Month: May 2021

Skywatchers Witness Breathtaking Rainbow Halo Around the Sun Over City in Southern India

A stunning spectacle was witnessed in the sky over Bangalore on Monday when a rainbow formed a halo around the sun. Local residents observed and photographed the striking atmospheric phenomenon surrounding the sun in the southern Indian city. Dr. Gouri Sateesh, 24, who was one of the hundreds of residents who captured the spectacular sight…


Noem: Report of Private Jet Ride With Mike Lindell Is ‘Fake News’

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is disputing a report that claimed MyPillow’s CEO flew her to the Republican Governors Association (RGA) spring meeting this month. A report from Politico, citing anonymous sources, claimed that CEO Mike Lindell flew Noem to the meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. It also cited a single source in claiming Lindell was able…


Woman Is Shocked After Giving Birth to a Boy Weighing 12lb 9oz and Measuring 2 Feet Tall

A mother in England was left astonished after giving birth to a baby boy measuring two feet tall and weighing a whopping 12 pounds 9 ounces (5.7 kg). He was so big that he didn’t even fit on the weighing scales. Amy, 27, and her husband Zac Smit, 28, from the Buckinghamshire village of Cheddington,…


US Reports Highest Travel Numbers Since Start of Pandemic

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported the highest volume of people passing through travel security checkpoints on May 28, the highest total since the outbreak of the CCP virus. The TSA logged 1.96 million travelers on Friday ahead of Memorial Day weekend. That’s nearly six times the travel volume on the same day last…


Arizona Senate Considering Expansion of Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit

The Arizona Senate is mulling an expansion of the 2020 election audit taking place in Maricopa County. Senators are considering hiring a California-based nonprofit to analyze ballot images to create a third set of numbers to compare with the tabulation from Dominion Voting Systems machines and the hand recount being doing by Cyber Ninjas, a…


‘Regieoper’ Versus ‘Werktreue’: A New Act for Opera

Opera has become a joke in modern pop culture. From commercials to movies, it’s always considered funny to make a crack about opera and its singers. Tropes of stout blond singers in horned helmets and breastplates are all that most people know about opera. However, most people have never experienced real opera. Other than Mozart’s…


‘Friends’ No More: China Censors Lady Gaga, BTS, Justin Bieber From Reunion Episode

Commentary “In China, the reunion episode of ‘Friends’ was all about grudges,” writes the brilliant Paul Mozur in the New York Times. “The problem wasn’t ‘Friends,’ but the friends of ‘Friends.’” Three Chinese video platforms streamed the reunion episode of “Friends” on May 27. But the latest episode of the 1990s American sitcom, beloved by…


Gavin MacLeod, ‘Love Boat’ Captain, Dies at 90

LOS ANGELES—Gavin MacLeod, the veteran supporting actor who achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” before going on to even bigger fame as the cheerful Capt. Stubing on “The Love Boat,” has died. He was 90. MacLeod died early Saturday, his nephew, Mark See, told Variety….


Kidnappers Free 14 Nigerian Students in Northwest Kaduna State

KADUNA, Nigeria–Kidnappers have released the remaining 14 students who had been held captive after being abducted last month from a northern Nigerian university, a senior member of the teaching staff said on Saturday. Armed groups have repeatedly attacked schools and universities in northwest Nigeria in the last few months, abducting more than 700 students for…


DA Won’t Seek New Death Sentence Against Scott Peterson

SACRAMENTO—A California district attorney said in a court filing Friday that she won’t seek a new death sentence against Scott Peterson, convicted in 2005 of murdering his pregnant wife. The Stanislaus County district attorney’s office said it would drop efforts to restore the penalty thrown out last year by the state Supreme Court. The DA…