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After the Israeli army carried out an attack in southern Beirut, representatives from Hamas, Yemeni Houthis, Iran, and the Russian Federation promptly responded. Moscow: In a stern statement, the Russian government condemned the Israeli action, calling it a “dangerous escalation” that threatens regional stability. The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Israel to cease its military operations immediately and called for international mediation to prevent further conflict. “We strongly oppose any actions that exacerbate tensions and lead to the loss of civilian lives,” the statement read. Russia also reaffirmed its support for a two-state solution and called for renewed efforts towards peace...

Explanation: A visitor to the inner solar system every 70 years or so Comet 13P/Olbers reached its most recent perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun, on June 30 2024. Now on a return voyage to the distant Oort cloud the Halley-type comet is recorded here sweeping through northern summer night skies over historic Kunetice Castle, Czech Republic. Along with a broad dust tail, and brighter coma, this comet's long ion tail buffeted by storms and winds from the Sun, is revealed in the composite of tracked exposures for comet and sky, and fixed exposures for foreground landscape recorded on...

Moderna’s stock price plunged more than 20% in Thursday morning trading after the company lowered its 2024 revenue guidance due to weak demand for its coronavirus vaccine in the second quarter. The vaccine producer netted $241 million in revenue in Q2, which aligned with analyst expectations. However, it was a significant drop from the $344 million generated during the prior year period. Moderna said the decline was due to decreased demand for its COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine generated sales of $184 million in Q2, a 37% decrease from the same period last year, but was higher than Jefferies’ estimate of...

Liberty University has been sued for discrimination and wrongful termination because they enforced their doctrinal statement on a man who decided he was a transvestite. To make matters more intense, the ACLU is involved. According to Cardinal News: The lawsuit, filed Monday by the ACLU of Virginia and the Richmond law firm Butler Curwood, claims that the university violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The plaintiff, Ellenor Zinski, was hired to work at the private university’s information technology help desk in 2023, and received a positive performance...

In the summer of 2021, President Richard Nixon was put on trial nearly every day for six weeks. The trials came in the form of an off-Broadway play called "Trial on the Potomac," which imagined the president going through an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate for his role in the Watergate scandal and subsequent cover-up. Nixon's defense in the play is based on documents uncovered by Geoff Shepard, who worked as deputy counsel for Nixon's Watergate defense team. The audience became members of the Senate who, at the end of every performance, had to vote on whether Nixon was...

Benny Hinn, the charlatan of the highest order, faces yet another scandal as his wife, Suzanne Hinn, has filed for divorce. Known for bilking his followers for millions and teaching a false prosperity gospel—doctrines of demons—Hinn continues his greedy pursuit under the guise of spiritual leadership. Despite his numerous public “repentances,” Benny’s “ministry” has remained consistent with his exploitative nature. This isn’t Suzanne’s first attempt to escape Benny’s grasp. In 2010, she filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, revealing the turbulent nature of their marriage. Hinn’s “alleged” affair (I say alleged only for legal protection) with Paula White only intensified...

Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee 11 days ago, yet she has not engaged in a substantial interview nor a press conference since then. Election Day is 95 days away, and early voting will begin much sooner. After Hollywood elites, top Democrats, and donors reportedly forced President Joe Biden out as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, he quickly endorsed Harris after stepping down from the race on July 21. She subsequently received support from top Democrats and became the presumptive nominee by July 22. Yet, Harris has gone twelve days since Biden bowed out and eleven...

I find rthe claim of a clerical error and four zeroes having been added to the actual number of shares in question in this story to be disingenous, idiotic, and totally lacking in credibility. In fact I don't care if those wankers were trying to make a hundred million dollars or a hundred dollars betting that both Donald Trump and Rumble would be gone in two days, either way they (minimally) need to be forced to divulge the source of the magical stock tip in question

My colleague Grayson Bakich covered the original controversy surrounding a biological male who failed a gender test at the 2023 World Boxing Championships being allowed to compete in the Olympics as a female. Algerian boxer Imane Khelif was eligible to fight as a female because the rules under which he was eligible to compete as a woman were formulated in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The confusion is a result of a bureaucratic war between the Russian Federation and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). New York Post:The different status of Lin and Khelif at the Olympics and...

Vice President aspirant and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said this week that not only does abortion liberate women, “men are also more free in a country where we have a president who stands up for things like access to abortion care. Men are more free.” Buttigieg, who contends that he is married to a man, is right about that. Abortion does in fact make men free. They are free from their fatherly duties, thus allowing them to prey on women—in the name of liberating them—while appearing to be on their side. It’s a dream come true. In an article...

Congressional Republicans are probing Kamala Harris’ national security adviser for “blatantly promoting the Iranian regime’s perspective and interests” and entertaining “connections” to an Iranian influence operation that swept up a now-suspended State Department official and three of his aides. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote a letter to the vice president on Wednesday demanding answers to questions about the adviser, Philip Gordon, who co-authored op-eds with one of the aides to suspended Iran special envoy Robert Malley and Malley himself — both of whom were involved in the Iranian influence campaign. “Since last year, I have...

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton on Thursday argued the Middle East is already in the middle of a “wider war” as concerns grow about an escalating conflict following the apparent assassination of a top Hamas political leader in Tehran this week. Bolton argued the larger regional conflict began after Oct. 7, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise assault on southern Israel, where they killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 250 others. “We’re not dealing with conflict in Gaza or the conflict with Hezbollah and North Lebanon or a conflict with the Houthis closing the Red Sea...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will introduce legislation Thursday reaffirming that presidents do not have immunity for criminal actions, an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last month. Schumer’s No Kings Act would attempt to invalidate the decision by declaring that presidents are not immune from criminal law and clarifying that Congress, not the Supreme Court, determines to whom federal criminal law is applied. The court’s conservative majority decided July 1 that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken within their official duties — a decision that threw into doubt the Justice...

President Joe Biden celebrated the end of the 'brutal ordeal' for Americans 'imprisoned unjustly' inside Russia as he announced a complex prisoner swap and then led a rendition of 'happy birthday' to the teen daughter of a freed prisoner. Biden made a surprise appearance inside the State Dining Room at the White House hours after the historic deal that freed American ex-Marine Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. All were held inside Russia, Whelan since 2018, for 'no legitimate reason whatsoever - none,' Biden said. 'And now they're brutal ordeal is over and they're free.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) in 2018 praised an apocalyptic Pearl Jam concert poster that depicted former President Donald Trump dead, according to his 2020 book, Grounded: A Rural Democrat’s Fight to Unite America. Tester’s last reelection campaign enflamed controversy when a Pearl Jam poster for a get-out-the-vote concert promoting the Montana Democrat featured a dead Donald Trump and an American bald eagle eating the remains of his corpse. Tester is close friends with Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, who designed the poster. Tester’s campaign, not Tester himself, disavowed the poster, only after the media shed light on the controversy. Two...

... Krasikov's name came up about two years ago, when a U.S. official told CBS News that Moscow had sought a deal to swap him for Whelan, the U.S. Marine veteran who was at the time the highest-profile American imprisoned in Russia. Negotiations on that swap in the summer of 2022 fell apart without an agreement. CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang said Moscow had sought "a spy for a spy" swap, Whelan for Krasikov, but that Berlin had rejected the proposal. It wasn't immediately clear what changed the Germans' calculus to make the swap expected on Thursday possible, but Belarus'...

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has issued a scathing statement aimed at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding its controversial eligibility guidelines for transgender athletes competing in the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. The IBA’s remarks come in the wake of a shocking boxing match that has ignited fierce debates about fairness and safety in women’s sports. In a match that lasted just 46 seconds, Italian boxer Angela Carini faced off against Algerian athlete Imane Khelif. Carini was quickly overwhelmed, succumbing to two powerful punches before dropping her helmet and calling the situation “unjust.” The scene escalated as Carini fell to...

Today is the day I am officially done with Clay Travis. He sounded like the woman hit by the tranny in the Olympics. I miss Rush very much when these pretenders sound like surrender monkey Frenchmen.

So, from what countries come the male Olympic boxers who are pretending the be females, and whipping the females? I am NOT a fan of the Olympics, nor of professional, nor collegiate sports. I do not know how we forget that we were a proud nation prior to 1896 and needed nothing like the Olympics to make us proud. What many of my friends have complained about in the Olympic boxing fiasco, actually illustrates the end of all such things as Olympic sports. It is sexcapades anyway. I urge Americans to cut the Olympics loose like a ripped sail, and...

A New York appeals court rejected on Thursday former President Donald Trump’s effort to lift the remainder of his gag order. Trump sought to have the order lifted after he was convicted in May on 34 counts for falsifying business records. Judge Juan Merchan partially lifted the order in June but left in place key restrictions, including one that prevents Trump from criticizing prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. The court agreed that the end of the trial did not constitute “a change in circumstances” that warranted terminating the order, noting that the “fair administration of justice necessarily...