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Explanation: What's happening in the sky above Stonehenge? A meteor shower: specifically, the Perseid meteor shower. A few nights ago, after the sky darkened, many images of meteors from this year's Perseids were captured separately and merged into a single frame. Although the meteors all traveled on straight paths, these paths appear slightly curved by the wide-angle lens of the capturing camera. The meteor streaks can all be traced back to a single point on the sky called the radiant, here just off the top of the frame in the constellation of Perseus. The same camera took a deep image...

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In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.” Closely following arguments EFF has made in a number of cases, the court found that geofence warrants constitute the sort of “general, exploratory rummaging” that the drafters of the Fourth Amendment intended to outlaw. EFF applauds this decision because it is essential that every person feels like they can simply take their cell phone out into the world without the fear that they might end up a criminal suspect because their location data was swept up...

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined a lawsuit in federal court last week to stop the Biden-Harris administration from giving Obamacare to illegal immigrants. Labrador is joined in the lawsuit by attorneys general from 14 other states, and the suit is led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. ‘The Biden-Harris Administration has made it overwhelmingly clear that our borders are wide open, and that illegal immigration will be rewarded, said Attorney General Labrador. “The latest taxpayer-financed incentive is free healthcare. Illegal immigrants shouldn’t get a free pass into our country when so many others wait patiently and follow every legal...

Preliminary 5.4 magnitude earthquake felt in Israel and Lebanon. Epicenter in Syria. https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/37519

The European Union's digital enforcer wrote an open letter to tech mogul Elon Musk on Monday ahead of a planned interview with former United States President Donald Trump to remind him of the EU’s rules on promoting hate speech. Trump announced last week that he is sitting down with Musk for a “major interview,” which will be livestreamed on X. Trump announced last week that he is sitting down with Musk for a “major interview,” which will be livestreamed on X. Europe's Digital Commissioner Thierry Breton reminded the world's richest man of his legal obligation to stop the "amplification of...

Sid Daoud, the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Montana, received a shoutout from former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally on Friday, with Trump telling supporters that Daoud would have “a very nice surprise very soon” for them. It was later revealed that a group of Libertarians, including Daoud, had met with Trump and GOP Senate challenger Tim Sheehy prior to the rally. The remark was made during a rally in Bozeman, Montana, where Trump was addressing local voters to drum up support for down-ballot Republican candidates, particularly Tim Sheehy. About 30 minutes into his speech, Trump...

TRANSCRIPT BELOW THE IMAGE: First time I've seen this campaign video. It includes a powerful montage of his trajectory through history - including Mar A Lago raids, prosecution in the MSM, prosecution in the courts etc. With lightening and thunder at 55 seconds in the video, he says, "I never thought that anything like this could happen in America" as he's shown walking through a downpour wearing a red MAGA hat.https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823016427680358790President Donald J. Trump: I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down.I never thought that anything like this could...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has canceled his family vacation in order to deal with continuing riots across the United Kingdom, the Independent reported. The prime minister has warned the police to stay on high alert amid concerns of more trouble, with 6,000 riot officers deployed to potential points of trouble in an effort to prevent more violence. More than 700 people have been arrested in connection to rioting, according to the National Police Chiefs' Council, with more than 300 of them having been charged. Violence broke out following the fatal stabbing of three young girls two weeks ago at...

A man is recovering after being brutally attacked and robbed earlier this month in downtown Los Angeles by a mob of young people on bicycles. Carlos Saucedo reports on Aug. 11, 2024.

A police inspector has been dismissed after assaulting two women while off duty during a discussion about Meghan Markle. Tola Munro dragged a woman to the ground before punching her in the face and then hitting a second woman during an incident in May last year. The father of four, a former president of the National Black Police Association, “completely lost control” during the incident, according to reports. It was said to have begun as the result of a discussion about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and race. Gwent police carried out a criminal investigation into the incident, which...

Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., was largely unknown to voters across the country when Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate, so his record is coming under national scrutiny for the first time. Unfortunately for Walz and the Democrats, his record as governor of Minnesota is every bit as bad as that of the Biden-Harris administration, if not worse. When the George Floyd riots began in Minneapolis in May 2020, Walz dithered. For four days, while Minneapolis and other cities burned, Walz refused to call out the National Guard. By the time the riots were finally brought under...

On July 26th (17 days ago) Barack Obama gave a scripted, staged endorsement to Kamala Harris WASHINGTON — Oh, the cringe. Vice President Kamala Harris scored the endorsement of Barack and Michelle Obama on Friday, with her campaign posting a video of Harris pressing an iPhone to her ear — despite her cellphone’s display indicating that she was on speaker phone with the former first couple. Harris feigned surprise in the clip — shot using multiple camera angles, indicating elaborate preparation. “Kamala!” the 44th president greeted Harris, 59, as an aide to the vice president passed her the phone mid-stride....

Glenn Close made good money and earned an Oscar nomination for playing JD Vance’s mamaw in the Hollywood movie adaptation of his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Now she is trashing Vance over his cat comment from years ago — making her the latest celebrity to obsess over the remark in an apparent attempt to distract voters from Kamala Harris’ disastrous record on the economy and illegal immigration. Under the Kamala economy, consumer prices have skyrocketed to unprecedented levels, forcing tens of millions of Americans — like the kind Close played in Hillbilly Elegy — to struggle to pay for essential...

Jesse Ventura looks back on his final days in WWE. The Hall of Famer and former Governor of Minnesota famously departed the company back in 1990 after a dispute with Vince McMahon. During a recent interview with MSNBC, Ventura reminds the world that Hulk Hogan had ratted him out to McMahon when trying to form a wrestler’s union, which led to his eventual firing. He adds that he isn’t surprised to see Hogan now align politically with the Republican party. "It doesn’t surprise me because when I was in wrestling in the 80s, I tried to unionize wrestling. It was...

Former President Donald Trump on Monday posted on X – formerly known as Twitter – for the first time in nearly a year ahead of his conversation on the platform later in the day with X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Among Trump’s X posts Monday was a video featuring past comments made by Democratic rival Kamala Harris in support of progressive policies – something the former president has highlighted at his recent campaign rallies. The comments include Harris saying that she didn’t want to “treat people who are undocumented, who cross the border, as criminals,” that “we need...

ransomnote: The first 16 minutes of the 31 minute Rumble video cover Ukraine War updates. Alexander Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris each post some content separately, and then they combine their commentary in separate content under their business title, "The Duran." This is Christoforou posting alone, and for some reason he refers to Zelensky as 'Elensky' throughout his talk.In the Ukrainian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), one of the columns close to the reactor caught fire. The ZNPP had to be put in cold shutdown. Russia claims the plant is safe, and is in cold shutdown. (image from...

ROMULUS, MI — A video depicting a crowd of 15,000+ fans cheering Kamala Harris at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport appears to have been filmed from within a popular life simulation video game from Electronic Arts called The Sims. Jaggy and clipping textures are seen in several areas of the video, which conspiracy theorists have highlighted in several YouTube videos and posts on X, formerly Twitter. Trump repeated the claim in a post on Truth Social: "Has anyone notice that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? All those people with the dead eyes and the looping animations. They're sims! The repeated...

All it took was a little bit of graffiti for Belgium’s third-largest city to side with hate. A group of Israeli frisbee athletes was scheduled to play in an international competition in Ghent last week when a vandal spray-painted antisemitic graffiti near the field: “Boycott Israhell Now!” Insanely, the town’s mayor and police force reacted by booting the Israeli team from the competition. ... More, the town told the coaches and team members they couldn’t even watch the game. In 2024, people in a major Western European city (a university town, no less!) are being banned from sporting events because...

Vice President Harris leads former President Trump by 9 points among young voters in a new poll, marking the latest shift in support from a demographic President Biden struggled to capture before withdrawing from the 2024 race. In a SocialSphere survey, released by Democratic super PAC Won’t Pac Down, Harris garnered 51 percent support from registered voters ages 18-29 in battleground states in a two-way race against Trump, who had 42 percent of support from this group. Seven percent did not know which candidate they would back. Pollsters noted this is a 13-point shift to Harris since the poll was...