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Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Co-CEO Comcast Corporation Comcast Center 1701 John F. Kennedy Boulevard Philadelphia PA 19103By no coincidence Kate Smith first performed “God Bless America” the day before Veteran’s Day in 1938. She was a patriotic American, who wanted to encourage her fellow citizens as they suffered through a terrible depression and saw a world torn apart by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. She wanted to reach Americans with the faith she felt for the future of the nation.As a leading performer in a radio market reaching nearly every household in the country, her way would be through...

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The Federal Aviation Administration has officially lifted the nationwide ground stop after flights were halted for roughly four hours, the agency announced Friday evening. [snip] Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called on Congress to provide the Trump administration with $50 billion to “fix” the nation’s air traffic control system. “It's the old hardware that went down. And I think the question for the American people is, do you want your Congress to fund this?” Duffy said after the FAA lifted a nationwide ground stop on air travel. He continued, “We had a down payment — President Trump asked for it in...

SpaceX booster explodes (Screenshot via @CSI_Starbase on X) ===================================================================== SpaceX’s Starship booster exploded during a test flight at Starbase, Texas, after the company aborted an attempt to catch it during a test flight. The massive Starship rocket launched successfully, but the booster failed to return to the tower and instead went into the ocean. The explosion was reportedly intentional. Via @CSI_Starbase on X: VIDEO AT LINK.................. Per Space.com: Flight 15 lifted off from SpaceX‘s Starbase facility here in South Texas at 5:47 p.m. ET (2247 GMT; 4:47 p.m. local Texas time). The towering Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage...

Letter to the Youth: American Freedom Is Not Inherited—It Must Be Learned, Defended, and Shared Young Americans: the freedoms you take for granted were not inevitable, and they are not self-sustaining. They were secured through blood, argument, and a deliberate rejection of concentrated power. The Constitution is not a suggestion or a living mood board. It is a set of hard limits on government and a charter of individual rights that has produced the freest, most prosperous large society in history. Losing knowledge of that charter—and of the costs paid to keep it—invites exactly the failures the Founders feared. The...

Live video of USS Enterprise arriving in Mobile. It will be a slow, slow process.

Zephyr, also of Missoula and transgender, was simultaneously chosen as one of three minority whips. Howell, a biological woman born Sarah J. Howell, was elected in 2022 as Montana’s first "nonbinary" legislator. She previously worked as a lobbyist and activist on women’s and LGBTQ+ issues, and serves as executive director of Montana Women Vote, a nonprofit that works to get low-income women into the political process. Democrats in Montana just elected State Rep. SJ Howell as the first transgender Minority House Leader. https://t.co/E3y1fBvJvv — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 12, 2026 Howell was the only nominee for the minority leader...

The U.S. Navy quietly relieved Commander Caitlin Cunningham as commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) on September 27, 2026. Cmdr. Caitlin Cunningham, commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), was relieved of her duties on September 27, 2026, over what Navy officials described as a “loss of confidence.” The Navy never publicly announced the dismissal when it happened. The stunning development was first reported Thursday by USNI News, which confirmed the removal with a Navy spokesperson. Cunningham had been in command for less than a year, having taken over the...

A crucial test this week could bring SpaceX one step closer to revolutionizing spaceflight — or cast new uncertainty on the company’s boldest ambitions. SpaceX will for the first time attempt to bring every part of its massive Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, back to dry land — intact — during a mission set to launch on Friday between 5:45 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. ET. The aim is to develop a fully reusable launch system, a goal the company has deemed the “holy grail” of rocketry because it would eliminate the need to throw away multimillion-dollar rocket parts...

Dozens of Iraqis visit Baghdad’s first Jewish museum each day to view faded school certificates, handwritten ​documents and family photographs… The ‌museum occupies the historic Shamash Jewish School, founded in 1928 on Al-Rashid Street, a prominent thoroughfare in Baghdad. Iraq’s Jewish community opened the museum last month in a rare public celebration of the country’s Jewish heritage. The museum also pays tribute to prominent figures from Iraq's Jewish heritage, including celebrated singer Salima Murad. Born into a ​Jewish family in Baghdad, Murad rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s as one of Iraq's most acclaimed vocalists, known for performing...

🚨 WOW! A mysterious object the size of a SCHOOL BUS may be hurtling toward Earth, and scientists aren't sure it's even an asteroid. It's reportedly been moving abnormally for the past few years and is EVEN ACCELERATING. One Harvard professor says it could be a MAN-MADE SPACECRAFT launched by the Soviet Union in 1988. A lost Soviet probe coming home almost 40 years later. You can't make this up. The good news is NASA is finally run by someone serious. Jared Isaacman is set to weigh in.— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 12, 2026SOURCE: https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2120876132836766189

Promising images coming in from a sonar scan of the SS United States! She appears to have landed upright, more to come today as crews conduct further scans and divers confirm its orientation. *** What you’re seeing here can be best described as a cross cut section showing the multiple deck levels of the ship. They appear to all be horizontal, which is indicative of the ship being upright with the uppermost deck sitting around 55 feet of water.If so, this is exactly what everyone has worked so diligently to accomplish and what divers around the world hoped to be...

While many news outlets are using colorful terms like “Super El Niño” to describe this year’s very strong weather event, it’s just feeding an alarmist narrative, meteorologist Christ Martz says. El Niño will have impacts, he said, but they won’t be catastrophic. ===================================================================== This year’s fall and winter will be hit with a meteorological phenomenon called El Niño, and multiple reports have latched onto the term “Super El Niño” to describe the expected elevated intensity of the current cycle. While the term makes for catchy headlines, meteorologist Chris Martz says “Super El Niño” is not a meteorological term and calling...

….Fear’s notorious appearance Saturday Night Live on Halloween, 1981. These five scant minutes of hardcore burlesque—combined with some ill-timed profanities from the peanut gallery—got Lee Ving’s band of goofball provocateurs permanently banned from the show, but not before doing the holy work of giving millions of people their first taste of hardcore music. Surprisingly, the segment still manages to come off almost like a legit punk gig, albeit probably the only one to ever take place at 30 Rock. Fear fan John Belushi greased the wheels to get the band on Saturday Night Live…In the interest of making their national...

Most Israelis were born and raised in the country, and marriages between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews have increasingly blurred boundaries inherited from their grandparents’ countries of birth. Yet, ethnic identity remains a potent campaign weapon... Yinon Magal, a host on the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14, called Gadi Eisenkot a “monkey”, portraying the son of Moroccan immigrants as a figurehead controlled by Ashkenazi elites. “They put a monkey; behind him are all the elitist Ashkenazim who manage him,” Magal said... Among traditional Likud voters wary of Israel’s established elites, Eisenkot’s Mizrahi background and working-class roots are important selling points. Magal’s attack sought...

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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...

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 -...

For over 400 years, this brass padlock has remained firmly sealed at the bottom of the sea. But scientists have finally cracked its code, after using cutting-edge CT technology to solve the four-letter sequence that has kept it locked since 1583. A team from Cardiff University were able to peer into the lock's internal mechanism without causing any damage. They identified the correct letter combination -- ANCE -- and successfully opened the historic artefact... Experts believe the lock once secured a treasure chest containing valuable possessions aboard the Ann Francis, a ship that was wrecked during a violent storm. The...