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Alarming Fox Report Says Tactical Nukes ‘Not Off The Table’ For Trump’s Iran Response

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[ad_1] We described earlier that the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has reportedly informed American officials that destroying Iran’s heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility might require the use of a nuclear weapon, based on The Guardian. Officials, briefed on the limitations of the GBU-57 — a 30,000-pound conventional bunker-buster bomb — are worried that even if President Trump give the order it may not be powerful enough to reach and destroy the deeply buried site. B57 Tactical Nuclear Bomb, via Atomic Archive The report described that conventional bombs might have to be used to soften the terrain, followed by the dropping of a tactical nuclear weapon from a B-2 stealth bomber. The latest reporting has sought to clarify that President Trump is not considering the nuclear option, nor has it yet to be formally presented to him by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. From fresh ‘anonymous’ White House statement present contradictory information. So very quickly, here we are… there’s prominent public discourse about the ‘possibility’ or eventual ‘necessity’ of a nuclear bomb. As the Quincy Institute’s …

Global sea levels rising twice as fast as they did last century, according to major scientific report | Science, Climate & Tech News

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[ad_1] Global sea levels are now rising twice as fast as they did last century, according to a major new scientific report. The study – which takes a laser focus on climate change in the 2020s, a critical decade to stop the worst damage – finds all 10 measures are going in the wrong direction. And most of them are doing so at a faster rate. The findings are “unprecedented” but “unsurprising”, given the world continues to pump record levels of planet-warming gases into the atmosphere. “We see a clear and consistent picture that things are getting worse,” said lead author Professor Piers Forster. However, the rate by which emissions are increasing has slowed down, offering a ray of hope they will soon reach their peak. Image: Global average temperatures have risen alongside levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere Rising seas The new study found sea levels are now rising on average twice as fast, at 4.3mm a year on average since 2019, up from 1.8mm a year at the turn of the 20th …

New Pew report shows Catholicism’s deep roots and dire challenges in US life

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[ad_1] (RNS) — While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of U.S. adults (47%) say they have a personal or family relationship to Catholicism, a new Pew Research Center survey finds.  The survey found that 1 in 5 U.S. adults identify as Catholic, and another 9% say they don’t identify with Catholicism religiously but answered yes when asked “whether ‘aside from religion’ they consider themselves Catholic in any way.” An additional 9% identify as former Catholics, and another 9% say they have a Catholic parent or partner or that they have attended Catholic Mass. Yet fewer than 3 in 10 adults (28%) of those 20% who identify as Catholic in the religious sense attend Mass at least weekly, and slightly less than a quarter (23%) attend Confession yearly. The survey was conducted from July 2023 to Feb. 2025, before the April 2025 death of Pope Francis and the election of his successor, Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, in May. A 2019 Pew survey inspired U.S. Catholic bishops to redirect …

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper Announces Law Changes In Response To Grooming Gangs Report

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[ad_1] Home Secretary Yvette Cooper informed Parliament of the findings from a review of the grooming gang scandal (Alamy) 4 min read16 June Home Secretary Yvette Cooper apologised to child victims of grooming gangs and announced changes to the law in response to a report into the scandal. The Home Secretary gave a statement to the House of Commons on Monday afternoon, after the Prime Minister told reporters on his way to the G7 summit in Canada that a national inquiry into historic grooming gang abuse would take place, having previously resisted calls to do so. On Friday, seven men were found guilty of 50 offences relating to the sexual exploitation of vulnerable teenage girls in Rochdale. In recent months, multiple campaigners and the Conservative Party have demanded a national inquiry into the scale and nature of multiple grooming gang scandals, involving groups of mainly Pakistani-heritage men in areas including Rochdale, Rotherham, Oldham, Telford and Bradford. Earlier this year, Cooper commissioned Baroness Casey to carry out an audit of the “nature, scale and characteristics …

North Korea Rejects US Outreach ‘Multiple Times’: Report

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[ad_1] Via The Libertarian Institute A letter from Washington to Pyongyang was rejected multiple times by North Korean diplomats. During President Donald Trump’s first presidency, he engaged in direct diplomacy with Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un through letters and meetings. According to a “high-level” source speaking with NK News, the North Korean delegation to the UN in New York City has “bluntly” rejected the US outreach several times. Via EPA/BBC The American and North Korean leaders exchanged letters during Trump’s first term, leading to three face-to-face meetings. However, Trump was unable to ink a deal with Kim after he allowed his national security advisor – the notorious super-hawk, John Bolton – to threaten Pyongyang during the second summit in Hanoi. Additionally, during Joe Biden’s presidency, Washington refused to engage with Pyongyang while engaging in a military buildup in East Asia. The policy prompted Kim to reach out to Russian President Valdimir Putin and sign a major cooperation agreement with Russia, including a defense pact. Under the deal, North Korean soldiers fought in Russia’s Kursk region after a …

MPs finish Report Stage debate on Assisted Dying Bill

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[ad_1] Notes For further comment or information, media should contact Humanists UK Assisted Dying Campaigner Nathan Stilwell at [email protected] or phone 07456200033. (Media only) Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision have people and their loved ones who would be affected by this change available for the press. If you have been affected by the current assisted dying legislation, and want to use your story to support a change in the law, please email [email protected]. Humanists defend the right of each individual to live by their own personal values, and the freedom to make decisions about their own life so long as this does not result in harm to others. Humanists do not share the attitudes to death and dying held by some religious believers, in particular that the manner and time of death are for a deity to decide, and that interference in the course of nature is unacceptable. We firmly uphold the right to life but we recognise that this right carries with it the right of each individual to make their own …

Albert Einstein’s Grades: A Fascinating Look at His Report Cards

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[ad_1] Albert Ein­stein was a pre­co­cious child. At the age of twelve, he fol­lowed his own line of rea­son­ing to find a proof of the Pythagore­an The­o­rem. At thir­teen he read Kant, just for the fun of it. And before he was fif­teen he had taught him­self dif­fer­en­tial and inte­gral cal­cu­lus. But while the young Ein­stein was engrossed in intel­lec­tu­al pur­suits, he did­n’t much care for school. He hat­ed rote learn­ing and despised author­i­tar­i­an school­mas­ters. His sense of intel­lec­tu­al supe­ri­or­i­ty was resent­ed by his teach­ers. In Sub­tle is the Lord: The Sci­ence and Life of Albert Ein­stein, author Abra­ham Pais tells a fun­ny sto­ry from Ein­stein’s days at the Luit­pold Gym­na­si­um, a sec­ondary school in Munich now called the Albert-Ein­stein-Gym­na­si­um: At the Gym­na­si­um a teacher once said to him that he, the teacher, would be much hap­pi­er if the boy were not in his class. Ein­stein replied that he had done noth­ing wrong. The teacher answered, “Yes, that is true. But you sit there in the back row and smile, and that vio­lates the feel­ing …

Q1 GDP Revision Reveals Big Deterioration In Personal Spending In “Kitchen Sink” Report

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[ad_1] Of all the economic reports, the BEA’s periodic update of US GDP is the most useless because not only is it politically motivated, but it gets constantly revised so much that by the time we get a somewhat accurate description of how strong the economy is, it is already one – if not two quarters – later. Today’s second estimate of Q1 GDP – a quarter which ended almost two months ago – is just such an example.  Moments ago the BEA reported that in Q1, US GDP shrank at a 0.2% annualized pace, a modest improvement from the -0.3% initial print which was also the median consensus. According to the BEA, GDP was revised up 0.1% from the advance estimate, reflecting an upward revision to investment that was partly offset by a downward revision to consumer spending.  While there were few notable changes between the initial report and the revision, the most notable revision was in personal consumption which was cut by a third from 1.7% increase in the first print to  just …

Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups tried to influence EU: Report – POLITICO

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[ad_1] France has in recent days gone to great lengths to protect its secular nature. Earlier this week, France’s Europe Minister Benjamin Haddad called for tighter checks on the way the EU allocates grants following allegations that Brussels funded campaigns that did not respect the country’s secular values, and purportedly entities linked to Islamist movements. France’s Europe Minister Benjamin Haddad called for tighter checks on the way the EU allocates grants. | Pool Photo by Neil Hall via EPA Macron has tasked his government with proposing measures to fight the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence, which are expected to be discussed next month, the president’s office said Tuesday. Early version leaked An early version of the report was leaked to the conservative daily Le Figaro and right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles, an act that one high-ranking member of government, who was granted anonymity to speak freely, attributed to Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. Retailleau, who had access to the full report due to his role, told reporters earlier this week that the document would demonstrate how “Islamist infiltration is …

MPs debate Assisted Dying Bill as part of Report Stage

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[ad_1] Today MPs debated the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill as part of Report Stage. They debated a series of amendments, and voted on two. Andrew Copson, Chief Executive for Humanists UK said: ‘We welcome today’s debate on assisted dying, with many eloquently standing up for compassion and dignity, emphasising that no-one should be compelled to endure unnecessary suffering at the end of life. We hope MPs remain committed to crafting a law that is robust and safe, yet deeply mindful of the experiences and dignity of those facing their final days.’ What happened today, in summary The changes to the Bill debated today were: ‘Obligations, duties and protections for medical practitioners, hospices and care homes; The procedure for receiving assistance under the Act including safeguards and protections; Eligibility and mental capacity.’ Amendment NC10 (widening opt-outs) was agreed to without a vote. Amendment (a) to NC10, which would essentially have allowed employers as a whole to opt their employees out regardless of the employees’ views, was defeated 279 to 243. MPs will return …