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The Yilan crater. (NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin/Landsat data/USGS) A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years. Prior to 2020, the only other impact crater ever discovered in China was found in Xiuyan county of the coastal province of Liaoning, according to a statement from the NASA Earth Observatory. Then, in July 2021, scientists confirmed that a geological structure in the Lesser Xing'an mountain range had formed as a result of a space rock striking Earth. The team published a description of the newfound impact crater...

On Monday, a former business partner of Hunter Biden named Devon Archer has been sentenced to over a year in prison for his involvement in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe of over $60 billion in bonds. Not surprisingly, all three evening newscasts completely ignored this news of the President’s son’s business partner going to federal prison. While ignoring this report, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News & NBC Nightly News did all have time to hyperventilate over global warming, while CBS also had additional time to report on a mail truck that crashed off a bridge...

From Greg Burt, CFCSacramento, Calif. -- A Christian physician is suing the state of California in federal court lover a recently signed law that forces doctors to facilitate a terminally ill person’s desire to kill themselves. The lawsuit, filed last week by Alliance Defending Freedom and the Life Legal Defense Foundation, accuses the state of violating the First Amendment free speech and religious liberty rights of physicians by compelling them “to choose between abandoning their livelihoods or obeying government commands that violate their religious conscience and compel them to speak and act in ways that contravene their religious faith.” “California’s...

As often happens among the political class in Washington, we met on television debating each other. I liked him immediately, despite our political and even religious differences. Bob Beckel and I became friends and eventually more than friends. Twenty years ago, after debating a long-forgotten subject on Fox News Channel, we came back to the green room where I noticed a streak of sadness in his face. "Are you OK, Bob?" I asked. In what he would later describe as a rare moment of transparency, he said, "No, I'm not," and began to cry. I had never seen him like...

The Alabama Department of Revenue threatened to revoke an Oneonta man's vehicle registration if he does not relinquish a custom license plate containing an apparent insult to President Joe Biden. Nathan Kirk ordered the license plate in question when he bought a new Ford truck in October. The design of the license plate contains the words "Don't Tread on Me" along with the distinctive snake from the Gadsden flag. For the personalized portion of the license plate, Kirk chose the letters "LGBF JB." Many people deduced these letters were meant to stand for the anti-Biden phrases "Let's go, Brandon" and...

EU moves with unprecedented speed to welcome Ukraine into union, power grid The EU has accepted Ukraine’s application and has commenced a special admission procedure to integrate the country, Eastern European media has reported. The EU will also look to switch Ukraine over to its power grid in the coming weeks, further integrating the country into the European structure.

Nairobi (AFP) – Wealthy countries should provide at least $60 billion every year to the world's poorest nations to combat biodiversity loss, an alliance of environment groups said Tuesday. The appeal by WWF, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other green groups was launched on the sidelines of a major UN environment meeting in Nairobi. It comes ahead of key talks for a UN biodiversity summit to be held in China that will see nations hammer out conservation targets for the next decade. The $60 billion (53.67 billion euros) would address "the disproportionate impact of wealthy country...

An agent representing a spate of Russian-born NHL players is seeking heightened security for his clients. Per TSN hockey insider Darren Dreger, agent Dan Milstein has called upon the NHL Players' Association and all NHL clubs with Russian-born players to provide additional security for those players in North America. Milstein cites "real threats" that have been made — both in-person and on social media — to his Russian-based clients amidst the international crisis developing in Eastern Europe, fueled by the Russian military's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine which has now reached day five. St. Louis Blues forward Ivan Barbashev, who is...

It happens to be Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras as the folks down my way call it. And in lots of places in South Louisiana and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, there will be fair amounts of alcohol consumed in the final throes of the two-week carnival that precedes Lent. But Joe Biden is giving the State of the Union speech tonight. And there is nothing to party about where that subject is concerned. We’re in worse shape as a country than we’ve been since the early days of World War II, and if there is anything to be relieved...

