Posts by Sophie Clearwater
America Is Finally Taking Extraterrestrials Seriously
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There was nothing much happening in Jerome and Benno Leuer’s yard in Hamel, Minn. on August 11, 1948. It was noontime in the thick of summer and the boys, 10 and 8, were idly playing when, as they later described it, something overhead caught their eyes. They looked up and their jaws dropped. Roughly 12…
Read MoreSupreme Court must go to bat for baseball great Roberto Clemente — and defend our property rights
Roberto Clemente collected exactly 3,000 hits in his Hall of Fame career. Puerto Rico’s government collected something else from his name: roughly $15 million. In 2021, the commonwealth enacted laws requiring motorists to pay extra for license plates and registration tags bearing the baseball legend’s name, image, jersey number 21 and references to his hit…
Read MoreCongress May Phase Out Billions in Military Funding to Israel—but Deepen Ties Another Way
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.) has also criticized the proposal, warning that the provision would “merge parts of our military with the IDF.” “This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy,” Ocasio-Cortez said. Proponents of the provisions rejected Ocasio-Cortez’s characterization, arguing that the proposal does not merge the two militaries but increases…
Read MoreMilania Giudice’s Best Friend Victoria Zardoya’s Cause of Death Revealed
Milania Giudice’s BFF Victoria Zardoya Died in Tragic Fall at Florida’s Fort Dade Ruins New details surrounding Victoria Zardoya‘s fatal fall have emerged. The longtime friend of Milania Giudice died July 27 three days after sustaining injuries during a trip to Florida’s Fort Dade ruins, a spokesperson for the District 12 Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to…
Read MoreSearch for Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane reignites with ambitious new expedition
Researchers are gearing up to resume their search for Amelia Earhart’s lost plane in the Pacific Ocean after setbacks delayed the search. Purdue University officials said in a recent statement that researchers will travel to Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific to investigate the Taraia Object, a satellite-imaged anomaly believed by some to be Earhart’s lost Lockheed Electra. The expedition,…
Read MoreThe Quiet Miracles of Ordinary Life in New Syria
What do we talk about in Syria? What was changing in Syria was not only what people were able to do, but what they were able to say. The shroud of silence and fear that enveloped Syria throughout the Assad decades was gone. Syrians were, finally, speaking freely about those dark decades. In Hama, a…
Read MoreMamdani’s grocery-store specs show the idea is even crazier than we thought
The specs for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s magical city-run grocery stores demand the moon, but shoppers will be lucky to find some overripe green cheese. As with most city contracting, the Economic Development Corp.’s official Request For Proposals outlines an implausible wish-list that will deliver less than half what Mamdani promised at more than twice the…
Read MoreMissouri mom, teen daughter gunned down by elderly neighbor over noise complaint in murder-suicide
A Missouri mother and her teenage daughter were shot and killed by their elderly neighbor, who confronted them outside their home over a noise complaint, before he turned the gun on himself and died days later. Jessica Lashly, 38, and Jersey Greer, 17, were gunned down at their House Springs, Mo., home when 73-year-old Robert…
Read MoreTrump Labels Abdul El-Sayed a Hateful ‘Communist’
Trump continued: “He’s a man of hate, and now he’s going around saying, ‘No, I love everybody.’ He doesn’t love everybody. Put him in office, you’re going to find out what he loves.” El-Sayed previously told TIME that he does not consider himself a socialist or communist, saying, “I actually think that at the small…
Read MoreUnpacking Why the JonBenét Ramsey Murder Case Has Never Been Solved
After Patsy Ramsey called 911 at 5:52 a.m. on Dec. 26, 1996, to report that her daughter JonBenét Ramsey had been kidnapped, she and husband John Ramsey also reached out to a number of their friends, who came right over to support the couple. In turn, in addition to responding officers, there were people milling…
Read MoreDear Abby: My new friends called me family, then vanished without explanation
DEAR ABBY: Four years ago, my cousin “Roy” introduced me to his friends, who, once a month, have a party at the home of one of the couples. We would eat and then play a form of dominoes. It was raucous and fun. The second time I went, a couple in the group told me…
Read MoreKentucky bride-to-be marrying brother of boy who saved her life with organ donation 20 years ago
A Kentucky bride-to-be is tying the knot with the brother of the boy who saved her life over 20 years ago when he donated his liver in a “life-saving” transplant. Brooklyn Dotson was a little girl when she received a liver transplant from her fiancé Noah’s late brother, Michael, “and their lives were connected from…
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