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A Philadelphia man is facing a long road to recovery after his wife says he was robbed and badly beaten by a group of teenagers while he was walking to a concert.

VIDEOLife really does imitate art!!! One of the funniest SCTV skits ever was "Play It Again, Bob" in which Woody Allen tries to convince Bob Hope to be directed by him. It was funny because it seemed to be highly unlikely. Or at least it seemed to be unlikely until Woody Allen himself confirmed it during his Instagram interview with Alec Baldwin. Oh, and Woody Allen also expressed a desire to have directed Jerry Lewis. If the SCTV writers had pitched the latter scenario, the producers would have probably nixed it since they already went out on the limb with...

Artist's illustration of VY Canis Majoris. (NASA, ESA, Roberta Humphreys (UMN), Joseph Olmsted (STScI)) Three-dimensional models of astronomical objects can be ridiculously complex. They can range from black holes that light doesn't even escape to the literal size of the Universe and everything in between. But not every object has received the attention needed to develop a complete model of it, but we can officially add another highly complex model to our lists. Astronomers at the University of Arizona have developed a model of VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant that is quite possibly the largest star in the Milky...

Democrats need a strong voice ready to fight to restore women’s rights, now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade. There’s only one Hillary Clinton. Right-wingers on the Supreme Court rescinding the constitutional right to abortion “is incredibly dangerous and it is not just about a woman’s right to choose. It is about much more than that,” Clinton told CBS News back in May, when a draft version of Friday’s decision emerged. “Any American who says, ‘Look, I’m not a woman, this doesn’t affect me. I’m not Black, that doesn’t affect me. I’m not gay, that doesn’t...

Headlines are flying online about Kari Lake “destroying Brett Baier” or “taking down Brett Baier” or “owning Brett Baier” in her latest interview.I don’t generally like to use those kind of headlines because I feel like they get overused and overhyped way too much.But every once in a while a story comes along that deserves them.This is that story.Kari Lake truly is incredible.Look, I love DeSantis and Noem and Reynolds and a lot of other great Freedom Fighters out there, but Kari Lake has a cold, hard strength that I haven’t seen since Donald Trump himself.And she’s also fearless just...

The stock market rally may be very close to being over. There have been a number of repeatable patterns taking place in the market this year. The dollar is surging again and is likely to see stocks lower as a result. The bear market rally may be ending as stocks get ready to dump again. The patterns in the market seem to be on a repeat cycle from a technical and fundamental standpoint. The recent move lower in rates may have only been temporary, and now that they are on the rise, it may lead to the dollar breaking out....

After a warning from the head of three power companies, France’s government has announced that it will restart a coal-fired plant this winter. The announcement that the Saint-Avold will be brought back online comes shortly after the heads of three major energy companies in France warned that the general public must “immediately” cut back on energy use to better enable officials to better handle energy insecurity. According to broadcaster RTL, officials have said that the coal-fired plant is being brought back into service “a precaution, given the Ukrainian situation”. Le Figaro meanwhile notes officials as saying that they will be...

The remains of motorcycle which was reportedly targeted in a drone attack on the eastern edge of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, early on June 28, 2022. The U.S. military said it carried out a "kinetic strike" targeting a leader of the Hurras al-Din jihadist group, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, in the Syrian province of Idlib. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images U.S. forces killed a senior terrorist leader in an airstrike in Syria on Monday, according to military officials. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the target of the strike, Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, was a senior leader of an al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist...

The Russians attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with six missiles, and a railway infrastructure and an industrial enterprise were destroyed in the regional center. This was announced by the chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Valentin Reznichenko, informs censor.No. "Massive enemy attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region. Six rockets!!! Our military shot down three missiles - over the Dnieper and Sinelnikovsky district. In Dnipro, due to "Arrivals", the railway infrastructure and an industrial enterprise were destroyed. The service company is on fire, " Reznichenko said.

Update (1100ET): The Russian Foreign Ministry has responded to Lithuania’s partial blockade of Kaliningrad, writing in a statement that they consider the “provocative measures” to be “openly hostile” and warning that the Kremlin may take action to “protect its national interests.”Kaliningrad is sandwiched between the EU and NATO members Poland and Lithuania. Supplies from Russia are delivered via rail and gas pipelines through Lithuania – which announced last week that it was banning the rail transit of goods subject to EU sanctions, which include coal, advanced technology, metals and construction materials.“If in the near future cargo transit between the Kaliningrad...

