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World An Olympic sprinter finished last in her preliminary heat. She came not to win but to be the "voice of Afghan girls." Updated on: August 2, 2024 / 1:20 PM EDT / CBS/AP To get a sense of the real race Afghanistan's lone woman at the Olympic track meet is running, one only needed to look at the back of her bib. On it, in handwritten script, were the words, spelled like this: "Eduction" and "Our Rights." Women and girls in Afghanistan have suffered immensely since Kimia Yousofi's home country was taken over by the Taliban in August 2021....

Explanation: As Mars wanders through Earth's night, it passes about 5 degrees south of the Pleiades star cluster in this composite astrophoto. The skyview was constructed from a series of images captured over a run of 16 consecutive clear nights beginning on July 12. Mars' march across the field of view begins at the far right, the planet's ruddy hue showing a nice contrast with the blue Pleiades stars. Moving much faster across the sky against the distant stars, the fourth planet from the Sun easily passes seventh planet Uranus. Red planet Mars and the ice giant world were in...

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The parents of a former Texas high school student accused of killing 10 people during a 2018 shooting on his campus bear responsibility for what happened because they failed to help their son amid a mental health crisis or to limit his access to the family’s guns, an attorney representing victims’ families told jurors this week. “This shooting was premeditated, it was predictable and it was preventable,” attorney Clint McGuire said during opening statements in the civil trial of a lawsuit seeking to hold Dimitrios Pagourtzis and his parents, Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Marie Kosmetatos, financially liable for the shooting...

In short, though the seventh day was sanctified and set apart in Eden, reiterated in the Decalogue, kept by Jesus and the early church, and remains a weekly reminder of creation and redemption—1,800 years of tradition has so distorted the Christians’ view of the Sabbath that, yes, and unfortunately, most remain oblivious to the obvious.

I don’t support his decision, but this is America; it’s a free country. This is disappointing, but other matters need attending, like winning the 2024 election. Kyle Rittenhouse garnered national attention for shooting three men in self-defense during the Kenosha riots in 2020. He later navigated through the conservative media sphere. Still, he’s taking a beating after he declared he won’t be supporting Donald Trump, citing his record on gun rights (via NBC Montana): Rittenhouse claimed Trump’s record on gun rights shows he would compromise on Second Amendment issues. “Unfortunately, Donald Trump had bad advisors making him bad on the...

Vice President Harris’s campaign painted former President Trump as too scared to debate her after his latest remarks questioning why he should participate in a debate. Trump told Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo this week that he wants to debate his likely Democratic opponent, but added, “I mean right now I say, why should I do a debate? I’m leading in the polls. And, everybody knows her, everybody knows me.” Harris for President co-Chair Cedric Richmond responded to the comments, saying Trump “needs to man up.” “He’s got no problem spreading lies and hateful garbage at his rallies or...

When it comes to New York City real estate, it’s no secret that a large amount of money gets very little in return. Apartment search website RentCafe has now calculated just how little that amount of space is for the average $1,500-a-month renter in the five boroughs — and the answers are rather grim. “Although the South and Midwest offer more generous terms, major coastal job hubs are places where renters on a fixed budget need to sacrifice square footage to benefit from the countless opportunities these areas offer,” prefaced the writers of RentCafe’s report, which looked at how far...

Ayacht navigating the Strait of Gibraltar recently sank after a pod of orcas launched a dramatic attack, marking the latest incident in a series of troubling encounters with these killer whales. Robert Powell, the British yachtsman affected, said that "these (orcas) were not playing" and described the attack as "well-organized and coordinated" in a social media post. Powell and two other occupants of the yacht, called Bonhomie William, had to be rescued by Spanish coastguards on Wednesday 24 after orcas disabled the vessel's steering and subjected it to severe buffeting. However, Volker Deecke, a professor of wildlife conservation at the...

The Biden administration has refused to answer reporters’ questions, rule out terrorism, or even reveal the names of two Jordanians in the country illegally, one of whom had illegally crossed the U.S. Southwest border, who on May 3 conducted a box truck ramming attack on Quantico Marine Corps Base.The Department of Justice, Department of Defense, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the FBI all circled wagons to guard even the identities of the two Jordanians against five written congressional inquiries, a sixth by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin seeking government briefings about the incident, and most recently a subpoena by the...

Guram Tushishvili has been disqualified from the men's 100kg judo competition He lashed out at opponent Teddy Riner after the Frenchman claimed victory The incident was branded as 'scandalous' by Dutch television commentators Georgian judo star Guram Tushishvili was disqualified from the men's 100kg judo competition after he bizarrely appeared to kick out at French favourite Teddy Riner during their quarter-final clash. Riner, a gold medallist at the 2012 games and the 2016 games, has since advanced to the final after beating Tajikistan's Temu Rakhimov in the resulting semi-final. But his meeting with Tushishvili, 29, ended in unsavoury scenes, with...

Former President Barack Obama’s campaign mastermind is joining Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign as a senior adviser. David Plouffe developed a reputation as a campaign guru by guiding Obama from being a little-known junior senator from Illinois to the White House in one of the most odds-defying and historical campaigns in American political history. He served as a top adviser in Obama’s White House, essentially leading Obama’s 2012 from his perch in the administration. He will now cast his lot with Harris, the latest Democrat power player to do so after countless party bigwigs had cooled on President Joe...

Keep hearing ads from supposedly respectable conservatives hawking Relief Factor. Has anyone had experience with it? Is it any good?

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It was a spring day in 2016 when 11 heavily-armed men pulled up to pro-life activist David Daleiden’s southern California home.Daleiden’s crime? Exposing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of body parts and organs of aborted babies.The person going after him? California Attorney General Kamala Harris. At the behest of Planned Parenthood, on April 5, 2016, Harris ordered a raid on Daleiden’s apartment to seize undercover footage shot by his organization, the Center For Medical Progress. Harris’s office charged Daleiden with violating video privacy laws.During the raid, Daleiden told The Daily Wire that a “dystopian kind of clown car” from...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Friday that the foreign policy vision that former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Trump’s running mate, espouse is “nonsense.” McConnell has long tried to eliminate the “isolationist” wing’s increasing influence over the Republican Party. Although he did not directly reference Trump or Vance, McConnell called the “America First” foreign policy doctrine “nonsense.” “I mean, even the slogans are what they were in the 30s — ‘America First,'” McConnell added. Despite McConnell’s strong support for Ukraine’s protracted war, he admitted in an interview in July that he is not sure...

This is the mentality Put us all on your back this weekend

Artist’s depiction of the expected nova. Gif: NASA Visualization Studio ===================================================================================== T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth, is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. And if the recurring nova follows its usual pattern, we can expect to see a new, albeit temporary, star appearing in our night sky any day now. The moderator of a citizen scientist group I belong to recently emphasized, “T CrB remains our highest priority target every night.” His urgency is understandable; our “Cosmic Cataclysms” group needs to be on the lookout for the expected nova, gathering data before,...

A pair of black female activists, [Cora Masters Barry; Melanie Campbell] who have met with Vice President Harris several times and previously vowed to get “real serious” about helping her become the next president, could alienate some of the “White women for Kamala” supporters with their past rhetoric as they mobilize ahead of November’s election. *** However, the unearthed comments from the two activists could cause some internal tension for the Harris campaign as they look to mobilize different voting blocs and have called for “Unity.” “[Trump] did that, and we’re sitting here talking about the White women. F–k the...