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Credit: University of Manchester Some say King Arthur slayed a giant there. Others say he knelt in prayer and his knee print indentations are forever etched into the stone. But archaeologists are setting out to find out just how big the structure is and what really happened at Arthur's Stone, a 5,000-year-old, Neolithic chambered tomb in Herefordshire, England, near the border of Wales. On July 1, a team of researchers began excavating the site, said Julian Thomas, an archaeology professor at the University of Manchester who is leading the project. They'll be on site for the next four weeks, Thomas...

A petition demanding the demolition of a statue of Russian Empress Catherine the Great to be replaced with a statue honoring gay U.S. porn star Billy Herrington has acquired enough signatures to ensure that it must be considered by President Volodymyr Zelensky. As of the publication of this report, the petition, which comes months into Russia's war in Ukraine, had 25,786 signatures. It is required by law that any petition surpassing 25,000 signatures must be considered by the president of Ukraine. The petition must be considered within 10 days of reaching the required number of signatures. The petition, started on...

The man charged with the rape of a 10-year-old girl in Ohio is a Guatemalan illegal immigrant, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) source told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. The Columbus Dispatch first reported that Gerson Fuentes was arrested after police said he confessed to raping a child on multiple occasions. He has been charged with rape, and the outlet reported that he was possibly in the country illegally.

DW News published this video item, entitled “Ukraine war: Is Russian defeat nothing but a ‘fantasy’? | DW News” – below is their description. Is the Ukrainian military now ready to strike back against the Russians? Five months into this war and the momentum appears to be with Russian forces. Less than two weeks ago they captured half of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region – and attacks on the other half have increased ever since. Ukraine has vowed not to cede another inch of territory to Russia. At the same time Ukraine appears to be preparing to launch an offensive in...

PROVIDENCE, RI — According to the results of a new study conducted by Brown University, exactly 100% of work meetings ever held in all of human history, across all industries and sectors, have been entirely unnecessary. Researchers followed careful criteria while observing real-life business meetings to understand what constitutes a successful meeting. Successful meetings, they said, would qualify as a valid use of time. Researchers took detailed notes on employee engagement, follow through on meeting action plans, and whether or not meetings were actually about something. In all meetings observed, none met the criteria of a successful meeting and were...

Gov. Pritzker's political grandstanding after Highland Park July 4 massacre is another example of "fakequity" in Illinois. Pritzker's obvious political pandering made headlines, but given his track record, it isn't likely his hubris produces any significant reduction in mass shootings — or any shootings for that matter. During his first term, Pritzker has regularly shouted of injustice and inequity while failing to deliver on promises, particularly in poor minority enclaves. During the interview, Pritzker also claimed to "have been to and spent time with the communities and families that have been affected on the South Side, West Side of Chicago."...

Fox 29 anchor Mike Jerrick asked the burning question, "The screaming question is, why are people stealing them?" Berarado says the value of each French Bulldog may be motivation for theft as they range in price from $5,000 to $10,000. In 2021, singer and actress, Lady Gaga was a victim of two of her French Bulldogs being stolen.

A woman is desperately trying to get her French bulldog back after thieves snatched her puppy from a San Jose parking lot. The incident occurred Saturday around 7 p.m. at the Target off North First Street. Quinnesha Powell said she brought her dog into the store while she shopped and thieves grabbed her puppy after she had put it back in her car. “I see someone peering into the front window and then I see them open the door and take my dog out of my car,” said Powell. She said that after two men wearing black ski masks took...

UC leaders and the California Secretary of State signed a joint resolution today (June 29) pledging to work together ahead of November’s general election to boost civic engagement and facilitate voting by ensuring that UC has ballot drop boxes or voting centers on all 10 of its campuses. ... Among other things, the joint resolution calls on each UC campus to establish a point person who will work with their respective county election officials to ensure students and the public are aware of drop box and voting center locations on UC campuses, along with other voting options ahead of the...

Despite recently passing laws to protect parental rights and prevent the sexualization of young children, some Florida schools are still carrying pornographic books. This was so concerning to one parent that he attended a school board meeting to discuss the matter. When addressing the issue and attempting to read a passage from one of these books, Florida school board members cut off the father's microphone and have yet to properly remedy the situation..... The Florida board members attempted to excuse this act by claiming that since the meeting was being broadcast, reading such content would violate federal and state laws,...

