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ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, Utah (KUTV) — A trailer carrying thousands of pounds of shredded cheese split open after the semi-truck hauling it tipped over near the entrance to Arches National Park in Grand County, spilling its contents across the roadway. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Cameron Roden said the semi, traveling southbound on US-191, veered off the road for an unknown reason around 6 a.m., striking two light poles. The trailer tipped over upon impact and spilled shredded cheese across the highway. All southbound lanes were closed while two tow trucks worked to remove the semi from the scene. Northbound traffic...

While everyone can agree that guns are awesome (and if you don't think so, you're probably gay), it can be difficult to determine which gun is right for any given scenario. The manly gun experts at the Babylon Bee are here to help you know exactly which gun you need for each job: 1. General home defense: M1 Garand. Enjoy the sweet sounds of storming Omaha Beach right in your living room. 2. Deer hunting: Bazooka. 3. Attracting the ladies: Guns don't work here; you'll need an oversized anime sword. 4. Political debates: A Marin le Bourgeoys flintlock pistol. Should...

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok These 23 Senators all posted the same word for word script. - Alsobrooks - Baldwin - Blumenthal - Booker - Cantwell - Coons - Duckworth - Durbin - Gillibrand - Hirono - Kaine - Kelly - Kim - Lujan - Markey - Merkley - Padilla - Peters - Schatz - Schumer - Van Hollen - Warner - Warren - Whitehouse Who’s directing them to post this and who wrote the script?

The Supreme Court has denied the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court ruling that forces the State Department to pay out $2 billion in foreign assistance, despite concerns that the order was legally dubious and that much of the money would be unrecoverable.Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, dissented forcefully, warning that the ruling gives an unchecked district judge the power to compel massive taxpayer-funded payments with no higher court review.”I am stunned,” Alito wrote, calling the lower court’s actions a “lawless order” that disregarded sovereign immunity and basic judicial restraint.Additionally,...

Explanation: On the right, dressed in blue, is the Pleiades. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the brightest and most easily visible open clusters on the sky. The Pleiades contains over 3,000 stars, is about 400 light years away, and only 13 light years across. Surrounding the stars is a spectacular blue reflection nebula made of fine dust. A common legend is that one of the brighter stars faded since the cluster was named. On the left, shining in red, is the California Nebula. Named for its shape, the California Nebula is much...

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'America is back!' Donald Trump bellowed kicking off his first joint address to Congress as the 47th President, marking the fifth time he's spoken to a gathering of the House and Senate. But this was Trump's lengthiest and, by far, his most effective effort yet. There were no overtures to bipartisanship, no reaching across the aisle. This was a president certain of the direction that he wants to take the country – and willing, if not determined, to crush his opposition if necessary. And given the Democrats behavior last night, they deserved every bit of it. Trump walked into the...

We thought we had seen it all with the astronomically stupid media takes surrounding Elon Musk and DOGE cutting up the federal government’s credit cards, but lefty magazine The New Republic just potentially one-upped them all. “Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Could Kill Your Dog,” TNR staff writer Kate Aronoff grumbled in an insane March 5 screed. Aronoff took aim at Musk’s reported cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which Aronoff railed “could have unexpectedly deadly consequences for your pets—not to mention your own health.” Aronoff was adamant that the cuts would hinder NOAA’s ability to pass information...

The United States has now suspended the provision of military intelligence with Ukraine as part of the freeze on assistance until Ukraine chooses President Trump’s path to peace and comes to the negotiating table, a report states.Intelligence sharing between Washington and Kyiv has been stopped, London’s Financial Times reports, citing “officials”. Access to the products of the highly developed Western intelligence establishment has lent a serious edge to Kyiv over the numerically superior Russian forces, allowing it to direct strikes with precision, including in the increasingly prominent realm of drone warfare.Strikes including the destruction of major Russian warships using uncrewed...

Border Chief Tom Homan and AG Pam Bondi are expected to file charges against AOC for obstruction, which could land the congresswoman in jail.

