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The damage was serious enough to delay the launch, which was pushed back to late September earlier this month. The rocket stage was damaged while riding on the back of a tractor trailer between California and Texas. There's a lot riding on a successful Crew-5 launch right now, the fifth operational flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. For one, the crew of four includes a Russian cosmonaut. Despite ongoing tensions between Russia and the United States over the former's invasion of Ukraine, the joint mission was announced earlier this year — and appears to be moving full steam ahead.

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism that leads to an advanced form of fatty liver disease—and it turns out that vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements could reverse this process. These findings could help people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a term for liver conditions affecting people who drink little to no alcohol, which affects 25% of all adults. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease involves fat build-up in the liver and is a cause of liver transplants. Its prevalence is due to its association with diabetes and obesity. When the condition progresses to inflammation and scar tissue formation, it is known as...

Governor Ron DeSantis this week suspended Soros-backed Florida prosecutor Andrew Warren. DeSantis suspended the state attorney because he refused to enforce Florida’s abortion laws. "Warren said that it doesn’t matter what the legislature does in the state of Florida. He is going to exercise a veto over that. He’s also instituted policies of ‘presumptive non-enforcement’…that is not consistent with the role of a prosecutor. You can exercise discretion in individual case, but that discretion has to be individualized and case specific,” DeSantis said as he announced Warren’s suspension. Andrew Warren ran to the lefty media to complain about DeSantis’ decision...

Western capitals are more and more alarmed concerning the deepening financial co-operation between Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin, warning of the mounting threat that the Nato member state could possibly be hit by punitive retaliation if it helps Russia keep away from sanctions. Six western officers informed the Financial Times that they had been involved concerning the pledge made on Friday by the Turkish and Russian leaders to broaden their co-operation on commerce and vitality after a four-hour assembly in Sochi. One EU official stated that the 27-member bloc was monitoring Turkish-Russian co-operation “more and more closely”,...

Campaigners have called the move "a witch hunt" and say it will prevent them from carrying out life-saving work in the conservative East African country.The Ugandan government has suspended the work of the country's leading LGBTQ rights organization, accusing it of "operating illegally." The authority that regulates NGOs in the East African nation said in a statement that the group Sexual Minorities Uganda did not have a valid NGO permit and must cease operations immediately. Sexual Minorities Uganda has for years advocated for the rights of LGBTQ people in the conservative country, where homosexuality is criminalized. ... an attempt to...

Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Luke 9:28b–36 Friends, today’s Gospel recounts the story of the Transfiguration. Here, the glorified Jesus represents the fulfillment of the Old Testament revelation, symbolized by Moses, representing the Law, and Elijah, representing the prophets. Let’s look at the two basic divisions. God gave the Torah, the Law, to his people, in order that they might become a priestly people, a holy nation, a people set apart, in the hopes that they would then function as a sort of magnet to the rest of the world. But the Law didn’t take. From the very...

© Provided by Washington Examiner Russians deploy Iranian drones into battlefield, Ukrainian government official says Russia is now using drones purchased from Iran in Ukraine as the war nears its sixth month mark, according to an adviser for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Ukrainian President’s Office, said on Friday that Iran had provided Russia with 46 drones, though it’s unclear if that’s the total number of drones Iran agreed to supply or if more are on its way, according to the Institute for the Study of War’s latest update. Some of the drones are older-generation...

"Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. "And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith." "For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence" Luke, Chapter 17 1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they...

A group of hazardous synthetic chemicals called PFAS, which don’t break down in the environment, have been found in rainwater across the globe at levels which make it unsafe to drink, according to a new study. Link to The Science: Stockholm University

As the Chinese military conducts military drills around Taiwan, the self-governing island appears to be preparing for any potential attack by outfitting its four F-16V (Vipers) with lethal weapons, including Harpoon missiles, to defend the country’s east coast, reported Liberty Times. Following Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the People’s Liberation Army of China announced sharp military drills in six regions bordering Taiwan and entering its territorial waters. Since then, Chinese military aircraft and warships have been conducting drills near the Taiwan Strait, and many of them are still active in the eastern seas. Taiwan’s Hualien Air Force Base is reportedly...

