February 4th, 2020

Speaker Pelosi just ripped up:

One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.

The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.

The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller.

A service member's reunion with his family.

That's her legacy.

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 5, 2020

Pence says Pelosi ripping up Trump's SOTU speech was "a new low." pic.twitter.com/DyMUz9tH4V

— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) February 5, 2020

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg won Monday's Iowa caucus with 26.9% of the state delegates, followed by Sens. Bernie Sanders in second (25.1%) and Elizabeth Warren in third (18.3%) according to Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) Chair Troy Price, after 62% of statewide precincts were finally counted.

The plan would build on efforts by some U.S. telecom and technology companies to agree on common engineering standards that would allow 5G software developers to run code atop machines that come from nearly any hardware manufacturer. That would reduce, if not eliminate, reliance on Huawei equipment. Companies including Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc. and AT&T Inc. are part of the effort, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said.

“After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution,” the New York Democrat tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. “None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it. Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union.”...

At 32%, Bernie Sanders has more voter support than the next two candidates—Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden—combined.

A Royal Engineers bomb disposal unit was called in and removed the half-tonne device... "The Army EOD team have confirmed the bomb was safe to remove overnight to a location where it will be detonated."

“Our cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency has offered to test that app from a hacking perspective,” Wolf said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.” “They declined, so we’re seeing a couple of issues with it.”
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“Given the amount of scrutiny that we have on election security these days, this is a concerning event, and it really goes to the public confidence of our elections.”...

Terahertz waves (THz) sit between microwaves and infrared in the light frequency spectrum, but due to their low energy, scientists have been unable to harness their potential... A team of physicists has created a new type of optical transistor—a working THz amplifier—using graphene and a high-temperature superconductor. The physics behind the simple amplifier relies on the properties of graphene.
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"The universe is full of terahertz radiation and signals, in fact, all biological organisms both absorb and emit it. I expect that with such an amplifier available, we will be able to discover many mysteries of nature, for example, how chemical reactions and biological processes are going on, or how our brain operates and how we think...

We're still waiting for someone to mass manufacture graphene. Researchers have been experimenting with this material for years now, we've even kept a close eye on the mining efforts of this material (graphite). Once someone figures it out, the world will change.

Amazon reportedly delivers 2.5 billion packages per year, and it's becoming one of the largest package deliverers in the US. In 2019, it went from delivering about 20% of its own packages to delivering half. Amazon says that the new vans will start delivering packages in 2021. In an announcement Tuesday, the company showed off the design for the electric vehicles...

"The blessing of military weapons is not reflected in the tradition of the Orthodox Church and does not correspond to the content of the Rite," the document, on the Moscow patriarchate's website, says. Blessing or sanctifying weapons that can kill an "indefinite number of people" must be excluded from pastoral practice, it says...

Recently released court documents revealed that Jan Peter Meister was indicted on Oct. 23, 2019, after allegedly leaving an expletive-laden message for Schiff saying, “I’m gonna f----- blow your brains out you f----- piece of s---.”

“The public is advised to never pick up or touch this drug if you ever encounter it.” “Gray death” has been referred to as “The Trojan Horse of the opioid epidemic”... The drug is considered toxic partly because the ingredients “vary from batch to batch,” with differing combinations of “heroin, fentanyl, or carfentanil”...

Watch how Buttigieg ‘randomly’ wins this coin toss pic.twitter.com/vn1FEv12l7

— Minister of Shadow Voting Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 4, 2020