Northern Arizonans could revel in a much-anticipated break Friday from winter storms that were nothing short of record-breaking. During the past few weeks, Arizona's high country experienced storms from a 'memorable' wind event to surpassing the month of March's average snowfall on its first calendar day, here are some notable highlights. Flagstaff sets second-highest snowfall total through March 1 From July 1 through March 1, the Flagstaff Pulliam Airport received just over 140 inches of snow, the second-highest total recorded through the time period since it began collecting data 101 years ago.

This bright bolide was spotted over Spain on March 2, at 22:39 local time (equivalent to 21:39 universal time). The fireball was observed by a wide number of casual eyewitnesses, who reported it on social networks. The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 97,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Almera, Granada, and Jan (Spain). It began at an altitude of about 101 km over the locality of Chirivel (province of Almera), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 41 km over the locality of Arroyo Fro (province of Jan). This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Ayora (Valencia), Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and El Aljarafe (Sevilla). The event has been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M....

An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck the Kermadec Islands region in New Zealand on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 152 km (94 miles), USGS said. The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre earlier estimated the magnitude at 6.6 and a depth at 183 km. No tsunami warning was issued after the quake, the US Tsunami Warning System said. Source: Reuters

The contractors say foreign mercenaries previously active in Artyomovsk have seemingly vanished from the front lines. RT's Igor Zhdanov has spoken to fighters from the Wagner Group who are encircling the Donbass city of Artyomovsk, referred to as Bakhmut in Ukraine. The founder of the private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed on Friday that the city was "practically surrounded" as he urged Ukrainian forces to flee while they still can. The number of experienced enemy soldiers has already dwindled in the area, the Wagner fighters said, as battered units are apparently being quietly withdrawn by Kiev. They added that foreign mercenaries have likely disappeared from the front lines in the city as well, having previously been active in Artyomovsk.

It is tempting, as Naomi Wolf has done recently, to ascribe the breakdown of Western civilization to the debasing of "Judeo-Christian" ethics and the reemergence of malignant supernatural forces. Witnessing the many assaults on the infrastructure and social order of the United States of late, I wouldn't rule out metaphysical causality either. But to blame the pagan gods, or, in specifically Christian terms, to blame Satan, and not his legions, is to take comfort in an obscured perspective on the current global arrangement. To lay culpability strictly on gaseous, unknowable forces is to let the global elite off the hook. As I write in The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty, the Western world is in the grips and under the control of "subversive elites." With inordinate power and influence, these people aren't naturally superior but have as their object the undermining of Western civilization. They can be found in such globalist "Round Table" organizations as the Royal Institute...

The number of births registered in Japan plummeted to another record low last year - the latest worrying statistic in a decades-long decline that the country's authorities have failed to reverse despite their extensive efforts. The country saw 799,728 births in 2022, the lowest number on record and the first ever dip below 800,000, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday. That number has nearly halved in the past 40 years; by contrast, Japan recorded more than 1.5 million births in 1982. Japan also reported a record high for post-war deaths last year, at more than 1.58 million. Comment: That'll be the experimental jabs that the nation's health authorities eventually got around to warning the people about: Japan's health ministry issues warning over serious side effects caused by Covid vaccines, requires hospitals to document victim's symptoms

Americans need to be prepared to eat a lot less beef, because the size of the national cattle herd is steadily shrinking. And of course this is happening in the context of a much larger crisis. As I detailed in a previous article, even CNN is admitting that we are currently in the midst of "the worst food crisis in modern history". But even though children are literally dropping dead from starvation on the other side of the planet, a lot of people here in the United States refuse to take this crisis seriously. As long as their stomachs are full they think that everything is just fine. But the truth is that conditions are also starting to get tight here in the United States. According to the latest biannual report from the USDA, the number of beef cows in this country has fallen to the lowest level since 1962... The USDA's biannual cattle report showed that, as of Jan. 1, 2023, there is a 89.3 million head inventory which is three percent lower than the total from a year ago and...

Thousands of Ukrainian refugees remain without financial assistance from the government due to bureaucratic issues. Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Friday that thousands of Ukrainian refugees are still waiting to receive financial assistance from the Spanish government which had promised to donate money in June 2022. The report says that the authorities failed to deliver financial assistance to Ukrainian families, citing bureaucratic issues in Spain's autonomous communities who are responsible for delegating the money, where 70% of the funds had already been transferred in October 2022. Eight autonomous communities, including Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Valencia, Galicia, Madrid, and Murcia, confirmed that they had not transferred the financial assistance to the families, citing various reasons for the delay, the report adds.

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has been sentenced to 27 years under house arrest after being found guilty of treason following a three-year trial in which a judge deemed that his election campaigning and civil society work were designed to encourage a "colour revolution". The judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court told the former president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) that he would be banned from politics and voting in elections indefinitely. Nor would he be allowed to meet anyone outside his family while under house arrest. Kem Sokha was arrested in September 2017 without a warrant in a midnight raid on his home and taken to a provincial jail. Denied bail several times before eventually being released under house arrest, the prominent politician was charged with "conspiracy with a foreign power" under article 443 of Cambodia's criminal code.

Farmers from Belgium's northern region of Flanders drove thousands of tractors into Brussels on Friday in a protest against a new regional government plan to limit nitrogen emissions. Police estimated the number of tractors clogging the streets of Brussels at 2,700. Many were decorated with big signs reflecting the farmers' anger. "Proud to be a farmer," read one. Agricultural organisations said in a joint statement that the nitrogen agreement as it now stands "will cause a socio-economic carnage". They wanted the agreement to better reflect future prospects for the farm sector.

A 17-year-old Florida high school student accused of beating a teaching assistant unconscious earlier this month will be charged as an adult. Brendan Depa, who allegedly assaulted Joan Naydich, 57, after she took away his video game, is facing one count of aggravated battery of a school board official, a first-degree felony in Florida punishable by up to thirty years in prison. According to the Daily Mail, after examining the circumstances surrounding the February 21 incident at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, the Seventh Judicial Court of Florida ruled that Depa should be tried as an adult, and held him on a $1 million bond.

Millions of people in the West see the spiritual catastrophe their societies are being led towards. The elites are going crazy, but that is their problem. What we have to do is defend our children from this degradation and degeneracy. Aimee Therese on Twitter "It's Coming." That's what Elon Musk said a while back apropos of the Twitter files that show all the US government suppression of Covid-19 information mis-labeled as "misinformation." Think of whatever the truth is as mis-misinformation. Get it? You might have to read that sentence more than once to comprehend what went wrong with the American consensus the past three years. And then you'll begin to understand why the operation is called mind-fuckery. "It" comes out in weird ways now. For instance, Woody Harrelson's little prank on Saturday Night Live. The A-List actor opened the show acting stoned, talking about how much he likes weed and getting stoned, and, at the very end of his routine, spoke of a "movie script" that...

A State Department-backed "disinformation" tracking group blacklisting conservative news outlets pressured advertising companies to punish websites boosting the COVID-19 "lab leak" theory, which a federal agency now says is the most likely origin of the virus. The Global Disinformation Index, a British group with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit organizations, has continued to come under fire for feeding conservative news blacklists to advertising companies. This same government-funded entity repeatedly applied pressure on companies to cut ties with websites promoting the once alleged right-wing "conspiracy" that COVID-19 emerged from a lab which the Energy Department recently concluded is probable based on intelligence. "GDI is part of [a] disturbing constellation of pop-up censorship organizations that all descended on stifling COVID origins discourse online simultaneously," Mike Benz, a former State Department official and director of Foundation For Freedom Online, a censorship...

For those of us who were cynical about the government's pandemic response as it was unfolding in real time - as I was - the Daily Telegraph's 'lockdown files' confirm our worst suspicions. Judging from the revelations in the 100,000+ WhatsApp messages from Matt Hancock's phone that Isabel Oakeshott has handed to the newspaper, the then-Health Secretary's decisions were driven as much by a desire to shore up his own political reputation as they were by medical considerations. To be fair to Hancock, the medical advice often changed from one moment to the next and wasn't always consistent, as these messages reveal. The overall impression left by the 'lockdown files' is that the government wasn't 'following the science', as Hancock and others claimed - not because the scientific advice was clear and they were ignoring it, but because there was no such thing as 'the science'. We were in uncharted waters and no one really had a clue what to do, including the government's scientific...

