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The Northern Lights, as promised, could be seen in the Miami Valley region on Thursday night.[DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]As reported at 6:00, Storm Center 7′s Nick Dunn broke down the timing and passed along the best ways to see the lights in the region. A coronal mass ejection (CME) will likely arrive at Earth on Thursday night into Friday morning, which will lead to elevated geomagnetic activity and the possibility of seeing the Northern Lights in the Miami Valley, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued for Oct. 10…
The country has essentially ceased to rely on oil and gas exports as a source of income, HSE University Rector Nikita Anisimov has said Western sanctions imposed on Russia amid the Ukraine conflict have made the country’s economy stronger, Nikita Anisimov, rector of the HSE University in Moscow, has said.Speaking on behalf of HSE economists at a parliamentary hearing on the draft of the 2025-2027 federal budget on Monday, Anisimov said sanctions have effectively propelled the restructuring of the country’s economy. According to the expert, this has led to Russia “essentially ceasing” its dependence on the export of raw materials…
This week’s planned meeting of the heads of state of Ukraine’s backers in Germany has been canceled after US President Joe Biden announced he will not attend, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing an e-mail sent by the US public affairs office at Ramstein Air Base. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) also reported the development, citing anonymous NATO sources.The gathering of the so-called Ramstein group at the eponymous US military base was supposed to feature addresses by Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.Following the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, more than 50 countries, including…
Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,Concern among Spaniards about immigration has surged in the past year with 57 percent of citizens believing there are now “too many” immigrants in the country, new polling shows.A recent survey by the 40dB Institute for El País and Cadena SER revealed that 75 percent of Spaniards now associate immigration with negative concepts such as insecurity, crime, and overburdened public services. The increase in concern — up by 16 points over the last year and a half — reflects a considerable shift at a time when the migrant crisis, particularly on the Canary Islands archipelago is…
One of America’s major banks has been hit with a massive fine after federal investigators said it was lax in its efforts to monitor money laundering. TD Bank will pay $1.89 billion to the Department of Justice, $123.5 million to the Federal Reserve Board, and $450 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, according to the consent order between the federal government and the bank. The bank must also pay $757 million to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement, referred to in the consent order as FinCEN. The penalty is a record, according to CNN.…
The Minnesota Twins are exploring a sale of the club. (Photo by Tom Dahlin/Getty Images)Getty Images Ownership of the Minnesota Twins announced on Thursday that they would explore selling the franchise. If so, they would see incredible profit. In a statement released today, Twins Executive Chair Joe Pohlad laid out the plans on behalf of the Pohlad family. “After months of thoughtful consideration, our family reached a decision this summer to explore selling the Twins. As we enter the next phase of this process, the time is right to make this decision public,” he said. The Twins have retained Allen…
The British government is set to miss out on billions in tax on gasoline and diesel after it pushed drivers to adopt electric cars instead, and will want to make up the shortfall by taxing road users per mile instead, a senior government advisor says. Britain faces a future of “Big Brother is watching you” style cameras tracking drivers so they can be billed for using roads as the government’s policy decisions to incentivise electric vehicles (EVs) means it stands to miss out on billions of pounds of tax money from drivers a year. In the United Kingdom, two of…
The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, claimed on Wednesday that Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar demanded his terrorists increase the frequency of suicide bombings when he took over the group in August. Sinwar – previously the head of the Hamas “military” wing, the al-Qassam Brigades – became the head of the entire organization after the death of “political” chief Ismail Haniyeh on July 30. Haniyeh was in Tehran, Iran, for the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian when his lodgings exploded, killing him. Both Iran and Hamas have blamed Israel for the blast, although the country has not taken responsibility for the…
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was seen in a video posted by a leftist influencer feeding the woman Doritos while on her knees. In the video, posted by leftist influencer @feministabulous, Whitmer is wearing a Harris-Walz hat in what appears to be a mockery of Catholics. X users blasted the video of a pro-abortion governor and pro-abortion influencer mocking the Catholic faith. The video and the ensuing outrage it provoked among Catholics comes at a precarious time for Democrats, especially in Whitmer’s home state of Michigan. In an interview with Breitbart’s Matt Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Faith and Freedom founder…
Just hours after the passing of the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, vandals smashed windows on the campus of Harvard and poured red paint on the school’s namesake statue in “an act of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance,” according to an online message.The online group “Unity of Fields,” which publishes defacement videos from across the country, posted a video of Tuesday’s vandalism. The video included the caption: “Bring the war home.””In the early hours of 10/8, autonomous actors at Harvard smashed windows of the main administrative building and vandalized the John Harvard statue in an act…