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Home | America Tags: cbs | 60 minutes | lawsuit | scott pelley | liberal | bias | donald trump CBS News' Scott Pelley Rips Trump at Commencement By Charlie McCarthy | Tuesday, 20 May 2025 01:29 PM EDT Comment| Print| A A CBS News' Scott Pelley condemned President Donald Trump and his administration during a commencement address at Wake Forest University. Pelley, a "60 Minutes" correspondent, spoke to Wake Forest graduates Monday, the same day CBS News President Wendy McMahon said she was stepping down amid a Trump lawsuit aimed at the network over the editing of an interview...

Abstract: Among growing indications of human occupation in the coastal regions of southern and southeastern Arabia extending into the Neolithic and beyond, this study introduces new archaeological evidence, namely bifacial arrowheads and trihedral points, suggesting human presence at the Saruq Al-Hadid site in the fringe of Rub' Al Khali during the mid-Holocene period. Human activities in the site are dated to the 'Dark Millennium' and Bronze Age. We suggest that Contexts 10 and 8 are an extension of the activities of the Horizon IV, located 20 m to the West. This is evidenced by the similarity in the simple reduction...

"Objective" United Nations: Tom Fletcher [the "14,000 babies" lie producer] tells to propagandist/journalist Amanpour (5.22.25):"We don't think it's Hamas doing that looting."Ponder:1. Does that mean, the UN, UNRWA always knows who is Hamas? How is that not a guilty charge on the UNRWA, again?2. Is he as "free" to say, just as journalists recently reported of being threatened as reported by International Press Centre (IPC). ["Watchdog: Gazan reporters ‘intimidated, threatened, assaulted by Hamas’". TOI. 5.16.25]?3. Both?

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Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place of origin. Researchers say that this runaway magnetar is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted. It is so strange it might even offer clues to the mechanism behind events known as fast radio bursts...But a decade-long study with Hubble cast doubt on the magnetar's birthplace. After initial observations with ground-based telescopes shortly after SGR 0501+4516's discovery, researchers used Hubble's exquisite sensitivity and steady...

[Judge Allison Burroughs] has temporarily paused the Trump administration's move to cancel Harvard's student visa program. Harvard filed suit against the Trump administration over the policy, and a judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order to preserve status quo while the case plays out in court. Judge Allison Burroughs, a 2014 Obama appointee, set a hearing for 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Boston federal court. Harvard said the policy will affect more than 7,000 visa holders — nearly a quarter of the student body — and is a "blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause,...

The Forgotten Side of Medicine Read in the Substack app Open app The Century of Evidence Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Unmasking one of the greatest tragedies in medicine A Midwestern Doctor May 22, 2025 475 102 84 Story at a Glance: •Since at least 1933, the medical community has known that vaccines cause infant deaths. To conceal this, those deaths were renamed “crib death” and then “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” (SIDS), eventually being attributed to infants not sleeping on their backs. •This revisionism is not supported by the existing evidence nor the historical changes in the frequency of...

Friday, in a clip that aired on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Big” was unacceptable in its current form, as passed by the House of Representatives. Johnson told a reporter on Capitol Hill, “I couldn’t care less if he’s upset. I’m concerned about my children, my grandchildren, and the fact that we are stealing from them. We are stealing from our children and grandchildren. $37 trillion in debt, and we’re going to add to it as Republicans? That is unacceptable.” He added, “And that’s why there’s no way I’m going to...

It did not begin with bullets. It began with banners. The murder of two Israeli diplomats outside the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, was not the work of a lone madman, unmoored from society, swept up in personal delusion. It was the bloody, pitiless consequence of a campaign that has spanned campuses, cities, and institutions since October 7, 2023. The phrase that binds the slogans to the slaughter is the same: "Globalize the Intifada." What did you think it meant? Let us be unflinchingly clear. The term "intifada" is not a gentle metaphor. It is...

The three dirtiest food chains in America.

Millions of Americans rely on Social Security payments to make ends meet, and with June 2025 approaching, many are asking: When will checks arrive — and is anything changing? The good news is that the payment calendar remains consistent, but there are some new developments retirees and disability beneficiaries should be aware of this month.

If the supermarket is your favorite place in the world, you might be a “Groceryhead.” Kroger knows where you’re coming from. And now it’s launched a social content series from Dentsu Creative starring Chrissy Teigen and positioning its stores as the perfect place for Groceryheads to nerd out. Throughout the campaign, Chrissy—a self-described Groceryhead—will answer common questions, break down her favorite products and reveal grocery-loving truths that the Groceryhead community will relate to. The work launches this week with the “Cart Confessions” spot above. The campaign is running on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. “Since 2020, grocery stores have become...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Campus mentors. Move-in events. Scholarships. Diversity offices that made them feel welcome on predominantly white campuses. As U.S. colleges pull back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to lose all of these things and more. The full scope of campus DEI rollbacks is still emerging as colleges respond to the Trump administration’s orders against diversity practices. But students at some schools said early cuts are chipping away at the sense of community that helped open the door to higher education. “It feels like we’re going back. I don’t know how...

Astronomers just found a frozen world on a 25,000-year orbit—hidden in plain sight and ready to rewrite the outer solar system. ================================================================ Image Credit: images of dwarf planets from NASA/JPL-Caltech; image of 2017 OF201 from Sihao Cheng et al. | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel ================================================================= A distant, icy world has just been added to our solar system’s official roster, and its strange orbit might challenge one of the biggest space mysteries of our time. According to a study published on arXiv, the object—known as 2017 OF201—is not just any distant rock. It’s a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that could...

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now. The developers behind Character.AI are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the company’s chatbots pushed a teenage boy to kill himself. The judge’s order will allow the wrongful death lawsuit to proceed, in what legal experts say is among the latest constitutional tests of artificial intelligence. The suit was filed by a mother from Florida, Megan Garcia, who alleges that her 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III fell victim to a Character.AI chatbot that...

DENVER — Mayor Mike Johnston announced furloughs and a hiring freeze during a Thursday morning news conference, as the city faces a $250 million budget deficit. This comes as the State of Colorado had to manage a more than $1 billion budget shortfall this year. In 2025, Denver is experiencing a $50 million revenue gap due to revenue flattening and increasing costs, according to Johnston. Heading into 2026, the mayor is projecting a $202 million deficit to manage. He puts part of the blame on declining sales tax revenue that he says was caused by economic uncertainty created by President...

At a time when Minnesotans should be thanking their lucky stars for the violent criminal illegals who are no longer trolling their streets, Governor Tim Walz decided to spit in the face of law and order and mock the very people he was elected to serve. In a wildly tone-deaf commencement speech at the University of Minnesota’s law school, Walz launched into a deranged rant about President Trump, accusing him of being a “tyrant” for doing exactly what the American people elected him to do: secure the wide-open border and enforce the law. The Detroit News: Democratic Gov. Tim Walz...

A third alleged accomplice has been arrested in connection with the escape of one of ten inmates from the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility, according to Louisiana State Police. Connie Weeden, 59, is believed to have assisted the fugitives and was taken into custody following an investigation that revealed she was in contact via phone with escapee Jermaine Donald – both before and after the escape. Donald remains at large. Authorities say Weeden gave cash to Donald via a "cell phone app." She has been charged with one felony count of accessory after the fact and booked into the St. Tammany...

Introduced from South America, mathenge was intended to halt desertification, but now three-quarters of the country is at risk of invasion by the invasive tree For his entire life, John Lmakato has lived in Lerata, a village nestled at the foot of Mount Ololokwe in northern Kenya’s Samburu county. “This used to be a treeless land. Grass covered every inch of the rangelands, and livestock roamed freely,” he says. Lmakato’s livestock used to roam freely in search of pasture, but three years ago he lost 193 cattle after they wandered into a conservation area in Laikipia – known for the...

As part of a flurry of posts on Truth Social on Friday morning, Donald Trump is now proposing slamming the European Union (EU) with a massive new tariff because of the "unacceptable" trade imbalance the U.S. has rung up. Moments after threatening Apple and executive Tim Cook with a 25 percent tariff unless iPhones are made in the U.S., the president moved on to another threat certain to roil the stock market. On Truth Social he wrote: "The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult...