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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced on Friday that he will be retiring at the end of his term, potentially leaving his seat vulnerable to a Democrat in the midterms. Issa issued the announcement to retire soon after the deadline to register as a candidate in a district that became vulnerable to Democrat control after being redrawn last year. “This decision has been on my mind for a while, and I didn’t make it lightly,” Issa said. “First, we built the right campaign infrastructure, support has been overwhelming — including from President Trump — and our polling was unmistakable: We would...

Wastewater SCAN data show that human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, is rampant in Northern California — specifically San Francisco, Marin, Vallejo, Napa, Novato, Santa Rosa, Sacramento and Davis, per reports. The virus peaked sharply in January and remains elevated in early March, although the seasonal winter wave is now tapering. “It is a single-stranded RNA virus, like flu and COVID,” Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst, told Fox News Digital. “The virus is increasing not only in the west, but also around the country.” The wastewater data also show that HMPV is rising sharply in the Midwest and Northeast.

Explanation: Centered on maximum eclipse, these two total lunar eclipse sequences look almost identical. Yet the one shown on top is composed of images recorded in February 2008, while at the bottom is the recent March 2026 total eclipse of the Moon. Why are they so similar? Because these two total lunar eclipses are from the same Saros cycle. The Saros cycle was discovered historically from observations of the Moon's orbit. With a period of 18 years, 11 and 1/3 days, the cycle predicts when the Sun, Earth, and Moon all return to the same relative geometry for a lunar...

Republican support for the war may not be as solid as it appears – and that could have implications for a U.S. intervention in Taiwan.In the days following the Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran, both chambers of the U.S. Congress – the Senate and the House of Representatives – voted on a War Powers Resolution aimed at halting U.S. President Donald Trump’s military action, which was not given congressional authorization. Although the measure failed in both chambers – with nearly all Republicans voting against it and publicly supporting the administration – a closer look suggests that Republican support for the...

One of the UK's two aircraft carriers has been placed on advanced readiness to sail from Portsmouth, the BBC understands. The crew of HMS Prince of Wales have been told they must be ready to leave in five days, defence sources said. This may raise speculation the carrier could be deployed to the Mediterranean to help defend British interests threatened during the conflict in the Middle East. Before this, the ship's "notice to sail" was 14 days. Meanwhile, more US B-1 Lancer bombers have arrived at RAF Fairford. The government has been accused of not acting fast enough to protect...

An Iranian sailor who was killed when the warship Dena was struck by the US near Sri Lanka had called his father shortly beforehand, saying American forces had issued two warnings for the crew to abandon the vessel, a source close to the family told Iran International.The Iranian navy warship's commander refused to allow the crew to abandon Dena despite the imminent threat, the source added.The sailor’s father said some crew members argued with the commander, and the 32 crew members who survived were mainly sailors who managed to escape on lifeboats, according to the source.A US submarine torpedoed Dena...

Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia: "May this journey of Ramadan and Lent unite us also in these difficult moments""As leader of the Catholic Church of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia, and as Bishop of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and in the name of the entire Catholic Christian community — priests, religious men and women, and lay faithful — whom I represent, I wish to address you in these difficult days, marked by the pain and uncertainty of war, with words of encouragement and hope." Almost a week after the start of the war in the Gulf area (see Fides,...

"I think 47 years of western policy to Iran has been rubbish. You know why? Because they focused only on the hard power nukes, missiles, foreign mercies, never on the rights of the Iranian people. Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, John Stewart is my guilty pleasure. I know everyone on the right can't stand him, but I kind of like him. I think he's consistently funny. Yeah, he has a case of Trump derangement syndrome, but it's not as severe as someone like, I don't know, Rosie O'Donnell. I feel like people on the right treat John Stewart like...

A mid-air Southwest flight was forced to land in Georgia after a passenger triggered a security alert, coming amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. Southwest Airlines Flight 2094, bound for Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Nashville, Tennessee, was abruptly diverted Friday night to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to Fox 5 Atlanta News. The incident was set-off by a passenger, described as a 'possible security matter,' though what exactly happened has not been confirmed. A TikTok video from inside the plane claimed there was a bomb threat mid-flight, capturing the panic of passengers on board. In the footage, passengers can...

President Donald Trump met Friday afternoon with CEOs of major defense industry companies at the White House as the war against Iran ended its first full week.After the meeting, Trump said in a social media post that “we discussed Production and Production Schedules” and “they have agreed to quadruple Production of the ‘Exquisite Class’ Weaponry in that we want to reach, as rapidly as possible, the highest levels of quantity.”Trump did not explain what he meant by “Exquisite Class Weaponry.” The term is used in the defense industry to describe one-of-a-kind technology or systems.Trump said the meeting included CEOs of...

By Dr. John BergsmaYou know we are “picking up steam” in the season of Lent when the Lectionary starts turning to the long readings from the Gospel of John (John 4, 9, 11). The Church turns to these texts from John at this point in the liturgical calendar, because John is, in so many ways, a mystagogical document, a gospel intended to takes us deeper into the mysteries, that is, the sacraments. If one is not initiated into the sacraments, John remains—in many respects—a closed book. I can attest to this from personal experience. Although I have always loved my...

The woman in question is Christianne Amanpour. She edumacates idiot stick Jon Stewart who had no idea that the 1979 Iranian revolution was religious in nature.

A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have gotten significantly crazier since then, because the company has now managed to get a similar culture of neurons to play Doom. In a very slick marketing video, the company demonstrates “real neuron gameplay”: Doom running on its CL-1 neural computing system, a microchip upon which...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): “When Saddam [Hussein] fell there were celebrations. 20 years later not so many celebrations.”Bill Maher: “20 years later, Iraq is actually in a pretty good place. People don’t talk about that. Iraq is a much better country than it was… That kind of goes unnoticed that Iraq is not a failed state anymore. They actually have elections. They have opposition parties. They have a media.” “It would still be torture rooms and Saddam Hussein and his kids would be in charge right now.” NUKED!pic.twitter.com/lhBLGb7bXi— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) March 7, 2026

An Electron rocket launched from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on March 5, 2026 at 6:53 p.m. EST Blastoff! Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite for secretive private customer | 10:49VideoFromSpace | 2.07M subscribers | 3,200 views | March 6, 2026

@LoneStar_PAC John Cornyn compared January 6 to 9/11, and called attendees "white supremacists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, rioters, seditionists, anarchists." He then asked then-FBI Director Chris Wray if a new law was needed to charge attendees with "domestic terrorism."

Germany’s “social-ecological market economy” is a textbook illustration of this dynamic. The state declares hydrogen and other favored technologies to be the “future,” pours billions into subsidies, and attempts to construct markets by decree. Yet even an official body like the Federal Audit Office now describes this as a “planned economy approach” and doubts that the government will reach its own goals. In all likelihood, Germany is about to confirm once again what Mises showed in theory a century ago: planned economies do not deliver their promised outcomes. Instead, they generate rising costs, failing projects, and increasing chaos—while making society...

Russia has a question for the European countries that have shunned its energy exports: Do you miss us now? The Kremlin is enjoying a sudden resurgence of its importance as a global supplier of oil and gas, as the conflict in Iran disrupts energy production and shipment across the Middle East and sends global energy prices soaring. “Now other markets are opening up, and perhaps it’s more advantageous for us to stop supplying the European market right now,” Mr. Putin said on Wednesday to a state television reporter, Pavel Zarubin, who chronicles the Russian leader. “We are seeing an increase...

Virginia's legislature has passed a bill prohibiting schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it "as peaceful protest." The General Assembly approved the measure Thursday, as a first-of-its-kind legislation to combat false statements by supporters of President Trump. The bill says that school instruction must "Not describe, portray, or present as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest." Schools may also not "state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion...

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