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CNN - The color of the ocean has changed significantly over the last 20 years and human-caused climate change is likely responsible, according to a new study. More than 56% of the world’s oceans have changed color to an extent that cannot be explained by natural variability, said a team of researchers, led by scientists from the National Oceanography Center in the UK and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, in a statement. While the researchers are still working to unpick exactly what the changes mean, what is clear, they said, is that the changes are being driven...

Investors throughout the U.S. “are being held hostage by those who … don’t want to maximize retirement profits, but rather seek to push a far left social and political agenda,” according to Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. “Forcing lower returns on Americans who are trying to build a securer financial future is wrong,” Huizenga said on Wednesday at a House Financial Services Committee hearing titled “Protecting Investor Interests: Examining Environmental and Social Policy in Financial Regulation.” “This approach undermines traditional and, frankly, legal government structures and has turned our financial system into a political battlefield.” “But I’m here to tell you...

Argentine Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez, chosen by Pope Francis to head a powerful Vatican office, admits he made mistakes in the way he handled the 2019 case of a priest accused of child sex abuse, which still brings him criticism for allegedly protecting the cleric.

UFO/UAP Disclosure Press Conference June 12, 2023 "Dr. Steven Greer is the world’s leading authority on the subject of UFOs/UAPs, advanced energy and propulsion systems and has gathered an extensive intelligence archive of compelling evidence on the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence and covert government projects that are being run illegally. Over the course of the last 30 years, he has provided briefings for sitting US presidents, senior government officials across the globe and has conducted countless media interviews and delivered hundreds of lectures. He has identified over 700 high-level government and corporate whistleblowers willing to testify regarding the UFO/ET issue....

Fox News host Jesse Watters said unnamed "people" have told him that soccer star Megan Rapinoe is a "traitor in the war on women" and that he has "done more for women's sports" than the two-time World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist. Watters said during the Tuesday edition of Fox News' The Five that some have said that he had trumped Rapinoe's accomplishments by fighting "valiantly" on behalf of women in "the war against women," stressing that he was not personally making the claim but it was "something that's being said." SNIP "We as a country are trying to...

An Iowa voter who asked Donald Trump a question about border security on Friday has slapped down the DeSantis campaign for trying to use the moment to attack the former president, The National Pulse can exclusively report.Kelley Koch, the Dallas county GOP chair, said late Friday night: “What the DeSantis Team did was wrong. They misconstrued my question in a desperate attempt to attack President Trump. This must be corrected.”She continued, in an extraordinary rebuke of the DeSantis campaign tactics, especially from a local party official in Iowa: “Iowans don’t like these dirty tricks to score political points. Securing our...

Put down the Donuts and step away from the Cameras. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1679187322087014414

@RepThomasMassie It’s been 900 days since the 1/6 pipe bombs were planted and the FBI still refuses to provide information. Why is Wray stonewalling basic questions about the individual who may have found the bomb at the DNC?

Redtail garra fish have siskin and olive green scales that abruptly transition to bright orange and red along the tail, making them easy to spot at the bottom of clear streams. Credit: Tangjitjaroen et al. (2023). With just a few clicks of a mouse, you can purchase your very own redtail garra, a type of fish that feeds on algae. Information about the fish's biology, however, is much less easily obtained. That's because redtail garra, although popular in the aquarium trade since the early 2000s, has until now been unknown to science. Researchers were peripherally aware of the fish's existence,...

(Last Updated On: July 5, 2023) NATIONAL PECAN PIE DAY | JULY 12 Grab a slice on July 12th and celebrate National Pecan Pie Day! Mix up the ingredients using primarily corn syrup, pecan nuts, salt, and vanilla. Occasionally, recipes vary by including sugar syrup and molasses or maple syrup. Other additions include chocolate and bourbon whiskey in some regions of the country. Top it all off with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. #NationalPecanPieDay Pecan pie is considered a specialty of Southern U.S. cuisine. Many attempts to trace the origins of the pecan pie have not been successful. The...

On July 10, Mexican Foreign Minister Barcena wrote an op-ed in the prominent Mexican newspaper El Universal. Barcena discusses Mexico’s relations with the U.S. and Canada, Latin America, Europe and other regions. But the main country Mexico's diplomacy focuses upon is the United States of America. That’s because of the large Mexican and Mexican-American population residing here. The biggest consular network in the entire world is the Mexican consular network in the United States, with over 50 Mexican consulates on U.S. soil. By the way, in Mexico, American-born persons of Mexican descent are considered Mexicans, even though they were born...

