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> $520K: Hammer price of Princess Diana's "Caring Dress" at a charity auction.
> 11 days, 19 hours, 23 minutes: Quickest time to scuba dive on every continent.

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> Can the social media app BeReal make a comeback?
> Two brothers have a vision for their abandoned $10K Boeing 727.
> Ranking the best (and worst) states for summer road trips.
> Meet the man who photographs insects in extreme detail.
> Transform gifts into perfectly baked loaves of bread.

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> Is location sharing changing relationships for better or worse?
> The rise and continued reign of the American sleepaway camp.

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> Former CIA officer shares the art of uncovering and concealing secrets.
> Filipino chocolate is melting away. What will it take to save it?
> How grocery stores transformed the world and human health.
> Brighten your weekend with some baby giggles.

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> A plea from a millennial to Gen Z to bring back house parties.
> Childhood through the eyes of a drug dealer’s innocent daughter.

Most Clicked This Week: Telegram CEO to give $14B fortune to his 100+ kids.

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In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2025 NHL Draft kicks off tonight (7 pm ET, ESPN); see complete first round mock draft (More) | ... and NBA Draft wraps up; see complete draft results (More)

> Ariana Grande, Kieran Culkin, and Mikey Madison among 534 invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, organizers of the Oscars (More) | Denis Villeneuve tapped to become director of latest James Bond film (More)

> Kenya's Faith Kipyegon runs fastest-ever mile for a woman but fails to break the four-minute mile barrier (More) | PayPal signs multiyear deal with Big Ten and Big 12 to facilitate payments to student-athletes (More)


Science & Technology
> Meta hires top OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to help lead new "superintelligence" unit; poaching is the latest in a reported multi-hundred-million-dollar hiring spree by Meta to jump-start lagging AI program (More) | Meta explained (1440 Topics)

> World's oldest rocks confirmed to be almost 4.2 billion years old; region along Canada's Hudson Bay shore is the only known formation to remain from Earth's Hadean Eon (More) | What was the Hadean Eon? (More, w/video)

> New study suggests babies born prematurely may feel pain before developing the brain circuitry needed to understand and react to the experience (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.9%, Nasdaq +1.0%); S&P 500, Nasdaq briefly trade above all-time closing highs as White House signals July 8-9 tariff deadlines could be extended (More)

> The US economy shrank at 0.5% annual rate during the first three months of 2025, faster than previous estimate of 0.2%, per final report; decline was driven partly by slowdown in consumer spending and a surge in imports ahead of tariffs (More)

> Core Scientific shares close up 33% following report AI infrastructure provider CoreWeave is in talks to buy the bitcoin mining firm (More) | Nike beats Q4 estimates, but reports 12% year-over-year drop in sales (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei downplays US strikes and warns against further attacks in first public remarks since ceasefire (More) | Iran's centrifuges at Fordo are no longer operational, per UN watchdog's head, citing their susceptibility to vibrations (More)

> Ukrainian forces stop Russian advance in the northern region of Sumy, per top general (More) | At least 29 students dead, more than 250 injured in stampede following electric transformer explosion in the Central African Republic (More)

> Ecuador's most wanted man—drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar—captured in underground bunker beneath luxury home in 10-hour operation; Villamar, also known as "Fito," was the leader of cocaine-trafficking Los Choneros (More)

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Owning a Home

 

I have heard from several news outlets like CNN, FOX News, CBS, MSNBC, and ABC that the AMERICAN DREAM is no longer available to Americans, especially when it comes to home ownership.

They blame the reason for this on low wages and the high cost of living.  Both of those reasons are accurate - wages are low and the cost of living is high, especially in the SOUTH.

However, that has never stopped the low wage earners in Tennessee from buying a house, like the people in the north and other parts of the USA claim it does them.

People in Tennessee and I would assume in other states as well, buy cheap homes as a starter home, usually around $50,000.  Then after five years, they upgrade to a $100,000 home.  Again, after five years, they upgrade to a $200,000 home.  Five more years go by and they acquire a $300,000 that they live in for maybe ten years this time before buying a $400,000 home.

After twenty-five years, they are now able to afford a really nice home.  When I say really nice home, a $400,000 home in the south is like buying an $800,000 to a $1,000,000 home up north or out west in California.

It is my guess that those who are bitching about not being able to buy a home, are those who want a $200,000 to $300,000 home from the getgo and who have no desire to pay their dues.

People in Tennessee especially East Tennessee, work as electrician, carpenters, bank tellers, retail clerks, etc.  and have no problem buying themselves starter homes.

