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After 20 years, excavation work at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar will come to a close at the end of this week (16th August).Over the last two decades, this sprawling dig in the heart of Orkney's World Heritage Site has become one of the most important archaeological projects in the world. It has revealed a huge complex of Neolithic buildings covering three hectares, with more lying undisturbed across this ancient landscape.Finds have included beautiful decorated and painted stones, polished axe heads, carved stone balls, and even human and animal bones. But more than that, the excavation has changed the way we...

A new memo revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) retaliated against a group of agency whistleblowers who blew the lid off their non-compliance with a law requiring DNA collection from unlawful immigrants. Those whistleblowers - Fred Wynn, Mike Taylor and Mark Jones - told reporter Catherine Herridge: 'the agency's goal is to bankrupt you, make you quit, die, kill yourselves, or basically, preferably, all the above.'... The whistleblowers said they'd had their guns taken away and lost all career prospects almost overnight after they came forward about the lack of DNA collection they saw. ... According to an...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is heading to the Hamptons this week for a $50,000-per-ticket fundraiser in his first New York campaign appearance, Page Six has learned. The Democratic VP hopeful will be in Southampton Thursday to pass the hat around and he’ll share a stage with Grammy-winning British folk band Mumford & Sons, who are expected to perform.

A senior investigator has resigned from a GOP-led probe into the Biden administration’s deadly and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, accusing the Republicans of holding back their full power in examining the U.S. pullout. Jerry Dunleavy, a former journalist and author of a book detailing first-person accounts of the withdrawal, posted his resignation letter Monday to the social media site X. He described himself as a whistleblower, criticizing the Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee as suffering from “investigative paralysis.”

Command Sgt. Major Veronica E. Knapp has been relieved as the senior enlisted leader of the sprawling military task force responsible for defense and day-to-day military operations in Washington D.C. following an investigation, an Army spokesman said. Knapp made news in 2021 as the first woman named Command Sgt. Major of the 101st Airborne Division. She was in a similar role for the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region/United States Army Military District of Washington, or JTF-NCR/USAMDW... The JTF-NCR/USAMDW’ is a sprawling military organization established after the 9/11 attacks as a central hub for defense and day-to-day military operations around Washington...

Take a look at this video, around 31:45 to the end. It appears that one officer brings out a rifle from the AGR building and another one takes it for some mysterious reason. Anyone have any ideas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-AKAEC8c6g&t=1472s

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County police are investigating an apparent burglary at the Trump for President 2024 campaign office in Virginia on Sunday. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said the burglary took place at Trump’s campaign office in Ashburn, Virginia.

The Pennsylvania Department of State recently announced that the results of the state’s upcoming election may not be available on election night. The department emphasized in a social media post that delays in counting are expected, stating, “Pennsylvanians won’t always know the final results of all races on election night. Any changes in results that occur as counties continue to count ballots are not evidence that an election is ‘rigged.’” The post also directed readers to a website focused on fact-checking information related to Pennsylvania’s election process. This announcement recalls the 2020 election, where early results initially suggested a lead...

"Over the last two weeks, the Secret Service inspections department, which investigates employee misconduct, is homing in on allegations against an agent on the Trump detail who played a key role during the Butler rally and is partially responsible for developing the security plan, which contained egregious mistakes that left an opening for shooter Thomas Crooks.° "The allegations against the site agent are a separate matter.The agent is now under the microscope not only for her role in devising the security plan for the rally. She’s also facing internal scrutiny for posting videos and photos from her protective assignments to...

Perhaps I'm the only one who was kind of relieved to see the Olympic games draw to a close yesterday. For some reason I just found them to be extremely aggravating this year, sucking up all the headlines in the news cycle and featuring endless plaudits for two males who were beating up women in the boxing ring. (Excuse me... I understand we're supposed to call them "women with a Y chromosome" now.) But the curtain had barely fallen when people were already talking about the next summer Olympic Games in 2028. They will be coming to Los Angeles that...

