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In April 2014, four naval aviators narrowly escaped disaster. Just as they entered highly controlled airspace for a training exercise, their two F/A-18F fighter jets nearly collided with an unidentified flying object (UFO). To the frustration of dozens of their fellow aviators, such a near-catastrophe was inevitable. For months before and after the incident, aircrews flying in “exclusive use” training areas off the U.S. East Coast frequently observed unknown objects exhibiting highly anomalous flight characteristics. Despite the collision hazard posed by the UFOs, aviators lacked a formal mechanism to report the mysterious objects.

With Luhansk Province firmly in Russia’s grasp after weeks of brutal fighting, the country’s military forces on Tuesday were already setting their sights on the next target. On the outskirts of Bakhmut, a key supply hub for Ukrainian forces, the Russian Army was ramping up its shelling as an apparent prelude for an inch-by-inch offensive into the province of Donetsk. In Sloviansk, one of the cities in Donetsk that lies in Russia’s path, the mayor, Vadym Lyakh, urged residents on Tuesday to flee the city, which he said was now on the front lines. “Artillery is already hitting the city,”...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to discuss a 2018 voicemail from President Biden that was recovered from a laptop that belonged to his son Hunter — further undermining Biden’s claim that he never discussed foreign business deals with his son. “Why is there a voicemail of the president talking to his son about his overseas business dealings if the president has said he’s never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings?” Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing Tuesday. “Well, first I’ll say that what the president said stands. So if he...

The mysterious thing is not that people are having fewer kids. It’s that they’re still having as many as they are. Numbers first. In late January the Office for National Statistics noted, in an “ooh that’s interesting” kind of a way, that in 2020, for the first time, half of women in England and Wales remained childless by their 30th birthday. In economy in which wages barely rise, a huge pile of debt if they’re a graduate and a housing market in which the only way to attain secure housing is to buy but the only way of buying is...

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Supreme Court June 30 rejected a challenge to New York’s vaccine mandate for health care workers with no religious exemption. By denying the appeal, the justices left a lower court ruling in place that rejected the health care workers’ claim that the COVID-19 vaccine mandate violates a constitutional prohibition against religious discrimination. The justices did not explain why they chose not to take up this case, but the dissenters, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, did. A dissent written by Thomas, and joined by Alito and Gorsuch, said: “The New York mandate includes a...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 1, 2022 / 12:58 pm New York’s attorney general office sent Google a letter Tuesday requesting that the company remove pro-life pregnancy centers from search results for abortion services. “A search through Google Maps seeking ‘abortion’ and a location will provide a local listing of both those health care providers who offer abortion services and organizations that do not provide abortion care,” wrote Darsana Srinivasan, chief of the health care bureau in the attorney general's office. Nearly 3,000 U.S. pregnancy centers provide “​​essential medical, education and support services” to millions every year at little to no...

Pennsylvania Republican Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz called on Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney to resign Tuesday, after the mayor publicly said he couldn't wait for his term to end, given the recent rash of gun violence. "I'm waiting for something bad to happen all the time," Kenney said during an impromptu press conference Monday night, after two Philadelphia police officers had been shot during a Fourth of July fireworks celebration. "I'll be happy when I'm not mayor, and I can enjoy some stuff." That prompted Oz to say that Kenney should step down immediately. "Mayor Kenney should resign from office,"...

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In his recent meeting with top officials and clergymen of the Russian South, Patriarch Kirill praised the achievements of that region. - You are far ahead of many other regions. - His Holiness said. - I want to say again: not only because of the warm climate and wonderful living conditions here, but also because a very strong Orthodox tradition has been preserved here. God grant that our spiritual strength will not wane, that there will be no fear, no sense of uncertainty in our historical development... This requires from our people a very strong unity, a consolidation of all...

Republican governor tells citizens to work to protect human life at all stages.JACKSON, Mississippi (LifeSiteNews) – Governor Tate Reeves signed a proclamation on Tuesday that declared June 2022 “Sanctity of Life Month” in Mississippi. The resolution notes that the state’s 15-week abortion ban led to the ultimately successful reversal of Roe v. Wade on June 24. Reeves wrote in the proclamation that the state “must now turn to the work ahead.” The state must “take every step to support mothers and children through policies of compassion, to ensure every baby has a forever family that loves and cherishes them, and...

