The Judge for the Marjorie Taylor Greene Hearing Tossed the Hot Potato Into Interesting Hands

The groundwater system, found in deep sediments in West Antarctica likely to be the consistency of a wet sponge, reveals an unexplored part of the region and may have implications for how the frozen continent reacts to the climate crisis, according to new research."People have hypothesized that there could be deep groundwater in these sediments, but up to now, no one has done any detailed imaging," said the study's lead author, Chloe Gustafson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in a news statement. "Antarctica contains 57 meters (187 feet) of sea level rise potential, so we want to make sure we are incorporating all of the processes that control how ice flows off of the continent and into the oceans. Groundwater is currently a missing process in our models of ice flow," she added via email.

Ocean water likely reached the area during a warm period 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, saturating the sediment with salty seawater. When the ice advanced, fresh meltwater produced by pressure from above and friction at the ice base was forced into the upper sediments. It probably continues to filter down and mix into the groundwater today, Key said.

The labor market has added more than 6.5 million jobs in the past year and is on pace to return to pre-pandemic levels this summer, although economists say there are signs that this record streak of employment gains is beginning to moderate. The number of people working or searching for work, for example, declined by 363,000 in April after six months of gains. And the pace of average wage growth slowed slightly to 0.3 percent, from 0.4 percent a month earlier.

The challenge to Greene's eligibility was filed by voters who allege the GOP congresswoman played a significant role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that disrupted Congress' certification of Joe Biden's presidential election victory. That puts her in violation of a seldom-invoked part of the 14th Amendment having to do with insurrection and makes her ineligible to run for reelection, they argue.

“Did none of you learn anything from the Gridiron Dinner? Nothing,” Noah said, referring to another elite Washington gathering in April, after which dozens of attendees tested positive for the coronavirus. “Do you read any of your own newspapers?” By Wednesday, Noah’s chiding remarks at what he called “the nation’s most distinguished superspreader event” were beginning to appear prophetic as a growing number of attendees, including a string of journalists and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said they had tested positive for the virus.

It was unclear how many cases had been confirmed as of Wednesday evening. Steven Portnoy of CBS News, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said late Wednesday that “the number of cases that have been brought to my attention now totals less than 1% of dinner attendees.” He added that “many” social gatherings in Washington over the weekend had more lenient COVID-19 protocols than the association’s dinner.

Jada Yuan, a reporter at The Washington Post who tested positive Wednesday after attending the dinner, had said at the time that the ballroom was “like a horror film.”

“No exits. Literally getting trapped between tables,” Yuan wrote on Twitter. “Fear of breathing near people but people are everywhere. Creeping sense that you’re the only one who know this is insane.”

“With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think.” — Edgar Allan Poe. The Masque of the Red Death

The five-ton giant, the largest megaraptor unearthed to date, fed on smaller dinosaurs that it ripped to shreds with its talons before digging into their intestines, paleontologist Mauro Aranciaga told AFP. It would have been the "apex predator" of its time, said Aranciaga—well deserving of its chilling scientific name "Maip macrothorax.”

The character was associated with "the shadow of the death" that "kills with cold wind" in the Andes mountains, according to a study reporting the find in the Nature journal Scientific Reports. The second part, "macrothorax," refers to the enormous expanse of the creature's chest cavity—about 4 feet wide.

The reptile was found in Estancia La Anita, an area that looked very different 70 million years ago. "There were aquatic and terrestrial snails, plants of very different affiliation, it was a forest, almost a jungle, with puddles, lakes, streams, and diverse creatures such as frogs, turtles, fish, small birds, and mammals," the scientists said in a statement. Now, the area looks like a cinematic "dreamscape," the paleontologists said.