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The F-35 Joint Program Office is struggling to keep track of billions of dollars worth of spare parts for the fifth-generation fighter, government auditors said in a new report—and it still can’t find $85 million in parts that have been lost for years. The Pentagon does not maintain complete records tracking its worldwide pool of roughly 26 million spare F-35 parts that are collectively worth about $31 billion, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Nov. 9. What records it has are often inaccurate, incomplete, and don’t reflect real-time changes, the congressional watchdog added. The report also said...

Scholars have developed ways of thinking about the differences in how learners engage with a subject. The ICAP framework categorizes student learning as interactive, constructive, active, or passive. Research indicates the strongest learning—in terms of both content recall and conceptual understanding—comes from the interactive and constructive types, in which learners must generate their own ideas and make complex and multilevel connections. For example, a project for which a student is required to do research—finding and reading sources then determining an argument based on them—is both interactive (with the sources) and constructive (developing and communicating an argument).1Studies examining how students employ...

46% chance This market will resolve to "Yes" if, by November 6, 2028, 11:59 PM ET, the states and the District of Columbia that have enacted the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact into law collectively hold a majority of the electoral votes. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".

The caravans are back. If you get in, you get amnesty. That's the message they received [Video at URL) ...

HUGE UPDATE on Watson's case: the Article 32 found no probable cause for 3 of his 10 specifications, including the big one. The charge sheet says Maj. Watson's Capitol steps speech calling for impeachment violated Article 92 and DoD Directive 1344.10, partisan political activity. The hearing officer's finding: no probable cause. Same finding on the Jessica Denson interview, and on the leave-form specification. DoDD 1344.10 defines partisan as tied to a political party or a candidate. Calling for the impeachment of an elected official isn't a campaign. It's a constitutional remedy. No election, no candidate, no party on the ballot....

Hakeem Jeffries is learning the hard way that the Democratic Socialists of America are not interested in a big tent. They don't even want him IN their tent. Womp womp womp. After DSA-aligned candidates swept several New York primaries earlier this year, their victory celebration included a pointed message aimed squarely at the House Democrat leader. When Jeffries’ face appeared on screen, the crowd broke into chants of “You’re next!” In a new CNN interview, Jeffries addressed the moment. He observed that the group doing the chanting appeared strikingly homogeneous, a detail others in the room had also noticed. This...

A now-viral video appears to show several white University of Mississippi coeds making racist sounds outside an apartment shared by three black students, sparking online fury and a school probe. The ring-doorbell-camera footage shared on TikTok by Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf captured the female offenders walking past her apartment and pausing to make monkey noises Friday, the woman said. The clip, time-stamped Nov. 6, 2026, at approximately 8:37 p.m., shows two women walking up to the door, with the first beating her chest and making monkey noises, while the second makes the same sound toward the camera. A third...

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...and suggesting that illegals who have been in the US for 10-15 years should have an opportunity to stay.

Kilkenny, Ireland — Absolute mayhem erupted Saturday night at HSTikkyTokky’s Unhinged Promotions 3 when controversial British activist Tommy Robinson was attacked by Muslim influencer and fighter Mo Deen, sparking a wild ring-side brawl that forced police to shut the entire show down before the main event could even begin. The chaos kicked off after Mo Deen finally scored his first boxing win, knocking out overmatched opponent MrTikTokUK with a vicious stoppage after dropping him multiple times. Instead of celebrating, the streamer-turned-fighter immediately leapt out of the ring and charged toward the commentary area, gunning for Robinson, who was ringside watching...

Democrats hold 54 seats, and two races are still being counted. In Mississippi/Alaska I expect Democrats to win both. Republicans nominated candidates who couldn’t win, and in most of those races, Donald Trump made the pick. Republicans still hold the White House and that conservatives still have a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. Those checks will last only as long as Republicans keep winning elections, and the next two cycles look dangerous.

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Minnesota Governor-elect Amy Klobuchar is wasting no time pushing for new restrictions on law-abiding gun owners, even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to decide whether bans on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles violate the Second Amendment. Just one day after winning the November 3 election, Klobuchar told reporters that legislation targeting firearms and magazines would be a top priority for her incoming administration. “The gun safety bill is going to get passed,” Klobuchar declared during her November 4 press conference. The timing is particularly significant. On December 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Viramontes v. Cook County...

Woman who has no hate in her soul wishes Trump got shot in the forehead. (July 2024)

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There’s no reason to celebrate bacon, according to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The group wants Easton to cancel PA Bacon Fest this weekend and replace it with a celebration for a healthy food like hazelnuts, cherries or chestnuts. Processed meats like bacon contribute to colorectal cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in young people, according to a statement from the Washington D.C.-based health advocacy group.

Democrat lawmakers are losing it so badly over Stephen Miller’s new role that it’s bringing some of them to tears. As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump on Friday afternoon announced that his Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, will be moved to another role. He also revealed that Miller will now serve as his Chief of Staff. This is the first major ‘Cabinet-rank’ shakeup since the Democrats swept the midterm elections on Tuesday. “I am pleased to announce that Mr. Stephen Miller, the current Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, and one of my most trusted advisors, will...

If you spend five minutes on YouTube, you’ll quickly learn that twenty-something wellness influencers believe you cannot survive sunrise without an eyedropper of yohimbe bark and a $90 mushroom tincture. (If your morning starter is an alcoholic “eye-opener,” put this paper down and call AA.) Human physiology upon waking is not complicated: after seven or eight hours of snoring, you are dehydrated. If you had three glasses of cabernet with dinner, or if you sleep tethered to a CPAP machine you wake up parched like an Egyptian mummy. Your blood is thick and viscous, which is why heart attacks and...

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Here's chance for us to entertain ourselves and use our imaginations to reflect on the election