The businessman made the announcement on Parler on Tuesday, writing: “Coming next week… a social media platform like no other!” Lindell suggested the site will appear on the domain frankspeech.com, which currently shows a placeholder static webpage. His post attracted over 200 comments and at least 1,800 upvotes—Parler’s version of Twitter likes—at the time of writing on Tuesday morning. Lindell is a supporter of former president Donald Trump who has repeatedly circulated misinformation and conspiracy theories about the 2020 U....

Now new evidence from the sunken ship is bubbling to the surface, leading some to suspect Pyongyang might have been hiding something. A recent underwater reconnaissance mission to the wreck by the Japanese Coast Guard has revealed that the ship was heavily armed with surface-to-air missiles, antiaircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. The discovery has infuriated Pyongyang, which has been accusing Tokyo of fabricating a “conspiracy” story. (North Korea still denies ownership of the boat....

Last month, the team took out a sailing boat owned by Klaipėda University to explore the forest. They took thousands of images of the trees, including more than 3,000 photographs of two large trunks. According to Science in Poland, they will use these images to produce digital 3D models of the ancient trees. Once a dense forest, researchers think the trees were submerged towards the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, often known as the “Ice Age....

The research, published in The Astronomical Journal, addresses one of the most significant challenges in high-energy gamma-ray astronomy; looking for the low-energy counterparts of unidentified gamma-ray sources. These unidentified sources account for about a third of the objects found thus far by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi), which was launched in 2008 and observes the sky in high energy radiation from a low-Earth orbit. A blazar is created when gas around a supermassive black hole at the center of an active galaxy, known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), is trapped by the gravitational influence of this object, which can have a mass as great as billions of times that of the sun....

Miners working in the Pilbara region spotted the strange object—which illuminated the clouds as it flew past—around 1 a.m. local time, with the glow lasting for so long that many were able to capture the event on their phones. Experts say that the object was probably not a piece of spacecraft debris falling to Earth, but rather a “fireball,” which is a very bright meteor. Meteors, colloquially known as shooting stars, are the streaks of light that we see in the sky when fragments of space rocks—asteroids or meteoroids—enter the Earth’s atmosphere....

The cause of the illness is still unknown, leaving healthcare professionals confused about why otherwise healthy children are developing serious liver disease. The new cases of hepatitis in American kids are far from the first to be reported. Early warnings of mysterious clusters of hepatitis cases in kids started coming from Europe last fall. As of early May, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported 169 cases worldwide, with 17 children requiring a liver transplant, and one case resulting in a child’s death....

Tracey Rieker disappeared from the house she shares with husband Christian in Venice during the early hours of last Wednesday morning, leaving behind her cell phone and wallet. Detectives have so far drawn a blank in locating the 44-year-old, who is believed to have driven off in the family’s Nissan Xterra car. Her husband has now made an emotional appeal for his wife to get in touch, saying the whole family misses her....

Scientists were surveying the waters about 185 miles off the shore as part of a 2019 expedition to a seamount 10,000 feet below the surface. The team, using a remote operating vehicle, spotted what looked like an elephant tusk. They returned to the site two years later to retrieve it. “You start to ’expect the unexpected’ when exploring the deep sea, but I’m still stunned that we came upon the ancient tusk of a mammoth,” Steven Haddock, a marine biologist from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, said in a statement....

Filmed on August 30 in the waters off St. Croix near Puerto Rico, at depths of around 1,400 feet, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ocean Exploration researchers observing couldn’t figure out what it could possibly be, other than that it was some sort of animal. “It’s a possibility that it [is a soft coral],” one of the researchers can be heard saying in the video. “We’re still not sure....

The two Nord Stream pipelines emerged as a tense point in relations between Russia and the rest of Europe amid the Russia-Ukraine war. Many Western nations have sanctioned Russian oil, leading to economic unease and higher gas prices in a bid to weaken Moscow’s economy. The pipelines were intended to transport gas from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea. On Monday, gas from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline—which had its construction halted in February prior to Russian President Vladimir Putin launching an invasion on Ukraine—spilled into the Baltic Sea near Denmark after experiencing a drop in pressure, according to a report from Reuters....

During Big 12 Media Days last week, the Oklahoma State coach revealed just how much familial ties matter to him when it comes to choosing a starting quarterback (hint: not a lot). With his son Gunnar Gundy a potential target in the 2020 class, Mike Gundy offered this zinger on how he might coach his son should he choose to play for the Cowboys: “I told him, if you come to Oklahoma State, I’ll coach you like I do everybody else, maybe harder," Gundy said....

Huckabee was asked about a national rise in domestic terrorism over the past decade during an appearance on Mornings With Maria. The former GOP governor argued that guns are not the problem, pointing out that the Monsey, New York, attack Saturday evening was carried out with a large knife, while a church shooter in Texas was stopped by armed members of the church security team on Sunday. “Well, I think it is, we stop the blame game,” Huckabee said....

Mike Johnston, formerly the coach and general manager of the WHL’s Portland Winterhawks, has agreed on a three-year deal with the team, according to multiple reports. TSN’s Darren Dreger was first with the news. This comes less than a week after GM Jim Rutherford said that the team had its guy, only to have late-stage negotiations fall through. Willie Desjardins took the Vancouver Canucks job the next day. It was, in short, something of a mess, largely because it ensured that whoever took the job would do so after publicly being marked as Pittsburgh’s second (or third) choice....

Lindell, whose MyPillow commercials have for years been advertised on Fox News, tweeted and later deleted a call for “martial law” in seven states. His now-deleted Saturday tweet echoed the president’s own ridicule of Republican governors Doug Ducey in Arizona and Brian Kemp in Georgia, making unfounded claims that they sold out Trump by refusing to overturn their state election results. The CEO has launched into a series of rants over the past month, even calling for some Georgia voters to “go to prison” because Trump lost the election to President-elect Joe Biden....

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled against motions to dismiss Dominion’s suit against MyPillow, Lindell and pro-Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani on August 11. On Tuesday, MyPillow lawyers filed a new motion asking the judge to allow an appeals court to consider its argument that Dominion is a “government entity” because it contracted with governments during the election, according to the National Law Journal. The MyPillow lawyers asked Nichols to certify two legal questions for the appeals court to consider, maintaining that their arguments could lead to Dominion’s suit being dismissed....

He made the claim to reporters ahead of Trump’s rally in Washington Township, Michigan, on Saturday. He did not name any stations specifically, but said that they are “smaller” media outlets, according to video footage tweeted by attorney Ron Filipkowksi. “These are smaller, I don’t even have the list…I just heard it on Friday,” Lindell said. “I said ‘What?!’ And believe me, they will never get to sell my product again....

On Thursday, as President Joe Biden worked his first full day as commander in chief at the White House, Pompeo wrote on Twitter: “1,384 days.” The count would stretch to November 5, 2024, which is the scheduled date of the next presidential election. Pompeo, himself tipped to run for the Republican nomination, appears to be positioning himself as an influential commentator on the Biden regime, and likely one critical of much of the new president’s new agenda....

Sitting in the center of the room, the last person you’d probably notice but the reason all these people were here, was Mike Watt, bassist, ringmaster and punk extraordinaire. Relaxing on a cruddy old sofa with food bits and loose change in the creases, Watt looked more like the janitor, or at least the roadie, than the main attraction. His dark hair and beard are speckled with gray, and his pliant face is lined; he wore a blue flannel shirt, old jeans and tan Converses....

Washington gets a bargain rate on an ideal second-line center available largely because his numbers declined as he played on Toronto's third and fourth lines. Grabovski drives possession better than Mike Ribeiro, who signed a free-agent deal with the Phoenix Coyotes, and produces even-strength points at comparable rate, though Ribeiro has done more (with more opportunities) on the power play. In turn, Grabovski gets a prime opportunity to earn another long-term contract....

Torii Hunter began stripping after he was tossed a week ago. Now a manager in the minor leagues decided it was a good idea to punt his shoes across the field after he was ejected for arguing a call with the umpire on Tuesday. MORE: Royals mascot not liable for hot dog accident | Cardinals begin internal investigation | Baseball’s winningest managers Are we not going to question why his shoes were off in the first place?...