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Explanation: A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is nearby, about 30 million light-years distant toward the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way. Its bright core and majestic spiral arms lend the galaxy its popular name, The Sunflower Galaxy. This exceptionally deep exposure also follows faint, arcing star streams far into the galaxy's halo. Extending nearly 180,000 light-years from the galactic center, the star streams are likely remnants of tidally disrupted satellites of M63. Other satellite galaxies...

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has sent the internet into a frenzy once again with his bizarre laugh that has been widely mocked online. It left many in stitches and lots were quick to crack jokes about the footage which showed Ron DeSantis cackling with his mouth wide open. But it left others questioning whether he was actually a robot masquerading as a human as they claimed the clip 'will haunt your nightmares'. A Twitter user joked that he was not human like DeSantis and could relate to the awkward moment and wrote: 'Me when I experience human emotion laughter.' And...

President Biden's Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona failed to protect women's sports from biological males on Wednesday during an interview with NBC News. While discussing the Biden administration's proposed changes to Title IX rules, which would strip schools from receiving federal funding if they prevent biological males from competing in girls' sports, the NBC host asked, "What do you say to the parent of a high school girl who says, 'I don't want transgender girls competing against my daughter?'" "It's a proposal right now," Secretary Cardona said. "What we want to make sure is that all students feel welcome." "We're...

Clad in a dressing gown, and not much else, in the suite of a luxury hotel in West Hollywood, it's clear to see how Karen McDougal might attract the attention of a rich, powerful, older man. A man like former president, Donald Trump, for instance. Karen is an ex-Playboy model who claims she had a ten-month affair with Trump back in 2006. She's one of two women – the other being Stormy Daniels – who allegedly had a relationship with the married multi-millionaire prior to his successful 2016 election campaign. It's these women's allegations that lie at the heart of...

Ben Werschkul·Washington Correspondent The support on Capitol Hill for what was once a fringe legal theory is growing by the hour as the debt ceiling talks head into their final days. On Thursday, a group of of 11 progressive senators led by Sens. Tina Smith (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released a new letter to President Biden calling on him to prepare to cancel the debt ceiling by invoking the 14th amendment. The increased adoption of an idea that could roil markets is a reflection of growing Democratic anxieties that the White House could be preparing for...

ALPENA TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A teenager from Northern Michigan saved his sister from an attempted abduction by using a slingshot to fight off a man, police say. It can be compared to an underdog David versus Goliath type of story. Michigan State Police out of the Alpena area had reported that on May 10, an 8-year-old girl was out mushroom hunting in her backyard when a 17-year-old appeared out of the woods. Officials say that the 17-year-old approached the 8-year-old girl and held her mouth shut, preventing her from screaming, and attempted to drag her into the woods near her...

Ron DeSantis is determined to recruit Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders as his running mate before making a formal announcement on his 2024 presidential bid, sources close to his campaign told RadarOnline.com exclusively. Insiders claim that DeSantis has set his sights on the former Trump press secretary to be his VP pick after she won the race to become the state's first female governor in November, succeeding Gov. Asa Hutchinson who served in the role since 2015. "He really only has one strong choice: Sarah," the source told RadarOnline.com exclusively. "He is desperate to lock up his running mate before...

An Illinois teacher of over 20 years had the cops called on her after she gave her middle school students the option of reading a book about sexuality and gender. Sarah Bonner held a “book tasting” for students in March and offered an array of fiction and nonfiction titles including Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay,” which quickly became the epicenter of a massive controversy when parents called the police over the book choice. “I wanted to give them a smattering of fiction and nonfiction to choose from on a day that we call ‘Reading Monday,'” Bonner told Today.com. “We...

It’s a Tuesday morning in Tallahassee, and a wood-paneled hearing room at the Florida legislature is packed. The state senate’s fiscal-policy committee is considering a bill to prohibit most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and dozens of citizens have lined up to testify: anguished young students in colorful hair and “abortion is health care” T-shirts; little old ladies wearing cardigans and crosses. For hours they speak in emotional terms as the senators listen. Yet an air of inevitability hangs over the proceedings. Governor Ron DeSantis supports this bill, and therefore it is destined to pass. In Tallahassee these days,...