Others former Trump legal advisers subpoenas including Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro An Atlanta-area grand jury investigating former President Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia has subpoenaed several members of the former president's inner circle, including former attorney Rudy Giuliani and South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings. Others former Trump legal advisers subpoenas including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchell and Kenneth Chesebro. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is leading the probe, according to CNN. Several state officials have already been subpoenaed and have appeared before the special grand jury....

(SNIP) Searchers recovered the bodies of Molly Cheng and her three children, ages 3, 4 and 5, from Vadnais Lake on Friday and Saturday. Authorities had said earlier the deaths were being investigated as a triple murder-suicide. The Ramsey County Sheriff´s Department said Tuesday that Cheng called police on Friday morning and said her husband, Yee Lee, had fatally shot himself. That afternoon, one of Cheng´s relatives called police to say she planned to kill her children and herself, the department said, resulting in a welfare check that eventually tracked Cheng's cell phone to the lake.The Ramsey County medical examiner...

The slain victims of Monday’s Highland Park parade massacre include a married couple in their 30s who left behind a 2-year-old son – who’d been found under his dead father during the mayhem. Irina McCarthy, 35, and her husband Kevin McCarthy, 37, were at the parade with their toddler Aiden when a gunman disguised in women’s clothing opened fire on the Fourth of July celebration, turning the typically joyous event into a blood-soaked nightmare, officials said. The couple were among seven innocent people shot dead during the mayhem. Their son was discovered under the body of his mortally wounded father...

Rhode Island Democrat state senator Tiara Mack twerked upside down in a thong bikini in her latest campaign video posted to TikTok. The Democrat state lawmaker asked for votes as she twerked upside down at the beach on the Fourth of July. “Vote Senator Mack!” the Democrat said after twerking on the sand in her TikTok video captioned, “a promised senator thirst trap at Block Island.” The state lawmaker also sponsored a bill for teaching kids “queer inclusive, pleasure-based sex ed.” As expected, Tiara Mack received major backlash for her vulgar TikTok video. “Say what you will about repub/dem supporting...

The Pelosis may want to skip the wine tasting this time. A little more than a month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul was busted for DUI in California — leaving him facing jail time — the multi-millionaire couple was spotted at a ritzy resort on the Italian seaside owned by legendary tenor Andrea Bocelli. The Post exclusively obtained photos of the couple — Nancy dressed in all white with Paul clad in dark-colored shorts and shirt — hanging with Bocelli, his wife Veronica Berti, and others at the Alpemare Beach Club. The California Democrat was also pictured in...

"Warning shots were fired and targeted shots were fired" A Social Media Message From Dutch Police Tonight Two incidents of police shooting at farmers protesting climate change cow gas rules tonight in Holland. They happened at exit and entrance ramps to the major freeways that run through the town of Heerenveen (A7 and A32). Police apparently trying to stop farmers from moving onto the major highways... Police made arrests tonight in Heerenveen as well. This video shows police pointing a pistol into the cab of a tractor... The second shooting incident late tonight at the A32 exit in Heerenveen is...

Fat, weak and slow is no way to become a cop — or is it? The NYPD dramatically relaxed the fitness requirements to become a city cop amid a record wave of retirements that has the brass desperate for warm bodies to fill the ranks, The Post has learned The department replaced a faux 6-foot wall inside the Police Academy gym with a chain-link fence that’s easier to climb, according to official recruiting videos posted online. The move came after a cellphone was used last year to record a series of out-of-shape, wannabe cops laughably trying — and failing —...

Here it is, the Declaration of Local State Of Disaster by Kinney County. “The County Judge of Kinney County, TX, has determined that extraordinary measures must be taken to ensure the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of county residents”

During a Monday airing of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan vehemently shut down the possibility of interviewing the 45th President of the United States. I am not a Trump supporter, in any way, shape or form,' Rogan, 54, said. 'I have had the opportunity to have him on my show, more than once, and I have said no every time.' The controversial podcaster weighed in on the devastatingly polarized political spectrum in America and said he was not interested in giving Trump a platform because the former president is an 'existential threat to democracy itself.' 'It is already a weird...

On Monday, the country recorded that imports outstripped exports for more than 30 years. Its entire economy has been built around creating an industrial machine that dominates global markets. That machine is now grinding to a halt. Exports unexpectedly fell, while imports surged as the cost of energy spiked. Until recently it was racking up surpluses of 8 or 9 per cent of GDP, or €20 billion a month, the biggest in the world. The German economy is based on selling high-end industrial goods to the rest of the world. Unlike many other countries, it doesn’t have huge service industries...