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Starting on Sept. 15, the space agency’s PACE satellite (which stands for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite) will circle the Earth every 98 minutes. While it’s overhead, the satellite will be collecting important environmental data, measuring how clouds and particles in the atmosphere absorb and reflect sunlight. Here’s where you (and everyone else on land) comes in: Scientists want to compare what they’re seeing in the sky with what you’re seeing on the ground. The pictures will help researchers to better understand the far-away images they’re capturing from space, said Dr. Andrew Sayer, the PACE atmosphere lead. Because...

Liability is much more effective than regulation at pushing companies to be safe.OpenAI and Anthropic are the Mercedes and BMW of artificial intelligence. No, not because they’re expensive and vulnerable to cheap imports from the Far East. And not because they exude obnoxious “The Best or Nothing” and “The Ultimate Driving Machine” Teutonic attitudes. Instead, they share a growing fear of liability.Some background: There are various levels of autonomous driving. In Level 2, AI controls the steering and speed, but drivers must keep their hands on the wheel and watch the road. Tesla’s oxymoronically named Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is Level...

A Trafalgar Group poll released Saturday shows Sen. Darline Graham's lead over Democrat Annie Andrews in South Carolina's U.S. Senate race narrowing to just 1.1 percentage points, well ithin the survey's margin of error. The survey, conducted Sept. 23-25 among 1,087 likely voters, found Graham leading Andrews 43.4% to 42.3%. Another 5.9% chose another candidate, and 8.5% were undecided. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. Trafalgar’s release did not name an outside sponsor. Trafalgar, a Republican-aligned pollster run by veteran strategist Robert Cahaly, blends live callers, automated...

A Minneapolis mother is recovering from a terrifying attack inside her home. Maria Grant sustained severe injuries that left her with six staples in her head. She said she's recovering physically, but the emotional toll is only growing with her attacker on the loose. About three weeks ago, Grant says she heard a knock at the door just before 9 p.m. and opened it. She says she was met with a hammer. "He's just hitting me over the head with a hammer, and all I'm feeling is the hits and then the waves of blood coming down my face and...

Saturday on MSNOW’s “Connect,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said President Donald Trump intends to kick “all” naturalized citizens out of the country.

To protect 300,000 trucks a year from a persistent pigeon invasion, the automaker turned to an ancient practice: falconryEl Charro works shifts at the Hermosillo plant where he flies around trying to scare pigeons. FordFord Motor’s assembly plant in Hermosillo, Mexico churns out over 300,000 pickup trucks and sports utility vehicles a year, employing 4,300 workers and a security guard known as “El Charro.” El Charro, a common term for a Mexican cowboy, is no ordinary watchman. He stands about two feet tall and patrols the skies above Ford’s 12.1-million-square-foot plant in the northern Mexican city. And the hawk is...

Andy Burnham and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood were slammed for losing control of the UK’s borders after 1,000 illegal migrants arrived in just three days. Home Office figures show 150 small boat migrants arrived in Monday September 21; 154 arrived on Tuesday September 22, and 781 on Wednesday September 23. It means 1,085 came in a three-day period. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “It does show that Shabana Mahmood has no control of our borders, with these boats making it all the way across undetected. There may be others, as you rightly say. Now, last week was a shocking...

President Donald Trump shared a fiery string of social media posts attacking Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) over a viral ad in which she accused the president of having “betrayed” Hispanic voters. In a series of posts on Truth Social late Saturday, the president amplified criticisms of Salazar and calls for her ouster from Congress. “We need a NEW Republican to replace Salazar,” one user wrote in a post shared by Trump. “I guess she misread the tea leaves,” another Trump-boosted post read. “I should have voted for the guy who primaried her,” a third Trump-shared post said. Salazar claimed...

