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A pair of US astronauts stuck waiting to leave the International Space Station said Wednesday they were confident that the problem-plagued Boeing Starliner they rode up on would soon bring them home, even as significant uncertainties remain. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasted off on June 5 aboard the brand new spaceship that NASA is hoping to certify to ferry crews to-and-from the orbital outpost. They docked the following day for what was meant to be roughly a week-long stay, but their return was pushed back because of thruster malfunctions and helium leaks that came to light during the journey....

Paris — The famous medieval cathedral in the city of Rouen in western France was evacuated Thursday when a fire broke out in the spire. The Notre Dame of Rouen Cathedral is undergoing renovations and video from the scene showed thick smoke rising from the spire, which is partially covered in scaffolding. Fire trucks raced to the scene to save the cathedral, made famous by impressionist painter Claude Monet who depicted the imposing structure in a series of paintings in the 1890s.

Lawfare has backfired, bigtime, on the Democrats. They say that old Julius Caesar authored a great line: "veni, vidi, vici" or something like, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Well, I think that he would have responded to the Democrat lawfare by saying you came, you sued, and you did not conquer. Yes, lawfare backfired big time as the Wall Street Journal pointed out: When Donald Trump was hit with four indictments last year, the prevailing Democratic belief was that Mr. Trump would be a convicted felon by Election Day. How could President Biden then possibly lose? Yet trying to...

President Joe Biden, facing a political crisis as Democrats question the viability of his campaign and mental fitness, will be put to the test on Thursday when he holds his first solo news conference of the year. The high-stakes moment is an opportunity for Biden to change the narrative after his poor debate performance triggered a drumbeat of concerns in his own party that he might be too weakened to win against Donald Trump this November. But any stumbles in the unscripted setting could add fuel to the fire, despite Biden's repeated attempts to rebuff his critics and his insistence...

Upon Googling "Laffin' Kamala:>" (https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Laffin%E2%80%99+kamala%22) a NYT piece pops up about Harris "sharpening attacks" on Trump. The liberal paper tries so hard to refurbish CHILDISH "lady".

A new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll shows a majority of President Biden's own supporters say he should drop out, even though he's virtually tied with former President Trump. Americans are split 46-47% between Biden and Trump if the election were held today, according to the poll. The results did not meaningfully shift from a pre-debate poll, which showed a 44-46% divide between the two candidates. However, Biden does appear to have suffered politically from his poor performance at the CNN Presidential Debate in Atlanta. Sixty-seven percent overall said he should withdraw from the race. A larger number, 85%, said he...

...talking about what it meant for them to choose the Catholic priesthood in the year 2024. The next morning, they would make lifelong promises of celibacy and obedience, and they were elated by the prospect. ... There was a time where the church “maybe apologized for being Catholic,” he said later in the conversation. He and the other new priests agreed they were called to something different: advancing the Catholic faith, even the parts that could seem out of place in an increasingly hostile world. “The church is Catholic, and so we should announce that joyfully,” he said. In an...

Can the Deep State shut down Steve Bannon? It doesn’t seem that way. Around the turn of the second century, St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was condemned by a Roman tribunal to be torn apart and eaten by lions in the Coliseum. What was his crime? Ignatius was condemned because his speech was subversive to the Roman social order. Having a public audience worsened his exercise of free speech; speaking freely in front of an assembled mob was the real crime. But Ignatius’s death sentence didn’t chill his speech. He managed to preach in dozens of venues along the route...

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The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would expand proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote in federal elections and impose voter roll purge requirements on states.

Camille Topham is your typical American voter who sought to cast her vote in Utah’s June 25 primary elections. Using the Beehive State’s universal mail-in voting system, the Iron County resident and her family reportedly deposited their ballots into a local post box on June 23.

An empirical study of what is being taught and learned in university sociology courses around the country would be challenging to carry out. But American sociology provides a convenient site for observing how the discipline is taught in the form of a research journal produced by the American Sociological Association (ASA). Teaching Sociology has existed since 1973 and advertises itself on the ASA website as “advanc[ing] the quality of sociology instruction.” I admit having never looked at it during the entirety of my quarter-century in the discipline until writing this essay. I came to graduate school under the influence of...

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One of Clint Eastwood’s famous “spaghetti Western” films, “A Fistful of Dollars,” is getting a remake thanks to the help of Hollywood and Italian veterans in the movie-making industry. In a statement from Hollywood veteran Gianni Nunnari (300) and Simon Horsman of Euro Gang Entertainment, alongside Italian production veteran Enzo Sisti (Ripley) of FPC, and Rome-based Jolly Film (which produced the original movie), they said they were thrilled at the prospect of remaking one of Sergio Leone and Eastwood’s classic films, Deadline noted. “I am delighted to partner with Gianni again having just worked with him on ‘Those About to...

Buckeye Firearms Association PAC has announced its endorsement of Bernie Moreno for U.S. Senate."We're thrilled to throw our support behind Bernie Moreno and help throw out anti-gun, F-rated Sherrod Brown," said Linda Walker, Board President of Buckeye Firearms Association.BFA-PAC leaders sat down with Moreno in May at his campaign headquarters in Columbus to discuss his campaign and stance on the Second Amendment. Our team asked a range of detailed questions on specific issues confronting gun owners and sportsmen in Ohio and across the nation.Along with his 100% gun rights candidate survey score, Moreno and his team expressed enthusiastic support for...

The driver was booked for operating a stolen car. But the other four were released into the custody of their parents. That’s what really gets Black. He rightly points out that the kids could potentially break in and steal another car immediately. After all, when there are zero consequences for doing that, what’s to keep teenagers from being recreational or even professional thieves? In fact, there are car theft rings which actively recruit kids as young as 8 to boost vehicles. They do this because they know the youth won’t spend time in jail and get a slap on the...

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy launched into a furious tirade at George Clooney on Wednesday, after the Hollywood A-lister U-turned on Joe Biden and called for him to pull out of the presidential race. Clooney's op-ed in the New York Times stunned the world, as he asked Biden, 81, to step down just three weeks after hosting a record-breaking $28 million fundraiser for the president on June 16. Portnoy was quick to give his thoughts on the incredible turn of events, taking to X to give his scathing take. 'What a f****** hero this guy is,' he says of Clooney,...

The Arkansas secretary of state on Wednesday rejected an effort to put an abortion-rights amendment on the ballot this November, saying the campaign had failed to submit some of the necessary paperwork. Less than a week ago, organizers said they had successfully submitted more than 101,000 signatures in support of the effort, a few thousand more than the required minimum. Last Friday, the day of the deadline, they triumphantly dropped off boxes of petitions, cheering in the halls of the State Capitol. But in a letter on Wednesday, John Thurston, the secretary of state, said the group had failed to...

The incident sparked criticism of Sotomayor's Second Amendment positions during her tenure on the high court, including one decision where she co-signed a dissent that said the Constitution does not protect "a private right of armed self-defense." In that case, McDonald v. Chicago, decided in 2010, then-Justice Steven Breyer dissented from the majority which ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to own a gun against the regulations of state and local governments. "In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self-defense," Breyer wrote. Parker Thayer of...