"It all pointed to an abduction," she says. "And it had to be talked about. Otherwise, it would be spun."

Bajc believes the Malaysian government knows what happened. If the authorities weren't truthful at first, there's no reason to assume they're being so now. "The country is covering it up," she said. "That should be considered criminal conduct; the cover-up. What they're covering up, we don't know."

If confirmed, this would represent arguably one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs for a hundred years, since Einstein's theories of relativity. That is because a fifth force and any particles associated with it are not part of the Standard Model of particle physics.

Researchers know that there is what they describe as "physics beyond the Standard Model" out there, because the current theory can't explain lots of things that astronomers observe in space.

These include the fact that galaxies are continuing to accelerate apart after the Big Bang that created the Universe, rather than the expansion slowing down. Scientists say the acceleration is being driven by an unknown force, called dark energy.

Galaxies are also spinning faster than they should, according to our understanding of how much material is in them. Researchers believe it's because of invisible particles called dark matter, which again are not part of the Standard Model.

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Several groups, including van Kolck’s, plan to repeat Bacca’s calculations and find out what went wrong. It’s possible that simply including more terms in the approximation of the nuclear force might be the answer. On the other hand, it’s also possible that these ballooning helium nuclei have exposed a fatal flaw in our understanding of the nuclear force.

The neuroscience research, and recent MRI imaging studies, show that DMT binds to the serotonin 2A receptors in the brain, like psilocybin and the other classical psychedelics. The Default Mode Network in the brain is disrupted, there's more communication between different brain regions that are normally not in direct communication, and there’s generally a more fluid and complex cortical state. But how that translates into people seeing clowns, jesters, insectoid and alien beings, well, that’s anyone’s guess really.

In collaboration with Dr. Strassman, neurobiologist/pharmacologist/chemist Andrew Gallimore developed the model and technology for extended-state DMT experiences (DMTx for short). By way of an IV-drip, the DMT state can be stretched out far beyond the usual duration. As opposed to the usual “quickie,” the experience can last for several hours … or, theoretically, even days.

DMT causes the brain to enter a highly irregular and plastic state. As the drug’s effects wear off, the brain begins to return to its default state. It’s possible that this process of “returning to normal” evokes a sense of familiarity.

“Whenever I tried to pull any information out of the entities regarding themselves, the data that was given up was always relevant only to me. The elves could not give me any piece of data I did not already know, nor could their existence be sustained under any kind of prolonged scrutiny.”

It’s also worth noting that not all people who smoke DMT see beings, and that some see beings that look nothing like elves or aliens. The diversity of these reports seems to count against the argument that DMT beings exist in some objective alternate reality.

In giving greater weight to claims of individual hurt and victimization, have we inadvertently raised a generation that has fewer tools to manage hardship and transform adversity into agency?

"Unlike in CV and NLP, the field of time series lacks publicly accessible large-scale datasets."

the vast majority of illicit fentanyl — close to 90% — is seized at official border crossings. Immigration authorities say nearly all of that is smuggled by people who are legally authorized to cross the border, and more than half by U.S. citizens like Haley. Virtually none is seized from migrants seeking asylum.

"Our analysis, our intelligence continues to point to most of what's being smuggled at the ports of entry," said Troy Miller, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, in an interview.

One of the basic notions Adam Scott Wandt, an attorney and professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, learned over the years is that personal testimony makes for the most inaccurate type of evidence. “People live through experiences and they get it wrong when they repeat it,” he said in a recent interview. “They don’t do it on purpose, it’s just that people’s recollections tend to be pretty poor.”

This is particularly true when it comes to sexual assault, said Wendy Patrick, a career trial attorney who is a member of the organization End Violence Against Women International. People tend to clearly remember being sexually assaulted decades later. But because it’s so traumatizing, they often do not remember the events surrounding the incident. “It’s not usual for people to be unclear when it happened,” she said.

"turned over quickly, without any intent to conceal" versus "protracted battle"

sounds like quid pro quo to me, if "selling access" to a "family brand" is a thing

"The newspaper ads promise that buyers who order apartments in the development by Thursday will get “a conversation and dinner” with Trump Jr. a day later.

President Trump has pledged to avoid any new foreign business deals during his term in office to avoid potential ethical conflicts. While the projects that Trump Jr. is promoting in India were inked before his father was elected, ethics experts have long seen the use of the Trump name to promote even existing business ventures as tricky territory."

In February 2014, Hunter Biden met with Kenes Rakishev at a Washington, D.C. hotel. Rakishev worked closely with the prime minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov. In April, Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch, wired $142,300 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai. The next day, a payment was made from Rosemont Seneca Bohai for a sportscar for Hunter Biden in the amount of $142,300.

In the Clinton case, FBI Director James Comey decided after an investigation that she had been careless in using a private server but it was not intentional.

Mr Trump is also accused of obstructing the investigation. But he says Mrs Clinton destroyed evidence and points to the deleted emails. At one press conference, he even urged Russia to find them.

In Mr Comey's view there was no cover-up, even though an FBI investigation found many of the deleted emails were work-related.

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Kaplan wrote.

He added: “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”

The former requires forcible, unconsented-to penetration with one’s penis. But he said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for — forced digital penetration — meets a more common definition of rape. He cited definitions offered by the American Psychological Association and the Justice Department, which in 2012 expanded its definition of rape to include penetration “with any body part or object.”

“I was in those meetings, and Gorbachev has [also] said there was no promise not to enlarge NATO,” Zoellick recalls. Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, later president of Georgia, concurred, he says. Nor does the treaty on Germany’s unification include a limit on NATO enlargement.

“It’s always hard to know who owns the success,” an official said. “Sometimes for us, success is moving the needle with other bigger players and getting them to think about things. So if the U.S. advanced a version of our idea, sometimes that’s what success looks like for us.”