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Man aspired to go to the Moon, John F, Kennedy said, 'not because it is easy, but because it is hard.' And photo restorer Andy Saunders has applied that same incredible ambition and determination to painstakingly rework 35,000 photos from the Apollo missions that had been stored in a locked NASA freezer until now. The hauntingly beautiful images kept under lock and key at Johnson Space Center, Houston, show amazing new insights about life on board the rockets and on the surface of the moon. Since the footage was kept in the vaults for so long, almost every Apollo image...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) tweeted a list Wednesday showing exactly where law-abiding concealed carry permit holders are prohibited from being armed for self-defense. Breitbart News noted that one of the gun-free locations is Times Square, beginning Thursday. New York Democrats labeled Times Square a “sensitive” area in which the exercise of the Second Amendment is prohibited, even by concealed permit holders.

YouTube reviewer and scooper Grace Randolph recently released her review for Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and she took Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel to task and claimed that Elrond and a number of the male Elves are gay. Randolph uploaded her review for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and noted the review only looks at the first two episodes of the series. In a section of the video that she labels “Worst Character” she specifically takes issue with Morfydd Clark’s Galadriel. Randolph states, “As for characters that I didn’t like. Well,...

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Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz is within striking distance of his radical Democrat opponent John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race, according to a poll. In the Susquehanna Polling and Research Poll released Tuesday, Oz drew 44 percent of the response, placing him just five points back of Fetterman, who sat at 49 percent. The remaining seven percent of respondents were undecided or supported a different candidate.

When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, its authors cited three overarching goals: to improve access to health care, to slow rising medical costs and to improve health outcomes. One of the main vehicles for achieving all three missions was a requirement that health insurers provide preventive health care services at no cost to patients. If there were no financial barriers, backers argued, patients would be more likely to get preventive services, from colonoscopies to vaccines to heart disease screenings, which would help keep people healthier and out of the hospital and, consequently, lower health care costs. (snip)...

End D.C.A modest proposal to eliminate the capital cityThere is much talk about how to “fix Washington”: how the administrative state might be brought to heel and made accountable and responsive to the practical problems facing the American people. The election of Donald Trump is best understood as a populist effort to “fix Washington.” But Washington was not fixed. On the contrary. As we learned from the soft coup that was the “Russian collusion” psy-op, the two fake impeachments, Democrats’ condoning of the George Floyd riots, and the manipulation of the 2020 election, the administrative state has only grown more...

“According to multiple former senior U.S. officials we spoke with, in April 2022, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement: Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.”

As attorney general, Josh Shapiro went to court repeatedly to defend Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration against legal challenges to his pandemic-era mandates and shutdowns. Now, as he’s running to succeed Wolf as governor, Shapiro says he is against some of the same COVID-19 containment measures that his fellow Democrat used to help manage the nation’s worst pandemic in over a century. On the campaign trail in the presidential battleground state, Shapiro’s Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, makes Wolf’s COVID-19 policies — and Shapiro’s defense of them in court — a source of derision. But disavowing Wolf’s COVID-19 policies while facing...

Brittany Yanick RetweetedInbox: Dr. Mehmet Oz's campaign is launching an "Inmates for Fetterman" initiative, the latest effort by Oz to hit his opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, over his stances on criminal justice issues and his work as chair of the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. pic.twitter.com/pPjXzIdQzS— Justin Sweitzer (@justin_sweitzer) August 30, 2022

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s been quiet — too quiet — this Atlantic hurricane season, meteorologists and residents of storm-prone areas whisper almost as if not to tempt fate. A record-tying inactive August is drawing to a close and no storms have formed, even though it is peak hurricane season and all experts’ pre-season forecasts warned of an above normal season. Nearly all the factors that meteorologists look for in a busy season are there. Yet zero storms formed. Surprised experts point to unusual persistent dry air and a few other factors. But each time they and computer simulations think...

