U.S. Marine Corps highlights its expeditionary capabilities during training on San Clemente Island, the southernmost of the Channel Islands of California. According to a press release issued Monday by the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 371 established two forward arming and refueling points (FARP) during the training, showcasing MWSS-371’s ability to employ multiple FARPs both ashore and on remote […]
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UFC man of the moment Khamzat Chimaev says he will fight anyone and everyone as he plots the next moves in his rapid rise in the promotion. Chimaev established himself as the name on every fight fan’s lips in the space of just two months when he exploded onto the UFC scene with three dominant victories across two weight classes. Such is his ascent that the […]
Staten Island GOP chairman has claimed that his party racked up some $16,000 in fees predominantly from its opponents, after a popular anti-Trump TikToker urged viewers to sign up for an outdoor rally. Staten Island GOP chairman Brendan Lantry told the New York Post on Saturday, that the webpage where those willing could sign up for the “TRiUMPh Rally”, billed as a free event, was overwhelmed […]
Dagestani flyweight Tagir Ulanbekov made his octagon debut at UFC Fight Island on Saturday night in Abu Dhabi, and after getting his career on the big stage off to a winning start, he dedicated his win to his former coach. Ulanbekov defeated Brazilian Bruno Silva via unanimous decision in the opening fight of the night on Fight Island to extend his professional record to 11 wins, […]
youtube.com Galapagos Island Specimens to Be 3-D Digitized How an Expedition to the Galápagos Islands Saved One of the World’s Largest Natural History Museums https://t.co/IboANWw57u — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) October 10, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Back in 1905 researchers from the California Academy of Sciences surveyed the Galapagos Islands for 17 months. The fields of geology, paleontology, entomology, botany, ornithology, herpetology, and malacology were represented. Specimens […]
Russian UFC newcomer Tagir Ulanbekov has posted a throwback photo with Khabib Nurmagomedov and revealed the champ’s words to him as he set off for Abu Dhabi, where he has faced hitches in entering the city and became his own chef. Lightweight champion Nurmagomedov saw off Ulanbekov, one of his long-term training camp partners, as his fellow Dagestani departed for Abu Dhabi ahead of his first […]
Frustrated featherweight Hakeem Dawodu has admitted he was trying to goad opponent Zubaira Tukhugov into trading with him during an angry outburst at UFC 253, accusing his Russian rival of being a “running man” during their fight. Canadian Dawodu lost his cool in the final minute of the third round of his encounter with Tukhugov, snarling at his foe as his plea to “f*cking fight” echoed around […]
According to seismologists, the epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 40.5 kilometres southwest of Arvi. A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit the Greek island of Crete on Friday, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said. The quake was registered at 16:28 GMT, with the epicentre located at a depth of 40.5 kilometres southwest of Arvi, seismologists said. No injuries or damage has so far been reported. […]
Children walk through the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos after the camp was gutted by fire. Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images Children walk through the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos after the camp was gutted by fire. Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images Several swift fires gutted Europe’s largest refugee […]
The University of Rhode Island is taking down murals that were painted at its student Memorial Union more than 60 years ago because they show too many white people and lack “sensitivity to today’s complex and painful problems.” “These murals were a snapshot in time, but the images no longer represent who we are today and where we are going in the future,” university vice president […]
What happens when you take 10 “sexy singles,” give them all COVID-19 tests, and make them share one tiny Las Vegas hotel room after months of isolation? Extreme horniness and a flagrant disregard for safety procedures ensue. So begins the second season of CBS’s Love Island, the US adaptation of the British reality dating show of the same name. When Love Island USA premiered last summer, […]
…from SouthFront.org Israel and the United Arab Emirates are going to create a military intelligence-gathering infrastructure on Yemen’s Socotra Island, according to Arab and French sources. The 3,650km2 island, located south of the Yemeni mainland in the Indian Ocean, overlooks the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The straight is a sea route chokepoint between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, connecting the Red Sea to the […]
A massive Trump 2020 boat parade was underway Sunday in the blue state of Rhode Island. More than 1,000 boats participated in Sunday’s boat parade in Rhode Island. WATCH: BOAT PARADE for @realDonaldTrump in Rhode Island! 🇺🇸🚤 pic.twitter.com/88LshtSC1k — Kyle Martinsen (@KyleMartinsen_) August 23, 2020 TRENDING: Police Make Second Arrest in Attack on 7-Year-Old Trump Supporter Outside of DNC Convention Trump supporters on land cheer on […]
In this photo provided by the Australian Defence Force, an Australian Army helicopter lands on Pikelot Island in the Federated States of Micronesia to rescue three stranded mariners who had been missing for nearly three days. HOGP/AP hide caption toggle caption HOGP/AP In this photo provided by the Australian Defence Force, an Australian Army helicopter lands on Pikelot Island in the Federated States of Micronesia to […]
Bill Clinton’s spokesperson on Friday released a statement after Ghislaine Maxwell documents unsealed Thursday night contained statements from a witness who told a lawyer that she saw Clinton on Epstein’s pedophile island in the Caribbean. Clinton’s spokesman told Newsweek that the former US President “never” went to Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile island. In a statement on Friday, Angel Ureña, a spokesperson for Clinton, told Newsweek that the former president […]
Guest post by Joseph Dugal The liberal media would like to portray President Clinton’s and citizen Trump’s relationships with Jeffrey Epstein as similar in nature. Nothing could be further from the truth. The real Trump-Epstein relationship is purely adversarial – Donald Trump has been fighting Jeffrey Epstein since before, during, and after the time George Bush was lenient with him and Barack Obama did nothing to […]
Newly unsealed files tied to the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking case imply that former US President Bill Clinton visited the investor’s private island along with “young girls,” and that the FBI knew well about the minors’ abuse. Comprising hundreds of pages of documents, the trove was released on Thursday night following a judge’s order last week to have it unsealed, over the objections of Ghislaine Maxwell, a […]
In newly unsealed documents, one of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most prominent accusers claims the perverted duo forced her to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew and other “politically-connected and financially-powerful people” when she was underage. Late on Thursday night, a judge ordered the release of a tranche of documents in a long-running defamation case between Maxwell and Virginia Roberts Giuffre, previously “Jane Doe No. […]
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers tried to keep x-rated evidence related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein from going public, but a judge denied the appeal and released damning docs on Thursday evening. Epstein’s pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell is currently in federal custody awaiting trial. A witness interview revealed Bill Clinton was at Epstein’s pedophile island with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and “2 young girls.” Portion of the interview with a […]
Geologists from around the world began expressing concerns about the state of the planet’s magnetic field last year amid the rapid move of the magnetic north pole out of the Canadian Arctic toward Russia. Earth scientists from the University of Liverpool’s Geomagnetism Laboratory have discovered that the South Atlantic Anomaly – the area between South America and southern Africa where the magnetic field is significantly weaker […]
In recent comments to the press, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu claimed Chinese aircraft flying close to the island’s areas of control is “virtually a daily occurrence.” However, he failed to mention the US is also sending planes near Chinese airspace close to Taiwan on a daily basis. “What it is doing now is unceasingly preparing to use force to resolve the Taiwan problem,” Wu told […]
Right-wing artist and activist Scott LoBaido has unfurled a massive banner of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio holding Lady Liberty’s severed head over the Staten Island Expressway. The giant banner is 20′ by 30′, or roughly the size of a large two car garage, and features de Blasio happily holding the bleeding head while rocking a Che Guevara shirt. “Go big or go home!” LoBaido […]
The four horsemen of COVID-19 will ensure that tourists visiting one of Sweden’s most popular summer destinations “behave well”. In an unorthodox move, local authorities on Sweden’s Baltic island of Gotland have recruited equestrians posing as medieval knights on horseback to halt the coronavirus in its tracks amid the height of the summer tourist season. The four horsemen, or so-called “COVID Knights” from the regional medieval […]
The island of Little Saint James that Jeffrey Epstein bought for almost $8 million in 1998 is where the billionaire’s alleged victims claim they were abused by him and his powerful friends. Prince Andrew was one of Epstein’s high-profile friends who visited the island, but the royal has claimed he didn’t see any wrongdoing on the part of Epstein. A 2015 video has reappeared online showing […]
Rhys “Skeletor” McKee, one of the top prospects in European MMA, was lost for words after he was told that he was being drafted in to compete against Russian-born grappler Khamzat Chimaev at ‘Fight Island’ on a week’s notice. McKee, a graduate of the Cage Warriors promotion which also featured the likes of Conor McGregor and Michael Bisping before they joined the UFC, has long been considered as […]
An eerie photo of Mark Zuckerberg sporting a thick layer of sunblock while surfboarding in Hawaii has sent Twitter into overdrive, giving boost to a petition launched to bar him from “colonizing” Native Hawaiians’ land. Facebook CEO has become the butt of jokes on Twitter on Sunday evening after photos of him holidaying in Hawaii were leaked to the media. The images show Zuckeberg braving the […]
A day earlier the World Health Organisation reported a record daily increase in infections (over 237,000) across the world. The WHO also issued a dire warning that the situation will get “worse and worse” if governments don’t take decisive steps to curb the spread of the disease, which has killed more than 600,000 and infected 14.2 million to date. The unofficial motto of the coronavirus pandemic […]
A day earlier the World Health Organisation reported a record daily increase in infections (over 237,000) across the world. The WHO also issued a dire warning that the situation will get “worse and worse” if governments don’t take decisive steps to curb the spread of the disease, which has killed more than 600,000 and infected 14.2 million to date. The unofficial motto of the coronavirus pandemic […]
Georgian ‘Shewolf’ Liana Jojua scored her fifth career armbar and her first-ever UFC win when she submitted Dian Belbita in the first round at UFC Fight Night 172 on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. READ MORE: ‘Who’s the p*ssy here?’: UFC’s Jojua and Kassem trade social media shots after Georgian ‘She Wolf’ calls out Aussie rival (PHOTOS) It took just 2 minutes and 43 seconds of […]
The city council in Asheville, North Carolina approved paying reparations to black residents, while a mayor in Rhode Island signed an order promising to look into the act, leading many to argue this is the start of a major trend. “Hundreds of years of Black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today,” Keith Young, one of black members of the Asheville City […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107970/26/1079702676_0:242:2272:1520_1200x675_80_0_0_f8eb1573824138cc5dfdd7a70e7bd7c7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006241079702555-rhode-island-may-shorten-its-full-name-due-to-slavery-connotations/ In the wake of anti-racism protests following the death of black Minneapolis resident George Floyd, the word “plantations” in the state’s name has come also under harsh criticism. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Monday that will remove the second part of the state’s full name, “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”, in official communications. […]
The words “and Providence Plantations” will be removed from many Rhode Island state documents under an executive order by Gov. Gina Raimondo. The state legislature will consider an official name change. David Goldman/AP hide caption toggle caption David Goldman/AP The words “and Providence Plantations” will be removed from many Rhode Island state documents under an executive order by Gov. Gina Raimondo. The state legislature will consider […]
The U.S. Navy’s first operational CMV-22B tilt-rotor aircraft, the latest variant in Osprey family, assigned to Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron 30 arrived at Naval Air Station North Island. The new aircraft is designed to replace ageing C-2 Greyhound carrier onboard delivery aircraft. It is the only aircraft that can land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier with the F-35C engine power module safely secured […]