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Britain is set to face yet another rail strike later this month which could throw a spanner in the works for passengers hoping to attend some major sporting events. Rail workers announced a strike set to begin on July 27 and July 30 over pay and working conditions, which comes hot on the heels of the biggest rail strike the UK has seen in decades last month. The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said Network Rail, the owner of most of the rail network in the UK, made an offer of a 4% increase in pay...

RNC launches program to prepare future voters for naturalization test in order to legally obtain US citizenship as a record number of illegal immigrants continue to surge at the border The Republican National Committee is launching the new 10-hour four-course Republican Civics Initiative training course in Doral, Florida on Thursday Goal is to help permanent legal residents – and future potential voters – with the civics part of the naturalization test Course launch comes after footage emerged Wednesday showing a huge mob of hundreds of migrants lined up crossing the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas Nearly 26,000 migrants were...

Expect JWST to release more information faster than its predecessor telescopes.Our tiny corner of the cosmos has just gotten bigger, brighter, and bolder, and it’s all thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NASA just dropped some of the most high-definition images of the universe ever taken. Although the telescope began science operations merely six months ago, its first batch—including five neighboring galaxies called Stephan’s Quintet and the Carina Nebula, a gaseous expanse where stars are born—are among the most stunning celestial pictures yet made. Inspiring wonder in space-lovers around the world is harder than it looks. A lot...

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“Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?” (Proverbs 15:11).

There are likely more sharks in New York waters today.“And that’s a good thing,” said Christopher Paparo, manager of Stony Brook University’s Marine Sciences Center. Sharks are increasing because they’re hunting smaller fish like bunker, Paparo said in a statement provided to The Post. The population of bunkers and other fish has rebounded after they dwindled decades ago due to overfishing and pollution, he added. SNIP But experts believe sand tiger sharks are the likely aggressors.

It wasn’t until Dave Coulier listened to the entirety of ex Alanis Morissette’s album “Jagged Little Pill” in 1995 that he realized he may have “really hurt” the singer. On Tuesday’s episode of SiriusXM Faction Talk, the “Full House” star says he was driving in Detroit when he first heard Morissette’s vengeful heartbreak classic “You Oughta Know” — which has long been rumored to be about him — on the radio. The comedian, now 62, was really enjoying the song before he recognized the singer’s famous voice and thought to himself, “Ooh, oh no! Oh, I can’t be this guy!”

Eric Weinberg, a Hollywood producer who worked as a co-executive producer on hit shows such as “Scrubs” and” Californication,” was arrested in Los Angeles on alleged sexual crimes committed over the past decade, police said. Weinberg was picked up by cops at his home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles around noon on Friday for a number of sexual assaults he’s accused of committing in LA between 2012 and 2019, the Los Angeles Police Department announced on Thursday. According to police, the producer and writer would prey on women in their 20s and 30s in “grocery stores, coffee...

Protesters gathered outside of a Child vaccination center near Times Square in New York City on July 6. They were completely stunned by what they saw. “Don’t touch the kids! Don’t touch the kids! Don’t touch the kids!” the protesters shouted. After a police officer entered the premises, a journalist followed him in and documented that the clinic was almost entirely run by Chinese workers. “Don’t touch my phone,” the journalist said. “You’re not allowed to do that. So don’t touch my phone, please. Don’t touch my phone. You cannot. No, you cannot.” Who's your favorite former President?* The journalist...

A government watchdog accused the U.S. Secret Service of erasing texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after his office requested them as part of an inquiry into the U.S. Capitol attack, according to a letter sent to lawmakers this week. Joseph V. Cuffari, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, wrote to the leaders of the House and Senate Homeland Security committees indicating that the text messages have vanished and that efforts to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack were being hindered. “The Department notified us that many U.S. Secret Service (USSS) text messages, from...

Ivana Trump,who died in her New York City home Thursday at the age of 73, was arguably one of the most famous divorcees in the world, thanks to her messy split in the early 1990s from a flashy real estate tycoon named Donald Trump. A cameo in the 1996 divorce caper The First Wives Club demonstrated Ivana's status as a champion of women whose marriages have passed the expiration date. "Don't get mad, get everything," Ivana, playing herself, proudly tells the film's main characters.

In a move its own Diversity Curriculum Committee has heralded as “unprecedented,” Northern Arizona University will soon mandate students take four diversity, equity and inclusion courses grounded in “critical theory” to earn a degree. The new grad requirement is scheduled to take effect in 2024 at the large public university, located in the progressive city of Flagstaff and enrolling some 29,000 students. The four diversity courses must come from the categories of “global diversity,” “indigenous peoples,” “intersectional identities,” and “U.S. ethnic diversity,” according to an internal memo from campus administrators. The 12 credits of diversity requirements were approved in October...

@asholiver NEW: @HouseJudiciary Democrats are expected to hold a markup next week to move legislation to ban “assault weapons”

@PamHemphill79 I’m heading to the prison! Just know your prayers and support is keeping me going emotionally and spiritually! Love you guys dearly!

The mother of a 10-year-old rape victim told Telemundo on Thursday that her daughter is “fine,” suggesting that the media are lying about her daughter’s alleged rapist, 27-year-old Gerson Fuentes. Fuentes was arrested and charged with first-degree rape on Tuesday after allegedly confessing to raping the Ohio minor, who reportedly became pregnant and obtained an abortion out-of-state. “Everything they are saying against him is a lie,” a woman claiming to be the victim’s mother said, according to translated reporting from Telemundo. The reporter was at the home of Fuentes when the victim’s mother answered the door. She did not give...

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 1651 pages of records from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealing an FBI "inquiry" into the NIH's controversial bat coronavirus grant tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also show National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials were concerned about "gain-of-function" research in China's Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016. [Long read and a bit tedious - however, Judicial Watch is definately assembling a document case from NIH and Fauci to the Wuhan Lab]

A group of prominent conservatives released a new report Thursday outlining their investigation into the 2020 election and have concluded former President Trump's claims of a stolen election are unfounded. The report, "LOST NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election," was put together by three former federal judges and eight conservative leaders who investigated Trump's claims. Over the course of a year, the group looked at all 64 cases of the Trump campaign's fraudulent claims in six key states and concluded that there were no substantial instances of fraud that would have...

The loss of the male sex chromosome as many men age causes the heart muscle to scar and can lead to deadly heart failure, new research shows. The finding may help explain why men die, on average, several years younger than women. Kenneth Walsh, Ph.D., says the new discovery suggests that men who suffer Y chromosome loss—estimated to include 40% of 70-year-olds—may particularly benefit from an existing drug that targets dangerous tissue scarring. The drug, he suspects, may help counteract the harmful effects of the chromosome loss—effects that may manifest not just in the heart but in other parts of...

Anthony Fauci said that Americans should still wear masks in an indoor setting. Fauci's comments came while discussing the BA.5 variant, calling it something that we "absolutely need to take seriously." "The CDC makes it very clear, depending upon the density of infection, the dynamics of infection, in the place where you live," Fauci said on CNN. "And you see, if you look at the map, where just a couple months of ago, it was a lot of green and some yellow, now we're seeing a fair amount of orange, which means you really should, in an indoor setting, a...