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Explanation: Do young stars blow bubbles? The larger view shows a stellar field observed with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and the inset highlights HD 61005, a star like our Sun, only 120 light-years away. Much younger than the Sun, at just about 100 million years old, it blows a fast and dense stellar wind that pushes out the cooler dust and gas that surrounds it, forming a bubble called an astrosphere. The star-blown bubble was detected with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and it has a diameter roughly 200 times the Earth-Sun distance. Our Sun has a bubble...

Canada performed thousands of same-day assisted suicides, as it was revealed one elderly woman was killed despite withdrawing her request the day before. The medical assistance in dying (MAiD) program was approved in 2016 and has since been expanded to include requests from patients whose deaths are 'not reasonably foreseeable,' and will soon include those with mental illness. More than 200 people in Ontario alone chose to die within 24 hours of their approval in 2023, a 2024 Ontario report found, The Free Press first reported. Of the 219 deaths, 30 percent of them chose a same-day procedure. In 2024...

If you remember Alan Greenspan becoming chair of the Federal Reserve System, you are almost certainly over 50. He was nominated in June 1987, the same month in which President Ronald Reagan, visiting West Berlin, urged Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” It is language from another era: West Berlin, the Soviet Union, glasnost and perestroika. Alan Greenspan was born in Washington Heights in New York City in 1926, just over 10 miles from Donald Trump’s birthplace of Jamaica Hospital in Queens. There ends any significant similarity. Greenspan’s parents, Herbert and Rose, were Jews of Eastern European descent. He...

Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts and Sheriff Pat Labat disagree on how to resolve the unconstitutional conditions at the Rice Street jail, legally required by an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. However, they are working together. In February, the court-appointed consent decree monitor, Kathleen Kenney, reported that Rice Street’s inmate levels are not sustainable given existing staffing shortages, warning that a court-mandated population cap may be necessary to maintain safe conditions. Since 2021, more than 30 people have died in custody at Fulton County’s main jail. Violence against inmates and detention officers, burst pipes, and fires have...

President Trump said he will make a "decision fairly shortly" but that he wants "to have the full and complete Save America Act (which Includes trans issues now)

Netflix has officially cut ties with Meghan Markle’s polarizing lifestyle brand, As Ever, Page Six can confirm. “Her show did not go on so it did not make sense to continue the partnership,” an industry source exclusively told Page Six, referring to Markle’s two-season series, “With Love, Meghan.”

Could bacteria replace your eye drops? Mice study says maybeIn A Nutshell -Researchers engineered a naturally occurring eye bacterium to secrete an anti-inflammatory healing protein directly on the eye’s surface -In mice, a single course of three bacterial applications kept the microbes active for 12 weeks and sped corneal wound healing -The bacteria preserved the eye’s normal immune defenses and did not increase susceptibility to infection -A human version of the therapy showed early promise in lab tests, but clinical use in people is still years away Forget the eye drops. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have engineered a...

If you’ve got some frozen Asian food in your freezer, you may want to double check it. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a “Class I” recall of Ajinomoto Foods North America products that had been sold across the country under various labels. In total, an eye-watering 36,987,575 pounds of frozen foods are being recalled. The USDA noted that “various ready-to-eat (RTE) and NRTE chicken and pork fried rice, ramen, and shu mai dumpling products” are included in this recall. Of note, this is an expansion of an already-existing Ajinomoto recall. The expanded recall now includes products made...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Faced with the threat of their total annihilation, the Islamic Republic of Iran reportedly contacted the White House on Thursday to ask if they could "please have Joe Biden back." White House officials confirmed that Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader of Iran, dialed the White House switchboard demanding to speak to whoever was in charge of picking the president so he could see about getting Joe Biden back in the Oval Office. "He is, uh, a great leader. We will listen to him," Khamenei reportedly said of the former president. "You put him back in...

