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The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet, also named C/2023 A3, will reach its closest approach to the Sun, or perihelion, on Friday, September 27, 2024, at a distance of 59 million kilometers. As the comet journeys through the inner solar system, it offers an impressive display.... In the United States... From September 27 to September 30, the comet will be best observed in the southeastern sky, about an hour before dawn.... ...the comet will be visible again in mid-October. On October 13, it will be at its closest to Earth, around 71 million kilometers away, and will be observable after sunset, looking west....

A new report reveals that most Catholics in the United States and Latin America support ordaining women to the priesthood despite their faith’s clear teaching on the matter. The Pew Research Center released the results of a survey Thursday based on responses collected from 3,655 Catholics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru from Jan. 22-April 27 and 2,051 Catholics in the U.S. collected from Feb. 13-25. The report documents a divergence between the beliefs of Catholics in these countries and the teachings of their faith. When asked if they supported ordaining women to the priesthood, majorities of Catholics...

SHOCK: Candace Owens Takes a Deep Dive Into Kamala's Geneology - It's Not What We've Been Told 21 Minute Video....................

Remember when Democrats pushed back against new laws aimed at banning illegal immigrants from voting, insisting that "it’s already illegal" and dismissing concerns as nothing more than a conspiracy theory? Well, surprise, surprise — reports have proven yet another "conspiracy theory" right. The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project and the guerilla journalists at Muckraker have teamed up to unearth a little scheme down in Arizona — registering illegal aliens to vote. And shocker, I wonder which political party those new "voters" might be supporting? I'll give you one guess, and I bet you'll get it right. The illegals Muckraker interviewed said...

Bump is ready to quickly move on from any issue that could be a problem for the political party he’s trying to help win this election.Because the national news media can’t be bothered to actually scrutinize Kamala Harris’ campaign — they’re trying to help her win, after all — they instead choose to scrutinize anyone else who tries.That’s why rather than sincerely look into Kamala’s relatively new biographical claim that she once slung Happy Meals working at a McDonald’s, The Washington Post’s most willfully obtuse writer, Philip Bump, decided that this week his energy was best spent belittling anyone who...

A New York appellate court is raising questions regarding the penalty and the justification under which AG Letitia James brought the case.Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ordered in February former President Donald Trump to pay an approximate $450 million penalty in a civil fraud case in which there were no victims. Now, a New York appellate court is raising questions regarding the “troubling” penalty and Attorney General Letitia James’ justification for bringing the case in the first place. James accused Trump of inflating his personal wealth to get better loan terms. Trump, for example, valued his Mar-a-Lago estate at...

When a legend passes, one must take note, and take stock. Today, legendary actor Maggie Smith exited the stage at the age of 89, having delighted generations of audiences at both the cinema and the theatre. Her film and TV credits go back nearly 70 years, and Smith worked until her death:Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, paid tribute to their mother in a joint statement. "It is with great sadness we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith. She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning," they wrote."She was with friends and family at the...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

An Airbnb host was seemingly so triggered by Republican volunteers getting out the vote in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earlier this week that they removed ballot chasers with Citizens Alliance’s PA CHASE program from their rental property. According to PA CHASE’s webpage, “The Pennsylvania Chase was launched by door-knocking guru Cliff Maloney. The project is a dedicated initiative aimed at matching the Democrat’s tactics for mail-in ballot success and securing a significant victory for liberty-loving Republicans in the 2024 election.” The group aims to knock on 500,000 doors across Pennsylvania during early voting. On Monday, the ballot chasers were reportedly given an...

Embattled Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson-whose gubernatorial bid has been rattled by allegations that he previously posted racist and sexually explicit comments online--was hospitalized with burns Friday, his campaign said. Mike Lonergan, a campaign spokesperson, told CBS News in a statement late Friday night that the 56-year-old Robinson was "currently being treated for burns following an incident at a campaign event in Mt. Airy"...

On Friday morning, we reported on the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attack on Hezbollah headquarters, the primary goal of which was the removal of Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The IDF and the Israeli government, it has been reported, did not notify the United States of their intentions in advance of their attack on Hezbollah headquarters in Lebanon. This begs the question: Why should they?The United States had no advance warning of an Israeli strike in Beirut and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart as it was ongoing, a Pentagon spokesperson said on Friday.They were the U.S....

Multiple Israeli news outlets are reporting that Israel was successful in taking out Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on Friday when they leveled Hezbollah's headquarters in Beirut, but at this time there has been no official confirmation.IDF spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari issued a statement on the attack:“Moments ago, the Israel Defense Forces carried out a precise strike on the Central Headquarters of the Hezbollah terror organization…taking the necessary action to protect our people so that Israeli families can live in their homes, safely and securely.”Listen to IDF… pic.twitter.com/I4hbN7KkO8— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 27, 2024An Israeli official confirmed to The Times...

CLIO, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A 25-year-old Michigan man has been arrested after allegedly using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate child pornography from photos of children found online. Trevor Klinert faces multiple felony charges for using AI across 112 different websites to produce explicit images, according to the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect’s crimes are the first AI-generated child porn case for the GHOST (Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team) task force, marking a disturbing new trend in online exploitation activities. AI tools exploited in predator’s scheme. Sheriff Chris Swanson explained in a press conference posted Facebook that Klinert’s...

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Two weeks before the 2020 presidential election, Politico published a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officers falsely claiming that a New York Post story about the infamous Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. The letter was organized by Antony Blinken of the Biden campaign and former CIA Director Michael Morell. The CIA cleared it for publication. Many Americans were outraged over this letter because it represented former intelligence officers, several with high-paid government contracts, misusing their profession to meddle in a U.S. presidential election and mislead the American public. Undeterred by the considerable blowback generated by the 2020 Hunter...

MS-13 members / IMAGE: Vice via YouTubeEvery U.S. prison inmate affiliated with the El Salvadoran gang, La Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13, has been moved to FCI Lewisburg—an understaffed, unsecured and decrepit facility in Pennsylvania, according to a new report from the DOJ-Inspector General’s Office.“In March 2022, it received all La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang inmates who had been housed at other [Bureau of Prisons] institutions. The BOP made the decision to transfer all MS-13 inmates to one institution to prevent system-wide gang violence after MS-13 members murdered two rival gang members at USP Beaumont in January 2022,”...

CNN did not report that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris requires Democrats to take an updated COVID-19 vaccine to vote in the 2024 presidential election, as suggested by a fake screenshot shared on social media. The image is made to resemble a report on the CNN website with the headline: “BREAKING: Kamala to require all democrats to take the updated covid shot in order to vote in November.” It was posted on Facebook, opens new tab captioned, “End this madness, vote Republican!” and garnered comments such as, “I wonder why they don't force the 24 million illegals to take it?”...

It didn’t take long for the eco-zealots to strike again. Just minutes after JustStopOil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for throwing Heinz tomato soup over Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” a trio of JSO protesters have again targeted the artist’s work at the National Gallery in London. How very tiresome… The climate protest group tweeted out a video of the group’s latest stunt, urging Brits to “support people in resistance.” The clip of the art attack, which was recorded this afternoon, shows passers-by remonstrating with the JSO activists. Shouting at a room of livid art enthusiasts, the protesters raged:...

Ash was discovered in a South African cave, and this indicates that humans were cooking with fire one million years ago. This is the earliest use of fire but experts say that more proof is needed to conclude that humans were cooking with fire regularly. Francesco Berna, an archaeologist, at Boston University in Massachusetts, and his team found ash that was composed of burnt grass, leaves, brush, and bone fragments in sediments 30 meters deep inside Wonderwerk Cave, in Northern Cape, South Africa. This cave is one of the oldest known sites of human habitation and shows traces of having...

Newsmax and voting technology firm Smartmatic reached a settlement in their defamation lawsuit on Thursday.The last-minute agreement came just as jury selection began in a Delaware courtroom, with opening statements slated for Monday, according to CNN. Details of the settlement remain undisclosed, but Newsmax confirmed the resolution Thursday afternoon.“Newsmax is pleased to announce it has resolved the litigation brought by Smartmatic through a confidential settlement,” the network said in a statement.Smartmatic and Newsmax have reached a settlement in the voting technology company’s election defamation lawsuit against the right-wing news outlet shortly before the case was set to go to trial....