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Explanation: It is time to say goodbye to NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. After nearly 22 years of service, the satellite re-entered Earth's atmosphere on November 4 at 7:39 EST over the North Sumatra region of Indonesia. The featured image is a mosaic created in 2018 using some of the first million images captured by the satellite's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope. Swift had a combination of instruments, including an X-ray telescope and a gamma-ray telescope, that worked together to enable humanity to study, in unprecedented detail, the fastest and most energetic explosions in the universe. The most recent solar maximum accelerated the...

Elon Musk's angular truck appears to be headed for the scrapyard of history, and Jeremy White of Wired is not mourning. He slams the Cybertruck as an overhyped experiment that never lived up to its billing: produced for less than four years, plagued by recalls and design flaws, and now being phased out at Tesla's Texas factory to make room for the company's autonomous Cybercab. Despite Musk's boasts of "off the charts" demand and more than a million reservations, US sales remained modest, with under 50,000 delivered by March of last year and fewer than 12,000 sold in the first...

On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the Federal Aviation Administration will replace outdated floppy disks at more than 400 air traffic control facilities with the Enterprise Information Display System by the end of 2028.A 2024 Government Accountability Office report found 90 percent of the nation's critical air traffic control infrastructure was due or past due for a technology refresh, amid recent high-profile software meltdowns and operational delays.Upgrades have already launched at five sites including Atlantic City International Airport and Nashville International Airport, with the new system replacing four legacy setups dating back to the 1980s across 435 facilities total.Duffy...

Demographics, age, and social views: Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, Silent Generation. The intersection of demographics, age, and social views explores how a person’s place in society—particularly their generational cohort—shapes their perspective on cultural, political, and systemic issues. Decades of data, notably from researchers like the Pew Research Center, reveal clear patterns in how social views evolve across different age groups. Khan Academy·khanacademymedicine1. The Core Generational FrameworkSociologists and demographic researchers categorize the population into distinct age cohorts to track shifting trends over time: USC Libraries Research Guides +1Generation Z (Born 1997–2012): Digital natives, highly diverse, and fiercely progressive on...

Yesterday, I told our student leaders in 1,700 chapters that Tuesday night hurt, and that our anger can’t become a retreat. Today, I want to tell Republicans in Congress what that means for them. Republicans control the House and the Senate until noon on January 3rd. Government funding runs out on December 11th, so Congress is coming back to town whether it wants to or not. I know a number of leaders are on Capitol Hill this week drawing up the GOP’s to-do list before the gavels change hands. So let me save them some time. The Pro-Life Generation has...

President Donald Trump is expected to devote more attention to his presidential library during his final two years in office. With Democrats preparing to take control of Congress in January after their sweeping midterm victories, Trump is expected to focus increasingly on projects he can pursue without congressional approval, CBS News reported Thursday, citing current and former administration advisers. "He undoubtedly recognizes that the library development season opens now, and he will go for it," a senior administration official told CBS News. Another official said Trump will focus on "all things he can control, which means: Building." The president has...

An Instagram post celebrating abortion has exposed the fact that many Americans believe women should avoid having multiple abortions and/or using it as a form of birth control. It also showed the damage that the idea of 'subjective truth' has done to younger generations, leading them to believe that when human life begins is a matter of individual opinion rather than scientific fact. Key Takeaways: * In a recent social media post, a woman expressed support for women who have multiple abortions (which directly and intentionally end the lives of preborn human beings), even saying that there is no such...

President Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post Friday afternoon that chief of staff Susie Wiles is leaving her post and will be replaced by deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. He said in the post that Wiles had “done an outstanding job” and would be moving to his political operation. “I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job!” Trump said. Miller will take over as chief of staff on Monday.

Colossal Biosciences – a futuristic startup working to bring back extinct species including the woolly mammoth – is suing one of its former scientists for allegedly stealing trade secrets and sharing the data with competing labs. In a bombshell lawsuit filed Friday morning in Texas federal court in Austin, Colossal accused James Kehler, formerly its vice president of animal sciences and later of BioSynergy, of “dishonesty, greed, and the betrayal of the confidential science at the heart of Colossal’s mission.” The Dallas-based firm – which has so far succeeded in creating “woolly mice” that bear woolly mammoth traits and gray...

A Cullman man is facing multiple child sex crime charges in Madison County after school resource officers noticed he was picking up and dropping off a student at a middle school. Officers did not recognize the man and acted to protect the minor. Alexander Riley Schultz, 23, was arrested and charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy and traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act.

A YOUNG co-pilot sent a chilling final text to her boyfriend just minutes before the private jet she was flying plunged from the sky, killing all nine people on board. The 20-year-old warned her fellow pilot boyfriend about dangerous conditions in the air before the Learjet plummeted more than 27,000 feet in just over a minute. The 20-year-old texted her boyfriend about dangerous conditions in the air minutes before the Learjet plummetedSource: Instagram/itsnatfilg Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was flying over Palm Beach County, Florida, on Sunday when she messaged her boyfriend around 12:40 pm, just ten minutes before the deadly crash....

The 20-year-old co-pilot on the doomed Learjet that crashed in Florida last weekend was remembered by her flying instructor as “the most naturally gifted pilot” who was “born to fly!” Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras — who earned her pilot license in high school, even before she could drive — “aced” all her flying exams, longtime instructor Chris Kirk said alongside a selfie of them beaming together in the cockpit. “She was without a doubt the most naturally gifted pilot I have ever taught, and I have been teaching for 40 years!!” he posted on Facebook while proudly saying he was one...

Audio between an air traffic controller and a female pilot flying the Learjet 60 during a flight in May has resurfaced following Sunday’s tragic incident in Palm Beach County. A man and woman in the cockpit were scolded by air traffic controllers after they appeared to make unapproved altitude adjustments during turbulent conditions, according to audio obtained by the Daily Mail and the U.K. Sun. What happened with the Learjet 60 in May? The plane was flying near Newark, N.J., at the time when an air traffic controller asked the crew, “Why are you climbing?” The female pilot answered: “We’re...

Eight small towns, from Lockhart’s barbecue pits to Hatch’s chile fields, show that great food doesn’t need a big city or a hard-to-get reservation. A great food scene doesn’t always require a crowded city or a Michelin reservation booked months out. Some of the best food in the country comes from towns with a few thousand residents and one specific thing they do better than anywhere else – a barbecue tradition, a crop, a way of cooking a specific food in a specific pot. These eight towns built their identity around food long before "foodie" was a word, and each...

Woke 2.0 in America is, unfortunately, off to a strong start, as singers now feel emboldened to shamelessly mock our nation's beautiful national anthem. As Yahoo Sports reported, the NBA's Golden State Warriors celebrated their annual Pride Night during their home game against the Miami Heat. As part of the Warriors' Pride Night celebration, they had openly gay singer Jason Brock perform the national anthem. Brock is a former finalist on The X Factor USA and a prominent male cabaret singer in San Francisco. He certainly qualifies as a national anthem singer based on talent. But Brock decided to use...

Democrats’ midterm gains have opened a path to fundamentally changing how America elects its president, potentially locking in the national popular vote winner through an interstate agreement.Check Voting Info The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would leave the Electoral College formally intact while changing how participating states award their votes. A member state could back one candidate at the ballot box and still hand every electoral vote to that candidate’s opponent. That is because the agreement commits participating states to awarding their electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes nationwide, regardless of the outcome within their borders. The compact...

Two more DOJ officials abruptly resigned on Friday just days after the Democrats swept the midterm elections. The top prosecutor who was spearheading the Russiagate case against John Brennan - US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Quiñones - resigned. US Attorney General Todd Blanche made the announcement on Friday. "United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones submitted his resignation from the Department of Justice," Blanche said. "We are grateful for Jason’s leadership in combatting violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime, including the indictment of Raúl Castro. Jason has served...

The Left is already demanding punishment after an MLB All-Star called out Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) — and political Islam — in the wake of Tuesday’s midterms. Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Anthony Santander, an All-Star in 2024 before suffering a major shoulder injury during his team's American League championship run the following year, reshared two videos to his Instagram story after Michigan elected El-Sayed as the next U.S. senator from that state. One was captioned “America voted for Sharia Last Night.” The other was titled “Islam is not peaceful.” Ah, it seems like only yesterday people could state the obvious...

Tesla’s most revolutionary product didn’t even last a decade. On Friday, in the middle of the night Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on X.com that Tesla Cybertruck production will stop in the middle of 2027. The reason? According to Musk it’s to make room for Cybercab production. Musk make the announcement on X.com, which was formerly Twitter before he bought the platform in a hostile takeover, at 12:30 am on Friday. The executive has since posted nine times on X effectively burying the post, though it’s currently trending on the platform he owns. The quiet part out loud: The Cybertruck...

By my count there are 58 days to the start of the Cultural Revolution.