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MINNEAPOLIS -- MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Friday that Fox News has stopped running his company's commercials, disputing the network's assertion that it is simply because he hasn't paid his bills. Lindell went public by tweeting that Fox, which had been one of MyPillow's biggest advertising outlets, had canceled him. He said in his tweet that he didn't know why but that he suspected that the network was trying to silence him. Fox denied that. Losing Fox was just the latest in a series of financial and legal setbacks for Minnesota-based MyPillow and Lindell, who...

New York City is reaching an all-time low - literally. New research reveals dramatic concern that the Big Apple, Long Island and many more Atlantic coastal regions face an inevitable risk of sinking under the weight of their buildings at an alarming rate. “It affects you and I and everyone. It may be gradual, but the impacts are real,” Virginia Tech professor and researcher Manoochehr Shirzaei said. Other metropolitan areas like Baltimore, Maryland, along with Norfolk and Virginia Beach in Virginia, were also flagged as worrisome coastal areas prone to dangerous flooding as a result of the sinking land. The...

For more than two decades, Christopher Lovrien said he was dogged by memories of the bloody bedroom killing. “I haven’t had a relationship since this happened. All I could do is work,” the former steelworker said. “I wish I could undo it. But I’m glad to be able to say it and go to jail.” Lovrien, now 56, came clean Friday in a Multnomah County Circuit Court room. He was sentenced to 20 years in state prison for the 1999 killing of Mark Dribin. But Lovrien will remain in a city jail on a murder charge for allegedly killing another...

At the age of 97, just stepping out of a 4-by-4 truck is a major accomplishment. But Opal Lee has taken much greater strides than this, with no plans to sit anytime soon. "We don't have to sit around and wait for the Lord to come for us," Lee told CBS News. "In fact, he's going to have to catch me." Opal is a retired teacher and lifelong community activist in Fort Worth, Texas. She's mostly known for her successful campaign to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. But what is lesser known is how that fire in her belly came...

On January 7, 1967, saxophone player-bandleader Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley surprised everyone by entering the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.’The great jazz artists are, for the most part, infrequent visitors to the world of hit singles. But on January 7, 1967, saxophone player and bandleader Julian “Cannonball” Adderley surprised everyone by entering the hallowed ranks of the Billboard Hot 100. Even more amazingly, the track in question, “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” would go on to peak just outside the Top 10. The instrumental was written by another great jazz man, Joe Zawinul, who was a member of Adderley’s quintet throughout...

A woman who comes from a European business dynasty is taking part of her inheritance and allowing 50 strangers to determine what she does with more than $27 million. Why? It's her way of fighting wealth inequality. Marlene Engelhorn, 31, believes the Austrian government should impose taxes on wealth and inheritance – but since they aren't, she is taking it into her own hands, she says. She has sent invitations to 10,000 randomly selected people in Austria, asking them to complete a survey. Out of those who complete it, she will narrow the pile down to 50 people of different...

Stephan's Quintet cluster of galaxies Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In part 1 and part 2 of this series of articles on how cosmic evolution developed with neither expansion nor a Big Bang, we saw how electromagnetic forces formed huge filaments of current and plasma. Then gravitation and magnetism combined to collapse these filaments into a hierarchy of stars, galaxies, clusters and superclusters of galaxies. When stars formed, a new process came to dominate evolution: fusion of nuclei in the dense stars, releasing immense amounts of energy and creating the chemical elements. The cosmos is still in this phase...

The Orion: A molecular cloud shows cosmic filamentary structures where stars are being born. Image: ESA / Herschel / Ph. André, D Polychroni, A. Roy, V Könyves, N Schneider for the Gould Belt survey Key Program ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the first part of this series, we saw that electromagnetic processes in plasmas – electrically conducting gases – could, over trillions of years, produce the giant filaments that we see today as the largest structures in the universe. This happened without a Big Bang, without dark energy or dark matter, based on processes that we observe here on Earth in the laboratory...

