India’s Narendra Modi visit to Israel facilitates military and commercial ties

According to the American Interest, when Indian Prime Minister #narendra modi visits #Israel it will constitute a breakthrough in relations between the two countries. The visit will represent a diplomatic triumph for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a defeat for the Palestinians and the Arab Middle East states. Israel and India will forge military and commercial ties that will profoundly change the geopolitical position of both countries.

CNN discovers who created the Trump clotheslining GIF

#CNN has announced that it has identified the person who created the #Gif that depicts #President Donald Trump clotheslining a person with the cable news logo superimposed on his head.The GIF was used by Trump in a tweet, It reports that the network has extracted an apology from the prankster and that he has taken down this and a number of other offensive GIFs. CNN has agreed not to publish the personal information of the person, though it reserves the right to do so “should any of that changes.” The cable network has created a social media firestorm as a result of its action.

Ted Cruz goes to McAllen, Texas for the 4th of July

The Texas Tribune notes that Sen. #Ted Cruz, R-Texas spent his #4Th Of July in McAllen, a heavily Hispanic and Democratic community in the Rio Grande Valley. Besides riding in the traditional parade in the back of a convertible through downtown McAllen, Cruz got to experience something that too many politicians have endured in the past year, which was to get yelled at by some of his constituents.

V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai trolls Elizabeth Warren with a DNA test kit

V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai is a legal immigrant who is setting out to do what so far no native-born American has managed to do, which is to end the political career of Sen. #Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. However, Ayyadurai has not let political differences stand in the way of showing courtesy. When Warren turned 68 in June, he sent her a #Dna Test kit. The senator and presidential candidate refused the kind gift and returned it.

North Korea launches another missile the day before American Independence Day

The North Koreans decided to commemorate #American Independence Day in their unique way by launching a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan the day before the holiday. The North Koreans claimed that the Hwasong-14 was an ICBM that could potentially reach Alaska. #President Donald Trump was, understandably, not amused.

Loss of the Chinese Long March 5 places its ambitious space schedule in doubt

The Chinese #Long March 5 suffered a launch failure, according to Space News, tumbling down into the ocean, and taking with it an experimental communication satellite. A previous Long March 5 failed to put a Shijian-17 satellite into proper orbit. However, the upper stage of the rocket managed to put the satellite into the right orbit later. The failure, the cause of which has yet to be determined, places the schedule of China’s #Sample Return Mission to the moon, a probe to Mars, and its first large space station at risk. The failure also places the United States, which plans to have several heavy-lift rockets available for deep space exploration, at a competitive advantage

Stephen Hawking says Trump is going to turn Earth into a new Venus

The famed theoretical physicist #Stephen Hawking has raised some eyebrows in the scientific community with a claim to the BBC that American President Donald #trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord will cause the Earth to become a like #Venus. That is to say, Earth would become a planet with an average of 250 degrees (according to Hawking) and raining sulfuric acid. According to the Daily Caller, as a number of climate scientists and environmental accidents are wondering why Hawking would say such a thing.

ZME asks whether a believing Christian should have anything to do with NASA

ZME Science recently posed a no doubt burning question. Can a believing #Christian be trusted to run the space program? The article comes down on the side of no when it comes to #Vice President #Mike Pence, slated to head the National Space Council.. At issue are some statements that Pence, a devout Christian, has made about the role of God in the creation of the universe.

President Donald Trump offers help for critically ill British baby Charlie Gard

#President Donald Trump tweeted a message offering help to Charlie Gard, the British infant who is suffering from a rare genetic disorder and who the UK #National Health Service prevent from undergoing an experimental treatment. An #NBC News correspondent based in London suggested that the president has sinister, political motives in giving the offer. The world awaited with baited breath for Trump’s reaction on Twitter.

Plot details of the second ‘Fantastic Beasts’ revealed

Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the sequel to “#Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” has started shooting and is aiming for a November 2018 release. It looks like that the stakes have risen with the big bad of the roaring twenties era of the American wizarding world, Grindelwald, is on the loose and up to no good.

NASA developing mini-nuclear power plants for deep space exploration

For most of its history, NASA has used three types of power generation technologies to provide energy to its spacecraft. These technologies include solar panels, RTGs, which use the decay of plutonium fuel to provide heat to generate electricity, and hydrogen fuel cells, which convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water using a catalyst. Now, according to NBC, the space agency is looking at nuclear fission to provide power for future spacecraft and surface bases on the moon and Mars.

President Trump depicts himself clotheslining CNN

The latest tweetstorm that had the media all atwitter, as it were, resulted from a video President Donald Trump posted that depicted Trump clotheslining someone with a #CNN logo photoshopped over his head next to a wrestling ring. The uproar that resulted was either entertaining or appalling depending on one’s point of view. The incident raised a number of questions.

NASA’s DART to test an asteroid defense technique

The scenario in which an asteroid or a comet hit the Earth and destroys civilization, and much of the life on the planet, has been the stuff of scientific nightmares as well as science fiction drama. Several past asteroid impacts suggest that Earth changing events have already occurred and will likely happen again unless they are stopped. #NASA is setting about testing one way to ward off an asteroid impact.

Why the ‘red team vs. blue team’ approach to climate change is in order

The Washington Examiner is reporting that the EPA’s Scott Pruitt is contemplating forming a #Red Team vs. #Blue Team approach to examining the theory that human-caused climate change is real. And that it constitutes a clear and present danger to the planet. The idea is that a group of #Climate Change believers would go head to head with a group of climate change skeptics and each would present their case in public. The proposal is getting a lot of pushback from some in the scientific community.

4th of July barbecue can be more than just hamburgers and hot dogs

For most people, barbecue for the #4Th Of July or any other day consists of slapping a few #Hot Dogs or hamburgers on the grill and flipping them once to create meat kissed by fire. However, proper barbecue can be so much more, albeit time-consuming. What follows is how our Revolutionary War ancestors did when they barbecued meat.

Ted Cruz healthcare compromise gains support

The Washington Examiner is reporting that #Ted Cruz’s proposed amendment to the Senate version of the healthcare bill is gaining some support, at least among conservatives. This development occurred when President Donald Trump tweeted that if the Senate could not manage to come to an agreement on the bill, it should just repeal Obamacare at once and then replace it at a later date.

President Trump signs the order recreating the National Space Council

Before departing for his 4th of July vacation, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reviving the #National Space Council. The Space Council will consist of the heads of NASA and various cabinet departments and will be chaired by Vice President #Mike Pence. The council will coordinate the implementation of space policy across the government and provide the president advice for the development of the same.

Tesla’s Model Y Will Be Built Entirely By Robots

Washington Redskins wins its trademark battle

As Hot Air reports, the Department of Justice has given up a court battle that would have forced the #Washington Redskins football team to give up trademark protections for its name. The case was started when the Patent and Trademark Office that revoked the team’s trademark for its name citing the disparagement clause that prohibits trademarks that disparage people or groups of people. A #Supreme Court case that involved an Asian band that wanted to trademark its name, “The Slants,” found the clause to be unconstitutional.

Report: Bernie Sanders’ wife tried to evict disabled residents of a group home

The story of Jane Sanders, the wife of Sen. #Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, a former presidential candidate, who is under FBI investigation for bank fraud keeps getting worse. Judicial Watch claims that it has obtained documents that prove that Ms. Sanders tried to evict the residents of a #Group Home for disabled people. The evidence includes emails between Ms. Sanders and two mayors of Burlington, Vermont.