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Actress Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura on the original Star Trek television series in the 1960s, passed away over the weekend at 89. The Hollywood Reporter published an obituary including many celebrity comments and tweets in her memory, and the article began as follows: ------------------------------------------- Among those paying tribute to Nichols was President Joe Biden, who praised her as a “trailblazer of stage and screen who redefined what is possible for Black Americans and women.” His statement continued about her Star Trek role, “With a defining dignity and authority, she helped tell a central story that reimagined scientific pursuits...

A nearly 2,000-year-old Roman coin, etched with a symbol of the zodiac, was fished from the waters around Haifa in northern Israel...Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) made the discovery while conducting an underwater archaeological survey. The bronze coin was minted in Alexandria, Egypt, during the reign of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius...One side of the coin features an image of Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon, and an image of the zodiac sign for Cancer; the other side depicts Antoninus Pius. The coin also bears the inscription "Year Eight," indicating that it was produced during the eighth...

Former President Donald Trump blasted the proposed plan to swap WNBA player Brittney Griner with imprisoned Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, calling her a “potentially spoiled person.”Last week, reports surfaced that the Biden administration offered the Kremlin convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who had been sentenced to 25 years in U.S. prison, in exchange for Griner and corporate security executive Paul Whelan, who had been imprisoned in Russia for alleged espionage that he denies.John Kirby, a White House national security spokesman, told reporters that President Joe Biden personally signed off on the deal to free Griner and Whelan. “The...

Released on: 1976-04-30It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll) | July 2, 2015 | AC/DC |

President Biden addresses the nation about a counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan.

Voters prefer former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2024 rematch, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.The survey found voters giving Trump a higher favorable impression than Biden, as 49 percent find Trump at least somewhat favorable, compared to 43 percent who said the same of Biden. While there is a predictable partisan divide, independent voters view Trump more favorably — 43 percent to Biden’s 36 percent.Likely voters were ultimately asked, “If the next U.S. presidential election were held today, and President Joe Biden were running against former President Donald Trump, who would you be...

Last Wednesday the Globe reported State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) called on San Francisco and the Governor of California to declare a State of Emergency due to the Monkeypox outbreak. He requested testing, vaccination, and contact tracing infrastructure.

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s campaign is downplaying the importance of President Donald J. Trump’s endorsement after the 45th president slammed his campaign last night over a poll Republican strategists say was false.With the election Tuesday, Trump took to Truth Social Monday and announced he would be endorsing a candidate at some point in the day. The post came hours after he bashed Schmitt’s campaign over a poll commissioned by operatives associated with the campaign that Republican strategists say purposefully undercounted Trump’s support to boost Schmitt’s numbers.“Wow, great dishonesty in politics. Too bad!” Trump wrote of the Remington Research Group...

Explanation: It's stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Located in the Carina Nebula and known informally as Mystic Mountain, these pillar's appearance is dominated by the dark dust even though it is composed mostly of clear hydrogen gas. Dust pillars such as these are actually much thinner than air and only appear as mountains due to relatively small amounts of opaque interstellar dust. About 7,500 light-years distant, the featured image...

Former President Donald Trump is endorsing "Eric" in a race for Missouri's open Senate seat that features two top candidates who have that first name......"

Cardinal Censured for ‘Criminal Conspiracy’Top judge accuses prelate of conniving to 'fabricate' DNA paternity test MUMBAI, India (ChurchMilitant.com) - A veteran high court judge is charging a leading cardinal with "criminal conspiracy" for attempting "to procure a fabricated and false" DNA paternity test certificate for "illegal purposes." Justice Michael F. Saldanha wrote to India's apostolic nuncio, Abp. Leopoldo Girelli, on Monday stating Bombay's cardinal-archbishop, Oswald Gracias, is guilty of a "serious criminal offense, punishable with 10 years rigorous imprisonment." Phone LeakCiting Church Militant's exposé of a leaked phone call between Cdl. Gracias and Mysore's scandal-plagued bishop K. A. William, the...

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https://twitter.com/TayFromCA/status/1554227659831402498DJT's "truth" here. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108749916238646651

he Chinese military command on the front line of the Taiwan Strait has threatened to neutralize any foreign foes entering the disputed waterway without permission as tensions mount over a potential visit to the island by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Coinciding with the 95th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army, China's Eastern Theater Command published a video Monday showing off the nation's military might, including depictions of missiles launches, amphibious landings and other displays of force on air, land and sea. Attached to the clip, which was posted on the social media website Sina Weibo, were a number of...

As you well know, claims of widespread election fraud in 2020 still persist and there are questions that need to be answered. There were a lot of irregularities. What was with the water main break in Georgia? Vote counting in some places was halted for a while. The vote in Georgia was paid for with Zuckerbucks. A number of key states did not require signature matching verification for mail-in ballots. There was great criticism of Dinesh D'Souza's movie "2000 Mules", except that it wasn't just criticized; it was utterly smothered. It was attacked and dismissed by Reuters and FactCheck.org. Reuters...

TThe long-running Music Midtown festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, scheduled for Sept. 17-18 with headliners My Chemical Romance, Future, Jack White and Fallout Boy, has been called off, according to a statement issued by festival organizers. The likely cause, industry sources tell Billboard, are recent changes to Georgia gun laws that prevent the festival from banning guns on to the publicly owned festival grounds... … While owner Live Nation didn’t provide any additional details for the cancellation, pro-gun rights groups had been emailing and posting comments of the festival’s social media page for several months, hinting at potential legal...

US weapons fragile, expensive, and not up to the jobLira talks about US in recent decades replacing good weaponns with BS weapons, e.g. replacing the A10 with the F35 ("flying pig")...

This is the moment an army veteran was arrested by police for 'causing anxiety' after retweeting a picture of a swastika made out of Pride flags on social media. Darren Brady, 51, has slammed Hampshire Police for 'impeding his right to free speech' after he was placed into handcuffs on Friday at his home in Aldershot for sharing a meme. Footage of the arrest was widely shared on social media and showed an officer who told Mr Brady he was being apprehended because his post had 'caused anxiety' and been reported to authorities. The image Mr Brady retweeted was of...

The United States conducted a "successful" counterterrorism operation against a "significant" Al Qaeda target Ayman Al Zawahiri in Afghanistan over the weekend, a senior administration official told Fox News. President Biden on Monday night at 7:30 p.m. E.T. is expected to address the nation from the White House on the operation. "Over the weekend, the United States conducted a counterterrorism operation against a significant Al Qaeda target in Afghanistan," the senior administration official told Fox News Monday. "The operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties." Two intelligence sources tell Fox News Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri was...