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China needs to call Rihanna for some umbrellas to weather this phenomenon of nature. Citizens of the Chinese province of Liaoning were told to find shelter after it looked like it started to rain worms. A viral clip showed the area apparently being showered with little worms, which were splattered all over cars. The video showed residents covering themselves with umbrellas as they go along with their routines and wander past. While the cause of the slimy creature calamity has yet to be uncovered, the scientific journal Mother Nature Network suggested that the animals were dropped after being swept up...

A group of House Democrats is reviving an effort to give a pathway to citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants who are already in the U.S. by updating a nearly century-old registry to allow for their statuses to be adjusted. Six Democrats this week reintroduced the Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929. The bill would update a status adjustment process — commonly known as the registry — that allows for those in the country illegally before a certain date to have their status regularized. The registry was last updated in 1986 and at that time allowed for...

Political Centrists come in various forms. There are plenty of Democratic Centrists who may differ from their lefty brethren on all sorts of issues, but not their allegiance to the Democratic Party. Think Bill Clinton, Tim Kaine, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden (some put every Democratic presidential nominee from 1980 to 2020 in the Centrist tribe). There are Republican Centrists too, though they have been RINO-hunted into near extinction lately; Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Phil Scott, and Larry Hogan are the last remnants of this once robust brand. Beyond these loose groups are independent Centrists. These folks believe...

Etsy is warning sellers that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday is causing delays in processing payments, according to an email from the company shared with NBC News. The online do-it-yourself goods mega shop said it used SVB to facilitate disbursement to some sellers, and that it was working with other payment partners to issue deposits. "We wanted to let you know that there is a delay with your deposit that was scheduled for today," the email from Etsy said. "We know that you count on us to help run your business and we understand how important it...

ATLANTA – The economic slowdown in Georgia many economists have been predicting for this year hasn’t arrived yet. The state Department of Revenue collected more than $2.12 billion in taxes last month, an increase of 8.7% over February of last year, the agency reported Friday. For the first eight months of fiscal 2023, tax revenues were up 5.9% over the same period in fiscal 2022. Individual income tax receipts rose by 9.2% in February over the same month last year, as tax return payments increased by 31.3% while refunds were down 3.3%. Net sales tax collections were healthy last month,...

11 March 2023Saturday of the 2nd week of Lent Restoration of the Church of Archangel Michael, Pologi, Ukraine Original view More stunning photos (Ukr)Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingMicah 7:14-15,18-20 ©Have pity on us one more timeWith shepherd’s crook, O Lord, lead your people to pasture,the flock that is your heritage,living confined in a forestwith meadow land all around.Let them pasture in Bashan and Gileadas in the days of old.As in the days when you came out of Egyptgrant us to see wonders.What god can compare with you: taking fault away,pardoning crime,not cherishing anger for everbut delighting in...

The Silicon Valley Bank meltdown may incite the Federal Reserve to cut rates by 100 basis points by December to prevent contagion in the financial system, Larry McDonald said. That would mark a sharp reversal from the central bank's current course of aggressive tightening to rein in inflation. Rate hikes totaling 450 basis points over the past year have made returns on short-term Treasurys more attractive, draining deposits from banks like SVB, the founder of "The Bear Traps Report" told CNBC on Friday. "In essence, the Fed is causing this bank run," he said. Shares of Silicon Valley Bank crashed...

An NYC woman was certain she was qualified for the high-paying position she spotted on LinkedIn — because she was already doing the work. UX writer Kimberly Nguyen, 25, went viral for claiming she applied for a similar job at her company that is being offered for a much higher salary. The move comes months after a new law took effect that requires most NYC employers to list “good faith” salary ranges for any posting for a new job.

11 March 2023Saturday of the 2nd week of Lent Restoration of the Church of Archangel Michael, Pologi, Ukraine Original view More stunning photos (Ukr)Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingMicah 7:14-15,18-20 ©Have pity on us one more timeWith shepherd’s crook, O Lord, lead your people to pasture,the flock that is your heritage,living confined in a forestwith meadow land all around.Let them pasture in Bashan and Gileadas in the days of old.As in the days when you came out of Egyptgrant us to see wonders.What god can compare with you: taking fault away,pardoning crime,not cherishing anger for everbut delighting in...

Around midnight on Saturday, the levee along the Pajaro River in north Monterey County was breached, forcing thousands of residents of the Pajaro to evacuate in the middle of the night. According to Monterey County, both the Monterey County Water Resources Agency and the California Department of Water Resources were along the levee trying to stop the flooding when the levee was breached. Earlier in the day, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office had issued an evacuation order for the community of Pajaro. Volunteers, including Monterey County Supervisor Luis Alejo and Santa Cruz County Supervisors Felipe Hernandez, had knocked on doors...

-- Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, said the Kremlin has completely stopped talking to him. -- Prigozhin claims he was cut off after revealing that his troops in Ukraine are running out of ammunition. -- The Wagner boss said he's been desperately trying to get more supplies but has been ignored. The head of Russia's infamous Wagner Group mercenary organization claims that the Kremlin has cut off contact with him. Yevgeny Prigozhin, known for years to be a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in a Thursday message on his Telegram channel that all of his...

Ripping: Video Jitters You rip a video and it is fully of jitters. Every now and then the video pauses. Maybe for just enough to notice, but sometimes for what seems like a long time. What causes video jitters while encoding them?The Number 1 Cause: Overclocking Most of the systems we use today are built on gaming computers. The first core is built to handle the overclocking most folks give it. The subsequent cores can only handle the overclocking for shorter periods of time as the game gets more intense. When the limits are exceeded, either in watts and time...

This is very scary for athletes and parents of kids who play on artificial turf.If you played a youth field sport at any level you probably had at least some contact with artificial turf. Now there are serious concerns about long-term exposure to the playing surface. Six former Philadelphia Phillies players, Tug McGraw, Darren Daulton, John Vukovich, John Oates, Ken Brett, and David West have died due to glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that seems to indicate a link in their environment — with the turf inside of Veteran’s Stadium from 1971-2003 being a common factor. A ranging...

The 'Star Trek' legend says his new documentary ‘You Can Call Me Bill’ is “a way of reaching out after I die” Star Trek legend William Shatner has said he doesn’t “have long to live”. The 91-year-old recently finished his new documentary You Can Call Me Bill, which is described as ”an intimate portrait of William Shatner’s personal journey over nine decades on this Earth”. While wider release plans have yet to be finalised, the film will air at this year’s SXSW festival. Speaking about his decision to make the doc, Shatner said: “I’ve turned down a lot of offers...

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez married in Vegas in July 2022. But in August, the couple had a big three-day celebration at Affleck’s massive estate in Riceboro, Georgia. While the pair seemed very excited about the wedding, some fans didn’t approve of the location. Many wondered why the couple held the wedding at Affleck’s plantation-style home, allegedly built on unmarked slave graves. US actor Ben Affleck poses as he arrives for the world premiere of “Triple Frontier” on March 3, 2019 in New York City. | Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images Affleck bought the house in Georgia in 2003 for...

Sir Michael Caine has responded to the claim that his 1964 film Zulu incites the far-right, calling it “XXXXXXXX”. Earlier this year, the film was cited as a “key text” for “white nationalists/supremacists” during a review into the government’s counter-terrorism programme Prevent. Speaking to The Spectator, Caine revealed he got the part of arrogant, inexperienced Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in Zulu after playing “a cockney bloke in the West End in a play called Next Time I’ll Sing To You.” “An American director who was in the audience saw me and gave me a part in the film Zulu as a...

On Tuesday afternoon, 45th President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump reacted to bombshell coverage by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson released on Monday evening of previously never before seen raw footage of the January 6, 2021 protest at the Capitol. Trump demanded the release of the January 6th prisoners and those who covered up the truth about January 6th to be “tried for fraud and treason.”“GREAT JOB BY TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT. The Unselect Committee of political Hacks & Thugs has been totally discredited. They knowingly refused to show the Videos that mattered,” Trump wrote in a post on Tuesday...

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Suzy Barker, a native Iowan dressed in an orange-and-blue University of Florida hoodie, waited in a crowd of fellow Republicans on Friday morning to meet Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.She smiled widely and pointed to her hoodie as she told the governor that her son attended college in his home state. DeSantis – dressed in a dark blue suit with a light blue, open-collar shirt and black boots – stood on the opposite side of 10 metal bike racks separating him from the crowd. He gave a slight nod to Barker and told her about his state’s...

LONDON (AP) - Former England captain Gary Lineker will not present a soccer highlights show on the BBC until an agreement is reached on his social media use, the network said on Friday. Lineker criticized the British government’s new asylum policy in a Twitter post, comparing lawmakers’ language about migrants to that used in Nazi Germany. The BBC considers Lineker posting such views on social media as a breach of its guidelines and has been in discussions with him over his involvement in the “Match of the Day” program that is broadcast on Saturday nights and shows highlights of English...

President Donald Trump is ready to “beat the Radical Left Democrats at their own game,” announcing that his campaign will start to legally harvest ballots in the states “where the left is cheating the system.”In a video posted on Truth Social Wednesday, President Trump said: “The radical left Democrats have used ballot harvesting to cancel out your vote and walk away with elections that they never should have won. They cheat and they cheat like nobody has ever cheated before.”He continued, “Many states have banned ballot harvesting to keep our elections honest and fair. But in the states where ballot...