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Here's what to watch for.Film fans everywhere were shocked by the recent death of actor Ray Liotta, who reportedly died in his sleep on May 26 at the age of 67. This comes a few months after comedian Bob Saget, 65, died from a head injury while he was sleeping. While passing away during sleep seems peaceful and preferable to many, when it happens to people in their 60s (relatively young these days), it can seem scary. Although we don't know Liotta's cause of death, experts say 90% of sudden, unexpected deaths at night are caused by cardiac arrest. Here's...

Happy 3334th anniversary (Sunday) of G-d speaking to the Jewish people on Mt Sinai, and giving humanity the Ten Commandments. Now you know why there are so many Jewish CPAs....They just never stop counting.

911 dispatcher fired after allegedly hanging up on store employee during Buffalo shooting call The dispatcher shouted at an assistant office manager at Tops Friendly Market, asked why she was whispering and hung up, the employee said. The 911 dispatcher accused of hanging up on an employee calling for help during the supermarket shooting that killed 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, last month has been fired, officials said. The assistant office manager at Tops Friendly Market called 911 when a white gunman, 18, stormed the store on May 14 and opened fire.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is in mourning this week following the news that one of their own had lost their life at such a young age. Men’s lacrosse player Aidan Kaminska, who is just 19-years-old, has passed away. According to Kathy Reakes of Suffolk Daily Voice, Kaminska “died suddenly” on Monday at his family’s house. The cause of death is unknown. “The Massachusetts athletics department extends condolences to Aidan’s family, friends, teammates, and coaches,” the university said in a statement. “University resources are available for members of the UMass community to utilize during this challenging time.” In 2022, Kaminska...

I love to visit the desert southwest region, so I am fairly familiar with water issues in that part of the country. Two large reservoirs on the Colorado River, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are both critically short of water after many years of high usage, mostly by the urban areas of southern Nevada from Lake Mead. As Lake Mead drops, water from Lake Powell is allowed to drain out at a relatively high rate, which also drains Lake Powell. Both are now fifty to sixty feet below their design (and former) levels, leaving a nasty "bathtub ring" of bleached...

A 61-year-old man has been charged with felony hate crimes after he allegedly both physically and verbally assaulted a female employee outside a phone store in Cupertino. Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced that a variety of charges have been filed against Clifford Stewart in the June 1st incident. Stewart faces assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, hate crimes, vandalism and threat against a police officer charges at his arraignment Friday afternoon. Authorities said Stewart removed a T-Mobile sign from the walkway leading to the store located on Stevens Creek Boulevard and tossed it into...

CISA has released an Industrial Controls Systems Advisory (ICSA) detailing vulnerabilities affecting versions of the Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X, which is an in-person voting system used to allow voters to mark their ballot. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities would require physical access to individual ImageCast X devices, access to the Election Management System (EMS), or the ability to modify files before they are uploaded to ImageCast X devices. Jurisdictions can prevent and/or detect the exploitation of these vulnerabilities by diligently applying the mitigations recommended in ICSA-22-154A, including technical, physical, and operational controls that limit unauthorized access or manipulation...

A woman was arrested on May 28 after she attacked a Starbucks customer and directed racial epithets towards a store manager, the Mountain View Police Department announced in a press release on Thursday. Daixin Neill Quan, 33, was arrested suspicion of misdemeanor battery and committing a hate crime. Mayor London Breed to march in SF Pride Parade Officers responded to a Starbucks on San Antonio Road. According to interviews with the victim and witnesses, Quan attacked a customer after noting that the customer spoke with an accent. Quan also went after a Starbucks manager, telling him to “go back to...

The unusual event unfolded last week at Temkin's Bar in Greenpoint, where video shows a crowd of horrified patrons looking on as Anchorage native Sarah Fulton picks up the possum. Inside the bar, pandemonium erupted as patrons jumped up from their tables screaming to escape the unexpected vermin. 'I mean everybody just lost their minds, we couldn't believe it was happening,' bartender Rachel Bessemer told the NBC affiliate. 'I grabbed my phone, didn't know who to call, I was like, 'this is not what people do.'' Fulton, who grew up in the Alaskan wilds but now lives in New York,...

A week has gone by but the stadium "fiasco" remains a hot issue in France, with new and harrowing accounts about the breakdown in law and order when the match had come to an end.

Explanation: With this creative astro-collaboration you can follow the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy as it bridges northern and southern hemisphere skies. To construct the expansive composite nightscape, skies over Observatorio El Sauce in Chile (top) were imaged on the same date but 6 hours later than the skies over the Saint-Veran observatory in the French Alps. The 6 hour time-lag allowed Earth's rotation to align the Milky Way above domes at the two sites. All exposures were made with similar cameras and lenses mounted on simple tripods. A faint greenish airglow is visible in the dark Chilean sky...

The great sin in what happened in Texas is that an 18-year-old with murder in his heart walked into a public school and shot to death 19 kids and two teachers. The great shock is what the police did—their incompetence on the scene and apparent lies afterward. This aspect has rocked the American people. Uvalde wasn’t an “apparent law-enforcement failure.” It is the biggest law-enforcement scandal since George Floyd, and therefore one of the biggest in U.S. history. Children, some already shot, some not, were trapped in adjoining classrooms. As many as 19 cops were gathered in the hall just...

Both of America's first two monkeypox patients had first experienced symptoms of the virus on May 4 In the coming days, cases started to appear around Europe, spurring officials to eventually test for the virus in mid-May Officials report that all but one U.S. case are among people who either had traveled internationally or were a close contact of another patient All but one case, in Northern Virginia, is among a man who has sex with other menTwo men that eventually became America's first two monkeypox cases had sought out treatment for rashes and warts multiple times before doctors finally...

Over the last two weeks, the United States has had three high-profile mass shootings, Buffalo, NY; Uvalde, TX; and Tulsa, OK. So naturally, the gun-grabbers are on the attack, and most Republican politicians are running like scalded dogs from any defense of the Second Amendment and the God-given right of free men and free women to own and carry the means to preserve their lives and the lives of others.There are reports that a bipartisan group of ten senators is working to come up with a gun-control package that will get 60 votes in the Senate. The Democrat contribution to...

The FBI on Friday arrested Trump’s advisor Dr. Peter Navarro at a DC-area airport. Navarro was on his way to Nashville when the Stasi took him into custody in a surprise ambush. According to media reports, Navarro told the judge that he doesn’t need a lawyer because he wants to represent himself. CNN reported: A federal grand jury has indicted former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate in the House January 6 committee’s investigation. During a court appearance in Washington, DC, on Friday, Navarro said that he still wants to represent...

For the first time in 18 years, five planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — will be sequentially aligned and visible at dawn throughout this month. Those watching from the continental United States should be able to catch a look, as long as they're up early enough, Diana Hannikainen, Sky & Telescope's Observing Editor, told NPR. The five-planet alignment isn't "incredibly rare," Hannikainen said. These planets were last lined up in sequential order in 2004, and it's set to happen again in 2040. "But it's rare enough that if we get the opportunity to step outside in the...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The cardiologist for John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania who is recovering from a stroke, disclosed Friday that the candidate also has cardiomyopathy, in which the heart muscle becomes weakened and enlarged. The acknowledgment was the first public comment by a doctor for Fetterman since the candidate first took to social media on May 15 to disclose the stroke. In a statement released through the campaign, Fetterman’s cardiologist, Dr. Ramesh Chandra, said Fetterman will be fine if he eats healthy foods, takes prescribed medication and exercises. Cardiomyopathy can impede blood flow and potentially...

SANTA FE — President Joe Biden plans to visit Santa Fe next weekend for a briefing on the wildfires ripping through New Mexico — one of which has grown to 317,000 acres, an area larger than Los Angeles. The president is set to meet June 11 with state officials, first responders and families affected by the fires, according to the White House. It will be Biden’s first visit to New Mexico as president and the state’s first presidential visit since September 2019, when Donald Trump held a rally in Rio Rancho. Biden next week will visit the state Emergency Operation...

Five planets will be visible in the predawn sky this weekend, offering an opportunity for sky watchers to see a rare alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with the naked eye. Beginning Friday and lasting through this month, the five planets will appear strung across the eastern horizon before sunrise. The parade of planets will be aligned in order of their distance from the sun, with Mercury, closest to the star, appearing lowest on the horizon and Saturn highest in the night sky. For the best views, sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere should head outside roughly 30...

A retired NYPD cop was arrested by US Capitol Police on Friday after he was apprehended with a fake badge, a BB gun, body armor, high-capacity magazines and other ammunition near the Capitol building. Jerome Felipe, 53, of Flint, Mich., was arrested on the west side of the Capitol complex after officers searched his vehicle and discovered the paraphernalia, Capitol Police said in a press release. Ahead of the search, Felipe allegedly told officers he was a criminal investigator with the “Department of the INTERPOL” and handed them a fake badge that listed the agency’s name. Inside the vehicle, officers...