Eight Dead After Plane Crashes In Remote Part Of Alaska

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A charter plane crashed Thursday in a remote part of Alaska, killing all eight people who were on board, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.

The plane, a Cessna 441, crashed west of the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport around 12:15 p.m. local time, according to the FAA’s statement shared on X. The plane had departed from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and was en route to Cape Newenham.

Two pilots and six passengers were killed as a result of the crash, according to Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) Alaska region chief, NBC News reported.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, commander of Alaskan Command, the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, and Eleventh Air Force, reacted to the incident.

“This is a devastating loss for our military family and the communities we serve,” Davis said in a statement, according to NBC News. (Read more from “Eight Dead After Plane Crashes In Remote Part Of Alaska” HERE)

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NASA Mars Photo Sparks Claims of Aliens on the Red Planet

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NASA has long maintained that it has found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life, but a newly resurfaced image from Mars has reignited wild speculation.

The photograph, captured by the Curiosity rover in 2024, shows a rocky hillside, distant peaks and a mysterious black object apparently suspended above the Martian horizon.

Curiosity has spent 14 years investigating whether Mars could once have supported microbial life.

However, it was the unexplained shape in the sky that captured attention after X user Kari Sivertzen reposted the image Wednesday.

The post quickly sparked theories that the object could be evidence of alien activity on the Red Planet.

However, the single frame offers no proof that the shape was a flying craft or even a physical object. (Read more from “NASA Mars Photo Sparks Claims of Aliens on the Red Planet” HERE)

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Cause of Death Revealed for Missing US Assistant Attorney Found Dead in Office

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A missing US Attorney found dead in an office at a federal building in San Diego killed himself, the California Post has learned.

Local police discovered Acting US Attorney Andrew Haden, 48, dead inside an office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building Wednesday.

Sources familiar with the case told The Post that Haden hanged himself.

The attorney was earlier reported missing. The medical examiner will determine the official cause and manner of Haden’s death.

Haden joined the US attorney’s office in 2010 and twice stepped in as acting US attorney for the Southern District of California during leadership changes, serving roughly two months in both 2023 and 2025.

An investigation into the incident is ongoing. (Read more from “Cause of Death Revealed for Missing US Assistant Attorney Found Dead in Office” HERE)

Amazon Delivery Drone Drops ‘Shocked’ Customer’s Package Directly into Swimming Pool in Viral Video

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A Texas woman watched in horror as an Amazon delivery drone dropped her package directly into her pool — one day after the retail giant announced plans to roll out the ultrafast air delivery services to 500 US cities by the end of the year.

Amazon shopper Lindsey Austen received an alert on Monday that her package was out for delivery by the retail giant’s Prime Air program, according to Storyful.

The Richmond, Texas, resident then heard the drone’s loud buzzing noise and raced outside to watch the newly rolled-out drone delivery service drop off her package.

Instead, Austen was left stunned as the drone opened its hatch and dropped the package straight into her swimming pool, which was caught on wild video footage.

“When it went into the pool, I was shocked,” Austen said. “I don’t think I’ll be wanting any more drone deliveries.”

It’s unclear what was inside the now waterlogged parcel. (Read more from “Amazon Delivery Drone Drops ‘Shocked’ Customer’s Package Directly into Swimming Pool in Viral Video” HERE)

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‘Fake’ Dan Sullivan Admits He Never Voted Trump, Backed Murkowski and Peltola

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Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan told the New York Times he has never voted for President Donald Trump, despite running as a Republican against the incumbent GOP senator who shares his name, according to a profile published Monday.

Sullivan, 69, is a retired schoolteacher from the fishing village of Petersburg. He and two-term Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan share a name, and both appear on Tuesday’s primary ballot. Republicans call the challenger a Democrat plant. The challenger told the Times he was running in good faith as a moderate Republican, not a secret Democrat.

He said he voted for the Democrat nominee in the last three presidential elections and did not vote for the senator in his previous two campaigns. He said he backed Democrat Mary Peltola in her 2022 and 2024 House bids and has donated to her and other Democrats. Asked whether he would prefer Peltola over the incumbent in November, he did not hesitate.

“If it was between those two, it’d probably be that,” Sullivan said.

The challenger said he attends local events protesting the Trump administration, including at least one “No Kings” protest, and told the Times he opposes the direction of his own party. (Read more from “‘Fake’ Dan Sullivan Admits He Never Voted Trump, Backed Peltola” HERE)

State Admits It Doesn’t Track Noncitizens On Voter Rolls As Federal Law Requires

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For years, Americans have been told that concerns about noncitizens voting are a myth, a right-wing talking point unworthy of serious attention. California’s own secretary of state and attorney general have proven otherwise, however, not by admitting the state has no idea whether, or how often, it’s even happening, but by indicating the state isn’t bothering to track it.

A few weeks ago, the ACLJ submitted two California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests — one to the California secretary of state and one to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office — seeking records on how the state maintains the integrity of its voter rolls. The Attorney General’s Office took an extension, ultimately responding on Aug. 10.

