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Explanation: It is one of the more unusual rocks yet found on Mars. Smaller than a penny, the rock has several appendages that make it look, to some, like a flower. Although it would be a major discovery if the rock was truly a fossilized ancient Martian flower, there are less spectacular -- and currently preferred -- explanations for its unusual structure. One theory that has emerged is that the rock is a type of concretion created by minerals deposited by water in cracks or divisions in existing rock. These concretions can be compacted together, can be harder and denser...

The warning signs are everywhere. We are stumbling toward an energy crisis that is likely to be far more severe and long-lasting than the upheavals of the 1970s. And no, this isn’t about Russia or Ukraine. This is about the perilous state of the U.S. electricity grid. If action isn’t taken soon to address the unraveling reliability of the grid, the United States will face the specter of rolling blackouts, factory shutdowns, loss of jobs and soaring electricity bills. Our organization CASE recently released a policy brief highlighting just how dire the situation is. Events In recent years show how...

U.S. consumers likely paid more for a variety of goods and services in February compared to the prior month and year, with prices climbing across the economy amid lingering supply and demand imbalances. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is set to release its February Consumer Price Index (CPI) Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET, providing an update on the extent of inflationary pressures directly hitting consumers' wallets. Consensus economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for the CPI to jump by 7.8% in February compared to last year, which would mark the fastest annual jump since 1982. It would also take out...

I’m one of the fortunate people who is yet to test positive for Covid. This is despite the fact that I work with live replicating Sars-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid) for my research, teach face-to-face at university, and have school-age children. My fully vaccinated healthy friends of the same age were not so lucky, and some have suffered from more than one case of Covid in the past couple of years. What does this reveal about my immune system? First, we have to consider a number of scenarios. There is a very small chance that I have never come...

So, a complaint was filed with the FBI after the 2020 election that a mentally incompetent person voted in the 2020 election in Philadelphia. Now a year and four months after the election, the FBI is finally investigating. It has been confirmed that this person did in fact vote by mail in ballot, of course, despite lacking the mental capacity to be able to do so, or register to vote. The person who filed the complaint in 2020 is very suspicious of the sincerity of the investigation and possible retaliation.

"After more than six months of study and deliberation, the Pulitzer Prize Board has decided it will not revoke the foreign reporting prize awarded in 1932 to Walter Duranty of The New York Times."

Hey, whatever happened to that story about Sandra Shells? She was the 70-year-old nurse killed by one of Los Angeles' many "unhoused" individuals (drug-addicted psychopaths) while she waited for a bus at 5:15 in the morning in January, on her way to her job at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. A homeless guy, Kerry Bell, walked up to Shells and punched her in the face, knocking her to the ground and fracturing her skull. She died of her injuries three days later. Her life mattered more even than, say, George Floyd's -- and I can prove it. 1) Shells...

The jacket worn by the assailant that, once illuminated by UV light, showed he had been sprayed with SmartTag. Credit: West Yorkshire Police. In a first-of-its-kind arrest, a man in the UK has been convicted and jailed for domestic violence and failure to adhere to a non-molestation order after the victim sprayed him with SmartTag, a unique forensic liquid UK police have been piloting. SmartTag was designed by the SmartWater Group following consultation with multiple UK police forces and legal professionals. SmartTag uses a pressurized canister to deploy a stream of SmartWater forensic liquid to tag an offender with a...

Thirty years ago in Moscow the Soviet Union crumbled and everyone watched on CNN. Pause Current Time 1:47 / Duration 3:25 Loaded: 99.97% Captions Fullscreen Unmute 0 White House issues executive order on cryptocurrency One question was still undecided. This was what would happen to the “Near Abroad” — Russians who were now separated from Russia in independent republics. President Boris Yeltsin promised that they would have the Russian republic or Federation to look after their interests, language and culture. Capital One Shopping - Coupons & Savings Ad Ad capitaloneshopping.com Capital One Shopping - Coupons & Savings President Vladimir Putin...

A bill addressing law enforcements use of genetic genealogy DNA databases like GEDmatch and Ancestry failed to pass the Utah House of Representatives late last week amid concerns it was not specific enough to prevent police “fishing expeditions.” The bill would have been the third in the nation to specifically address the use of third-party genetic genealogy databases in police investigations. House Bill 340 “Forensic DNA Privacy Amendments” was sponsored by Rep. Steve Eliason (R-Sandy), and was presented during a House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee in mid-February with the support of Greg Miller, CEO of the Larry H....

