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Monarch butterflies are back in Pacific Grove for the winter. Sunday, people from all walks of life came to witness the beautiful butterflies. "Pacific Grove calls itself Butterfly Town, USA,” says Natalie Johnston with the Pacific Grove National History Museum. This year is seen as a symbol of perseverance, especially how they were able to rebound from having zero of them back in 2020. Last year, they saw about 13,000 monarchs, and this year the current number sits at 11,171. "For four generations, they had good breeding conditions, and with good breeding conditions, they can produce remarkable number of butterflies,”...

Hey, so remember that time the other day when President Joe Biden promised that “we’re gonna be shutting these [coal] plants down all across America”? VIDEO AT LINK............... Remember how the following day, Biden’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attempted — quite poorly — to walk Biden’s remarks back? She claimed that his remarks had “been twisted” by people with bad intentions, and that he was really and truly and sincerely sorry if anyone took his comments to mean that he was promising to shut down coal plants when he said he’d shut down coal plants. “I apologize if you were...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a new interview detailed the moment she first learned of the attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi, at their San Francisco home late last month. The Speaker, speaking with CNN for her first sit-down interview since the incident, said she was sleeping when she heard her doorbell ring. When she did not answer the door, Capitol Police officers began banging. At that moment, Pelosi said she was “very scared.”

Two super-hot planets have atmospheres laced with barium.Two gas planets have atmospheres peppered with barium — the heaviest element detected in any exoplanet atmosphere so far1.[ ... ]Nature 611, 12 (2022)doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03384-2ReferencesSilva, T. A. et al. Astron. Astrophys. 666, L10 (2022).

The simple mention of the word "radiation" often evokes fear in people. For others, it's fun to think a little exposure to radiation could turn you into the next superhero, just like the Hulk. But is it true basically everything around us is radioactive, even the food we eat? You may have heard bananas are mildly radioactive, but what does that actually mean? And despite us not being superheroes, are human bodies also radioactive? What is radiation? Radiation is energy that travels from one point to another, either as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation from various natural...

A frisky Australian club patron bashed a cleaner who caught him engaged in an “intimate” act inside a disabled toilet. Ex-army technician Billy Dean Fallon, 28, repeatedly punched the cleaner after bursting out of the female disabled cubicle at Nightjar nightclub in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, on January 20. Fallon admitted assault occasioning bodily harm on Monday at Southport Magistrates Court, the Gold Coast Bulletin reported.

Videos show desperate Russian troops fleeing from their burning tanks and a group of soldiers being blown up by Ukrainian missiles during a disastrous assault on a town in eastern Ukraine that saw 300 soldiers reportedly killed or wounded. Footage shows Russian marines from the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade driving a burning T-80BVM tank, along a road in the largely destroyed town of Pavlivka, as flames and black smoke erupted from the vehicle following a Ukrainian strike. A group of Russian soldiers can be seen climbing on top of the tank and jumping down before they ran away from the...

The Justice Department announced on Monday that it would monitor election sites in 24 different states around the country on Tuesday to ensure compliance with voting rights laws. “Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Division has regularly monitored elections in the field in jurisdictions around the country to protect the rights of voters,” wrote the DOJ in a statement. The department will monitor voting sites in 64 jurisdictions across the 24 states that include: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New...

Who Authorized the Department of Homeland Security to Police Online Speech? Not Congress Newly published documents obtained by the Intercept show the US government is actively shaping online discourse and policing speech. This invites a question: who gave them this authority? When George W. Bush signed the Homeland Security Act in 2002, the goal was to improve national security by strengthening government at various levels and helping them identify and respond to threats, particularly terrorism.''The continuing threat of terrorism, the threat of mass murder on our own soil, will be met with a unified, effective response,'' said Bush. ''Dozens of...

Former NBA player turned activist Enes Freedom has called out Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai for allegedly supporting the Uyghur genocide in China. Freedom called Tsai a hypocrite after he called out his star guard Kyrie Irving for helping promote an antisemitic film on social media. Replying to Tsai's post about Irving on Twitter, Freedom praised the Nets owner for calling out his player. However, he also called Tsai a hypocrite because of his support for China's alleged human rights violations against the Uyghur people. "I applaud you for condemning Kyrie Irving after multiple antisemitic incidents," Freedom wrote. "It's time...

New Hampshire’s Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Don Bolduc, leads his Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan, among those undecided on who they are going to vote for, according to a new poll. The poll from Wick Insights shows 48.4 percent of respondents saying they will vote for Bolduc and 48.3 percent saying they will vote for Hassan. When undecided voters were asked to choose between Hassan and Bolduc, 95 percent said they would vote for Bolduc.

