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The widow of fallen Austin Police Department Officer Anthony "Tony" Martin said she was "crushed" after seeing Mayor Steve Adler appearing to sleep at her husband's funeral on Monday. This service wasn’t just a check list for us. It was the honor & respect of a man who has served his country and community his WHOLE life. My family needed to see him honored not [disrespected]," Amberlee Martin said in a statement on Tuesday through the Austin Police Association. "My husband, their father who doesn’t get to ever come home again, doesn’t get to go to SLEEP next to me...

Mary Trump predicted Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that if her uncle, former President Donald Trump, won back the presidency, it would be “the end of the American experiment.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace asked, “When you look at him as still sitting atop the Republican Party, and you think about a second Trump term, what are you afraid of?”

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Explanation: The whole thing looks like an eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula's center, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. In this cavity tall pillars and round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas remain where stars are still forming. Paradoxically, it is perhaps easier to appreciate this impressive factory of star formation by seeing it without its stars -- which have been digitally removed in the...

Hurricanes from 1851 to 2021 that made landfall in Continental United States (CONUS) according to National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Becky Sauerbrunn, one of the stalwarts of the US women’s national soccer team, said Tuesday that players are angry and want immediate changes following an independent investigation that found systemic abuse and misconduct within women’s professional soccer in the United States. On Monday, the US Soccer Federation released a lengthy, scathing report it commissioned from former acting Attorney General Sally Yates that revealed the National Women’s Soccer League along with the soccer federation failed to provide a safe environment for NWSL players. Some of those players are members of the US national team, the defending World Cup champions. The national...

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Hungry Ukrainians have been pictured queuing at McDonald's restaurants as the fast-food chain reopened its branches in the war-torn country seven months after Putin's invasion. McDonald's reopened some of its walk-in restaurants in Ukraine on October 1 – after starting deliveries again last week, reported The Sun. Images show queues of customers eager to sample the likes of McNuggets and Big Macs as they returned to stores.

Pursuant to Education Code section 35107, subdivision (a), any person who is 18 years of age or older, a citizen of the state, a resident of the school district, a registered voter, and who is not disqualified by the Constitution or laws of the state from holding office, is eligible to be appointed a member of the governing board. Eligible applicants must be currently registered to vote in Trustee Area #2 of which the boundary area maps can be found at www.ltusd.org under District - Board of Education - Trustee Area Maps.

In a swanky back room at the Lackawanna Station Hotel in Scranton, Pa., President Biden sits across from Senate candidate John Fetterman... Biden chimes in, “How’s the campaign going, kid?” “It’s not about kicking balls in the authority you know.” “Just like Strom Thurmond used to say. Where is Strom by the way? Strom?” Biden looks around frantically for the politician who died in 2003. “Problem is this whole crime . . . uh, thing. Just because I said a few times that I want to release half of murderers from jail, this fancy Oz says I’m not (using air...

(Video) Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden’s administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned. The charter flights originate in Texas, where the ongoing border crisis has overwhelmed local immigration officials, and have been underway since at least August, according to sources familiar with the matter. Last week, The Post saw two planes land at the Westchester County Airport, where most of the passengers who got off appeared to be children and teens, with a small portion appearing to be men in their 20s.

Four suspects were arrested and accused of looting after Hurricane Ian wrecked Floridians’ homes and communities. “Omar Mejia Ortiz, 33, and Valerie Celeste Salcedo Mena, 26, were arrested, along with 20-year-olds Brandon Mauricio Araya and Steve Eduardo Sanchez Araya.

Six women in neon green full-body jumpsuits robbed and beat two women on the NYC subway in the middle of the night. Dubbed the “Green Goblin Gang”, the mother of one of the robbed 19-year-old women called them “complete animals” after they assaulted her daughter out of nowhere on her birthday, the New York Post reported. The attack took place at 2am on Sunday on a Times Square subway train when a

SpaceX has delayed the liftoff of its next Starlink satellite batch in order to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wednesday (Oct. 5). In what appears to be a rocket traffic jam for SpaceX, the company announced Tuesday (Oct. 4) that it pushed back the planned launch of 52 Starlink internet satellites from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base to no earlier than Wednesday (Oct. 5) — a one-day delay — to focus on the launch of the Crew-5 mission for NASA, the company's next astronaut flight. Crew-5 is also scheduled to launch on Wednesday. Liftoff...

Russian troops abandoned a key Ukrainian city so rapidly that they left the bodies of their comrades in the streets, offering more evidence Tuesday of Moscow’s latest military defeat as it struggles to hang on to four regions of Ukraine that it illegally annexed last week. (snip) Over the weekend, Russian troops pulled back from Lyman, a strategic eastern town that the Russians had used as a logistics and transport hub, to avoid being encircled by Ukrainian forces. The town’s liberation gave Ukraine an important vantage point for pressing its offensive deeper into Russian-held territories. Two days later, an Associated...

[Catholic Caucus] Novus Ordo Bishop Inaugurates Masonic LodgeTerni Bishop Francesco Soddu, 62, Italy, attended the September 27 inauguration of a Terni Masonic lodge and even participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony (pictured).Masonry is incompatible with Catholicism because it follows a deity called "Supreme Architect of the Universe" which is cut off from the earth. Therefore, Freemasons deny Revelation, the Incarnation and Providence.GrandeOriente.it published the inauguration’s pictures. Soddu justified himself on the diocesan website by attacking his critics and claiming that the evidence was "misunderstood" and "misinterpreted."He thinks that his words were not taken into account, that he didn't identify with a...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is planning to send border crossers and illegal aliens, arriving on migrant buses from Texas, to a relatively secluded island off the Bronx neighborhood.

Target 11 has learned that the 15-year-old student who had just transferred into Oliver Citywide Academy last week and allegedly raped a teacher inside a classroom was accused of attacking a staff member at a behavioral health center earlier this year. According to law enforcement sources, the student slammed a staff member against the wall, and tried to take her clothes off. He also allegedly broke a plastic cup over her head. When police arrived, she was bleeding from her ear, according to sources familiar with the case. The injured staff member then told police she didn’t want to press...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday made another sweeping change to one of its pandemic-era responses. The federal health agency dropped its country-by-country COVID-19 travel health notices that it began issuing when COVID-19 started spreading in the United States in early 2020. Fewer countries are testing for the virus or reporting cases, making it more difficult to calculate travelers’ chances of contracting the virus, the CDC told news outlets. It said that “as fewer countries are testing or reporting COVID-19 cases, CDC’s ability to accurately assess the COVID-19 (travel health notice) levels for most destinations...

Preface: I've been monitoring the Russia/Ukraine war very closely since the beginning and comparing the non-stop shamefully dishonest propaganda of the OBiden-controlled media with news from independent, mostly pro-Russian sources. What matters to me is truth, and that is coming almost exclusively from the pro-Russian side: It's almost exactly the reverse of the U.S./USSR contest of the Cold War, with America now taking the old Soviet role and the Russian Federation taking the ethical higher ground formerly held by the U.S.Everything done by Putin in this conflict is reasoned, rational and either clearly legal under international law or clearly defensible...