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Phys.org reports that Mohammad Reza Eghdami of the University of Guilan and his colleagues examined the poorly preserved remains of a man unearthed in northwestern Iran at the Liyarsangbon Cemetery site. The 77 Parthian burials there have been dated to between 247 B.C. and A.D. 224. The Parthians were known by the Romans for their skills in mounted warfare, archery, and metalworking, including the manufacturing of high-quality weapons. This man had been buried on his left side with his legs bent. A poorly-made pot containing the remains of a bird and traces of smoke was also discovered in the grave....

Two years after the outbreak of the war against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities have released a new overall toll of military and civilian casualties. According to Channel 12, the Ministry of Defense, the National Insurance Institute, and the Eran (Emergency Psychological Assistance) association have released "unprecedented numbers" of victims, injuries, and people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Since the conflict began on October 7, 2023, 1.152 Israeli military and security forces personnel have died, 42 percent of whom were under the age of 21. The victims include 1.035 members of the Israel Defense...

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The Nobel Peace Prize has become mired in scandal today after suspicious bets were placed before a longshot was announced as the winner. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was an obscure candidate just 12 hours before she was announced as winner on Friday. Her victory stunned the world after Donald Trump secured a peace deal in Gaza, ending a two-year war that has killed more than 70,000 people. Machado had just a 5 percent chance of claiming victory, according to prediction market Polymarket. But then a buying spree, from a newly created account '6741', rocketed her chances to 70...

The United States issued nearly one-fifth fewer student visas in August as the Trump administration tightened immigration rules, new data show. India, once the top source of U.S. international students, experienced the largest drop, while China became the leading country of origin. According to the International Trade Administration, the U.S. issued 313,138 student visas in August, the most common month for new university enrollments. This represents a 19.1 percent decrease compared with the same month in 2024. Student visas for Indian nationals fell dramatically by 44.5 percent over the past year. India had previously been the largest source of foreign...

Palestinianism depravity: The Sick Islamo-Fascistic "Joy" in Palestinian Arab October 7 AtrocitiesTwo years after the barbaric Hamas-led assault on Israel on October 7, 2023—an orgy of murder, rape, mutilation, and kidnapping that claimed over 1,200 innocent lives and saw more than 250 civilians dragged into Gaza as hostages—the world should be united in revulsion. Instead, a disturbing pattern has emerged: gleeful celebrations of this savagery by Palestinians, their supporters, and radical Islamo-fascist sympathizers worldwide. What civilized societies condemn as terrorism, these groups hail as a "glorious day of success" or a "revolution." This isn't mere denial; it's a perverse revelry...

The Labor Department will bring back staff to work on the consumer price index...The report will come out at 8:30 AM ET on 24-OCT, nine days after it was originally scheduled.

10 October 2025 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary TimeSt Paulinus Church, Crayford, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingJoel 1:13-15,2:1-2Let all tremble, for the day of the Lord is comingPriests, put on sackcloth and lament.Ministers of the altar, wail.Come, pass the night in sackcloth,you ministers of my God.For the house of our God has been deprivedof oblation and libation.Order a fast,proclaim a solemn assembly;elders, call togetherall the inhabitants of the countryto the house of the Lord your God.Cry out to the Lord,‘Oh, what a day!For the day of the Lord is near,it comes as a devastation from...

NEW YORK, NY — Sources said the indicted New York attorney general held out hope that she could ease her combative relationship with the president, as Letitia James attempted to smooth things over by sending Trump a heartfelt "Sorry I Maliciously Prosecuted You" card. Indicted on charges of bank fraud after spending the last two years prosecuting President Trump, James reportedly scrambled to perform some type of gesture that would thaw the ice between the two political enemies, eventually deciding that a greeting card was the perfect choice. "Dear Donald, my bad for trying to falsely imprison you," James wrote...

20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Your heart will determine the outcome not your flesh, your flesh has no authority. Notice, if you put the right words in your heart they are healing to your flesh. What you have working in your heart is more...

When a grenade shredded his leg during a botched hostage rescue mission in Gaza, Israeli soldier Barak wanted to shoot himself to avoid being taken captive by Palestinian terrorists. But it’s the sound of the grenade exploding that haunts him months later. His nightmares were amplified by persistent tinnitus, and he described being in a state of “shock all the time.” Einav Ben Hur, head of social services for the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, has seen the number of cases like Barak’s soar since the start of the war in Gaza. “I think it is important to provide treatment...

Those of you who have been reading my AI reports know that with a few pointed questions I can get AI to produce reams of output. Starting with a few open-ended questions to set the table for the discussion, with pointed follow-up to the AI output, the AI searches the internet for volumes of sources from which to formulate its responses. What follows is a discussion on the Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump's approach to international diplomacy, and the diplomatic inertial rot that seems to have infected the Nobel Prize Committee.Note that the footnotes have been removed; the embedded footnotes...

A powerful explosion ripped through a military explosives facility in Tennessee on Friday morning, leaving multiple people dead and missing, officials said. Video from the scene showed damaged vehicles and charred debris scattered around the area.

Explanation: Messier 15 is an immense swarm of over 100,000 stars. A 13 billion year old relic of the early formative years of our galaxy it's one of about 170 globular star clusters that still roam the halo of the Milky Way. Centered in this sharp reprocessed Hubble image, M15 lies some 35,000 light-years away toward the constellation Pegasus. Its diameter is about 200 light-years, but more than half its stars are packed into the central 10 light-years or so, making one of the densest concentrations of stars known. Hubble-based measurements of the increasing velocities of M15's central stars are...

An illegal immigrant carrying a New York state commercial driver’s license with "NO NAME GIVEN" listed as his name was arrested by ICE in Oklahoma, according to DHS. The agency said that it has been working in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation as well as state and local law enforcement to get illegal truck drivers off American highways following the high-profile accident involving Indian illegal Harjinder Singh. Working with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, ICE arrested another Indian illegal alien named Anmol Anmol. DHS said that Anmol was carrying a New York commercial driver’s license on which his first...

Here’s what to expect in the midterm elections.Two years ago, Americans anxious about the forthcoming 2024 presidential election were considering the malevolent force of an election influencer: artificial intelligence. Over the past several years, we have seen plenty of warning signs from elections worldwide demonstrating how AI can be used to propagate misinformation and alter the political landscape, whether by trolls on social media, foreign influencers, or even a street magician.AI is poised to play a more volatile role than ever before in America’s next federal election in 2026. We can already see how different groups of political actors are...

Everyone take a deep breath. No question Pres. Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025, but the just announced Prize was for 2024. Nominations are due in in January. Trump wasn't President yet. I'm sure he'll be nominated next year, and should be the ONLY nominee.

EXCLUSIVE: With mediation between Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League continuing its second and final scheduled day Thursday, 31 members of Congress — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and GOP Rep. Mike Lawler — have signed a bipartisan letter urging “good faith negotiations” to avoid a strike that could have “significant economic disruption.” Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner for New York City mayor, is pledging solidarity with Equity and musicians union Local 802 AFM “as they fight for the care every worker deserves.” ... Both Equity, which represents stage actors and stage managers, and the Broadway musicians...

A photograph of a black graphite disk floating above a stack of three, round magnets. (Credit: Adrian Skov (OIST)) Study shows how perfect magnetic symmetry can cancel energy loss. In A Nutshell Researchers at OIST built a 10-millimeter graphite disk that levitates and spins above a magnetic array inside a vacuum chamber. By arranging magnets in perfect circular symmetry, the setup cancels the eddy currents that normally slow conductors moving through magnetic fields. Even at one-billionth of Earth’s air pressure, the disk kept spinning with almost no slowdown; only tiny tilts or material imperfections created measurable friction. This ultra-stable, contact-free...

“Mr. Trump has promised working-class tax cuts and protection for working-class social insurance, such as Medicaid,” Hawley wrote. “But now a noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans — call it the party’s Wall Street wing — is urging Congress to ignore all that and get back to the old-time religion: corporate giveaways, preferences for capital and deep cuts to social insurance.” Hawley has consistently spoken up about his opposition to the House plan to use Medicaid cuts to pay for the party-line megabill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has been charged with finding at least $880 billion in federal spending...