[FoxNews] A former Virginia assistant principal is on trial on felony child neglect charges after prosecutors say she ignored warnings that a 6-year-old student had a loaded gun before the child shot his teacher in 2023.
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Jury selection began Monday in Newport News in the trial of Ebony Parker, the former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School. Parker, who has pleaded not guilty, faces eight felony child neglect charges tied to the shooting of first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner, according to The Associated Press.
Prosecutors allege several school employees warned Parker that the student might have a gun, but she failed to take action before the shooting happened, the outlet reported.
Parker’s defense has argued she is being unfairly blamed for broader failures that preceded the shooting.
[FreedomForTate] How the ATF Imprisoned an Innocent Sailor for 20 Years: A timeline of manufactured evidence, blocked testimony, and a conviction that legal experts say should never have happened.
CHAPTER 1
The ATF Sting Operation
In April 2022,
…another travesty by the Biden-Harris Politburo…
at just 27 years old, active-duty Navy E-6 Patrick "Tate" Adamiak — who had been accepted to attend BUD/S (SEAL training) — was arrested by dozens of armed federal agents. He was indicted for allegedly dealing illegal machine guns and possessing grenade and rocket launchers.
The headlines were sensational. The reality was very different.
What the ATF Actually Found
When agents raided Tate's home, they found no illegal weapons. Every item was a legally imported, deactivated WWII relic, surplus military parts kit, or replica collectible — items that had been approved by the ATF for civilian sale for decades.
Rather than close the case, the ATF shipped Tate's collection to their Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division, where in-house gunsmiths rebuilt the inert items into functioning weapons using government-owned components Tate never possessed.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Victoria Liu led the prosecution, relying on this manufactured evidence and misleading testimony to secure a conviction.
CHAPTER 2
A Felon Informant Started It All
Tate was never under investigation until a paid ATF confidential informant — a convicted felon with over 20 felony gun convictions — falsely reported that Tate possessed an Mk-19 grenade launcher in an attempt to get himself out of pending charges.
What the informant actually saw was an air-powered replica. But his false report was enough to obtain a search warrant and set the entire case in motion.
The investigation was triggered by a lie from a career criminal trying to save himself. Despite this, the ATF pressed forward — and the informant's credibility was never seriously challenged at trial.
[AOL] 4 alien species have been pulled from crashed UFOs, ex-government researcher claims
The US has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life from crashed UFOs, a former CIA-funded government researcher sensationally claimed this week.
Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor and CIA-funded researcher, made the claim alongside “Age of Disclosure” director Dan Farrah on Steve Bartlett’s “The Diary of a CEO” podcast on Thursday.
“People who have been involved in recoveries have said there are at least four types. Four separate types,” the 89-year-old said. “Now I have not had direct access to that but I believe the people who I talked to — four separate types of life.”
The Stanford-trained quantum physicist did not detail the supposed alien species — but his longtime collaborator and former AAWSAP colleague Dr. Eric Davis claimed last year that Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, and Reptilians are the names of the biological lifeforms pulled from the wreckage of downed or crashed UFOs.
Each alien species has two arms and legs and a humanoid appearance, Davis claimed, citing intelligence reports.
Both the Reptilians and the Nordics are human-sized, roughly 6 feet tall, Davis said at a UAP Disclosure Fund meeting in 2025 which was attended by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.).
Nordics are a race of highly-human-like creatures who, despite being from a far-flung planet, closely resemble people northern Europe here on planet Earth.
Reptilians are scaley skinned lizard-like creatures with human limbs, long tails, who walk upright, experts in the field speculate.
Grays are small, massive-eyed, hairless creatures — classically depicted in films such as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Insectoids are bug-like humanoids, sometimes referred to as Mantids because they resemble a praying mantis, Ufologists speculate.
Former Air Force Intelligence officer and UAP Task Force member David Grusch testified under oath in Congress in 2023 that the US was in possession of “non-human biologics” recovered from dozens of crashed UFOs.
