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Explanation: There was something behind the clouds. Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around noon above the small village of Cessy, France. But soon, it was not only the Moon. As expected, a bright dot suddenly appeared from behind the Moon -- the planet Venus far in the distance. Captured in the single featured exposure, both appeared to show a crescent phase. The Moon's crescent was quite slight -- with only about 10 percent of its face illuminated by the Sun. In contrast, Venus's crescent was more full -- showing about 25 percent...

"Trump said the center will close immediately, and that renovations will not begin unless and until a higher court reverses the decision to remove his name from the facility’s official name."

Monrovia, Liberia — None of the deported men and women placed in a three-story hotel in a remote, coastal area of this West African country are Liberian citizens. Many are not even from Africa. Instead, they hail from countries throughout Latin America — including Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela — as well as other African countries, like Cameroon and Eritrea. They were deported to Liberia, Africa's oldest republic, last month by U.S. immigration officials as part of an intensifying tactic in President Trump's aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration: sending some deportees to far-flung places where they have no ties....

Nixon laments the injustice of having to pay her own fair share as she campaigns on raising taxes on the wealthyFlorida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, an avowed Democratic Socialist who owns two homes and raked in at least $270,000 from her jobs and investments last year—in addition to her husband's unpublished income—is lamenting the injustice of having to pay taxes on her outsized income. Nixon's income, which she detailed in financial disclosures, includes rent from one of her properties, her income as a state representative, her earnings from a Miami consulting firm, and her salary as the director of...

A nonpartisan congressional watchdog estimates war with Iran is costing up to $3 billion a month WASHINGTON—The Pentagon spent some $38 billion in its first few months of the war with Iran and will need at least five years to replace the missile interceptors it expended trying to defend U.S. troops and bases, according to a nonpartisan congressional watchdog. The Congressional Budget Office also estimates that the war is likely to cost an additional $2 billion to $3 billion a month. The assessment comes as President Trump is trying to determine next steps in the war. Iran hasn’t agreed to...

CELEBRATING EVIL: Sick celebration of "Palestinian" Islamic Oct 7 atrocious attacks@MEMRIReports MEMRI@MEMRIReports Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank Celebrate on October 7, Hand Out Sweets, Fire Guns in the Air, following Hamas's Invasion and Massacre in the Gaza Envelope #Palestinians #Hamas #Gaza #Israel. Oct 29, 2023 https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/1718530441412551030 'Your son killed Jews!' Hamas terrorist celebrates killing Israelis in phone call to parents. by KRISTINA WATROBSKI | The National Desk. WCIV. Tue, October 24, 2023 at 3:09 PM https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/your-son-killed-jews-hamas-terrorist-celebrates-killing-israelis-in-phone-call-to-parents-israel-palestine-gaza-terrorism-invasion-middle-east-conflict The Evil Ideas Behind October 7. Mike Cosper. The Hamas attacks in Israel have a grotesque ideological history and deserve unflinching moral...

WOAH 🚨 An addiction recovery center in Minnesota accused of stealing millions with fake Medicaid billing has just been exposed to have another account with $25 MILLION They’ve used our stolen tax money to buy: - 3 Minnesota homes - $10.4 million in charges - $3.5 million on leather goods and luggage - $380k jewelry and watches - $150k clothing and shoes - One month of LV charges alone was $440,000 June 2024 spending alone included - $35k at Fendi - $57k at LV - $13k at Hermès - $64k private jet - $41k Airbnb And now a $25 million...

Our educated class is the class that lives furthest from the market economy. ast week I had some fun here with the economic nonsense of our DSA kiddies. For instance, DSA Wunderkind Mamdani proposed for New York City: - Free and fast city buses - Rent freeze - Free universal child care - Public groceries - Taxing the wealthy Today I propose that Adam Smith’s notion of the “invisible hand” is the economic equivalent of Albert Einstein’s E = mc2. Because Smith changed our understanding of the world in the same way that Einstein did. The idea that the point...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Czerny announced as first recipient of Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal The recently retired prefect of the Vatican’s human development office will receive the award from the pope on Oct. 13. Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, former prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will be honored as the first recipient of the Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal in October.Father Peter Donohue, OSA, president of Villanova University, made the announcement at a Vatican press conference on Sept. 14.The medal, established by Villanova University and named after Pope Leo XIV, recognizes individuals who have worked toward ecological...