VIDEO AT LINK................... | It’s getting worse, folks. Much worse. How embarrassing that the leader of the free world is addled and confused. Watch below as the president disembarked Air Force One in Israel and appeared to be completely out of it.. Upon arriving in Israel, Biden jokes to a female servicemember: "I'm not going with you VIDEO AT LINK....................

This is the first volume of Thomas Jefferson's public and private writings edited and compiled by his oldest grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph and published three years after the president's death. There are a total of four volumes in Randolph's set. Summary by Joel Kindrick.

Yet again, Republican members of the U.S. Senate pitched in to deliver a victory for President Joe Biden and Democrats on Tuesday by helping their across-the-aisle colleagues confirm the president's pick for ATF director. The U.S. Senate is more of a mess than usual this week as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is out with COVID, as is Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). Sen. Patrick Leahy is still recovering from a fall that necessitated a hip replacement for the 82-year old Democrat from Vermont. The three sidelined Democrats showed how precarious the majority for Biden's party has become. The tight math...

Can libertarians be of the Left? Many would laugh at such a question. After all, libertarianism tends to be a fervently pro-free market ideology. But all ideologies have their shades of grey. With libertarianism being no exception to the trend. The left libertarian tradition is one that champions equality and social justice under the framework of a free-market economy. The leftist libertarian political economy stresses a separation of economy and state while championing mutual ownership of resources in a voluntary manner.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reveals the potential consequences of the Green New Deal if implemented on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight. TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: Imagine you went to school with Sandy Cortez. A lot of people did. Imagine it's 2011, and you're both students at Boston University, a not quite prestigious, but highly expensive school for kids who couldn't get into Tufts. You know who Sandy Cortez is because three days a week at 12:20, you see her and your philosophy of gender and sexuality class. She's always there in the front row, snapping her gum and then, like clockwork,...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday, hours before he was due to step down after a people’s uprising over a devastating economic crisis ended his family’s grip on the island nation.Later in the day, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared a state of emergency and a curfew with immediate effect as several hundred people demanding his resignation surrounded his office in Colombo. Police officers fired several rounds of tear gas and a military helicopter briefly circled overhead, but the protesters appeared undeterred.

Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 11:25–27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, we see Jesus praying to his Father. We are being given a share in the inner life of God, the conversation between the first two Trinitarian persons. And what are the “things” that have been concealed from the learned and revealed to the little ones? Nothing other than the mystery of the inner life of God. Now why, precisely, is this knowledge concealed from the learned and disclosed to children? The clue is in the next statement:What is the essence of the divine life? It is a play of...

Former President Donald Trump continued his attacks against billionaire Elon Musk from his platform Truth Social on Tuesday, saying he’d be “worthless” without government subsidies. Recalling the billionaire’s visit to the White House during his presidency, Trump said that Musk wanted government subsidies for many of his projects that offered big promises without delivering many rewards. Trump said: When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless,...

NEW YORK (AP) — Soaring demand for the monkeypox vaccine caused the appointment system to crash in New York City, one of many places where supplies have been running out almost as soon as they arrive. City health officials acknowledged the frustration over the limited supply of the vaccine and vowed to build a “stable appointment infrastructure” as the vaccine supply increases. Infections now exceed 1,000 from the growing outbreak in the U.S. “After COVID, this should have been easy,” said Daniel Ross, 25, a Harlem man who was one of the many who sought to make an appointment Tuesday....

Senator Josh Hawley is “transphobic” and made gender dysphoric individuals vulnerable to abuse because he asked if men could get pregnant, according to one professor. Professor Khiara Bridges, who teaches law at the University of California Berkeley, made the accusation on Tuesday during a Senate hearing about abortion. “You’ve referred to ‘people with a capacity for pregnancy,’ would that be women?” the Missouri Republican asked. “Many women, cis women, have the capacity for pregnancy, many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy,” Professor Bridges said on Tuesday. “Cis” refers to “cisgender,” which means people “whose gender identity corresponds...