California Republicans contend that one portion of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s last-minute infrastructure package will result in more eagles getting killed by wind turbines. SNIP Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, on July 5 ripped her colleagues over SB 147 during a floor debate. “Sometimes I just can’t tolerate stupidity, at all, in any level,” Grove said. “I’m calling it stupidity because the bottom line is, I would hate to think that any of my colleagues were doing this on purpose.” SNIP “I have a zero voting record with all these environmental groups,” Grove said. “But it really does disturb me, the fact...

It feels like we are worlds away from the time when French President Emmanuel Macron declared NATO “brain dead” on the eve of its London summit in 2019. Since then, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has revived and reinvigorated the North Atlantic alliance like never before in its 74-year history, as demonstrated by the enthusiasm for its summit this week in Lithuania.

Ever since he left Fox News, Tucker Carlson has become one of the most watched personalities on the internet with his hit-piece monologues against what he considers the establishment. One of his latest episodes is a full 2 and a half hour interview with controversial influencer Andrew Tate. Tate remains in a legal battle against the Romanian Government over human trafficking charges that he denies to this day. Carlson was so mesmerized by Andrew Tate's message since their Fox News interview, that he decided to conduct a new interview for his Twitter channel. You can imagine the level of rhetoric...

The stepson of British billionaire Hamish Harding, who perished in the OceanGate submersible implosion, has come under fire for making distasteful comments in the wake of the tragedy – including complaining about not being able to “get laid” despite his expected inheritance. ​​Brian Szasz recently reactivated his Twitter account after going silent amid a backlash for flirting with a nearly naked OnlyFans model while rescuers were still searching for the doomed vessel. But he quickly found himself mired in renewed controversy for new tone-deaf messages on the platform. “With millions to spare, I still can’t get laid,” the brash 37-year-old...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Fernández, new DDF prefect, interfered in judicial investigation, victims’ attorneyCardinal-designate Víctor Manuel Fernández, the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, “worked quickly” to “interfere in the judicial investigation” into abuse allegations against Father Eduardo Lorenzo, the attorney for Lorenzo’s alleged victims charged.The Associated Press reported on attorney Juan Pablo Gallego’s remarks about the canonical investigation in a Spanish-language article. The attorney’s remarks did not appear in the AP’s companion English-language article.Gallego asserted that “the Interdiocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal of La Plata under the mandate of Fernández provided elements that sought to protect” Father...

CNN is under fire for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney as “he” and “him” in a segment about the “culture war” being waged over the transgender influencer’s partnership with Bud Light. Correspondent Ryan Young failed to use the 26-year-old influencer’s preferred pronouns in a short segment about the backlash against the beer giant that has led to plummeting sales. Young also mispronounced Mulvaney’s first name as “Dylvan” while describing the social media star to “CNN News Central” viewers Tuesday. “He, of course, is the transgender person they were going to sponsor and go along with, with Bud Light,” Young said, using “he”...

JUNE 11: Megan Rapinoe sings to her partner Sue Bird during Bird's jersey retirement ceremony after the game between the Seattle Storm and the Washington Mystics at Climate Pledge Arena on June 11, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images) Legendary United States women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe believes comedian Dave Chappelle is partially to blame for violence against transgender people. Chappelle has joked about the transgender community in the past. Rapinoe believes this has led to dangerous times. “I don’t want to mince words about it. Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to violence,...

For months now, the proposals for the Nature Restoration Law have provoked heated debate and exchanges between farming organizations and environmental and other NGOs. Today’s narrow majority vote for the watered-down version of the Law in the European Parliament was greeted with mixed reactions on all sides. The text passed today has removed all mention of re-wetting, and other measures targeted at the agri(culture) sector. Nevertheless, farming organizations remain wary of the law and what it will mean for them. IFA President Tim Cullinan was in Brussels for today’s vote. “There is real and genuine concern that there will be...

Fox News has been foundering ever since it unceremoniously dumped ratings kingpin Tucker Carlson in April — and the devastating fallout is escalating. On Monday, Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall downgraded Fox Corp. stock and lowered its price target, citing as a key driver plunging cable news viewership following Carlson’s departure, according to Yahoo Finance. “Wells Fargo analysts downgraded shares of Fox Corporation (NASDAQ:FOXA) to ‘Underweight’ from ‘Equal Weight’ on Monday,” Investing.com reported. When a stock is downgraded, it means analysts are pessimistic about its chances of providing market-beating investment returns. When analysts “underweight” a stock, they’re suggesting it has...