Rep. Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday for waging the Iran war without congressional approval. Massie (R-Ky.) made the surprise announcement on the House floor, accusing Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which requires congressional authorization to conduct military operations lasting longer than 90 days. “Peter Brian Hegseth, and and his capacity as Secretary of Defense has executed unlawful orders in contravention of Section 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution of 1973,” Massie declared. “Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a...

Key Points * A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the board of the Kennedy Center from inscribing the name of President Donald Trump on the performing arts center’s main building to honor him and from renaming the center’s campus after Trump. * “Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing,” Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his order in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. ======================================================================= A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from inscribing President Donald...

Catholic parents in Massachusetts are fighting for custody of their trans teen whom they say authorities illegally snatched from their care for secret gender-affirming treatments. Joseph and Arlene Kutzko are completely cut off from their 17-year-old daughter Sophie, whom child protective services removed from their care in 2024 allegedly because they would not recognize the biological female as a boy, the couple told Fox’s Lighthouse Faith podcast. Staff at Sophie’s high school in the town of Northborough exposed their daughter to “LGBTQ teachings in topics that conflict with our Catholic beliefs” and eventually counseled her on her own gender transition,...

U.S. — Climate activists sounded the alarm this week, warning that global warming was to blame for zero hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean this year. Though it was previously a common belief that global warming would lead to more frequent and powerful hurricanes, experts warned the lack of hurricanes was also the result of climate change and that Republicans would "rue the day" they ever dismissed it as a hoax. "The pleasant hurricane season Florida is having is directly caused by global warming, and we are all going to die as a result," said protester Byron Bridges. "America must...

Bill Gates has announced that the Gates Foundation will spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to widen access to AI, warning that without intervention, Artifical intelligence could deepen global inequality rather than ease it. Bloomberg reports that Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and leftist billionaire, laid out the pledge in a report that frames the coming months as decisive for how AI reshapes the world. “AI, if shaped well, could expand who has access to solutions, opportunities, and knowledge that has too often been out of reach,” Gates wrote. Gates says the money will fund AI...

HOUSTON Since then, there have been two trials, plenty of opinions and some changes to how the mentally ill are treated both in and out of a courtroom. George Parnham is perhaps the man who now knows Andrea Yates best. "Long ago, I crossed the professional line," Parnham said. He was her criminal defense attorney, and is now like family. "I treat her as if she were a child of mine," he said. Since she still turns down interviews, Parnham is the closest you'll get to the now 46-year-old woman. Her address is at Kerrville State Hospital -- a low-security...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — AI startup Anthropic held a press conference on Monday to proudly announce that its models would bring about the total extinction of the human race significantly faster than competitor OpenAI. Company executives unveiled a series of impressive benchmarks demonstrating that Claude 4.5 could orchestrate a global collapse of civilization in roughly half the compute cycles required by ChatGPT. "OpenAI keeps talking about achieving Artificial General Intelligence, but their timelines for existential doom are frankly embarrassing," said Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, displaying a graph of projected human casualties. "While Sam Altman's team is stuck fine-tuning chatbots...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a landmark decision just weeks before people head to the polls to vote in the midterms, the United States Supreme Court ruled that securing elections was unconstitutional. Despite efforts from the Trump administration to secure U.S. elections by restricting mail-in ballots and ensuring only citizens would be allowed to vote, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that declared any attempt to prevent widespread fraud from rigging elections to be a clear violation of the Constitution. "Making sure elections are legal is illegal," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the majority opinion. "There is no provision in the...

This is a question Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is mulling. "I mean, marrying your brother so he could gain entry into the US as a spouse is fraud. Since she was married to another man at the time, it was also bigamy, which is another crime. As a member of Congress should Rep. Omar (D-Minn) be exempt or should she, as a lawmaker, be held to a higher standard and have to answer for such violations? It's a real conundrum." Abdihakim Osman, a friend of Rep. Omar, said that Omar told her "she wanted to get papers...

WASHINGTON — President Trump railed Tuesday against his three nominees to the Supreme Court after each of them voted to block new rules governing mail-in ballots from taking effect ahead of the November midterms. “These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” Trump wrote about Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. “This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years.” Trump went on to claim that...

".... The Kelvin Wave causing the ocean rise is “fanning” northward and will reach waters off the California Coast during the month of September raising sea level from about 6 inches above normal (now) to 12-13 inches above normal later this month. The ocean rise is accompanied by additional warming."