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Explanation: What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, head-like apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as the Bubble Nebula. Taken from Krakow, Poland, the featured view utilizes a long exposure to reveal the intricate details of this cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Seen here right of the Bubble's center, a bright hot star is embedded in the nebula's reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has...

What Axios' Alex Thompson is hearing from Democratic insiders about the party's most likely 2028 Democratic nominees, as told to Jim VandeHei for his weekly Axios C-Suite newsletter: 1. Kamala Harris. She is far ahead of every other contender with Black voters, still the most important voting bloc in a Democratic primary. Her allies argue that no one else is as prepared for a national campaign. She was a better candidate in 2024 than in 2020 and is working hard to be a better, more authentic, less cautious candidate in 2028. Harris is likely a beneficiary of Democrats' preliminary choice...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted to those close to him that he was starting to think that perhaps keeping a detailed daily "Perjury Diary" was a bad idea. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci kept meticulous notes in his diary about every lie he told under oath, which in retrospect had begun to seem unwise. "That might have been a mistake," said Fauci as he prepared for Congressional questioning. "It seemed like harmless fun at the time, but I suppose writing down each crime I committed, the date, the motivation, and specific evidence for the...

The admitted murderer Bryan Kohberger plans to file for post-conviction relief after pleading guilty to killing four University of Idaho students in a 4 a.m. home invasion attack, according to two sources familiar with the matter.... "My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea, hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn," he told the outlet".

Bugs Bunny Starred in His First Film on July 27, 1940 Although Warner Bros. had previously showcased rabbits in their cartoons, it wasn’t until July 27, 1940, when The Wild Hare short film hit cinemas, that Bugs Bunny officially starred in his first project. According to Time, animator Chuck Jones credits legendary animator Tex Avery for creating a witty and savvy rabbit. Now as far as the rabbit’s name, that’s slightly debatable. Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny, claims he came up with the name as homage to an animator named Ben “Bugs” Hardaway. Blanc professed that the studio was...

Elijah Bieniemy – Eric and Mia’s son – was arrested. Elijah has been charged with malicious wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and discharge of a firearm inside of a dwelling. He was taken to the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center and held without bond.

In her memoir, abortionist Christine Henneberg wrote about a woman who had an abortion because she believed she was carrying a boy and wanted a girl. Henneberg, who watched the abortion via ultrasound as she committed it, saw that the child was, in fact, a girl—but didn’t tell the woman. Instead, she allowed the woman to believe she’d aborted a boy instead of the girl she wanted. An Ambivalent Woman The woman was 14 weeks pregnant. When she was on the abortion table, she said, “I didn’t want to be here today, you know.” Henneberg didn’t stop the abortion and...

The Houthis enacted a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabian-linked ships and ports, dealing another blow to shipping in the Middle East.Transits in the Strait of Hormuz were down this week compared to the previous week as the U.S. struck Iran for the 13th straight day. London-based Lloyd’s List Intelligence tracked 78 transits between July 13 and Sunday compared to 174 between July 6-12.Both east and westbound transits took a hit with 44 eastbound transits between July 13 and Sunday compared to 101 the prior week. Westbound transits dropped from 73 to 34 in the same period. Numbers may fluctuate as...

The Senate is the only game in town on Capitol Hill for the next two weeks, with the House gone already. The late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) memorial service is Tuesday afternoon at National Cathedral. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are all expected to attend. There’s also a Capitol Rotunda ceremony on Tuesday morning. The Senate has a full plate during its two-week sprint to August recess. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is under pressure from competing factions of his conference — and the White House — over the SAVE America Act,...

The socialists will swallow hard and take her. There’s some talk about AOC, but she’s going to take noted burger chef Chuck Schumer’s Senate seat. AOC’s sell-by date is fast approaching. She’s not really left enough for the socialists, and here’s a hard truth: SHE'S GETTING HEFTY. The attraction was that she was young and cute. They auditioned her for the job, and the key was that she was attractive. Between losing her hotness and the fact that every time she opens her mouth, she says something stupid—like how the Senate was constituted to enshrine Jim Crow about a century...

They’re baaack. “They” being communists, or for the academics, Marxists. Hairsplitting. Communism is the implementation of the ideology Karl Marx advanced in his 1848 thesis, “The Communist Manifesto.” The resurgence started with intersectionality, cultural demands, and the redefinition of words like racism, gender, and homeless. Aided by funding from the Chinese Communist Party, and the growth of organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America, the far left added violence and dismantling capitalism. Today, radical leftists pursue the full communist agenda, fused with antisemitism and radical Islam. Turn up your nose at the Red Menace, but during the 20th century, communists...

Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is stepping down after the failure of her “woke” rebrand last year, which was rolled back following intense backlash from loyal customers, the company announced Monday. Masino will remain at Cracker Barrel in an advisory capacity until October 9 to ensure a smooth transition, the company said. Shares in Cracker Barrel plunged 5.3% Monday morning. Her departure comes after less than three years at the helm, during which diners revolted against the company’s attempts to modernize the Southern dining chain last August by axing its beloved mascot Uncle Herschel and revamping restaurants without its...

Dr. Courtney Shah, a 7-time champion of “Jeopardy!”, has died at age 52 after a battle with brain cancer. Shah, who was a professor at Lower Columbia College for nearly 20 years, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday morning, her heartbroken daughter revealed in an update on a CaringBridge page. “I don’t know what you believe about death, but I like to think that she’s at peace now. We loved her in this world, and we loved her out of this world, and we’ll go on loving her,” Maya Shah wrote.

A circus performer was airlifted to a hospital after his colleague missed her target and hit him in the neck with an arrow while performing in New York, according to authorities.The incident happened as Edwin Cuervo Rangel, 38, and Ana Daza Tavera, 42, were performing at the Orange County Fair in the town of Wallkill at around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, New York State Police said in a press release. Cuervo Rangel and Daza Tavera are married, according to News 12. The two performers from Wisconsin were doing a stunt when Daza Tavera shot an arrow at a foam target...

As the U.S. masses thousands of Marines and sailors and a Navy flotilla in the Caribbean, launching airstrikes on Venezuelan speedboats that have killed 21 people, it’s worth asking a question few others are: Are we drifting toward war because the president believes Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election? Some of the same figures whose claims about Venezuela’s role in stealing elections have been rejected in court have been providing the Trump administration with intelligence about Venezuelan threats—a narrative much of the U.S. intelligence community views as not credible but that has nonetheless gained traction in the White House. Among...

It’s notoriously difficult to prove vote fraud. But there are some huge red flags here. In President Trump’s prime time address on July 16, he revealed newly declassified evidence that (Mainland) China had spent a mint to acquire considerable election data for the 2020 election, including the full personal data sets on 220 million eligible and/or registered American voters. As many reporters point out, we don’t yet have all the data to tie up in a neat little bow proving how this data was used to commit vote fraud. That would require other, very different types of information. It’s notoriously...

The two ideologies doing battle against the modern West have a shared belief: It’s going to get a lot worse (often with their help) before it magically gets better. arx’s theory of immiseration and Twelver Shia eschatology share a common structural feature: both teach that history moves forward only through a period of necessary, progressive worsening, after which a total redemptive inversion suddenly occurs. Everything else follows from that single shared manifesto. “Redemptive inversion” is the common core. It means the existing order is not improved by degrees; it is completely reversed. Workers’ misery and Islam-defined injustice are inverted into...

A Netflix executive was fired from his $1.1 million a year job after revealing during a “trust exercise” at a work retreat that he had taken medically prescribed ketamine, a lawsuit has claimed. Kevin Baillie, who was vice president and head of creative at Eyeline Studios, is suing the company after they launched an investigation into his comments that ultimately ended in his firing, the papers say. Baillie, who’s been on the visual effects team for “Pirates of the Caribbean” and the “Harry Potter” franchises, says he took the drug under medical supervision in October and November of 2022 at...

This past week was the 57th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a young woman who somehow found herself in a cardriven by a drunk who just happened to be the brother of a dead president. Most people born after 1980 really have no idea who she was, unless they have an interest in ancient pop culture. Tragically, that is what Mary Jo, a Pennsylvania native, has become to so many: An asterisk in the larger narrative of the so-called “Lion of the Senate.” To me, this pro-abortion womanizer was much more of a jackal, but I’m one...

From its founding in 1996 until today, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has been known as a “progressive” league. The WNBA has decried “police brutality,” “racism in all its forms,” and the “systematic oppression of Black Lives in America.” The WNBA has also been at the “forefront” of “initiatives” to “support” a variety of left-wing issues such as “gun control,” “#MeToo,” and “#BlackLivesMatter,” among others. With such a history, it is not surprising that the WNBA refused to allow players at their All-Star game to wear “USA 250” patches on their uniforms. According to Warner Todd Hutson of Breitbart...