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Explanation: What if you could fly over Pluto's moon Charon -- what might you see? The New Horizons spacecraft did just this in 2015 July as it zipped past Pluto and Charon with cameras blazing. The images recorded allowed for a digital reconstruction of much of Charon's surface, further enabling the creation of fictitious flights over Charon created from this data. One such fanciful, minute-long, time-lapse video is shown here with vertical heights and colors of surface features digitally enhanced. Your journey begins over a wide chasm that divides different types of Charon's landscapes, a chasm that might have formed...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in three cases concerning challenges to President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. The question before the high court was not, however, the constitutionality of the EO, but rather whether the lower courts had authority to issue injunctions on a nationwide basis to bar implementation of an EO. You would be hard pressed to know that, though, from the justices’ questions—-the overwhelming number of which focused instead on how to stop Trump. “So, as far as I see it, this order violates four Supreme Court precedents,” Justice Sotomayor declared early in the argument,...

Every year, thousands flock to the southern tip of South Korea to partake in the Jindo Miracle Sea Road Festival. The event celebrates a natural phenomenon in which the Jindo Sea opens up to expose a 1.8 mile long stretch of sand that connects two of the country’s islands. While legend has it that the extraordinary happening is the work of the god of the sea, science suggests it is essentially a perfect storm of gravitational forces. For the time that the path is visible during the festival days – in addition to the two or three other times the...

For months, big retailers have been warning that prices will rise. Now, thanks to insider information from Target workers, the extent of the raises are becoming apparent. Staff say it is just the beginning. A $9.99 USB-C cord from the store's in-house Heyday brand is now ringing up at $17.99, according to a self-identified employee on Reddit. 'It's happening,' the worker wrote, sharing a photo of the price tag update. 'All of Heyday is going up.' The spike — an 80 percent increase — is being blamed on the latest wave of tariffs linked to President Donald Trump's trade policies.

“That's a hard transition,” Harmony Dust, the founder and executive director of Treasures, told Verily in a phone interview. Treasures is a survivor-led charity that helps women transition out of the sex industry and supports them in rebuilding their lives by offering support groups, emergency financial-relief, and life-skills coaching… One evening in 2003, she found herself sitting in her car across the street from the club she’d recently quit, feeling like she was looking at a prison that had once trapped her. She found a stack of cards in her console offering a Bible verse from Proverbs 31: “Her value...

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have weighed in on their efforts to restore trust in the agency and deliver transparency related to key investigations such as Crossfire Hurricane. During an appearance on Fox News, Maria Bartiromo asked Patel about his plans to rebuild public confidence in the FBI and remove political bias from operations. “So, we have a multi-part process,” Patel responded. “First of all, our priorities — simple: crush violent crime, defend the homeland, rigorous organizational accountability, and the fourth — aggressive constitutional oversight with Congress.” According to Patel, empowering the FBI’s rank-and-file agents and...

The US Supreme Court has lifted an injunction against its effort to revoke legal status for over 500,000 migrants who were part of the Biden-era CHNV program. This ruling is another victory for the Trump administration’s efforts to curb illegal immigration. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only judge to dissent. The matter is still being litigated in court, but the administration can proceed with revoking the legal status of those who entered the US under the CHNV program.

Following a horrific crime, a teen murderer was sentenced to life in prison after he smirked in the courtroom and remarked how he’d “be home soon.” Reacting to his disrespect, the judge put the teen criminal back in his place with an epic comeback, which drew widespread support from online conservatives. For context, John Honore attempted to carjack 73-year-old Linda Frickey in New Orleans on March 21, 2022. Honore attacked the female victim, pepper-sprayed her, and then dragged Frickey behind the stolen vehicle for over 200 yards, leading to her death. Ultimately, he was sentenced to life in prison with...

It can't be much fun working at CBS News these days, as their overwhelming liberal bias keeps getting exposed in embarrassing ways and they keep having to pay the price. Already, "60 Minutes" veteran producer Bill Owens resigned in a huff in April, and they’re in settlement talks with Donald Trump over their deceptive editing of a Kamala Harris interview just before the November presidential election. The latest casualty is the outlet’s News President Wendy McMahon, who shocked staffers Monday when she announced she too is jumping ship.. Ms. McMahon, whose full title was president of CBS News and Stations,...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) made some controversial statements on Sunday while speaking about why he hires so many black citizens to work for the city. While speaking to the congregation at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn, Johnson made statements that brought criticism online, MRC-TV reported on Monday. “Some detractors that will push back on me and say, ‘The only thing the mayor talks about is the hiring of black people.’ No, what I’m saying is when you hire our people we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet,” Johnson...

A former Clinton administration staffer claimed that Hillary Clinton was so detested during her husband’s time in the White House that she was known as a “Nazi schoolmarm” who made aides run in fear. Buzz Patterson, the former Air Force Aide to Bill Clinton who carried the “nuclear football” wherever the president went, took to X to reveal intimate details of the former First Couple. He said he primarily lived in the White House and was “always in close proximity to both Bill and Hill”, which made him quickly learn that the mood of the day “depended solely on the...

Illegal aliens are being recruited to join sophisticated criminal networks in the United States that stage accidents and injuries to get payouts through the nation’s personal injury system, House Republicans told Attorney General Pam Bondi. In a letter led by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), the group of Republicans warned Bondi that personal injury fraud is a growing industry in the U.S. that requires immediate attention from the Department of Justice (DOJ). “These fraudulent schemes pose serious risks to public safety, increase consumer costs, and raise insurance premiums for the motoring public,” the Republicans wrote. “According to the Coalition Against Insurance...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a welcome bit of good news for government bureaucrats hiding out from DOGE, experts have determined that AI is unlikely to replace their jobs any time soon, as it's not soulless enough. According to a team of computer experts, large-language models such as Grok or Chat-GPT do not pose a job threat to government bureaucrats, since the AI has far too much humanity and compassion to perform well in those sorts of jobs. "We estimate that it would take about 30 to 40 years at the current rate to get AIs to do work as dreary...

ANAHEIM, CA — The effects of cutbacks to public school funding for teaching children about the myriad types of gross deviants there are in the world began to be felt this week, as one five-year-old student was found not to know all the variant sexual lusts adults can have. Young Logan Traylor was nearing the end of his kindergarten experience and, despite the public education system's best efforts, was discovered to have absolutely no knowledge about the shocking fetishes and perverted interests grown-ups engage in. "It's a tragedy for a young child to start out with such innocence," said Dr....

SACRAMENTO — When the top Democratic candidates for governor took the stage at a labor forum last week, the digs at Gov. Gavin Newsom were subtle. The message, however, was clear. Newsom’s home stretch as California governor may be a bumpy ride.Newsom hopes to end his time as governor in an air of accomplishment and acclaim, which would elevate his political legacy and prospects in a potential presidential run. But the Democrats running to replace him have a much different agenda.“Lots of voters think things are not going well in California right now. So if you’re running for governor, you...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the shocking announcement that he was suffering from stage 4 prostate cancer, former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted that Joe Biden was 100% cancer-free. Jean-Pierre assured the American people that the cancer-riddled former president had received a clean bill of health and that, despite Biden suffering from metastatic cancer, it in no way meant that he was suffering from metastatic cancer. "He is as fit, healthy, and free of cancer as I've ever seen him," she told reporters. "I know there are a lot of reports going around today about President Biden's health, but...

In a quietly explosive segment on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, medical ethicist and former Obama health advisor Dr. Zeke Emanuel strongly implied that Joe Biden’s prostate cancer likely developed years ago — well before the public was informed — and that the White House would almost certainly have known. ... Joe Scarborough pressed Emanuel about the timeline of Biden’s aggressive prostate cancer, which was recently disclosed after reportedly metastasizing to his bones. “You believe it is likely, if this prostate cancer has spread to the bone, that he could have had it for up to a decade,” Scarborough said. “But certainly...

Administration officials and members of billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service — aided by local and federal law enforcement agencies — seized the institute’s privately owned headquarters in March and summarily removed its leaders.“The President’s efforts here to take over an organization outside of those bounds, contrary to statute established by Congress and by acts of force and threat using local and federal law enforcement officers, represented a gross usurpation of power and a way of conducting government affairs that unnecessarily traumatized the committed leadership and employees of USIP, who deserved better,” Howell wrote in her 102-page opinion.The judge said...

Latonya Pottain has passed away. Known for appearing on Season 11 of “My 600-lb Life,” Pottain died on Saturday at CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, The Post can confirm. She was 40 years old. A representative for the Natchitoches Parish Coroner’s Office told The Post that no autopsy was performed, but a preliminary cause of death revealed Pottain died of congestive heart failure. Since Pottain died of natural causes, there was no need for an autopsy. We were told that her body has been released to a funeral home of her family’s choosing, per the coroner. Pottain passed...

The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation’s ability to understand and respond to a hotter planet.When the Trump administration declared two weeks ago that it would largely disregard the economic cost of climate change as it sets policies and regulations, it was just the latest step in a multipronged effort to erase global warming from the American agenda.But President Trump is doing more than just turning a blind eye to the fact that the planet is growing hotter. He is weakening the country’s capacity to understand global warming and to prepare for its...