Those claims were based on testimony from members of the supposed crash retrieval program which was detailed in Farah’s film “Age of Disclosure,” which premiered in March.
“I’ve talked off the record with some people who are involved in recoveries,” Farah told Bartlett on Thursday’s podcast, adding: “They would not go on camera to do interviews.
“One I thought was going to do an interview and then a couple days before sent me a message saying ‘After further consideration and long talks with my wife, I decided I’d be forfeiting my life if I participated in your interview,’” Farah said.
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So her so called biological father, Air Force airman Charles Foster Harmon Sr. and her mother had two-month marriage before Moore's birth was a good cover ... 😎
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WCPO Weather shows the front is right now — at roughly a 45 degree angle off horizontal — reaching deep into Canada, currently passing over Toronto and Cincinnati (some lost power here in Cincinnati overnight last night), angling all the way across Texas to the Mexican border.
There’s an active radar map at the link — compress it to see beyond my local conditions.
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[Regnum] Two asteroids the size of the Chelyabinsk meteorite will pass near Earth within 24 hours. The Solar Activity Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported this on May 18 on its Telegram channel.
According to the report, asteroids 2026 JH2 and 2026 KB were discovered on May 10 and 13, measuring approximately 20 m, making them complete twins of the famous Chelyabinsk meteorite that fell in the region on February 15, 2013.
Scientists clarified that the first rock will pass approximately 230,000 km from Earth, with its closest approach occurring at 6:15 PM Moscow time, while the second will approach to within 91,000 km at 1:00 AM Moscow time on May 19. This distance will become the minimum for objects of this size in 2026, the astronomers added. How many Stacy Abrams is that?
At the same time, the Solar Activity Laboratory emphasized that both bodies do not pose a danger to Earth, since their trajectory passes by the planet and cannot change.
Last November, Nathan Eismont, a leading researcher at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an associate professor in the Department of Mechanics and Control Processes at RUDN University, reported that the brightest comet of the 20th century, Comet Hale-Bopp, would be unable to escape the Solar System and would approach Earth again in 4390. According to the scientist, in this situation, everything would depend on Jupiter, whose gravity could either eject the comet from the solar system or send it into the Sun, where it would burn up.
Remember after the Chelyabinsk meteorite was estimated to be around 9,000 tons and 60 ft in size, BEFORE entering earth's atmosphere. It created a 485,010 US Ton TNT explosion. It quickly dissolved/broke up and the largest fragment weighed about 1,200 lb which was 1 on many collected.
So this latest pair even at 1,200 LB, could cause serious damages, depending on several variables and impact location could be disastrous.
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[Regnum] The risk that a group of enormous sunspots, similar to the one that caused the record-breaking storm in 2024, will cause powerful geomagnetic disturbances is minimal. Sergei Bogachev, head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke with Regnum News Agency on May 18.
According to the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a patch of sunspots of incredible size has formed on the far side of the Sun. The last such activity was observed on the Sun in May 2024. The resulting series of explosions triggered the most powerful magnetic storm on Earth in the past 20 years.
The scientist noted that this time, the risks to Earth are minimal. The sunspot group should not move to a position that could influence the planet and cause powerful magnetic storms.
"The cluster we observed two years ago, which caused a record-breaking storm, is very similar to this one. It wasn't there a month before the Sun aligned with Earth, and it wasn't there a month after either. Such large clusters typically don't survive a full solar rotation. We're talking about half a rotation now, but that's still a long time. The basic scenario: we'll see explosions and strong flares, but they'll all be in positions that pose no threat to Earth. When the cluster becomes dangerous (in two weeks), its energy will have exhausted by then. We don't see any risks or threats to Earth yet," Bogachev explained.
The scientist emphasized that the forecast could still change. If the sunspot group retains sufficient energy by May 25, it could trigger geomagnetic disturbances in the future.
"If next Monday, when the group is visible from Earth, it is clear that it is conserving energy, then, of course, the estimates could be significantly worse," Bogachev concluded.
On May 15, a magnetic storm hit the Earth. Initially, its intensity was G2, classified as moderate. Afterward, its strength began to wane.
On May 10, a powerful M5.7-class flare occurred in a new active region of the Sun. The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences clarified that the plasma released by the flare will not impact Earth, but two days later, this group of sunspots will enter the planet's zone of influence.
A patch of incredibly large sunspots has formed on the far side of the Sun, potentially becoming one of the most dangerous in recent years. Scientists from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) reported this on May 18 on their Telegram channel.
According to the report, a huge group of spots is currently being observed by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, located in the center of the far side of the star - on the 180° line.
Scientists also clarified that the last similar activity observed on the Sun was in May 2024. The resulting series of explosions triggered the most powerful magnetic storm on Earth in the past 20 years.
The Solar Astronomy Laboratory emphasized that this group of sunspots will enter the zone most dangerous to Earth in approximately two weeks. During this time, the area could either disappear completely or gain additional energy.
On April 24, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported a solar flare of the highest class, X2.5, the most powerful in nearly two and a half months. The event was accompanied by a plasma ejection, but experts estimate that it posed no threat to Earth due to the direction of the material's movement.
[FoxNews] After conventional treatments failed to stop the spread of Will Roberts’ cancer, an Alabama teen turned to social media in search of hope
An Alabama boy with an extremely rare and aggressive form of bone cancer has completed his second week of experimental treatment after a heartfelt video plea secretly posted to his mother’s Facebook account went viral and captured the attention of President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Fifteen-year-old Will Roberts recorded the video on April 22 after reaching what his family described as a breaking point in his 16-month battle with stage 4 osteosarcoma. The cancer had already spread throughout his body, eventually leading to the amputation of his leg.
In the emotional plea, Will asked for help accessing DeltaRex-G, a difficult-to-obtain experimental gene therapy that he believed could be his last chance, after conventional therapies and multiple surgeries failed to stop the cancer’s progression.
His family said Will recorded the video not only for himself, but to help ease the burden on his mother as she struggled to navigate the situation and to raise awareness for other children facing similar battles — even if the treatment could not save him.
"Hey, this is Will and my mom doesn’t know I’m doing this," Will said in the Facebook post. "Yall pls share this my mom might be mad but at this point I’m trying to help her in any way I can right now. I need this to reach President Donald Trump or secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. So if anybody knows these two, please help me out and get it to them or in touch with my mom."
After the video went viral, Will and his parents relocated to Santa Monica, California, in early May after he was granted access to the experimental treatment.
"We've had two doctors look Will in the face and tell him that they've never had a survivor at his stage," Jason Roberts, Will’s father, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "That was enough for me and Brittney to get on the ball and, you know, try to find an alternative treatment."
Will was first diagnosed with the rare pediatric bone cancer in January 2025 after experiencing severe leg pain that was initially dismissed as growing pains.
After his leg was amputated, doctors reportedly discovered that the cancer had aggressively spread to his bladder, leading to a massive pelvic surgery.
Two doctors eventually told them they had never seen a survivor at Will’s advanced stage, the family said.
Because traditional chemotherapy offered little hope — and with osteosarcoma therapies having remained largely unchanged for decades — the family said they became determined to explore alternative options.
They eventually discovered DeltaRex-G, an experimental tumor-targeted gene therapy that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce one batch, the family said.
According to data from Clinics in Oncology, the therapy has shown relatively mild side effects and has been fast-tracked in countries such as the Philippines.
However, such treatment has faced significant hurdles in the U.S., where it has yet to complete the FDA approval process and remains difficult to access due to limited availability and long waiting lists.
"I don't care if they have to remove mama from the White House steps, I'm going to make sure that our plea gets heard," Brittney, Will’s mother, said. "At that point, we joked and said he got scared his mom was going to be toted off in a straitjacket somewhere. So he made the video."
