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Russia has for years been a notoriously unfriendly place for anyone who does not comply with the Kremlin’s hardline views on “family values”.Russia’s security service said Thursday it had arrested a transgender rights activist accused of “high treason” for supporting Ukraine, as lawmakers backed a bill banning gender transitions.Authorities “stopped the illegal activities of a Russian citizen, resident of the Oryol region, involved in high treason for providing financial aid to the armed forces of Ukraine”, the FSB security service said in a statement.In a video of the arrest made by the FSB and shared by Russian state media, the...

A closeup of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, imaged by JWST. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan/STScI, A. Pagan/STScI) *************************************************** A glittering treasure trove of baby stars hidden in the thick dust of their nursery is revealed in a stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. To celebrate its first successful year of operations, the JWST has turned its honeycomb eye to the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex some 390 light-years away, peering through the thick shroud to the bright star formation occurring therein. It's one of the things at which the telescope truly excels, its infrared vision detecting...

"The coins, discovered in the ground and remarkably well preserved, possess an astonishing luster and a newfound freshness rarely observed in coins of this kind," said Andy Salzberg, executive vice president of the Certified Collectibles Group.

The anti-child sex trafficking film that’s faced criticism over its QAnon ties has grossed more than $50 million at the domestic box office, Deadline reported, making it one of the top 25 highest grossing domestic films of 2023 so far. The Sound of Freedom is based on Ballard, a former government agent, and his pursuit to save children from human trafficking. But the film has been criticized for its apparent ties to the QAnon conspiracy theory, which promotes the idea that Satan-worshiping political and media elites run the world and are involved in a child sex trafficking ring. Caviezel has...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a speech given this week, Vice President and Artificial Intelligence Czar Kamala Harris proudly announced that after months of dedicated research and extensive study, she has determined what the initials A.I. stand for. "This discovery is the result of intense research," Harris said to the media. "It is with great pride that I am here to let the world know that the letters ‘A.I.' actually stand for ‘Artificial Intelligence.' At no point in the history of A.I. has this secret been known. I have gained this knowledge and now know this knowledge. Because after you gain...

Surgeons in Israel performed a miracle surgery and managed to reattach a boy’s head after he was hit by a car while riding his bike, the Jerusalem hospital announced this week. Suleiman Hassan, a 12-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, suffered what is known as an internal decapitation, with his skull detached from the top vertebrae of his spine – officially known as a bilateral atlanto occipital joint dislocation, according to The Times of Israel. He was riding his bike when a car hit him. The boy was rushed to Hadassah Medical Center and immediately put him into surgery in...

A "vigilant" and "brave" Vallejo citizen who happens to be a trained mixed martial artist detained a man police say deliberately started a brush fire Saturday before officers arrived and arrested him. Alex Bello said his natural instincts kicked in when he saw a man use a flare to ignite the blaze behind his Vallejo apartment complex. "It was a personal fire right behind my house, so it was something that needed to be done," Bello said in an exclusive interview Tuesday with NBC Bay Area. Police said the suspect drove to the area near Admiral Callaghan Lane Turner Parkway...

In a video that’s now gone viral, Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera is shown riding a bike to an informal European Union climate summit where “bicycle policy” to reduce use of gas-guzzling automobiles was a main item on the agenda. The virtue signaling move saw Ribera, a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, escorted to the meeting in Valladolid, Spain, by an official security vehicle in front and behind her on the street. "They want us to believe that they are very concerned about the environment, until you see the making of their promotional photos," read one response...

During his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden tweeted that “we need to restore honor and decency to the White House.” On his first day in office, he promised to “bring transparency and truth back to government.” For anyone keeping score, both of these promises bit the dust after cocaine was discovered in the White House and the Secret Service started stonewalling the public about the details. This comes days after Biden let “transgenders” parade around topless on the White House lawn while he desecrated the American flag, and years into running what is widely described as the most opaque administration...

