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The issue, which took years to diagnose, may cause an unintended arm workout in the middle of a drive. * More than 635,000 Honda Pilot, Acura MDX, and Acura TLX vehicles have been recalled due to a software issue that could disable power steering while the car is in motion. * Honda has received one injury report and 146 warranty claims related to the issue so far, according to NHTSA documents. * Owners of affected vehicles will be notified via mail by December 14 and should schedule an appointment with a dealer to install the software fix at no cost....

Mexicans throughout Texas are severely mocking Greg Abbott on his election loss, publishing violent/inflammatory comments on social media. One image shows a person pushing someone's wheel chair to the edge of a cliff and throwing the crippled individual over the edge with the comment in Spanish, "Make Texas Great Again". Comment after comment which are very ugly are on one post with this meme. That is only the tip of the iceberg. I have not mocked them nor mistreated them after any election losses nor advocated for their demise. This is more solid evidence why we meed mass deportations. This...

Not all methods of cooking broccoli are created equal, and some simple tips can ensure you get the most nutrients out of it. Whether it’s steamed, roasted or added to a stir-fry, broccoli is a healthy option packed with vitamins such as A, C and K, minerals such as calcium, potassium and iron, fiber and even a potentially cancer-fighting compound, The Washington Post recently reported. But certain ways of cooking broccoli can ensure you get the most out of the cruciferous vegetable and preserve those compounds. Boiling broccoli can cause water-soluble nutrients and compounds to leach into the cooking water,...

Two “forever chemicals” have been associated with a higher risk of aggressive breast cancer, according to research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Forever chemicals, known as PFAS, are a group of synthetic chemicals that break down extremely slowly and can build up in the environment and the human body. PFAS have been used in nonstick cookware, upholstery and clothing, as well as some food packaging and personal care items. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that women with higher blood levels of two types of PFAS — perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)...

ransomnote: Here's the link to the online Vietnam Memorial website: https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·14hThere are 58,281 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and for decades thousands of those American dead were only letters cut in black granite.Even the man who founded the Wall doubted a photograph could be found for every one. On August 9, 2022, the last face was found.It began small. Janna Hoehn, a floral designer on Maui with no personal tie to the war, visited the Wall, picked a name at random and made a rubbing of it.She wanted a photo of that man and could not find one....

Explanation: Don’t judge a galaxy by its size. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is about 100,000 light years across. This huge expanse of space contains hundreds of billions of stars! The smallest galaxies, called dwarf galaxies, are about 1/10th the size of the Milky Way and only contain a few billion stars. They are also the most common type of galaxy in the whole universe. Today’s image shows one such dwarf galaxy, NGC 4449, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 4449 and similar dwarf galaxies are missing more oxygen than models predict. This suggests their stellar winds and...

Alexandra R. Patterson was arrested by Miami University police on November 2 and charged with one felony count of making a terroristic threat, plus misdemeanor counts of aggravated menacing, telecommunications harassment, and inducing panic. Authorities also notified the FBI. The October 28 post, made in the app’s “Miami Ohio” group and visible to users near the Oxford campus, read: “How many dining dollars to kirk the anti-abortion table in Armstrong.” Court documents state that four students were at the anti-abortion information booth at the time. The students and others understood “kirk” as a clear reference to the September 2025 assassination...

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“Veterans Day is very different now,” said Charles Simmons, the father of Master Sgt. Tyler Simmons, who died in a refueling plane crash in Iraq in March. He added: “It takes on a whole different meaning because it’s come home. The bell tolls for thee.” Mr. Simmons said that he and his family “have a profound sense of pride” for all of his son’s accomplishments. But above all else, he said, there is “a profound hole in our hearts.” Mr. Simmons said his son died doing what he loved, but before his deployment in February he told his father he...

