The guy with the astronaut fetish is a Nashville man named Bart Sibrel, a self-described investigative journalist who believes that the Eagle never landed, the Sea of Tranquility must be in the South Pacific and the only giant leap Neil Armstrong ever made was a big belly flop in his neighbor’s pool. In short, he believes that men never walked on the moon. He thinks the whole thing was faked by NASA so that the Soviets would think we were technologically superior....
OSCAR BOSS CANCELS AWARD SHOW HOLLYWOOD - In a stunning development that could influence moviemaking for generations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday that it was canceling this year’s Oscar ceremony on the grounds that there were not enough good movies to fill out the list of nominees. “This has been an embarrassing year for all of us and I think it’s best if we just forget that it ever happened,” AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis said at a press conference....
That’s not just the basic plotline of the disastrous 1975 television series “Space: 1999,” it also describes President Bush’s latest energy proposal. You might not have heard this idea in Bush’s “Back to the Moon” speech last week (mostly because there was so much to ridicule that plenty of eye-roll inspiring proposals slipped past reporters), but the White House’s latest long-term strategy for dealing with the global energy crisis is to turn the moon into a huge mining colony....
Yet now, exactly 20 years later, the very same man is running for the U.S. Senate from Illinois – not as the lovable loser I once knew, but as an incredibly successful businessman with a personal wealth estimated at $100 million who once even dated Miss India. How did this happen? It’s a tough question. But by raising it, was I not raising the very opposite question about myself? I was far more popular in college than Baboo, yet my personal fortune is closer to one hundred million Thai baht than one hundred million dollars....
On Sunday, the U.S. Department of State said in a statement, over 300 U.S. citizens and their immediate family members were voluntarily taken off the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been docked at the port city of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, since February 3 after a passenger was diagnosed with COVID-19. Before evacuating the individuals from the ship, medical professionals from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) performed tests on the passengers, and concluded they had no symptoms of the respiratory virus, and were fit to travel on a chartered aircraft destined for the U....
The hour-long video titled “They took our baby again,” had been seen more than 1.8 million times as of Saturday morning. In it, Manatee County sheriff’s office deputies show the couple a court order at the side of the road to turn over their then 10-day-old baby to the authorities for a hospital check-up, the Miami-Herald Tribune reported. It comes only five months after Mercado lost custody of her son Amen’Ra, now 18 months old, whom she has said was “forcefully and legally kidnapped” by the Florida Department of Children and Families....
The Bob Baffert-trained colt still has to conquer the Belmont Stakes on June 6 to complete the Triple Crown sweep, a feat that has eluded the last 13 horses to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. The Wynn Las Vegas offers American Pharoah at -120 odds (5-to-6) to win the Belmont, with the ‘No’ side of the prop – the field, essentially – at even-money. American Pharoah is Baffert’s fourth 3-year-old to win the first two legs of the Crown....
Researchers from Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and polling partners at CNN and SSRS teamed up to asked Americans what words they associate with Biden and Trump on a week-to-week basis. While roughly 70 percent of respondents versus 60 percent say they hear more about Trump, those words are primarily associated with negative topics such as “coronavirus” and “pandemic.” But on the other side, Biden’s name is widely associated with words such as “honest,” “good” and “cares,” the data shows....
The stalemate over a relief package that can pass both the House and Senate continues, with lawmakers locked in a months-long tussle over what measures should be taken and how much should be spent. YouGov asked 21,161 adults on November 9: “When, if ever, do you believe Congress will pass a bill for a second COVID-19 stimulus package?” Of those who identified a potential date, the most common answer was “after January 2021,” with 18 percent of responses....
A lengthy CNN report in November offered a glimpse in the vice president’s office as a place of frustration where aides claimed Harris “feels constrained” in her role. Some close to her reportedly felt she had been set “up to fail,” with her role leading the charge to address root causes of migration from Central America to the southern border falling in that category. For months, Harris has fielded criticism from both the left and right for her role in handling the continued surge of migration at the border....
Entergy Corporation, which the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency told Newsweek is one of the state’s biggest energy providers, said in a Friday update that the situation was improving as it sliced the number of customers impacted by outages from about 90,000 to 55,000 by 7 a.m. local time. According to PowerOutage.US, the number of Mississippi power customers affected by the outages was estimated to be 97,377 just before 12 p....
During his talk, Mr. O’Brien did not mince his words. He told the audience that Amnesty “takes no political views on any question, including the right of the State of Israel to survive” and that Israel “shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state.” (Mr. O’Brien claims that his words were “misreported,” but you can hear them in an audio recording published by Jewish Insider.) His talk implied that Israel as a Jewish-majority sovereign nation was in direct conflict with Palestinian rights, precluding the possibility that one might insist upon the humanity and inalienable right to self-determination of both peoples....
The diseases are different this time, and there are no ridiculous economic lockdowns on the horizon, but one important lesson is the same––our reliance on foreign nations for critical goods is dangerous and unsustainable. We need to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to America, and every moment that we stand idle puts millions of people in jeopardy. This fall, the spread of RSV in children and related bacterial infections prompted a run on pharmacies for the antibiotic amoxicillin....
Brandon Bostian, 38, was acquitted of causing a catastrophe, involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment by a Philadelphia jury. Bostian was the sole engineer on the Amtrak train when it was going double the speed limit on a curve before it derailed, the Associated Press reported. Amtrak 188 was heading to New York City on May 12, 2015, when it passed through North Philadelphia Station towards Frankford Junction. The train was coming up on a curve traveling at 106 miles per hour, while the speed limit was only 50 mph....
Barrett, whose confirmation to the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sealed conservative control of the court during the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, made the comments during a lecture hosted by the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center on Sunday. She was introduced by Mitch McConnell, the center’s founder and Senate GOP leader who played an important role in confirming Barrett to the court....
Cornyn, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Barrett that senators had multiple notebooks, notes and books to reference during the hearing. Then, he asked if she could hold up the preparatory materials she was using to answer the committee’s questions, at which point she showed them a blank notepad save the Senate’s letterhead “That’s impressive,” Cornyn said before continuing on with his other line of questioning....
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced Monday that misdemeanor charges will be filed against Cooper, who was recorded threatening to call the police on Christian Cooper, who is of no relation. The June incident in Central Park, which quickly went viral, began when the bird-watching Cooper asked Amy to put her dog on a leash. She immediately reacted by screaming for him to stay away from her and was seen on video telling police dispatchers she was being threatened by “an African-American man....
The money, co-earmarked for use with former Republican Rep. Jim Ramstad and Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, was intended to found the Minnesota Teen Challenge’s “Know the Truth” program, which Klobuchar said would “expand their drug prevention education efforts for teenagers.” But documents and pamphlets from the time of Klobuchar’s donation show that the organization lists Halloween, the fantasy book and movie series Harry Potter, and the anime and video game series Pokémon as “gateways to drug addiction....
MORE: PGA Tour winners, 2014-15 | Leaderboard | Tour schedule The feisty Texan has chosen Option B. First, however, he had to realize that he was, inadvertently, embracing Option A. Julie Elion, a sports psychologist based in Washington, D.C., who works with a number of golfers, including Phil Mickelson and Gary Woodland, delivered that virtual uppercut to the chin. Leonard started having conversations with Elion in September, after being eliminated from the opening FedExCup playoff event, The Barclays....
