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You hear about moose your whole life, think you've got 'em figured out. Big deer, right? Wrong. There you are minding your own business when one appears, no warning, no sound, like a pickup truck with legs. Up close, you realize real quick... you don't know how big a moose is until one decides you're standing in its living room......... https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2076819971942895616/vid/avc1/720x1280/bAZG5l0yqj79HQt0.mp4

Fernandez sings the aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana", from Act I of Catalani's opera "La Wally." The piece is a haunting reverie on the theme of traveling alone and far from home. This performance plays a prominent role in the 1981 film "Diva", a 1981 French thriller directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. It eschewed the realist mood of the 1970s French cinema and instead adopted a colorful, melodic style, later described as cinéma du look. Aria from the film "Diva" (1981, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez)

Oil producers in the Persian Gulf are making plans to bypass the Strait of Hormuz with new pipelines and a new port after Iran has repeatedly attacked ships and blocked traffic. The idea is to minimize Tehran’s leverage on the waterway that once saw 20% of the world’s oil pass through it as the war stretches into its fifth month. Iran has already insisted that it will impose tolls on the strait, which could cost tens of billions of dollars. And in some cases, it is extracting millions of dollars of protection money per oil tanker. Two such projects are...

Ancient mathematical texts discovered at the Maya city of Xultun in Guatemala have revealed the name of a Maya astronomer for the first time, offering rare evidence of the scholars behind one of the ancient world’s most advanced systems of mathematics and astronomy. Researchers reconstructed and transcribed dozens of tiny inscriptions found on the plaster walls of a small building at the site. Their work uncovered a unique mathematical formula and identified its author, marking the first known case of a Classic Maya mathematician-astronomer being directly credited for his work. The findings were published in the journal Antiquity. Wall writings...

Robbie Avila has heard the chants. He heard the fans inside of Thomas & Mack Center shouting “We Want Rob-bie!” during the second half of the Lakers’ summer league game on Friday against the Thunder. SNIP Cream Abdul-Jabbar — a nickname popularized by Kentucky Sports radio host Matt Jones in 2024 while Avila, who wears protective goggles like NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was playing at Indiana State before he transferred to Saint Louis for his junior and senior seasons. “It’s one of the most unique nicknames I think I’ve ever seen,” Avila told the Post. But Avila’s personal favorite nickname...

The day after Pervez Siddiqui’s adult day care center was raided by the FBI last year, the pharmacist headed to a fundraiser for Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the home of the top adviser on Medicaid affairs in the Pakistani-American community. Ijaz Ahmad, 50, a Pakistani-American cardiologist and healthcare entrepreneur with a sprawling home in Nassau County, advises his fellow countrymen on setting up community healthcare facilities, which rake in tens of millions in Medicaid cash. He also introduces them to the city’s most powerful lawmakers at his 10,000 square foot residence in Old Westbury, according to a source in the...

Here Maine goes again. The state’s new far-left contender for the Democratic Party’s US Senate nomination is a faux populist with a wicked reactionary streak. Until five minutes ago, his immigrant-hating, anti-abortion platform was so extreme it would spook even the staunchest Republican. He’s a local pol so desperate to make it in the big leagues that he’s cosplaying as a progressive working man unafraid to get his hands dirty. He is Troy Jackson, fifth-generation Maine logger and wannabe US senator, and he’s got the Bernie Sanders seal of approval to replace accused rapist Graham Platner on the Democrats’ midterm...

From the web: SpaceX is targeting Thursday, July 16, 2026, for the 13th test flight of its Starship megarocket. The 90-minute launch window opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT (5:45 p.m. CT / 22:45 GMT) at the company's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Launch Details & Objectives: Mission: Starship Flight 13Vehicle: Version 3 (V3) Starship Key Milestone: The test flight aims to test fixes to anomalies from the previous flight and will attempt to deploy the first batch of upgraded Starlink Version 3 satellites. Viewing: SpaceX will host a live webcast of the flight test beginning about 30 minutes before...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) argued Tuesday that television networks have an “ethical obligation” not to air President Trump’s upcoming address to the nation if it’s not “rooted in evidence and fact.” “I don’t think we should be contributing to any platforming of lies about our election,” the lefty “Squad” lawmaker told a reporter on Capitol Hill. Ocasio-Cortez suggested media outlets should review Trump’s remarks before deciding whether to put the speech on the air. “Many news outlets, oftentimes, may receive transcripts, and I think we have an ethical obligation to not air things that undermine our election that are not...