Suddenly, everywhere you look, the Jews are disappearing. You feel it like a slow moving pressure system, an anxiety of exclusion and downward mobility. Maybe you first noticed it at your workplace. Or maybe it hit when you or your children applied to college or graduate school. It could have been something as simple as opening up the Netflix splash page. It's gauche to count but you can't help yourself: In academia, Hollywood, Washington, even in New York City anywhere American Jews once made their mark our influence is in steep decline. For many Jews, the first instinct is to look inward: We blame intermarriage, assimilation, the loss of the immigrant work ethic. This is, of course, a cope. Because the most significant cause of the decline isn't Jews themselves, but that American liberalism, our civic religion, has turned on us. Where Jewish success was once upheld as a sign of America's strength and progress over its prejudices, Jewish "overrepresentation" is again something...

Senate Republicans on Wednesday bashed President Biden's pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, accusing him of not being qualified to head the agency. In his first confirmation hearing since Biden, 80, nominated him for the post nearly eight months ago, Phil Washington was grilled by Republicans on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, who called out his lack of experience in the aviation industry. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said: "He does not have any experience in aviation safety. This quite simply is a position he is not qualified for. I'm disappointed that the administration has chosen to treat a critical safety position as a patronage job." Washington, the current CEO of Denver International Airport, led the Biden-Harris transition team for the Department of Transportation. He has also held leadership roles at municipal transit organizations in Denver and Los Angeles and served in the military for 24 years.

The EU is doing Washington's bidding since "Americans have the last word," the Hungarian prime minister believes Europe needs its own military bloc free of American influence, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Swiss magazine Weltwoche on Thursday. The politician accused the US of dragging Europe into a conflict that cannot be won and risking a global war. "The solution would be a European NATO," Orban said, arguing that America's desire for further expansion of its influence is what led to the current tensions between the West and Russia. Moscow is concerned about NATO expanding further east into Ukraine and Georgia, Orban stated, referring to his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin just weeks before the conflict between Moscow and Kiev erupted in late February 2022.

Customers, on the other hand, questioned if the decision came about as the result of rampant shoplifting. Residents of Portland, Oregon will soon have to travel further to stock up at Walmart as the company announced it will be closing both of the city's locations by the end of March. The stores at opposite ends of the city on Hayden Meadows Drive and SE 82nd Avenue, respectively, have become a staple in the retail habits of so many, however, Walmart claimed the decision to shut them down was made due to a lack of profits. Some have questioned, however, if the decision came about as the result of rampant shoplifting. "Walmart has long been harshly criticized by the city's left-wing politicians & residents," The Post Millennial Senior Editor Andy Ngo said, suggesting that, "this shutdown follows the consequences of the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots that normalized urban criminality."

Archaeologists have found ancient Roman "barbed wire," famously used and written about by Julius Caesar, for the first time near a German silver mine. In 52 B.C., Julius Caesar used an ingenious system of ditches and stakes to defend his soldiers from an encroaching Gallic army in modern-day central France. More than two millennia later, archaeologists have discovered the first preserved example of similar defensive stakes, which likely protected an ancient silver mine. A student team made the unprecedented discovery in the area of Bad Ems, halfway between the present-day cities of Bonn and Mainz in Germany, on the former northern border of the Roman Empire.

The 'Lockdown Files' - the trove of WhatsApp messages between senior Government figures during the pandemic, handed to the Telegraph by Isabel Oakeshott after they were given to her by Matt Hancock to help her ghost-write his biography - continue to bring out scandalous revelations about how pandemic management by WhatsApp was conducted. Here are some of the top stories from Wednesday. Matt Hancock mounted a "rearguard action" to close schools despite Sir Gavin Williamson battling "tooth and nail" to keep classrooms open. Exchanges seen by the Telegraph reveal that the then Health Secretary battled the Education Secretary in late December 2020 and suggested it was "mad" that Sir Gavin was attempting to keep schools open. Mr. Hancock initially lost a Cabinet argument during which he tried to persuade the Prime Minister to close schools ahead of their return in January 2021. After Boris Johnson sided with Sir Gavin, Mr. Hancock told an aide: "The next U-turn is born" and added: "I...