After Brittney joked about the lengths she would go to secure access to the drug, she said her son decided to take matters into his own hands.
Will, who had access to his mother’s Facebook account to read supportive messages from followers, secretly recorded and posted his own video plea.
The video quickly gained national traction, helping raise more than $700,000 in GoFundMe donations and drawing support from several high-profile figures.
"President Trump, Dr. Oz, RFK Jr., I mean, there's been so many people, Katie Britt, have truly helped us push this," Jason said.
On May 11, Trump sent the Roberts family a surprising video message in which he expressed support for the family.
Dr. Mehmet Oz and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also worked to help the family gain access to DeltaRex-G, coordinating with California developers of the drug to expedite its availability under federal "Right to Try" protocols.
Since starting the treatment two weeks ago alongside a dual chemotherapy regimen, Will said he has experienced only mild side effects, including body aches.
While Will’s viral social media plea helped the family overcome major financial and bureaucratic hurdles, his parents said the video was ultimately motivated by his desire to help other children gain access to more promising alternative therapies.
"It was nothing more than a child's pure heart speaking out, but as I said earlier, I think the reason that it went viral is because of his selflessness in the video. And he was like, you know, it might be too late for me, but if it can help others, I want to help others," Jason said.
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That reminds me — my key med is due for a refill, so I need to contact TrumpRx and save us lots of money. I checked, and it’s on the list. Mr. Wife will be pleased — saving money is not one of my skills.
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Historically they only knew people had died of Ebola if someone happened across an isolated jungle village before the bodies disappeared, leaving the entire village mysteriously deserted. Or so we were informed when they had that shocking Ebola epidemic.
Will he have a choice? If he doesn’t step down there will be a vote of No Confidence, then King Charles III will call for a new election, and then he will lose. The only choice Sir Keir has is when he leaves Downing Street, not whether he goes. And let us all be grateful we have reached this point, especially the Brits who have had to endure his smarmy, self-righteous evil.
[Regnum] British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stated that he has no plans to leave his post.
"I am focused on the job I have been given, which is serving my country and fulfilling my duties as prime minister," Reuters quoted the British prime minister as saying.
At the Labour Party headquarters, he also said he plans to lead the ruling party at the next parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to take place no later than August 2029.
"I want to fight the next election. I recognize that after the results of the local elections and the elections in Wales and Scotland, the first priority is to put things right," the politician stated.
On May 16, Daily Mail columnist Dan Hodges reported that Starmer intends to leave his post voluntarily. According to the journalist's sources, the prime minister understands the current political situation in the country but wants to leave with dignity. The article also noted that Starmer has already informed close friends of his intention.
On May 12, four members of the British government resigned, demanding Starmer's departure. Among those leaving were Minister for Decentralization, Faith, and Communities Myatta Fahnbulleh, Minister of Health Zubir Ahmed, Deputy Home Secretary Jess Phillips, and Minister for Victim Support Alex Davies-Jones. On May 14, Health Secretary Wes Streeting resigned. However, 111 of the 650 MPs expressed solidarity with the prime minister, considering the leadership battle untimely.
On May 7, elections were held in Britain for 136 local councils, as well as for the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Legislature. Starmer's ruling Labour Party suffered a defeat in the election, winning 1,068 seats (a 50% reduction). The Reform Party emerged victorious with 1,453 council and parliamentary seats. Immediately after the election results were announced, more than 30 Labour MPs called on Starmer to resign. MP Catherine West announced she was prepared to stand as a candidate for party leadership. On May 10, Starmer told reporters that, despite his electoral defeat, he intended to remain in power for another 10 years.
Starmer's approval rating fell to 13% in September 2025. Meanwhile, the British prime minister's negative rating (the number of people dissatisfied with his performance) reached 66%, an all-time high.
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Remember when Trudeau left but manipulated the system to swap in a terrible replacement. I think he will step down to avoid an election in which his party would be wiped out. The end result will be a new knucklehead following the same knucklehead policies.
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Tar, feathering and being run out of London on a rail would do the job then.
