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Enhanced 3D printing techniques now allow for the production of 17-4 PH stainless steel, optimizing its strength and corrosion resistance. This achievement marks a significant step forward in the additive manufacturing of complex alloys. Credit: SciTechDaily.com =============================================================================== Using advanced X-ray techniques, scientists have achieved a significant milestone in 3D printing by producing 17-4 PH stainless steel with superior strength and durability. This development promises to lower costs and increase production flexibility, offering profound implications for manufacturing complex materials. Breakthrough in 3D Printing of Stainless Steel Researchers have developed a reliable method to produce a specific type of stainless steel, 17-4...

Hamas leadersIsmail Haniyeh. Hamas’s top political leader was assassinated on July 13 in Tehran while attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Although Israel did not officially claim responsibility for the attack, few hesitated to point to its foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad. Unlike other leaders of the fundamentalist militia, Haniyeh did not live in hiding; he primarily resided in Qatar, where he actively participated in various events. He was responsible for the group’s foreign relations and took part in negotiations for a ceasefire that ultimately was not reached. He had survived other attacks and had spent time...

This is a link to the Real Clear Politics page that summarizes where the online betting sites have the race.

Kamala Harris’s running mate, millionaire Tim Walz, admits his mother counts on her social security check to feed herself. This is truly unreal: “You know what?” Elmer Fudd tells a crowd of supporters about his 90-year-old mother. “When my mom looks for that Social Security deposit to be made in her bank account, that’s how she’s going to feed herself.” Fudd then says this about Trump: “He doesn’t give a damn if his Social Security check comes or not … If any of our relatives … tell us that Donald Trumps [sic] understand [sic] us — well, that’s bullshit.”

Al Smith, the beloved four-term governor of New York, was the first Catholic to appear on a major party ballot for president. The 1928 presidential campaign was marred by the Herbert Hoover organization unleashing a wave of anti-Catholic bigotry, aided by the Klu Klux Klan and other nativist groups, that accused Smith of being an agent of the papacy and hence the devil himself. Protestant preachers railed against him from the pulpit. Even mainstream protestant churches warned against Smith's "dual loyalties." The Smith campaign was such a disaster that neither major party would put up a Catholic candidate for thirty...

Oct. 11, 2024 One of two teenagers charged in the death of a retired police chief who they allegedly ran over as he was bicycling on a Las Vegas road has been found unfit to stand trial. Jesus Ayala, now 19, has been moved from jail to a secure Nevada psychiatric facility for evaluation, treatment and possible trial if he is found competent, according to cover records. The commitment order suspends criminal charges against him.

The Democrat needs to remind voters about what they really didn’t like about his presidency. Kamala Harris’s fate in the remaining weeks of the presidential campaign may turn on whether she can shift the attention of enough voters back to what they might fear from a potential second White House term for Donald Trump. Since replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee this summer, Harris has focused her campaign message above all on reassuring voters that she has the experience and values to serve in the Oval Office. But a consensus is growing among Democratic political professionals that Harris...

Ignorant anti-Israel activist sufferers humiliation after mistaking Israeli flag for the Greece national flag (Credit: @ambamelia TikTok/ The Daily Mail) No one has ever accused the protesters advocating for Hamas against Israel of having actual brain cells. Still, one incident that has gone viral this week demonstrates that there is no bottom to their level of stupidity. A pros-Hamas agitator posted a since-deleted video on TikTok Tuesday showing herself tearing down what she thought were Israeli flags outside of Efi’s Gyro in Montclair, New Jersey. “Look at this sh*t!” she shouts while ripping the supposed Israeli flags down from the...

[Catholic Caucus] The Deplorable Situation in Fréjus-Toulon: Coercion of Conscience and Contempt of ConstitutionsBishop Touvet’s Persecution of Traditional LiturgistsJean-Pierre MaugendreRenaissance catholiqueOctober 17, 2024At the 3rd Assises de la Tradition, held in Paris on October 12, participants were somewhat stunned to discover the latest developments in Mgr Touvet’s persecution of traditional liturgists in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon.Bishop Touvet’s abuse of powerWhile some may have believed that Mgr Touvet, appointed in 2023 as Mgr Rey’s coadjutor in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, would succeed in maintaining the unity of the diocese, the facts seem to contradict these optimistic prospects. Indeed, while it is...

Fans at Florida’s Disney World theme park are furious and offended over the extremely high prices of the food at a new bakery opening this fall with a single slice of cake priced as high as $26, and a Coca Cola at $8 a cup.

