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When Ray Epps, now 61, arrived in Washington DC in early January, 2021, he believed he was answering the call of his president. Mr Epps was one of the thousands of MAGA loyalists who believed former President Donald Trump's lie that the 2020 election had been stolen. He also thought he and a throng of conservative allies would protest the election's certification.

The OPEC+ group gave the go-ahead to lift their oil production targets for September by 100,000 bpd... Today's OPEC+ meeting is the first meeting since the group decided to roll back by the end of August all the cuts from May 2020, when the current agreement started. Analysts had expected the alliance to endorse either flat targets for September compared to August, or a slight increase. Ahead of the meeting on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of the State approved on Tuesday a possible Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia—OPEC's top producer—of PATRIOT MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical Ballistic Missiles (GEM-T) and...

The Spokane Police Department is investigating the circumstances that led to a man arriving at a local hospital with severe burns while still on fire. The police department responded Monday to a report that a man had been dropped off at an emergency room at a Spokane hospital while still on fire, and that his clothes were covered in a flammable substance, according to a news release from the department. The incident that led to the man being on fire occurred in a neighborhood in northeast Spokane near the Esmeralda Golf Course. The man sustained serious burns on 30% of...

In what seems like a daily occurrence, another electric car has gone up in flames. I have previously covered self-immolating electric buses, deadly battery fires after an EV car crash that engulfed two helpless teens, and while not ultimately deadly, countless other episodes where electric vehicles simply failed completely. All of this, again, doesn’t even cover the fact that electric vehicles get their charge from an outlet that relies almost entirely on fossil fuels. I also covered that – in a piece where the CEO of GM touted her new line of cars…until she got asked where the source of...

“As a political gesture it is almost insulting,” said Raad Alkadiri, managing director for energy, climate, and sustainability at Eurasia Group.

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health (BAH) has announced the discovery of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2) in a group of pet rabbits in Hennepin County. Four pet rabbits from a group of eight are dead, BAH officials said. One of the deceased rabbits displayed lethargic behavior before death, and its carcass was taken to the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for analysis. The positive result was also confirmed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture lab. The surviving rabbits at the Hennepin County home are being quarantined and monitored for symptoms. Animal health officials say that there is...

With the deep fundamental and structural differences American culture is experiencing, I'd like to propose divorcing the regressives and going our separate ways. But how to split up the spoils — who gets the kids, who gets what — are the questions. I propose the following split:Redmerica: We get the entire right half of the country.Bluemerica: They get the left side.Right down the middle. That's the hard part, but we'll make it happen.Redmerica: We get the dirty, polluting coal plants, oil pipelines, electric generators, and gas-guzzler cars and trucks. We also build nuclear power plants.Bluemerica: They can have the electric...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said for the first time that his government could postpone the planned closure of its remaining nuclear reactors, as he criticized a decision by Russia to constrain gas flows to Germany—a move that could deal a severe blow to Europe’s largest economy. Last month, Russia shut down for maintenance its giant Nord Stream pipeline, which connects Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea and is operated by Russian state-owned energy producer Gazprom PJSC.

Garry Nolan has become a recognized expert and leader of the scientific community that has been studying UFO's. He is chair of the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Among many things he recounts in this interview, he tells how he was contacted at Stanford by the CIA who wanted him to investigate the strange ailments contracted by certain military and government employees after having come into close contact with unidentified craft. He was chosen by the CIA as the best person to conduct such an investigation because of his experience and reputation with blood work.Here is...

DEVELOPING STORY: As many as 63,000 mail-in ballots were delivered to the wrong voters in Pinal County, Arizona. Click here to join Todd’s private Facebook page for conservatives. The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Arizona released a statement calling for the immediate resignation of the county’s election director. “During Arizona’s primary elections the RNC and Republican Party of Arizona’s poll observer program documented and reported multiple failures by Pinal County’s Election Administrator, including 63,000 mail-in ballots delivered to the wrong voters and multiple Republican-heavy precinct locations running out of ballots,” read a statement released by the parties....

