For millions of Chinese women, this road-tripping grandmother divorcè is an inspirational figure of freedom from convention. Separating from an abusive, violent husband, she has spent the last four years traveling around her vast country all alone, while amassing a gargantuan social media following that refers to her affectionately as “auntie.” Reporting from Beijing, BBC’s […] The post ‘Road-Tripping Auntie’ Broke with Husband and Tradition to Travel Around China, Becoming Viral Celebrity appeared first on Good News Network.

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The instrument will provide a new understanding of the space surrounding Earth.

“The human body literally glimmers.”

New proposals for ambitious missions are being reviewed but currently, we could be looking at 2039.

The site turned out to be 40 times bigger than previously thought.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel did not take kindly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Tuesday announcement that he is ditching the company’s relationship with its fact-checking partners. Naturally, Kimmel assumed that if a self-appointed fact-checker says something is true, it must be true, as he compared the move to a taco restaurant getting rid of health inspectors and declared the truth “as we know it” is over. Kimmel began by introducing a clip of Zuckerberg’s announcement, “But somehow, all the other billionaire tech boys are jealous, including the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, who’s been kissing Trump's ass like it's the Blarney Stone lately. Mark Zuckerberg showed up to debase himself at Mar-a-Lago shortly after the election, today, he released a suspiciously Trump-friendly announcement.” Zuckerberg was then shown saying, “Hey everyone, I want to talk about something important today.”     In the first of many interruptions, Kimmel retorted, “What, that you're dressed like a Molly dealer from Chechnya? No? Oh, okay, go on.” The Zuckerberg video continued, “First, we're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S.” Kimmel replied, “Oh, good, Facebook is going to be similar to X. No fact-checkers. This is like Del Taco announcing they're done with health inspections.” Sure, if the health inspector was corrupt or incompetent. As it was, the next Zuckerberg snippet showed him adding, “We're going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.” That’s a legitimate point. For example, one of PolitiFact’s hobby horses is that left-wing gender revisionism is factually correct. However, Kimmel claimed the opposite, “What did Trump do to this woman? What has happened? Imagine—imagine being one of the wealthiest people in the world and making the decision to announce the end of truth as we know it while dressed as Macklemore in 2014.” In the final clip, Zuckerberg declared, “Finally, we're going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more.” Kimmel responded, “Yeah, we call it the Old Suck and Zuck. That is—that's embarrassing. I'm trying to decide which part is worse: Mark Zuckerberg just flushing whatever dignity he had down Trump's golden toilet or the fact that he's clearly transitioning into one of the Golden Girls.” It is easy for Kimmel to attack Zuckerberg’s decision because the fact-checking joke police never came for him despite the factual inaccuracies in some of his jokes or the satirical nature of others. Here is a transcript for the January 7 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 1/7/2025 11:45 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: But somehow, all the other billionaire tech boys are jealous, including the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, who’s been kissing Trump's ass like it's the Blarney Stone lately. Mark Zuckerberg showed up to debase himself at Mar-a-Lago shortly after the election, today, he released a suspiciously Trump-friendly announcement. MARK ZUCKERBERG: Hey everyone, I want to talk about something important today. KIMMEL: What, that you're dressed like a Molly dealer from Chechnya? No? Oh, okay, go on. ZUCKERBERG: First, we're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S. KIMMEL: Oh, good, Facebook is going to be similar to X. No fact-checkers. This is like Del Taco announcing they're done with health inspections. ZUCKERBERG: We're going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. KIMMEL: What did Trump do to this woman? What has happened? Imagine — imagine being one of the wealthiest people in the world and making the decision to announce the end of truth as we know it while dressed as Macklemore in 2014. ZUCKERBERG: Finally, we're going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more. KIMMEL: Yeah, we call it the Old Suck and Zuck. That is — that's embarrassing. I'm trying to decide which part is worse: Mark Zuckerberg just flushing whatever dignity he had down Trump's golden toilet or the fact that he's clearly transitioning into one of the Golden Girls.

Three sources told CBS News over the weekend that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has privately confirmed to President-elect Donald Trump that despite earlier reservations from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and other Republican senators, his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, will have the votes necessary to be confirmed as secretary of defense. Nevertheless, Democrats — especially Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — appear keen to fully exploit the opportunity to further denigrate the recipient of the Combat Infantry Badge, two Bronze Stars, and two Army Commendation Medals for valor. Warren sent a 33-page missive late Monday to Hegseth, recycling establishmentarians' go-to smears and revealing the nature of Democrats' likely final line of attack on the decorated Army veteran at his confirmation hearing on Jan. 14. "I am deeply concerned by the many ways in which your behavior and rhetoric indicates that you are unfit to lead the Department of Defense," wrote Warren, fresh off sympathizing with UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's alleged killer. "These are the qualifications that we should be looking for in the next Secretary of Defense. However, your past behavior and rhetoric indicates your inability to effectively lead this organization and properly support our servicemembers." Warren's woke disquisition, which contained over 70 accusations presented as questions to Hegseth, was divided into several condemning sections, including sections attacking Hegseth's organizational management at Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America; his consumption of alcohol; a 2017 sexual assault allegation that resulted in no charges and has been repeatedly blasted as false by Hegseth's attorneys; and his prioritization of American soldiers' safety over the perceived battlefield rights of enemy combatants. In other sections, Warren tried framing Hegseth's popular proposals for how to depoliticize and improve the military as disqualifying. For instance, the leftist senator smeared Hegseth as a misogynist for suggesting that men are physically stronger than women; that expanding combat roles to women "hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated"; and that affirmative action pursued so recruiters can "feel good about themselves" has "nothing to do with national security." When complaining about Hegseth's views on women in the military, Warren also managed to squeeze in a question about the potential secretary of defense's views on abortion: "Do you support servicemembers having the right to make decisions regarding their reproductive healthcare?" After concern-mongering about female soldiers' continued ability to kill unborn babies, Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on personnel, took issue with Hegseth's comments about medical transvestites in the military and the Pentagon's embrace of "'trans' lunacy." 'Exactly what the American voters rejected on November 5.' Contradicting the conclusion in a Feb. 22, 2018, Pentagon memo from then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis, which stated, "There are substantial risks associated with allowing the accession and retention of individuals with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria and require or have already undertaken a course of treatment to change their gender," Warren — presuming Hegseth to be on board — claimed that reinstating Trump's ban on medical transvestites "would undermine military readiness." Warren, presenting the Pentagon in recent years as "apolitical" in nature, argued that Hegseth is poised to politicize it, in part by purging woke and incompetent generals, including those ideologically captive Pentagon officials involved in President Joe Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. The gun-control advocate also took issue with Hegseth's defense of American troops accused of war crimes, his instruction to his platoon, "Men, if you see an enemy who you believe is a threat, you engage and destroy the threat," and his comment in the book "The War on Warriors" that "modern war-fighters fight lawyers as much as we fight bad guys. Our enemies should get bullets, not attorneys." "If confirmed as Secretary of Defense, will you commit to upholding the Geneva Convention and other international law governing the conduct of war?" asked Warren. "Do you think servicemembers should ignore directives limiting when they can shoot?" Prior to wrapping up her lengthy effort to paint virtues as vices, Warren asked Hegseth whether he would commit to opposing any American withdrawal from NATO or the United Nations and blasted his apparent intolerance of radical Islam, citing his suggestion in the book "American Crusade" that Islam "is neither a religion of peace nor a religion of violence; it is a religion of submission" that has been largely captured by radicals. Warren requested that Hegseth provide written answers to her questions by Jan. 10 and to be ready to field them at his Senate nomination hearing. Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the Trump transition team, said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press that Warren's letter "is exactly what the American voters rejected on November 5. Instead of focusing on 'woke' policies that have weakened our national defense, the voters gave a mandate to rebuild our military, and that's exactly what a reform-minded secretary of defense like Pete Hegseth will do." 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Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court late Tuesday in hopes of blocking the Republican's sentencing by Biden donor Judge Juan M. Merchan in the case New York v. Trump. The emergency application requested that the justices order a stay of the criminal proceedings in the Supreme Court of New York pending the final resolution of the Republican's appeal concerning questions of presidential immunity. Five justices must be onboard to grant a stay. The application, which the New York Times noted came after a New York appeals court rejected a nearly identical request Tuesday, also asked that the justices consider whether "the trial court's admission and use of evidence of President Trump's official acts in a state-court jury trial on criminal charges violated the doctrine of Presidential immunity recognized in Trump v. United States," and whether a sitting president's immunity from criminal prosecution during his term extends to the president-elect between the time of his election and his inauguration. Blaze News previously reported that a panel of 12 jurors in the predominantly Democratic state found Trump guilty in May on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, which were filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in 2023. The prosecution accused the then-Republican presidential candidate of marking payments made to his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as legal expenses in an effort to hide a $130,000 settlement payment Cohen made to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep mum about an alleged affair with the president. When delivering jury instructions, the Democratic judge told the panel they did not have to agree on the "unlawful means" in order to render a unanimous guilty verdict against Trump. Legal expert Jonathan Turley explained in a post on X at the time, "Merchan just delivered the coup de grace instruction. He said that there is no need to agree on what occurred. They can disagree on what the crime was among the three choices. Thus, this means that they could split 4-4-4, and he will still treat them as unanimous." Trump's sentencing was initially scheduled for July 11, 2024, but the Associated Press noted it was postponed twice at the defense's request. The sentencing was delayed again after Trump's landslide electoral victory in November so that the prosecution could contemplate the future of the case. Merchan finally announced on Friday that Trump would be sentenced on Jan. 10, signaling that he would issue an "unconditional discharge," meaning the case would be closed without prison time, a fine, or probation. Trump responded to Merchan's announcement with a series of posts on Truth Social, noting in one, "I never falsified business records. It is a fake, made up charge by a corrupt judge who is just doing the work of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department, an attack on their political opponent, ME! He created a case where there was none." "I was hiding nothing, everything was out in the open for all to see. Every legal scholar of note said there IS NO CASE AGAINST ME. The judge should be disbarred! This is why people, and companies, are FLEEING New York - A corrupt court system," continued Trump. Republicans on the House Committee on the Judiciary said of Merchan's announcement, "Absolutely preposterous lawfare. Judge Merchan is a disgrace to the bench." Trump's emergency application filed Tuesday said the Supreme Court "should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York trial court to prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government." "This appeal will ultimately result in the dismissal of the District Attorney’s politically motivated prosecution that was flawed from the very beginning, centered around the wrongful actions and false claims of a disgraced, disbarred serial-liar former attorney, violated President Trump's due process rights, and had no merit," continued the filing. "In the meantime, the New York trial court lacks authority to impose sentence and judgment on President Trump — or conduct any further criminal proceedings against him — until the resolution of his underlying appeal raising substantial claims of Presidential immunity, including by review in this Court if necessary." According to the Times, the Supreme Court directed prosecutors to respond to the emergency application by Thursday morning — a possible sign the high court may take action prior to Merchan's planned sentencing on Friday. Should the Supreme Court grant a stay of Trump's sentencing, Merchan will be precluded from sentencing Trump for the next four years. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!