Tennessee is one of the lowest wage-earning states in the USA and yet home ownership is never out of the question either as a single person or a couple.

This is one of the reasons why I don't trust or believe mainstream media news outlets.

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New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.

The theory also argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one we experience as continual forward progression. Space emerges as a secondary manifestation.

"These three time dimensions are the primary fabric of everything, like the canvas of a painting," said associate research professor Gunther Kletetschka at the UAF Geophysical Institute. "Space still exists with its three dimensions, but it's more like the paint on the canvas rather than the canvas itself."

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The Corporate Democrat’s Biggest Nightmare
He’s on the way to becoming mayor of New York City




Friends,

Leave it to the Democratic Party to snatch existential crisis from the jaws of electoral victory.

The stunning success of 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, in the race for New York City mayor is causing anguish in the Democratic Party.

It’s one thing for Trump to call Mamdani “a 100% Communist Lunatic.” That’s to be expected from the vulgarian-in-chief. It’s another for Matt Bennett, co-founder of the centrist Democratic group Third Way, to warn that Mamdani’s “affiliation with the (Democratic Socialists of America) is very dangerous.”

Dangerous for whom? Bernie Sanders nearly won the Democratic primary for the 2016 presidential election after announcing he was a democratic socialist — and probably would have won had the Democratic National Committee not torpedoed him.

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(6/4/2025) These 10 pennies could be worth a small fortune one day.

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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The Dallas Mavericks take Duke's Cooper Flagg with the top pick of the 2025 NBA Draft; Round 2 is set for tonight (8pm ET, ESPN) (More)

> Closing arguments begin today in Sean "Diddy" Combs' wide-ranging sex crimes trial (More) | Brian Johnson, social media influencer who was the subject of a Netflix documentary, arrested after making "terroristic" threats against Joe Rogan (More)

> Concacaf Gold Cup group stage complete with quarterfinals set for this weekend; see complete schedule and bracket (More) | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup group stage is ongoing; see latest schedule and results (More)


Science & Technology
> Google DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome, an AI-powered platform to predict how variants and mutations in genetic code lead to different diseases, impact biological processes, and more (More)

> Solar-powered sea slugs eat algae and incorporate the photosynthetic components into their own cells, allowing them to capture energy from sunlight (More)

> James Webb Space Telescope captures its first image of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system; around 111 light-years away, is the lightest exoplanet ever directly observed (More) | JWST explained (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq +0.3%) (More) | Nvidia shares notch record high for the first time since January (More)

> Federal Reserve proposes loosening key rule regulating the quantity and quality of capital banks should keep against their investments; original rule stems from 2008 financial crisis to ensure stability of big US banks (More)

> Bumble to lay off about 30% of its workforce, or roughly 240 employees, as the dating app seeks to return to growth; shares close up 25% on the news (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> NATO leaders agree to increase defense spending to 5% of countries' gross domestic product by 2035 (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> Antigovernment protests in Kenya leave at least eight people dead, over 80 injured; demonstrations coincide with one-year anniversary of antitax protests (More)

> Centers for Disease Control advisory committee announces plan to reexamine childhood vaccine schedule; meeting is the first since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced the panel earlier this month (More)

Source:  1440 NEWS

Impeaching Trump

 For the first time since Trump was elected POTUS again, the Democrats have tried to have him impeached over the bombing of nuclear facilities in IRAN.

Over 100 Democrats went against their own party to prevent this action from taking place because they supported what Trump had authorized.

This is the current state of politics in the USA...

BLOCK OR BE AGAINST EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING THAT TRUMP DOES EVEN IF IT IS FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICANS

Right now, Democrats are against the follow actions by Trump:

• Block illegal immigrants from be deported
• Block the reduction of government spending
• Block the buildup of the American military
• Block the reduction of IRS taxes
• Block the removal of biological males from female sports
• Block Trump from improving our Quality of Life

If Trump wants it, Democrats are against it...

Mainstream media is supporting the Democrats as well, that includes CNN, NY Times, MSNBC et al...  The sad fact of the matter is because of their desire to support the ANTI-TRUMP Movement; their customers are dwindling and viewers of MOVING TO FOX NEWS to receive the truth of the day.

• Trump is unconventional
• Trump is not political
• Trump does not play WASHDC politics
• Trump is not a polished orator
• Trump is oftentimes crude
• Trump has his own brand
• Trump is at times unethical
• Trump does not hide from reporters

Who will these people hate in 2028?

How will the Democrats rebrand themselves?

Democrats no longer represent working class America.

TRUMP HAS FORTY-TWO MONTHS LEFT IN OFFICE

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