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It’s mid-September, which means another annual Apple Event has come and gone, complete with the new iPhone 15 and Vision Pro, a new spatial computing device. But what grabbed the attention of many last week was Apple’s five-minute Mother Nature ad.In the ad, a group of Apple employees nervously await the arrival of a peevish and snappy Mother Nature, who is dropping by for the annual corporate responsibility review. Mother Nature expects the same old empty song and dance, in which corporations make grandiose promises about reducing their environmental impact only to offer superficial efforts while kicking the can down...

The coverage of the attacks by Hamas against the Israeli people is extensive, but have you paused to notice a very peculiar dynamic?As familiar to most news consumers, various media war correspondents are embedded throughout the Israel and Gaza region. Flak jackets and helmets are worn by CNN, BBC, Fox News and all the international agencies who are covering the Israeli War. All of that footage is common and familiar.Television streams are lit up with the continuing coverage and the audience is brought in live to the fight, despite the dangers and the military combat that is taking place throughout...

@ChadPergram 1) Rep. McCaul on if they can get a Speaker quickly so the House can begin to move to support Israel: "We have to. The world is watching.. We need to get a Speaker by Wednesday" 2) McCaul says that Russia is tied to the attacks by Hamas. He supports having American forces working to help release Americans who are held hostage. McCaul believes Congress should pass supplemental funding for Israel Fox is told that while there may be a chasm of support between House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). 2)...

In his column in the Al-Watan daily, Palestinian journalist Samir Al-Barghouti called the Hamas attack against Israel “a first-class, high-quality military operation” reminiscent of the ... Muhammad's attack on the Jews of Khaybar in 628.”

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President Biden has been interviewed by the Justice Department special counsel investigating the commander in chief’s handling of classified documents from his time in the Senate and as vice president, the White House said late Monday. The interview was “voluntary” and conducted at the White House on both Sunday and Monday, Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office, said in a statement announcing the first major development in the case in months. “The President has been interviewed as part of the investigation being led by Special Counsel Robert Hur,” Sams said. “The voluntary interview was conducted at...

Upon the information that illegal excavations were carried out in a house in the İscehisar district of Afyonkarahisar in western Turkey, the teams raided the house and found that the determined that illegal diggers had uncovered an underground city under the house.According to the news of Ali Fuat Güçlü from DHA; Police raided a house in the İscehisar district of Afyonkarahisar and detained 7 people who were digging illegally. It was stated that the suspects dug a tunnel under the house and uncovered the underground city where historical artifacts and columns were found.The teams of Afyonkarahisar Police Department Anti-Smuggling and...

Could the decades-long pursuit of unraveling the UFO mystery potentially function as a cover for advanced government research and testing programs for innovative forms of propulsion and craft design? Moreover, might the recent rollout of official government hearings signal a gradual disclosure of some of those capabilities?This scenario is worth considering, as the process of investigating UFOs comes into sharper public focus.This year, fascination with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) has spiked. David Grusch, a former intelligence official who led the analysis of UAPs within the US military, told a congressional hearing in July that the...

Israel was actually extending a hand to Gaza, thousands came daily to work in Israel, we were giving Gazans the best medical treatment. But at the same time, Hamas were planning this attack. Efraim Halevi, on CNN with Amanpour, Oct 9, 2023.

During the past three fiscal years, $4.1 billion in federal money from taxpayers has been flowing to LGBT initiatives in the United States and around the world, an Epoch Times investigation has revealed.From Oct. 1, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2023, the U.S. government issued more than 1,100 grants to fund LGBT-promoting projects around the world, according to the Epoch Times review of a federal spending website.The scope of projects varies widely.Plans to create a "safe space for LGBTQ youth and adults to seek support and resources" earned a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. government in 2022 for the LGBT...

Reinfections cleared faster than initial COVID-19 infections, including among people who never received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new study.Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (purple) infected with a variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (pink), isolated from a patient sample. (NIAID via The Epoch Times)People infected with COVID-19 for a second time cleared the illness a mean of 6.6 days, compared with a mean of 9.3 days for the initial infection, U.S. and British researchers reported in the paper.Researchers drew the findings from 1,796 first infections and 193 second infections.The difference held for a subset of 71...

