Illinois

Father and radio host Ty Smith rages against critical race theory at Illinois school board

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A conservative radio show host has gone viral after he dramatically denounced Critical Race Theory at a meeting of an Illinois school board. Ty Smith, host of Cancel This on Cities 92.9 and star of a popular YouTube channel, appeared at the June 9 meeting. The Bloomington Public School area, District 87, does not teach Critical … Read more

Wray repeatedly dodges questions about Trump-era leak probe targeting Dems

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FBI Director Christopher Wray dodged questions Tuesday about his involvment in a Trump-era leak investigation where the Department of Justice secretly went after top Congressional Democrats’ Apple data.  Testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee, Wray was asked by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat, if he had heard about the investigation and the subpoenas.  ‘I’ve … Read more

Miley Cyrus unveils she is headlining Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago

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Miley Cyrus flashes her toned midriff to unveil she is headlining Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago: ‘This years line up is SICKENING!’ By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 05:52 BST, 20 May 2021 | Updated: 05:52 BST, 20 May 2021 Miley Cyrus earned top billing at this year’s Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, Illinois. And … Read more

NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovers FIVE double-sun planets that ‘could support alien life’ 

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The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of exoplanets since 2014, with 30 planets less than twice the size of Earth now known to orbit within the habitable zones of their stars. Launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th 2009, the Kepler telescope has helped in the search for planets outside of the solar system.  It … Read more

Opening party for one rural Illinois bar led to 46 COVID-19 cases

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Opening party for one rural Illinois bar led to 46 COVID-19 cases, the hospitalization of a nursing home resident and the closure of a school that kept 650 children out of class A bar in rural Illinois held an opening party indoors, where attendees often didn’t wear masks or practice social distancing Within two weeks, … Read more

‘Zombie genes’ – glial cells – come alive in human brain for HOURS after a person dies, study shows

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‘Zombie genes’ come alive and grow larger with arm-like appendages in the brain for many HOURS after a person dies, study reveals Experts observed genes in brain tissue increase activity after a person was dead The team says these ‘zombie genes’ are inflammatory cells called glial cells They grew larger and sprouted long-arm like appendages for … Read more

Large Hadron Collider detects elusive ‘odderon’ quasiparticle 50 YEARS after it was first predicted

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Concluding a hunt that began almost 50 years ago, particle physicists from CERN and the US have detected an elusive and weird phenomenon called the ‘odderon’. It was formed by firing protons at each other at high energies in the Large Hadron Collider, the 17-mile-long particle accelerator circling under the French-Swiss border. This effort built on … Read more