The Secretary of State’s Office responded first, but refused to provide any records responsive to our request. According to its answer, the statewide voter registration system simply “does not contain” a specific cancellation reason for non-citizenship. In other words, the state cannot tell us how many noncitizens have ever been removed from its voter rolls — because it doesn’t keep that information at all.

Below is a summary of our records requests to the secretary of state, and how California responded to each: First, we asked for the number of voter registrations that were canceled because the registrant didn’t meet citizenship requirements. California said its system “does not contain a voter status reason for cancellation due to non-citizenship.”

Second, we asked for records on the programs the state uses to keep its voter rolls accurate and current. California pointed to training manuals showing that new registrants are checked against death records, felony records from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and DMV change-of-address records — but not citizenship (aside from a self-attested checkbox). (Read more from “State Admits It Doesn’t Track Noncitizens On Voter Rolls As Federal Law Requires” HERE)

Trump Doubles Down on Declaring Strait of Hormuz U.S. Territory as Iran Threatens to Break U.S. Blockade

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President Donald Trump doubled down Monday on declaring the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory, asserting that Washington has “total control” of the strategic waterway as Tehran threatened a military attack to break the U.S. naval blockade and declared a shift toward a more offensive posture.

“I just think it’s a great idea,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked to elaborate on his suggestion last week that the strait could be declared U.S. territory.

Trump repeatedly pointed to the blockade as the basis for American control.

“We control it. We control it with the blockade,” he said. “And I like the idea of declaring it a territory. We could do that. We have total control over the strait.”

Trump said Iran could still prove a “nuisance” by placing mines in the water, but described the blockade as “very effective” and touted the amount of oil now moving through the waterway. (Read more from “Trump Doubles Down on Declaring Strait of Hormuz U.S. Territory as Iran Threatens to Break U.S. Blockade” HERE)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims White House Is “Discussing” Nuclear Weapons Use On Iran

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Marjorie Taylor Greene has made fresh claims alleging that the White House is discussing the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran as part of strategy meetings.

In a post on X, the former Congresswoman wrote that “They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings,” adding that she was not speculating and characterizing the alleged plan as “pure evil.”

Greene further said that U.S. intelligence indicated Iran was “no where near creating a nuclear weapon,” and she also referenced what she described as a repeated Israeli assessment that Iran was only weeks away from producing a nuclear weapon. She argued that after bombing, Iran gained greater leverage in the region, including through what she described as its role related to the Strait of Hormuz.

The remarks also tie into Greene’s criticisms of Donald Trump’s approach to Iran. She highlighted Trump’s statements claiming Iran had been “very badly defeated,” and she pointed to his comments on Truth Social describing the U.S. as capable of controlling whether anything reaches Iran unless a deal—or what he called “Total Surrender”—is achieved.

Greene said Trump has repeatedly maintained that Iran must surrender its enriched uranium stockpiles, which she described in the context of his language about nuclear threats. In her post, she argued that despite Trump’s assurances about avoiding further foreign wars, his administration could be linked to decisions she called a potential “nuclear holocaust,” which she said would likely increase the risk of wider conflict and major humanitarian and economic harm.

Farm Owner had Terse 6-word Response after Being offered $26M to Build Data Centers

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An steadfast “country hick” farmer offered a terse six-word response to an AI company hoping to build a data center on her Kentucky property in exchange for millions of dollars — “Kick rocks and don’t come back.”

Delsia Bare and her mother Ida Huddleston initially agreed to sell their plots in Maysville for a combined total of $26.4 million when approached by representatives of an unknown AI company, the Wall Street Journal reported.

But when the mother-daughter duo, a couple of self-described “country hicks,” learned that the company planned to build data centers on the land to power artificial intelligence bots, they swiftly backed out.

“Kick rocks and don’t come back,” Bare told the reps after she and her mom successfully canned the deal, according to the Journal.

Bare said she’d decided to back out of the deal fearing she’d be “held accountable” by higher powers for selling the family farm just to have it replaced by an AI hub. (Read more from “Farm Owner had Terse 6-word Response after Being offered $26M to Build Data Centers” HERE)

“236-Million Year Old” Mammal Gave Birth to Live Young, Upends Stupid Theories of Mammalian Evolution

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For years, scientists believed that our evolutionary forebear laid eggs much like other reptiles, but direct evidence of how they reproduced remained inconclusive — until now.

However, by analyzing the bones of a Chiniquodon theotonicus individual — which lived during the late Triassic period — scientists determined that they likely birthed live young, winding the clocks back on this reproductive adaptation by a staggering 95 million years.

“It looks like some cynodonts were in fact very similar to present-day mammals,” exclaimed lead author Dr. Leandro Gaetano, a paleontologist at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina.

The researchers came upon this revelation by accident while examining the bones of a fully grown C. theotonicus, and finding that they had “embryonic tissue,” Gaetano told Gizmodo. “This is very weird, I have never seen this,” he said.

By analyzing data from living species, the scientists deduced that the mark was a neonatal line, a distinct growth ring found in bones or teeth that forms following the post-birth growth spurt. (Read more from “236-Million Year Old” Mammal Gave Birth to Live Young, Upends Stupid Theories of Mammalian Evolution” HERE)

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