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Explanation: What's happening to this cloud? Ice crystals in a distant cirrus cloud are acting like little floating prisms. Known informally as a fire rainbow for its flame-like appearance, a circumhorizon arc appears parallel to the horizon. For a circumhorizontal arc to be visible, the Sun must be at least 58 degrees high in a sky where cirrus clouds present below -- in this case cirrus fibratus. The numerous, flat, hexagonal ice-crystals that compose the cirrus cloud must be aligned horizontally to properly refract sunlight in a collectively similar manner. Therefore, circumhorizontal arcs are somewhat unusual to see. The featured...

This is the stud who engaged (fired at) In N Out shooter, preventing further carnage. https://xcancel.com/ClownWorld/status/2083942635228811299 ======================================================================== Eyewitness video shows gun battle in parking lot. https://www.instagram.com/p/DbingrUlD1K/?img_index=3 ========================================================================== Second eyewitness video shows employees running away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvZMgby6pk =============================================================================== Third video shows man executed at Tesla charging station, wife shot but survives. WARNING: GRAPHIC! https://xcancel.com/ScopeReport_/status/2083676087687471444

VIDEOMany of you have probably enjoyed tacos de lengua or tongue tacos. However, few of you have ever tried arepas de lengua. In this video I show you the steps I took to create arepas de lenga. Beside the obvious difference of using arepas instead of tortillas, the arepas de lengua are also cooked in tomato sauce instead of having salsa verde added to it. A two step process is used to cook the tongues. First the tongues are boiled and then they are barbequed. The latter step added TREMENDOUS flavor to the tongues as you can physically see with...

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) pressed for his fellow Ohio Republican and former son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller, to resign in the wake of abuse allegations involving Moreno’s daughter and granddaughter, adding that he thinks the GOP representative needs “serious psychological help.” “If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House of Representatives,” Moreno said in a post on the social platform X on Sunday morning. “I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his...

The 85-year-old doctor, once the head of the government’s covid response, now faces mounting congressional threats and legal risks.Anthony Fauci didn’t know Rand Paul had his diary, let alone that the GOP senator was going to release it, his friends said.So last Saturday — after the Kentucky lawmaker had publicly shared years of Fauci’s private reflections, on everything from fighting covid-19 to attending “A-List” events — Fauci went to another party. There, at a birthday celebration for former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Fauci mingled with friends and former Biden administration colleagues. They cheered and toasted him, apparently...

Russian and Malian troops fighting against a rebel offensive in northern Mali have been resupplied with a vast number of military vehicles that appear to have been delivered by a sanctioned cargo ship, BBC Verify has found. A large column of armoured vehicles were seen arriving in the capital Bamako in verified footage broadcast by Malian state TV on 25 July. Reporters said the convoy had travelled from Lomé port in Togo. A sanctioned Russian cargo ship, Mikhail Britnev, docked in Lomé on 9 July, according to ship tracking data reviewed by BBC Verify. Satellite images appear to show that...

There are a lot of tone deaf Democrats out there, but Sheldon Whitehouse is near the top of that list. He belongs to a country club that does not allow minorities as members, and refuses to give up his membership. Meanwhile, he has no problem pointing his finger at everyone else and accusing them of being racist or white supremacists. He's doing it again with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and accusing the agency of using "white supremacist materials" to recruit ICE agents. "At the beginning of the year, we began to get information that ICE recruitment materials were...

Hours after Trump canceled a planned strike and said the outlines of a deal had been reached, a regime-linked Iranian outlet said the strategic waterway would remain closed as long as US ‘hostile actions’ continue. Iran on Sunday denied that it had reached any agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, directly contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump hours after he canceled a planned strike and announced that the outlines of a deal had been reached. “There is no agreement on reopening the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s regime-linked Fars news agency reported. “As long as the United States continues its hostile...

John Reed was one of the foremost left-wing leaders during America’s early 20th-century Progressive Era and had much in common with today’s Democratic Socialists. John Silas “Jack” Reed was a Zohran Mamdani of his era. Both rose in left-wing American politics in their late twenties and early thirties, embraced socialism, and framed politics through class struggle and oppressor/oppressed themes. Both believed America’s political and capitalist systems had to be radically transformed -- or dismantled -- for working-class liberation. Were he alive today, Reed would likely see eye to eye with the NYC mayor. Reed and his contemporary comrades might view...

2 August 2026 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time St Jean Baptiste Church, NYC, run by the Order of St Peter Julian Eymard Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 55:1-3Come and eatThus says the Lord:Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty;though you have no money, come!Buy corn without money, and eat,and, at no cost, wine and milk.Why spend money on what is not bread,your wages on what fails to satisfy?Listen, listen to me, and you will have good things to eatand rich food to enjoy.Pay attention, come to me;listen, and your soul will live.With you...