A historic church in West Virginia was destroyed in what may have been arson, and neighbors are deeply disturbed. The St. Colman Catholic Church had already been destroyed by the time crews with the Beaver Volunteer Fire Department made it to the scene early Sunday. “At this time the fire is considered suspicious in nature and is being investigated as arson,” the department said. The church was listed in the National Archives Catalog, and the website said it was originally built in 1877 to 1878 as a hewn log structure. “This is still evident in the hand hewn sills and...

Joe Biden is at the G7 Summit. Soundbites of the world leaders mocking Russia were picked up. With the Supreme Court news about Roe v. Wade being overturned and gun rights expanded, the Left is in meltdown mode. So, this devastating update probably got lost in the ether. Biden’s energy plan is toast. It got blown up. It shows Biden being outmaneuvered by our allies. The way it was done also shows that Europe knows this presidency needs to be pushed along—a lot. It was the clearest sign of the weakness exhibited by Biden. The gross incompetence is pervasive. Within...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over his opinion that the court should reconsider past rulings on contraception and same-sex marriage. Clinton, who went to law school with Thomas, told CBS’s “Mornings” in an interview that aired on Tuesday that the justice had “been a person of grievance for as long” as she had known him. She warned with the overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that “women are going to die.” “[Thomas] may be on his own, but he is signaling, as he often did, you know — I went...

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, shock jock Howard Stern said it may be time for him to run for president and revealed several things on his political checklist.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre rejected criticism from Republicans that the Biden administration is to blame for the human smuggling attempt that ended in tragedy Monday in Texas, saying that the border is “closed.” At least 46 people are dead after an 18-wheeler smuggling migrants was found in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday night. It’s one of the deadliest smuggling incidents from the U.S.-Mexico border in recent decades, according to the Associated Press. “The fact of the matter is, the border is closed, which is in part why you see people trying to make this dangerous journey using smuggling...

Amazon employees upset over the recent decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade asked the company for “space and time” to “grieve” and “protest against this assault on our rights,” according to a leaked letter. The petition was reportedly signed by hundreds of employees at the Seattle-based retail giant, according to Insider. A copy of the petition was posted online by the Twitter account “Libs of TikTok.” The letter also demands that Amazon “cease operations in states that enact laws that threaten the lives and liberty of abortion seekers, either by denying healthcare in life threatening circumstances...

Short (6m33sec) video describing what cosmologists think the very early universe was like and how the Webb will let them see it.

The virus that causes COVID-19 undertakes a massive takeover of the body's fat-processing system, creating cellular storehouses of fat that empower the virus to hijack the body's molecular machinery and cause disease. After scientists discovered the important role of fat for SARS-CoV-2, they used weight-loss drugs and other fat-targeting compounds to try to stop the virus in cell culture. Cut off from its fatty fuel, the virus stopped replicating within 48 hours. The team embarked on the study based on observations that people with a high body-mass index and conditions like cardiovascular disease and diabetes are more sensitive to the...

Ernst & Young, one of the top accounting firms in the world, is being fined $100 million by federal regulators after admitting its employees cheated on their ethics exams. For years, the firm's auditors had cheated to pass key exams that are needed for certified public accountant licenses, the Securities and Exchange Commission found. Ernst & Young also had internal reports about the cheating but didn't disclose the wrongdoing to regulators during the investigation. "It's simply outrageous that the very professionals responsible for catching cheating by clients cheated on ethics exams of all things," Gurbir S. Grewal, director of the...

The Metropolitan Police has been placed in special measures following a series of scandals. The HM Inspectorate of Police announced that it had decided to place the force under "additional scrutiny and support" after a series of criticisms of its performance. The rare move follows a series of scandals including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer, offensive messages exchanged by a team at Charing Cross and the strip-search of a teenage girl at school while she was menstruating. Last week the independent watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Complaints (IOPC) reopened its inquiry into the Met's failure...