TAKOMA PARK, Maryland (LifeSiteNews) — An 83-year-old pro-life woman was physically attacked by a much younger woman as she prayerfully protested outside an abortion facility in a suburb of Washington, D.C. The unprovoked, brutal assault on Olga Fairfax occurred at a busy intersection on Saturday morning, July 8, in front of a Takoma Park office building housing the Silver Spring Gynecology and Family Planning. This business offers medical and surgical abortions. Longtime pro-life warrior Olga Fairfax had stationed herself and her 4’ x 6’ sign depicting an aborted child when, despite heavy traffic, a woman stopped her car in the...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken aim squarely at Donald Trump, with the former president set to miss a major forum in Iowa Friday and dangling the prospect of playing hooky from next month’s first debate. “Nobody is entitled to this nomination,” DeSantis told conservative Boston radio host Howie Carr Wednesday. “You have got to earn the nomination and doing things like the Family Leader event in Iowa, doing things like these debates, they’re important parts of the process.” Trump has been noncommittal about attending the first Republican showdown, hosted by Fox News and slated for Aug. 23 in Milwaukee....

Across the United States, there’s a growing number of summer camps specifically for children who don’t identify with their biological sex.These overnight camps connect hundreds of children who identify as transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming.Attending such camps is likely to create lasting gender dysphoria in children who would otherwise probably leave that phase behind, psychologist Nicholas Kardaras told The Epoch Times.Dr. Kardaras runs Omega Recovery, a mental health clinic in Austin, Texas.Most children will grow out of gender dysphoria if not encouraged in it, he said. But when adults encourage a “social contagion,” it will spread rapidly, he said.“If you...

Epstein Barr Virus - The Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), a type of herpesvirus, is one of the most commonly found viruses in humans. It’s estimated that over 90% of people globally are carriers of EBV, maintaining a latent and typically symptom-free infection throughout their lives. The majority of individuals are infected during childhood and exhibit little to no symptoms. However, in young adults, EBV often leads to infectious mononucleosis, colloquially known as glandular fever or the kissing disease. Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have uncovered further evidence regarding the Epstein-Barr virus’s role in initiating or escalating multiple sclerosis. The...

VIDEOChristopher Wray's testimony before Congress on July 12, 2023 went so horribly wrong that the FBI PR department desperately posted several damage control tweets in a laughably failed effort to counter what happened. Unfortunately the ratio on those tweets just made things even worse as you can see. In this example, I take a look at the ratio on the FBI's damage control tweet about investigating parents who spoke out at school board meetings.

Protecting armored vehicles from toy airplanes...As usual, Russia is ahead of the game. Their tanks will be protected, the natofop/neowanker/hohonazi tanks most likely will not be...

LifeSiteNews) — A former LGBT activist now is speaking out against “grooming” and transgenderism. “I started to realize that what I had been doing at my job at the LGBT Center, it was grooming,” Kay Yang told Fox News recently, in reference to her former job doing “outreach” to K-12 on gender ideology. “I was hired to conduct LGBT community outreach and education,” she told Fox News. “I thought, ‘Wow, I want to help people who are being marginalized, who are being oppressed, I don’t think that anyone should be discriminated against.'” “I had no idea that what I was...

"Really bizarre [fear, uncertainty and doubt] floating around Twitter that we are suppressing attendance for Sound of Freedom," AMC's Adam Aron tweeted on Saturday. "Yesterday we showed that movie 3,000 times at our 570 U.S. theatres and more than 100,000 people watched it @AMCTheatres. Misinformation on Twitter is astonishing. Bots? Haters?"

A college student has been charged under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for allegedly vandalizing a pregnancy resource center in Ohio in April, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio announced. The federal misdemeanor charge was filed against 20-year-old Bowling Green State University student Whitney M. Durant, who goes by Soren Monroe. Officials alleged Durant “intentionally damaged” the property of HerChoice, a pregnancy care center located minutes from the university campus, “by defacing the clinic’s building with spray paint because the clinic provides reproductive health services.” The vandalism included messages saying, “fund abortion,”...

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) has become a presence not just on former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign trail but also on some early vice presidential short lists should Trump secure the Republican nomination.Donalds, 44, told Breitbart News he would “of course” be open to the job if Trump were to offer it.“If it came up? Oh yeah, of course, because you have the opportunity to do really powerful things for the country and really help shape the country,” Donalds said. “But I’m a member of Congress. I just do my job. I let everybody else speculate on the other stuff.”Having...

HELSINKI (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday said he’s serious about pursuing a prisoner exchange for a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia for more than 100 days. The Kremlin earlier this month suggested that it was open to a possible prisoner exchange that could involve Evan Gershkovich, but it underscored that such talks must be held out of the public eye. Speaking at a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, Biden made clear that the U.S. is interested.