Several Hollywood actors, including Princess Diaries star Heather Matarazzo, are trying to raise awareness about new actor’s union requirements that could cause many performers to lose their healthcare benefits. Matarazzo, whose last role was in the 2025 short film Paper Tiger, told fans on her social media that if she does not get a paying acting role soon, the new union rules will cause her to lose her health insurance, according to Variety. She made her comment in reply to a similar post made by actor Jack Haven, who told fans that he is $4,000 short of reaching the annual...

I am sick and tired of the left’s war on data centers. Hey leftist idiot jerks, if you use a mobile device such as your phone, do any online searching, visit any website, have a bank account, or basically interact with the modern world in any way, a data center is not just involved but essential. So the two major Trojan horses are (a) water use and (b) electrical costs. Let’s address each in turn. (a) Water use: Data centers recycle their water. A massive data center fills up with about as much water as two hotel swimming pools. Then...

Swiss voters on Sunday looked set to reject a proposal to adopt a more restrictive form of neutrality that ⁠would have blocked their country from imposing economic sanctions or cooperating with NATO. More than two-thirds voted against a proposal for a strictly defined version of neutrality to be written into the Swiss constitution, according to the latest referendum projections by state broadcaster SRF. While Swiss neutrality has been internationally ⁠recognised since the end of the Napoleonic wars in ​1815, ⁠how the government implements it is not spelled out. The right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) has said that Switzerland’s traditional position...

Passengers arriving at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on an El Al flight from Tel Aviv are now reportedly subjected to additional customs inspections shortly after the Netherlands implemented its boycott of products originating in Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. Dutch news outlet NieuwRechts reported an account of one such incident that occurred last week, one day after the new restrictions took effect. Opinion writer Sivan Behr, who was among the passengers, described how customs officials directed everyone arriving from Israel to undergo baggage screening, including travelers who had entered the Nothing to Declare lane. Behr reported that...

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Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski responds directly to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a UN Security Council meeting on the war in Ukraine.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stopped pretending his socialist vision is just a local experiment.On CNN International’s Amanpour, the Democratic Socialist was asked whether America is ready to elect people on the hard left — and whether the 2026 midterms will be a referendum not only on President Trump, but on the Democratic Socialists of America. “I think this will absolutely translate on a national level,” Mamdani said. Amanpour noted that other Democrats still believe national races reward moderates, and that local energy is one thing, but winning the country is another. Mamdani answered by recasting New York’s...

An American technology executive and a Russian national have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with alleged efforts to conceal Russian ownership and software development at a digital forensics firm that obtained U.S. government contracts, including work involving the Secret Service. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced on September 23 that Lee Reiber, 55, of Boise, Idaho, chief executive officer of Alexandria, Virginia-based Oxygen Forensics Inc., and Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov, 52, of Moscow, had been arrested Reiber was taken into custody in Idaho on September 20, made an initial appearance in...

Counter-terror police are leading an investigation in which five men were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and preparation of a terrorist act near an RAF base which hosts the United States Air Force (USAF). The men were detained after police received a report of "three suspicious vehicles" travelling towards RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire at about 00:45 BST on Sunday, officers said. A major incident was declared and an Army explosive ordnance disposal team has been examining vehicles near the base. Eighty-five households in the nearby village of Whelford have been evacuated while investigations continue. Officials believe the incident is...

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US Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna called on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, arguing that Palestinians should be allowed to choose their own leadership and that Barghouti could play a role in a future Israeli-Palestinian peace process. "Today I'm calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison. Palestinians must choose their own leaders," Khanna said. He described Barghouti as having "a unique standing among all Palestinian factions" and said he is viewed as "non-corrupt, a strong leader, and secular." Khanna went further, arguing that "Barghouti could deliver a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel," and...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday blasted the legalization of medically assisted death as immoral “false compassion,” as he doubled down on Catholic teaching about life during a visit Sunday to Lourdes, the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures of the sick. On his third day in France, Leo again waded into the end-of-life debate that has erupted in countries around the world. It roiled French politics for years before resulting recently in legislation allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication. Leo’s visit to the once staunchly Catholic and officially secular France has been marked by huge crowds...