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Thanks to some thoughtful collaboration between researchers and traditional Inupiat whalers (who are still allowed to hunt for survival), scientists have used amino acids in the eyes of whales and harpoon fragments lodged in their carcasses to determine the age of these enormous animals—and they found at least three bowhead whales who were living prior to 1850. Granted those are bowheads, not sperm whales like the fictional Moby Dick, (and none of them are albino, I think), but still. Pretty amazing, huh? Bowhead whales reach an average length of 35 to 45 feet, and they are believed to live over...

One scorpion produces at most just two milligrams of venom at a time. Credit: Tola Kokoza, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 ***************************************************************** The most expensive liquid in the world is venom from a scorpion which has potential medical applications, but its extraction and processing are highly specialized and dangerous. The deathstalker is one of the most dangerous scorpions on the planet, and what makes it so dangerous also happens to be the most expensive liquid in the world. This stuff costs $39 million per gallon. The reason is because the liquid is hard to get. Scorpions are milked by hand,...

The Southerner opens, after a brief introduction of the main characters with family photos, on fields of cotton that look like the sea. People work in the hot sun, and you feel the heat, you hear the bird sounds and the smell the earth. You are there. A man collapses. He is the uncle of Zachary Scott's Sam Tucker. Sam and his wife Nona (Betty Field) tend to this man, who is dying. “Grow your own crop,” he counsels before he passes on. It's clear from the way Renoir shoots the landscape that he knows the earth is eternal...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Breitbart News exclusively he is targeting a July 4 deadline to get the big budget reconciliation plan that would extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts– adding no tax on tips, Social Security income, or overtime wages–to the president’s desk for his signature. This is welcome news for the president and his team, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also has recently said he hopes for a July 4 date for the package to be wrapped up. The package is also expected to fund more of the president’s immigration priorities, as well as...

He was MAGA before there was a MAGA. In the weeks before David Horowitz’s passing, he wrote an article and finished another book. In and out of the hospital, he would call me on the phone to relay another idea for a series or another article about the Left. When we worked together on an article about the leftist fifth column, he was exhausted and I told him we could work on it next week. There would be time. He sighed skeptically, knowing perhaps what we only know now, but also with a note of relief. I was wrong. He...

An outrageous travesty of justice occurred in Missouri recently that could cause millions of Americans to lose faith in the criminal justice system. As KSHB reported on Wednesday, a radical judge ordered a deranged leftist credibly accused in federal court of firebombing two Tesla Cybertrucks and charging stations in Kansas City to be released from prison back on April 24. United States Magistrate Judge Jessica Hedges ruled that it was wrong to hold 19-year-old Owen McIntire behind bars before trial for his alleged crimes after agreeing with the defense’s desperate pleas for mercy. FOX4 obtained court documents that revealed the...

American taxpayers must continue funding attorneys for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) facing deportation, United States District Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin has ruled. Olguin, born in Mexico City, Mexico, and appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, has issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump from ending taxpayer funds being used to pay for lawyers for UACs.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Storming the Sands of…California! U.S. Marines with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, maneuver into a town during a company urban assault as part of an adversary force exercise at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Feb. 5, 2025. AFX is the primary readiness-building event prior to the battalion's upcoming deployment to Okinawa, Japan, as part of the Marine Corps’ Unit Deployment Program. The exercise served as an opportunity to receive training across all warfighting functions in a realistic and fully resourced...

“KENNEDY: We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that.”

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer ATTN DOGE: NIH Renews Massive Funding for Fauci’s Infamously Cruel Monkey Island ⁦ @DrJBhattacharya really isn’t proving that he’s all he was hyped up to be as the new @NIH Director Why is NIH under the new Trump admin abusing monkeys, dogs & cats? From thegatewaypundit.com 5:50 PM · Apr 30, 2025

The Trump administration has seized over 22 million fentanyl-laced pills since he took office in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this week. “Today is Fentanyl Awareness Day,” Bondi wrote on the X platform on Tuesday. “In President Trump’s first 100 days, we’ve seized over 22 million fentanyl-laced pills, saving over 119 million lives.” “We are fighting relentlessly for the families of loved ones lost, for those whose lives are at risk, and for the soul of our nation. ”We will not rest until this poison is off our streets and those peddling it are behind bars.”