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For a few tense days in January of this year, astronomers were tracking a Near-Earth Object cruising towards Earth with its trajectory showing it hitting the planet in 2023, when it mysteriously changed course. The asteroid dubbed 2022 AE1 was on course to hit Earth on July 4, 2023, with astronomers predicting real damage to a local area. The asteroid was moving so fast that there was not enough time to attempt deflection and the European Space Agency (ESA) said that, worryingly, the chance of impact appeared to increase based on the first seven days of observations. The first observations...

Credit card giants Mastercard and Visa late Monday began blocking Russian banks from access to their networks. “As a result of sanction orders, we have blocked multiple financial institutions from the Mastercard payment network,” the company said in a statement. “We will continue to work with regulators in the days ahead to abide fully by our compliance obligations as they evolve.” Visa is reported to have taken similar action.

The messenger RNA (mRNA) from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is able to enter human liver cells and is converted into DNA, according to Swedish researchers at Lund University. The researchers found that when the mRNA vaccine enters the human liver cells, it triggers the cell’s DNA, which is inside the nucleus, to increase the production of the LINE-1 gene expression to make mRNA. The mRNA then leaves the nucleus and enters the cell’s cytoplasm where it translates into LINE-1 protein. A segment of the protein called the open reading frame-1, or ORF-1, then goes back into the nucleus where it attaches...

Article was published anonymously in 1996 by Harvard Law Review, but Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson did not disclose her authorship until the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her to list published writings as part of her confirmation process. ******************************************************************************* President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, admitted on a questionnaire for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that she had authored a paper criticizing the "excessiveness" of sex offenders' punishments, which she said could be "unfair and unnecessarily burdensome." Jackson authored "Prevention Versus Punishment: Toward a Principled Distinction in the Restraint of Released Sex Offenders," which was published anonymously...

This brief summarizes a report that comprehensively examines nonviolent, cost-imposing options that the United States and its allies could pursue across economic, political, and military areas to stress—overextend and unbalance—Russia’s economy and armed forces and the regime's political standing at home and abroad. Some of the options examined are clearly more promising than others, but any would need to be evaluated in terms of the overall U.S. strategy for dealing with Russia, which neither the report nor this brief has attempted to do.Today’s Russia suffers from many vulnerabilities—oil and gas prices well below peak that have caused a drop in...

Baghdad (AFP) – Like much of the world, Arabs were stunned by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but shock quickly gave way to indignation over media commentary seen by many as racist against people from the Middle East. "This isn't a place -- with all due respect, you know -- like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades," said Charlie D'Agata of US network CBS News. "This is a relatively civilised, relatively European -- I have to choose those words carefully too -- city where you wouldn't expect that or hope it is going to happen." A day...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that President Joe Biden was doing a “remarkable” job rallying the world against Russian President Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine. Clinton said, “It is remarkable. I give President Biden and the Biden administration a lot of credit for leading the world to this point. The strategy of disclosing intelligence, to demonstrate very clearly that Putin was trying to do once again what is done before, use disinformation, false flag operations, in order to try to justify an unjustifiable invasion was incredibly smart. It was...

A second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine has been scheduled for Wednesday, according to local media in both nations. The delegations will meet again after failing to reach peace Monday during negotiations at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border Monday that lasted five hours, Zerkalo Nedeli in Ukraine said.

There are so many complex reasons for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. And so many outcomes yet to be determined – sadly, all of them bad for the USA. First, let me tell you a personal story that explains the psychology of Putin. I grew up the only white Jewish kid attending an almost all-black middle school and then a 90% black high school. Needless to say, I was the favorite target of bullies. I know liberals haven't a clue about this, but whoever is in the minority in life gets tortured, intimidated and unfortunately, gets their a–...

Screenshot4 Comments The Bidens once again proved that they think of Kamala Harris as the real President when Jill Biden introduced her as “the President of the United States” at a black history month function Monday. “Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United — the Vice President of the United States!” Biden’s wife said, catching herself mid sentence. “I just said that to make you laugh,” Biden then claimed. Whoops. Ha ha ha. Laugh it off. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK...................... Jill Biden introduces Kamala Harris as "the President," and then claims that she "just said that to make you...