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"And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them." "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ." Mark, Chapter 9 1 And...

Hollywood star Fran Drescher — who is the president of SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest actors union — has blasted COVID vaccine mandates as an infringement on basic liberties, saying no one should be forced to take the vaccine as a condition for work, travel, dining, or attending public events. In a recently posted TikTok video that has gone viral, Fran Drescher warned that overzealous mandates could turn into a form of “fascism.” ... to make that one vaccine the criteria for who is allowed to work, travel, dine, go to theater, etc., is an infringement on the Disabilities Act, the Freedom...

Regular use of drugs to lower cholesterol and control type 2 diabetes may lessen the risk of the degenerative eye disease associated with aging, known as AMD, finds a pooled data analysis. AMD is the leading cause of severe visual impairment among older people in high-income countries. AMD affects central vision and the ability to see fine detail. Various genetic and environmental factors associated with aging are thought to trigger AMD, but it's still not clear how best to prevent it or slow its progression. Previously published research suggests that drugs to lower cholesterol, control diabetes, and tamp down inflammation...

Systems that once contained Nvidia and TSMC chips, which are now restricted by the US government, are popping up this week with slower specs to meet US export controls to China and evade the hassles of obtaining special licenses. Chinese server maker Inspur was spotted swapping out the its A100 Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) in its NF5688MG [PDF] for an A800 in updated promotional material. H3C, the China-based Tsinghua Group and Hewlett Packard mashup, are also suddenly featuring the A800 on select servers. According to specs provided online by Chinese server-maker Omnisky, which also uses the chip, it remains eerily...

"The U.S. territory Guam on Tuesday elected a Republican to its at-large House delegate position for the first time in more than three decades."

NBC’s national political reporter Marc Caputo said Tuesday that Hispanic voters are “behaving like working class whites” and predicted Republicans will do well in Florida. MSNBC’s national political correspondent Steve Kornacki was breaking down the numbers in Florida that showed promising signs for Republicans, to which Caputo agreed. “It’s a story that you are seeing nationwide. One, outside of Miami-Dade, white voters, working class voters are increasingly shifting Republican. Hispanic voters are increasingly behaving like working class whites, and that accounts for a great amount of shift in Miami-Dade,” Caputo said. “We’re talking hundreds of thousands of votes, to Steve’s...

Longtime Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has agreed to drop her defamation lawsuit against former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz – saying Tuesday that she may have made a “mistake” in identifying him as one of the men she was forced to have sex with. In a stipulation dismissing the Manhattan federal court suit, attorneys for Giuffre and Dershowitz said neither party would be awarded costs or legal fees as part of the settlement. “I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz,” Giuffre, 39, said in a statement. “However, I was very young at...

Incumbent Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Missouri Senate hopeful Eric Schmitt each said Monday that if Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate, they won't support Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for another term as leader. At a rally for Schmitt in Springfield, Missouri, Hawley told a gaggle of reporters that he prefers a fresh face for leader, citing disagreements with McConnell on funding Ukraine's defense against Russia and spending legislation. "I don't imagine I will, no," Hawley reportedly said when asked if he would support McConnell. I'm not sure if any other senator will run or not. Nobody's indicated they...

Explanation: How many galaxies are interacting here? This grouping of galaxies is called the Wild Triplet, not only for the discoverer, but for the number of bright galaxies that appear. It had been assumed that all three galaxies, collectively cataloged as Arp 248, are interacting, but more recent investigations reveal that only the brightest two galaxies are sparring gravitationally: the big galaxies at the top and bottom. The spiral galaxy in the middle of the featured image by the Hubble Space Telescope is actually far in the distance, as is the galaxy just below it and all of the other...

Anti-Russia activists and former Russian politicians have reportedly been meeting in Poland to discuss options for removing President Vladimir Putin from power — including by “physically eliminating” him. The group of Putin foes has mulled various regime change scenarios, among them unleashing a civil war in Russia, taking up arms and killing Putin, the European media network Euractiv reported. “The main goal is to physically eliminate Putin,” opposition activist Viacheslav Maltsev said. Maltsev, who fled Russia in 2017 after being labeled an extremist by the state, noted that a civil war in Russia would not be “as bloody as the...

