An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday. It’s the first time that a celestial body’s orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA’s Dart spacecraft slammed into was never a threat to Earth. “This study marks a notable step forward in our ability to prevent future asteroid impacts on Earth,” the international research team wrote in Science Advances. The changes were slight — reductions of just one-tenth of a second and one-half of a mile (720 meters) to a solar lap spanning two years and hundreds of millions of miles (kilometers), according to the scientists. “Even though this seems small, a tiny deflection ... can add up over decades and make the difference between a potentially hazardous asteroid hitting or missing the Earth in the future,” lead author Rahil Makadia, of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said in an email. “While it is just a single experiment, it is nonetheless an important data point that will be relevant to any future asteroid deflection missions,” Chesley said in an email. Officials reportedly said a prison guard in the unit where Jeffrey Epstein was being held searched his name on Google minutes before he was found dead. U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) documents showed the guard also made a $5,000 deposit just over a week before his death, the New York Post reported on Saturday, identifying the guard as Tova Noel. “The [guards] had a duty to ensure the safety and security of federal inmates in their care,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in 2019. “Instead, they repeatedly failed to conduct mandated checks on inmates, and lied on official forms to hide their dereliction.” Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records said Noel searched “latest on Epstein in jail” twice minutes before correctional officer Michael Thomas found Epstein’s body. She had earlier shopped online and allegedly napped instead of checking on the inmate every 30 minutes, while Thomas also perused the internet. Chase Bank flagged cash deposits in Noel’s bank account in a “suspicious activity report” to the FBI in November 2019, another file from the DOJ revealed. A total of 12 deposits began in April 2018, the bank said, and culminated in the largest deposit, for $5,000, on July 30, 2019, the records showed. Epstein’s lifeless body was found on August 19, 2019. An inmate housed at the jail reportedly told the FBI he overheard guards discussing covering up Epstein’s death when his body was found, according to the Miami Herald. The FBI reportedly interviewed the inmate, who recalled what allegedly happened on August 10, 2019, inside the Special Housing Unit (SHU), per the Herald: “Breathe! Breathe!” he recalled officers shouting about 6:30 a.m. Then he said he heard an officer say “Dudes, you killed that dude.” A female guard replied “If he is dead, we’re going to cover it up and he’s going to have an alibi — my officers,” the FBI notes said. The inmate claimed the whole wing overheard the exchange. Later, after learning Epstein had died, he said inmates said “Miss Noel killed Jeffrey.” California is pushing this because the State is in debt and they have encouraged so many people to drive electric cars, so those folks are not paying gas taxes. I heard that for every gallon of gas sold in California, 75 cents of tax is added. Our gasoline costs well over $5 a gallon. @patrician I'm glad I moved out of California. It was fun while it lasted but I'm glad to be on to new adventures. LONDON (AP) — Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords. On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped objections to legislation passed by the House of Commons ousting dozens of dukes, earls and viscounts who inherited seats in Parliament along with their aristocratic titles. Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to “an archaic and undemocratic principle.” “Our parliament should always be a place where talents are recognized and merit counts,” he said. “It should never be a gallery of old boys’ networks, nor a place where titles, many of which were handed out centuries ago, hold power over the will of the people.” The bill will become law once King Charles III grants royal assent — a formality — and the hereditary peers will leave at the end of the current session of Parliament this spring, completing a political process begun a quarter century ago. In Lords terms, that is speedy. Labour remains committed to eventually replacing the House of Lords with an alternative second chamber that is “more representative of the U.K.” If past experience is anything to go by, change will come slowly. In a scene straight out of a dystopian nightmare, self-styled “Sharia patrols” on horseback charged through Manchester’s streets on March 4, 2026, chasing down peaceful demonstrators celebrating the end of Iran’s brutal Islamic Republic regime. These vigilantes, reportedly wearing armbands emblazoned with “Sharia Law,” terrorized anti-regime protesters—many from the Iranian diaspora and local Jewish communities—who gathered to mark the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in recent US-Israeli strikes. Greater Manchester Police, under the watchful eye of Keir Starmer’s Labour government, did nothing to intervene, with one officer dismissively asking a concerned bystander, “What do you want me to do? Pull him off the horse?” This brazen display of Islamic intimidation, captured in viral footage circulating on X and YouTube, is maybe the most stunning proof of the horrifying reality: major UK cities like Manchester are increasingly operating under de facto Sharia rule, where equality before the law is a relic of the past. While self-appointed enforcers of Islamic law roam free on horseback, wielding their mounts as weapons of terror, ordinary Britons face arrest for the “crime” of waving their own national flag. This is the insidious legacy of the Starmer regime—a government that appears hell-bent on erasing British identity, either by directly empowering Islamic forces or using them as proxies to pave the way for a globalist, communist-style polity where dissent is crushed, and any kind of individual identity or freedom of thought is erased. https://rairfoundation.com/britains-islamic-takeover-accelerates-armed-sharia-vigilantes-horseback/ 
Spacecraft’s impact changed asteroid’s orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds:
Report: Epstein Prison Guard Googled Him Minutes Before Body Found, Received Mystery $5k a Week Earlier:
Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years:
Britain's Islamic Takeover Accelerates: Armed Sharia Vigilantes on Horseback Terrorize Manchester While Starmer's Cops Refuse to Intervene: