems at an incredible rate.” ... when asked, Thompson could not confirm or deny whether any American satellites had actually been damaged in a Russian or Chinese attack. Beyond that ... even if such...

Is Fauci guilty of hubris, as Sen. Rand Paul said, or is it worse than that — megalomania?Thirty-four questions about the latest iteration of Panic Porn:If this omicron variant is so deadly, why did Dementia Joe Biden wrongly identify it as “omnicron” three times on Monday, and once as “omnicrom?”And if Dr. Anthony Fauci represents, as he so smugly claims, science, why did he likewise mispronounce the new Wuhan flu at that same press conference as “omnicron?”Wouldn’t you think that a guy who publicly purports to be that science incarnate would know how to pronounce omnicron, er, omicron?And if...

SAN ANTONIO — SpaceX is having engine trouble. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk warned employees of a “Raptor production crisis” for the engines needed to launch the massive Starship spacecraft from South Texas. SpaceX is aiming to launch Starship into orbit for the first time in early 2022 and then run a series of test flights as steps toward carrying cargo and humans to the moon and Mars. But Musk on Friday warned that delays in production of Raptor engines could hamper that progress and lead to significant financial problems. “We face genuine risk of...

Jeanne Shaheen also invoked the myth of pre-Roe 'back alley' abortions. WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — With the U.S. Supreme Court slated to revisit abortion law this week, Democrats such as Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are threatening “revolution” if the justices overturn the Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. Oral arguments will begin Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns Mississippi’s HB 1510 law banning abortions from being committed past 15 weeks for any reason other than physical medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormalities. The state is asking that the Court not only uphold the law, which...

We can almost feel the xenophobia intensifying.As we wait for President Biden to confirm the new travel restrictions that have been reported Tuesday and Wednesday (the president is expected to announce them on Thursday) Reuters reported Wednesday morning that it has seen a copy of a letter from the CDC asking airlines to turn over the names of all passengers who traveled to the US from any of the southern African nations.Once it has all the names, the CDC plans to turn them over to state and local public health departments. These authorities may then require these travelers to be...

Kyle Rittenhouse said he is destroying the rifle he used to shoot three protestors in Kenosha, Wis., last year during an appearance on the conservative podcast program, "The Charlie Kirk Show" on Tuesday. Speaking as a guest on the program, Rittenhouse said, "We're having [the rifle] destroyed right now. We don't want anything to do with that," while discussing how the lead prosecutor in his case, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, brought the AR-15-style weapon into court. Rittenhouse expressed that he was shocked when Binger pointed Rittenhouse's rifle "at the gallery."

CNBC host Jim Cramer demanded that the Biden administration force all Americans to get a COVID-19 vaccine and a booster shot following the discovery of the new “omicron” variant in South Africa, despite the fact that the researcher who discovered the strain says it is mild and non-threatening. “With the new omicron variant sweeping the globe, how do we finally put an end to this pandemic? How do we save lives and get business back to normal so everybody can put dinner on the table?” the “Mad Money” host asked. His proposal: “The federal government needs to require vaccines, including...

Thank you know, the thing God we have jackpuddings like Joy Reid of MSNBC and lickspittle Don Lemon to remind us that our nation is brimming with white supremacy; otherwise, we wouldn’t know. I personally can’t see any. What I have seen are well over 400 fake hate crimes. No racism? No problem! Fake it ’til you make it.Our bigoted nation just crowned Elle Smith as Miss USA. She is the second black woman in a row to claim the award. Systemic racism must have taken those days off.The completely objective National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), which has a...

As if the energy sector needed any more volatility than it's already experiencing, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has thrown his hat in the ring by commenting this week that he could shut down transit of energy products if Poland closes its border with his country.The border is currently turning into a point of contention between the European Union and Lukashenko. Thousands of migrants are stuck in the middle of the border and at least 11 have died, according to the Wall Street Journal. The migrants are seeking refuge and to move further into Europe. The EU has blamed Lukashenko for...