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Explanation: Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint but well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. This sharp, colorful image reveals the galaxy's boxy, bulging central core cut by obscuring dust lanes that lace NGC 4565's thin galactic plane. NGC 4565 itself lies about 40 million light-years distant and spans some 100,000 light-years. Easily spotted with small telescopes, sky enthusiasts consider NGC 4565 to be a prominent celestial masterpiece Messier missed.

Tech executive Rodney Joffe fed the Alfa Bank hoax to the FBI via two distinct routes, testimony from yesterday’s proceedings in the Michael Sussmann criminal case indicates. This apparent circular reporting further cements Special Counsel John Durham’s Section 1001 false statement case against Sussmann by highlighting the significance of Sussmann’s alleged lie to former FBI General Counsel James Baker. Sussmann, who is in the middle of week two of his trial in a D.C. federal court, was charged last fall in a one-count indictment with lying to Baker when he provided Baker two flash drives and several “white papers” purporting...

Just 10 days after a deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, where a self-described fascist and white supremacist killed 10 Black people in a supermarket, the US must content itself with another horrifying episode of gun violence. At least 19 children between the ages of five and 11 and two adults have been murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, after an 18-year-old entered the school with a handgun and opened fire. It’s one of those events where words fail. Every descriptor seems to fall short in describing the wrenching, sickening, icy horror of children being gunned down...

Sadness, of course. Who could not feel heartbroken when looking at the scenes from Robb Elementary School? Horror, obviously, that this could happen at a primary school in the middle of the day, the most vulnerable mown down in broad daylight, 90 miles west of San Antonio, with at least one of their teachers. Others are injured, who knows who badly. But then comes the exasperation, the weary helplessness, and – in truth – the sheer anger. How can this be happening once again in America? How can another community become irrevocably torn apart by such senseless violence, barely a...

The suspected gunman who slaughtered 19 students and two teachers Tuesday at a Texas elementary school fired shots outside the school for 12 minutes before entering, an official said. Eighteen-year-old Salvador Ramos spent approximately 12 minutes outside of Robb Elementary School firing shots before he walked into the school and barricaded himself in a classroom, Regional Director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, Victor Escalon, said Thursday, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Escalon was unable to provide any answers Thursday as to why no one stopped Ramos from entering the school, the WSJ reported. *** State authorities,...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Thursday on her show “Deadline” that the laws in the United States “are so broken” because it is harder to buy allergy medicine than it is to buy guns. Wallace said, “I can’t buy two Sudafed. I have a lot of allergies in my house. I can’t buy two packages of Sudafed. I couldn’t adopt a dog from the ASPCA without a home visit. The laws are so broken. Why isn’t the argument made it is harder to buy allergy medicine and decongestant and adopt a puppy than it is to arm yourself with a...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday gave the greenlight to bipartisan talks on legislation to curb gun violence, revealing that he has asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of his advisers, to negotiate with Democrats. McConnell said he is hopeful of reaching a bipartisan agreement to respond to the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. But the leader cautioned the negotiations should not veer off onto proposals not directly related to the recent violence in Texas that left 21 people dead, including 19 school children. “I met with Sen. Cornyn this morning,” he told a...

Herschel Walker, former NFL player and Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, is going viral for his nonsensical solution to mass shootings. In an interview with Fox News during coverage of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas where 19 children and two adults were shot dead, Walker proposed a “department that can look at young men that's looking at women that's looking at social media.” It is unclear what Walker meant by the statement. Walker was most likely referring to a conversation the shooter had with a woman on Instagram where he flaunted his guns and claimed he “had a secret”...

The pain of losing a spouse is pretty incomparable, and it can be particularly harrowing when the surviving spouse is now suddenly a single parent. Most couples don’t ever expect to raise their kids without their partner, but the reality is sometimes life has different plans. One mom sadly lost her husband just a few months after their youngest of four turned 7-months-old. While nothing can fill the void of a lost partner and parent, the mom swears that there are signs that he is always around, and she even feels her little boy can see him. Honestly, the video...

