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... the first salmon in more than a century is believed to have ... ...Scientists with the nonprofit California Trout told the Chronicle that their sonar camera captured what was almost certainly a chinook salmon migrating upstream... ...The roughly 2½-foot-long fish is thought to be part of...

Sam Stern, the Republican candidate for state attorney in Palm Beach County, has just pulled off the unimaginable-he’s raised $1.1 million in thirty days, while his Democrat opponent, Alexcia Cox, has raised only about a hundred thousand. Additionally, Stern has pulled off another eyebrow-raising coup, an endorsement from the two Democrats that ran against Cox in the primary. In the last lap of this election, Stern seems to be steamrolling over Cox for a potential victory. If Stern wins, it will shock the many in this county who think this is a slam dunk for candidate Cox, who many see...

What seemed like a fanciful conspiracy has been revealed as a sickening fact. While most people agree that human trafficking is an evil that should be fought, America’s ruling elite are abetting the abuse of unaccompanied alien children. Since the Biden family moved into the White House, more than 8 million illegal aliens have crossed into the United States from Mexico. Most of these are military-aged men, yet a sizable number are unaccompanied children. Nearly 520,000 unaccompanied children have shown up on America’s doorstep in the past 44 months, about 400 kids per day. What happens to these children? And...

Vice President Harris spoke at length in on Wednesday, Oct. 3, while also meeting those distributing aid and cleaning up after the storm. During her speech, Harris mentioned the cash disbursements as one part of a larger relief effort. "And the federal relief and assistance that we have been providing has included FEMA providing $750 for folks who need immediate needs being met, such as food, baby formula, and the like. And you can apply now," she said. snip Over 1,600 interactions with people and animals, including rescues and evacuations, had also taken place with federal assistance.

The dockworkers strike that has shut down dozens of ports on the East and Gulf Coasts has reportedly triggered panic buying of toilet paper and paper towels at a Costco on Staten Island — despite experts’ insistence that paper products won’t be affected by the strike. Video footage on Wednesday showed vast, empty shelves of toilet paper, paper towels and facial tissues. One segment posted by FreedomNews.TV shows just a few pallets of Kleenex at the Costco on Richmond Avenue near the Staten Island Mall.

<p>A station platform has been cordoned off at Hamburg central station in northern Germany amid fears that a train passenger may have arrived carrying a dangerous virus.</p><p>A fire department spokesman told the Bild tabloid that the man and his girlfriend had developed flu-like symptoms on a high-speed train from Frankfurt.</p>

Melania Trump has done her best to stay out of the spotlight throughout her husband’s presidential tenure and political career. Now, in a memoir titled Melania set to be published a month before election today, she has openly chosen a side in America’s abortion wars. The Guardian obtained a copy of the memoir, and published the former—and possibly future—First Lady’s pro-abortion declaration: It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government. Why should anyone other than the woman herself...

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., cleared the way Wednesday for Americans to bet on the outcome of the 2024 congressional elections — and potentially other federal election contests. The appeals court in a decision rejected an effort by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit the commodities exchange KalshiEx from offering “Congressional Control Contracts” while the federal agency appealed a lower court’s ruling that had given a green light for such bets. The CFTC argues that the contracts might cast doubt on the integrity of elections. But the commission “has failed to at this time to demonstrate that...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) received stellar reviews for his debate performance on Tuesday night against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), with pundits describing him as “sharp” and offering a “commanding performance.” “For Vance, it was a commanding performance. For Walz, it was a nervous ramble. For the audience, it was the most civil and substantive debate of the Trump era,” wrote Ross Douthat, a columnist for The New York Times. “I was struck by the fact that JD Vance is a significantly more eloquent Donald Trump,” said Alyssa Farah Griffin, “The View” co-host and a CNN commentator during a panel....

