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That’s not just the basic plotline of the disastrous 1975 television series “Space: 1999,” it also describes President Bush’s latest energy proposal. You might not have heard this idea in Bush’s “Back to the Moon” speech last week (mostly because there was so much to ridicule that plenty of eye-roll inspiring proposals slipped past reporters), but the White House’s latest long-term strategy for dealing with the global energy crisis is to turn the moon into a huge mining colony....

Yet now, exactly 20 years later, the very same man is running for the U.S. Senate from Illinois – not as the lovable loser I once knew, but as an incredibly successful businessman with a personal wealth estimated at $100 million who once even dated Miss India. How did this happen? It’s a tough question. But by raising it, was I not raising the very opposite question about myself? I was far more popular in college than Baboo, yet my personal fortune is closer to one hundred million Thai baht than one hundred million dollars....

On Sunday, the U.S. Department of State said in a statement, over 300 U.S. citizens and their immediate family members were voluntarily taken off the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been docked at the port city of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, since February 3 after a passenger was diagnosed with COVID-19. Before evacuating the individuals from the ship, medical professionals from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) performed tests on the passengers, and concluded they had no symptoms of the respiratory virus, and were fit to travel on a chartered aircraft destined for the U....

The hour-long video titled “They took our baby again,” had been seen more than 1.8 million times as of Saturday morning. In it, Manatee County sheriff’s office deputies show the couple a court order at the side of the road to turn over their then 10-day-old baby to the authorities for a hospital check-up, the Miami-Herald Tribune reported. It comes only five months after Mercado lost custody of her son Amen’Ra, now 18 months old, whom she has said was “forcefully and legally kidnapped” by the Florida Department of Children and Families....

The Bob Baffert-trained colt still has to conquer the Belmont Stakes on June 6 to complete the Triple Crown sweep, a feat that has eluded the last 13 horses to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. The Wynn Las Vegas offers American Pharoah at -120 odds (5-to-6) to win the Belmont, with the ‘No’ side of the prop – the field, essentially – at even-money. American Pharoah is Baffert’s fourth 3-year-old to win the first two legs of the Crown....

El Gato is a prominent Free Fire content creator hailing from Brazil. He owns the renowned esport organization, Los Grandes, and has over 8.66 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. This article compares the two players’ stats in Garena Free Fire. Read: Ajjubhai (Total Gaming) vs Sooneeta: Who has better Free Fire stats in February 2021? Amitbhai’s Free Fire ID and stats Amitbhai’s Free Fire ID is 206746194. Lifetime stats Amitbhai has played 7740 squad matches and has won on 2147 occasions, making his win rate 27....

This article compares the in-game stats of both players. Also read: SK Sabir Boss vs Vishal Boss: Who has better stats in Free Fire? Amitbhai’s Free Fire ID and stats His Free Fire ID is 206746194. Lifetime stats Amitbhai has 2122 Booyahs in 7549 squad games, which equates to a win percentage of 28.10%. He has bagged 19574 kills and has retained a K/D ratio of 3.61. The YouTuber has played 3986 duo games and has clinched 705 of them, managing a win percentage of 17....

All the new Echo Show devices are already available for pre-order and go on sale next month. The New Echo Show 8 Keeps the Focus on You on Video Calls The new Echo Show 8 features a 13MP camera with a 110-degree wide field of view. Coupled with the more powerful octa-core processor, the new camera can automatically pan and zoom while you are on a video call to keep you in the center of the frame....

Video footage from the woman’s home in Charlotte, North Carolina, shows a man ringing the doorbell and speaking with the resident. McCall allegedly asked the woman if she was in possession of a package that she should not have. She said she wasn’t and then closed the door. The person in the video then walked away from the home only to return a few minutes later and ask again....

The player elected not to submit to a test of his bowling action within the stipulated period of 14 days of being reported for a suspect action, and therefore he has been suspended with immediate effect in accordance with clause 4.2 of the ICC regulations, which can be found here. The suspension will remain in place until he is tested, and can demonstrate he is able to bowl with a legal action....

Stephnie White was abducted on Niagara Falls Boulevard in North Tonawanda at around 7 p.m. on Monday night, according to the North Tonawanda Police Department. Police described her as a white female, aged approximately 17, with short brown hair and brown eyes. She is around 4 feet and 10 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. The girl was last seen wearing a black Deadpool sweatshirt with red and black pajama pants and black and white high-top sneakers....

Heard joined fellow actor Zachary Quinto at The Trevor Project’s 2011 Trevor Live! on December 4, 2011, in Los Angeles to deliver speeches about the young LGBTQ lives that TrevorSpace had saved through their work. TrevorSpace provides support for LGBTQ youth aged 13-24 and also has a suicide prevention hotline, which the stars spoke about when they took the stage at storied venue the Hollywood Palladium. In the video, Star Trek actor Quinto was the first of the two to speak, telling the story of a teenage boy living with autism who had lived through multiple suicide attempts....

Following the highly publicized blockbuster trial between the actress and her ex-husband Johnny Depp, both parties were found liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other. The jury awarded Depp $15 million in damages and only $2 million to Heard, and since the jury’s decision, Heard has fought for a retrial, citing that there were several issues with the June ruling. On Friday, Heard’s insurance company, New York Marine and General Insurance Co....

The newly released documents revealed a number of details which were prevented from being mentioned during the recent defamation trial, which Depp ultimately won in Fairfax Country, Virginia. The unsealed documents have shed new light on Depp’s severed finger, revealed personal messages between Depp and Marilyn Manson, and suggested that Depp’s team wanted to use nude photos of Heard as evidence. The documents also revealed that when Heard and Depp were going through divorce proceedings in 2016, she had the opportunity to claim half of Depp’s income from his latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie....

While the film is not technically greenlit yet, Heard says production is planned to begin in early 2021, and as one of the few unqualified success stories of the DC Cinematic Universe, a sequel seems all but inevitable. The particular controversy over Heard, however, likely has more to do with public controversy over her relationship with Johnny Depp, her ex-husband. RELATED: Warner Bros. Wants Mads Mikkelsen to Replace Johnny Depp...

We are not without precedent of course. Eight Justices were nominated and confirmed to fill vacancies that arose during presidential election years. President Herbert Hoover nominated Benjamin Cardozo to replace the venerable Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes while running for reelection. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt succeeded Hoover, the U.S. Senate confirmed Justice Cardozo in March of 1932. While running for reelection, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed—via the seldom-used recess appointment—Justice William J....

Gorbachev, 88, was the Soviet leader who inked the 1987 accord with U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The treaty banned ground-launch nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges from 310 miles to 3,417 miles, removing roughly 2,700 such weapons from the front lines of the Cold War. The U.S. has accused Russia of developing weapons that contravene the agreement, specifically the SSC-8/9M729 cruise missile. U.S. officials believe the 9M729 has a range of between 310 and 620 miles, making it a breach of the agreement....

My life has been far more satisfying than I dreamed possible when I arrived in the United States, 38 years ago. I am privileged to head a world-class institution, the University of California, Berkeley. My former Ph.D. students are professors at major universities. My engineering research has contributed to America’s space technology, nuclear-reactor safety and energy technology. Yet no matter the scope of my accomplishments, when many Americans see my face and hear my Chinese accent, they think of me as an immigrant, first and foremost....

This was Thursday morning, one day after al-Douri–whose boss, Saddam Hussein, was either dead or on the run, and whose job, Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, is as worthless as those dinars in his pocket–famously admitted that the Republic of Iraq did not, for the time being, even exist. “The game is over,” he said. That shocking admission–coming from a man who had defended Saddam in that most public of arenas only to watch his boss’s monuments get pulled down and dragged all over Baghdad–drew me to al-Douri’s Upper East Side townhouse the next day....