Following days of Russia and China accusing the United States of having secret biological weapons projects in Ukraine and claiming to have found evidence of the projects, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that the world should be prepared if Russia uses its claims as an excuse to release a chemical or biological weapon of its own in Ukraine. "Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, or to create a false flag...

MINNEAPOLIS — Last year, with the federal government making available huge new sums of money for programs to feed needy children during the pandemic, a nonprofit organization called Advance Youth Athletic Development set up what it described as an enormous child care operation in northeast Minneapolis that could prepare 5,000 dinners each weeknight. Based on the group’s claims, the State of Minnesota channeled $3.2 million of the federal food aid to the program. But on a subzero morning in January, the F.B.I. carried out a series of predawn raids around the region. It revealed a sprawling investigation into Advance Youth...

GONZALES - Law enforcement arrested three people and are looking for several more after a fight broke out Monday in the checkout line of a Walmart in Ascension Parish. Video posted on social media captured the brawl at the Walmart on North Airline Highway. Sources told WBRZ most of the people involved are juveniles and some are Walmart employees. Authorities are still searching for four more people tied to the incident. It is unknown what started the fight.

According to the all-Ukrainian nationally representative survey conducted by Info Sapiens for the British Research Agency ORB International on March 3-4, 2022, 79% of Ukrainians are against the official recognition of the previously occupied areas of the Donbass region as part of Russia, 75% are against the official recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, and 56% are against the ban on Ukraine’s membership in NATO even if it ends the war. 88% have a positive attitude towards Volodymyr Zelensky – the President of Ukraine, and only 8% have a negative attitude. As for Viktor Yanukovych, the situation is quite...

A South Florida woman making a cross-country trip with her boyfriend is under arrest after allegedly running him down with her vehicle and killing him. 37-year-old Johana Suarez of Miami was jailed on a charge of murder in the death of her boyfriend, 48-year-old Henry Hernandez. Hernandez was found dead alongside Interstate 10 west of Mobile, Alabama early Sunday morning. According to Captain Paul Burch of the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, Suarez and Hernandez were driving west for California and spent Saturday night in Mississippi. The two got up early Sunday and headed off in the wrong direction, resulting in...

Hillary Clinton is making it clear she has no plans to run for the White House again, ruling out a possible rematch with former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Asked whether she would be open to running for president again, Clinton laughed it off, telling MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday, "No, no, but I am certainly going to be active in supporting women running for office and other candidates who I think should be re-elected or elected—both women and men." There had been speculation that Clinton could potentially cast a presidential bid in 2024, after skipping the...

Unnamed warship remains docked and 'out of commission' on the East Coast, Navy commander refuses to get the Covid vaccine for religious reasons, Last month a judge ruled the Navy could not remove the officer from his post, Navy officials refuse to deploy the ship with him in command,

Former North Carolina governor Pat McCrory, who is seeking the Republican nomination in a U.S. Senate race, has launched a campaign ad accusing one of his primary rivals, Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), of being too complimentary of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “As Ukrainians bled and died,” McCrory says in the video, “Congressman Budd excused their killer.” The ad then quotes Budd praising Putin as a “very intelligent actor” who had “strategic reasons” for invading Ukraine, including a desire to “protect his southern flank.” Budd said in a February interview with CBS17 TV in Raleigh that he thinks Putin is “evil”...

New York/Abu Dhabi (CNN Business)The oil market has been stretched incredibly thin, with few producers willing — or able — to replace Russian barrels banned by the United States and shunned by others. Enter the United Arab Emirates, which suggested it may be coming to the rescue. The UAE's ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba, told CNN Wednesday that the country wants to increase oil production and will encourage the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel to ramp up supply. Otaiba's comments sent oil prices dropping like a rock Wednesday. US oil fell 12% to less than $109...

As COVID restrictions end around the country, and Democratic politicians pretend that something about the science has changed instead of their poll numbers being in the dirt, Americans must first demand: apologies.Here, I’ll even go first. I spent much of 2020 and 2021 writing again and again arguing for the opening of schools throughout the country. But in March 2020, I was one of the leading voices urging schools to close.It made no sense to me that my husband had stopped going into the office because of the mysterious new virus but my children continued to go to school. People...