In 2016, Australia's kangaroo court Family Law System stripped me of my democratic rights to protect a politician from the horrible danger of me lobbying her for WW2 commemoration. Subsequently Cardinal George Pell was jailed because of ludicrous allegations made by one person who might have been paid to lie by Pell's enemies in the Vatican. At the time, Pell was working to clean up Vatican finances. Now I am told by one source close to Ingram Spencer that he is a political prisoner. He was running for election to parliament in a potential swing seat in the recent Federal...

Fourth Bishop Bans Nancy Pelosi From Receiving Communion Because She Promotes AbortionA fourth Catholic bishop has banned Nancy Pelosi from receiving communion. Bishop Michael Burbidge says Pelosi can’t receive communion in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia because she’s radically pro-abortion.Bishop Burbidge has extended the communion ban that Pelosi’s home bishop in San Franciso put in place late last week saying it now applies to her if and when she visits any Catholic church one the Virginia side of the nation’s capital.Burbidge said he respects the decision San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone made to deny communion to Pelosi because of her...

You've read the newsflash with a sickening knot in your stomach. There has been another school shooting in the US. Then comes the detail. This time, it's a primary school - 14 children and a teacher are dead, then it's updated to 19 children and two teachers. Inevitably, it soon also becomes clear the killer himself is barely out of Childhood, an 18-year-old loner whose birthday present to himself was two automatic rifles and 300 rounds of ammunition. Most gruesomely of all - and apologies in advance, but there's no nice way to say this - the police are seeking...

Israel would not give permission to Germany to transfer Spike anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, to which he was refused and informed that Israel would supply Ukraine with only non-lethal military equipment. Israel is concerned that Russian soldiers will be killed by Israeli-made weapons, which could lead to Russia harming Israeli security interests in Syria where it has enormous influence.

Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom criticized Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) on Wednesday after the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. At a news conference on Wednesday, Abbott discussed the shooting and said that the shooter “has to have evil in his heart.” He also spoke about the mental health problems of many people in Texas while saying that those in power should try to improve safety at schools and mental health resources. He specifically pointed to California when discussing gun legislation. “There are ‘real’ gun laws in Chicago. There are ‘real’ gun laws in New...

VALDE, Texas — The school lockdowns across Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday didn’t strike many students as anything odd. In this small border town, they’re common as suspects try to evade authorities in high speed chases. “We just thought it was a normal Tuesday,” Victoria Phillips, a 17-year-old senior at Uvalde Classical Academy, told BuzzFeed News. Of course, it wasn’t. The reason for the lockdowns quickly became clear: an 18-year-old gunman had entered Robb Elementary in Uvalde, where he ended up fatally shooting 19 students and two adults. The town’s mayor, Don McLaughlin, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson just days...

In the 1960-70s, every geology textbook was rewritten, as the previous verities were DESTROYED! Alfred Wegner (1880-1930) was, posthumously, proven correct, in the face of the academia that scoffed at him. What was needed, was the mechanism, that the technology of WW2 provided.

Fox News Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to the politicization of the Texas school shooting in Ulvade, reflects on mental illness and stopping violence in America. #FoxNews #Tucker

Senior Obama administration officials engaged in a secret meeting with Iran in 2018 as part of an effort to undermine the Trump administration's diplomatic push to isolate the hardline regime, according to an internal State Department document. As the Trump administration worked to increase economic pressure on Iran in 2018, a delegation of "U.S. former ambassadors," including John Kerry, held a secret, "off-the-record" meeting with former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif at his residence in New York City, according to a State Department memo unearthed this week as part of a lawsuit brought to compel the release of this information....

From various sources read in the past day: Somehow 3 more people surrendered at Azovstal in Mariupol. They seem to think there are up to 50 more people in there. Not fighting but "playing hide and seek", trying to avoid capture. They have found and pulled out 300 bodies so far. From memory of postings I read, sorry no sourcing so I'll post to chat.

Biden’s Secretary of State Tony Blinken shared today that the US does not support Taiwan’s independence from China. The Daily Mail reported: Sec. of State Antony Blinken issued a stark warning Thursday morning that the threat of China will ‘test U.S. diplomacy like nothing we’ve ever seen before’ – but insisted America does not want another Cold War and does not support Taiwan independence. ..... Snip...... Blinken laid out the Biden administration’s policy towards China after the president raised eyebrows by saying the U.S. would get involved ‘militarily’ if there was an invasion of Taiwan. Blinken has a very suspect...