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SpaceX successfully landed its Starship rocket in what Elon Musk calls one of the company's most important launches. SpaceFund founder Rick Tumlinson joins Josh Lipton on Asking for a Trend to talk about what the landing means for SpaceX and the space exploration industry. The venture capital fund focused on space exploration is invested in SpaceX. "What we're witnessing here [is the] combination of the railroads, the steamships, airplanes, all in one. Like 100 years from now, people are going to look back at this period of time as sort of when humanity breaks out into space, Tumlinson says, adding...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Marines Doing Marines Thing! U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, execute range 400 during Integrated Training Exercise 4-24 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, June 16, 2024. Range 400 is used to train rifle companies in the techniques and procedures for attacking fortified areas. ITX is the culmination of Marine Forces Reserve’s training cycle as they participate in a live-fire, combined arms exercise as a part of MAGTF operating over vast distances. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by...

For over a year, as I’ve talked to Black men and voting organizers, I’ve picked up on discontent with the Democratic Party from some Black men, but I wasn’t sure what to make of it or how widely that sentiment stretched. Apart from my reporting, polling suggests an erosion of Democratic support among Black men, though I remained somewhat skeptical. But when a campaign unfurls a closing-stretch strategy to reach and retain a particular group of voters, as the Harris campaign clearly has done with Black men, it means that something — whether in public polls or in its internal...

Kamala Harris’s senior campaign adviser complained that Wednesday’s much anticipated Fox News interview with Harris was an “ambush” after Fox’s Bret Baier repeatedly pressed Harris to directly answer questions. David Plouffe, former President Barack Obama’s campaign mastermind who joined Harris’s presidential campaign in August, made the charge after a half-hour interview in which Harris seemed to grow frustrated after being unable to answer Baier’s questions about her record.

New ordinance set to take effect in 2027The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance that will, in a little more than two years, ban the sale of filtered cigarettes in unincorporated areas of the county. The Supervisors will hear a second reading and final adoption on Oct. 29. Santa Cruz-based Save Our Shores says that volunteers picked up more than a half-million cigarette butts in the Monterey Bay area over the past decade, a problem made more pervasive by the toxic chemicals in the plastic filters. Worse, they remain in the environment for years. “This...

City Council wants to raise costs to cut sales of sugar-sweetened drinksSanta Cruz’s sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax measure is shaping up to be not only a battle over potentially higher soda prices, but also over a state law that bans cities from proposing measures like it at all. City officials say Measure Z would promote a healthier community and a healthier democracy, while the opposition says it amounts to a regressive tax on consumers already struggling to get by. Measure Z was put on the Nov. 5 ballot by the Santa Cruz City Council and seeks to create an additional...

NASA and NOAA have declared the Sun’s solar maximum, noting increased sunspot activity and heightened solar events that influence Earth’s space weather. This period is linked to significant geomagnetic storms and aurora displays, with potential disruptions to satellites and communication systems. Solar Maximum Announced by NASA and NOAA.. During a teleconference on Tuesday, officials from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel declared that the Sun has entered its solar maximum period. This phase, characterized by heightened magnetic activity, could continue for the next year. The solar cycle is an approximately 11-year...

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to separate herself from the Biden-Harris administration’s record during a Wednesday interview on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier. Under the Biden-Harris administration, costs increased by about 20 percent across the board, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas and Iran attacked Israel, illegal migrants invaded the southern border, and the nation suffered the deadly Afghan withdrawal.

PITTSBURGH, PA — An apparent miracle occurred today as President Donald Trump, cooking up a McDonald's burger for the people of Pennsylvania, suddenly spotted the visage of President Ronald Reagan in his Big Mac Bun. "I was just about to put the Big Mac sauce on, you know that great sauce everybody loves, but I said wait just a minute -- there's a tremendous face there," said President Trump. "And wasn't it a beautiful face, everybody? Ronald Reagan, the great Ron himself, he was smiling back at me, which I totally expected, I knew he would love me. Good old...

Mayor Eric Adams’ hopes of beating his federal corruption rap could hinge on a unlikely savior: Donald Trump. A Trump win in the 2024 presidential election is viewed by some in Adams’ camp as potential path to legal victory for the mayor against an unprecedented federal indictment, sources close to the case told The Post. The insiders’ hopes are that Trump would quickly replace Attorney General Merrick Garland with a pick who could scuttle the case against Adams, sources close to the case told The Post. “Any adult will see this is a bulls–t case, so a new attorney general...

