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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- A federal judge in the Southern District of Ohio extended the time that the Air Force and the Air Force Academy could not enforce the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Thursday. Two weeks ago, Judge Matthew W. McFarland placed a temporary restraining order on the AF and AFA that barred them from enforcing the mandate temporarily. Now, a court order means they cannot enforce the mandate until a trial is held or the order is struck down on appeal. Both of which are potentially months down the road. The preliminary injunction order states, "due to...

The Philadelphia protester who torched two police cars in 2020 – and was then tracked down by investigators through the website Etsy – was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for the attack. Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal, 35, pleaded guilty in March to downgraded charges of obstructing, impeding and interfering with law enforcement officers for firebombing the two cop cars outside Philadelphia City Hall as protests raged in the city. At her sentencing hearing Thursday, Blumenthal said she was high on drugs and in the throes of addiction when she torched the cars, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “My substance abuse left...

The House passed an assault weapons ban Friday evening looking to give Democrats a last-minute win on their way out the door for August recess. Five Democrats voted against the measure - Reps. Kurt Schrader, Ore., Vicente Gonzalez, Texas, Rep. Jared Golden, Maine and Rep. Ron Kind, R-Wisc. Two Republicans voted for the measure - Reps. Chris Jacobs, N.Y., and Brian Fitzpatrick, Pa. The ban cleared a procedural hurdle that allowed the House to move forward with expedited debate on Friday afternoon, with a final vote expected to follow. Three Democrats - Reps. Vicente Gonzalez, Texas, Jared Golden, Maine, and...

Explanation: SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is a Boeing 747SP aircraft modified to carry a large reflecting telescope into the stratosphere. The ability of the airborne facility to climb above about 99 percent of Earth's infrared-blocking atmosphere has allowed researchers to observe from almost anywhere over the planet. On a science mission flying deep into the southern auroral oval, astronomer Ian Griffin, director of New Zealand’s Otago Museum, captured this view from the observatory's south facing starboard side on July 17. Bright star Canopus shines in the southern night above curtains of aurora australis, or southern lights. The...

A big Chinese rocket body will likely crash back to Earth tomorrow (July 30)... The 25-ton (22.5 metric tons) core stage of a Long March 5B rocket will reenter Earth's atmosphere tomorrow at 2:05 p.m. EDT (1805 GMT), plus or minus five hours... Most of the rocket body will burn up, but big chunks of it will survive the fiery passage — probably 5.5 tons to 9.9 tons(opens in new tab) (5 to 9 metric tons).. Based on the core stage's orbit, we know those hunks will come down somewhere between 41 degrees north latitude and 41 degrees south latitude....

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The Arkansas State Convention happened Saturday 7/23 at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock starting at 9am. The Pulaski County GOP delegation was banned from the Arkansas GOP state convention. They were also threatened with arrest, censored, and later forced out into 100 degree heat from the hotel building. RINO Establishment officials, such as Sara Jo Reynolds & Melonaie Gullick blocked 71 Pulaski County delegates over false claims of procedure. Pulaski County delegates blocked from Arkansas GOP State Convention except a fewpulaski-county-gop-delegation-banned-from-arkansas-gop-state-conventionl& Pulaski County delegates blocked from Arkansas GOP State Convention except a few US flag desecrated by RPA staff,...

It has recently surfaced that a large number of once well-known English words are suffering from a severe shortage of definitions. We will do our best to help alleviate this condition. Bike path: A scenic obstacle course for basement dwellers. Carbon footprint: The image left behind by the jackboot of the Left on society’s neck. Economy: The place where medieval doctors and modern bureaucrats inject the needle, when it’s time to start bleeding the patient. Fertile farmland: A beautiful place to cover with Chinese solar panels and windmills. Free market: An endangered species. Free lunch: Ain’t no such thing. Free...

Chile’s Constitutional Convention presented the final version ... to President Gabriel Boric at a closing ceremony on Monday in Santiago. On Sept. 4, Chileans will decide whether to approve the new magna carta or stick with the current document... If approved, the document would mark a shift away from market-friendly rules by strengthening workers’ rights, boosting environmental protection, overhauling water ownership and giving indigenous groups a bigger say in investment projects. Polls suggest the changes may have gone too far, with more voters inclined to reject the draft. September’s vote will also be key for Boric’s administration, which would have...

[Catholic Caucus] Whom Does He Want to Fool? Francis Underlines “Importance Of Tradition”The Holy See [allegedly] pays attention to “cultural traditions, customs, languages and educational processes,” Francis joked at a July 27 meeting with representatives of the Canadian regime in Quebec after burning some grass.Francis who is laying waste to the Church's liturgical and theological tradition, complained that today there are many forms of "ideological colonisation" which "attempt to uproot the traditions, history and religious ties” of peoples.He lamented that this mentality believes "that the dark pages of history have been left behind" and therefore "becomes open to the ‘cancel...

Bobbleheads of justices including Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall, among others, will be available for pre-order on Friday and are expected to ship in December. Sklar said the bobbleheads gives the public “the chance to collect bobbleheads representing the Supreme Court justices that have a very influential impact on our lives given their roles in our government and the impact their decisions have.”

David Adams came up with the idea for Sniffspot, the dog-park service, about four years ago. His wife had related to him how, while traveling with their dog, she was unable to find a suitable place for the little guy to do his business and blow off steam. “I put up a really simple website and it’s just built from there,” Adams said. Sniffspot now lists yards in 1,500 cities worldwide. Los Angeles is one of the company’s fastest-growing markets. San Diego is among those with the most bookings. Sniffspot is one of a handful of apps allowing people to...

Dozens of coal-fired power plants across the U.S. plan to stop burning coal or to shut down by the end of the decade, the Associated Press reported. The decision is not driven by climate change concerns but to comply with a new wastewater rule requiring them to clean coal ash and toxic heavy metals from the water before it's dumped back into streams and rivers. The plants had an October deadline to tell state regulators how they plan to comply. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the rule is expected to affect 75 coal-fired power plants across the country. The...

There’s a brewing trade dispute between the U.S. and Mexico on energy policy, and it’s getting ugly fast. “Ooooh, I’m so scared,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said at a Wednesday press conference, referencing a popular Mexican song and taunting the Biden administration by ordering his staff to play it. When reporters asked him how he proposes to solve the policy spat, AMLO was defiant: “Nothing will happen.” What is going on here? It started early on Wednesday, when U.S. officials argued that AMLO’s energy policies favor Mexico’s state-run electrical utility and oil companies and undermine American business....

A South African opposition figure has warned of impending civil unrest in the continent's richest country and likened it to 'an Arab Spring.' The controversial opposition leader Julius Malema spoke of the country waking up one day with 'very angry people that are not going to be reasonable.' Discontent with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa is at all-time high levels due to the social conditions within the country and 'the poor becoming poor,' according to Malema. 'When the unled revolution comes... the first target is going to be white people,' Mr Malema told the BBC's...

Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made this recording at the Library of Congress. Audio has been restored for clarity.

Arizonans face rising prices and empty store shelves, and they deserve to keep more of their hard earned money in their pockets.We passed the Chips and Science Act to help lower costs and improve supply chain challenges by increasing American semiconductor manufacturing. pic.twitter.com/0BN07jI8YJ— Kyrsten Sinema (@SenatorSinema) July 29, 2022

Bedingfield previously announced earlier in July that she would be leaving the White House but said Friday she will remain in the job after all -------------------------------------- White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield announced on Friday afternoon that she is no longer leaving her position. "A massive thank you to everyone (every. one.) who endured listening to me wax on about how I regretted my decision to leave. There's so much more to do and I'm so proud and grateful to be part of this team. Onward!," Bedingfield tweeted.

JULY 29, 2022 The INITIAL GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the THIRD quarter of 2022 is 2.1 percent on July 29. APRIL 29, 2022 The INITIAL GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the SECOND quarter of 2022 is 1.9 percent on April 29

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