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Texas governor explains legal side of his feud with the Biden administration over razor wire barriers installed on the border.

In November 2023‚ the monster iceberg A23e finally dislodged from the seafloor after being grounded and stuck there for 40 years. A series of recent satellite images show that the mighty iceberg is now heading away from Antarctic waters‚ seeking fame and fortune in the high seas. A23a measures 4‚000 sq kilometers in area and is over 280 meters thick‚ and is currently the world’s largest iceberg. Its first path will follow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current‚ heading towards South America. Tiny Elephant Island‚ an ice-covered‚ mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica seen in the image above‚ has an area of only 215 sq km. ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite and NOAA’s Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the GCOM-W1 satellite have been keeping an eye on the moving behemoth‚ which appears to be driven by winds and currents. Scientists estimate it is moving at a rate of about 4.8 km (3 miles) each day‚ but that could change as it enters the currents. Iceberg A23a separated from the Fichner-Ronne ice shelf in West Antarctica in 1986. It was so big that it became grounded‚ stuck to the seafloor‚ and remained in position for 40 years. ESA said it is not unusual for icebergs to become grounded‚ but over time they shrink enough to become unground and float. An animation from Copernicus Sentinel-1 images shows iceberg A23a’s movements from 2 November 2023‚ 14 November 2023 and 26 November 2023. Credit: ESA. A23a is a biggie‚ but it’s not the largest ever. It is only about one-third the size of the biggest iceberg in recorded history‚ B-15 which calved off of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. The B-15 iceberg covered more than 10‚878 square km (4‚200 square miles) when it broke away‚ according to NASA’s Earth Observatory. B-15 has since fractured into numerous smaller bergs‚ and most have melted away. Like many icebergs before it‚ A23a is being propelled it towards the South Atlantic along a trajectory commonly referred to as ‘iceberg alley’‚ because of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The post The World's Largest Iceberg Sets Sail for Adventure Beyond Antarctic Waters appeared first on Universe Today.

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Sen. Mitt Romney‚ R-Utah‚ on Thursday called it "really appalling" that former President Donald Trump would lobby against getting a border bill passed in Congress. "I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump‚" Romney told CNN's Manu Raju on Capitol Hill. "And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling." A $100 billion spending...

Former President Donald Trump’s push to kill a bipartisan immigration deal may now derail a major national security package‚ forcing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to suggest a new course of action and endangering aid to Ukraine and Israel in the process. According to a GOP source familiar with the matter‚ McConnell told Republicans at a private Wednesday meeting that they are in a “quandary‚” given that bipartisan talks over immigration have created intraparty feuding...

Charlie Kirk fanned the flames of racial controversy on his show recently when‚ for some inexplicable reason‚ he decided to make the asinine comment that he gets frightened and has concerns whenever he sees black pilots. He was trying to make a point about the Left’s racial hierarchy initiatives‚ such as the diversity‚ equity‚ and inclusion movement‚ or DEI. For anyone unfamiliar‚ it’s an extremist left-wing objective that promotes the advancement of people based on skin...

The classic that time forgot. The post The Crosby‚ Stills‚ Nash and Young album fans never got to hear first appeared on Far Out Magazine.