For President Trump, this morning's got to be sweet. His endorsed candidates, one after another, won over other GOP candidates in Tuesday's primaries. Those coveted endorsements went for congressional seats in Arizona, Michigan, and sort-of Missouri, where it appeared that President Trump endorsed both candidates with the first name "Eric." The counting is still on in places like Washington, so it may not have been a full sweep, but it came very, very close. Many of the candidates Trump endorsed were political upstarts, not incumbents, which have a harder time winning, so the primary victories were all the more impressive....

Blake Masters, with the backing of former President Donald Trump and Silicon Valley magnate Peter Thiel, won the Republican nomination to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Masters trailed behind Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and businessman Jim Lamon for much of the race. Masters, formerly COO of Thiel Capital and president of The Thiel Foundation, surged in the race after Trump endorsed him June 2. The race was called with Masters winning nearly 40% of the vote after an estimated four-fifths of the ballots had been counted. At the time, he held a roughly ten-point lead over...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Greenland sharks normally live in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans. The shark looks like a Greenland shark but was released before a genetic sample could be collected. The shark looks like a Greenland shark but was released before a genetic sample could be collected. (Image credit: Devanshi Kasana/FIU) A strange, ancient-looking shark with blue eyes was unexpectedly discovered in the tropical waters of the Caribbean when it was hooked by Belizean fishers and a biologist on April 22. Researchers recently determined that the unusual fish may have been a Greenland shark or a Greenland shark hybrid in the sleeper...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Saturday, Aug. 2. Six hundred troops crossed the river, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of destroying the houses and woods on the opposite shore, which had afforded protection to the rebels. Everything in the shape of a dwelling was burnt. This was the point from which the rebels shelled our shipping and encampment the night before. The affair was successfully accomplished, without the loss of a man. The gunboats, this morning, are engaged in shelling the shore and houses down the river. Five men were killed by the enemy's shells, night before last, and two...

A leading Russian senator has vowed that Vladimir Putin will come to China's aid if it goes to war over Taiwan. But Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the international committee in Russia's Federation Council, said the Kremlin's backing would be offered on the understanding that Beijing would show support in kind for the war in Ukraine. 'I see no grounds to refuse to help China,' the politician declared. 'But I would like to see a two-way movement with China. 'It means that we should have some benefits from this cooperation.' Putin and China's president Xi Jinping have seemingly...

The DC Comics film “Batgirl” will be completely “shelved” by Warner Bros., a top Hollywood source told The Post. That means it won’t hit theaters or the streaming service HBO Max. Fans will not see it.

... A web-based resource launched in 2004 to be a “platform [that] could address some of the national gaps in palliative care,” the Canadian Virtual Hospice was the first attempt at connecting Canadians with an array of health specialists online to help them face the daunting task of accompanying their ill and dying loved ones at the end of their lives. As reported on its website, “visits to Virtual Hospice continue to climb – from 34,000 in 2004 to 2.3 million in 2020,” which bespeaks the desperate need to shore up this crucial yet often-overlooked segment in healthcare. ...

3 August 2022Wednesday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. Nicodemus and St. Joseph of Arimathea Church, Ramla, The Holy Land Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingJeremiah 31:1-7 ©You shall be rebuilt, virgin of IsraelI will be the God of all the clans of Israel – it is the Lord who speaks – they shall be my people.The Lord says this:They have found pardon in the wilderness,those who have survived the sword.Israel is marching to his rest.The Lord has appeared to him from afar:I have loved you with an everlasting love,so I am constant in my affection for...

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed at the home of an FBI-wanted Taliban lackey who was once given a platform by the New York Times. The jihadist, one of the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks, was taken out by a CIA drone strike Sunday morning at a Kabul home belonging to senior Taliban official Sirajuddin Haqqani, according to initial reporting by the Gray Lady herself. The publication infamously published an op-ed penned by Haqqani — the leader of the insurgent Haqqani Network in Afghanistan linked to brutal and deadly attacks — to ask for a peace agreement between...