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... Semiconductor manufacturing involves hundreds of carefully formulated, highly-purified chemicals, gases and materials. Together, they account for about 20% of total chip manufacturing costs, industry executives estimate. But this part of the $40 billion chipmaking supply chain -- including wafers, chemicals, gas to materials that are indispensable to building chips -- has long been overlooked, as the prices of these chemicals and materials tended to be stable and their availability reliable. All that changed after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine and a sudden boom in demand for chips for applications like 5G connectivity and electric vehicles,...

VIDEO https://www.facebook.com/arsen.avakov.1/videos/5069131156534111 ROUGH TRANSLATION FROM THE RUSSIAN: The reality and truth of three months of military aggression against Ukraine🇺🇦: CONS: - 20% of the territory of Ukraine is occupied; ⁃ huge losses among the civilian population; ⁃ military losses; ⁃ A number of cities were completely destroyed, many settlements suffered from bombing; ⁃ Infrastructure destroyed; ⁃ the economy is paralyzed; ⁃ The enemy we are beating still hangs over us with its 140 million people. PROS: + Ukraine from the first days provides the most brutal resistance, which surprises the whole world; + We have won many victories of valor...

WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at curbing discrimination against transgender youth and drying up federal funding for the controversial practice of "conversion therapy." Biden's executive order asks the federal health and education departments to expand access to gender-affirming medical care and find new ways to counter a flurry of bills passed in U.S. states by conservative lawmakers this year that ban these treatments for transgender youth.

The price of bitcoin fell 9% in 24 hours to $19,217 according to Coin Metrics data...Crypto investors are grappling with aggressive interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve and a worsening liquidity crunch. [Half an hour ago, BTC was at $19,040]

There is an old spiritual that says, “My God is so high you can’t get over Him. He’s so low you can’t get under Him. He’s so wide you can’t get around Him. You must come in, by and through the Lamb.”It’s not a bad way of saying that God is “other.” He is beyond what human words can describe, beyond what human thoughts can conjure. On the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity we do well to remember that we are pondering a mystery that cannot fit in our minds.A mystery, though, is not something wholly unknown. In the...

A common question arising around the time of Trinity Sunday is rooted in this passage from John’s Gospel:If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I (Jn 14:28). This is somewhat puzzling because we are taught that each Divine Person of the Blessed Trinity fully possesses the nature of God and is equally to be adored and glorified. What, then, did Jesus mean when He said, “the Father is greater than I”?The most common (and correct) answer is that in this passage Jesus was speaking in reference...

June 18th 2022 Saturday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Child Jesus Catholic Church, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First reading2 Chronicles 24:17-25 ©'You have deserted the Lord: now he deserts you'After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came to pay court to the king, and the king now turned to them for advice. The Judaeans abandoned the Temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, for the worship of sacred poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger fell on Judah and Jerusalem. He sent them prophets to bring them back to...

Israel-Iran Shadow War on Verge of Exploding Into the Open By Sri Lanka Guardian •June 10, 2022 •Espionage feature World View •Comments : 0 Iran removing UN monitoring cameras, poised to move troops into Syria by Jonathan Broder On the evening of May 31 in the central Iranian city of Yazd, an Iranian aerospace engineer was returning home from dinner with a colleague when he suddenly felt ill and collapsed into unconsciousness. Ayub Entezari was rushed to hospital, where he died after several unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate him, according to an Iranian opposition media outlet. The cause of Entezari’s death:...

A quiet sunny summer's day in the suburbs became the setting for the dramatic climax of a police chase this past Wednesday afternoon. A video, which came via a Ring doorbell camera, shows a black SUV turning a corner and then flipping over twice as it hurtles to the front yard of a home in Rochester, New York. Multiple police vehicles speed toward the crashed vehicle with sirens blaring. Shortly after the police show up, two suspects emerge simultaneously from the car, breaking through the shattered windscreen, before trying to flee the scene. According to a statement from the Rochester...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska’s first all mail-in election is drawing criticism for an abnormally high number of ballots that have been rejected by the Division of Elections. A majority of the rejected ballots are coming from rural Alaska. Ballots for the special primary election to fill the late Rep. Don Young’s seat had to be postmarked by June 11, but election officials are still counting incoming ballots. Data released Friday, June 17, shows several areas with unusually high rejection rates. In House District 38 which includes the city of Bethel and communities along the Kuskokwim River, 374 of the...

“A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly” (Proverbs 18:6-8).

Jane's Revenge, a terrorist group responsible for firebombing dozens of pro-life pregnancy centers, announced "the expiration of our 30 days of mercy toward these enemies of women's rights to terminate their unwanted offspring. We gave you a respite from attack so you could shutdown your false efforts to persuade women that you offer a humane alternative to abortion. That's a lie. Abortion is the only humane alternative. Bringing more children into the world only exposes them to pain. The crushing burden of unneeded lives endangers the survival of the planet. We promise to take increasingly drastic measures against the oppressive...

NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will jointly release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a live broadcast on July 12 at 10:40 AM EDT.The trio of space agencies plans to release the images one by one and the broadcast will serve to kick off the scientific operations of the largest and most powerful space telescope the world has ever launched.The photos will not be available to anyone prior to the live unveiling, allowing the entire world to enjoy the photos together unspoiled.Live coverage of the image release...

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A Massachusetts man who plowed his car into a Trump merchandise store on Thursday blamed the "voices" in his head for doing it, an employee at the store told FOX Business. FOX Business spoke with Karla Kelley, an employee of New England for Trump, a store that sells merchandise supporting the 45th president. Kelley told FOX Business that there was no altercation or provocation that happened to make the man drive "off of the street and into the building" in his Volkswagen Jetta. When asked if the driver said anything after the crash, Kelley recalled that the only thing he...

Former President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on his former vice president on Friday, dismissing Mike Pence as a 'human conveyor belt' for failing to reject what he said were fraudulent votes in the 2020 election. It came at the end of a week that revealed more evidence of the way he and his allies tried and failed to persuade Pence to overturn the result. The House January 6 committee released testimony of a White House official saying that Trump called Pence a 'wimp.'

Vice President Kamala Harris has argued that there is no conflict between religious faith and support for national protections for abortion, as the Supreme Court is poised to issue a major ruling that could curtail abortion rights. Harris, a practicing Baptist from a multi-faith family background, told reporters on Friday that she had 'convened faith leaders' to discuss the abortion issue from a religious perspective. 'For those of us of faith, I think that we agree, many of us, that there's nothing about this issue that will require anyone to abandon their faith, or change their faith,' she said, referring...

A high school teacher has been fired from her job after she let female students take topless photos for an art project. Emma Wright, 41, was working as an art teacher at Huxlow Science College in Northamptonshire, England, back in 2017 when the classroom photoshoot took place.

You really can’t predict these kinds of things. There are some major changes coming to CNN, and a major Trump supporter is to thank.CNN has fallen on hard times as of late.That same month Chris Cuomo was terminated from his position as a CNN host after an investigation found he had supported his brother Andrew through a sexual misconduct scandal.Early in May, Chris Licht was named the president of CNN. Licht has hinted that he would move CNN away from opinion-led shows that have dominated the network in recent years.In a memo on his first day, Licht said that the...