By allowing children to read the book, school administrators are "opening them up to sexual predators" and "to grooming," Will Witt said. Parents of Hillsborough County Public Schools students in Tampa, Florida, are voicing their outrage after at least one sexually explicit book was made available to students, including a book in a middle school library that features instructions for gay sex and hookup apps. The book also includes a cartoon of a naked man under the section "Boy-on-Boy Sex."

A woke bail fund paid for the release of a domestic abuse suspect - only for him to murder the terrified woman he's accused of abusing hours later. Mohamed Osman Adan, 33, allegedly strangled and stabbed Rachel Angel Abraham - the mother of his children - to death in Portland, Oregon, in July. Adan had reportedly cut off his GPS monitor, entered Abraham's townhouse and violently murdered her.

European natural gas inventories rose by +87 BCF over past 7 days. EU nat gas storage 81% full. Current inventories at 3084 BCF. 21.2% higher than 1 year ago. EU goal is at least 80% full by Nov 1st for winter. Current projection is for EU to reach 91% by Nov 1st.

A group of Tesla owners in Norway claims they are going on a hunger strike to get Elon Musk’s attention about a long series of problems they claim to have with their vehicles. However, it looks like there might be another motive. Elon Musk was just in Norway earlier this week to attend an energy conference, and he said it was also to “show his appreciation for the Norwegian people’s adoption of electric vehicles.” Norway is indeed adopting electric vehicles at a higher rate than any other country, and it is also Tesla’s biggest market per capita. While successful, Tesla’s...

Ukraine's counter-offensive in occupied Kherson is wrecking Russia's "thinly held" defenses in the region that was seized by Moscow in the early stages of the war, the U.K. Ministry of Defense recently said. The British defense ministry said in an intelligence update Wednesday that Ukrainian armored forces have continued to assault Russian troops on several axes across the south of the country since Monday. "Ukrainian formations have pushed the front line back some distance in places, exploiting relatively thinly held Russian defences," the ministry said.

A quiet academic debate over a physician's right to refuse specific healthcare services on the basis of moral or ethical objections or religious beliefs is spilling over into the HIV arena in some states, pitting some patients requesting preventive medication (preexposure prophylaxis or PrEP) against legislators and lawyers. The concept of conscientious objection or refusal in healthcare is not new; even the American Medical Association (AMA) supports the rights of physicians to act in accordance with conscience. But its application beyond what was once mostly under the aegis of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops into unchartered territory has...

[Catholic Caucus] Exclusive. Brandmüller in Consistory: The Pope Wants to Shut the Cardinals’ Mouths(s.m.) The above are a few handwritten lines of the remarks that Cardinal Walter Brandmüller prepared for the consistory of August 29 and 30, which he was not allowed to deliver, published in full on this page of Settimo Cielo.The consistory saw the cardinals gathered with Pope Francis. It was behind closed doors, but above all it was broken down, at the pope’s behest, into linguistic groups, thus preventing direct dialogue among all, as did in fact happen in the now long-gone February of 2014, at the...

A Los Angeles man who has spent the last five months detained in a Venezuela prison is calling on the Biden administration to help secure his release and urging the president not to forget about him. “No one should be abandoned at the time of their greatest need and when they’re most vulnerable,” Eyvin Hernandez, who was arrested in Venezuela on March 31, told the Associated Press in a jailhouse recording earlier this month. “However, I don’t feel like my government feels that way about me.” Hernandez was arrested along the Colombia-Venezuela border days before he was scheduled to return...

WASHINGTON — Maybe it’s all he ever wanted. President Biden is taking heat for spending 40% of his days in office “on vacation” after he was away from the White House for two-thirds of August. Biden’s weekend jaunts and vacations spanned 234 days — with seven in 10 of them spent at his homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware — out of 589 days in office. RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told The Post that Republicans believe it’s a winning campaign issue — alongside concerns over the effects of Biden-era spending, including Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus package last year and...