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@RandPaul Bring our troops home from Syria and end every unauthorized war going on today. Return the power to engage in war to Congress. Our service members deserve it. The Constitution demands it. RE: U.S. Conducts Airstrikes in Syria in Response to Deadly UAV Attack

Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal for Northern Ireland has been formally signed off at a meeting in London, after a Conservative rebellion against the deal failed this week. James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, adopted the new arrangements for Northern Ireland at a meeting with the European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič. It comes after Sunak won the overwhelming backing of MPs for the Windsor framework, which seeks to overcome trade problems with the Northern Ireland protocol struck in the original Brexit deal. ... In a joint statement, Cleverly and Šefčovič said they had met in a “constructive atmosphere”. “The joint committee welcomed...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. (1 Timothy 2:1-2) IN A HURRY-UP WORLD, LET’S HURRY UP AND GET THE GOSPEL TO EVERYONE!

In addition to the disadvantages of a high purchase price, lengthy recharging times, difficulties in finding charging stations, and occasional spontaneous combustion, it now turns out that electric vehicle batteries are extremely fragile. Fender-bender collisions are resulting in damage to the vehicle's battery that cannot be repaired. Consequently, many of these vehicles are considered "totalled" for insurance purposes. Unsurprisingly, insuring EVs is becoming more costly. The scrapping of these damaged low-mileage EVs is also undermining the promised "sustainability" performance claims for the EVs. Matthew Avery, research director at automotive risk intelligence company Thatcham Research, said "replacing gasoline powered cars with...

Skywatchers who caught sight of the shimmery display posted images from Yreka and Lakeport and from aboard a flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix. The northern lights are most commonly on display in the farthest reaches of the world, and people travel to places like Iceland and Greenland to see them, but according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a geomagnetic storm made the phenomenon visible as far south as Alabama, as well as Northern California, on the night of March 23. exp-player-logo Read More Greg Williams, president of the Shasta Astronomy Club, said that a geomagnetic storm is...

In the last few years, China has put regulatory hurdles in front of big Hollywood movies from releasing in the country. This is the next best thing to an explicit ban. However, this hurts the American film industry, for China is an important market for its films. That was not so earlier. But it all changed when 2009's 'Avatar' brought in an unheard-of $200 million to 20th Century Fox, and then big studios began to do everything they could to secure a China release. And to pass the country's stringent censors, they had to cut everything that the Communist Party...

Egypt's first complete Zodiac was uncovered on the ceiling of the Temple of Esna in Luxor governorate during restoration work carried out by an Egyptian-German expedition...After five years of cleaning and restoration work, the joint Egyptian-German mission uncovered a bright and colourful astronomical representation of the ancient Egyptian night sky.The relief contains all the twelve Zodiac signs, the outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, as well as depictions of the so-called seven arrows and constellations used by the ancient Egyptians in time measurement....these findings were not recorded by the temple's previous publication by late French Egyptologist Serge Sauneron, who...

President Joe Biden marked the beginning of the month of Ramadan on Wednesday by issuing a statement in which he noted that Muslim communities “have been part of the American story since our founding.” "During this holy month, we also honor Muslim communities across our nation that have been part of the American story since our founding,” said Biden. “From science and technology, to arts and academia, to law and medicine, to business and government, and beyond—Muslim Americans continue to strengthen our nation’s diverse tapestry generation after generation,” he said. “So today, let us join together across cultures and faiths...

The northern lights may be traveling south and could be seen across the mainland US from the West to East coasts Thursday and Friday. Not only that, but this is one of the most ideal times to gawk at the powerful color spectrum due to the change of seasons, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “The best seasons for aurora watching are around the spring and fall equinoxes,” according to the agency. “Due to subtleties in the way the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetosphere, there is a tendency toward larger geomagnetic storms, and thus better auroras, to...

ENJOY :D "This is how the language of politics gets so confusing for most people. When someone says they "Indicated yesterday that they didn't accept the conclusion of yadda yadda yadda" — Political language BS afoot. Carlin nails it right here."

An up-and-coming fashion designer who dressed Lady Gaga and other celebrities was murdered in her Manhattan apartment with a lethal cocktail of fentanyl and other drugs last year, cops and reports said Friday. A neighbor spotted Kathryn “Katie” Gallagher’s keys dangling from the door of her apartment on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side and entered to check on her — then discovered her lifeless body face up on her bed, a police source said. The mysterious death of Gallagher, 35, was classified as a homicide Friday after the medical examiner determined that she died from acute intoxication from...

A prominent DC lawyer who died earlier this month after traveling on a corporate jet did not pass away from severe turbulence as originally reported. Earlier this month, Dana Hyde, a prominent DC lawyer who served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations was killed while flying over New England in a business jet. The business jet carrying five passengers made an emergency landing at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut. ... Hyde, 55, was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut on Friday where she was pronounced dead. Hyde also served as a lawyer on the 9/11 commission. The...

The incident occurred at the RM Palmer Company in West Reading. Two people are dead, 9 are missing and multiple others are injured after an explosion at a chocolate factory Friday in West Reading, Pennsylvania, police and city officials said. The explosion occurred at around 4:57 p.m. at the RM Palmer Company in West Reading, located about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

A Canadian woman is warning people about the perils of hard partying after nearly losing a leg following one booze-soaked soirée gone bad. Julia Anderson had reportedly blacked out in an awkward position, cutting off her circulation for hours, and causing her stems to swell to a terrifying size. The paralyzing ordeal occurred three years ago, but the reveler only just shared her story recently with the hope that others won’t make the same mistake. “I was in pain constantly,” the 36-year-old told Kennedy News. “The nerve damage was so bad I was screaming out in the middle of the...

Russia producing very large numbers of tanks> Again this is made possible by the economic miracle of the failed and boomeranging Western sanctions policies.

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Germany faces a fundamental migration dilemma. Refugees from poor and war-torn countries flock to it as a haven while skilled professionals from outside of the European Union—workers the German economy sorely needs—tend to shun it. “We need labor and skilled worker immigration from third countries,” Vanessa Ahuja of the German Federal Employment Agency told German media, referring to non-EU countries.It should be clear, however, that this offer isn’t meant for the often impoverished, undereducated refugees fleeing countries like Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. These nationalities constituted most of the nearly 250,000 asylum applicants last year. The newspaper Bild reflects the ire...

The channel reported that US Air Force helicopters were up in the skies, patrolling the area in the search of the attackers BEIRUT, March 25./TASS/. Pro-Iranian Shiite fighters fired at least nine rockets at the US military base near the Conoco gas field in Syria's Deir Ez-Zor governorate, the Al Hadath TV channel broadcasting from Dubai reported. According to this information, an earlier missile strike was launched against a military base near the Al-Omar oil field...

The Ninth Circuit has refused to rehear Green v Miss United States of America, where Anita Green, a transgendered woman, sued Miss USA for only allowing naturally born females to compete. The beauty pageant’s First Amendment right to decide the qualifications for its competition was upheld.Green was trying to become Miss Oregon. The plaintiff’s complaint cited Oregon’s public accommodation law. The Ninth Circuit agreed this was a civil rights case, but not what Green had in mind. The court found that applying Oregon’s law to Miss USA would violate the pageant’s civil rights, by imposing compelled speech.One of the judges...

In June 2022, Apple CEO Tim Cook sounded pretty philosophical about remote work. "We're running the mother of all experiments,” he said at the TIME 100 symposium in New York, “because we don't know," he trailed off. Just a couple months later, though, he ordered staff back three days a week. And now he’s reportedly threatening to discipline the holdouts. In other words, the experiment may be losing steam. Apple is threatening to level disciplinary action against workers who fail to come into the office for three-fifths of the working week, Zoë Schiffer, managing editor of tech newsletter Platformer, tweeted...