Bill Maher told his audience that the Democratic Party is being taken over by communists, and the crowd’s stunned reaction proved his point. The HBO host used the closing segment of Friday’s “Real Time” to argue that the Democratic Socialists of America have embraced communism openly, according to a clip Maher released on X. Maher said that when President Donald Trump labels the group communist, the description holds up. “Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that’s not one of them,” Maher said in the clip. Maher built...

Heart-stopping video shows the moment two firefighting helicopters crashed in mid-air while battling a raging wildfire in Greece on Sunday. The terrifying footage obtained by Kefalonia Press shows one of the helicopters clip the rotor of the second, causing it to burst into flames and plummet to the ground. The helicopters had been leased by the local fire department to combat a blaze in Psatha, west of Athens, BBC News reported. Both helicopters had two people on board at the time, according to the fire service. A search and rescue operation is underway, and the status of the crew has...

The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday issued an interim order temporarily blocking the state's plan to transfer Nile crocodiles to Ketzi'ot Prison, suspending an initiative promoted by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman. The decision came just hours after the animal welfare organization Let Animals Live filed an administrative petition and an urgent request to halt the project. Judge Avraham Rubin ruled that, until further notice, the state may not locate the crocodiles or prepare them for transfer. The order will remain in effect until the court rules on the request for a longer-term injunction...

Pope Leo XIV says he is "following with concern the alarmnig situation in Ceuta," and prays to God for a solution of "peace, stability and justice". At least 72 people died during a mass influx of migrants into Spain's Ceuta enclave in recent days, when tens of thousands of people mostly swam around the border post from Morocco.

A Michigan hair salon broke state law by telling prospective transgender customers to stay away and visit a dog groomer instead, officials have ruled. Studio 8 Hair Lab in Traverse City declared that anyone who did not identify as a man or woman was 'not welcome' in a Facebook post published in 2023. 'If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman please seek services at a local pet groomer,' salon owner Christine Geiger wrote. 'You are not welcome at this salon. Period.' Geiger also warned that staff might refuse to use customers' preferred pronouns and instead call them...

U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) has announced plans to file articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs over her recent order related to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Somali nationals. Burroghs, an Obama appointee, serves as a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She recently made a highly controversial ruling related to Temporary Protected Status, which allows eligible nationals of designated countries to remain in the United States and obtain work authorization when conditions in their home country, such as armed conflict or other extraordinary circumstances, make safe return...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. melted down and berated CNN’s Dana Bash in a wild brawl over Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Donald Trump, and vaccines. In a marathon battle on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, the HHS Secretary — a years-long Fauci critic who has ramped up his attacks in recent days — defended Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic despite the fact that Trump kept Fauci in a position of power. “You have been placing nearly all the blame on the COVID pandemic and the way that the U.S. Responded to it squarely with Dr. Fauci,” Bash told Kennedy....

A couple of weeks ago MIT's Sloan School of Management published an article with the prosaic but to-the-point title "These are the most urgent AI risks, according to 272 experts". Artificial intelligence is a contentious topic everywhere, but the article is concerned with how it "presents business leaders with a difficult management problem: The risks are numerous and fast-moving and fall unevenly across organizations, sectors, and stakeholders." There are the well-discussed "challenges", like "the potential for discrimination and the spread of misinformation". (Note that it's apparently concerning that entities defined by their lack of emotion and pitiless logic might discriminate...

As the country barrels toward the 2026 midterm elections, one place sits at the center of it all: Texas. From fiercely contested elections to landmark legislative fights and courtroom battles with national consequences, Texas has become the place where the country’s biggest political questions are tested and where the ripple effects are felt coast to coast. So this year, MS NOW is taking our annual fan event to the Lone Star State. “Together in Texas: We the People 2026” will bring together our trusted journalists and dedicated audience for a day-long community gathering in Arlington, Texas on Saturday, September 26,...

Ukraine has said it carried out overnight strikes deep inside Russia, hitting a major oil refinery and an airfield that houses Russian strategic aviation. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Engels airfield and the refinery, both in the Saratov region some 600km (373miles) from Ukraine's border, were hit. An oil depot was also struck in Kaluga region and a drone launch site in Bryansk. Russia said eight people were killed in the Ukrainian strikes, and 635 drones shot down or intercepted. It also reported yet another strike on a warehouse of Russia's biggest online retailer Wildberries. Meanwhile, Moscow said its forces...