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Jurors took a pause in deliberations and asked the court, “Can we have a copy of the calendar of events?” There had been a display on screen showing the month of January 2019 with specific dates marked off by prosecutors listing what happened on those days. Jurors want copies of it. While Smollett’s attorneys are present, the actor is not. The jurors have been dismissed for the day and will resume deliberations on Thursday morning at 10:15 a.m. ET as long as all 12 jurors have arrived to court by then.

The leader of the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter is standing in solidarity with accused race hoaxer Jussie Smollett in a trial the BLM leader claims is a “white supremacist charade.” L.A. BLM leader Melina Abdullah, a former CSU professor and rabid defund the police activist, praised the former Empire actor for his “courage” as he stands trial in Chicago for allegedly perpetrating a fake hate crime. Abdullah railed against the trial in Chicago in her statement, claimed that the American justice system is “white supremacist,” and insisted it is an example of the “corrupt systems are working to devalue...

In 2015, Jonathan LaPook, Chief Medical Correspondent for CBS Evening News, moderated a discussion about bioelectronics. The panel consisted of Francis Collins, Moncef Slaoui, and Kevin Tracey.Bioelectronics is the convergence of biology and electronics. Biological activity can be measured and even harnessed using bioelectronic devices, with key applications in areas such as healthcare monitoring and disease treatment. But bioelectronics reaches well beyond biomedicine.In the description beneath a 2014 promotional video, The Future of Medicine states: “GSK believes that these [bioelectronic] devices could be programmed to read and correct the electrical signals that pass along the nerves of the body.”The Future...

A 14-year-old boy carjacked and sexually assaulted an 87-year-old female at knifepoint while she was returning books to the Waukesha Public Library located at 321 Wisconsin Ave., Waukesha, sources have told WRN. UPDATE: WRN can now report that the suspect is the nephew of Milwaukee Common Council President and Milwaukee Mayoral candidate Cavalier Johnson. Cavalier Johnson did respond to our request for comment: This afternoon, I learned of an incident that occurred in Waukesha County on November 30 where a member of my extended family is accused of a horrific crime. I am saddened and troubled by this news. First...

It appears as though the Democrats made off with a Nebraska electoral vote in the "election" of 2020. As one can see from the following tables, Basement Joe beat President Trump in the environs of the 2nd congressional US House district, 191,556 to 171,138, thus securing that electoral vote. But wait! The Democrats LOST that US House seat in the same counties, 155,706 to 171,071. Did 36,000 Democrats who "voted" for Joek just "forget" to vote for their Democrat House candidate? Inquiring minds want to know.

Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp, the Great Comet of 1997, became much brighter than any surrounding stars. It was seen even over bright city lights. Away from city lights, however, it put on quite a spectacular show. Here Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed above Val Parola Pass in the Dolomite mountains surrounding Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Comet Hale-Bopp's blue ion tail, consisting of ions from the comet's nucleus, is pushed out by the solar wind. The white dust tail is composed of larger particles of dust from the nucleus driven by the pressure of sunlight, that orbit behind the comet. Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1)...

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Erin Foster, 18, and Jeremy Bechtel, 17, vanished on April 3, 2000, after leaving Foster’s home, according to the White County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Steve Page said in a news release members of Foster’s family alerted him on Nov. 28 about YouTuber Jeremy Beau Sides, who uses sonar technology and scuba dives to try to solve missing persons cases on his channel Exploring With Nug. He went to Sparta, Tennessee, last month to search for the car the teens were last seen in. Page contacted Sides and told him to search around Highway 84 in the Calfkiller River, in the...

I think it’s a pretty fair bet that the democrats will be handed their a$$es in the 2022 elections. Given that happens, I think there may be an unusual opportunity to change the political dynamic in favor of conservatives. Why: in my time as a former dem, one thing that struck me about how the faction thinks is that they want to win. Ideology is not all that important, winning is. If the hard left tilt that they’re on isn’t working, I think there will be some receptiveness to different strategies. In that respect, populist conservatives running as dems in...

The major advantage of mRNA vaccines over more conventional approaches is their potential for rapid development and large-scale deployment in pandemic situations. In the current COVID-19 crisis the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have been conditionally approved and broadly applied, while others are still in clinical trials. However, there is no previous experience with the use of mRNA vaccines on the large scale in general population. This warrants a careful evaluation of mRNA vaccine safety properties by considering all available knowledge on the mRNA molecular biology and evolution. Here, I discuss the pervasive claim that mRNA-based vaccines cannot alter genomes. Surprisingly,...

This is a comparison of the Nebraska presidential elections of 2008 (Obama) and 2020 (Biden). Some interesting things can be seen in the vote totals.

It is a country where so-called "dead churches", can be viewed and purchased on the Internet, Even a synagogue became a mosque... The Catholic Church in the Netherlands has entered such an unstoppable spiral, according to research by the Trouw newspaper, that eight out of ten parishes are in the red and will have to be closed. From 1970 to 2008, 400 Catholic churches were demolished or converted. Since then, the rate has accelerated dramatically. Two churches, on average, close every week. One fifth of all the churches in Holland have already been converted. Holland still has six thousand churches....

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Let's have some fun!E-mail Jesse at jesse@jessekellyshow.com. When he takes listener calls, the studio line is 877-377-4373.Jesse's show is now on over 200 radio stations across the nation, replacing Buck Sexton. Those of us who miss Rush very much know that no one could ever replace him, but if you give Jesse a chance, you'll find him to be a very intelligent, refreshing, naturally funny truth teller.Jesse is a former Marine. He and his beautiful wife live in the Houston area with their two young sons. He's a self-deprecating historyphile with an infectious...

The spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus appears to be doubling every two to three days, Prof Neil Ferguson has said, adding that it could be necessary to impose new lockdowns as a result. Ferguson, a member of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) and head of the disease outbreak modelling group at Imperial College London, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Wednesday that Omicron was likely to be the dominant strain in the UK before Christmas.

Former President Donald Trump said in an interview Wednesday that President Biden was too gentle with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Tuesday virtual meeting that focused on the buildup of Moscow’s forces on the border with Ukraine. “I looked yesterday at the two of them and I sort of said, ‘This is the Pittsburgh Steelers in their prime playing against your high school football team,’ because things were given up at that meeting that were terrible,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt. Biden said Wednesday that he warned Putin of “severe consequences — economic consequences like none he’s ever...

The crazier side of the internet has been on the "nefarious things are hiding inside furniture" for quite a while. Q adherents might be disappointed to learn that a Florida man did find something inside his new couch: a five-foot boa constrictor. Clearwater Police shared that they were called to a condo to remove a red tail boa from a recently purchased couch. CPD wrote on Facebook that they "extracted it from its hiding place" and took it to a local pet store. "The man just got the couch the other day and he thinks the snake was hiding...

A woman bit an officer during a struggle after crashing her car into another vehicle, police said. Police in Lancaster County were dispatched about 5 p.m. Friday to the 1600 block of Fruitville Pike in Manheim Township for numerous reports of an erratic driver. Lateefah Habeebullah Ross, 44, of Jersey City, New Jersey, had crashed her black Nissan Sentra into another car, Manheim Township Police said. She allegedly showed signs of drug impairment and refused to acknowledge police presence. It took three officers to force Ross out of the car and subdue her, police said. She allegedly bit an officer...

Two local TV news outlets, WFAA and CBS11, picked up a story this week that was first reported on the Dallas Police Department’s Facebook page. On the surface, it reads like a feel-good story: On December 2, an adorable K9 named Ballentine identified a piece of carry-on luggage at Dallas Love Field Airport that contained $100,000 in cash. Police seized the money and posted a photo of the dog with stacks of cash laid out on a table. Good boy. Case closed. But not so fast. According to the reports, the money belonged to a 25-year-old woman from Chicago,...

Not bitter then, Hillary? Clinton breaks down in TEARS as she gives cringeworthy reading of the 2016 victory speech she WOULD have given if she'd beaten Trump to become the first female US President Hillary Clinton has for the first time revealed the victory speech she would have given had she won in 2016, and admitted she did not even bother to write a concession speech. Democrats were blindsided by former President Trump's win that year and Clinton spent much time blaming Russian interference for her loss.

s it possible for a memorandum to be a masterpiece? A few paragraphs long, dashed off ex tempore, for a friend, not polished? Various columns in TCT have appreciated masterpieces – a poem, a painting, a musical work. But could a memorandum ever be accounted a “masterpiece”?I have in mind Newman’s “Memorandum on the Immaculate Conception” – written off by the Cardinal,” his editor says, “for Mr. R. I. Wilberforce, formerly Archdeacon Wilberforce, to aid him in meeting the objections urged by some Protestant friends against the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.”,br> That’s it, “written off” – a memorandum is...