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US space agency has announced plans to put nuclear reactor on moon by 2030 It is part of a vision to turn Earth's only natural satellite into orbiting fuel station NASA has shortlisted three concepts for 40-kilowatt class fission power system The nuclear reactor is planned to last at least 10 years in the lunar environment NASA has announced plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 as part of a vision to turn the lunar body into an orbiting power station. The US space agency has chosen three design concept proposals for a fission power system...

CAMP BEFORE RICHMOND, Thursday Night, June 19, 1862. I thought yesterday that a light was inevitable to-day. Everything seemed ready for it, and, in point of fact, we escaped it last evening by the skin of our teeth. At about 6 o'clock in the evening a regiment was sent in to the swampy ground below the Williamsburgh Road, to see if it was practicable for artillery. It was a Massachusetts Regiment, under Col. WYMAN, and had with it two pieces of artillery. Three rebel regiments came out to meet it, and quite a sharp engagement followed, which lasted for nearly...

DC police Strategic Response Team is standing by about two blocks away from Supreme Court at nearby exit from Metro this morning.

The Catholic Church is heeding federal law enforcement's warning that a radical group is "calling for extreme violence" against churches nationwide in response to the Supreme Court's expected reversal of abortion rights. An internal document obtained by Newsweek outlines intelligence shared by the Department of Homeland Security with the Catholic Church of a planned "Night of Rage," targeting churches and pregnancy centers over their opposition to abortion rights. The document sheds light on how law enforcement and the church are bracing for backlash after a leaked opinion showed the Supreme Court preparing to rescind federal abortion rights. Labeled an "urgent...

Media coverage of climate change can influence Americans to adopt more accurate beliefs about the environment, but the information doesn't stay with them for long, according to a new report. After reading accurate articles about climate change, Americans may see it more as a problem that impacts them and lean toward supporting the government's climate change policies. "It is not the case that the American public does not respond to scientifically informed reporting when they are exposed to it," said Thomas Wood, one of the study's authors and an associate professor of political science at The Ohio State University. But...

For most of his career, Rodney Davis has been the epitome of a mainstream Republican congressman. In order to continue being a Republican congressman, however, he might have to turn into something else. First elected to Congress in 2012, Davis represented a purple Central Illinois district. He once chaired the Republican Main Street Caucus, a House power base for GOP moderates. And last year, he was one of 35 House Republicans to vote in favor of creating an independent commission to investigate Jan. 6. But when Illinois lost a congressional seat and redrew its district maps last fall, Davis was...

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JPMorgan says the stock market is primed for strong returns in the second half of 2022. Investors should brace for strong returns in the stock market during the second half of 2022 as the US economy avoids a recession , JPMorgan said in a note on Thursday. The bank's confidence stems from its view that the annualized inflation rate will get cut in half in the second half of the year, to 4.2% from 9.4%, which would "allow central banks to pivot and avoid producing an economic downturn," JPMorgan's Marko Kolanovic said. Such a sharp decline could be driven only...

An 'internet rumor' is Biden will order abortions to be allowed on military bases once the ROE-reversal comes out. Would be in those states that outlaw abortion, open for all citizens of those states, and be free of charge. Has anyone seen a 'sourced story' on this topic?

Fifty years ago today, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 was signed into law, prohibiting schools or educational programs that receive federal funding from discriminating against anyone on the basis of sex. In that time, women have made incredible gains in education, which, in turn, have led to incredible gains in labor and employment — perhaps most visibly in sports.

EXCLUSIVE – Oregon teachers at the Errol Hassell Elementary School sent school administrators an email claiming that eye-rolling directed at a principal, among other alleged actions they observed, is an example of a "harmful practice rooted in White supremacy" that is happening in the workplace. The educators from the Beaverton School District said in an email on May 27 that they had become of aware of a "rumor" that Principal Cynthia Lam Moffett was on the chopping block. "We believe that much of the resistance to Principal Moffett’s work… is a result of bias and targeted aggression. As BIPOC educators...