The Democrat and RINO effort to blow up Trump’s global tariffs suffered an embarrassing failure in the Senate this evening after two senators failed to vote. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Senator Rand Paul (RINO-KY) had sponsored a resolution that would have terminated ALL of Trump’s tariffs, including those on America’s top adversary, China. The vote deadlocked 49-49, meaning it failed by one vote. But there were three Republicans who voted to stab Trump in the back and end the global tariffs: Rand Paul of Kentucky Susan Collins of Maine Lisa Murkowski of Alaska Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Senator...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correctly identify and link to the businesses involved. DENVER (KDVR) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said three Colorado businesses are facing $8 million in fines due to “illegal alien employment violations.” On Wednesday, ICE posted on X that they issued a notice of intent to fine three local businesses for employment violations. The violations were discovered following worksite audits. The companies that will be fined, according to ICE, are: CCS Denver, Inc. – Fined $6,186,171 after a 100% substantive violation rate and evidence of knowingly hiring and employing at least 87...

I went looking for an official source of information about the amount of US National Debt, and found a table maker that produces PDF's for each month end. Here's an example; https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/published-reports/mspd-entire/MonthlyStatementPublicDebt_Entire_202412.pdf That returns the US Treasury report on the balance as of 12/31/2024. Change the digits at the end (202412 change to 202503) and get March 31, 2024. And so on. So far, so good. According to the Treasury, the national debt at 3/31/2025 was $36,218,605. Then go to usdebtclock.org, and the national debt is shown as $36,720,xxx (the numbers keep changing as you watch). Since the Treasury website...

A phenomenon that Elon Musk has called 'the greatest risk to the future of civilization' just got worse, according to a new study. Musk - who has 14 children with four women - has for years warned about population collapse caused by baby bust in America and the West. The consensus was that countries needed a fertility rate of 2.1 children per one woman to continue growing - a concern given that the US's is at 1.62. But now researchers say that fertility target may be too low. A new study found populations may need a fertility rate of 2.7...

A Utah mom woke up to the police knocking on her door Sunday morning, telling her that her 7-year-old son had taken his 5-year-old sister on a drive to a different city. According to the Ogden Police Department, they received calls about a reckless driver around 8 a.m. on April 27. Officers began to pursue the vehicle, but soon disengaged when they noticed the age of the driver and assessed the risk to the public. The vehicle later hit a parking strip, and police responded to the scene of the crash. The children were found unharmed, according to officers. The...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Criminal aliens at a Texas detention center spelled out "SOS" as a Reuters drone passed overhead. How’d they know it was coming? How was it so perfectly executed? Sure looks staged.... From Collin Rugg 4:47 PM · Apr 30, 2025

James O’Keefe, the fearless journalist who rocked the political establishment with undercover exposés of ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and Big Tech, has just released a cryptic and chilling message that’s raising alarms across social media. In a video posted to X, O’Keefe appeared visibly shaken as he stated, “I’m going dark. I’m not suicidal. Pray for me. This one scares me, guys.” The message was accompanied by the ominous caption: “T-minus seven days.” “T-minus seven days” is a countdown expression that means seven days remain until a specific event occurs. Watch:

The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday voted 9-6 to keep the block on DOGE’s access to social security data. The court’s entire slate of judges (en banc) weighed in on Wednesday: Chief Judge Diaz (Obama), Judge King (Clinton), Judge Gregory (Clinton), Judge Wynn (Obama), Judge Thacker (Obama), Judge Harris (Obama), Judge Heytens (Biden), Judge Benjamin (Biden), and Judge Berner (Biden) voted to deny the motion to stay. Judge Wilkinson (Reagan), Judge Niemeyer (George H.W. Bush), Judge Agee (George W. Bush), Judge Richardson (Trump), Judge Quattlebaum (Trump), and Judge Rushing (Trump) voted to grant the motion to...

April 30, 2025 WASHINGTON — On April 30, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement to establish the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. In recognition of the significant financial and material support that the people of the United States have provided to the defense of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, this economic partnership positions our two countries to work collaboratively and invest together to ensure that our mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery. Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, the Treasury Department and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will work together...