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Two British men sentenced to death by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine will not be publicly executed, authorities in the region have said.Aiden Aslin, 28, from Nottinghamshire, Shaun Pinner, 48, from Bedfordshire, were charged with being foreign mercenaries having been captured in the southern city of Mariupol in April....Now, authorities in Donetsk have said their captives will be executed by firing squad, and preparations have been made for the sentence to be carried out.

He's tired of conservatives criticizing California and rolling back rights. And he's irked that his own national party isn't fighting harder in the culture war.If they won't, he said, he will. He pushed back in a recent television ad in Florida. In an interview Monday. And in a speech in Washington, D.C., Wednesday as he accepted an education award on behalf of the state he governs — while stoking speculation about his possible presidential ambitions."This is someone very proud of the state, that's sick and tired of the state getting bashed 24/7 by the right wing," Newsom told The Times...

Brittney Griner, wearing a Nirvana T-shirt, was back in court Friday, where the WNBA star's attorney told the judge BG, who's being tried on a drug charge, was prescribed cannabis for medical use ... the same substance she was caught carrying. Griner's lawyer, Maria Blagovolina, told the court on Friday, "The attending physician gave Brittney recommendations for the use of medical cannabis." "The permission was issued on behalf of the Arizona Department of Health," she added. Blagovolina also submitted tests to the court ... showing 31-year-old Griner underwent testing to ensure she complied with anti-doping regulations, and the results revealed...

The European Union is fighting to slash its carbon emissions by 55% by 2030, a goal requiring radical policies that will destroy farmers.For weeks there have been protests by farmers in the Netherlands against their left-wing government’s Great Reset policies, the EU’s “Green Deal,” and the associated forced closure of farms. Their government’s radical ‘climate change’ measures aim to slash emissions in some provinces by 95%. That would mean the end for about 30 percent of the farmers.The Dutch government has recently announced new policies which limit the number of cattle that farmers can legally own. The radical measures are...

A pulsar with its jets and magnetic fields (NASA) ====================================================================== Far out in the Milky Way, roughly 22,000 light years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic force that beats anything physicists have ever seen. At a whopping 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar called Swift J0243.6+6124 smashes the previous records of around 1 billion Tesla, discovered surrounding the pulsars GRO J1008-57 and 1A 0535+262. For a bit of context, your average novelty fridge magnet comes in at around 0.001 Tesla. The more powerful MRI machines manage to hit around 3 Tesla. A few years ago, engineers...

The company has launched a variety of subscription-based services in South Korea. North America has so far been spared Some BMW owners will now have to pay US$18 per month for the added luxury of heated seats. The company has launched a variety of subscription-based services in South Korea, Fortune reported. Other add-on features include US$10 per month for a heated steering wheel and a US$8 monthly charge for a driver safety feature. Each monthly feature is available at a discounted rate if drivers opt for a multi-year commitment. Micro-transactions appear to be garnering popularity among auto manufacturers — although...

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfVePZrecJcBurglars realized they chose the wrong home when they were confronted by an armed homeowner who just happened to be a US veteran. Clayton County, Georgia – A man told Fox 5 Atlanta that he wanted to protect his wife and home after he saw three burglars on his front lawn on his Ring camera. Whitfield Smith said he saw one of the burglars trying to break into his BMW parked in his driveway so he grabbed his rifle and ran outside in his pajamas and flip-flops. “My first thought was to protect my house and protect my...

How low will consumer sentiment (and Biden’s approval ratings) go? This is Biden’s limbo rock. One measure of how bad things are in the US for the middle-class and low-wager workers ix consumer sentiment from University of Michigan. The latest University of Michigan survey of consumers remains depressed at 51.1. The consumer sentiment index was at 80.7 at the beginning of 2021, but has plunged dramatically with rising gasoline, food and inflation in general. Biden’s popularity has sunk from 55.8 in January 2021 to 38.1 today. How about housing sentiment? Housing sentiment was 134.0 in January 2021 but has plunged...

A former teacher from the Texas Panhandle is charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a student. On Thursday, Kaylyn Paige Miller, 30, turned herself in. At 9:40 a.m., she was lodged in the Hutchison County Jail. Miller was accused of having an “improper interaction between educator and pupil,” according to jail documents. After posting a $50,000 bond she was released. Miller taught math at West Texas Middle School in Stinnett. She resigned on January 6, according to Plemons-Stinnett-Phillips CISD. Miller may receive two to 20 years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000 if found guilty.

Center for Disease Control reported Thursday that Tulsa County is at a high-risk level for COVID-19 transmission. Tulsa currently has 236.05 cases per 100,000 people, according to the CDC. Until the next booster vaccine is developed, Dr. Holden recommends wearing an N95 or KN95 mask when traveling and in areas with heavy foot traffic. BA.5 lingers in the air longer, he said, so places where many people constantly come and go are potential hotspots. Not only did Dr. Holden reiterate that masks work, but he stressed that COVID vaccines are both safe and effective. It may seem like they were...

Washington, DC, police officer has corroborated to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, details regarding a heated exchange former President Donald Trump had with his Secret Service detail when he was told he could not go to the US Capitol after his rally... The officer with the Metropolitan Police Department was in the motorcade with the Secret Service for Trump on January 6 and recounted what was seen to committee investigators, according to the source. A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment. A spokesperson for Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately respond to comment. The description of...

Fertility rates are plummeting across the developed world. Doom and gloom over climate change dominates the discourse in advanced economies. Pro-choice activists have shifted their stated stance from “safe, legal and rare” to “it’s a birthing person’s choice” even at full term. Proabortion activists paint their faces red and scream “I love killing babies.” Teachers instruct kindergarteners about their own peculiar sexualities as well-funded international organizations remake pedagogy in the image of “Drag Queen Story Hour.” The signs of evil are everywhere. But many of us, overwhelmed by the scope of the situation, struggle to make sense of just what...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is again smashing the Democrats’ spending plans. He should just become a Republican at this point, right? He won’t. One of the last true moderate-to-conservative Democrats in Congress told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that he’s against any new spending package that increases taxes or has climate change provisions. That’s the ball game, folks. It’s a 50-50 Senate. Manchin’s opposition kills any chance of a massive spending package sailing through before the midterms. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has also been a terror regarding her party’s agenda. She’s also one that’s just as independent-minded as Manchin and...

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz gave a bleak summary of the reasons why the company was shutting down 16 stores, and he specifically blamed local governments for their lack of law enforcement and treatment for mental illness. The comments were made at an internal meeting and leaked to the public. Schultz said that the stores were not unprofitable but that they were shut down because of safety concerns among the employees. “It has shocked me that one of the primary concerns that our retail partners have is their own personal safety,” he said on the leaked video. “America has become unsafe.”...

Today’s assault on intellectual excellence in the academy will eventually end. Hopefully, an investigation will then commence on its causes, and all the usual suspects will be rounded up. This tribunal will, however, likely ignore one key culprit: ordinary faculty—people like me—who complained about the assault, all while enthusiastically aiding it. Yes, some criticized the Diversity and Inclusion obsession and condemned identity politics. But, out of sight and on the sly, we contributed to the university’s intellectual decline. We made this disaster worse than what even the “woke” mob accomplished. The adage “no good deed goes unpunished” captures this culpability....

In the Marvel film "Avengers: Infinity War," Thanos, a super-being from another planet, is seeking six gems – the Infinity Stones – to put into the Infinity Gauntlet, a weapon which, when completed, enables the one who wears it to extinguish half of all life in the universe with just a snap of his fingers. Thanos is cast as a super-villain, but he thinks of himself as an altruist. He explains to another Marvel character, Dr. Steven Strange, that he witnessed the destruction of his own planet, Titan, and that his motives for using the Infinity Gauntlet are purely beneficent:...

The Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan 6, 2021, that were requested by officials investigating the breach of the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general's office said in a report this week.

We give you the ten best Linux distro(s) for beginners, which can be the perfect starting point and help you to pick the best of the lot. IntroductionIf you are manifesting joining the Linux clan and thinking about it, it’s time. It’s time to ditch Windows for good and save some money by doing so. Also, keep your sanity from monthly Windows updates that are gigabytes in size, save on your internet bill, save precious time watching a dumb blue screen (like below) and so on. The blessing of ditching the Windows list is pretty long.And you are in a...

Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Matthew 12:1–8 Friends, again and again in the Gospels, Jesus is portrayed as violating the sacred command to rest on the seventh day. For example, he often cures on the Sabbath, much to the dismay of the protectors of Jewish law. And then in today’s Gospel, after his disciples pick grain on the Sabbath, Jesus declares himself "Lord of the Sabbath." It’s hard to express how breathtaking this claim would be for a first-century Jew to make. Yahweh alone could be assigned the title "Lord of the Sabbath," so what...

California state Sen. Scott Wiener sounded off on the federal government’s failure to procure an adequate supply of monkeypox vaccine and warned that San Francisco is heading toward a “public health mess of uncontrolled monkeypox spread.” In a statement on Wednesday, the progressive Democrat said the San Francisco Department of Public Health is running critically low and the San Francisco General Hospital vaccine clinic is being temporarily suspended. This comes as monkeypox infections are on the rise in the city, jumping from six cases as of June 16 to a total of 80 cases as of July 14.