A former Arizona congressional candidate and ex-Democratic Party leader was arrested last week on charges of felony burglary at an ex-partner’s home. The suspect, Brianna Westbrook, has run for federal and state offices, including a failed 2018 bid for US Congress and losses in Democratic primaries for the Arizona State Senate and Arizona House of Representatives in 2018 and 2022. According to ballotready.org, Westbrook’s professional experience includes serving as the Southwest Regional Co-Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America Immigrant Rights National Working Group from 2019 to the present, and a past stint as Arizona Democratic Party Vice Chair from...

Senate blocks NDAA S.4784, which included provisions expanding defense cooperation with Israel.The US Senate on Tuesday blocked advancement of Senate bill 4784 ,the National Defense Authorization Act, which included provisions expanding defense cooperation with Israel.Harrison Smith reported on this development on Tuesday’s edition of War Room:Alex Jones discussed Rep. Thomas Massie’s effort to prevent American military integration with the IDF on Tuesday’s episode of The Alex Jones Show:

...Professor Michael Hudson characterizes the relationship between creditors and debtors as a 5,000 year long war which in our time is being won by the creditors. Indeed, an independent oligarchy of creditors has been created and is currently buying up land that the population itself cannot afford to own. As Professor Hudson puts it, when you look at history in terms of the fight between creditors and debtors, it is a debt crisis that enslaved the Roman Empire and led to the fall of Rome. You have had the same tension in miniature in almost every subsequent economy. It is...

A stable peace appears elusive, some former officials say President Trump’s new plan to wrest control of the Strait of Hormuz by resuming strikes and reimposing the blockade is his third major shift in military strategy as he searches for a way to turn the tables on Iran in the nearly five-month-old war. Trump has tried air and missile attacks, a naval quarantine and now the calibrated use of firepower to try to coerce Tehran to agree to his terms, in addition to diplomatic inducements. But Iran has exploited its proximity to a major oil export route to defy Washington...

Rolling Stones frontman and rock-n-roll legend Mick Jagger says a singer should avoid politics and should simply just entertain his fans, unlike extreme left-wing scold Bruce Springsteen, who constantly lectures his fans from the stage. Jagger, 82, delivered his opinion on a New York Times podcast last week when Times correspondent David Marchese noted that the Born in the USA singer feels that he needs to impose his politics on his audience at every concert. Marchese claimed that Springsteen “clearly sees his job as engaging in a meaningful back and forth” with his audience. That is a curious way to...

The space between stars just got a little sweeter. Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that's also found in raspberries and self-tanners. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in what's called the interstellar medium: thin clouds of gas and dust littered between stars. Sugar does more than sweeten tea and powder doughnuts. Different varieties fuel our cells and even make up DNA. Scientists are itching to know how sugars form because they're a key ingredient for life as we know it. Using two dish-shaped radio telescopes in Spain, researchers collected data from a large gas cloud near the...

[Heat kills more Americans than hurricanes. Federal disaster law has never once applied to it.] With more than 200 million Americans currently under heat alerts as a potentially historic heat dome blankets the eastern two-thirds of the country heading into the July 4 weekend, a growing body of research makes one thing clear: extreme heat is the most lethal form of extreme weather in the United States — and the federal government has no disaster infrastructure built to fight it. Heat-related fatalities in the U.S. have nearly doubled over the past 25 years, rising from approximately 1,069 in 1999 to...

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Eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables was found to have a surprising link to lung cancer among younger non-smokers, early research suggests. The observational study, led by Jorge Nieva, M.D., of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at Keck Medicine, was presented this month at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in San Diego. It has not yet been peer-reviewed. Researchers looked at dietary, smoking and demographic data for 187 patients who were diagnosed with lung cancer at age 50 or younger. They found that among non-smokers, there was a link between healthier-than-average diets –...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer on Tuesday, authorities said. The 28-year-old was among four occupants of a vehicle that stopped in the parking lot of a gas station and convenience store in St. Augustine before 7 a.m. During an encounter with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Homeland Security Investigations, the four fled on foot, with one darting across a busy road into the path of the semi, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Dylan Bryan...

Cardiologist says warning signs can develop years before symptoms appearHeart disease remains the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, but doctors say many cases can be prevented through early screening and lifestyle changes. New cholesterol guidelines are calling for screenings to begin earlier and for high-risk patients to reach lower LDL targets. Dr. Ajay Mhatre, a cardiologist at Cardiovascular Institute of Northwest Florida, said the risks often build silently over time. “Coronary disease or cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death for men and women in America,” Mhatre said. Smoking, diabetes,...