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A Republican candidate for county commissioner publicly lost support from the GOP after throwing her housemate's tarantula down the stairs, according to multiple reports. Marisa Simonetti is running for Hennepin County Commissioner, but has had her public support from the GOP rescinded after she was charged with assault following a disagreement with a housemate. Simonetti claims she rented space in her home to an attorney, Jackie Vasquez, while she studied for the Bar Exam. Simonetti lived on the upper floor and Vasquez on the lower, but within weeks everything fell apart. Vasquez apparently started complaining about a "spider infestation," and...

JWST deep field vs hubble This region of space, viewed first iconically by Hubble and later by JWST, shows an animation that switches between the two. Both images still have fundamental limitations, as they were acquired from within our inner Solar System, where the presence of zodiacal light influences the noise floor of our instruments, and cannot easily be removed.Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Christina Williams (NSF’s NOIRLab), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Michael Maseda (UW-Madison); Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI); Animation: E. Siegel ======================================================================================= KEY TAKEAWAYS: * The darkest night skies, both from Earth as well as from interplanetary space, aren’t completely...

Iconic actor Bob Newhart has died aged 94. The comedy legend passed away at his LA home on Thursday after a series of short illnesses, his longtime publicist, Jerry Digney, announced to THR. Newhart began his career as a stand-up comedian before launching a hugely successful acting career. His accolades include three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He famously starred as Papa Elf in 2003 Will Ferrell comedy, Elf and played Susan Mayer's stepfather Morty Flicker in Desperate Housewives in 2005.

An Indiana State Prison (ISP) employee has been caught allegedly trying to smuggle contraband into the facility. A nurse at the jail is accused of trying to smuggle cocaine and marijuana inside a frozen bowl of lasagna. Court documents say 46-year-old Regina Davis reported for work on July 3 and had her property scanned as a standard procedure before being allowed in the facility when security officers felt something was odd about the image of her bowl of lasagna. After chipping into the frozen pasta layers, two packages containing 84 grams of cocaine and 49 grams of marijuana were discovered...

Butler County Sheriffs did not wear body cameras according to Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch immediately got to work investigating the Secret Service’s failures and security breaches surrounding the attempted assassination against President Trump. Tom Fitton said Judicial Watch filed multiple FOIA requests on state, federal and local level. “The Butler County Sheriff’s Department told us that responding officers and those there did not have body cam footage,” Tom Fitton said.

TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. (WSVN) — A Central Florida woman is on the road to recovery after surviving an alligator attack on the Fourth of July. Rachél Thompson said she went for a morning run and decided to take a dip in the river when danger struck. “I’m basically standing in shallow water and I look from the dark water, out of nowhere appear the ripples of a giant alligator head,” Thompson recounted. The gator lunged and bit down on Thompson’s leg. She started fighting for her life, punching the animal in the snout and trying to free herself. “The thought...

<p>July 18 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly payments for millions of Americans. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request, opens new tab by seven Republican-led states to put on hold parts of the U.S. Department of Education's debt relief plan that had not already been blocked by a lower-court judge.</p>

Just now reported on RAV. I cannot find anything online yet.

“The People Shall Save the Church.” But How?p>n October 4, 2019, at the Hotel Massimo D’Azeglio in Rome, there was a roundtable discussion, sponsored by Voice of the Family, an international lay initiative supporting Catholic teaching on the family. The topic was: “Our Church – Reformed or Deformed?” The panelists were a who’s who of lay Catholic thought leaders. Panelist John-Henry Westen, co-founder of LifeSiteNews, said one word that reverberated throughout the whole conference: “Enough!” Enough to the harm being done to the faith by Pope Francis. At virtually the same time, the Pachamama idol was being worshipped in the...