Whirlpool Galaxy, photographed by the Webb Space Telescope. Photo: NASA ESA Webb / A Adamo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introduction by Asia Times Science Editor Jonathan Tennenbaum In September Eric Lerner created a sensation with his Asia Times article, “Saying goodbye to the Big Bang,” arguing that the Big Bang theory is contradicted by an overwhelming mass of astronomical evidence accumulated over decades, including recent data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Eric Lerner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The data forced even a pair of hitherto staunch advocates of the Big Bang, the well-known astrophysicists Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, to admit that something must be...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken rolled out the red carpet Friday for Liu Jianchao, China’s leading envoy — and the architect of its global scheme to kidnap and silence anti-Communist dissidents. Liu’s “Operation Foxhunt” included setting up Chinese “police stations” including in New York, to find and extort dissidents. His trip to the US was capped by the reception at the State Department by Blinken on Friday morning, the day after he met President Biden’s deputy national security adviser Jon Finer. It had also included a visit to the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan, a reception with a...

A fight between McDonald's employees and a customer is going viral two years after the bitter argument took place. A Reddit user posted a video on the r/Crazy*******Videos subreddit yesterday of two employees angrily throwing large cups of soda in the customer's face. The woman and one of the employees repeatedly called each other names like 'ugly a**' and 'b****' before the worker threw a large cup of what appeared to be Coca Cola in her face. Another female employee yelled, 'That's what you get' and hurled an orange soda at the customer that also got the person recording the...

Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell sent a letter House Republicans on Friday arguing that subpoenas they sent the president’s son in November are legally invalid, because they were issued before the full House authorized an impeachment inquiry on December 13, 2023. The letter cites a Trump-era Office of Legal Counsel opinion that subpoenas issued before the House authorized inquiry in which the subpoenas are based are not enforceable. Biden’s lawyers said they would accept service of a new subpoena. “[N]ow that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition. We will accept...

Pollster Frank Luntz, much to his chagrin, says @realDonaldTrump is on track to win presidency again.

On the evening of January 11, two U.S. Navy Sailors were reported missing at sea while conducting operations off the coast of Somalia. Search and rescue operations are currently ongoing to locate the two sailors

Oregon's Supreme Court said Friday that it would not hear a challenge from five voters seeking to keep former President Donald Trump off the state's 2024 Republican primary and general election ballots, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up the issue of Trump's eligibility. The Oregon voters, represented by the liberal advocacy group Free Speech for People, asked the state high court in early December to direct the secretary of state to disqualify Trump from the primary and general election ballots, arguing he is constitutionally ineligible for the president under the Constitution's so-called insurrection clause. Their request to...

A Jewish Australian hairdresser who was donating sperm to a lesbian couple was shocked when he received a text from them last month informing him they no longer wanted to use his seed because of the current conflict in Gaza. Jay Lazarus, 37, who describes himself as a proud South African-born, Australian-raised gay Jewish man, told The Post he was left reeling by their decision. The journey began in October 2022 when the Perth-based stylist, who knew he had always wanted to donate sperm to help couples, joined a Facebook group which helps couples find sperm donors. Lazarus says he...

The Governor of Georgia described accusations of misconduct by the District Attorney prosecuting Trump election interference cases in the state as “deeply troubling,” to The Post on Friday. A spokesperson for Governor Brian Kemp also indicated Fulton County DA Fani Willis could face a probe by a special commission over her alleged “improper” relationship with Nathan Wade, who she appointed as a special prosecutor in the case.

Democrats in Washington state are seeking to tax citizens for the “privilege” of using ammunition in a move conservatives are blasting as the Left’s latest attack on the Second Amendment. Citing a purported persistent health and safety threat posed by gun violence in Washington, a band of Democrats in the Evergreen State referred House Bill 2238 to the state legislature’s committee on finance on Tuesday. If passed, the legislation would impose a use and sales tax on ammunition throughout the state, according to the bill text. “‘Ammunition’ means any projectiles with their fuses, propelling charges, or primers designed to be...

In a speech at a Council on Foreign Relations dinner in his honor, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces that the United States will protect its allies through the “deterrent of massive retaliatory power.” The policy announcement was further evidence of the Eisenhower administration’s decision to rely heavily on the nation’s nuclear arsenal as the primary means of defense against communist aggression. Dulles began his speech by examining communist strategy that, he concluded, had as its goal the “bankruptcy” of the United States through overextension of its military power. Both strategically and economically, the secretary explained, it was unwise...

One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to try to understand this strange afflictionThe morning after performing the concert of my life, I could no longer play the flute. The pinky and ring fingers of my left hand failed to cooperate with what my mind wanted to do – I couldn’t work the keys. The harder I tried, the more my fingers curled into a claw, stuck in spasm. Even stranger: no other activity was affected. I could type on a keyboard with the same facility as usual and play...