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NASA is set to release the first pictures taken by the highly sophisticated James Webb Space Telescope next month, agency officials announced on Wednesday. In a highly anticipated ceremony on July 12, NASA and its collaborators, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, will present the first collection of full-color photos from the Webb telescope. The $10 billion observatory is the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever built, and scientists have predicted that it will drastically alter how we understand the universe, per a report from NBC News. NASA will begin a live stream of the presentation...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, conversations around women and contraceptives have ruled the headlines. For the other half of the population, KSHB 41 News found out the inquiries for male care are high too. “I didn’t ever envision myself talking about this, but it feels good,” Lyon Lenk said. In the shade of his backyard, surrounded by four-pawed furry friends, 35-year-old Lenk doesn’t take priceless things for granted. “You have to give it some serious thought,” he said. “We just want the basics, to have this yard and a choice in how our lives...

More than 80,000 Bitcoin (BTC) investors have had their millionaire status revoked due to the crypto market downturn. Back on Nov. 12, just days after Bitcoin hit a new all-time high of around $69,000, a total of 108,886 BTC addresses reported a balance greater than $1 million, according to data from BitInfoCharts. Fast forward to the present day, with the price of Bitcoin struggling to hold above $20,000, a mere 26,284 addresses are reported to contain holdings valued at upward of $1 million, meaning that the number of paper millionaires has declined by more than 75% throughout the last nine...

I’ll ask your forgiveness for the rather crude nature of the title, but that is a direct quote from Ms. Madeline Brame of New York City. She was the mother of Hason Correa, a 35-year-old US Army veteran, and father of three who was beaten and stabbed to death by gang members in Harlem in 2018. The wheels of justice may have turned slowly, but the police finally arrested Travis Stewart for the murder and his day in court arrived yesterday, with Ms. Brame in attendance. But it turned out that soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office had cut a...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Some men are taking matters into their own hands by getting vasectomies because of Tennessee’s abortion ban. When Roe v. Wade was overturned, one sign at Nashville's protest said "Mandatory Vasectomies." Some women feel men should step up to the plate and get snipped to prevent pregnancy. "This is a safe long-term way of avoiding an oops," said Dr. Joseph Pazona, a urologist in town. Pazona said he's received an influx of calls from young men inquiring about vasectomies. "I think it’s wonderful that men are starting to take more personal responsibility when it comes to...

St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne has a massive banner out the front saying "Let's fully welcome refugees." The progressive people feel so passionate on that issue that the cathedral of the Anglican Church is now politicised. The Australian Anglican Church is tearing itself apart over gay marriage. The inside of the cathedral has a massive globe named after the Greek goddess Gaia hanging above the altar. This has offended traditionalists but drawn large numbers of people to marvel at God's creation. I am all for freedom of speech and creativity in a bid to revive and sustain religion. But I...

Things do not look good for Democrats in our forecast. Our Forecast currently designates only 13 seats as tossups, but even if the Democrats were to win all 13, AND keep all of the seats that they currently hold, they would still wind up with only 208 seats - 10 short of the number that they need for a majority. The national environment just isn't favorable for Democrats, so they are expected to lose control of the chamber.

Dr. Zev Zelenko, the frum doctor whose “Zelenko Protocol” gained him national attention in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, has sadly passed away after a protracted battle with cancer. He was 49.

As the Supreme Court appears poised to reverse Roe v. Wade and the right to abortion this month, 10 women ages 25 to 82 are sharing their personal abortion experiences. "We are your grandmothers, your mothers, your daughters. And we cannot go back," the group said in unison. In a new video shared by Runaway Train Productions, a number of women recounted the "barbaric" conditions in which they had illegal abortions prior to the procedure becoming a constitutional right, detailing the unsafe conditions they had to rely on. "The doctor found a motel, snuck me in the back and performed...

