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Explanation: Known to some in the northern hemisphere as December's Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon, the last full moon of 2023 is rising in this surreal mountain and skyscape. The Daliesque scene was captured in a single exposure with a camera and long telephoto lens near Monte Grappa, Italy. The full moon is not melting, though. Its stretched and distorted appearance near the horizon is caused as refraction along the line of sight changes and creates shifting images or mirages of the bright lunar disk. The changes in atmospheric refraction correspond to atmospheric layers with sharply different temperatures...

Former President Donald Trump is pointing to his record when appealing to voters as he vies first for the Republican nomination and, ultimately, the presidential election — the main event.While he is looking to build on what he established during his first four years, Trump has also recognized that America now has additional challenges that must be addressed should he win back the White House in 2024. Here are some of the key campaign promises Trump has publicly made thus far.1. End Woke Gender IdeologyWhile it did not stand as an issue as pressing as the current day during his...

MTA police officers fatally shot a parolee armed with a loaded Uzi machine pistol in the head as they tried to arrest him late Friday for groping a 19-year-old woman in Queens, authorities said. The armed parolee, identified by police sources as Bashe McDaniel, had done five stints in prison, mostly for weapons possession and was convicted of manslaughter in 1990, according to court records. The woman entered MTA’s Long Island Rail Road headquarters on 91st St. in Jamaica, next door to Jamaica Station at about 10 p.m. Friday and claimed that McDaniel had groped her, MTA Chief of Police...

I think I’ve got this illegal immigration thing figured out! The fact that most of our illegals are military aged males seals the deal. The Democrats and deep state Republicans are taking us to war, in Ukraine, in Israel, in Iran, in Africa and most especially in Tiawan with China. It’s good for the defense industry, it feeds their corruption and bolsters political popularity. They need cannon fodder. Americans will not tolerate for long losing their sons and daughters in the neither regions of the world, but when the “Recruiters” for the reestablished draft show up at the immigrant shelters...

A new Emerson College Polling survey of U.S. voters finds President Biden continuing to trail former President Donald Trump, 43% to 47%, with 9% of voters undecided. With independent or third-party candidates Robert Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein added to the ballot, Trump’s support drops to 43%, Biden’s to 37%, while 7% support Kennedy, with 1% for Stein and West respectively. Twelve percent are undecided. In a matchup between Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, 39% support both candidates respectively, while 23% are undecided. These numbers reflect last month’s polling, and this month’s survey oversampled young voters to better...

Bidenomics is the pride of the donor class. After all, much of the Federal spending splurge in green energy has gone to big donors, including the Chinese. The top 1% of US earners now have more wealth than the middle class. Biden’s song. All he wanted to do was destroy the US middle class. And The Fed’s snakejuice flows to the 1%.

Californians are bracing for third day of monster surf that has already damaged countless ocean-side properties. During the first round of severe surf Thursday, nearly 20 beachgoers were swept away by a particularly powerful wave that slammed into a barrier in Ventura County. First responders also rescued about 10 people there Friday after the group 'thought they were able to navigate that high surf,' officials said. Two beachgoers then had to pull a lifeguard out of the water as he struggled to make it back ashore, a firefighter told CNN. Though hazards are expected lessen Saturday, waves slamming into California’s...

Saturday 30 December 2023 6th day within the octave of Christmas The Roman Catholic church of St Mary and St Egwin in Evesham Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).First reading1 John 2:12-17 ©Observance of the will of GodI am writing to you, my own children,whose sins have already been forgiven through his name;I am writing to you, fathers,who have come to know the onewho has existed since the beginning;I am writing to you, young men,who have already overcome the Evil One;I have written to you, children,because you already know the Father;I have written to you, fathers,because you have...

"Since . . . the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives" (Heb. 2:14-15). Christ came to break the power of Satan which He did by conquering death. To be free to live with God and share in all His blessings, someone had to shatter Satan's death grip on us. Sin is what gives Satan his powerful hold on...

Try to buy anything these days – at a grocery or department store, at a discounter or specialty shop alike, from low end to high end – and you will likely have the same experience, especially in the busy hours of lunch hour, the early evening after work, and of course the weekend: You are going to stand in line longer than you remember from before the so-called pandemic of 2020. Why the difference? Why has so much changed in just a few short years? We all have the same experience – more often in blue states than in red,...

