“Predators appear to use seamounts as ‘hubs’ to gather, socialise, mate or rest.”

The final image from Voyager 1 remains as iconic today as it was in 1990.

Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down in episode 52...

It all comes back to a six-decade-old theory about pain.

The largest ocean predator of all time may have also sparred with other sharks using their teeth.

It was an iconic moment in the annals of the liberal media being called out to its face in real time over its transparent bias. Kudos to Republican strategist Brad Todd for undertaking the unenviable task of tearing off fill-in host Jim Sciutto's fig leaf and exposing him as the liberal activist he is on today's CNN This Morning. Sciutto couldn't just ask questions and listen patiently to the answers. He head to debate Todd. The issue was the Trump Justice Department's order to New York's Southern District attorney's office to withdraw without prejudice the indictment against New York Mayor Eric Adams. Todd calmly explained that it's typical for a new administration to vacate U.S. Attorneys, and Sciutto wouldn't accept that:  SCIUTTO: No, it's not normal for them to resign in protest, a series of protests, right? Not just the New York Attorney assigned to the case, but then. the plan B, in effect, right? They go to the Office of Public Integrity and they say, no, we're not going to drop this case under pressure. That's not normal.  TODD: No, it is absolutely normal. Appointed U.S. Attorneys retire or resign or are fired --  SCIUTTO: It's not. TODD: -- immediately after every presidential election.  SCIUTTO: They didn't do that after changing the administration. They did it in protest to this decision. I wonder, Jaime, what your view is.  TODD: But they know they're going to be fired. Todd eventually had enough of Sciutto's partisan pestering, and put it to him: SCIUTTO: It's a fact. It's just a fact. It's a fact. They resigned. Did you read the letter? Did you read the conservative New York Attorney's letter about this case?  TODD: Are you asking questions or are you on the panel?" Touché! Sciutto turned to former Biden campaign aide Hyma Moore. Said Sciutto snidely: "Given that he [Todd] will not acknowledge the letter from the conservative New York Attorney explaining her reasons for leaving, what's your reaction to seeing this?" Moore, predictably, was only too happy to take Sciutto's hint, branding the dropping of the indictment a "quid pro quo" in return for the mayor's cooperation on immigration enforcement. Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 2/14/25 6:04 am ET JIM SCIUTTO: Brad, I wonder, you have a very conservative New York Attorney, long history in conservative causes, alleging a quid pro quo here. President Trump campaigned saying he wanted to end weaponization, politicization, of the Justice Department here.  So what's your reaction to seeing a case against a mayor dropped after it seems, he says, I'll work with you on immigration?  BRAD TODD: Well, I think the Department of Justice and the President had been talking about the fact that they thought Eric Adams had been targeted for his criticism of Joe Biden's immigration policies for quite some time.  And, you know, the departures at the Southern District of New York, the firings, this is normal. Every time a new president's elected, the U.S. Attorneys are removed from their jobs if they don't remove.  SCIUTTO: No, it's not normal for them to resign in protest, a series of protests, right? Not just the New York Aattorney assigned to the case, but then. the plan B, in effect, right? They go to the Office of Public Integrity and they say, no, we're not going to drop this case under pressure. That's not normal.  TODD: No, it is absolutely normal. Appointed U.S. Attorneys retire or resign or are fired --  SCIUTTO: It's not. TODD: -- immediately after every presidential election.  SCIUTTO: They didn't do that after changing the administration. They did it in protest to this decision. I wonder, Jaime, what your view is.  TODD: But they know they're going to be fired. SCIUTTO: I wonder, I wonder Hyma, what your view is -- It's a fact. It's just a fact. It's a fact. They resigned. Did you read the letter? Did you read the conservative New York Attorney's letter about this case?  TODD: Are you asking questions or are you on the panel? I mean, they retired because they -- SCIUTTO: I'm asking you -- I'm asking merely for a recognition of the facts here as opposed to a repetition of talking points.  TODD: Every time there's a change of administration, the U.S. attorneys turn over. They either resign or they are fired. That's the way it works. It's worked that way in every presidential administration since we've been alive. That's what's happened here.  SCIUTTO: Okay. Hyma, given that he will not acknowledge the letter from the conservative New York Attorney explaining her reasons for leaving, what's your reaction to seeing this? 

House Republicans passed a budget resolution through committee on Thursday, taking back the lead in the race for reconciliation. Republicans also managed to land on a deal with seven times more spending cuts than their original proposal, and they have the House Freedom Caucus to thank. The budget calls for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, $4.5 trillion for tax cuts, a $4 trillion debt limit increase, and $300 billion appropriated for defense and border security. These are all great successes for the GOP, but it wasn't all smooth sailing. 'From the outset of this process, we sought to ensure participation from every member of our conference and make clear that this resolution reflects our collective commitment to enacting the president's full agenda — not just part of it.'After a weekend retreat at Mar-a-Lago followed by a five-hour-long meeting at the White House, the GOP leadership still had not put forth a budget proposal at the beginning of the week. At that point, the Senate had already sidestepped the House and introduced its own resolution in an attempt to move negotiations forward. But on Monday afternoon, Blaze News first reported that the House Freedom Caucus dropped its own resolution ahead of the Republican leadership. "Given the current delay in the House on moving a comprehensive reconciliation bill, moving a smaller targeted bill now makes the most sense to deliver a win for the American people," HFC Chairman Andy Harris said in a statement. "I am proud to introduce the Emergency Border Control Resolution today to set the reconciliation process in motion in the House."Although the HFC's resolution wasn't advanced, it applied the necessary pressure. Within 48 hours, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) put forth the leadership's budget proposal on Wednesday, teeing it up for markup the following morning. In a statement following the budget's passage, the House Republican leadership made clear that all factions of the GOP were taken into account during the negotiation process. "The budget resolution has passed through committee and House Republicans have now cleared a critical hurdle to delivering on the major priorities of President Trump's America First agenda," the statement reads. "From the outset of this process, we sought to ensure participation from every member of our conference and make clear that this resolution reflects our collective commitment to enacting the president's full agenda — not just part of it.""This is the start of the process, and we remain laser-focused on ultimately sending a bill to President Trump's desk which, among other things, secures the border, keeps taxes low for families and job creators, restores American energy dominance, and makes government work better for all Americans." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A stalker showed up at a woman's workplace in Pensacola, Florida, on Monday morning and began punching her, police said. But the victim had a gun on her and shot the male once in the leg in self-defense, police added.'She did nothing wrong. She was protecting herself like she should have done.'Marquise James, 35, was arrested in connection with the 11:30 a.m. incident at the Downtown Pensacola Holiday Inn, WEAR-TV reported. Marquise JamesImage source: Escambia County (Fla.) JailRecords show James was in the Escambia County Jail on Friday morning on charges of stalking, battery, smuggle contraband, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, resisting an officer, and simple assault. His bond is set at $26,500.Pensacola Police Officer Mike Wood told WEAR that the stalking "has been going on for quite some time" and that "this male individual has been ... using social media, using phones" to do so.Wood added to the station that "he's come to her place of employment before, and she told him to leave, and he did. But this time when he came, he saw her in the laundry room, he approached her and began punching her."With that, Wood told WEAR that the victim "drew a handgun that she had legally and shot him once in the leg.""He's much larger than she is, and she did what she had to do," Wood noted to the station, adding that "she did nothing wrong. She was protecting herself like she should have done."Police told WEAR that no charges are being filed against the woman.Wood added to the station that when James "was at the hospital, he kicked one of our officers." Wood also told WEAR that James "had cocaine and marijuana on him."You can view a video report here about the incident.How are people reacting?Commenters under WEAR's Facebook post about the incident appear squarely behind the victim:"I am glad she protected herself," one commenter wrote. "I'm just worried about when he gets out.""Put him under the jail," another user demanded."Glad she had a weapon," another commenter said."Good for her," another user declared.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Vice President JD Vance heavily criticized the European Union "opening the floodgates" to millions of "unvetted" immigrants within the past decade, to the detriment of its own citizens, during a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday."Out of all the pressing challenges the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration," Vance stated, acknowledging that the United States faces a similar crisis. 'How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course?'Vance was not shy in calling out European leaders for deliberately opening their borders despite disapproval from voters, who have rejected the idea time and again."We know the situation. It didn’t materialize in a vacuum. It's the result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent and others across the world over the span of a decade. We saw the horrors wrought by these decisions yesterday in this very city," Vance said.Vance pointed to the terrorist attack that occurred in Munich on Thursday. The suspect is another radical Islamic jihadist, originally from Afghanistan, who is an asylum-seeker and was previously known to police. Germany, along with the rest of the continent, continues to experience high-profile attacks and crimes committed by migrants."Why did this happen in the first place? It’s a terrible story, but it’s one we’ve heard way too many times in Europe and, unfortunately, too many times in the United States as well. An asylum-seeker, often a young man in his mid-20s already known to police, rams a car into a crowd and shatters a community," Vance continued. "How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction? No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.” — (@) The topic of immigration was not the only issue Vance said Europe was handling horribly. The vice president warned that the greatest threat to Europe is not Russia or China. The greatest threats, he said, come from within because traditional values such as freedom of speech and religious freedom have been eroded in the name of democracy and tolerance.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

In a massive win for the Trump administration, Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed to serve as the director of national intelligence in a 52-48 vote — with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) the only Republican to vote no. “No surprise, of course. I’m not clear on if it was Mitch McConnell who voted no or one of his staffers who told him to. I’m not sure what condition he’s in; I don’t know who to believe any more given that Washington, D.C., the old guard, are all octogenarians,” Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight” tells Jill Savage. “He doesn’t care any more, or his staff doesn’t care any more, and they’re just voting their conscience, as twisted as it is,” he adds, noting that under Trump’s leadership, this is an “entirely different era.” Savage and Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford believe that these unelected young staffers are part of the problem. “If we’re saving so much money in all these other places right now, I mean, maybe some of these staffers on the Hill can actually get a pay raise and we can get some more experience back in there, and then you have people that are ready to actually go up and battle the deep state, because that’s what we need at this point in time,” Savage says. “I used to bounce in Washington, D.C., down in Georgetown, and I saw some pretty wild stuff. The high-up opinions these young staffers have of themselves,” Bedford agrees. “You need that experience to make congressional jobs respectable again.” “Because the spending problem is not in those salaries; the spending problem is in the administrative state. The spending problem is the deep state. That’s what you need. The experienced people who are willing to put their lives out there and go after it,” he adds. Want more from 'Blaze News Tonight'?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.