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So, with the third Dune film, Dune Messiah, still very much in development limbo, what can we expect from Villeneuve’s other big science fiction project, the much-discussed adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama? The short answer is: don’t expect it to be anything like Dune. And, if Villeneuve is very smart, he and his collaborators will make Rama very different from its source material. At the risk of sounding reductive, Rendezvous with Rama is a bit easier to define: It’s an epic work of speculative science fiction that firmly favors its concepts over its characters. Anecdotally, even huge...

Former President Bill Clinton will hit the campaign trail for Vice President Harris in key battleground states this week. Why it matters: The battleground blitz comes as former President Barack Obama is also crisscrossing swing states campaigning for Harris. Coupled with President Biden, three of six living presidents are currently stumping for the vice president. Clinton and Obama's efforts aim to lock in support among the razor-thin margins that will likely determine the election. Driving the news: Clinton will start his trot through the south with stops in Georgia on Sunday and Monday as he attempts to leverage his long-standing...

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"It could have been worse," one owner incredibly concluded. It’s a tale as old as… the Internet of Things era. Robot vacuums made by Ecovacs have been reported roving around people’s homes, yelling profanities at them through the onboard speakers after the company’s software was found to be vulnerable to intrusion. ABC News in Australia reports that there were recently multiple instances across the U.S. when owners of Ecovacs vacuums noticed their devices acting unusually. “It sounded like a broken-up radio signal or something,” Daniel Swenson told the outlet. “You could hear snippets of maybe a voice.” He opened the...

The major key cohort that Harris is overperforming with is White College Grads, where she is running 9% better than Biden at this point in October 2020 and 16 points ahead of Biden's eventual Election Day margin. Otherwise, the Harris Honeymoon is over and her debate performance is in the rear-view, as she struggles to skeptical voters she needs to win.: ● Harris is losing working-class voters by 36%. Biden lost them by 26% ● Harris is up among Black voters by 64%. Biden won them by 81% ●Biden won Hispanics by a 23-point margin in 2020, where current polls...

Retailer Bath & Body Works apologized for a candle promoted on its social media accounts displaying a snowflake, which some said appeared quite similar to a Ku Klux Klan hood. Users on X began criticizing the candle’s design Tuesday, dubbing the design a “klandle.” The company, which is known for its fragranced candles and personal hygiene products, pulled the candle from its website and apologized in a statement to TMZ. The snowflake in the image on the candle featured two holes on either side of its spindles. Critics said the pattern looked similar to the white hoods worn by members...

Two US Navy SEAL's who died during an operation off the coast of Somalia... The United States expanding sanctions against Iran's oil and petrochemical industries... Israel urged to stop shooting at UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon... Boeing cutting its workforce by ten percent (17,000 jobs)... Tonight France's credit rating lowered... Ireland's High Court sending teacher Enoch Burke back to jail... In the Netherlands 2.7 million people nearly 18 percent of the population 15 years and older classified as "LGBTQIA"... Hezbollah fired a barrage of 100 rockets... The Lebanese army says two soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an...

The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday secured a settlement from the city of Detroit, which includes hiring more Republican poll workers ahead of next month's presidential election. The settlement comes after the RNC, Michigan GOP, and chairs of Wayne County Republican committee sued Detroit in August over hiring over seven times more Democratic poll workers than Republican ones in the state's primary election, in an alleged violation of state law.Michigan law requires that the number of poll workers from each major political party be "an equal number, as nearly as possible," and that each location in Detroit has at...

ust seconds after pleading not guilty at a preliminary hearing to two counts of capturing an intimate representation without consent, Gabriel Mills, the recently fired guest experience pastor at the Kenosha, Wisconsin, campus of the multisite Journey Church, who allegedly sent himself nude photos of a female congregant from her husband's cell phone, was arrested again for a similar crime. "This morning Gabriel Mills was arrested after his preliminary hearing. A new complainant came forward, after reading the original media release. Detectives were able to locate evidence on Gabriel's phone that substantiated the claims made against him by the complainant,"...

According to a statement released by the University of Göttingen, a team of researchers, including experienced fighters, investigated how Bronze Age spears were used in battle by simulating different fighting styles with replica weapons, and then studying the marks left on the weapons after contact with metal blades, wooden shafts, wooden shields, and animal tissues. They also recorded how those marks changed with repeated use. "Our findings show how weapons were used and what techniques were employed," said Valerio Gentile of the University of Göttingen, who began the project as a student at the University of Leiden. "We may also...

Megachurch Pastor Keion Henderson of The Lighthouse Church is under fire after being seen in a newly resurfaced clip warning congregants that if they give to the poor they won’t be blessed by God. Instead, he insists that if his listeners want to supernaturally multiply their wealth, they need to be tithing to his ministry. We would expect nothing less from Henderson, who spends half his sermons preaching the prosperity gospel and the other half parading around his luxury clothing and accessories from the stage. As All Things Theology has pointed out, Keion is a huckster and terrible bible preacher...

People with limited-stage small cell lung cancer may benefit from adding immunotherapy to chemoradiation, but not if both treatments are given at the same time, new research finds. Findings of the multi-institutional Phase III trial, which also found that twice-daily radiation treatments offer greater survival benefits than once-daily treatment, were presented. The research comes on the heels of a recent study showing immunotherapy given after radiation and chemotherapy are completed can increase overall survival. Researchers in this new study, the NRG Oncology/Alliance LU005 trial, wanted to test whether there would be a similar benefit when delivering the treatments at the...

The Stewart started the war as a U.S. destroyer designated DD-224 and was ordered to Borneo in November 1941, shortly before the U.S. entered World War II. It served as an escort vessel with other American warships in the first months of the Pacific War, but it was badly damaged by gunfire from Japanese warships near Bali in February 1942, during the Battle of Badung Strait.The Stewart managed to return to Surabaya on the island of Java. But the port came under Japanese attack, so the vessel was scuttled — deliberately sunk — by its own crew, who set off...

The North Carolina National Guard explained to the Daily Caller why a plane loaded with aid for those affected by Hurricane Helene during Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit never made the delivery following claims that the visit was staged. While on Shawn Ryan’s podcast Thursday, Aerial Recovery members Jonathan Howard and Charlie Keebaugh claimed that the North Carolina National Guard had to load an entire C-17 with supplies just to stage a photo op for Vice President Kamala Harris, adding that the loaded plane was never sent to aid in hurricane relief. Lt. Ellis Parks, the Director of Public Affairs...

The Moore County Democratic Party chairman, who is also a candidate for a N.C. House race, was charged Friday in connection with the theft of political signs in Seven Lakes. Lowell Evan Simon, 68, of West End was charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny of political signs and was released under a written promise to appear in court. Simon’s first court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 30 in Moore County District Court. Simon is a Democrat challenging incumbent Republican Neal Jackson in the N.C. House 78 district. He also has led the local Democratic party for the past year....

In Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city, small Russian drones have been hunting civilians for months. Like birds of prey, they chase their targets and either drop explosives upon them or self-detonate in kamikaze strikes. Lacking effective countermeasures, locals say they are living in a “human safari” — nowhere is safe anymore. This is the dystopian future of war that may yet come to the West, should great power conflicts proliferate. Kherson sits on the Dnipro River in south Ukraine, by the Black Sea coast. Once home to almost 300,000 people, the port city was liberated after months of Russian occupation...

Popes can err slightly but cannot profess formal heresyAn error held by some Catholics is that a pope cannot err, yet the Church has never taught such a thing. A pope indeed cannot profess or declare magisterial something that is a manifest error, but a pope can make slight, inadvertent mistakes or allow slight errors to creep into his speech. After all, popes are only human, they’re not infallible.For instance, Pope Paul VI initially declared Vatican II to be the work of God, which he believed in the innocence of his heart, but he later recanted this by saying...

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) claimed Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that former President Donald Trump and Republicans are telling voters lies. Lofgren said, “I look at many of my colleagues, actually the majority of the Republicans, they are not speaking out in the House. They saw what happened to Adam and Liz when they did. So you have got a divided country really. I mean, there is partisanship. Republicans are telling their voters lies, and the Republican voters, as Republicans, want to believe the Republican leaders.”

Former President Barack Obama is urging black men to support Kamala Harris, suggesting that our allegiance should be based on the color of her skin and the chance to “make history.” But I have a simple response to that: my ancestors fought too hard for my right to vote for me to be reduced to a racial checkbox in a political game. I won’t support someone just because they look remotely like me—especially when that person has shown no regard for the real issues facing black communities.Kamala Harris’s record speaks for itself. She hasn’t made a significant impact on improving...

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