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Modern virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey claims he created a VR headset that would instantly destroy the user’s brain with explosive charge modules if the player’s character dies in the game. “If you die in the game,” Luckey wrote in his Monday blog post. “You die in real life.” Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the virtual reality head-mounted display Oculus Rift, said tying the life of a gamer to their virtual avatar has always fascinated him. “You instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the...

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a Russian penal colony after being sentenced to nine years in prison for allegedly possessing cannabis oil, according to the Associated Press. Griner was moved from a detention center on November 4, according to her legal team, but they do not know where the penal colony she will be transferred to is located. The White House released a statement on Monday morning condemning the latest development involving the professional basketball player. “Every minute that Brittney Griner must endure wrongful detention in Russia is a minute too long. As the Administration continues to...

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Unofficial Results Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 1:13:43 AM (9 hours ago)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors on Wednesday are weighing a less clear outcome in the U.S. midterm election, as a better-than-expected showing by Democrats muddies the outlook for issues such as fiscal spending and regulation. S&P futures were off about 0.5% on Wednesday morning, while the dollar rose against a basket of currencies. Yields on the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury, which move inversely to prices, were higher. "You're in a slightly different situation and it does look like the Biden Presidency has not been dealt a massive blow by these midterm elections, so the markets are in a wait-and-see mode,"...

Cardinal Parolin: COP27 provides opportunity that cannot be wastedSpeaking at the COP27 meeting on climate change, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin highlights the Holy See’s participation as a “state party” to both the Convention and the Paris Agreement, and emphasizes the need for international and intergenerational solidarity to address the challenge of climate change.Cardinal Pietro Parolin assured participants in the COP27 gathering of Pope Francis’s “ closeness, support, and encouragement” for their work.He noted that just a few days earlier, in Bahrain, the Holy Father had expressed his hope “that COP27 will be a step forward for ‘concrete and...

NBC News is projecting that the GOP will take the US House away from lying, corrupt communists running it now. The news this morning is that the Democrats and RINOs did all they could to stop the MAGA candidates from winning. In addition, in Democrat states with ballot harvesting and major corruption led to Democrat wins. But currently, NBC is projecting that the GOP will win the US House. Last night Real Clear Politics predicted that the GOP was going to run away with the house. They even stated that this was the case before the toss-ups. Per below, the...

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Budgeting for Thanksgiving dinner later this month? You might want to shop at Aldi. From prosciutto to potatoes to pumpkin pie, Aldi is offering all its traditional Thanksgiving foods at 2019 prices. According to the grocery store, that’s up to a 30% discount on your Thanksgiving favorites. The promotion runs now through Nov. 29, meaning you can get your discount food items for an early Friendsgiving and a traditional Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 24. If you’ve got the pantry space, you can even head back to Aldi after Thanksgiving to stock up on Christmas dinner staples before the promotion ends....

Former President Donald Trump tore into defeated New Hampshire GOP candidate Don Bolduc — whom he had endorsed for the Senate — for walking back his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. “Don Bolduc was a very nice guy, but he lost tonight when he disavowed, after his big primary win, his long-standing stance on Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Primary,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday. “Had he stayed strong and true, he would have won, easily,” added the former commander-in-chief, who endorsed Bolduc late last week. “Lesson Learned!!” “General Don Bolduc...

Attorney General Letitia James declared victory Tuesday night over her Republican opponent Michael Henry. James, who will serve a second term, rejected her opponent's claims that bail reform lies at the heart of the state's crime problems. James supports many of the bail reform initiatives stemming from full Democratic control of Albany. She also denied allegations by Henry, a Manhattan-based commercial litigator, that politics led to her investigation of former President Donald Trump. In a tweet following her declaration of victory, James promised to keep fighting for the rights of every person in the state and ensure the rule of...

The state senator behind the push to carry out an Arizona-style “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election on Friday accused Senate Republican leadership of stonewalling his efforts. During an interview aired Friday on One American News Network, Doug Mastriano, a Franklin County Republican, blasted Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, R-Centre County, for trying to shut down his pursuit of an election audit. He added that Mr. Corman has threatened to strip him of his chairmanship of the Senate Intergovernmental Committee and fire his staff if he moves ahead with the audit. “This is the kind of games that...

A few takeaways form last night. We did not have a "Red Wave" We barely managed to hang on to what we have Trump needs to retire. The defacto leader of the conservative movement is DeSantis Abortion and late term baby killing is more important to 50% of Americans than crime, inflation and energy independence. Republicans need to field candidates with competence and governance. Either we get rid of mail in voting or republicans learn to cheat like the democrats. We must expand our influence among Hispanic voters. With their family values they are extremely important. I am thankful if...

Democrats tried to outrun history — and the lead weight of a wounded president who made his final political appearance of the campaign in deep-blue Maryland, in a county he won two years ago by an overwhelming margin. They had help from a surprising quarter: Republican voters. A base still in thrall to former President Donald Trump chose candidates in the primaries who threw out plenty of red meat, but on Election Day, many failed to translate their frustrations into victory. Here are the lessons of the 2022 midterms so far: The Democratic base showed up. The biggest question hanging...

They've been stuck on these exact numbers since this morning, Jerusalem time. Have they all stopped counting? Seems it's de ja vu all over again.

Ladies, if you’re striking out on bad dates your birth control could be to blame. A podcast host is claiming the pill can change to whom you’re attracted — so maybe you don’t have bad taste after all. In a viral TikTok, Elisha Covey from Dallas suggested that birth control mimics pregnancy in a woman’s body — and, to some degree, it does. The pill prevents ovulation from occurring and changes the cervical mucus, with some help from hormones, to make it harder to become pregnant. “If you are on the pill, obviously not pregnant, you’re attracted to different men...

Republicans under-performed across the country Tuesday, with Donald Trump-endorsed nominees losing or trailing in swing districts and Senate and gubernatorial races. Trump endorsed more than 400 candidates across the 2022 midterms, according to Ballotpedia, making his presence felt in swing races in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona. In all three states, Trump-endorsed candidates have under-performed. Fox News and NBC have projected that Democrat John Fetterman will defeat Republican Mehmet Oz in the Keystone State, and Democrat Josh Shapiro is projected to defeat Republican Doug Mastriano in its gubernatorial contest. Trump’s endorsement helped Oz through a heavily-contested primary, despite misgivings from many...

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House, declared early Wednesday morning that the GOP would flip the chamber – even though final results were not yet tallied – and now faces an angry caucus and the possibility of ​his becoming speaker in jeopardy. “When you wake up tomorrow, we will be in the majority and Nancy Pelosi will be in the minority,” McCarthy said in a speech to supporters shortly after midnight. “We are expanding this party. The American people are ready for a majority that will offer a new direction that will put America back on track,”...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said president Biden’s effort to vilify Republicans ahead of this week’s midterm elections appears to have worked. “I was surprised because I though with inflation, with the crime rate we have seen … I thought all those things would have made for a very big Republican night,” Gingrich said Wednesday morning during an appearance on Fox News. “And I have to say, as much as I think it was despicable, the Biden strategy of demonizing Republicans … I think did have an impact and will become a definition of the democratic party.”

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ JOHN THE BAPTIST PREACHING ֎ Featuring 31 Paintings and 1 Sculpture ֎ L U K E CHAPTER 3* The word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the desert. He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. Every valley shall be...