AS RUMOURS circulate that everyone from Elton John to Harry Styles have declined to play at King Charles coronation, the desperate monarch has begun personally reaching out to musical acts to ensure his big day isn't a damp squib. "You'd be surprised at the number of people who aren't that interested in playing music for a 73-year-old's party to celebrate how his mum died and he inherited billions tax free," shared a palace insider who just got off the phone with an S Club 7 tribute act who are sadly booked that day. Growing increasingly worried spending millions on a back-patting day won't turn out to be the huge PR win it should be, Charles has reached out to a hip new band called The Wolfe Tones after one of the Irish staff working at the palace personally recommended them.

A judge has issued a civil arrest warrant for a woman with tuberculosis, allowing law enforcement to arrest her as soon as Friday after she refused to isolate or take life-saving medication for over a year. After her arrest, she would be taken to a facility equipped for isolation, testing, and treatment. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department says this is only the third time in 20 years that it has had to seek a court order to detain a potentially contagious person who refused treatment for TB.

A STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOMETRY, SUGGESTS THAT BRONZE AGE CIVILISATIONS SAILED BY THE STARS USING CELESTIAL NAVIGATION TECHNIQUES SIMILAR TO THOSE EMPLOYED BY POLYNESIAN AND MICRONESIAN CULTURES. The study by skyscape archaeologist, Alessandro Berio, has uncovered new evidence that the ancient Minoan civilisation developed significant nautical technologies to aid in the international sea trade, which is linked to the wealth and expansion of the culture throughout the Mediterranean. Due to its location, reliance on open sea navigation and international trade cycles were at the heart of Minoan culture. The Minoans were a Bronze Age Aegean civilisation on the island of Crete, which flourished from 2600 - 1100 BC. The term "Minoan" refers to the mythical King Minos of Knossos, a figure in Greek mythology associated with Theseus, the labyrinth and the Minotaur. The study examined the orientations of the palaces along navigational directions,...

A war veteran (74) in the Zambezi region suffered a great loss when 17 head of cattle were killed by lightning on Wednesday morning. The incident occurred at Chixu village in the Kongola constituency. The devastated owner, Lukas Machinga, told The Namibian on Friday his cattle herder was also struck by lightning, although fortunately it was not fatal. According to Machinga, the cattle herder told him the lightning came from nowhere and struck about three kilometres away from the kraal.

Tornadoes touched down in Texas and Louisiana as a powerful storm system that dumped heavy snow in California moved eastward Thursday, knocking out power to more than 150,000 customers and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights into and out of Dallas. Tornado warnings issued for Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding areas of Texas expired by late afternoon but strong winds and hail continued, according to the National Weather Service. About 100 miles east of Dallas, a twister that hit the ground near the small town of Fouke moved northeast toward Texarkana at 55 mph, the weather service said. The NWS Storm Prediction Center reported that a severe thunderstorm watch was in effect through midnight Thursday for parts of southeast Texas, including Houston and College Station.

NBC Bay Area viewers shared videos recorded early Thursday morning showing a meteor lighting up the pitch-black sky. One of the videos from a viewer in Vallejo shows a streaking light come into frame before lighting up the night sky. Another video recorded by a viewer in San Ramon shows a similar sight. Astronomer Gerald McKeegan with Chabot Space and Science Center confirmed the fireball was indeed a meteor, saying it likely started out as a small asteroid in space before burning up when it entered the atmosphere. A log of unconfirmed and pending "fireball reports" from the American Meteor Society shows other residents across the Bay Area spotted the meteor after 2:20 a.m. Thursday.

Stunning footage shows the moment a blazing fireball lit up the night sky over Japan. This video from Natori in Miyagi prefecture shows the bright meteor shooting overheard as sky gazers marvelled below. It was captured on the night of Tuesday, 28 February, just before 8pm. According to Nasa, a fireball is described as a bright meteor that is spectacular enough to be seen over a very wide area. They reach a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter when from the observer.

