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A team of paleontologists... analyzed the fossilized jawbone, partial skull and some leg bones of a hominin dated to 300,000 years ago.The fossils were excavated at a site in Hualongdong, in what is now a part of East China. They were subsequently subjected to both a morphological and a geometric assessment, with the initial focus on the jawbone, which exhibited unique features—a triangular lower edge and a unique bend.The research team suggests that the unique features of the jawbone resemble those of both modern humans and Late Pleistocene hominids. But they also found that it did not have a chin,...

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will not travel to Maui in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires because they “don’t want to distract” from the ongoing rescue efforts, the VP said today – while at least 1,000 people remain unaccounted for. “We don’t want to distract from the resources that need to go in to the victims of this tragedy, and of course the needs of the first responders have to be able to focus on that issue and not worry about focusing on us [because] we’re there,” Harris told reporters before boarding Air Force Two for Chicago...

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) reportedly reached out to Twitter in 2020 to censor users who criticized her 2017 posts uncovered by Breitbart News, in which she claimed former President Donald Trump had a “neo-nazi base.” Days after the 2020 election, Breitbart News reported that Hobbs said Trump had a “neo-nazi base” while she was serving as a Democrat state senator in 2017. Hobbs’ tweet appeared to be a reaction to the false narrative that Trump praised neo-nazi rioters in Charlottesville. -snip On Thursday, Fox News revealed that Hobbs emailed Twitter in an attempt to censor critics who were upset...

Singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony became an overnight sensation with his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” in August, and the story behind the hit sent chills up my spine. Anthony lives off-grid on 90 acres in Farmville, Virginia, with his three dogs, according to Whiskey Riff. You can picture Anthony’s life pretty easily through the heart-wrenching vocals and lyrics of his debut hit single. The song is one giant F-U to the men (and women) wearing suits in Washington D.C. and the corporate overlords who control them and screw up the rest of America for their own profits. An acoustic version...

CNN anchor Dana Bash said Friday on “Inside Politics” that Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing David Weiss as a special counsel overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden could keep Republicans investigating the president’s son “at bay.” Partial transcript as follows: PRISCILLA ALVAREZ: But again, this is a White House that is facing increasing pressure when it comes to the president’s son, Hunter Biden. Republicans have slammed the president over all of these legal proceedings and also so much has flirted with a potential impeachment inquiry. Now when that has come up, the White House stance has been that it is...

A former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces went public about his fight to defend his bodily autonomy and Catholic moral conscience in an op-ed late last month, explaining that he ultimately left his military career rather than violate his firmly held beliefs after commanders repeatedly pressured him to get the experimental COVID-19 jab. John Frankman, who previously served as a captain in the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (7SFG), wrote in a July 31 article that he “voluntarily separated from the Army due to struggles I encountered because I refused to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine.”A Catholic...

A federal judge revoked FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail and sent him to jail Friday, ending a monthslong battle between the Justice Department and the onetime crypto entrepreneur over his behavior while awaiting trial on fraud charges. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said at a hearing in New York that Bankman-Fried pushed the limits of his bail conditions repeatedly. “There is probable cause to believe that the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice,” Kaplan said. The judge said he would allow Bankman-Fried’s lawyers to request that the defendant be allowed to spend time in his lawyers’...

8-09-23 Police Launch Arson Investigation into Ka‘ū Wildfire Published: August 9, 2023 Hawai‘i Police Department Area II Criminal Investigation Section Detective Donovan Kohara Phone: (808) 960-3118 Report No.: 23-076309 Media Release Hawai’i Island police have initiated an arson investigation after a brush fire in Ka‘ū was determined to have started under suspicious circumstances. On Wednesday, August 9, 2023, at 1:17 p.m., the Hawai‘i Fire Department received a report of several brush fires on Mill Camp Road in Pāhala. Upon arrival, firefighters determined there were two separate fires burning: one on either side of Mill Camp Road. Although they were burning...

Photos and videos posted to social media of Budweiser's beer garage at this year's Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota appear to show no attendees consuming the product. A spokesperson for the Sturgis motorcycle rally told Newsweek via email on Friday that they could not comment without permission from the Sturgis mayor and city council, who oversee the event.

Explanation: An intriguing pair of interacting galaxies, M51 is the 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog. Perhaps the original spiral nebula, the large galaxy with whirlpool-like spiral structure seen nearly face-on is also cataloged as NGC 5194. Its spiral arms and dust lanes sweep in front of a companion galaxy (right), NGC 5195. Some 31 million light-years distant, within the boundaries of the well-trained constellation Canes Venatici, M51 looks faint and fuzzy to the eye in direct telescopic views. But this remarkably deep image shows off stunning details of the galaxy pair's striking colors and extensive tidal debris. A...

