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Oxygen Ion Battery - A prototype of the battery at TU Wien. Credit: TU Wien Researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have developed a groundbreaking oxygen-ion battery, which boasts exceptional durability, eliminates the need for rare elements, and solves the problem of fire hazards. Lithium-ion batteries, while commonplace in today’s world – powering everything from electric vehicles to smartphones – aren’t necessarily the optimal solution for all applications. Researchers at TU Wien have made a breakthrough by creating an oxygen-ion battery that offers several significant advantages. While it may not match the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, its storage capacity doesn’t...

A Bellevue Hospital employee has been accused of pulling out “white woman tears” after she allegedly tried to hijack a CitiBike that had already been paid for by a young black man. ...“Help! Help me! Please, help me,” the woman yells, trying to grab the attention of passersby as she tugs at the bike. The young man keeps his grip on the bike’s handlebars and repeatedly tells the woman that he already paid to use that particular bike. Despite being told that the bike was already taken, the woman continues to make a scene, raising her voice while wailing for...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Shively police said a man is dead after a shooting at Shively Animal Clinic & Hospital Sunday afternoon. Sergeant Jordan Brown with Shively police said officers were called to respond to the 2400 block of Dixie Highway around 6:27 p.m. The call initially came in reporting a fight that broke out inside the business that later developed into a shooting.

Rumors that I had a heart attack are completely false. I am alive and healthy. 6:13 AM · May 15, 2023

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), the congressman most responsible for getting Joe Biden elected president, has called for his protegee "to bypass the House bill authorizing an increase in the debt limit and unilaterally decree it himself. Look, the whole American people elected Biden to be their president. This is a mandate that cannot be matched by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) who won only one district in his state. In a democracy, the person with the most votes gets to rule the country. That person is Biden. He should rule us." McCarthy rejected Clyburn's call for one-man rule, saying "ours...

The problems we encounter every day are caused by the people who hold public office or are somehow paid by the taxpayers. I don’t care if that’s as a welfare recipient, or as an employee of an NGO. Let’s take Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for example. They’re not what they purport to be. They’re funded by the government in many substantive ways, through government grants, or the more clever way is to give corporation “A” a huge contract, who then, understanding how Washington works better than any average citizen, donate some of that huge payout to four or five NGOs that...

Former President Donald Trump is backed by 70 percent of Kentucky Republicans in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, according to an Emerson College/Fox 56 Lexington poll.The poll published Sunday shows that 70 percent of “very likely” GOP primary voters in Kentucky say they support Trump for the nomination, giving him a 56-point advantage over his nearest potential competitor, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is at 14 percent. Trump’s edge has grown by a net 17 points in just one month, as April’s Emerson College/Fox 56 Lexington poll out of Kentucky showed him leading DeSantis 62 percent to 23...

U.S. corporate bankruptcies have reached their highest level since 2010. Many American companies have been stumbling in the wake of the pandemic due to increasing interest rates, supply-chain issues, and rising costs. Several of the firms have filed for bankruptcy after access to low interest loans and access to easy money began to wane. “For 2009, there were 118 bankruptcies through April. In COVID-impacted 2020, there were 71 bankruptcies. In 2023, there have been 70. This is the third worst start to the year since 2000,” said Mike Shedlock, an economist. The Federal Reserve is predicting a mild recession by...

Reinstating the border policies put in place during former President Donald Trump's administration is the best way to restore a secure border, former acting Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Mark Morgan told Newsmax on Sunday."I'm not trying to be flippant here," Morgan, now a visiting fellow for the Heritage Foundation, commented on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "We reach up on the shelf and look for the book that says 'Trump Era Border Security Plan.' We pull it off, dust it off, and implement it."That would mean reinstituting the safe third country agreements with all three Northern Triangle countries, and the...

Three men with Chicago gang affiliations were charged Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of three women in Beverly Hills, California, earlier this year. Breitbart News reported the three shooting fatalities when they occurred on January 28, 2023, and noted others were injured in the attack. The number of non-fatal injured persons was originally reported at four and later updated to six.

Miller Lite, much like Bud Light, is showing that they have absolutely no clue who their audience is either. This latest woke ad from Miller is so exceptionally cringy it's tough to watch: [Slightly sexual content and language] AD VIDEO AT LINK................ YAY! Girl power! That's how you sell beer! The ad, which released two months ago but is only now resurfacing after Bud Light's Dylan Mulvaney debacle, is all about female empowerment and the idea that brewing started with women. But, ironically, they use a vulgar woman who acts like a vulgar man as the selling point. In the...

President Trump has captured wide support in the great state of Kentucky as the 2024 presidential season has begun to pick up steam, according to new data from Emerson College.Per their findings, the president holds a whopping 56-point lead for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, netting 70 percent of support among a field of potential primary candidates like Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and former Vice President Mike Pence, along with declared candidates like former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.In that poll, Gov. DeSantis garnered 14 percent of support from Republicans.The results of Emerson College’s survey in Kentucky come after a...

Like Rst ✊☠ @rst_like The value of the ammunition stored and destroyed yesterday by the #RussianArmy in the city of #Khmelnitsky could reach 500$ million. Any idea of who paid for that ammunition? Wouldn't it be better invested in hospitals and schools in #Europe and the #USA or elsewhere?!

Florida is eliminating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education, which Gov. Ron DeSantis said have been used as a “veneer to impose an ideological agenda” in universities. DeSantis is signing Senate Bill 266, which specifies that Florida institutes of higher education can not use state or federal funds to promote DEI initiatives DeSantis explained that the bill will effectively “reorient our universities back to their traditional missions,” which is to treat people as individuals and elevate merit over superficial characteristics promoted by the radical left.

The U.S.-Mexico border has, rightfully, been the center of attention for even normally unconcerned mainstream outlets after last week's expiration of Title 42. More records for daily encounters and the number of illegal immigrants released into the U.S. have been set, and another individual on a terror watch list was apprehended after illegally crossing into the country, putting an exclamation point on the dangers posed by an unsecured border. But at the same time, illegal immigrants have been surging across the U.S.-Canada border, but getting far less attention. Townhall previously reported on warnings from border officials and local leaders as...

I was debating gun control. Someone insisted that his gun was his best protection. I told him that his best protection is something he can’t even see, something he’s probably never thought about. His best protection is something ephemeral, something multisyllabic; something you can’t explain in a soundbite. “Your best protection,” I insisted, “is narrative.”My family lived in the same house for almost seventy years. I was in and out of that house for decades. Not only did I never use a key, I don’t even know if a key existed. We slept with doors and windows open. Neighbors walked...

The NATO and U.S.-backed war against Russia began in 2000 when Clinton courted New York’s large Ukrainian American constituency in her run for the U.S. Senate. Hillary openly recognized the Holodomor [Stalin’s plan to starve millions of anti-Russian Ukrainian peasants to death in his 1932-33 communist collective farming disaster]. As a senator, she campaigned on admitting Ukraine to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and promised to set the legislative agenda to admit Ukraine to NATO.In 2010, Secretary of State Clinton was warmly welcomed in Kyiv by Ukraine’s pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. During that visit, Clinton told Yanukovych that “NATO’s door...

that he was seriously ill. The Belarusian outlet, Pul Pervogo, posted the photo of the 68-year-old on its Telegram channel - which is known for reporting on the president - after his whereabouts were unknown for almost a week. The channel said the president was working at a central air force command base. In the post, he is standing stern-faced as he receives a salute with a bandage tied to his left hand. Mr Lukashenko had not been seen in public since last Tuesday (9 May) at Victory Day events in Moscow, and later in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. The...

Guess who stood for the national anthem? Starting in 2020, WNBA start Brittney Griner said she and her teammates would protest the national anthem. Previously, "During a game between the Phoenix Mercury and the Los Angeles Sparks, the two teams walked off the court while the National Anthem played. Interestingly enough, Griner mentioned that this will not be the last time she would walk off the court."But 10-months in a Russian prison later, and the Biden administration swapped her for a notorious international arms trafficker, the "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout last December...Griner (red jacket) and Bout pass each other...

Reporterette asks the question, Biden laughs in our faces. He knows the fix is in..............................