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·16hFor years, cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy walked past the quiet old janitor who mopped their floors and cleaned their showers. Most of them gave him little more than a passing nod.In the fall of 1976, a cadet named James Moschgat was reading a book about the fighting in Italy in World War II. On one page he found the story of Hill 424, and a Private William Crawford from Colorado.He turned to his roommate. "Holy cow... I think our janitor is a Medal of Honor winner."On September 13, 1943, near Altavilla, Italy, Private Bill Crawford's company was...

Ernie PyleMonday, January 10, 1944AT THE FRONT LINES IN ITALY, January 10, 1944 – In this war I have known a lot of officers who were loved and respected by the soldiers under them. But never have I crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton, Texas.Capt. Waskow was a company commander in the 36th Division. He had led his company since long before it left the States. He was very young, only in his middle twenties, but he carried in him a sincerity and gentleness that made people want to be guided...

The White House fired off a warning shot to incoming House Oversight Committee Chair Robert Garcia (D-CA) on Monday, warning of investigations into the "blatant criminality" of their plans to investigate and weaponize Congress against the Trump Administration. This comes after Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate the Democratic “EXTORTIONISTS” for threatening members of his administration on Saturday, writing, The Democrats are going around threatening a lot of people, including the Attorney General of the United States, and others, with Impeachment and many other forms of punishment, even though they admit they have no reason to do so, and...

Fool's Ball, Week Ten, Pigskin Pickem ThreadYour home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·14hIn 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S....

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Following the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine after a nine-month pause, negotiators agreed to a large-scale prisoner exchange — as they have after nearly every round of talks — but little else to bridge the gap on the major issues dividing them, including a plan for postwar security in the region. There has also been no indication that Moscow has stepped back from its maximalist demands aimed at crushing Ukraine, as the country braces for what is likely to be its toughest winter yet because of relentless Russian strikes. The two-day talks in Abu Dhabi exposed a deepening...

Though it’s been decades since I purchased this 78, it still never fails to move me. The electrically recorded voices of Henry Burr and Billy Murray, two giants of early 20th Century popular music, are heard together in this Al Dubin-Jimmy McHugh tribute to the fighting servicemen of The Great War. Though artist billed as the Peerless Quartet, the label also indicates vocal by a male quintet. Aside from the Murray narrative, the five singers at this session (according to the Victor ledgers) were Burr, Monroe Silver, Carl Mathieu, James Stanley, and Stanley Baughman. Transferred from 78rpm Victor 20098 -...

The agency has already had to increase security after six vandalism incidents in three months. Video and photos from the scene show individuals in tactical gear and fatigues marked “NOT A COP” standing with long guns and “Abolish ICE” banners near the building. Amid unverified reports of an increased ICE presence in Scarborough, several protesters have posted up outside the ICE facility with ARs. Chellie Pingree reacted to the reports of increased ICE presence: "This cruel, chaotic, and out-of-control agency needs to be abolished. And we need ICE out of Maine. Period." The protester pictured below has been stationed outside...

When Michel Houellebecq published Submission a decade ago, while Muslim terrorists were butchering cartoonists, the book’s calm unimpassioned description of France falling under the sway of a Muslim Brotherhood party with the gradual acceptance of the protagonist, a dilettante academic intellectual, who ends the novel by ‘submitting’ and converting to Islam, and the rest of society, French literary circles saw it as both fantastic and unrealistic. It’s a lot less fantastic now as Houellebecq faces a year in prison. During the 2022 interview, Houellebecq quipped that “what the native French population, as they say, wants is not for Muslims to...

(AP) - Stacy Keach, one of America’s finest stage actors who became best known for playing scruffy private eye Mike Hammer on TV and whose career was nearly derailed after he was imprisoned in 1984 for trying to smuggle cocaine into Britain, died Tuesday. He was 85. Keach died at home in Magdalenka, Poland, “after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure,” his wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, said in a statement. Keach had previously suffered a heart attack onstage in Chicago in June 2017. Though he was considered a preeminent interpreter of Shakespeare and...