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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·3hIt looks like a scene that no Hollywood director would dare put in a movie because audiences would never believe it was real.Yet the official U.S. Navy photograph taken on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on July 6, 1991 proves every word of it.At fifteen thousand feet over the Indian Ocean, Navy Lieutenant Mark Baden was flying a Grumman KA-6D Intruder, with bombardier-navigator Lieutenant Keith Gallagher sitting beside him in the right seat.Without warning, a mechanical failure triggered the ejection seat under Gallagher while the glass cockpit canopy was still locked shut.The seat rocket blasted...

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

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London police are investigating two more allegations of rape against the comedian LONDON—Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison following his conviction for rape and sexual assault, a fall from grace for one of the U.K.’s most prominent entertainment figures.Passing sentence at London’s Southwark Crown Court Monday, Justice Joel Bennathan described Brand as a “sexual predator” and accused him of “staggering arrogance.”“You thought fame meant you could act how you liked, when you liked, unhindered by the rules by which decent people live,” he said.A jury found Brand, 51 years old, guilty of one count...

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....

Nearly 700 rural hospitals are facing financial pressures that are putting them in danger of shutting down… Many of the states with significant numbers or percentages of rural hospitals at risk are largely rural states. But New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia are also among the states with the most rural hospitals that are deemed at grave risk of closure. More than 100 rural hospitals have closed nationwide between 2015 and 2026… In addition, 56 rural hospitals have eliminated inpatient services since the beginning of 2023. Lisa Kidder Hrobsky, at the American Hospital Association, said the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation...

On Holy Island, a field called "The Palace" hides a story no one expected. Time Team digs into Lindisfarne's past to learn whether this plot belonged to monks, soldiers, or something stranger. Armed with a 1548 plan, geophysics and local archives, the team chases clues from a chamfered plinth and cobbled yards to twin circular structures that point to a very different "palace." A debated cannonball, boundary stones that redraw the Priory line, and an eerie butchered horse burial twist the plot. Then a Neolithic cup-marked stone surfaces from a medieval pit, and a Charles I coin keeps the dates...

Kiki is a special dog, Who sometimes lays just like a frog. Painted black and white and brown, She sometimes acts just like a clown. Each day when it’s time to eat, Kiki’s favorite food is meat! An Australian Shepherd, a true-blue Aussie, I must admit, she can be bossy. I’ll drop her off each day at Poochees, She gets treats and lots of smoochees. Her friends are there, all kinds of dogs, Chasing balls and jumping logs. She loves the groomer, getting ready, A shampoo, "mani and a pedi." She loves the dryer's warm air power, Her primping takes...

Gadi Eisenkot formally received the mandate on Sunday to form the next Israeli governing coalition, and vowed to pursue “creative and unconventional” pathways to assembling what he termed a “national emergency government.” Eisenkot’s nomination was expected, after 67 of the incoming Knesset’s 120 members asked President Isaac Herzog to give him the opportunity. Now, after a ceremony Sunday at the President’s Residence, the leader of the centrist Yashar party will have up to six weeks to form a government that, he has pledged, will unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and usher in a new era for the country. “Israel is...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A crew member aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was rescued by three fishermen after going overboard miles off Newport Beach Friday. The cruise ship departed from San Pedro on Friday and was headed to Ensenada when the crew member went overboard. According to the fishermen, they were about 20 miles offshore when they spotted the man floating on his back in waters near Catalina Island. They said the man appeared to be depleted of energy when they pulled him aboard their vessel.

President Donald Trump questioned the results of the midterm elections in a jaw-dropping social media post, less than a week after he, his preferred candidates, and GOP control of Congress were smacked down in a brutal rout. Taking to Truth Social on Monday morning, the president said: “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting “dumps” were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote.” He added: “It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” The...

What are these ills that are laid at the door of capitalism? Just a short list includes: business monopolies that jack up prices and prey on captive consumers; laws favoring vested industry interests passed through lobbying, often in backroom insider deals; barriers to entry to squelch small competitors; fatcat executives without accountability to shareholders and multi-million-dollar payouts; systemic crises created by financial or corporate scandals; and the list goes on… But none of these ills is an attribute of capitalism – in fact, in a truly capitalistic system every one of these ills would disappear. These ills are the outcome...

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...

It’s strange how small gestures can sometimes echo events taking place on much larger stages. It may well be the same impulse acting simultaneously at the human level and on the global. Last week an elderly man slapped a young man scarcely out of boyhood across the face in public for no rational reason. It did not occur during an argument; no such argument took place. Rather, the old man was responding to reasoned statements with an unhinged tirade totally at odds with the circumstances. On election day in Laconia, New Hampshire, 70-year-old Steven Redic confronted Rainer Vesey, an...

This video explores the careers of three of the Roman Empire's strangest celebrities. Three Forgotten Roman Celebrities | 11:08 toldinstone | 653K subscribers | 1,874 views | November 6, 2026

A New Jersey girls' soccer coach has been suspended for a playoff game for celebrating a milestone victory with a champagne bottle. Paul VI coach Karen Anderson was seen on video celebrating her 100th career win, a 2-0 win over Notre Dame in the South Jersey, Non-Public A quarterfinals, by what appeared to be popping the bottle on school property after the game. Anderson told NJ.com that she did not drink from the bottle, which was bought and given by parents of members on the team. Anderson did not say whether the bottle had alcohol in it. The New Jersey...

First came the public suggestion that the Kraków gunman was fascinated by far-right ideologies. Then came explanations about preliminary theories and the need for further verification. Remarks made by Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński just hours after the deadly attack in Kraków quickly made international headlines. Meanwhile, material circulating online has raised questions about the perpetrator’s actual political sympathies, with some reports pointing in a very different ideological direction. One fundamental question remains: what evidence prompted the minister to associate the attacker with the far right so early in the investigation? (snip) His remarks quickly spread through domestic and international...

I would like to say a few more words about the midterms and the fight ahead. I really do understand the despair eating away at American patriots who are heartbroken to see Islamism, communism, and general lawlessness take over the country. As I’m sure most of you did, I suffered after the 2020 election. Perhaps the issue that bothered me most six years ago was how the public messaging “narrative” painted that election as a rejection of President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” policies, including his successful border enforcement and dedication to the resurrection of manufacturing in the United States....

In 2026, 82% of white born-again or Evangelical Christians supported Republicans, a figure that did not budge from 2024 exit polling, when Trump carried the same percentage among the demographic. However, white born-again or Evangelicals made up a much smaller share of the electorate (17%) than in 2024 (23%). .. Support for Republican candidates among other Christians in 2026 was 60%. Protestants and other Christians made up 38% of the electorate in 2026, compared to 43% in 2024. While a solid majority of Catholics (59%) supported Trump in 2024, Catholics were nearly evenly split between Democrats and Republicans in 2026....