(CNN)In a setback for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers, a Florida judge has ruled that a new state law banning abortions at 15 weeks is unconstitutional and he intends to block it from taking effect on Friday. In a verbal ruling on Thursday, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said he would be issuing a temporary statewide injunction that will go into effect once he signs the written order in the challenge brought by some Florida abortion providers. The decision is a short-term victory for abortion rights advocates in Florida and it comes a week after the...

Faced with a deepening personnel crisis within its military, Russia is scrambling to find fighters for its war in Ukraine and recruiting heavily from its North Caucasus region to form new units along ethnic lines who are then deployed with minimal training. Regional officials from Daghestan, Ingushetia, and Kalmykia have announced plans to form rifle companies that are each made up of soldiers from a particular Russian republic. According to reporting by Caucasus.Realities, a regional news outlet of RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service, these national units are formed primarily of contract soldiers who have previous military training and have been targeted...

It seems President Joe Biden made history last month: That's when Sam Brinton announced the administration had hired them as deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the office of nuclear energy for the Department of Energy.Brinton, like many of the people quoted in this article, uses the pronouns they and them, and may be the first openly gender-fluid person in federal government leadership — as they noted on LinkedIn upon accepting the role.

Liz Cheney spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California and condemned Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in the GOP saying you can’t support Trump and the United States Constitution. Liz Cheney received a standing ovation from the Republican crowd.

Walking past the countless photos of Holocaust survivors and victims at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016, New York-native Daniel Patt was haunted by the possibility that he was passing the faces of his own relatives without even knowing it. For Patt, a 40-year-old software engineer now working for Google, that sort of conundrum presented the potential for a creative solution. And so he set to work creating and developing From Numbers to Names (N2N), an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that can scan through photos from prewar Europe and the Holocaust, linking them to...

The National Archives Records Administration has placed a "harmful language alert" on records in the website's catalog, including the nation's founding documents. The NARA statement warns readers that the documents they are reading may "contain harmful language that reflects attitudes and biases of their time." Warnings of graphic and violent content in historical documents are also given. "NARA’s records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records," NARA states in its alert. "As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly...

The admission into Nato of... Sweden and Finland... sevenfold increase in Nato forces on high alert, the establishment of the first permanent US operational headquarters (V Corps) on the alliance’s eastern flank in Poland, the increase in the number of US troops in the region, or a new 10-year strategy that dispenses of any notion of partnership with Russia... The French president, Emmanuel Macron, could not have been more blunt in his criticism of Putin, or clearer that avenues to a ceasefire are closed... Biden promised another $800m in defence assistance in the next few days, including a new advanced...

Donald Trump said Mark Meadows' former aide Cassidy Hutchinson is a 'whackjob' with 'mental problems' in his first interview since the ex-White House staffer testified before the January 6 committee. Speaking to Newsmax on Thursday, The former president disputed Hutchinson's claim that he 'lunged' for the steering wheel of his limo and then at a Secret Service agent after they refused to follow his supporters to the US Capitol the day of last year's insurrection. Trump said he couldn't have attacked an agent, bluntly stating, 'these guys lift 350 pounds - I don't.'

Andy Puzder is a former CEO of CKE Restaurants, chairman of 2ndVote Value Investments, Inc., and a senior fellow at the America First Policy Institute. Jim Talent is a former U.S. senator from Missouri and the Chairman of the Reagan Institute's National Leadership Council The outlook for the U.S. economy is bad and potentially getting worse.

President Joe Biden considered a Republican running mate for 2020 in secret conversations with a top donor, DailyMail.com can reveal. Walmart board chairman Greg Penner, who has donated over $640,000 to political campaigns since 1999, had back-channel talks with Hunter Biden in 2018 and 2019 to set up Joe with Republican former Ohio governor John Kasich for a bipartisan presidential ticket. The plot, revealed in text messages, emails, and a phone call recording on Hunter's abandoned laptop, gives an insight into political strategies the president considered in an attempt to win the White House.