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This advisory identifies 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. The ImageCast X can be configured to allow a voter to produce a paper record or to record votes electronically. While these vulnerabilities present risks that should be mitigated as soon as possible, CISA has no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in any elections. 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...

National Simp Day – June 3, 2022 United StatesNational Simp Day is celebrated on June 3 every year. It is an important day that aims to break the stigma currently surrounding the term ‘simp.’ For instance, many men are called ‘simps’ when they show sympathy towards another person. The term is derogatory since it implies that the man wants to sleep with a particular woman. Women, on the other hand, are called ‘simps’ when they go all out for a man and their love is not reciprocated. The different meanings it holds based on gender are misogynistic and end up...

Republicans continue to lead Democrats and gain momentum on the generic congressional ballot in the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, after a slight dip last week following a recent school shooting in Texas and the gun rights battle. As the Republicans look to retake control of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections only 158 days away, the most recent Rasmussen Reports survey showed the GOP expanded the lead by two points after a slight three-point dip from last week.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Rep. Chris Jacobs has announced he will not seek another term in Congress, after the Republican faced rising backlash from the right following his announcement last week that he would support new gun control measures. “It would be an incredibly divisive election for both the Republican Party and the people of the 23rd District,” Jacobs said Friday afternoon at a press conference in Buffalo. “The last thing we need is an incredibly negative half-truth filled media attack funded by millions of dollars of special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns and gun...

How did these silicic magmas form on the moon, when silicic volcanoes on Earth typically form in the presence of both water and plate tectonics? The Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) investigation consists of a suite of five instruments, two of which will be mounted on a stationary lander and three mounted on a mobile rover to be provided as a service by the CLPS vendor. Over the course of 10 Earth days (one lunar day), Lunar-VISE will explore the summit of one of the Gruithuisen Domes. These domes are suspected to have been formed by a sticky...

President Biden on Friday blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for economic woes as US gas and diesel prices hit records per gallon — and as high inflation, rising interest rates and fear of a recession weigh on Democrats ahead of the November midterm elections. “The two challenges on the minds of most working families are prices at the pump and prices at the grocery store. Both of these challenges have been directly exacerbated by Putin’s war in Ukraine,” Biden said in remarks near his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

“Casuistry or prudence?”—Article by Archbishop Aguer Argentina’s political and social problems are multiplying and causing concern and anguish; they would provide an argument for a long exposition. However, I prefer to deal with an ecclesiastical issue, which I consider must be clarified in no uncertain terms.In a note published by InfoCatólica, I contrasted the very clear teaching of the New Testament (specifically, the Pauline Letters) about the sure foundation on which the faith is built, with the officially sustained tendencies that discard that foundation as if it were a fearful regression, in the face of developments that have led...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to achieve his goal of “restoring imperial Russia,” having an “almost messianic belief in himself,” The Guardian reported. Clinton spoke Thursday at the Hay Festival, an annual multiday literature and arts event held in the United Kingdom, saying she observed Putin’s attitude toward himself and Russia while she was leading the State Department and he was serving as prime minister of Russia, according to The Guardian.

Five Senate Democrats called on the pension fund managers of 25 major companies to explain the lack diversity in the asset management industry. “Women and people of color are dramatically underrepresented in the field of asset management,” wrote Sens. Bob Menéndez (N.J.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Alex Padilla (Calif.), Tim Kaine (Va.) and John Hickenlooper (Colo.). “Less than 1% of the $70 trillion in global financial assets under management are managed by woman or minority-owned firms. Women and people of color are also extremely underrepresented at the board and senior management levels at asset management firms,” the senators wrote.

A recent Phase 1 clinical trial has administered a dose of an experimental anticancer drug called CF33-hNIS, or Vaxinia, to the study’s first participant. This novel therapy involves using an oncolytic virus, a type of virus that can infect and kill cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. Vaxinia, a genetically modified smallpox virus, has been previously shown to be effective against a broad range of cancers in laboratory and animal models. This clinical trial conducted by City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment institute in the United States, in collaboration with Imugene, a biotech company in Australia, will test...

Police say the driver lost control of the semi-truck and after the truck overturned, the filling spilled out.This truck driver probably didn't relish this situation — an overturned semi-truck spilled 15,000 pounds of hot dog filler onto the roadway in Pennsylvania, according to authorities. According to a police report, the Freightliner was speeding down Interstate 70 in Rostraver when the driver began to lose control. The truck then left the roadway and drove into the soft shoulder. As this happened, the cab of the truck was impaled by several trees, which helped stop the truck. Police say that because of...

In the fall of 2020, I warned repeatedly on social media, TV and in my syndicated column about the Zuckerberg Heist — Silicon Valley’s hijacking of our election system through a private nonprofit called the Center for Tech and Civic Life. CTCL was funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to the tune of $350 million. Election information-rigging Google joined as a top corporate partner, along with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Democracy Fund .... *** Never forget: COVID-19 chicanery provided the cover and pretext for the Zuckerberg Heist. Learn from history, and hone your...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Friday on ABC’s “The View” that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was “a self-important bore.” Co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, “Elon Musk is ordering his employees to get back to work in person and spend at least 40 hours in the office. claims the company would have gone bankrupt if he hadn’t been on the factory line with workers and said anyone who defies the orders can, quote, ‘Pretend to work someplace else.’ Now, just want to point out, he did become the richest person in the world while his employees were working from home....

"The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity." "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:...

Kyle Rittenhouse says Johnny Depp’s victory over ex-wife Amber Heard, in one of the highest-profile defamation cases to go to trial, has inspired him to continue with his own defamation lawsuits....“I have a new announcement coming soon about my defamation cases, keep an eye on Fox News and TMAP [The Media Accountability Project] for more this week. Johnny Depp trial is just fueling me, you can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should!” Rittenhouse tweeted Wednesday.

A fairly new drug is finding its way into the U.S., and law enforcement personnel say it’s 20 times more potent than fentanyl. It’s called ISO, which is short for isotonitazene. The Drug Enforcement Administration says drug dealers are mixing it with other illegal drugs, making them more potent. “It is here. It’s present, and how potent this is — it’s not worth the one time they might use it. It’s not worth that extra high they might get because that could be their only time or their last time,” said Britney Morris, public information officer for the Pasco County...

After the success of Mac & Cheese ice cream, Van Leeuwen has teamed up with another unexpected Kraft brand.New York-based Van Leeuwen Ice Cream has never shied away from attention-grabbing flavors, including everything from a Popeye-themed spinach ice cream to a Kraft Macaroni & Cheese ice cream that tastes like, well, Kraft Mac & Cheese. The latter flavor especially earned both massive media attention and acclaim, eventually grabbing national distribution at Walmart. So Van Leeuwen is dipping into that well again with another unexpected brand-name collaboration: Grey Poupon ice cream Grey Poupon hasn't shied away from unexpected product launches either,...

Below we consider the classic (and oh-so predictable) tactics of debt-soaked nations facing a showdown (corner) between tanking markets and ripping inflation. Ultimately, I see a stagflationary end-game in which both occur, but for the near-term, prepare for more inflation, as it’s the option all debt-soaked sovereigns are eternally forced to take. The Cruelest MonthT.S. Elliot famously described April as the cruelest month, but the recent (and ever-unfolding) events of May seem far crueler. As we have warned from the very onset of this otherwise avoidable war in Ukraine, the backfiring of Western sanctions against Putin (de-dollarization, inflationary tailwinds and...

A mother has been left with a broken nose, two black eyes and a concussion after she stepped in when a gang of teen girls turned up at her home looking to fight her daughter. Michelle Audo, 48, confronted the group of 14-year-olds when they arrived at her house at night in Blue Springs, Missouri, on May 14. They had allegedly been there to attack her 16-year-old girl but she stepped in before they got the chance. Audo revealed how she was repeatedly punched during the assault, suffering a broken nose, two black eyes and a concussion. The brutal onslaught...

An assembly of people gathered in January 1972 in the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles for a service of sorts – though not the ordinary kind. Leading that day's song sermon was "Miss Aretha Franklin," as she was introduced to the audience by the Rev. James Cleveland. Franklin didn't address the crowd herself; instead, she let the first few lines of her rendition of Marvin Gaye's "Wholy Holy" speak for themselves: "People, we’ve got to come together / because we need the strength, the power and all the feeling.” Franklin, then one of the most prominent and...