Sorry to have been absent for a bit, but I’m happy to report a full recovery from my recent unpleasant, although not terribly serious, illness. It’s already been a bad week in the Supreme Court for progressive shibboleths. Just today, the key provision of New York’s gun restriction regime — under which the authorities had discretion to deny you a gun permit if they thought the reason you gave for wanting one was not good enough — got struck down under the Second Amendment. For what it’s worth, I’ve long thought that that provision was obviously unconstitutional, and that the...

Kirkland & Ellis tells Paul Clement and a partner to dump their Second Amendment clients. They refuse and resign.A 6-3 victory at the Supreme Court vindicating a constitutional right is usually cause for congratulations, but not these days at Kirkland & Ellis, the giant white-shoe law firm. The firm has rewarded partner Paul Clement for his triumph Thursday in the big New York gun-rights case (see nearby) by telling him to drop his gun clients or leave the firm. As Mr. Clement and his litigation partner, Erin Murphy, explain nearby, they’re leaving the firm rather than dump their clients. That’s...

Joynese Speller was excited to start a new job as a project delivery specialist for a health care company on June 6. As she wrapped up at her old nonprofit job on a Friday, she emailed her new company to confirm her start time on Monday. Hours later, she got another email: The company had some logistics to work out on their end, so Speller would actually start on Tuesday. That slid into Wednesday, and then Thursday. On Friday, Speller got a phone call. Due to budget cuts, the job she hadn’t even started yet was being eliminated. “I was...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, stated that there is a bit of “schizophrenia” in our energy policy where “We’ve been discouraging oil companies from maintaining refineries or opening new ones. Because we theoretically are going to transition away from gasoline.” But the problem is, there was a “misjudgment as to how long of a transition it was going to be and what we needed to do to make the transition work.” Rattner stated that “refining capacity has gone down” due to refineries shutting down...

A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after hitting his head while subway surfing on top of a New York City train Thursday evening, officials say. The boy was believed to have been riding on top of the train car as it entered the station and struck his head on “an unknown object” and suffered “severe head trauma," according to police. He was removed from the top of the train and transported to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition. Earlier this month, a video circulated on social media showing about eight people subway surfing, running and even dancing on top of...

Please define/clarify/discuss the following terms: Conservatism, Liberalism, Paleoconservatism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, Libertarianism, and how they are different from one another and any similarities. Also "Classical", aka "Jeffersonian" Liberalism (Paleoliberalism?) any other isms that are worth consideration in this conversation. Please note that one is not asking for a definition or discussion of any fascist ideologies like Communism, etc.

More than two-thirds of Texas Republican voters approve of Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) job performance, according to a poll released on Thursday, despite heat he has received from former President Trump and others over his involvement in crafting bipartisan gun safety legislation. The new Morning Consult survey, conducted June 11-20, found that 68 percent of registered Republican voters in the state approved of Cornyn’s job performance, the same percentage he received when respondents were last polled between May 14 and May 23. A slightly higher percentage of Texas Republican voters have said they disapprove of the job Cornyn is doing,...

One week after a team of thugs working for Democratic Party activist Stephen Colbert were arrested for illegally entering a Capitol building in order to record themselves stalking Republican congressional leaders, news coverage of the incident has all but disappeared. Neither the U.S. Capitol Police, the arresting agency, nor the Department of Justice has produced any details of the gang’s unauthorized incursion into two Capitol buildings with the blessing of Representative Adam Schiff (R-Calif.) and two other Democratic House members. It appears the Capitol Police chief has not yet responded to a demand by Reps. James Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rodney...

On NOVEMBER 18, 1992, The New York Times printed Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice's statement: "The less we emphasize the Christian religion the further we fall into the abyss of poor character and chaos in the United States of America." Download as PDF ... The original draft of George Washington's Inaugural Address, 1789, included the following: "Should ... those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness (willingness to lay down) or venality (open to bribery) of their constituents, over leap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve...