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The doctor is in. In the lead, that is.According to a new Fox News poll, Dr. Mehmet Oz has now taken a slight lead in the U.S. Senate Republican primary in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Oz currently has 22% support, while opponents David McCormick and Kathy Barnette are close on his heels, with 20% and 19% respectively.Former president Donald Trump endorsed Oz early last month, and that endorsement seems to be the difference-maker so far. McCormick had a nine point lead back in March, but he now trails Oz by two points. Though McCormick sought Trump’s endorsement, Trump called him...

Explanation: Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, published over 100 years ago, predicted the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. And that's what gives these distant galaxies such a whimsical appearance, seen through the looking glass of X-ray and optical image data from the Chandra and Hubble space telescopes. Nicknamed the Cheshire Cat galaxy group, the group's two large elliptical galaxies are suggestively framed by arcs. The arcs are optical images of distant background galaxies lensed by the foreground group's total distribution of gravitational mass. Of course, that gravitational mass is dominated by dark matter. The two large elliptical "eye" galaxies represent...

...Mr. Manchin, No. U.S. Senate BLOCKS Abortion Rights Bill, 49-51.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District is considering plans to hire “water cops” for the first time in its history to write tickets of up to $500 for people who are wasting water. Meanwhile, the state water board has scheduled a May 24 vote to require local agencies to increase conservation, including a ban on watering lawns with potable water at office parks and industrial sites. The lack of conservation is becoming a growing political embarrassment for Newsom, whose call for 15% conservation so far has been voluntary. During California’s last drought, from 2012 to 2016, former Gov. Jerry Brown...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Several prominent conservative groups are getting involved in Pennsylvania’s race for U.S. Senate and backing candidate Kathy Barnette as an alternative to Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump. The anti-tax Club for Growth endorsed Barnette on Wednesday and has begun airing TV ads on her behalf. That follows the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List’s decision on Tuesday to back Barnette over Oz. “Kathy is a courageous advocate for life who exposes the human cost of abortion,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony List, said in a statement. It’s...

After months of a bruising television ad war between Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick and their allies, the relatively shoestring campaign of Kathy Barnette, a conservative commentator showing surprising strength in the polls, will receive a late boost in the Republican primary for Senate in Pennsylvania. The Club for Growth, the pro-business and anti-tax group, began booking television ads on Tuesday on behalf of Ms. Barnette worth $2 million, according to AdImpact, the ad-tracking firm. The new ad has Ms. Barnette narrating her impoverished upbringing on “a pig farm in Alabama” and saying how “this country allowed a little...

But he said his crews complained about coming across needles, drug paraphernalia, feces and were concerned about theft. “You don’t know what’s going to happen,” Cirbo said. In a recent email to a downtown customer, Cirbo wrote, “We made a decision as a company not to do any work downtown almost two years (ago). The technicians were tired of stepping over needles, human feces, vans getting broken into, etc.”

I’ve never considered myself a particularly anxious mother. Maybe that’s why I have five kids. I’ve always understood that life happens, mistakes will be made, things can get messy, and you have to go with the flow. But now I’m faced with the possibility of not being able to feed my infant, and that makes me nervous. In case you haven’t heard the news, there is a baby formula shortage in America. In my wildest dreams, I never could have imagined that parents would be scrambling to find sustenance for their babies in the year 2022 in the United States.But...

Ukraine has driven Russian troops back to their own border near Kharkiv and now threatens supply lines into Donbas as Putin's army suffers another humiliating loss. Commanders said late Tuesday they had recaptured four small towns to the north of Ukraine's second-largest city, with reports overnight suggesting they had pushed to within three miles of the Russian border. If confirmed, it would put the city of Vovchans'k - a key supply hub linking Russia's Belgorod to its frontlines in Donbas - within artillery range, threatening to cut supply lines and hamper Putin's efforts to take the region. Meanwhile, Ukraine's gas...

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For a human, one of the first signs someone is getting old is the inability to remember little things; maybe they misplace their keys, or get lost on an oft-taken route. For a laboratory mouse, it’s forgetting that when bright lights and a high-pitched buzz flood your cage, an electric zap to the foot quickly follows. But researchers at Stanford University discovered that if you transfuse cerebrospinal fluid from a young mouse into an old one, it will recover its former powers of recall and freeze in anticipation. They also identified a protein in that cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, that...

Stocks fell on Wednesday, dialing back earlier gains as investors continued to digest the latest U.S. inflation data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 326.63 points to 31,834.11, or 1.02%. The S&P 500 slipped 1.65% to 3,935.18, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 3.18% to close at 11,364.24.

Roberts’ overtly political actions aren’t preserving the image of the court in the eyes of the American people; they’re destroying it.A majority of U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) justices allegedly still maintain that the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which federally legalized abortion in the United States, is unconstitutional. According to a Saturday report from The Washington Post, “as of last week, the majority of five justices to strike Roe remains intact, according to three conservatives close to the court.”Published in Politico last week, the leaked February draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito makes clear that Roe “must be...

Ukraine has proposed to Russia that badly injured defenders in the Azovstal plant in the port of Mariupol be swapped for Russian prisoners of war...

The Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm Alvaro Bedoya for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – a person who has condemned Breitbart News, called Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) a “swamp dweller,” and called for an advertiser boycott of Fox News Channel. The Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Bedoya, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. The Senate vote had been delayed after some Democrat senators contracted the coronavirus.

Just after noon on Tuesday, a passenger flying in a single-engine plane about 20 miles east of Boca Raton, Fla., radioed air-traffic control.“I’ve got a serious situation here. My pilot has gone incoherent,” the man said, adding from about 9,000 feet up that he had “no idea how to fly the airplane.”The passenger, who did not identify himself in the exchange archived on LiveATC.net, told the control tower that he was not sure where he was — only that he could “see the coast of Florida in front of me.”From a tower in Fort Pierce, about 75 miles north of...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

Dr. Oz is a Republican like Brian Stelter, who is a potato, is a Chippendales dancer. Let’s review his track record, with a special thanks to conservative muckraker Jack Posobiec, who has done great work gathering the receipts. Dr. Oz is a fan of gun control and adores red flag laws. Dr. Oz parroted the racist trash spewed by Black Lives Matter, instead of expressing the proper position that this crew of communist scumbags is total garbage. He also tolerates the mommy Munchausens behind the kiddie trans madness. Oh, and he’s squishy on abortion (go to 24:50). So, in what...

As the former CEO of the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, McCormick boasted about his company’s inclusiveness, which extended to full paid coverage for gender transition surgery and earned a perfect score as an LGBTQ-friendly workplace. McCormick also wrote at length about Bridgewater’s diversity and inclusion programs more broadly, which he took credit for spearheading and nurturing. Bridgewater’s website, which lists “the ability to be who you are” as one of its three “core values,” also showcased its diversity and inclusion programs, including transgender affirming groups. A dedicated diversity and inclusion team reported “directly to CEO David...

Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette was not always in favor of now former President Donald Trump. In a series of tweets and other comments during the 2016 GOP presidential primary, Barnette — who was a fan of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — repeatedly ripped into Trump. After a debate in September 2015, for instance, Barnette said Trump “was horrid.” She also said in another September 26, 2015, tweet that Trump would be “good 4 beers & barbecue.” “BUT, not as President,” Barnette said of Trump, adding that “WE r so morally bankrupt” for even considering Trump. Barnette also...