"Live Up to Your Name" is a Korean show about a time traveling accupuncturist from Joseon times and his counterpart, a heart surgeon from modern times. Great physical comedy and serious issues. And one of the few great dramas that made it to YouTube. Humor music video.

President Donald Trump urged Americans to make time to vote in-person Tuesday for this year’s hotly anticipated midterm elections, urging voters to deal a “really humiliating rebuke” to radical left Democrats.“Every freedom-loving American needs to understand the time to stand up to this growing left-wing tyranny is RIGHT NOW,” he told an audience in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.President Donald J, Trump "The election was RIGGED and STOLEN and we're not going to let it happen again!" the crowd cheers https://t.co/v13MzxQBed pic.twitter.com/0ZRkY1tD2m— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) November 6, 2022 “…Get out and vote on Tuesday because it’s harder for them to cheat if you...

LeBron James is the GOAT when it comes to telling small, meaningless lies.The NBA community has been mourning the death of rapper Takeoff, whose real name is Kirshnik Ball, since he was killed in Houston last week. Takeoff was 1/3rd of Migos, the popular rap trio from Atlanta that went to the top of the charts with their sophomore album “Culture” and were often seen in NBA circles. LeBron James was asked about Takeoff’s death on Sunday afternoon after the Los Angeles Lakers lost the Cleveland Cavaliers, 114-100, in LA. His answer went viral for all the wrong reasons. James...

Explanation: If the full Moon suddenly faded, what would you see? The answer was recorded in a dramatic time lapse video taken during the total lunar eclipse in 2011 from Tajikistan. During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth moves between the Moon and the Sun, causing the moon to fade dramatically. The Moon never gets completely dark, though, since the Earth's atmosphere refracts some light. As the featured video begins, the scene may appear to be daytime and sunlit, but actually it is a nighttime and lit by the glow of the full Moon. As the Moon becomes eclipsed and...

Former President Donald Trump has told several allies he could announce a 2024 presidential run Monday night at a rally for Ohio Republican Senate candidate JD Vance, The Post has learned. A well-connected Republican source said the 45th president was “telling people he might tonight, but it’s not a done thing.” Trump told several prominent conservatives over the past two weeks that he would formally throw his hat in the ring during his 8 p.m. appearance with Vance in Dayton, Ohio. But it’s unclear if the notoriously mercurial 76-year-old intends to actually do so on the eve of an election...

President Donald Trump energized Floridian voters in Miami on Sunday afternoon at a “Get Out the Vote” rally, calling on Americans with “courage and guts” to stand against the radical left agenda that is threatening to implement communism on U.S. soil.“We need strong people, we need people with courage and guts, or this movement is going to overtake us,” Trump told the crowd.Trump’s rally garnered widespread support for popular Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R). Other conservative figures were also present, including Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.Donald Trump Jr. also delivered remarks on...

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace claimed Monday on ABC’s “The View” that the Republican Party stands for not condemning antisemitism and “owning the libs.” Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “Let me ask you this though. Some Trump-backed candidates are in tight, tight races. Dr. Oz, J.D. Vance, Kari Lake and of course, the Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. Even with accusations about Walker paying ex-girlfriends to get abortions, the Republicans seem to be focused on getting the Senate at any cost.” She asked, “What is your view of that, and what does the party stand for right now?”

President Joe Biden has been back on the campaign trail, traveling in October and early November to deliver his pitch for electing Democrats in the midterm elections on Tuesday. Biden’s pitch has included claims that are false, misleading or lacking important context. (As always, we take no position on the accuracy of his subjective arguments.) Here is a fact-check look at nine of his recent statements. The White House did not respond to a request for comment for this article. Social Security, part 1Biden said at a Democratic fundraiser in Pennsylvania last week: “On our watch, for the first time...

Boogie Nights star Heather Graham has made an unconventional appeal to Wisconsin voters to elect Democrats in Tuesday’s midterms, citing the state’s “anti-abortion” law as a reason to support candidates including Senate hopeful Mandela Barnes (D) and incumbent Gov. Tony Evers (D). In a short video posted Monday to Twitter, the Hollywood actress wore a cut-off t-shirt reading “I will aid and abet abortion” while shaking her boobs provocatively at the camera. Watch below: “Wisconsin has the oldest anti-abortion law in the country preventing a lot of doctors from providing abortions to women and is one of the tightest races...