The mission objective of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is remarkably simple: the smartest, best people in the world should rule everyone else. In WEF parlance, their schemes of total supervision and behavioral modification will create a "sustainable" future for humanity. Humans become nothing more than "things" to be counted, shuffled, categorized, tagged, monitored, manipulated, and controlled. They become nothing more than cogs in the WEF's great trans-humanist, technocratic machine. When Sir Thomas More wrote his socio-political satire about a fictional island society in the New World, he gave it the fabricated name, Utopia, derived from simple Greek and meaning, "no-place." Although More was humorously telling his audience that his idealized community existed nowhere, centuries of central planners chasing the fantasy of utopian societies have failed to get the joke. Worse, for every peaceful religious community seeking separation from modern civilization, there is a...

We received 9 reports about a fireball seen over IL, IN and MI on Thursday, March 2nd 2023 around 06:44 UT. For this event, we received one video.

Dennis Patterson's job at the W.M. Keck Observatory atop 13,803-foot Maunakea primarily focuses on caring for and maintaining the observatory's cameras and spectrometers. But the recent winter weather has given him another purpose during his four days a week at the summit: shoveling snow. The Big Island was drenched with rain by two Kona Lows in the middle of February. But at the high elevations, the storms also produced more than a foot of snow, including 10-foot drifts in some places on Maunakea. "I was still shoveling up there Saturday," said Patterson, who is used to the white stuff having lived in Colorado and Utah. "This last storm was pretty epic. We still haven't been able to open the domes for the last 12 or 13 nights due to ice and snow buildup."

Stunning footage shows snow covering parts of the Arizona desert after a strong cold front brought plummeting temperatures overnight Wednesday (1 March). Videos shared by Brandon Zavala show a blanket of snow covering the desert landscape on Thursday in Yucca, about 150 miles northwest of Phoenix, in Mohave County. Yucca was under a winter storm warning until 5 am Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service and numerous roads across the state were closed on Wednesday night due to adverse weather.

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu has declared a state of emergency as it reels from an earthquake and two cyclones in as many days. The 6.5 magnitude quake struck on Friday, a day after category four Cyclone Judy swept through the islands. The storm caused widespread damage and flooding across the country. No casualties have been reported yet. A category three storm, Cyclone Kevin, arrived on Friday, bringing destructive winds of up to 130km/h (81mph).

A State Department-funded entity pushed the social media platform to ban users for spreading "disinformation." The US State Department, both directly and through third-party organizations, pressed Twitter to censor American users for their non-existent connections to Russia, China, and Hindu nationalism, according to internal documents. Published by journalist Matt Taibbi on Thursday, the latest 'Twitter Files' reveal that Twitter's former trust and safety chief, Yoel Roth, was approached in 2021 and given a list of 40,000 accounts suspected of engaging in "inauthentic behavior" in support of India's Bharatiya Janata Party.

UK health authorities considered ordering the euthanization of all pet cats in the country during the first COVID outbreak, it has been revealed. Ex-Deputy Health Minister Lord James Bethell made the admission while trying to argue that governments were caught unawares in how to respond to the virus, remarking, "We shouldn't forget... how little we understood about this disease." "There was a moment we were very unclear about whether domestic pets could transmit the disease," he said. "In fact, there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain. Can you imagine what would have happened if we had wanted to do that?"

In honor of International Women's Day, Hershey Canada has launched five limited edition HER for SHE chocolate bars which are supposed to feature young, inspirational Canadian women who are building a positive future, but the company is facing backlash after deciding to include a biological male in their line-up. Fae Johnstone, a trans-identified male who has spoken publicly about wanting women with differing political views to be "so vilified" that they don't dare speak, announced the exciting news on Twitter Wednesday, and not long after, the hashtag #BoycottHershey started to trend as women all over the world expressed their resentment about yet another biological male being honored on a day that is supposed to celebrate women.

Mainstream media correspondents for major US networks rarely, if ever, report from inside Crimea and certainly are nowhere near Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine. However, this week NBC News chief international correspondent Keir Simmons went to Sevastopol, surrounded by a significant Russian military presence given it is home to the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, and in a live segment admitted that it's not at all realistic Zelensky and Ukrainian forces can ever hope to take Crimea. This is especially as the "the people there... view themselves as Russian." Simmons noted that "This is the closest that any US news crew has got to the Russian Black Sea Fleet in many many years." He explained that "Vladimir Putin will be determined to defend that port - to not have it take it away from him - he may well do pretty much anything to try to achieve that."

Ministers and the country's most senior civil servant discussed how they needed to "get heavy with the police" to crack down on the public during the Covid pandemic. The Telegraph has the story. WhatsApp messages in the Lockdown Files disclose how Matt Hancock and colleagues gave officers their "marching orders" to enforce lockdown measures, just days before Number 10 staff held a party in Downing Street. They also messaged about how "the plod got their marching orders" during a meeting attended by the prime minister, the home secretary and Simon Case, now the Cabinet Secretary.

In the past few weeks, a series of analyses published by highly respected researchers have exposed a truth about public health officials during COVID: Much of the time, they were wrong. To be clear, public health officials were not wrong for making recommendations based on what was known at the time.

Green Party leader Annalena Baerbock has put together a platform for "feminist foreign policy," several outlets reported on Tuesday. The revamp of Berlin's diplomacy, due to be made public later this week, will infuse "gender issues" into everything from humanitarian aid and energy to climate change. "We are pursuing a feminist foreign policy because it is bitterly necessary. Because men and women are still not equal worldwide," Baerbock wrote, according to Politico Europe. The 80-page report outlines 10 principal guidelines, according to the German news agency DPA. Among them are offering "gender-sensitive" humanitarian aid, involving "women and marginalized groups" in economic development and considering the "gender issues" dimension of climate and energy policies.

On Saturday, the French military's Operation Orion 2023 (Orion 23) began with hundreds of parachutists being dropped in the Tarn region of southern France. On Sunday morning, an amphibious assault was simulated at Ste on the Mediterranean coast. This first stage of Orion 2023, which continues until the end of the week, involves 7,000 troops from France, the US, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the UK, which are all part of the NATO alliance that is waging war against Russia in Ukraine. Over this week, as many as 2,300 military vehicles will be involved in the war games. These include 40 warplanes, over 100 drones, 30 warships and the Charles De Gaulle aircraft carrier. According to General Yves Mtayer, who led the organization of the operation, "We have never done an exercise of this magnitude over such a long period of time." Another officer told France3: "The amount of resources made available, the degree of synergy between the different armies, is unheard of since I joined the army."

Weeks of anti-government protests in Israel turned violent on Wednesday for the first time as police fired stun grenades and a water cannon at demonstrators who blocked a Tel Aviv highway. The crackdown came shortly after Israel's hard-line national security minister urged a tough response to what he said were "anarchists." Comment: 160,000 anarchists? The violence came as thousands across the country launched a "national disruption day" against the government's plan to overhaul Israel's judicial system. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's allies say the program is meant to reduce the influence of unelected judges. But critics, including influential business leaders and former military figures, say Netanyahu is pushing the country toward authoritarian rule and has a clear conflict of interest in targeting judges as he stands trial on corruption charges.

A major power outage crippled several of Argentina's provinces on Wednesday, including parts of Buenos Aires, plunging millions of people into darkness for at least two hours as summer temperatures soared, officials said. In the capital, the lights flickered back on at about 6:00 pm (2100 GMT) in the metro system, and public services were gradually restored. Reports of the first outages came in from 4:00-5:00 pm, with traffic lights out of order and Buenos Aires metro stations in total darkness.

A towering skyscraper in Hong Kong has been engulfed in an out-of-control blaze which saw flaming chunks of debris tumble hundreds of feet through the air to rain down on terrified civilians below. Officials said the fire broke out around 11:10pm local time on Thursday night (15:10 GMT on Friday) in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, a busy shopping and tourist district on the city's harbourfront. Flames were first spotted near scaffolding at the top of the highrise still under construction, with the blaze clearly visible from miles away across the harbour.

Republican senators pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on enforcing a federal law against protests outside Supreme Court justices' homes. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) set a focus on demonstrators carrying signs and shouting slogans outside the residences of justices after the 2022 leak and issuance of the Supreme Court opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, which determined that abortion is not a constitutional right. Lee, a former law clerk, said it is "very clear" that protesters are trying to influence jurisprudence in potential violation of 18 U.S. Code 1507, which prohibits pickets or parades near the house of a judge with the intent of influencing or impeding the administration of justice.

Ted Cruz was furious after Iranian warships docked in Rio de Janeiro over American objections... Washington should sanction everyone having anything to do with the visit of two Iranian warships to Brazil, Senator Ted Cruz said on Tuesday, declaring the visit "a direct threat to the safety and security of Americans." The Iranian Navy frigate Dena and the supply ship Makran are on a mission to sail around the world. They arrived in Brazil on Sunday, intending to resupply before proceeding to the Panama Canal. The US has previously demanded Brazil refuses them permission to dock, citing unilateral American sanctions against Tehran. Cruz said in a statement: "These Iranian warships are already sanctioned, and so the port in Rio de Janeiro where they docked is now at risk of crippling sanctions, as are any Brazilian companies that provided them services or accepted payments - and so are all foreign companies that entangle themselves with the port or those Brazilian companies in the...

The US occupation army renewed its oil smuggling campaign in northeast Syria three weeks after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake ravaged the war-torn country. According to eyewitness reports from the countryside of Al-Yarubiyah in Hasakah governorate, on 27 February, US troops transported at least 34 tankers filled with stolen Syrian oil through the illegal Al-Mahmoudiya border crossing to their bases in Iraq. The oil was plundered from Syria's northeast Jazira region, the country's primary energy and grain-producing region. Washington maintains approximately 900 troops in Syria, primarily split between the Al-Tanf base and the country's northeastern region. Their occupation is illegal under international law as it was carried out without government approval. Though US troops - accompanied by fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - initially occupied large swathes of Syria under the pretext of fighting ISIS, the official rationale for the occupation changed once ISIS was...

Ben & Jerry's is among the companies whose supply chains utilize migrant child labor, often in violation of child labor laws, despite the company's self-proclaimed progressive values and vowing to "honor and stand with" immigrants. A New York Times expos, released earlier this week, interviewed more than 100 migrant children in more than 20 states "who described jobs that were grinding them into exhaustion, and fears that they had become trapped in circumstances they never could have imagined." The report detailed children as young as 13 working 12-hour days, often overnight shifts before going to school during the day, in order to survive. The report said migrant children are employed in the supply chain for major companies like Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Ford, General Motors and Ben & Jerry's, among others. Ben & Jerry's, a self-described progressive company, told Fox News Digital that it is "opposed to child labor" and has worked to ensure fair compensation and...

A "biocomputer" powered by human brain cells could be developed within our lifetime, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers who expect such technology to exponentially expand the capabilities of modern computing and create novel fields of study. The team outlines their plan for "organoid intelligence" today in the journal Frontiers in Science. Thomas Hartung, a professor of environmental health sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Whiting School of Engineering who is spearheading the work, says: "Computing and artificial intelligence have been driving the technology revolution, but they are reaching a ceiling. Biocomputing is an enormous effort of compacting computational power and increasing its efficiency to push past our current technological limits." For nearly two decades scientists have used tiny organoids, lab-grown tissue resembling fully grown organs, to experiment on kidneys, lungs, and other organs without resorting to human or...

To avoid any future delays in sending billions of taxpayer dollars and deadly weapons to Ukraine, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has decided to make things easier and give President Zelensky the key to the U.S. Treasury. "It's simpler this way. Now Mr. Zelensky can let himself in whenever he wants, and help himself to whatever he needs!" said Yellen. "As a government official, I want to help the government be as efficient as possible. This removes all those unnecessary steps that come between Ukraine wanting money and then getting it! I'm a genius!" "Zelensky, dear, you just take whatever you need, sweetie!" Sources say Zelensky has already let himself in the massive, highly secure vault 3 times today, helping himself to wheelbarrows full of coins, gold bullion, and Ashley Biden's diary. "We thank the American government for the lovely gift of their citizens' money," he said. "We promise to put this to good use by killing many Russians and buying lots of cocaine. God bless...

Perhaps it could lead to a real-life Chamber of Secrets. A 30-foot-long hidden corridor was discovered by scientists Thursday near the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, Reuters reported. The pyramid considered the last of the seven wonders of the world still standing has been undergoing regular searches using infrared and cosmic-ray imaging since 2015 as a part of the Scan Pyramids project. Officials said the newly unearthed hallway could lead to more knowledge about the structure. "We're going to continue our scanning so we will see what we can do ... to figure out what we can find out beneath it, or just by the end of this corridor," said Mostafa Waziri, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.