[Reuters] Meta (META.O), opens new tab detailed its layoff plans for this week in a memo shared with employees on Monday, saying cuts to its workforce globally would be accompanied by a fresh round of organizational changes aimed at improving the company's AI workflows.
The Facebook owner is planning to lay off 10% of its employees on Wednesday, with additional deep cuts slated to come later this year, Reuters reported previously.
In the memo, which was seen by Reuters, Meta Chief People Officer Janelle Gale told employees the company plans to move 7,000 employees to new initiatives related to AI workflows and to eliminate managerial roles.
In addition, "many leaders will announce org changes," she said.
"As org leaders worked on the changes, many of them incorporated AI native design principles into their new org structures. We're now at the stage where many orgs can operate with a flatter structure with smaller teams of pods/cohorts that can move faster and with more ownership."
[Reuters] Standard Chartered (STAN.L), opens new tab will eliminate more than 7,000 jobs over the next four years as it seeks to replace "lower-value human capital" with technology, becoming one of the top names in finance to target headcount cuts using artificial intelligence.
The London-headquartered lender on Tuesday cited AI as a driver to make its operations slimmer in its goal to increase profitability and tackle competition.
StanChart said it would cut 15% of its corporate function roles by 2030, which, according to a Reuters calculation, would result in more than 7,000 redundancies out of its more than 52,000 staff in such roles.
"It's not cost-cutting. It's replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we're putting in," CEO Bill Winters told reporters.
The bank has a total global staff of nearly 82,000. Winters told reporters the reduction will be driven by automation and adoption of artificial intelligence as some staff retrain.
"So, the people that want to reskill, that want to carry on, we're giving every opportunity to reposition," Winters said, referring to the retraining option given to impacted staff.
[FoxNews] Poland’s deputy defense minister said Warsaw will press U.S. officials in the coming days over the Pentagon’s decision to halt a planned armored brigade rotation of U.S. Army soldiers — a recent move that rattled one of Washington’s closest NATO allies despite assurances that U.S. troop levels in Poland would remain unchanged.
At the same time, Polish officials stressed that Warsaw still views itself as a "model ally" within NATO and expects military cooperation with the United States to continue expanding.
"We will ask questions and I guess that we will get answers," Polish Deputy defense Minister Paweł Zalewski told Fox News Digital in an exclusive on-camera interview ahead of meetings in Washington with Pentagon officials and members of Congress.
The comments come days after the Pentagon halted a planned rotation of approximately 4,000 U.S. Army troops to Poland, sparking concern in Warsaw and criticism from U.S. lawmakers. The move affected the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, which had been scheduled to deploy to Poland and other eastern flank positions as part of a routine nine-month NATO force rotation.
Around 10,000 U.S. troops are typically stationed in Poland, most serving on rotational deployments lasting several months at a time. Because the U.S. military presence in Poland relies heavily on those recurring rotations, the halted brigade deployment raised concerns in Warsaw.
It's not yet clear whether halting the brigade will lead to a permanent reduction in U.S. forces in Poland.
Link goes to the X search results for “Rededicate 250. Here is one:
Large, peaceful gathering for White House Rededicate 250 evangelical event on the Mall. Diverse in age, race. Churches came en masse; one brought 400 ppl. Lots of Charlie Kirk references. Mobile 1776 museum. Some Christian nationalist literature distributed. Mostly prayer & song pic.twitter.com/OyRK2nddgR
Thousands of people gathered Sunday in downtown Washington DC, for a mass prayer festival featuring speeches by top Trump administration officials — an event critics see as an overt display of Christian nationalism undermining the US’s separation of church and state.
Attendees sang and swayed to Christian music blared out on the National Mall, along with addresses by Christian pastors. One rabbi is also included in the lineup for the event, called "Rededicate 250," which came one day after a "Shabbat 250" that was promoted by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... and received mixed reactions from Jewish leaders.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson were listed as guest speakers. Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... were set to address the crowd via video.
