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Update, 5 p.m.: The Grand County Sheriff’s Office stated that County Road 1/Trough Road is reopened. Please drive with caution. A massive amount of snow has fallen across Grand County over the weekend triggering an avalanche and multiple highway closures. As of noon on Jan. 15 U.S. Highway 40 is still closed in both directions near Berthoud Pass while snow removal continues, Rabbit Ears Pass is closed in both direction on U.S. 40 and Colorado 125 is closed in both directions from mile point 0 to Forest Road 730, which is south of Walden. While everyone is trying to navigate...

Maggie* was trapped in an abusive relationship and the threats of increased violence forbade her to leave. On a cold January night in 2024, her husband beat her and then forced abortion medication into her mouth. With little hope left, Maggie swallowed the pill, finally agreeing with him that she could not bring a child into this home. After he was asleep, she made a bold decision to finally leave. She called her sister who arrived quickly to take her away. After sharing with her sister of the imminent abortion, she also shared her deep regret and love for her...

Proper Scientist sticks his neck out to bring you the Straight Dope. (Short video on COVID and Climate Change.)

16 January 2024 Tuesday of week 2 in Ordinary Time Saint Joseph Vaz Shrine, Mudipu, Goa, IndiaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Samuel 16:1-13 ©Jesse's youngest son David is anointed kingThe Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you go on mourning over Saul when I have rejected him as king of Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen myself a king among his sons.’ Samuel replied, ‘How can I go? When Saul hears of it he will kill me.’ Then the Lord said,...

The level of antisemitism that has been revealed following Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel has been utterly shocking. Maybe I just didn't realize how popular it has become in our modern-day culture to hate Jewish people. Regardless, ever since these attacks, I've witnessed an alarming number of hateful and prejudiced posts on social media blaming Jews and Israel for practically every evil on earth. A prime example of this is a recent comment from Mohammed el-Kurd, a pro-Palestinian activist, who was loudly cheered and applauded during a demonstration when he made a call to "normalize massacres as...

And might you wonder why the Biden administration wants to ‘look into’ him? In November 2023, the Biden FCC issued a Prevention and Elimination of Digital Discrimination (PEDD) order. This order forbids any internet access practices that “differentially impact consumers’ access to broadband internet access service based on their income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion or national origin, or are intended to have such differential impact.” The lawless test of differential impact (rather than differential treatment) became ordinary for such regulations. Considering income level as a protected characteristic is a novel theory. The order also puts the onus of proof...

Apple is in dire straits. There are 1.5 billion people in China and many of them can afford to buy a new iPhone every year or two. They used to buy them, but they don’t anymore, because the US is a hostile country and using an iPhone is increasingly being viewed as very unpatriotic.

Commanders and advisors from Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are on the ground in Yemen and playing a direct role in Houthi rebel attacks on commercial traffic in the Red Sea. The IRGC has stationed missile and drone trainers and operators in Yemen, as well as personnel providing tactical intelligence support to the Houthis, U.S. and Middle East officials told Semafor. The IRGC, through its overseas Qods Force, has also overseen the transfer to the Houthis of the attack drones, cruise missiles, and medium-range ballistic missiles used in a string of strikes on Red Sea and Israeli targets in...

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Since April 2022, more than 100,000 foreign nationals who have illegally crossed the border have been bused or flown from Texas to six sanctuary cities. This equates to roughly 5% of those who illegally entered Texas in fiscal 2023 alone, the highest number on record, The Center Square exclusively reported. Gov. Greg Abbott began busing foreign nationals who illegally entered the U.S. and were unlawfully released by the Biden administration into Texas, he argues, to provide relief to border communities, including at least 50 that declared disasters citing the border crisis. The first self-described sanctuary city to receive foreign nationals...

MSNBC host Rachael Maddow says NBC and other mainstream news networks have decided not to show Trump’s victory speech and other events CNN briefly showed Trump’s speech before cutting away

The jig should have been up when the Varsity Blues scandal broke. Oh was it delicious. Hollywood actresses, hedge fund managers, winery owners, real estate developers and other assorted muckety-mucks sneaking their low-watt spawn into elite colleges. The fraud was so absurd you couldn’t make it up. Rich people Photoshopping their kids playing sports, paying for medical “stupid” certifications to get “special” proctoring, hiring a Harvard grad SAT ringer able to deliver any score you want. Stanford, Yale, Cornell, Georgetown and we are not going to make USC jokes because the school has gotten a lot better in recent years....

A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a series of fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes. Brian Paré, 38, pleaded guilty Monday to 13 counts of arson and one count of arson with disregard for human life at the courthouse in Chibougamau, Que. Prosecutor Marie-Philippe Charron told the court that two of the 14 fires set by Paré forced the evacuation of around 500 homes in Chapais, Que...

WASHINGTON, Friday, Jan. 15. THE REBEL FORCES IN TEXAS. Authentic information received by the Government reduces considerably the numbers of the rebel forces in Texas and other portions of the Southwest. The whole of MAGRUDER's force in Texas does not exceed 15,000, and the troops in Louisiana, under command of TAYLOR and other guerrilla chiefs, are put down at less than half that number. Owing to the scarcity of supplies and lack of transportation, they are so scattered as to be impotent for mischief on a large scale. The forces under MAGRUDER, it is stated, could not be concentrated in...

In a speech on Monday, Kim Jong Un said he had concluded that unification with the South was no longer possible and accused Seoul of seeking regime collapse and unification by absorption. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday called for the constitution to be changed to ensure that South Korea is seen as the "primary foe" and warned his country did not intend to avoid war should it happen, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. In a speech to the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament, Kim said he had concluded that unification with the South was...

Governors of 15 U.S. states are putting politics ahead of the needs of hungry children by opting out of a new federal food assistance program that launches this year, critics say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced the remaining 35 states, four Native American tribes and all five U.S. territories have signed up for the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer program, which will provide low-income families $40 a month for each child. But Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming passed on the opportunity. Some described the program as...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem The Scriptures In Handel’s Messiah Isaiah 53:329 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.Isaiah 50:6 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. (King James Version)______________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Samsung Electronics is planning to fully automate its semiconductor factories by 2030, with “smart sensors” set to control the manufacturing process, according to South Korean media reports. The world’s largest maker of memory chips aims to create an “artificial intelligence fab” that operates without human labor, the reports said. The ground-breaking project is reportedly already underway, the same reports said. Samsung has signaled since last summer it aims to AI to optimize integrated circuit (IC) design, materials development, production, yield improvement and packaging. Identifying the cause of defects in the production process is reportedly a top priority of the AI...

How safe are you nowadays on commercial airliners? How safe will you be tomorrow? Are airlines sacrificing safety at the altar of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)?” Who do you want piloting the jetliner you’re on, the best, most experienced pilots or box-check hires? Flipping the page, medical schools will graduate bevvies of DEI doctors as the decade unwinds. What if you need open-heart surgery? Cancer treatment? Won’t you need a sound diagnosis for starters? Will the most capable physicians attend you? Or will you have to settle for the right color, right gender, right sexual orientation, pick-your-pronouns person in...

NewsNation) — Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley finished third at the Iowa caucuses on Monday. Still, the former South Carolina governor continued to tout her success to her supporters, claiming it was a two-person race between herself and former President Donald Trump.