Much mcconnell is using language i dont think hes ever used before on background checks. He says the discussion on background checks for purchases, those discussions will be front and center. But it is Just Movement for language so far. He is not calling the senate back in action now. Cnn reporting that the president seems intrigued by them. Hes talked about background checks before. Will he expand any capital. We know he is going on vacation today. More on the president s fall out to dayton and el paso. The Deputy Director of national intelligence, sue gordon abruptly redesigning. President trump quickly a new acting director. The two top intelligence posts in the nation are unfilled. Joining us now, former Clinton White house press conference, political commentator and opinion rightwr. I want to play you the sound from Mitch Mcconnell. Again, these are words i havent heard from him before. Listen. This has also been some discussion about background checks. A lot of support for that a
Thawing permafrost and carbon-rich runoff from Canada\u2019s Mackenzie River is triggering part of the Arctic Ocean to release more carbon dioxide (CO2) than it absorbs, a NASA study has found. The findings indicate a threat to the ocean which is considered once Earth's critical carbon sinks, absorbing as much as 180 million metric tons of carbon per year \u2013 more than three times what New York City emits annually. Scientists have for decades studied how carbon cycles
Blue skies were smiling and bluebirds were singing for Irving Berlin, but blue is actually nature's rarest color. Blue flowers are less than 10% of the world's 300,000 flowering plant species. Even some of the few animals and plants that look blue don't actually contain the color. Blue jays and Morpho butterflies, for example, have developed unique features that distort the reflection of light to appear blue.
Humanity has been obsessed with blue for thousands of years, from ancient Egypt when blue, the color of the heavens, was used in temples, ceramics and statues and to decorate the tombs of the pharaohs. In Medieval Europe, ultramarine blue was highly sought after among artists, but was as precious as gold. Johanns Vermeer, who painted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring,' loved the color so much that he pushed his family into debt to purchase the paint color. Art historians believe Michelangelo left his painting 'The Entombment' unfinished because he cou