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It’s apparently hotter than hell in the Texas prison where Josh Duggar is serving his 151-month sentence. FCI Seagoville in Texas, where the 35-year-old convicted sex offender and former “19 Kids and Counting” star is doing time, reportedly has “no air conditioning” and is resulting in inmates “passing out.” “Texas is having record-breaking heatwaves. Most of the buildings in Seagoville don’t have air conditioning for the inmates,” a Seagoville inmate’s loved one told the Sun on Wednesday about the all-male prison. Last week, temperatures in Seagoville were in the 90s and even topped 100 degrees. There is currently an excessive...

It seems Alcaraz wants to gain an early edge over the 36-year-old even though he stands two big wins away from the possible meeting. For the last four editions, every player who stepped onto Centre Court to face Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon, would have believed that they would be the one to get the better of the legend. But none have. And it has only added to the legacy of Djokovic in tennis overall and at the SW19. They must have studied his moves on court, his strengths, his weaknesses to have that edge, yet, the Serb has remained unbeaten...

CNN has criticized Fox News for years but RadarOnline.com has learned the struggling cable network has hired producers who previously worked for the Rupert Murdoch-lead company. RadarOnline.com has learned that Kaitlan Collins’ new primetime show The Source has hired a former producer from Maria Bartiromo’s program while Jake Tapper just tapped an EP from Fox News Sunday for his weekday program. The decision is being called hypocritical by insiders, since Tapper often trash-talks the number one cable network on air, Fox News. As we first reported, Collins’ new shows could use some help after launching to dismal numbers. According to...

Video at link."AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all, it's two letters. It means 'Artificial Intelligence."

Lactose intolerant customers beware, Burger King in Thailand is pushing the limits of dairy, dropping a new burger without any patty ... and 20 slices of cheese!!! This ain't a joke -- the Thai extension of the fast food company announced the "Real Cheeseburger" Sunday ... buns filled with nearly 2 dozen slices of American cheese. The chain's social media blast says the cheesy exclusive is only available until Thursday, and it's going for 109 Thai baht -- just over $3 USD. Folks in Thailand apparently couldn't wait to get their hands on a dietician's worst nightmare, with social media...

White Supremacists' Latest Scheme to valorize violence and hypermasculinity has gone digitalIt appears the far right has taken advantage of pandemic at-home fitness trends to expand its decade-plus radicalization of physical mixed martial arts (MMA) and combat sports spaces. Earlier this month, researchers reported that a network of online “fascist fitness” chat groups on the encrypted platform Telegram are recruiting and radicalizing young men with neo-Nazi and white supremacist extremist ideologies. Initially lured with health tips and strategies for positive physical changes, new recruits are later invited to closed chat groups where far-right content is shared. Physical fitness has always...

Podcaster Joe Rogan and Tesla CEO Elon Musk roasted MSNBC for a Monday tweet highlighting an article about the "far right’s obsession with fitness" that linked fitness and nutrition efforts to Adolf Hitler and White supremacist ideology. "MSNBC thinks you’re a nazi if you work out lmaooo," Musk wrote in a viral tweet Monday with over 5 million views. "Being healthy is ‘far right.’ Holy ----," Rogan, wrote. While Rogan is most famous for his popular podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience," he has also competed in martial arts competitions throughout his life and served as a UFC commentator.

A front group being linked to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is being charged with a “desperate” dirty tricks attempt to portray former president Donald Trump as a “transgender trailblazer,” with leaflets “thanking” him for having “allowed a biological male to compete in the Miss Universe competition in Canada” over a decade ago appearing in Iowa mailboxes.“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” wrote Iowa blogger Laura Belin, who first reported the delivery of the gay leaflets on Saturday. It is unclear how many homes the leaflets have been delivered to, but the imprint reads ‘Paid for by Advancing Our...

Researchers found acrolein — a chemical toxin — at levels six times higher than normal near the site of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment weeks after public officials told residents it was safe to return to their homes. Nearly 5,000 residents of East Palestine evacuated following the February 3 train derailment after Northfolk Southern officials decided to burn vinyl chloride from five tanker cars in an attempt to prevent an explosion, PBS reported. A team of scientists from Carnegie Mellon and Texas A & M Universities sent a van three weeks after the train derailment to search for harmful...

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...