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On Tuesday, July 2, United Launch Alliance launched the final Atlas 5 rocket flying in a 551 configuration. The rocket featured a five-meter payload fairing, five solid rocket boosters, and one RL10 upper stage engine. The mission, Atlas 5 Amazon Leo 8 (aka Leo Atlas 8), sent 29 satellites into low Earth orbit with deployment happening less than 30 minutes after liftoff. Amazon purchased nine flights onboard Atlas 5 rockets. The first of those launched the Protoflight mission in 2023, followed by eight batches of production satellites. The first Atlas 5 551 rocket launched on January 19, 2006, in support...

Sam Neill, the genre-spanning New Zealand actor best known for his starring role in the “Jurassic Park” movies, has died, his family said Monday. He was 78. “Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterized his whole life,” the family said in a statement on Instagram. “The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free,” the family said in the statement, which did not specify a cause of death. Neill, who died in Sydney, had announced in April that he was cancer-free after several years of treatment for...

Amnesty International UK has expressed "regret" over the publication of a report that labelled dozens of Christian, pro-life and gender critical organisations as "anti-rights". The report was hastily removed from Amnesty's website last week after it triggered a huge backlash, with JK Rowling and John Cleese among the high profile figures denouncing it. At the time, Amnesty said the report had been temporarily withdrawn so that an internal review could be carried out. In a further statement addressing the furore on Monday, Amnesty International UK said the report had not gone through the proper internal checks before being published on...

Just one of many JD Vance memes making the rounds. AI generated but pretty funny.

The European Union has coordinated efforts to raise 900 million euros ($1 billion) in pledges of aid for Gaza’s rebuilding following two years of Israeli bombardment that left much of the Palestinian enclave in ruins, a senior EU official said Monday. How much of the money will be delivered, and when reconstruction of Gaza can begin, is unclear. The ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas militant group that took effect in October is effectively stalled. European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica announced the fund after a meeting in Brussels of the Palestine Donors Group, which includes EU and Middle...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin [In the Dioceses of the United States]Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes.” Matthew 11:20–21Have you ever felt the urge to publicly rebuke someone, crying out in condemnation, “Woe to you!”? Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced that impulse....

@JamesOKeefeIII Regardless of what you think of him, this will always be one of the most powerful speeches in the history of the Senate. Back in 2018 when this happened, friends of mine who were not political teared up after watching this.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt isn’t thrilled with her generation. In a recent interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, she agreed that her fellow Zoomers are lazy and entitled. “This generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths,” she told the Fox News host. She added that they’ve been given everything and are completely ungrateful for those privileges. She even thinks some of them need to be sent to Cuba or Iran to straighten up. The comments didn’t land well on social...

Congress is finally putting America’s twice-a-year clock ritual on the floor. The House will vote Tuesday, July 14, on legislation that would stop the spring-forward, fall-back cycle and make daylight saving time permanent across most of the country. For millions of Americans, that means no more changing clocks in March and November. No more resetting the oven after every time change. No more watching sleep schedules, school mornings, work routines, and family calendars get knocked sideways because Washington keeps moving one hour back and forth. Rep. Vern Buchanan announced the floor vote Monday. Rep. Vern Buchanan says his Sunshine Protection...

Last week, the Television Academy announced its 78th Emmy nominations, and Taylor Sheridan's entire slate got the reception you'd give a telemarketer. “Landman,” Paramount+'s flagship drama with Billy Bob Thornton and Sam Elliott, walked away with nothing. “The Madison,” led by Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, got nothing either. Sheridan's grand total across two of the most watched shows on television: one nomination, for stunt coordination on “Tulsa King.” Meanwhile Ryan Murphy's “All's Fair,” a show even its own network calls critically panned, picked up two nods. I coached high school track and field for years. If a kid runs...

Screencap of Twitter/X video. Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan was recently speaking to a crowd of supporters about the SAVE America Act and she accidentally gave the game away without even seeming to realize it. Conservatives know why Democrats oppose the act. They want people to be able to vote without IDs so that illegal immigrants can vote. They keep trying to claim that it’s just too difficult for certain Americans to obtain an ID but that’s ridiculous. You can’t do anything in life today without a valid ID. Slotkin’s comments take things a step even further. In the...