Anna Mary Robertson Moses [Sept 7, 1860 - Dec 13, 1961] was born on a farm in Greenwich, New York, and was one of ten children. She had a happy childhood, but was somewhat impoverished. She grew up loving arts, crafts, and also became proficient in needlepoint and quilting. At age 27, she married one of the hired hands and had a family of 10 herself. However, 5 of the children died young. When she developed arthritis in her late 70's, a friend suggested that she try painting instead of stitching. She had her first art exhibition at age...

Donald Trump's return to Twitter/X is a smart move, although it has already cost him some of that sweet cash that his investment in Truth Social has brought to him through its stock value. For a while, Trump's team has been crossposting Trump's "Truths" on Twitter, and most of the content has found its way onto Twitter. But there is nothing quite so powerful as a genuine Trump tweet, and Baby he's BACK! And with 88 million followers he will be reaching a big audience of very interested voters. One of the notable expansions of his presence on Twitter is...

Volodymyr Zelensky has piled pressure on Britain to allow missile strikes deep inside Russia as he claimed his army’s cross-border attack could oust Vladimir Putin.By Monday evening, Ukrainian forces were in control of around 1,000 square kilometres of Kursk, a border region in southern Russia, according to Kyiv’s top general.The stunning cross-border attack marks the first foreign invasion of Russian soil since the Second World War.Mr Zelensky said that the “Kursk disaster” 24 years ago, in which 118 Russian sailors died in a submarine accident, marked the start of Putin’s rule.“And now it is clear this is the end for...

Rebecca Lavrenz, known as the “J6 Praying Grandma,” has been sentenced to 12 months of probation, including six months of house arrest, and ordered to pay the largest misdemeanor fine in U.S. history for her involvement in the January 6th Capitol protests, The National Pulse can report. Lavrenz, 72, was found guilty of four federal misdemeanor charges related to her participation in the protest against the certification of the 2020 presidential election results, which amounted to walking into an open door at the U.S. Capitol and praying in the tourist areas.

A Queensland childcare centre has been fined thousands of dollars after two toddlers escaped through an open gate and walked past a busy road in 2022. On Tuesday, the company that operates Sanctuary Early Learning Adventure at Maudsland, Vesta Maudsland Pty Ltd, was fined $13,500 by the Southport Magistrates Court. The company pleaded guilty to charges of failing to protect children from harm and hazard and having inadequate supervision in relation to the incident. A picture of a house with a ball and books which shows the logo of sanctuary learning advnture The company that operates Sanctuary Early Learning Adventure...

A mottled yellow-green and brown saltwater crocodile lies mostly submerged in the muddy waters of an Australian river, only its ochre eyes visible above a triangular snout as it scans for prey. When just such a reptile killed Charlene O'Sullivan's daughter 15 years ago, her first thought was that every one of the predators should be killed or caught around her home city of Darwin, to spare others from similar heartbreak. "I initially probably supported removing every crocodile," said O'Sullivan, whose daughter Briony was 11 when she was taken while swimming with friends at a waterhole in 2009. "But you...

The warning of a tremor that could kill more than 320,000 people is forcing Japan to think of the abstract danger of disaster in more concrete terms, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.To live in Japan is to live with the risk of a devastating earthquake at any time. Usually, however, people tend to view that threat in the abstract. It’s kind of like thinking about death - I know I’ll die someday, but I hope it won’t be today. And so far, at least, I keep getting lucky. Until we don’t. Thursday’s announcement from Japanese authorities, warning of an...

JUST IN: The Harris Campaign releases unhinged campaign email, suggests Elon Musk controls democracy in America. The desperate email blasted Musk for "allowing hate speech and disinformation" on X. "The richest person in the world is a lackey for Team MAGA. Musk already ruined Twitter by allowing hate speech and disinformation to flood the platform. Now, Musk is using his vast fortune and broad reach to try to control our democracy."

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been disqualified from appearing on New York's general election ballot after a judge ruled Monday that he falsely claimed a New York residence on his nominating petitions, leading to their invalidation. Judge Christina Ryba ruled that Kennedy's claim of a New York address as his "place of residence" was a "false statement," concluding that it was evident he had no plans to move back to the Empire State and said he only listed the location for political gain. Ryba's ruling is expected to be appealed by the Aug. 15 deadline. If her...