Nancy Pelosi is losing it. During a recent press conference, Pelosi was asked a question about China. Good morning. My name is Jackie. I have a question for the Speaker about China and the reaction of China. The military drill since yesterday: do you think how they think this visit will affect the U.S.-China relationship? Her response was an embarrassment. "But when I was a little girl, I was told when at the beach that if I dug a hole deep enough, we would reach China – so we’ve always felt a connection there. But the fact is, I have...

Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Phobos, grooved moon of Mars! Captured in 2004 by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, the image data was recorded at a distance of about 200 kilometers from the martian moon. This tantalizing stereo anaglyph view shows the Mars-facing side of Phobos. It highlights the asteroid-like moon's cratered and grooved surface. Up to hundreds of meters wide, the mysterious grooves may be related to the impact that created Stickney crater, the large crater at the left. Stickney crater is about 10 kilometers across, while Phobos...

PredictIt received notice Thursday from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that the federal agency was pulling its “No-Action” recommendation. That led the online political futures exchange to stop adding new markets immediately. In an online statement addressed to traders, PredictIt said it would continue to operate through Feb. 15, 2023, the deadline the commission set to liquidate all open markets.

Challenger Joe Kent is now within striking distance of winning the primary in the Washington State primary election against Never-Trumper Jaime Herrera Beutler. Joe Kent clawed his way back into the race after Tuesday’s vote and is only 257 votes down in the latest count. According to pollster Richard Baris, Joe Kent is assured to be the winner. There are 35,000 votes left to count from election day. Kent is predicted to win a vast majority of those votes. Saturday morning on The War Room, Joe Kent told Steve Bannon that Kevin McCarthy and the GOP establishment ran $4.5 million...

Another of Putin's prized £3million T-90 supertanks is blown sky high in Ukraine when attack 'by Kyiv forces' hits ammo inside and causes a spectacular explosion Latest footage emerges of elite Russian tank exploding as internal ammo struck More than 20 of the £3million vehicles are thought wrecked so far in Ukraine First built in the early-90s, new versions have become a premium weapon of war But even cheap Ukrainian rockets have reportedly seen the T-90 blown to pieces Yet another advanced Russian T-90 tank has been destroyed in Ukraine, dramatic footage shows. The £3million weapon of war was thought...

A Ukrainian woman living in crime-ridden Portland has shared a bloody video of her bullet-shattered face after being caught in a grisly shooting crossfire in broad daylight. Katie Guzenko, 27, was driving in her car during the afternoon when she was suddenly shot. The bullet shattered the glass, pierced through her nose and then out again through the driver's side window. Horrific footage from July 20 shows the woman hyperventilating with her own crimson blood gushing over her face before she realizes what has happened to her. Thick layers of blood pour from her wounds in the immediate aftermath of...

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is planning to spend over $2 million on a new math curriculum that emphasizes “ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity.” First reported by the Washington Free Beacon, a Minneapolis school board meeting in mid-June included a presentation on the new K-5 math curriculum for the upcoming 2022-23 school year. According to two contracts with the Math Learning Center, Minneapolis Public Schools will spend up to $1.15 million on the “diverse” math curriculum for kindergartners through second-graders, and another $1.03 million on the curriculum for third through fifth-graders, totaling $2.18 million. The presentation stated that a “steering committee”...

Joe Biden looked off camera to ask a member of his staff if can "sign this order now".

Joe Biden on Saturday tested negative for the China Coronavirus after a 7-day ‘rebound’ case. Biden, 79, will continue to isolate at the White House until his second negative antigen test. "The President continues to feel very well,” Do. O’Connor wrote on Saturday. Biden will continue to isolate at the White House despite the negative Covid test. ..... Snip..... Joe Biden is almost 80 years old and the White House physician refuses to hold a press conference to discuss Biden’s ongoing health challenges. Biden has been isolating at the White House for more than a week and his physician is...

Flight carriers have been strictly informed by Vietnamese authorities to avoid the airspace over the Taiwan Strait due to military drills being conducted in China. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam announced that the Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation had given them a ‘Notice to Air Missions’ (NOTAM) obtained from China. The NOTAM clearly warns pilots that there will be “six temporary danger zones” near Taiwan in operation for all flights that pilots are forbidden from flying. Flight Disruption Mayhem Carriers across Vietnam have been heavily affected by this ordeal as ‘over 100 international flights’ have faced disruption due to...