During her first FOX News interview with Bret Baier on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris responded to Donald Trump disputing her characterization that he is a "threat to democracy." She responded to a clip of Donald Trump's response to her attacks: BRET BAIER: Are they misguided, the [people who thin the country is going in the wrong direction]? Are they stupid? KAMALA HARRIS: I would never say that about the American people. And in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he's the one who tends to demean, and belittle, and diminish the...

A man paragliding over Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza on Monday spotted the jaw-dropping sight of a barking dog atop the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World. The footage of the Egyptian landmark — built more than 4,500 years ago — shows Marshall Mosher soaring in the desert sky in a paramotor when he zooms in on the top of the pyramid to find a dog casually having his day. “A dog climbed all the way up the Great Pyramid of Giza!” Mosher wrote in amazement, with his clip going viral on Instagram. Many on the platform joked...

COACHELLA, Calif. (KABC) -- The Las Vegas man who was arrested with weapons outside a Trump rally in Southern California is suing for alleged defamation following claims from the local sheriff that his deputies thwarted a third assassination attempt against the former president. After the arrest, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said in a press conference and media interviews that deputies who prevented Vem Miller from entering the event in Coachella over the weekend "probably" stopped a "third assassination attempt." Miller denies those claims. The 49-year-old, who is believed to be associated with a "Sovereign Citizens" group, has since been...

An Albanian criminal who sneaked back into Britain after being deported has won the right to stay under the the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Ardit Binaj, 32, was freed six months into a two-and-a-half year jail sentence for burglary and deported as part of a prisoner transfer agreement with Albania. However, within months he re-entered Britain in breach of the deportation order to be with his Lithuanian girlfriend, who had leave to remain in the UK under the Government’s EU settlement scheme. They subsequently had a baby and married, enabling him to lodge his successful claim that an...

Donald Trump is so dependent on racial and ethnic antagonism that without it, he would be a marginal figure, relegated to the sidelines. Trump’s constant demonization of Black people and immigrants has inured the public to the fact that he is the first — or certainly the most explicit — modern president and party nominee to transparently generate, not to mention exacerbate, fear and white animosity toward people of color. Despite his appeal to a small if potentially crucial segment of Black and Hispanic men, racial bigotry has been central to Trump’s appeal from his initial quest, in 2015 and...

ROGERS, Ark. (KOAM) — Authorities confirm a massive fire near the Rogers Municipal Airport at Marck Industries (recycling center), 3500 block of N Arkansas Street. Rogers Fire Dept state, “We are on the scene of a large fire in our city. The crews on scene are working diligently to get the situation under control. Our 911 center is being inundated with calls on both the emergency and nonemergency lines.” Currently they are asking people to shelter in place. “Public Safety Alert. Hazardous Smoke Warning. Large fire on the NE side of Rogers. Additional: People with respiratory problems, Elderly, and children...

A clip of President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden having a tense conversation at Ethel Kennedy's funeral has sparked a slew of theories on social media. The video of the very animated interaction went viral on Wednesday during the service for the 96-year-old mataricah of the Kennedy family. Obama appears to say 'no' and 'not good' while shaking his head in the conversation at the at St. Matthew the Apostle Catholic Cathedral at Washington, DC. Bill Clinton's comments calling the widow of Robert Kennedy's late widow the 'cat's meow' raised eyebrows among viewers. No audio was captured except for...

[Catholic Caucus] Australian archbishop: Synod on Synodality cannot ‘reinvent the Catholic faith’We cannot “reinvent the Catholic faith” or “teach a different Catholicism in different countries,” Australian Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP, of Sydney and a delegate at the Synod on Synodality said in an interview this week.As the synodal assembly debates part 3 of the Instrumentum Laboris on “places,” the bishops and laypeople are considering questions such as the future of synodality and the role and authority of national bishops’ conferences, the archbishop told “EWTN News Nightly” on Oct. 15 in an interview to be broadcast Friday.Should bishops’ conferences “have the...

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Vice President Kamala Harris recently sounded the alarm, claiming that Black men are being “brainwashed” by Russian operatives spreading disinformation. According to her, these foreign agents are working overtime to manipulate Black male voters, pushing false narratives to suppress their voices ahead of the 2024 election. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this is the latest iteration of the election interference saga that has dogged American politics since Harris seems convinced that Russian operatives are specifically targeting Black communities—especially Black men—hoping to diminish their turnout or sway their votes through misinformation… However, it’s a big leap to suggest that Black...