President Joe Biden is downright shocked that the country isn’t unified and politically healthy after he spent the last two years dividing it. New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker detailed the president’s feelings, writing that “these are frustrating, even perplexing times for Mr. Biden, who according to confidants had expected the fever of polarizing politics to have broken by now and was surprised that it had not.” Apparently, Biden thought that “if he could simply govern well, everything would work out,” but instead, “the presidency he envisioned, one where he presided over a moment of reconciliation, is...

A Georgia judge on Monday agreed to have the ballot return deadline extended for about 1,000 Cobb County absentee voters who didn’t have their requested mail ballots sent out by elections officials. The consent order (pdf) from Cobb County Superior Court Judge Kellie Hill means that the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration will send replacement ballots to the 1,046 affected voters overnight on Monday. It also means that the absentee ballots have a return deadline of Nov. 14, although the ballots must be postmarked and out in the mail by Election Day, Nov. 8, to be counted. Nov....

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Former President Trump on Tuesday complained that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was not gracious enough to him for backing his first gubernatorial bid, the latest sign of a growing rift between the two men ahead of a possible 2024 presidential primary showdown. “Ron is a person, I’ve always had a decent relationship with him, but when I endorsed him, he was gone,” Trump told NewsNation in an interview from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (NewsNation is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which purchased The Hill in 2021.)

A Covid outbreak at an American scientific research station in Antarctica has forced U.S. officials to temporarily halt all travel to the remote outpost. The National Science Foundation, which operates McMurdo Station on the southern tip of Antarctica’s Ross Island, announced new measures over the weekend to help control the outbreak, which was first reported by NBC News on Friday. The temporary ban does not include essential travel for health and safety reasons, according to the agency. There is also a medical clinic located at the station to provide health care to its residents. The agency confirmed that 10% of...

Former President Trump in an Election Day interview said that if the candidates he has endorsed win their races in the midterms, then he should get “all of the credit,” although he believes he will see “very little.” When asked how much he believes candidates’ victories or losses should be credited to him, Trump told NewsNation’s Markie Martin, “Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all. OK, but it’ll probably be just the opposite.

A pro-New York City Mayor Eric Adams group donated $10,000 to Republican gubernatorial nominee Lee Zeldin on the eve of Election Day. Striving for a Better New York, a political action committee (PAC) closely aligned with Adams and headed by a close ally, Rev. Alfred Cockfield II, donated $10,000 to Zeldin on the eve of election niThe PAC’s treasurer Carmen Sterling posted the wired transfer on the Board of Election’s website Monday night, as the campaign committees must report any new donation within 24 hours in the final two weeks of the election.ght, according to reports.

The red wave has begun on this Election Day, and it has capsized Guam's Democratic Party. The U.S. territory sends one nonvoting delegate to Congress, and that delegate had always been a Democrat going back to 1993. That is no longer true after Republican James Moylan defeated his Democratic opponent and became the first GOP pick-up in Congress and just the second Republican ever sent to Congress by the island. Moylan had trailed in exit polls by 13 percentage points but won by 5. The island’s Democratic governor held on (though she won by 11 points, compared to the 24...

Eating a diet high in saturated fats can reprogram the mouse immune system, making it better able to fight off infection but more susceptible to systemic inflammatory conditions, including sepsis. The researchers focused on one particular fat found in the ketogenic diet: palmitic acid, commonly found in animal and dairy products. Remarkably, mice fed a normal diet who were injected with palmitic acid also became more susceptible to sepsis. Napier and colleagues learned that palmitic acid can trigger trained immunity. The fat acts as a "brief pulse of inflammation" that alters the function of stem cells in bone marrow so...

OLED screens can also be engineered to be bendable and malleable, without hindering their performance or causing any permanent damage. We’ve already seen devices like TVs and computer displays with a permanent curve to better fill a user’s peripheral vision, and even screens that can be flattened back out again for users who want to frequently switch between the two display modes. But LG is working to bring the flexibility of OLEDs to smaller devices, and today revealed the world’s first 12-inch panel that’s both flexible and stretchable, like a giant piece of rubber band, improving its ability to survive...