Former CIA Director and retired Gen. Michael Hayden seemed to call for the death of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) Monday night.Quoting a Twitter post that asked, "Should Tommy Tuberville be removed from his committee? Yes or No?" Hayden wrote, "How about the human race?"Tuberville has been bullied by Senate Democrats and know-nothing pundits since last December over his opposition to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's creation of an "abortion tourism benefit." As Streiff explained:In July 2022, Lloyd Austin declared that the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs vs. Jackon Women's Health adversely impacted military readiness because if pregnant members of the...

When I was growing up and attending Catholic schools, I was taught that the pope is infallible. But then I read Pope Francis’ updated encyclical letter last week, and now I can only conclude that at least this pope is fallible. In fact, the declaration is so filled with anti-Christian fallacies that one has to wonder whether we have a pope that is actually Catholic. Pope Francis was full of doom and gloom as he warned that the Earth is “collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point” because of climate change. He takes a metaphorical ruler and whacks the...

What we’re seeing in the Democrat cities is a total breakdown of civilization. That’s not an exaggeration. You don't have a civilization when normal people can’t walk down the street without having to dodge junkies, piles of human waste, and knife-wielding maniacs. You have chaos. But chaos is OK with the inhabitants of the Democrat big cities. I know that because they keep electing people who allow their cities to be chaotic. I’m supposed to be outraged and upset by this, but my caring bandwidth is limited. I can only care about so much, and what I cannot do is...

A young couple from Michigan decided to take an extended vacation by car culminating in a visit to Portland. Adrian Hammerle had lived in the city from 2017 to 2020 and he was eager to show it off to his girlfriend Eleora Gouine. They were both thinking of the trip as a combination vacation and scouting effort. If they liked what they saw in the city, maybe they would move there.“Yeah, I mean, Adrian was talking it up. He was so excited to bring me. I was so excited to go, and I mean we’ve had some people be like,...

After Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker by the Freedom Caucus, he seemed quite clear about his intentions. He was done. He wasn’t leaving Congress, but he wouldn’t run for Speaker again. But then Hamas invaded Israel and the world was turned on its head. Today, McCarthy held a press conference to address the situation with Hamas and he was asked if he would consider returning as the Speaker. His answer was less than clear. He didn’t say yes, but he didn’t say no either. What wasn’t addressed was whether or not he could get the votes to take back...

The brutal war Hamas launched against Israel is going into its third day. As the battlefield shifts from Israeli living rooms to the streets of the terrorist enclave of Gaza, many people are trying to understand what has happened. A logical first stop on the trail to understanding what appears to be an intelligence blunder dwarfing 9/11 is to find out why Iranian agents heavily infiltrated the Biden defense policy apparatus. The obvious answer to the question is "yes," a thousand or so armed men don't cross your border and hunt women and children down in your towns without a...

China on Monday pushed back calls to condemn Palestine and stressed the way out of conflict was the two-state solution. “China always stands with justice and fairness. China is a friend of both Palestine and Israel and sincerely wishes the two sides can co-exist peacefully,” said Mao Ning, spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry. She was responding to “some voices pressuring China to condemn Palestine,” Beijing-based daily Global Times reported.

Iranian fans demanded the removal of Palestinian flags and expressed support for Israel in Tehran on Monday. The incident showcased a rare public display of differing opinions regarding the Middle Eastern conflict. As the game progressed, a group of Iranian fans chanted slogans in support of Israel. The unexpected demonstration took place in stark contrast to the traditionally anti-Israel sentiment prevailing in Iran due to the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sharing the video on X, formerly Twitter, Israeli writer Emily Schrader wrote: "Iranian fans in Tehran demand the removal of Palestinian flags at a football match which the regime put up...

At least 900 people have died and more than 2,500 others have been injured in Israel after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented incursion from air, land and sea on Saturday, Israeli authorities said. Hamas fired thousands of rockets toward Israel and an estimated 1,000 fighters crossed into the country from the neighboring Gaza Strip. Israeli officials said at least 100 civilians and soldiers have been taken hostage. The Israel Defense Forces has since declared "a state of alert for war" and launched retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza, a 140-square-mile territory where 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade...