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Explanation: What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week's lunar eclipse, however -- taken from Norman, Oklahoma (USA) -- has been digitally processed to exaggerate the colors. The gray color on the upper right of the top lunar image is the Moon's natural color, directly illuminated by sunlight. The lower parts of the Moon on all three images are not directly lit by the Sun since it is being eclipsed -- it is in the Earth's shadow....

On March 25, 1821, fueled by the rallying cry, “Freedom or Death,” Greek revolutionaries began a war for independence against the Ottoman Empire. The hard-fought victory established a sovereign Greek state and a national homeland for Greece. On the 204th anniversary of Greek Independence Day, we honor this heroic fight for freedom, and the enduring democratic ideals that continue to inspire the world. America is inextricably tied to both ancient and modern Greece. We are tethered by history and tradition, the struggle for self-governance, emancipation, and rebirth. Our Founding Fathers drew inspiration from Greek philosophers and statesmen to form the...

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Adam Schiff is INCREDIBLY terrified right now. Obama spied on Trump’s campaign, and now it’s ALL about to be exposed!

According to the Russian top diplomat, although "Trump's entire foreign policy is guided by national interests," the US president understands that other countries, "especially the great powers," also have their own interestsMOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump gained invaluable experience during his first presidential term regarding the importance of choosing his inner circle, as relations between Washington and Moscow soured back then due to a hodgepodge of "random" people being in his ear, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. "I believe that he [US President Trump] gained invaluable experience during his first term in office. First...

President Donald Trump is standing by his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, after a news report on Monday that senior White House officials included a journalist in a detailed discussion surrounding military air strikes on the Houthis in Yemen earlier this month over Signal, a nongovernment encrypted messaging app.

Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday morning responded to the Trump DOJ’s move to exercise the State Secrets Privilege and gave lawyers for the deported criminal aliens until March 31 to file a response. On Monday evening, the Trump DOJ said it is exercising the State Secrets Privilege and informed Judge James Boasberg it will no longer provide him with any information related to deportation flights. The DOJ on Monday evening straight up told Boasberg you will get no more information related to the deportation flights and that’s the end of the story. The details about the deportation flights are none...

NASA scientists were recently “astonished” by an unusual discovery made by the Perseverance rover involving a series of dark gray spheres on Mars, whose origin remains unclear. The spherical objects were found within an unusual rock discovered by Perseverance at Broom Point, located on the rim of Jezero crater, which the robotic rover has been exploring since it arrived on Mars in February 2021. Before arriving at the unique location two weeks ago, found on the lower slopes of an area NASA scientists have dubbed Witch Hazel Hill, the Perseverance team had already been aware of the existence of unusual...

The “person that should have been president” did not win on Election Day because of rampant racism across America, “Squad” Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) told a roomful of progressive activists on Monday night. Speaking at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual gala, the Texas Democrat said she almost couldn’t bear to listen when former Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage one day later to give her concession speech. “I almost couldn’t get out of bed,” Crockett told the crowd before veering into the absurd. “When I tell y’all – I’m getting emotional,” she continued, her voice cracking, “I traveled...

HOUSTON -- Three teenage girls are in custody after allegedly planning to kill their mother because she turned off the Wi-Fi in their Texas home. Harris County deputies say the incident occurred in Houston overnight on Sunday. The girls, ages 14, 15, and 16, reportedly grabbed kitchen knives and chased their mother through the house and into the street, attempting to stab her. Authorities say one of the teens struck the mother with a brick. Their grandmother was also knocked down while trying to protect the mother.

In one of the more horrific moments, even for it, to be aired so far this year on CNN, panelists on one of the network’s late-night programs joked and laughed about the domestic terror campaign against Tesla cars, dealerships, and owners, a campaign of property destruction and violence meant to get Elon Musk to back off running the Department of Government Efficiency. President Trump, as background, has said that because attacks on Telsa are obviously political in nature, they will be treated as domestic terrorism. Making that pledge, Trump announced, “I will label attacks on Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism…....

FAFO. But wait, a federal judge "has issued an order" as usual. Watch this space.

Tesla owners can activate a security measure on their vehicles called "sentry mode," which can help deter or even bust threats in the wake of widespread vandalism targeting Elon Musk’s electric car company. Sentry mode, when enabled, keeps the cameras and sensors of the vehicle powered on and ready to record suspicious activity that happens nearby. "Think of Sentry Mode as an intelligent vehicle security system that alerts you when it detects possible threats nearby," according to the Tesla Model 3 owner’s manual. Tesla vehicles with sentry mode activated will pulse the headlights, sound the alarm and display a message...

A majority of the public schools in Illinois are failing to adequately educate their students. According to the National Assessment of Education Progress, more than two-thirds of eighth graders are not proficient in reading or math. Only 16% of black eighth-graders are proficient at reading, and only 8% of black eighth-graders do math at grade level. In addition, reports of teachers and staff sexually assaulting students number in the hundreds every year. In Chicago Public Schools, the office of the inspector general has logged more than 400 investigations into sexual assault by teachers and staff every school year since 2018....

Kremlin suggests it may not implement Black Sea ceasefire until Russia is admitted back into SWIFT. Delegations from Russian and Ukraine on Tuesday agreed to a ceasefire in the Black Sea following talks with Trump administration officials this week in Saudi Arabia. "The United States and Russia have agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea," the White House said in a statement following talks in Jeddah. Similarly, just moments later, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, who is leading the delegation confirmed that "All...

A North Carolina mother and her son can sue a public school system and a doctors' group for allegedly giving the boy a COVID-19 vaccine without consent, the state Supreme Court ruled. Smith was vaccinated in August 2021 at age 14 despite his opposition at a testing and vaccination clinic at a Guilford County high school, according to the family's lawsuit. The teenager went to the clinic to be tested for COVID-19 after several cases among his school's football team, the lawsuit says. He did not anticipate that the clinic would also be administering vaccines. He told staff at the...

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central” that the percentage of Americans who believe the country is on the right track is “through the roof” in President Donald Trump’s second term. Enten said, “All we talk about is how unpopular Donald Trump is. But in reality, he’s basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one and more popular than he was when he won election back in November of 2024. What are we talking about? His net favorable rating right now comes in at minus four points. Compare that to...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Los Angeles over the weekend: "We in these hot ass Texas streets, honey. Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there, Come on now! And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess, honey! So, so yes! Yes, yes, yes."

Archbishop Aguer: Vatican too full of ‘self-praise’ to recognize the serious decline of the ChurchA 'Church on the move,' in search of those who do not know Christ or have distanced themselves from Him, must not be a 'Church on the run' from her own essence and mission.The twelfth anniversary of Francis’ pontificate was recently celebrated. Vatican press releases are usually full of self-praise. It is very difficult to adjudicate ecclesial reality, which is incredibly vast and characterized by differences between countries, but from a certain vantage point it is possible to contemplate the surroundings. I can do it then...