The gathering was organized by the White House as part of a program of celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary and, in a video message inviting Americans to attend, Hegseth said it was an opportunity to "rededicate this republic to God and country."
Muscular Christian nationalism has enjoyed a prominent platform since Trump’s return to power, and evangelicals form a core element of the president’s support base.
From the stage, the Rev. Robert Jeffress embraced the term, which is often taken as a pejorative. "If being a Christian nationalist means loving Jesus Christ and loving America, count me in," said the prominent Southern Baptist pastor.
Hegseth is a member of an ultra-conservative evangelical church, and his briefings on the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... war have been notable for their use of bellicose, Christian rhetoric. He also once paraphrased a fake Bible verse featured in the movie "Pulp Fiction."
"Today, friends, we are in a spiritual war. This is a battle in our day between good and evil, between right and wrong, between truth and lies, between light and darkness," Pastor Gary Hamrick of Virginia told the crowd. "This is a battle for the very soul of America."
The US Constitution explicitly bars the establishment of any official religion. The expression of any faith is also explicitly protected. US Jewish organizations have historically been outspoken advocates for safeguarding the separation of church and state.
The only non-Christian speaker on the lineup is Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, an Orthodox rabbi and senior scholar at the Tikvah Fund, a politically conservative Jewish think tank, who also sits on the Religious Liberty Commission that Trump created last year.
Before Sunday’s event, Trump called on Jews to mark Shabbat, encouraging other Americans to consider embracing the Jewish day of rest as well.
"In special honor of 250 glorious years of American independence and on the weekend of Rededicate 250 — a national jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving — Jewish Americans are encouraged to observe a national Sabbath," Trump said in his Jewish American Heritage Month proclamation on May 4.
"From sundown on May 15 to nightfall on May 16, friends, families, and communities of all backgrounds may come together in gratitude for our great Nation," he continued. "This day will recognize the sacred Jewish tradition of setting aside time for rest, reflection, and gratitude to the Almighty."
The call marked the first time that an American president has formally urged the celebration of Shabbat. Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism before marrying Jared Kushner, now a prominent Trump adviser, reportedly observes Shabbat according to traditional interpretations of Jewish law.
The exhortation received mixed reviews from the American Jewish community. Support for the initiative has been strongest among Orthodox Jews, who tend to be more politically conservative. Rabbi Josh Joseph, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, endorsed Trump’s call soon after it was made.
"This weekend, following President Trump’s encouragement, we will mark Shabbat 250," he said in a statement earlier this week. "We will pause to acknowledge all the blessings that the Almighty has provided American Jews through the unique devotion to liberty embedded in this nation."
Some Orthodox synagogues, including many affiliated with the Chabad Hasidic movement, have announced "Shabbat 250" programming, such as dinners and special speakers. More than 7,500 people have declared on a new website, Shabbat250.org, their intention to observe Shabbat.
On the other side, Rabbi Jonah Pesner of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is among the faith leaders who organized a virtual event Friday morning opposing the Sunday prayer rally that organizers say will "explain why so many religious Americans of diverse faiths are alarmed and alienated by attempts to use America’s 250th birthday as an opportunity to frame the US as a ’Christian nation’ and to misrepresent the approach to religious tolerance and freedom adopted by our founders and Constitution."
While previous administrations and presidents have regularly held and attended faith-based gatherings, Sunday’s event is still unusual for its scale and the presence of top cabinet officials.
"It’s not unprecedented to have a group of evangelical pastors or conservative clergy come together for something like this and blend a certain kind of nationalism with a certain kind of conservative Christianity," said Sam Perry, a professor at Baylor University, a Christian school in Texas.
But "the Trump administration taking the lead on this celebration at this scale is different than previous events," Perry added.
e"We came here to rededicate our country back to God. Our country has fallen away in so many areas," Jeana Dobbins, a 67-year-old retiree who traveled from North Carolina with her friend, told AFP.
Attendee Sarah Tyson, holding a "Jesus Saves" sign, said she believes Trump was chosen by God to lead the nation through a new spiritual revival.
"God ordained him for a time like this, because these United States need to wake up," said Tyson, a middle-aged woman who came from New York with fellow church members.
The organizers’ website says the prayer gathering is for "Americans of every background," but Julie Ingersoll, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida, said the list of speakers suggests "an idea of American identity that is rooted in whiteness and Christianity."
Contradicted immediately by the Black, Hispanic, and other non-white speakers and worshippers who participated, but enjoy your bigoted anti-Trump assumptions, Professor.
The event “sends a specific message… that they are the mainstream Americans, and the rest of us are sidelined,” Ingersoll said.
The National Mall, which stretches from the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, is a common site for mass rallies and protests — most famously the 1963 March on Washington, when an estimated 250,000 people heard Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Sunday’s gathering is scheduled to last around nine hours.
A good time was had by all, no terror attacks or riots occurred, and the participants no doubt left it cleaner than they found it. Oh, and the sole rabbi was applauded when he spoke about antisemitism.
[Reuters] SpaceX is poised this week to conduct the 12th uncrewed test flight of its next-generation Starship rocket, the first of a newly upgraded vehicle seen as critical to Elon Musk's efforts to satisfy investors and push deeper into space.
The debut flight of the Starship V3, outfitted with new features designed to support future missions to the moon and Mars, poses a key test for both the vehicle itself and investor confidence ahead of an initial public offering for SpaceX expected next month.
The fully reusable rocket ship is crucial to Musk's goals of dramatically cutting launch costs, expanding his Starlink satellite business and pursuing ambitions ranging from orbital data centers to human interplanetary missions - all of which are baked into the company's targeted $1.75 trillion initial public offering valuation.
“For an IPO that is leaning so heavily into narrative and symbolism, we believe this flight is the single most important pre-IPO catalyst remaining on SpaceX’s calendar,” PitchBook senior research analyst Franco Granda said.
The towering spacecraft, consisting of the upper-stage Starship astronaut vessel stacked atop its Super Heavy booster rocket, was due for launch as early as Thursday, the company said late on Monday. It was targeting a liftoff from its Starbase facilities in Texas on the Gulf of Mexico.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Scientists have managed to hatch live chicks from a fully artificial egg – marking a de–extinction breakthrough that paves the way for resurrecting long–dead species.
Experts at Colossal Biosciences, the company planning to bring back the woolly mammoth, have created the first ever shell–less incubation system that mirrors a natural egg 'as much as possible'.
The team were able to take early bird embryos, place them into an artificial shell and incubate them for 18 days while they developed.
Once the chicks were ready, they hatched from their cosy home and are now living happy, healthy lives.
The company said the development marks a critical milestone for their plans to de–extinct the South Island giant moa – an enormous bird that stood at 11.8ft (3.6 metres) tall and weighed 507lbs (230kg).
It also provides a 'stepping stone' for the eventual development of an artificial womb.
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According to Media sources, NOT Tin Foil Hats. Artificially created eggs have been on supermarket shelves, and also been a used as replacement/additive ingredients in a number of products, for at least 2+ years already.
[TWZ] The U.S. Navy’s near-total abandonment of surface combatants with nuclear propulsion after the end of the Cold War is “one of the largest mistakes” it’s ever made, according to the service’s top officer. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle made this remark today while voicing support for the recently announced decision that the future Trump class battleships will be nuclear-powered. He also explicitly highlighted challenges the Navy has faced when it comes to fueling conventionally-powered ships taking part in operations against Iran, something TWZ recently reported on in detail.
Adm. Caudle, as well as Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao and Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Eric Smith, testified before members of the House Armed Services Committee today. The focus of the hearing was on the Department of the Navy’s 2027 Fiscal Year budget request. The Navy disclosed that it had decided the Trump class warships will feature nuclear propulsion in its latest long-term shipbuilding plan, which was released on Monday.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
