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SpaceX launched its fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday and made a dramatic first catch of the rocket’s more than 20-story tall booster. The achievement marks a major milestone toward SpaceX’s goal of making Starship a fully reusable rocket system. Elon Musk’s company launched Starship at 8:25 a.m. ET from its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. The rocket’s “Super Heavy” booster returned to land on the arms of the company’s launch tower nearly seven minutes after launch. “Are you kidding me?” SpaceX communications manager Dan Huot said on the company’s webcast. “What we just saw, that looked...

Establishes the "winter moratorium on evictions act" to prohibit eviction of tenants from residential properties during the winter months. (November 1st to April 1st) An act to amend the real property actions and proceedings law and the real property law, in relation to prohibiting residential evictions during the winter months PURPOSE: This bill amends the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law to allow a moratorium to stay court eviction judgments to allow individuals to remain housed during harsh inclement winter weather months.

With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, why would Donald Trump venture into California, one of the most solidly Democratic states, just weeks before Election Day? Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that won't change after his scheduled Saturday stop in Coachella, a desert city east of Los Angeles best known for the annual music festival bearing its name. Still, there are practical reasons for him to visit, despite the Republican nominee's prospects Nov. 5 in the most populous state. The former president lost California in a landslide in 2020. He did get...

NYS Senate Bill S6181A 2023-2024 Legislative Session Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid (by the various social programs)

Catching up from the power and internet outage from Hurricane MiltonExplanation: The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean, making its only major landfall near the southern tip of South America, and then ending in the southern Atlantic. The dramatic total annular eclipse phase is known to some as a ring of fire. Also tracking across islands in the southern Pacific, the Moon's antumbral shadow grazed Easter Island allowing denizens to follow...

I cannot believe this needs to be said in 2024, but there is no context in which killing innocent Jews becomes understandable. Everywhere one looks these days, people are ‘contextualising’ pogroms. Among the cranky online right there is a creepy new trend of excuse-making for the Nazis’ extermination of Europe’s Jews. And among the woke left, there’s a rush to provide context for Hamas’s butchery of 7 October. Gaza is hellish, they say. Its people are oppressed, they insist. As if any of that explains the rape of Jewish women or the hurling of hand grenades into Jewish children’s faces....

A vehicle fleeing a Philadelphia hospital after dropping off a gunshot victim early Saturday struck three nurses who were trying to treat the patient, injuring one critically, authorities said. The silver Jeep Cherokee had just dropped off the man in the ambulance bay at Penn Presbyterian Hospital about 4:30 a.m. Saturday when it hit the three male nurses as it fled, police said. One 36-year-old nurse was listed in critical condition with facial injuries and internal bleeding. A 37-year-old nurse with head injuries and a 51-year-old nurse with head and back injuries were listed in stable condition, police said. The...

A 22-year-old Afghan man suspected of supporting the Islamic State group has been arrested in France after police found he had links to another man charged with plotting an election-day attack in the United States. The US suspect was planning to attack a football stadium or shopping centre. According to a source close to the case, the two men are brothers. The man, who was arrested Tuesday in southwestern France, is suspected of being an Islamic State group supporter, said a statement from prosecutors. The US-based suspect had been in contact via the Telegram app with a person identified by...

Anewly released database of gender transition procedures on children reveals at least 418 patients in Illinois received such treatment since 2019. Billing to insurance companies totaled at least $644,000. The Stop The Harm Database from the national group Do No Harm analyzed billing codes from insurance companies in regards to gender transition and youth.

13 October 2024 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time St Edward The Confessor Catholic Church, Syosset, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingWisdom 7:7-11I esteemed Wisdom more than sceptres or thronesI prayed, and understanding was given me;I entreated, and the spirit of Wisdom came to me.I esteemed her more than sceptres and thrones;compared with her, I held riches as nothing.I reckoned no priceless stone to be her peer,for compared with her, all gold is a pinch of sand,and beside her silver ranks as mud.I loved her more than health or beauty,preferred her to the light,since her radiance never...

U.S. — Doug Emhoff boasted today that he could literally slap a woman in the middle of 5th Avenue and he wouldn't lose any votes for his wife, Kamala. "I can just slap a woman in the face, right in public, and they'll still love me," said Emhoff. "I'm the icon of masculinity, haven't you heard?" Emhoff went further, bragging he could have an affair, impregnate a nanny, force her to have an abortion, and the media would still praise him as a paragon of virtue. "Women, you can slap them, knock them up, they just let you do it,"...

... Although states are taking strides to increase base pay for workers, it is still not enough. In California, the living wage for an adult with no children is $27.32 and is $61.58 for an adult with two children. Further, the value of the federal wage is at its lowest point since 1956, although businesses are within the financial means to pay significantly more. These drastically low wages have critical effects on equality in the U.S., with women being considerably overrepresented in low-wage jobs. Not only will increasing the minimum wage help ensure all workers earn a living wage, but...

Saudi Arabia condemns “in the strongest terms” Israel’s decision to turn the Jerusalem headquarters of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency into apartments. Last week, the Israel Land Authority said it was preparing plans to turn the Ma’alot Dafna complex into 1,440 housing units, after telling UNRWA it must evacuate the premises. The Saudi Foreign Ministry notes in an English-language statement “the Kingdom’s rejection of the continued blatant Israeli violations of international laws and resolutions…and its systematic political and military targeting of the United Nations agencies and its relief organizations. “The Kingdom also rejects the continued endangerment of the lives of...

Americans have always been able to make their own guns, even without serial numbers, but various anti-liberty/gun jurisdictions are considering changing that. “Ghost guns” are very much like “assault weapons” in several significant ways. They don’t exist in firearm nomenclature. They’re the invention of anti-liberty/gun Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs), and they describe any gun, or in the case of “ghost guns” any gun part or group of parts, D/s/cs want to ban. Both are used in an insignificant number of crimes. The most common application of the term describes homemade guns without serial numbers. Americans have always been able to make their...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Sunday that it had discovered a Hezbollah terrorist hiding in a tunnel amid stockpiles of weapons, as fellow terrorists retreated north rather than face advancing Israeli forces in direct combat. The IDF has encountered remarkably little resistance as its ground troops press forward across the border, after targeting Hezbollah outposts and weapons caches with artillery and airstrikes. However, the Hezbollah tunnel infrastructure is significant enough to present the threat of terrorists lying in wait and striking from the rear.

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona on Sunday, October 13, 2024, at 2:00PM MDT. President Trump will highlight Kamala Harris' devastating policies that have wreaked havoc on Arizonans from the border to their wallets. For nearly four years, Kamla Harris' economic policies have put unnecessary stress and pressure on Arizona families. Arizona's inflation is at 22.1% — forcing families to pay an additional $1,199 a month. Since Kamala Harris took office, Arizonans have spent $11,254 more on transportation, $5,742 more on energy, $4,131 more...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman urged international organizations Sunday to respond to a claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv had launched an incursion in August. DeepState, a Ukrainian battlefield analysis site close to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, said Russian troops shot and killed nine Ukrainian “drone operators and contractors” on Oct. 10 after they had surrendered. Dmytro Lubinets said on Telegram that he sent letters to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding the claim, calling it “another crime committed by the Russians.”

Donald Trump's teenage granddaughter Kai is set to showcase her skills on popular YouTube channel Good Good Golf. The 17-year-old, who has a handicap of 0.2 and is the daughter of Donald Trump Jr and his wife Vanessa, posted a selection of images and clips alongside Good Good star Garrett Clark. 'Just having fun,' Trump captioned the post on Instagram, which showed her enjoying a round with Clark.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told his Israeli counterpart, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, that Israel needed to “pivot” to a “diplomatic pathway” in Lebanon, despite stunning Israeli advances against Hezbollah. The statement came after Israel acknowledged that two United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) “peacekeeping” soldiers had been injured by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fire in southern Lebanon. The IDF said it had been firing on Hezbollah terrorists near a UNIFIL position. Later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United Nations to withdraw UNIFIL troops from Lebanon, as Hezbollah was using them as “human shields.”

Catching up after the power and internet outage due to Hurricane Milton Explanation: Five bright comets are compared in these panels, recorded by a coronograph on board the long-lived, sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Arranged chronologically all are recognizable by their tails streaming away from the Sun at the center of each field of view, where a direct view of the overwhelmingly bright Sun is blocked by the coronagraph's occulting disk. Each comet was memorable for earthbound skygazers, starting at top left with Comet McNaught, the 21st century's brightest comet (so far). C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, approaching its perihelion with the active Sun...