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Three teenagers and an adult have been charged with murder in Georgia after a mother found her 15-year-old son shot to death inside an abandoned residence following Halloween night. The Albany Police Department said investigators arrested 22-year-old Detravion Parke, as well as two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old in connection with the death of Austin Payne, 15. All four suspects were charged with murder and transported to the Dougherty County Jail, according to police. Officers responded to the 800 block of Cameo Lane in Albany on Nov. 1, where they discovered Payne dead inside an abandoned home, police said. His mother...

Let's actually explain how thermal balance of spacecraft works, and how we'd need to configure a spacecraft to eliminate the heat that's produced by computer equipment crunching numbers in a space data center. This is all very rough, and I overestimated the size of the starlink V3, but it's still in the ballpark. Real designers of course can't just use 'in the ballpark'. Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space? | 24:29 Scott Manley | 1.87M subscribers | 1,073,338 views | March 18, 2026

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) expressed openness toward the idea of abolishing the Electoral College following the Democratic Party’s decisive victory this week in the 2026 midterm elections. While speaking at the Crooked Con event in Washington, D.C., Shapiro was asked by Pod Save America host Jon Favreau about the possibility of a Democrat-led Congress leading a charge to do away with the constitutional process for electing the president. “You said in 2020 that the Electoral College should be abolished — you now have a Democratic legislature,” Favreau said. “Would you push to join the National Popular Vote Compact, which, for...

Video The Bat Yam Municipality has filed a lawsuit against the Islamic Republic of Iran, demanding more than NIS 208 million in compensation for the extensive destruction caused by an Iranian ballistic missile strike during Operation Rising Lion in June 2025. The lawsuit, filed Sunday in the Tel Aviv District Court by the Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, seeks NIS 208,330,129 in damages incurred by the municipality following the deadly attack. Bat Yam Mayor Zvika Brot and Shurat HaDin President attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner personally delivered the legal documents to a representative of Iran's mission to the United Nations in...

In plain English: for every 1,000 Trump points from 2024, roughly 850 stayed with the Republican candidate while 150 landed on the Democrat side. Republicans retained about 85% of Trump’s share in Senate races and 86% in gubernatorial races. The formula explains 88% of the variation. What makes the pattern so suspicious is its uniformity. It did not matter how red the state was. Wyoming, Ohio, Illinois, and Massachusetts all showed the same roughly 15% shift (p = 0.69).

Democrats hold 54 seats, and two races are still being counted. In Mississippi/Alaska I expect Democrats to win both. Republicans nominated candidates who couldn’t win, and in most of those races, Donald Trump made the pick. Republicans still hold the White House and that conservatives still have a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. Those checks will last only as long as Republicans keep winning elections, and the next two cycles look dangerous.

Here's the video. https://x.com/WMSBG/status/2119220946255097865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2119220946255097865%7Ctwgr%5E88be546e9216ae8aed8121fd5bd8e7027a49cc39%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.israelnationalnews.com%2Fflashes%2F696972 Here's JBN commentary. An apparent antisemitic assault in Brooklyn took an unexpected turn Saturday morning when a 52-year-old Hasidic Jewish man refused to become another defenseless victim and fought back against his attacker. Stay informed with JBN email alerts! Get the latest updates on breaking stories, global events, and community news directly in your inbox. The confrontation unfolded near Bedford Avenue and Heyward Street in Williamsburg as the man was walking to synagogue for Shabbos prayers. Embedded video. The suspect approached the Jewish man and threw an unidentified liquid at him before allegedly punching him in...

As violent mobs of Muslims and nihilist leftist youth menace the cathedral in Milan and the Louvre in Paris, torch historic buildings, and threaten revolution, I wonder if we are thinking clearly about the morality of using deadly force in defense of public order, private property, and our civilizational heritage. Put bluntly, would European police open fire on a mob if it were the only way to stop the destruction of the palace of Versailles or St. Peter’s Basilica? Should they? And if they did, would American Christians wring their hands about it, tut-tutting that “human life has infinite value.”...

Texas Republicans touched off a battle of mid-decade redistricting efforts when they embraced a plan pushed by President Donald Trump for the GOP-controlled legislature to redraw congressional districts to make them more friendly to Republicans. California retaliated with its own gerrymandering in an effort to flip five seats held by Republicans to counter the effort to redraw five seats in Texas. While Republicans redrew 15 congressional seats to try to flip over the past two years, as of Thursday afternoon they are projected to lose more than two-thirds of them. Meanwhile, California's Proposition 50 ballot initiative that redrew five seats...

SpaceX's New Starship Reveal Is Incredible in the "Go For Orbit" documentary! From Raptor engine manufacturing and McGregor testing to reused heat shield tiles and the decision to continue into orbit, there's plenty to explore. Meanwhile, Starship Flight 15 preparations continue at Starbase, with Booster 22 and Ship 42 awaiting their next steps toward a potential double catch attempt using the launch tower's chopsticks, pending FAA approval. Blue Origin reveals its Northstar rocket engine and New Glenn GS3 third stage, while Rocket Lab advances Neutron testing and approaches Electron's 100th launch. Plus, NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft head toward Mars, CHAPEA...

Reddit has a list of sponsors of Jennifer Welch's sponsors. Being in the staffing business, I chose two which I may be able to negatively effect. I encourage all Freepers to peruse the list and take aim. I plan to activate my professional network on this also.

Comedian Dave Chappelle, performing back-to-back shows as part of his “Karmageddon” tour, told a sold out Madison Square Garden crowd he “feels better” after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was murdered. “I feel f****d up saying this. It’s scary being a public speaker. And I mean look, ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered … and I shouldn’t say this publicly but, I feel better,” Chappelle said, receiving some applause and laughter from the crowd. “I know I shouldn’t say that but, it’s just a feeling,” Chappelle continued. “I didn’t ask to feel this way. I just be...

The gloating at Politico over the 2026 midterm election results is not only fully underway but has already extended to what they see will be a likely Democrat victory in the 2028 presidential election as you can see in this Friday wishcast by Aaron Pellish, Lauren Fedor, and Lisa Kashinsky, "The midterms blew open the 2028 map. Republicans are panicking." However, there is something rather odd about their story. No prospective Democrat candidates are even named. Could it be that if any of them are named it would quickly deflate their balloon filled with Hopium?

Killing a bipartisan deal to reduce electricity costs would signal that Democrats aren't serious about affordability. Emboldened by the scale of Democratic victories in the midterms, a small group of liberals is trying to blow up a carefully negotiated bipartisan agreement that would make it easier to build in America. Failure to pass this compromise during the lame-duck session would send a loud message that the incoming Democratic majorities aren’t as serious about affordability as candidates said they were on the stump. And a deal this good for the economy is unlikely to materialize in the next Congress, which is...

The American flags lay discarded on the tables, not a Maga hat in sight.The crowd had dwindled to the last dregs of the party, with people nursing their warm martinis. On the screens above the bar, the unavoidable message blared: the blue wave sweeping across America.At the "Make America Hot Again" party in an uptown bar in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night, young Republicans faced a reckoning with their own party."Maga is officially dead," said Raquel Debono, 30 matter-of-factly. "The brand is done."(snip)Matthew McCormick, 29, had turned his stool away from the TV screen. The Republican strongholds of Texas and...

Lockheed Martin agreed to pay about $29.5 million to resolve federal allegations that it used race or sex in employment decisions and falsely certified compliance with anti-discrimination requirements in its federal contracts. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the two agreements Tuesday. The department said the alleged conduct dates to 2019. Lockheed will pay $22 million plus interest to the United States under the False Claims Act and about $7.5 million to more than 1,000 workers under a separate U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreement. Lockheed denied the allegations and admitted no liability. The company said in a statement that...

NASA announced Saturday that Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and six other aerospace companies are eligible to compete for up to $10 billion in lunar delivery contracts as the agency advances plans to establish a permanent base on the moon. The announcement, made at the MAX POWER aerospace expo and air show at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, expands NASA’s commercial lunar program, bringing together private companies to deliver scientific equipment, technology and infrastructure to the moon’s south pole. The new Commercial Lunar Payload Services framework has a maximum combined value of $10 billion over 10 years, with...

Olivia Reingold reports from Detroit, where the Muslim progressive’s election signifies a seismic shift in the scales of power. Socialism, TikTok, and anger now reign supreme. DETROIT, Michigan — “LET’S F[-------] GOOOOOO!” A blonde with a tattoo of the state of Michigan on her forearm thrusts her fist into the air. It is just after 1:30 a.m., and Abdul El-Sayed, a doctor turned podcaster, has been senator-elect for approximately one minute. Three friends next to me embrace in a hug. Hundreds of his supporters, crowded into a downtown event space, raise their smartphones. As his signature walk-out song, Tupac Shakur’s...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (11/8/26)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel's Messiah Malachi 3:33 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Holy Bible, The King James Version _________________________________________