Sen. JD Vance refused to acknowledge that former president Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, setting off one of the most contentious exchanges in Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate with Gov. Tim Walz. Walz vigorously pressed Vance on the issue near the end of a debate that had otherwise been marked by unusual comity. “I would just ask, did he lose the 2020 election?” Walz asked. “Tim, I’m focused on the future,” Vance said, without addressing the question. “That is a damning non-answer,” Walz responded. The Republican senator from Ohio and the Democratic governor of Minnesota offered sharply different perspectives on...

Voting starts Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive the winter. The contest, which is in its 10th year, celebrates the resiliency of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, which extends from the state’s southwest corner toward the Aleutian Islands. The animals gorge on the abundant sockeye salmon that return to the Brooks River, sometimes chomping the fish in midair as they try to hurdle a small waterfall and make...

More than 20 people died after a bus carrying students and faculty members on a school trip in Thailand crashed and caught fire near the country’s capital, Bangkok, on Tuesday, officials said. ...

An associate professor for urban and multicultural studies who was appointed by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s education department to craft a new curriculum for “ethnic studies” called for the “overthrow” of the United States.‘The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist,’ Lozenski said.

I realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school.I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil.What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to anti-communism.To my amazement, a great many people -- specifically, all leftists and many, though not all, liberals -- hated anti-communists far more than they hated communism.Because of my early preoccupation with good and evil, already in high school, I hated communism. How could one not, I wondered....

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Monday called for the Senate to “immediately reconvene” once damage assessments are completed so lawmakers can consider an emergency aid package in response to the devastation left by Hurricane Helene. “Floridians are resilient, but the response and recovery from this storm demands the full and immediate support of government at every level to get families and businesses back to normal,” Scott said in a statement. “While I know from my experience with previous hurricanes that FEMA and SBA damage assessments take time, I am today urging Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to immediately reconvene the...

More than 80,000 birds have died over the past 2½ months at a network of wildlife refuges on the Oregon-California border. The deaths, linked to a rare combination of botulism and avian flu, increased sharply since the... ..wetland habitat continues to shrink, forcing birds into smaller patches of water, and climate change dries up what’s left of the habitat, the toxin has infected many more birds. Competition for water in the Klamath Basin makes the situation worse.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A convicted murderer who was run out of several Texas cities when he was released early from prison in 1993 pleaded guilty Monday to two new murder charges in a deal that allows him to serve life in prison and avoid the death penalty, over the objections of the victims' family members. Raul Meza Jr., 63, served about a decade in prison for killing an 8-year-old girl in 1982 before he was released under laws at the time that gave him credit for good behavior behind bars. He was charged in 2023 with killing 65-year-old Gloria...

Lawmakers in both parties are bracing themselves for a messy aftermath to Election Day as polls show the race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris is so close in several battleground states that it could take days to determine the winner. Democratic senators say they fear Trump and his allies will seize on any initial uncertainty over the results to claim election fraud if Harris is projected the early winner. Some lawmakers are already girding themselves for another battle on the Senate and House floors over certifying the election if Harris is declared the winner. Though Congress passed...

For Daniel Guerra, an aspiring Brazilian sailor keen to travel the world, the job ad was a dream come true. A British yacht owner was seeking two deck-hands to help sail his boat from Brazil across the Atlantic, one of the great ocean journeys. There would be no salary, but all expenses paid - and, crucially, Mr Guerra would gain some of the sailing experience he needed to qualify as a sea captain. "My dream was to become a captain and go work in Europe," remembers the 43-year-old, who saw the advert from an online sailing recruitment agency. "So I...

Britain’s only remaining coal power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire will generate electricity for the last time on Monday after powering the UK for 57 years. The power plant will come to the end of its life in line with the government’s world-leading policy to phase out coal power which was first signalled almost a decade ago. The closure marks the end of Britain’s 142-year history of coal power use which began when the world’s first coal-fired power station, the Holborn Viaduct power station, began generating electricity in 1882. The shutdown has been hailed by green campaigners as a major...