The Supreme Court dealt a setback to President Trump at the end of June when they ruled that so-called “birthright citizenship” was enshrined by the 14th Amendment and that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment. The Court, in Trump v. Barbara, rejected Trump’s executive order banning the practice 6-3, although only five justices held that the order violated the 14th Amendment. Justice Brett Kavanaugh supplied the sixth vote on narrower statutory grounds.As we’ve written, the Department of Justice immediately launched a crackdown on birth...

On Monday, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) held a press conference to announce the person who will serve the remainder of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R) term. As RedState reported earlier, both President Donald Trump and McMaster indicated that their choice to fill the seat would be none other than Lindsey Graham's younger sister, Darline Graham Nordone.Trump TRUTH ™️: I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina. This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly! President DONALD J. TRUMP...

New York has spent years aggressively taxing its wealthiest residents in the name of fairness, and the results are now in. Suffice it to say, they’re not pretty.A new study released Monday by the Citizen Budget Commission (CBC) reveals the state’s share of America’s millionaires has dropped sharply since 2010, triggering a nearly $11 billion shortfall in tax revenue in a single year as high earners quietly packed up and left for lower-tax states.The analysis shows New York’s share of millionaires fell from 12.7% in 2010 to just 8.7% in 2022 — the steepest decline of any state in the...

Representative Thomas Massie on Friday questioned why Republicans continue to emphasize widespread election fraud even as the party holds total governing power across Washington, calling it a contradiction at the heart of the GOP's message. “I mean, we won all the damn elections and we’re in charge,” he said. “And what are we doing with it? We're bankrupting the country, we're starting new wars, we're violating the Constitution. We're not cracking down on the fraud."

At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress, are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people, representing at least 8% of Democrats in Congress and 28% of Republicans. The group includes Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and James Lankford, and Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan. President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president except Donald Trump are direct descendants of slaveholders: Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.Governors of 11 of the 50 U.S. states in 2022 were descendants of slaveholders, as were two U.S. Supreme...

A welder miraculously walked away after his car exploded in a quiet New Jersey suburb on Monday morning — waking up residents to debris flying into their homes, according to authorities. A 28-year-old man was inside his vehicle on Congressional Lane in Totowa, about 20 miles from Manhattan, around 5:30 a.m. when it was suddenly blown apart, the Totowa Police Department said in a statement. The man was able to escape from the wrecked vehicle on his own and was taken to a local hospital for treatment and observation, cops said. The victim, who is a welder, was alert and...

Medicare and Medicaid are losing billions of taxpayer dollars to criminals because they can’t keep pace with their high-tech scams, a Post investigation has found. International criminal networks employ hackers who steal sensitive patient data then sell it on the dark web or use it to then bill for fake medical equipment or services in people’s names. Scammers even use AI voice bots to coax info out of seniors on the phone, posing as US healthcare workers, often from thousands of miles away in Europe or Asia. They use the same techniques on the insurance companies, with one Philippines-based outfit...

A same-sex couple in Ontario has sued their surrogate mother after she refused to abort their baby diagnosed with a cleft lip, a relatively minor and easily correctable condition with surgery. The lawsuit, filed in Ontario Superior Court in May, seeks approximately $600,000 in damages. It alleges the surrogate failed to keep the couple informed about the baby’s health, put the child at risk, failed to follow their directions on medical care, violated confidentiality and caused one parent serious emotional distress. The conflict began in late June 2024 when an ultrasound at about 22 weeks showed the baby had a...

The Idaho abortion voter initiative qualifies for the ballot this November. The ballot initiative would allow abortions for the full nine months of pregnancy if passed this November and nullify the “Defense of Life Act.” Since the “Defense of Life Act” legislation began being enforced on August 25, 2022, it is estimated nearly 6,000 innocent children have been saved from abortion in Idaho. Also, not one woman has been arrested for having a miscarriage, no doctor has been prosecuted under the “Defense of Life Act” and not a single woman has died seeking an “illegal abortion” as pro-choice activists claimed...