A SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after spending almost seven years hurtling through space, experts say. The booster was originally launched from Florida in February 2015 as part of an interplanetary mission to send a space weather satellite on a million-mile journey. But after completing a long burn of its engines and sending the NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory on its way to the Lagrange point – a gravity-neutral position four times farther than the moon and in direct line with the sun – the rocket’s second stage became derelict. At this stage it was high enough that it did not have enough fuel to return to Earth’s atmosphere but also “lacked the energy to escape the gravity of the Earth-Moon system”, meteorologist Eric Berger explained in a recent post on Ars Technica. “So it has been following a somewhat chaotic orbit since February 2015,” Berger added. Space observers believe the rocket – about four metric tonnes of “space junk” – is on course to intersect with the moon at a velocity of about 2.58km/s in a matter of weeks.

Robert Capron wasn’t thinking of himself as a “fat kid” on the day that Roger Ebert described the eleven-year-old as “pudgy.” Instead, riding high during the national press tour for his first big supporting role—Rowley Jefferson in 2010’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”—the young actor felt like a star on the rise. It wasn’t until Capron settled into his Washington, D.C., hotel room to scroll eagerly through Rotten Tomatoes that his confidence began to dip. Packaged alongside the disappointment of each negative review was the unexpected confusion of being identified by body type—a queasy sensation heightened by the red warning lights of the Washington Monument visible through the window. “Every critic is specifying that I’m fat: ‘chubby,’ ‘overweight,’ ‘moon-faced’—‘cherubic,’ if we’re getting a little artsy with it,” Capron said, the clipped repetition agitating the gentle hum of his voice. “I register that the comments are weird. But I’m going on hot-air balloons. I’m travelling across America. I’m in a movie my entire sixth-grade class goes on a field trip to see. There’s so much good. I almost can’t think about it.” Such adjectives no longer apply to Capron. Last seen in a 2018 arc on the television show “Elementary,” the twenty-three-year-old maintains a tight, wiry frame, with veins taut from bench curls and a face winnowed to a stern definition. The presiding impression that Capron casts these days is hardy, well nourished—a resting air of strength that he nevertheless struggles to internalize. More frequently, he’ll look down at his phone and find Instagram messages from old Rowley fans: “I liked you better when you were fat.”

To begin with, she used the N-word. Not in the sense of quoting a racist, or singing along to a rap song...

‘I’ve put a lot of work into it, and $5k is just really not enough.’

Bone wrote that the "inappropriate actions" by AFD personnel and/or their guests included, but were not limited to, the following: NOTE: The allegations below are verbatim from the letter. Unwanted physical touching (to which you were made aware of and you simply told the County employee to "tell him to back off") Production of alcohol (wine-making) inside the fire station Male and female visitors being allowed upstairs in staff bedrooms Loud behavior and late night noise (including someone banging on pistol with a hammer, attempting to repair a handgun)

The wanton liberal de-sexification of corporate mascots continues unabated

Andreas Malm argues that property destruction can be inspiring (correct –ed.), while Daniel Sherrell writes that it would reduce the climate movement’s ability to effect change (wrong –ed.)

A federal appeals court reversed the convictions of two former Deutsche Bank AG traders found guilty of rigging a global lending benchmark, overturning one of the U.S. government’s highest-profile court victories linked to the 2008 financial crisis. The decision Thursday dealt a blow to the legacy of an investigation that Washington poured resources into after the financial crisis, when prosecutors were criticized for not pursuing enough cases against individual traders and executives. The cases focused on how traders and brokers world-wide influenced the daily London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, which helped set the value of lucrative derivatives they traded and made banks appear healthier. Thursday’s reversal shows how difficult it has been for prosecutors to use broadly written antifraud laws to punish traders operating in sophisticated markets where standards of conduct weren’t always clear. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found evidence used to convict Matthew Connolly and Gavin Black wasn’t enough to stand up fraud and conspiracy charges. A jury in New York had convicted the two men in 2018. The Manhattan-based appeals court in 2017 also tossed Libor-related verdicts against two traders who had worked at Rabobank Group. The court action Thursday means every Libor trial conviction in the U.S. has now been overturned. Six other traders from Rabobank and Deutsche Bank pleaded guilty in the U.S. to Libor-related misconduct from 2014 to 2016. Tom Hayes, a former star trader at UBS Group AG , was convicted in the U.K. of rigging Libor and served more than five years in prison before being released last year. Libor, a gauge of the rates at which banks could borrow from other banks, was published for many years by the British Bankers’ Association. The BBA’s version of Libor was vulnerable to manipulation because traders could influence the rates submitted by their banks.

Amanda Alvarez-Calo was shot and killed by her state trooper husband earlier this week in a parked car in the East Side neighborhood, authorities said, about two miles from where she taught pre-school.

This thing is absolute dog shit.

With the increase in eviction filings comes crowded courtrooms, despite the risk of COVID-19 spreading.

The officer "stated that I issued threats, incited a riot, and slandered the Brookside Police Department in my Facebook posts. He reported that his Police Chief was mad.”

Although the Navy has agreed to drain the Red Hill fuel facility following the contamination of its water supply in Honolulu, it won’t actually be removing the fuel in the immediate future. A process of assessment, government review and structural repairs will come first. And even then, according to a state order, the Navy could potentially use the World War II-era facility in the future. On Wednesday, dozens of community members told lawmakers they want the Navy’s fuel removed quickly and permanently.

Lawmakers would have the power to reject election results under a sweeping piece of legislation that would make seismic changes to the way elections are conducted in Arizona. Rep. John Fillmore’s House Bill 2596 would eliminate no-excuse early voting, which is used by the overwhelming majority of Arizona voters, and would require that all ballots not only be counted by hand, but that those tallies be completed within 24 hours of the polls closing on Election Day, among other changes. Perhaps the biggest change, however, is that the legislature would be empowered to accept or reject election results in legislative, congressional and statewide races. Under the proposed law, the legislature would be required to call itself into session after an election to “review the ballot tabulating process.” Once that review is completed, lawmakers would decide whether to accept or reject the results. If the legislature rejects the results, any qualified voter can go to court to ask a judge to order a new election.

Carlsbad native Peter Robbins, the voice actor who brought Charlie Brown to life in the Peanuts cartoons from the 1960s, has died, his family told FOX 5. He was 65. Robbins’ family said he took his own life last week.

A police union is coming to the defense of a veteran sergeant who was caught on video choking a female colleague after she tried to de-escalate a Black man's arrest. Sunrise, Fla. police Sgt. Christopher Pullease, who was placed on administrative leave following the incident, is now under criminal investigation. Body cam video showed Pullease, 46, threatening a Black suspect with pepper spray, and engaging in a verbal altercation with him, after he'd already been taken into custody and placed in the back of a patrol car. After a 28-year-old female officer grabbed Pullease by the back of his belt and tried to pull him away, he turned around and briefly put his hand around her throat, before grabbing her by the vest and pushing her against another patrol car.

Vets in Kent sawed an inch off her teeth after owner noticed they had grown too long for her to eat

'Maus' author Art Spiegelman spoke to CNBC after a school board in Tennessee voted to ban his landmark graphic novel about the Nazis' persecution of Jews.

The actor also says his pet crow Hoogan likes to call him profanities when he leaves the room

If you haven't heard of toad venom, you soon will. Here's how an illegal amphibian-derived drug became dinner party fodder.