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Explanation: This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Two years ago this month, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rose before dawn to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before sunrise on July 8th, the featured photographer was able to capture in dramatic fashion one of the few comets visible to the unaided eye this century, an inner-Solar System intruder that has become known as the Great Comet of 2020. The resulting video detailed Comet NEOWISE from Italy rising over the Adriatic Sea. The time-lapse video combines over 240 images taken over 30 minutes. The comet...

U.S. — Thousands upon thousands of fans have come together in celebration that their beloved franchise is finally being adapted into a live-action series. Unfortunately, they all forgot it's the year 2022, and they don't make them how they used to. "Normally, I'd be overjoyed to hear that Rings Of Power was being made into a series, but then I realized it's going to be nothing like Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy from 2 decades ago," said diehard Tolkein fan Wesley Brummette. "Instead, it's going to be created by a woke, soulless corporate boardroom that only cares about their profits."

WASHINGTON (AP) — By one common definition, the U.S. economy is on the cusp of a recession. Yet that definition isn’t the one that counts. On Thursday, when the government estimates the gross domestic product for the April-June period, some economists think it may show that the economy shrank for a second straight quarter. That would meet a longstanding assumption for when a recession has begun. But economists say that wouldn’t mean that a recession had started. The definition of recession that is most widely accepted is the one determined as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread...

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- A new study looked into the severe hit being absorbed by Russian GDP amid wartime sanctions from the West. - Businesses are leaving Russia in droves, and foreign companies that have left previously accounted for 40% of GDP, the authors wrote. - "There is no path out of economic oblivion for Russia as long as the allied countries remain unified in maintaining and increasing sanctions pressure."Western sanctions are weighing on the Russian economy as the war in Ukraine enters its fifth month, and the country's sinking GDP makes a full economic recovery difficult to envision, according to a new...

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In a very bizarre development, the wife of Leave It To Beaver actor Tony Dow now says she was mistaken in announcing his death. Los Angeles ABC reporter George Pennacchio just posted on Facebook that Dow’s wife, Lauren, mistakenly thought her husband had died during the night at their home and mistakenly informed Dow’s management that he had passed. Dow is reportedly near death, receiving hospice care at home. Deadline has reached out to Dow’s management team. “Tony Dow is still alive,” reports Pennacchio. “I had a conversation with his wife, Lauren. She is understandably distraught and grief-stricken about what’s...

Earlier today came word that star Tony Dow, best known for playing Wally Cleaver on the beloved sitcom Leave it to Beaver, had passed away after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. The news of Dow's death was revealed on his Official Facebook Page, where they wrote that he passed away this morning. In the wake of that post however it has been revealed that Dow has not actually passed away. TMZ brings word that the post has now been deleted and that Dow's management confirms he's still alive. CBS News brings word directly from Dow's wife Lauren Dow,...

Brian Auten pushed Trump-Russia collusion and is now accused of discrediting Hunter Biden stories Brian Auten (Patrick Henry College)Chuck Ross • July 26, 2022 9:43 am An intelligence analyst behind the FBI’s botched Trump-Russia collusion probe is now accused of using the bureau’s authority to discredit reports about Hunter Biden’s criminal activity months before the 2020 presidential election. Meet Brian Auten. The FBI analyst is hardly a household name, but whistleblowers who contacted the office of GOP senator Chuck Grassley say he was behind an August 2020 report that FBI officials used as part of a "scheme…to undermine derogatory information...

A traumatic experience at a young age ignited a mission in Tim Ballard—to protect children from the dangerous world around them. He was trained by the Department of Homeland Security and now runs Operation Underground Railroad, one of the largest anti-trafficking organizations in the world. Tim combats child exploitation head-on, but as a father of nine, he encourages all parents to understand what makes a predator and how to protect their children.

A preacher known for his close friendship with New York City’s mayor was robbed of more than $1 million worth of jewelry Sunday by armed bandits who crashed his Brooklyn church service, just as he was sermonizing about keeping faith in the face of grave adversity, police said. Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead, who embraces his flashy lifestyle and can often be seen driving around the Big Apple in his Rolls Royce, was delivering a sermon at his Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries when police say three robbers walked in. They showed guns and demanded property from Miller-Whitehead and his wife, Asia...

VIDEOIn 2017 Samantha Bee of canceled "Full Frontal" show traveled to the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq and went full condescending Drama Queen when she found out that all of the Kurds she met fully supported (GASP!) President Donald Trump. One Kurd in particularly stood out for HILARIOUSLY mocking Bee's Drama Queen antics as you can see. Her low rated show will NOT be missed in Kurdistan nor anywhere else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsPq8o5frs

On Tuesday CNN reported on how Chief Justice John Roberts worked up until the last minute in an attempt to flip conservative justices on the Roe v. Wade decision. Steve Bannon says CNN could not have reported this without John Robert’s assistance, via Midnight Rider. This makes you wonder if it was Chief Justice Roberts who leaked the decision to the press months before it was announced hoping to change some minds? CNN reported: Chief Justice John Roberts privately lobbied fellow conservatives to save the constitutional right to abortion down to the bitter end, but May’s unprecedented leak of a...

A perfect storm of bullish factors has made the United States the world’s top exporter of LNG. U.S. LNG exports rose by 12% in the first half of 2022 (averaged 11.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d)) compared with the second half of 2021. The United States is shipping record volumes of LNG to Europe to help EU allies in their efforts to fill gas storage ahead of the winter... The United States beat Australia and Qatar, the other two major LNG exporters... U.S. LNG export capacity has expanded by 1.9 Bcf/d nominal (2.1 Bcf/d peak) since November 2021, according...

Don’t go, Boss! That’s my strong advice to President Trump as he prepares to deliver a speech in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday at his alleged “think tank,” the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).Yes, it is important for President Trump to have a well-credentialed stable of policy experts capable of both building a 2024 platform and finding solid MAGA talent to populate a new Trump Administration. But the AFPI Trojan Horse—whose leadership is now bragging about how it will staff Trump’s “shadow cabinet”—is decidedly not that.Most comically, the AFPI roster features the author of a poison pen White House memoir who...

The Los Angeles Times editorial board has called for former President Donald Trump to be charged with “conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the electoral vote count” on January 6, 2021.The Times takes at face value the case presented by the one-sided January 6 Committee, without any cross-examination or even the opportunity to see the full testimonies of witnesses — some of whom say their testimony was misrepresented.Many congressional proceedings are met by protests, some of them unruly; Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor in 2016 to demand gun control, and...

The Biden administration is once again moving to abridge American rights, using its favorite new and invented minority, “transgender” people. The primary right being abridged in this case is freedom of religion, as the concept of pretending to be a gender different from one’s birth gender runs counter to many faiths. The right is also tied directly into the questionable morality of medical treatments such as puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery. Transgenderism is also being used by the radically liberal administration to limit people’s speech by requiring them to use inaccurate pronouns, to destroy the security and privacy of...

“Wall Street and the Chamber of Commerce want to do a favor for the Chinese Communist Party so they can get a favor in return and make money on their short-term balance sheets, while increasing the risk of American investors, in a Chinese Communist Party that’s building the machine that’s attacking our democracy and our way of life. … And they’re willing to sell out America’s national security to do it.”

All 13 U.S. Senate candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump have prevailed in their Republican primary races.The hot streak for Trump-backed Senate candidates started with J.D. Vance in Ohio, who took home his primary nomination on May 3. Vance, the author of Hillbillly Elegy, received a late Trump endorsement in his race and proved victorious in a crowded primary field, taking home 32.3 percent of the vote. Trump’s team told Breitbart News that the Ohio candidate was polling at around ten percent in fifth place when he secured the 45th president’s nod on April 15.The following are the 13...