Since opening the gates to unfettered mass migration in 2015, at least 7,000 women have been raped or sexually assaulted in Germany by alleged asylum-seeking illegal migrants, an analysis of government figures has found. A report from the Swiss-German paper of record, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, claimed that statistics from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) show that more than one thousand women — mostly Germans — have been sexually assaulted by migrants seeking refuge every year since 2017.

@LeadingReport BREAKING: Fox News faced its lowest average audience since 2015 in 2023, most likely attributed to the firing of Tucker Carlson.

A highly venomous snake interrupted play during Dominic Thiem's victory against James McCabe at the Brisbane International qualifying event. Former US Open champion Thiem was a set down to Australian McCabe when the snake was spotted near the courtside electrical wires. A 40-minute break in play followed while the reptile was safely removed by a professional snake catcher. "I really love animals, especially exotic ones," Thiem said afterwards. "But they said it was a really poisonous snake and it was close to the ball kids, so it was a really dangerous situation. "It's something that has never happened to me...

I need some advice. I am 67 years old and in a little over a Month I will be having my right shoulder replaced. I am actively enrolled in Medical-Care for health care, but not in any prescription policies. However, I need to figure out which prescription policy would be best for me before I have the surgery. As of right now I have no current prescriptions for anything. Until I began having shoulder problems I have not even seen a general practitioner for over 10 years. Other than my shoulder problem I am healthy as an ox, or at...

Phoenix prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of fatally stabbing a 29-year-old woman on an Arizona hiking trail. Maricopa County Attorney’s Office filed the notice of intent Friday around 5pm - a move the family of late Lauren Heike said they 'support' seven months after the brutal killing. Zion Teasley, 22, is accused of stabbing the esthetician 15 times in the back and chest after stalking her on the Reach 11 trail in broad daylight in April.

VIDEOHOORAH FOR ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Watch as these two demented Democrats celebrate flat out ELECTION INTERFERENCE in Maine. They both conveniently forget that President Donald Trump has NOT been charged with insurrection yet both morons use that as justification for removing him from the ballot. They are about as STUPID (or demented) as the Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows who used the insurrection that Trump has NOT been charged with as an excuse to "remove" him from the state's primary ballot. "Remove" has been placed in quotes since Trump has NOT actually been removed from the ballot since this is...

The Sunday that falls in the Octave of the Solemnity of Christmas is dedicated to celebrating the Holy Family. The Readings for this Sunday focus on the rights and responsibilities of family members toward each other, and the Gospel focuses on the role of the “most forgotten” member of the Holy Family, St. Joseph, who cared for and protected the Blessed Mother and infant Jesus through the dangerous early years of Jesus’ childhood. The Lectionary provides different reading options for this Sunday: the celebrant may opt for the “standard” (ABC) readings, or choose the more recently proposed readings for Year...

With the Iowa caucus beginning in just over two weeks and the New Hampshire primary hot on its heels, Gov. Ron DeSantis' once-promising bid to be the Republican Party's 2024 presidential bid seems to be already over. As the (Huffing and Puffington Post) is reporting, the clamor for DeSantis to be the face of the party went nowhere as Donald Trump not only hung onto conservative voters but pulled away from the Florida governor despite DeSantis' political operation that proved to be ineffective — when it wasn't being plagued with infighting and layoffs. Now, with well over $160 million spent...

Friday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Your World,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, reacted to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot.DeSantis suggested Florida could remove President Joe Biden from his state’s ballot for his alleged mishandling of border security.However, the Florida GOP governor said the act by Bellows was not an appropriate interpretation of the 14th Amendment and would ultimately be reversed by the Supreme Court.“Well, obviously, to have one executive branch official unilaterally striking someone off the ballot is not...

In an interview with Germany's ARD television in 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Moscow recognizes all of Ukraine's borders, and that there is no issue of ethnic conflict in Crimea. His comments, delivered shortly after Russia's military intervention in the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia, stand in stark contrast with Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its support of armed separatists in eastern Ukraine. VIDEO https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-crimea-ukraine/26942862.html