Jim Brown, arguably the greatest football player of all time, has died at the age of 87, TMZ Sports has confirmed. "It is with profound sadness that I announce the passing of my husband, Jim Brown," Monique Brown tells us. "He passed away peacefully last night at our LA home. To the world he was an activist, actor and football star." "To our family, he was a loving and wonderful husband, father and grandfather. Our hearts are broken." We're told Jim hadn't been doing well ... and was recently visited by several of his close friends including Marshall Faulk, Eric...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Sixty-year-old Leonor Rodriguez never pulled the trigger when a man was shot in the parking lot of a west Miami-Dade mall Thursday, but she faced an attempted murder charge just the same, according to police. That’s because police say Rodriguez encouraged the suspect, whom police were still looking for Friday, to shoot the man because she was “irate” over “vulgar statements” the victim made to her during an altercation in the Midway Crossings parking lot. The shooting happened just after 12:30 p.m. outside the half-century-old mall, once- and perhaps better known as the “Mall of the...

Jim Brown, one of the greatest professional and college football players of all-time, has died at the age of 87. His wife, Monique, announced Brown's death in an Instagram post on Friday afternoon. She said Brown "passed peacefully" on Thursday night in their home in Los Angeles. "To the world he was an activist, actor, and football star," the post read. "To our family he was a loving and wonderful husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken..." In 2020, Brown was selected to the NFL 100 all-time team and also was ranked as the No. 1 all-time player on...

Police arrested a 35-year-old woman, who identifies as a 15-year-old boy, for harboring a teen runaway. Shouldn’t Washington Progressives defend this woman for being mis-aged? The police allege Amanda Dorrough was involved in a host of inappropriate behavior with juveniles, including getting naked in front of them, inappropriately touching one, and providing marijuana. One of her alleged victims characterized her as “pedophile-ish,” according to a police incident report, which doesn’t list the individual ages of the alleged victims. This incident highlights the dangers of identifying as something you’re not. But it also shows the left-wing hypocrisy on issues of identity....

A left-wing radical from North Dakota has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and faces just 10 years in prison thanks to a sweetheart deal that saw his original murder charge downgraded after he admitted to killing a teenager for having conservative political views. 42-year-old left-wing radical Shannon Brandt, of Glenfield, North Dakota, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a reduced charge of manslaughter in the 2022 politically-motivated homicide of 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson. Though Brandt was initially charged with murder in Ellingson’s death and admitted that he killed the young man for political reasons, his murder charge was reduced in a sweetheart deal...

"This is another failure of the Biden administration, which could have severe consequences for the United States’ ability to deter China," Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said of the failure of the administration to submit mandated reports on Taiwan. The overdue reports were supposed to come from Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Republican senators are sounding the alarm over the Biden administration’s apparent failure to follow requirements of the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act. The law is part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Dec. 23. Among other things, the Taiwan...

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok, a key figure in the “Russia collusion” hoax, attacked Breitbart News contributor Peter Schweizer on Thursday for his work on alleged corruption by Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden. Strzok, who had been one of the agents assigned to investigate Trump for supposed links to Russia, before his incendiary anti-Trump text messages with a lover were discovered, took to Twitter to attack Schweizer’s work: If you have the slightest concern about the FBI’s relationship with Christopher Steele, you should be losing your mind about the FBI’s relationship with Peter Schweizer. New reporting from...

High-stakes talks over raising the debit limit abruptly came to a halt Friday on Capitol Hill, after Republican negotiators walked out of the room and blamed the White House for holding up discussions. “Until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we’re not gonna sit here and talk to ourselves,” Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., told reporters. “We decided to press pause because it’s just not productive,” he added. Graves said he did not know if talks would resume this weekend. Financial markets dipped on the news, which...

Bipartisan legislation is being introduced in the House and Senate to keep AM radio from being removed from electric vehicles amid concerns the electric motors interfere with its frequency. The AM for Every Vehicle Act has the support of Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (R-N.J.), Rob Menendez (D-N.J.), Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.). In the Senate, Sens. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex). The legislation would "direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a rule that requires automakers to maintain AM broadcast radio in their vehicles without a separate or additional payment, fee, or surcharge," according...

More than half of all students, and nearly 40 percent of all faculty at New Mexico’s higher education institutions don’t have enough food to eat. The findings, from a new state-funded study, reveal troubling statistics representative of a worsening problem across America. New Mexico is taking steps to address it — and other states should pay attention. We’ve known about the problem of food insecurity among U.S. college students for a while. But the New Mexico research casts a wider spotlight on hunger’s broader impact on higher education teachers and administrators. It’s yet another data point that shows just how...