An artist’s concept depicts one of NASA’s Voyager probes. The twin spacecraft launched in 1977. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. Three science instruments will continue to operate on each spacecraft. The moves are part of an ongoing effort to manage the gradually diminishing power supply of the twin probes. Launched in 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 rely on a radioisotope power system that generates electricity from the...

It has taken three years, but Europe is at last putting its collective economy on an industrial war footing. The sums of money are eye-watering. […] “It is becoming obvious to everybody that defense spending is the way to offset job losses in the car industry,” said Holger Schmieding, the chief economist at Berenberg Bank. […] If enacted on anything close to this scale, such a high-octane blast of military Keynesianism will entirely change the economic and geopolitical shape of the world. It is the coming boom in Europe that we should all be betting on. Bavaria’s premier Markus Söder...

Former President Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod said Wednesday that Democrats’ behavior at President Donald Trump’s Tuesday congressional address was ineffective. Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green disrupted Trump’s address just minutes into his speech, while other Democrats in the chamber held signs protesting the president. Axelrod, on “CNN News Central,” criticized what he called “the performative stuff” by the Democrats, but asserted that the actions were a product of deep political polarization. “I don’t think the performative stuff was very helpful at all last night. But, you know, here’s the deal: Both parties in some ways are captives...

Democrat Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-TX) died suddenly, mere weeks after taking office, the City of Houston confirmed Wednesday morning. Turner, 70, won his seat in November, taking the place of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). He assumed office in January and is said to have attended President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday night. Prior to the speech, he posted on his X platform, warning against cuts to Medicaid. According to CBS News, citing unnamed sources, Turner — who also served as the Mayor of Houston — began to feel “unwell” Tuesday night. The cause of his untimely death...

The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated the lease at the Obama Presidential Library site, although it is unlikely to impact operations there since it is due to shutter later this year and move to a new location. The library is located at the Hoffman Estates in the northwest of Chicago and is separate to the sprawling 19.3-acre Obama Presidential Center near Jackson Park in the southside of Chicago which is under construction and is expected to be completed next year. The site at the Hoffman Estates is run by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),...

The last days are like the days of Noah and Lot, and a great deception is coming. Christians need to be prepared and not believe every spirit, but to test things against the Bible so we are equipped to understand and respond to strange events. Video is 1:03:58 long

Conservatives on social media praised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday after he responded to an attack from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a photo that was seen over 2 million times on X. "Wouldn’t want to hurt Putin’s feelings," Clinton posted on X over the weekend along with a Gizmodo headline that read, "Trump’s Defense Secretary Hegseth Orders Cyber Command to ‘Stand Down’ on All Russia Operations." Hegseth responded to the post with a photo of Clinton smiling with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov in March 2009 in which the two are holding a "reset" button...

The deportation of President Joe Biden’s migrant flood is the “Great Liberation of America,” President Donald Trump told a Joint Session of Congress on March 4. “We are achieving the Great Liberation of America — but there still is much work to be done,” Trump declared. Joe Biden didn’t just open our borders — he flew illegal aliens over the to overwhelm our schools, hospitals, and communities throughout the country. Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption … beautiful towns destroyed. … Here tonight is a woman I have...

A prehistoric “factory” discovered in Tanzania could push bone tool-making back by more than a million years, indicating unexpected abstract reasoning capabilities human ancestors displayed in the remote past. According to researchers at University College London (UCL) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), about 1.5 million years ago, hominin hands fashioned the 27 ancient bone tools now preserved as fossils. The find represents the earliest significant bone tool collection ever found, particularly notable for the systematic, factory-style production methods they display. Previous evidence indicates that hominins produced stone tools for over a million years, although archaeologists had previously never...

Meghan Markle’s estranged half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., has slammed the “malarkey stories” she shared about her childhood in her new Netflix series, “With Love, Meghan.” The Duchess of Sussex’s highly anticipated lifestyle series premiered on the platform Tuesday, which saw her share her tips and tricks for hosting at home. The “Suits” alum, 43, called herself a “latchkey kid” and opened up about her modest childhood to connect with viewers, claiming she “grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray dinners.” “It feels like such a different time, but that was so normal with the microwavable kids...