A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked a key Biden administration student loan forgiveness and repayment plan. The order could have significant ramifications for millions of borrowers.. Joe Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education plan is a new income-driven repayment program designed to provide affordable payments and multiple pathways to loan forgiveness. The Education Department unveiled the SAVE plan last year, and began implementing the program in phases. But several groups of Republican-led states filed two separate legal challenges this spring, arguing that the Biden administration exceeded the authority Congress provided. Thursday’s appeals court ruling is just the latest...

Caleb Williams has finally signed his rookie contract with the Chicago Bears. What took so long? Williams’ representatives were reportedly making some unprecedented requests for his contract before he put his name on the dotted line. Williams was still participating in rookie and team activities, but he hadn’t signed his four-year, $39 million deal with the Bears until earlier this week. According to Pro Football Talk, there were differences in the language of Williams’ contract, including one odd request I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player make. Per Mike Florio, Williams requested that his contract be paid in the...

Explanation: Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Direct your gaze through this gap with binoculars or small telescope and you are looking through a window over 300 light-years wide at stars some 10,000 light-years or more from Earth. Sometimes called the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, M24's luminous stars are left of center in this gorgeous starscape. Covering...

Doing a bit where Kamala calls JD Vance.................... VIDEOA T LINK.........................

Austin Private Wealth, LLC, a Texas-based financial planning company, is being scrutinized after a social media post went viral that claimed they had put options on as many as 12 million shares of DJT shares just one day before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The investment firm denied the allegations and has now blamed a filing error for this controversial action. -- snip -- According to the viral post, Austin Private Wealth’s alleged put position on July 12 was the largest among those listed—the second-biggest was Citadel’s 1.677 million short in May. The filing date is July 12th, the...

Washington — U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has agreed to testify to the House Oversight Committee as Republicans ramp up efforts to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The committee's Republican chairman, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, subpoenaed Cheatle on Wednesday for her testimony, requesting her appearance before lawmakers on July 22. In a letter to Comer on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security offered Cheatle's testimony on July 25, July 26 or the following week. The July 22 date clashed with her "travel and operational commitments." But a committee spokesperson said the hearing would take...

The transcript for this 6 minute video clip is below the link and image.https://x.com/VDejan0000/status/1811974823394050311 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT~~~~~Hospitals in America are legally killing people by the thousands every single day. I'm going to teach you what you need to do to prevent your loved one from dying negligently in one of these hospitals.I received over 1000 messages in the last 24 hours of patient horror stories for them or their family members of what hospital neglicence has done and all the deaths that I have encountered in my medical career seeing this happen.First and foremost, if you leave an elderly individual in...

Former president Barack Obama has told allies in recent days that President Biden’s path to victory has greatly diminished and he thinks the president needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy, according to multiple people briefed on his thinking. Obama has spoken with Biden only once since the debate, and he has been clear in his conversations with others that the future of Biden’s candidacy is a decision for the president to make. He has emphasized that his concern is protecting Biden and his legacy, and has pushed back against the idea that he alone can influence Biden’s...

REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware — President Joe Biden’s reelection bid appeared to be nearing the point of collapse on Thursday, amid a cascade of warnings from the Democratic Party’s top leaders that they have lost confidence in his candidacy. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi each told Biden in separate meetings over the last week that he should reconsider his reelection run or risk losing and dragging the rest of the party down with him. Schumer was “pretty harsh” in his conversation with Biden, said one senior Hill Democrat briefed on...

Most Americans fear the U.S. is “spiraling” out of control, a Reuters/Ipsos survey released days after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump found. The two-day survey, which ended polling on Tuesday, found four out of ten asserting that the country is “spiraling” out of control, and an even greater figure, 86 percent, believe “acts of violence” are “throwing this country into chaos,” per reporting from Axios: The two-day poll, which closed Tuesday and included 992 registered voters, showed that 56% were “very concerned” about this and 30% were “somewhat concerned” following Saturday’s Pennsylvania rally shooting that killed one...

Kamala is now doing an impression of Biden...... 'We too busy watchin what you doin to hear what you sayin.' 0:06 VIDEO AT LINK..................