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Explanation: Meteors from the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower are captured in this time-lapse composite skyscape. The minor meteor shower, with a radiant not far from its eponymous star Kappa Cygni, peaks in mid-August, almost at the same time as the much better-known and better-observed Perseid meteor shower. But, seen to have a peak rate of only about 3 meteors per hour, Kappa Cygnids are vastly outnumbered by the more popular, prolific Perseid shower's meteors that emanate from the heroic constellation Perseus. To capture dozens of Kappa Cygnids, this long term astro-imaging project compiled meteors in exposures selected from over 51...

Archaeologists working at the ancient Hittite settlement of Kayalıpınar, located in Türkiye's Sivas province, have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved clay tablet containing a bird omen text...The discovery was made as part of an ongoing excavation led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Maner of Koç University's Department of Archaeology and Art History. The site, historically known as Samuha, holds immense historical importance as a major administrative and religious center of the Hittite Empire...The tablet offers insights into Hittite divination practices, particularly the interpretation of bird movements as omens. Known as "bird oracles", these texts were central to Hittite spiritual and state...

Before I get into this report, I first want to address anyone who wonders why we sometimes use asterisks like this ** in our article headlines… There is a very good explanation which you can read here if you’re curious: Why Do We Sometimes Write Titles With Asterisks In The W*rds Like Th*s? Ok, now to our main story... Please pray for protection for Don Jr. because Brandon Biggs the so-called "Trump Prophet" who months before President Trump was shot in Butler, PA released a video saying he saw in a vision Trump being shot in the right ear, has...

During a hearing in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon provided compelling testimony about how the Trump administration is rapidly weeding out discriminatory policies and practices across America. Dhillon used the "Ending Illegal DEI Discrimination & Preferences: Enforcing Our Civil Rights Laws" hearing as a report card on her tenure after the first 100 days in office, in which she said "under the leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi," they have been working diligently to "end illegal DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] for all Americans," including in...

VIDEOThe Democrats are now pretending, in response to the Russia Hoax revelations made by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, that Democrats and the Deep State never claimed that the Russians actively HACKED the election to help Donald Trump or that there was Trump-Russia Collusion. This compilation put together by the Media Research Center puts a lie to that laughable notion. However, one big takeaway is what Chris Cillizza said on CNN years ago: "The FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the former Director of National Intelligence JAMES CLAPPER, they all said this. So to believe that that's wrong you have to believe that...

Michigan has joined four other states who have introduced legislation to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from wearing masks, with the Wolverine state calling for jail time for violators. Democrats in California, New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania also have introduced similar bills as part of an attempt by those lawmakers to “increase transparency and limit the agency’s expanded powers” under President Donald Trump, Newsweek reported this week. As Breitbart News has reported, federal authorities say ICE officers have been wearing plain clothes and using masks during raids to hinder their identification they or their families won’t be targeted...

Ukrainian forces are holding back Russia’s concerted summer push to break through defenses along parts of the front line, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. “They are not advancing. It’s very tough for our guys out there. And it’s tough everywhere,” Zelenskyy told reporters on Thursday, in comments embargoed till Friday. “It’s also very hard for the Russians — and that’s good for us.” With the war now in its fourth year after Russia’s February 2022 invasion of its neighbor, the effort is draining resources on both sides, although Russia has more resources and people to sustain its fight. Ukraine is...

Spectators are used to seeing cars get smashed and crushed during monster truck rallies, but typically it is the cars in the rally arena that face getting smashed, not the cars of passive spectators who show up hoping to have a good time watching a bit of destruction. Not so during a Sunday, July 20 event in Washington, during which a monster, 800-pound wheel flew off a truck, out of the arena, and into the parking lot outside. The incident occurred at the Malicious Monster Truck Tour event at the Thunderbird Arena in Bremerton, Washington. During the fun show, a...

WASHINGTON — Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flouted House ethics rules by accepting more than $3,700 in rented apparel and other gifts for her notorious appearance at the 2021 Met Gala — including a glitzy gown emblazoned with “Tax The Rich” in blood-red letters and a free ticket for her then-boyfriend Riley Roberts — but paying less than $1,000 for the goodies. The House Ethics Committee faulted the Bronx and Queens “Squad” member for not complying with its regulation on gifts and improperly giving Roberts a free ride to the annual charity event put on by Vogue grande dame Anna Wintour...

TALLAHASSEE — An appeals court Wednesday allowed an Okaloosa County couple to pursue a lawsuit over noise from a neighboring gun range, saying a 1999 state law aimed at shielding gun ranges from liability violated the couple’s constitutional rights. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal overturned a circuit judge’s ruling that rejected the lawsuit filed by Eugene and Adrienne Gartman, who in 1998 bought 80 acres of land that includes their home. In 2017, BITN, LLC, and a subsidiary company, Southern Tactical Range, LLC, bought about 200 acres immediately south of the Gartmans’ property and began...

"We just ask that folks look at what she has to say with an open mind, and that’s what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has promised us," David Oscar Markus said Top Department of Justice officials are to interview Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell for a second day on Friday.Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus, said ahead of her interview with the officials that his client "has been treated very unfairly" for more than five years, and she doesn't have a reason to lie in answering their questions, NBC News reported.Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche first met with Maxwell in Tallahassee,...

Federal authorities in Southern California have charged two workers at the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center accused of interfering with ICE agents trying to arrest an illegal alien on July 8 who fled into the medical facility. One worker was arrested Friday morning, the other is being sought according to a report by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin. Viral video from the hallway: VIDEO AT LINK..................... DHS statement from July 9 on the incident: THE FACTS: ICE officers conducted a targeted enforcement operation to arrest two illegal aliens. Officers in clearly marked ICE bullet proof vests approached the illegal alien targets...

For months we have been working on a mechanism whereby American citizens can vote with confidence in any election. True the Ballot has just been launched out of our own pockets to vet candidates before they get on any ballot in the United States. Think about it. Why would anyone run for office or vote if they were unable to demonstrate fidelity to our founding principles? We looked at every single candidacy form of the State of Indiana. There are twenty. Not a single one of them asks a candidate about their fealty toward our nation and its principles. Using...

The complaints MAHA has about artificial food colorings in the U.S. food industry don't even compare to the Chinese, at least not to Peixin Kindergarten in northwest China, which substituted lead-based paint for food coloring. Apparently, they tried regular food coloring but didn't think the colors were bright enough. According to Sky News, A total of 233 out of 251 children had unhealthy [lead] levels and 201 needed to be hospitalized, said local authorities. Two food samples were seized and both had lead levels 2000 times higher than the legal safe limit. The principal apparently wanted to attract more students...

The president is investing in the midterms, eliminating potentially bloody primary battles and promising to help the GOP stay in power.President Donald Trump and senior White House aides in recent weeks have privately, and sometimes publicly, steered Republican candidates in House races in Iowa, Michigan and New York and Senate contests in Maine, Iowa and North Carolina, in hopes of staving off contentious primaries and shoring up swing districts with Trump-loyal candidates. The kingmaker moves are part of a broad White House strategy designed to ensure Republicans retain control of both chambers of Congress in next fall’s midterm elections, according...

Brennan’s purported intelligence was so flimsy and comically absurd that it only further exposes the fraudulent nature of the assessment.Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a long-buried House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report exposing the fraud at the heart of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) released in January 2017.That ICA — produced by the CIA, FBI, and NSA at the behest of President Obama — claimed that Vladimir Putin helped Donald Trump win the presidency. It became a weaponized talking point, casting a shadow over Trump’s legitimacy before he even took office.The HPSCI launched its investigation...

US President Donald Trump has allowed the possibility of a trilateral meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as well as Volodymyr Zelenskyy, APA reports citing TASS. "It's going to happen. But it should have happened three months ago," he told reporters.

Fear induced by ongoing ICE raids has led some California workers to not show up, forcing those who do to work harder under worsening heat conditions. Meanwhile, many families have been driven into hiding indoors, forgoing simple activities that would have allowed them to stay cool. Summer is only just beginning, and organizers believe the situation will only worsen as temperatures continue to rise. For the last 16 years, Isabel has worked harvesting carrots, lemons and grapes in the Coachella Valley. The undocumented mother of three — who, like others The Times spoke with, declined to give her last name...

The first deportation flights out of a temporary detention center in the Florida Everglades began this week, with hundreds of people departing the state — including some who were eventually sent out of the country, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Friday.About 100 people previously detained at the Florida center “have fully been deported,” DeSantis said, without specifying where they were sent. The Department of Homeland Security is organizing the departures, he said, adding that two or three “removal flights” have left Florida so far with plans to continue them.Some of the flights went to a federal immigration site in Louisiana...

Democrats are leery of supporting Republican spending measures after the White House forced through clawbacks of funding already approved by Congress.With a government funding deadline looming in September, Democrats face the same quandary that dogged them earlier this year: Should they cut a spending deal with an administration that has routinely undermined Congress’s power of the purse, or filibuster their way into a shutdown? Back in March, Democrats agonized for days over whether to supply the votes needed to allow a G.O.P.-written stopgap spending measure to move ahead. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, and nine other...