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is preparing to fight a Pentagon designation labeling it as a supply-chain security risk, even as CEO Dario Amodei issued a groveling apology

Following his primary loss to Steve Toth, Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw is now looking for a new career path. The Babylon Bee has heard through the Washington grapevine that Crenshaw has cast an eye toward one of the following potential jobs: 1. Monocle model: They reportedly only get paid half as much as models for eyeglasses, though. 2. Stockbroker: His years of success and killer portfolio speak for themselves. 3. Circus act as "The Man with Incredibly Poor Depth Perception": Just don't mix it with knife-throwing. 4. Major League Baseball umpire: He'll fit right in. 5. Full-time telescope operator: Need...

For the first time in history, an international team of scientists and divers explores the depths of Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake. This documentary follows a high-stakes archaeological mission into a world of legends, uncovering pre-Columbian artifacts submerged for millennia. Join us as we reveal the hidden history of an underwater heritage and rewrite the story of ancient South American civilizations. Lake Titicaca's Sunken Civilization: The First Archeological Mission | 52:33 Show Me the World and History & Civilisations | 11,601 views | February 18, 2026

In PBS's "The American Experience," a documentary falsely claimed Black soldiers liberated Buchenwald and Dachau. After conducting "an intensive examination of Army records Chris Ruddy authoritatively documented that the Black soldiers of the 761st Tank and 183rd Combat Engineers battalions did not free either Buchenwald or Dachau. Jesse Jackson, the unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, was a leading campaigner for the infamous film. Ruddy forced PBS to yank the odious work of racial and religious agitprop from the public airwaves.

President Donald J. Trump visits a WhatABurger in Corpus Christi, Texas on Friday, February 27, 2026.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Tickfaw woman was arrested Sunday after officers said she drove away from a local laundromat, leaving her 8-year-old child behind alone. Jeanette Edmonds, 43, was booked on one count of Cruelty to Juveniles, one count of Child Desertion, and one count of Criminal Abandonment following the March 1, 2026, incident. Ponchatoula Police Department officers responded at 2:07 p.m. Sunday to a call of an abandoned child at a local laundromat after a citizen witnessed Edmonds drive away in her vehicle, leaving the child behind. The child was safely picked up from the Police Department by...

An arsenal of US stealth bombers is expected to soon reach UK military bases as President Trump warned Iran that “the big one” could be imminent. American B-2 stealth bombers were slated to land at air bases at Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire after the British government initially rejected the Trump administration’s request to carry out strikes from the bases, according to reports. But Prime Minister Keir Starmer later reversed course, allowing the US fleet to use UK runways within “a matter of days,” the Telegraph reported Wednesday. “When we say more to come,...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A woman who was arrested by the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation accused of defrauding an insurance company out of thousands of dollars is an employee for the State Senate. Spokeswoman Julie Baxter declined to comment on her status - only saying, “this is an internal personnel matter.” Sarai Stansberry was arrested in New Orleans. Sarai Stansberry and Rhashiedi Porter are both facing charges as part of the investigation by the Attorney General’s Office. The investigation began after agents with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation received a criminal referral from the Louisiana Department of Insurance regarding...

Dozens of Democrats have voted against a nonbinding resolution in the House that reaffirms Iran as the "largest state sponsor of terrorism." The resolution, put forward by Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., passed by a 372-53 vote on Thursday, with all those voting no being Democrats. Two Democrats also voted present. Among those who voted against the measure were all the members of the "Squad," such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

Selections from The Camp of the Saints revisit a dystopian warning about mass migration, cultural collapse, and the West’s moral paralysis—one that many readers now see as uncomfortably prophetic. The following selections come from Ethan Rundell’s new translation of The Camp of the Saints (Vauban Books, 2025), a 1973 dystopian novel about a mass migration from the developing world to Europe that triggers political paralysis, moral collapse, and the unraveling of Western civilization, and whose warnings have lost none of their force. The first passage is from the “Big Other,” Raspail’s preface to the 2011 edition of the book. It...

Texas Democrat James Talarico once called on the federal government to hire abortionists to kill babies. The leftist Senate hopeful wanted Joe Biden to spend taxpayer dollars to hire abortionists as employees and open abortion businesses on federal property — including in every courthouse and national park — to expand the killing of unborn babies across the nation. In a June 24, 2022, letter to Biden, then-state Rep. Talarico urged “extraordinary steps” to counter pro-life protections enacted after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Among his specific demands were “leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or...