President Biden has often made reference to his close relationship with Israel and Israeli leaders over the last half century as a way of proving his bona fides on matters relating to the Jewish state. The Obama administration had badly strained those relationships, but when Biden was elected in 2020, many hoped and some predicted that his would be an administration far friendlier to Israel. And on the surface it has been; the steady current of hostility that emanated from Obama’s White House has not been present in Biden’s. Still, more than halfway through the 46th president’s term, the facts...

A group of U.S. lawmakers is calling out Finland for its treatment of high-profile Christians in the country, saying the nation’s leadership has started an “open war on Christianity.” U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, led the effort to raise concerns about how Finland is treating a Lutheran Bishop and member of parliament who posted in favor of traditional marriage online. A group of 16 lawmakers sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain and U.S. Ambassador to Finland Douglas Hickey calling for religious freedom. “This prosecutor is dead set on weaponizing the power of...

[Catholic Caucus] We Must Resist The Falsehoods Of The October SynodFantasies such as women “priests” or “deacons,” the possibility of marriage between two men or two women, being born in the “wrong” body and other chimeras obsess and entertain the left, as well as the poorly instructed who cannot think for themselves. The successive synods in the Church under Francis serve as Trojan horses to worm these make-believe stories into parishes on the pretext that they are matters of “doctrine” pertaining to the faith. These fantasies have been resurfacing since the social upheaval of the 1960s, which seeped into the...

A majority of Republican primary voters want to see former President Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee, as he sits 43 points ahead of his nearest competitor, according to a poll published Thursday. The Fairleigh Dickenson University (FDU) poll shows that 58 percent of likely Republican primary voters support Trump. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who has seen a dramatic dip in polling in recent months, is the only other candidate to land in double digits, with 15 percent support. 2024 National Republican Primary• Trump — 58% (+43)• DeSantis — 15%• Christie — 5%• Pence — 5%“Nikki Haley…Vivek Ramaswamy…Tim Scott...

A new poll finds 2 out of every 5 Black women in California are just one paycheck away from financial instability. The first-of-its-kind survey of 1,258 Black women across the state revealed 37% work two or more jobs — and 62% of them said the second job is “essential” and they would “not be able to make ends meet” without it.

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell said Friday on her show “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that she believed the testimony of Hunter Biden’s former business associate Devon Archer to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability “exonerated” President Joe Biden. Mitchell said, “It was originally reported by the Republican readout that Archer had suggested something that insinuated improper behavior by the president and his son, and then when Archer came out and the transcript came out, it was very clear that he had exonerated the president.

Veteran Democrat political strategist James Carville has begun to “doubt” if the economy is the key focus for a successful presidential candidate, as President Joe Biden’s approval rating has failed to surge with an economy the operative sees as “quite good.” In an interview published Friday, Carville spoke with the Hill and identified a disconnect between what he sees as an “economic bounceback” and the American people. This comes as the White House touts “Bidenomics.”

YouTube has terminated the account of former US spy Scott Ritter and deleted all of his videos on the platform. According to Ritter, the Google-owned social media giant accused his channel of violating the terms of service. Writing on X (formerly known as Twitter), Ritter stated that his channel, 'The Scott Ritter Show', through which he attempted to "import Russian voices to an American/Western audience," had been flagged for 'hate speech' and taken down without prior warning or any specific examples of the offense. "There was never any hate speech involved in any of the episodes of 'The Scott Ritter...

More than 100 parents contacted the Courier Journal to report problems with their child's transportation. Parents said they were particularly upset by the district's lack of communication about when their children would arrive home from school. The last bus riders weren't dropped off until 9:58 p.m. Smallwood said the bus her children rode didn’t have air conditioning, and since kids weren’t allowed to have food or drink on the bus, her autistic daughter, who has low blood sugar and must eat every two hours, was told she couldn’t eat because there were “no exceptions.” Smallwood said her family also couldn’t...

Niger’s junta told Biden Color Revolution insurrection expert Victoria Nuland that they would kill deposed President Mohamed Bazoum if neighboring countries attempted any military intervention to restore his rule, two anonymous Western officials allegedly told The Associated Press.“Representatives of the junta told U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland of the threat to Bazoum during her visit to the country this week, a Western military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation”, AP reported.