Day #37 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so we are getting down to the last few weeks here. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to...

Kamala Harris and her supporters openly mocked a Christian attendee during a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday. Kamala skipped the Al Smith Charity Dinner, a major Christian event in New York, to hit the campaign trail instead. During her speech, she focused on promoting abortion when someone bravely interrupted her. “We remember Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade, and they did as he intended.” A Christian attendee bravely stood up and proclaimed, “Jesus is Lord,” only to be mocked by...

The Battle of Bull Run was the first major land battle of the Civil War, and it drew a group of spectators to watch the action on July 21, 1861, near Manassas, Virginia. Onlookers gathered with something of a sporting atmosphere, as many Northerners expected the war to end in a swift Union victory. Describing the scene for The Times of London, Irish war reporter William Howard Russell wrote, “A lady with opera glasses shouted loudly at each discharge of cannon: ‘That is splendid. Oh my! Is not that first rate?’” Union Captain John Tidball later wrote that people came...

An expert specializing in lip-reading has revealed what Barack Obama and Joe Biden discussed during that infamous tense moment at Ethel Kennedy’s funeral on Wednesday. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, both Obama and Biden attended the service in Washington D.C. and delivered remarks. Ethel Kennedy, the mother of Robert Kennedy Jr., died last week at the age of 96. During the service, Obama and Biden were seen having a conversation that set social media on fire due to how animated both men seemed throughout. Jeremy Freeman, a London-based forensic lip reader who was born deaf, translated the conversation for...

In a recent note, Bank of America warned that gold is the final safe haven in the United States amid risks related to rising national debt. Indeed, they argued that the metal has become more attractive than US Treasury bonds due to the risks of an impending debt crisis. The bank noted that the US national debt is predicted to continue reaching record levels over the next three years. Therefore, economic pressure on the country has shifted how gold reacts to macroeconomic developments such as lowered interest rates. Ultimately, the dynamic makes gold “an attractive asset,” the bank says, as...

After the massive news broke Thursday that Israel had taken out Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of Hamas' horrific October 7 attacks against Israel, Kamala Harris marched out importantly and delivered a truly hypocritical statement saying that “Justice has been served”—even though she opposed Israel’s efforts in Gaza from day one. As RedState’s Bonchie wrote, it was truly “shameless.” Not to be outdone, her ostensible boss, Joe Biden, who had been on a flight to Germany when Sinwar’s death was announced, quickly trotted out his own shameless statement and, like Kamala, tried to liken the Israeli operation to America’s Bin Laden...

The malnourished 4-year-old Harlem boy who died weighing just 19 pounds lived in a hellish, feces-smeared home where his callous parents locked away food, prosecutors revealed Thursday as his dad faced a judge. Laron Modlin, 25, was ordered held without bail after the court learned disturbing new details about the squalid conditions under which little Jahmeik Modlin slowly starved to death. Food-filled cabinets were sealed shut with child safety locks in the apartment where Modlin and his wife Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, lived with Jahmeik and three other young children, said Assistant District Attorney Heather Buchanan, describing conditions found by medical...

SIERRA MADRE, Calif. (KABC) -- A Sierra Madre man says he found a stack of election ballots stuffed inside a storm drain, and he's now speaking out about the discovery. Jay Senese was doing some landscape work at his home Saturday when saw something strange in the storm drain next to his house: nearly a dozen mail-in ballots. He said he got on his hands and knees and started scooping them out and noticed the addresses were from his Arcadia neighbors a block away. "We're trained here to keep stuff out of the storm drain... I pull out a bunch...

The College of DEI HiresWith Marxist precision, the once noble College of Cardinals has been reduced to a disparate group of barely-qualified bishops chosen primarily for their contribution to the Pope's diversity targets.One of the most demoralising aspects of this pontificate is neither the heresies nor the double-standards, although those are of course significantly depressing. Rather, it is witnessing the general lowering of standards - the attempts to remove all that is noble and sacred and seeing them replaced with all that is banal and subjective - which really takes its toll.Consider the cringe-factor of 'Laudato 'Si - The Musical'...

About 13,000 customers in Northern California woke up without electricity Friday after Pacific Gas and Electric shut off power to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires amid dry weather and strong winds expected to last through part of the weekend. . . . Targeted power shutoffs were also possible in Southern California, where another notorious weather phenomenon, the Santa Ana winds, are expected Friday and Saturday.