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US Congressman Mike Gallagher, a Republican member of the House Armed Services Committee, delivered a stark warning to American citizens yesterday in response to a new report by the Heritage Foundation that ranked the US Navy “very weak” in terms of capacity and under immense strain to maintain readiness.

Former U.S. Navy pilot Ryan Graves gave a detailed description of regular encounters that flight teams had with a black box UFO they were seeing "every day." *snip* He said that multiple pilots repeatedly witnessed a strange UFO phenomenon on their equipment, as well as with their own eyes, starting in late 2013. He said the pilots were seeing these objects by eye and also on their radar after receiving upgrades to their aircraft. The objects were always up there, every day, as they conducted training exercises. *snip* "There were two aircrafts from my squadron, and they took off in...

VIDEOCanada's Emergencies Act is only supposed to be invoked in the most extreme of circumstances in which there is a dire threat to the Canadian nation. In fact, the requirements are so extreme that it has only been invoked in Canada ONCE during the Freedom Convoy trucker protests last February. Yet, despite the requirement that only the most extreme threats to Canada can be used to justify it, a current inquiry panel has revealed the most trivial of reasons used by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act such as a parking problem in downtown Ottawa and neurotic...

Republican Blake Masters has surged to a statistical tie against Biden puppet Mark Kelly in Arizona’s U.S. Senate race. Per the Daily Wire/Trafalgar poll, incumbent Biden puppet Kelly is in the lead by just one point: 47.4 to 46.4 percent. The same poll also shows Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake beating Democrat Katie Hobbs by three points: 49.2 to 46.4 percent:

Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake torpedoed talking points about her being a 2020 “election denier” by listing numerous examples of Democrats behaving like “election deniers.”The moment occurred during a campaign stop on Tuesday when a reporter asked Lake about a recent spike in Google searches for her name and how so many people wanted to know if she was a “election denier.”That prompted her to cite the many instances of Democrats outright denying election results, from failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.“Here are 150 examples of Democrats denying election results,” said Lake as she...

Over the past two years, parents in school districts across America have spoken out against the presence of sexually explicit books in school libraries. By and large, these parents have been derided by the media as "book banners," labeled "anti-LGBTQ," or cast as "ultra-MAGA." But the parents who showed up to a school board meeting last week in Dearborn, Michigan certainly defied these stilted stereotypes. At the behest of Imam Sayyid Hassan al-Qazwini of the Islamic Institute of America, hundreds of Muslim-Americans packed the venue. The debate that unfolded over three hours of public comment bore little resemblance to the...

The feat is a step towards redefining the second using optical clocks — timekeepers that are 100 times more precise than the atomic clocks on which coordinated universal time (UTC) is currently based. Metrologists hope to use optical clocks to redefine the second in 2030. But a hurdle standing in their way is the need to find a reliable way to transmit signals between optical clocks in laboratories on different continents, to compare their outputs. In practice, this will probably mean transmitting the clocks’ time through air and space, to satellites. But this is a challenge because the atmosphere interferes...

After a summer of national and global climate devastation, Vice President Kamala Harris made a stop at the Cowell Theater on Tuesday to tout Democrats' progress on climate policy just weeks before the midterm elections During a wide-ranging conversation with podcasters, Harris spoke about her Bay Area roots, the Inflation Reduction Act and environmental justice — including how women, low-income communities and communities of color often bear the brunt of harmful policies. In one pointed moment, Harris noted a "Venn diagram" connection between states that have poor climate track records and those that are seeking to limit voting rights, reproductive...

The U.S. military said it intercepted two Russian bombers near Alaska on Monday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it detected two Russian bombers in Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone, which covers the international airspace outside of the U.S. and Canada near the far northern state. Two American F-16 fighter jets intercepted the Russian aircraft, which did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. The recent activity is “not seen as a threat nor is the activity seen as provocative,” NORAD noted in its press release.

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said the essence of this year’s midterm elections is a return to the basics of “objective truth.” Gabbard, who recently announced her departure from the Democratic Party, attended a rally in Chandler, Arizona, in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake Tuesday. The event also featured Blake Masters, GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, and Abe Hamadeh, candidate for Arizona attorney general. “The basics are under attack,” Gabbard told those in attendance. “When we have people in power who deny the existence of objective truth, that leads to a very dangerous place because that means that...

When Isaias Hernandez was growing up in Los Angeles, he faced a host of obstacles. From living off food stamps to struggling with the city’s air quality, Hernandez was raised with an acute understanding of how poverty, migration, gender discrimination, and environmental destruction intersect and feed off each other. “At a young age, I realized that there were moments in my life that I was never able to leave my apartment because the smog was bad,” he says. “Being in poverty really deprived me from having access to clean spaces.” Hernandez has since devoted his career to ensuring that the...

Key points — in our brief, #UkraineWorldAnalysis: 1. On Putin's intention to plunge Europe into a dark winter The Russian Federation is trying to exert economic and political pressure on Ukraine and other European countries. European countries were able to diversify their income and reduce their dependence on Russian gas during the heating season due supplies of electricity from Ukraine. Ukraine's support is essential. Russia plans to block this possibility. It is no coincidence that after October 11, Ukraine announced a temporary suspension of Ukraine's electricity exports to Europe. 2. On the missile attacks as a premeditated action and the...

John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to kill President Ronald Reagan weeks after he took office in 1981, admitted in a recent interview that he is also responsible for the death of Press Secretary James Brady, who was also shot during the attempted assassination. Hinckley was released after spending 41 years in custody. He sat down with Piers Morgan on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" for an interview slated to air Monday evening. In a series of clips posted to social media, Morgan presses Hinckley on whether he killed Brady, who died decades after being shot.

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming has hit out at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's suggestion that a Republican-led House might block military aid to Ukraine, describing the idea as "disgraceful." Cheney, the vice chair of the January 6 select committee, made the remark on Tuesday while taking questions at an event at the Harvard Institute of Politics. The Republican congresswoman was asked by a student whether the U.S. could "credibly promote and support democracy" around the world when it's "falling apart" in this country. In response, Cheney, one of the most vocal Donald Trump critics in the GOP, said first...

The IRS has announced inflation adjustments to the standard deduction and other tax provisions for the 2023 tax year. The standard deduction for married couples filing jointly for tax year 2023 will rise to $27,700, up $1,800 from tax year 2022. The standard deduction is the amount taxpayers can subtract from their income, before they owe taxes on the rest. (You cannot take the standard deduction if you itemize your deductions.) For single taxpayers and married people filing separately, the standard deduction will rise to $13,850, up $900; for heads of households, it will rise to $20,800, up $1,400. People...

In a newly released audio clip, former President Donald Trump can be heard boasting about how much tougher he was than his predecessors when he was being impeached. CNN obtained audio files from veteran journalist Bob Woodward's conversations with Trump, during which Trump compared his own impeachment to former presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. Woodward met Trump 20 times from 2016 to 2020 and recorded over eight hours of audio. Woodward is releasing the audio in his upcoming audiobook, "The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Trump." "There's nobody that's tougher than me. Nobody's tougher than me,"...

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CNN anchor Don Lemon this week took a shot at former President Trump ahead of his new role anchoring CNN’s morning program, saying that while he looks forward to starting the next chapter in his career — he hopes it will go beyond “tribal politics.” “I would be lying to you if I didn’t say that was a factor,” Lemon said of his move to mornings in an interview with news startup Semafor. “I never really butted heads with the last president. He didn’t have the courage to come on and take hard questions from CNN and me and my...

It has become increasingly clear that the political Right in America is not what it used to be. In particular, my own preferred slant of classical liberalism is being replaced. In its stead are rising alternatives that don’t yet have a common name. Some are called “national conservatism,” and some (by no means all) strands are pro-Trump, but I will refer to the New Right. My use of the term covers a broad range of sources, from Curtis Yarvin to J.D. Vance to Adrian Vermeule to Sohrab Ahmari to Rod Dreher to Tucker Carlson, and also a lot of anonymous...

Some one billion children are at "extremely high risk" due to climate change harms, a rights group warned on Wednesday, adding that youths' living standards failed to improve in the last decade. The KidsRights index, based on figures supplied by UN agencies, also said more than one-third of the world's children, some 820 million, were currently exposed to heatwaves. Water scarcity affected 920 million children worldwide, while diseases such as malaria and dengue affected some 600 million children, or one in every four, Dutch NGO KidsRights said. The KidsRights Index is the first and only ranking that measures how children's...