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A Republican effort to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Donald Trump appeared doomed Monday when a state lawmaker denied backers his crucial support for the move. GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha said in a statement that he opposes awarding Nebraska’s five electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, like 48 other states do. Nebraska and Maine give two electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide and one vote to the winner in each congressional district. McDonnell’s position means Republicans don’t have the two-thirds majority they’d need in Nebraska’s unique, one-chamber Legislature to pull off...

Law Enforcement Today recently uncovered a potentially alarming connection between the current Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and the Chinese Communist Party. In an exclusive shared by Alpha News, it is reported that a classified nuclear manual went missing during his tenure in the Nebraska National Guard, raising serious concerns about national security and questions about where his loyalty lies. The story goes back to September 1995, when Walz’s unit, the 1-168th Field Artillery, upgraded to M109A5 self-propelled howitzers. One of its capabilities was the ability to fire nuclear artillery shells. A former colleague who served...

President Donald Trump has taken a one-point lead within the left-leaning Quinnipiac Poll at the national level, albeit within the margin of error, a two-point swing in his favor since late August, and since the presidential debate. Quinnipiac explained in a press release: With 41 days until Election Day, the presidential race remains too close to call as former President Donald Trump receives 48 percent support among likely voters, Vice President Kamala Harris receives 47 percent support, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver each receive 1 percent support, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University...

The Sarco suicide pod has been used for the first time, its creators have confirmed, with an American woman aged 64 believed to be the first person to have died in the device 'under a canopy of trees' in Switzerland. Police in northern Switzerland said that several people were detained on Monday, and that prosecutors had opened an investigation on suspicion of incitement and accessory to suicide. The 'Sarco' suicide capsule is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber, according to its creators. The person is then supposed to...

US presidential candidate Donald Trump, reacting to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to New York, described him as the best salesman in history, claiming that after each trip to the US, the Ukrainian president returns with $60 billion, reports Bloomberg. "I see Zelenskiy is here. I think Zelenskyy is the greatest salesman in history — every time he comes into the country, he walks away with $60 billion," Trump said during a rally on Monday in Pennsylvania. He claimed that Zelenskyy allegedly really wanted his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, to win the election. The former president stated that he would try...

It might be time to wave bye-bye to the Marxist “Green New Deal” and say HELLO to nuclear power. The world’s top banks have had enough of the green nightmare and are now pledging their support for nuclear energy. The Harris/Biden regime just took a direct nuclear hit to their tyrannical green agenda, and they may never recover. Actually, to get an idea of how deep this goes, BNP told the “Financial Times” there’s “no scenario” where the world can hit carbon neutrality by 2050 without nuclear power. In addition, Barclays is also board. They believe that nuclear power could...

Explanation: This dusty region is forming stars. Part of a sprawling molecular cloud complex that resembles, to some, a rampaging baboon, the region is a relatively close by 500 light-years away toward the constellation Corona Australis. That's about one third the distance of the more famous stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. Mixed with bright nebulosities, the brown dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way and obscure from view embedded stars still in the process of formation. The eyes of the dust creature in the featured image are actually blue reflection nebulas...

Well, folks, things have gotten so bad in Kamala Harris’s America that liberal-run cities, which have been hellholes for quite some time, have now sunk to levels none of us saw coming. Take Philadelphia, for example. Instead of getting a taste of “brotherly love,” you’ll be dropped into a deadly, real-life version of Grand Theft Auto. And we’re not exaggerating—honestly, the creators of that dystopian, violent game wish they could make it look as terrifying and lawless as the real situation in Philadelphia right now. And it’s all thanks to the lawless, pro-criminal mentality coming from the entire Dem regime....

DOJ, Catherine Engelbrecht, Founder of @TrueTheVote, announced "we are monitoring over 25 MILLION ineligible names on voter rolls across the country. We're watching to see if those ineligible records go on to cast ballots. That's something that we will immediately report to the proper authorities." Oklahoma has removed 450,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls, including 100,000 dead people and 15,000 duplicate registrations. Texas removed one million. Nevada removed 140,000. The Department of Justice Department (DOJ) has issued a warning for states "not to become too vigorous in their efforts to eliminate ineligible and duplicate registrations." Assistant Attorney General for...

A Napolitan News survey, conducted by RMG Research, of 491 likely voters found that 50 percent would back Sheehy, compared to 43 percent who would support Tester in November. In a previous Napolitan survey conducted in August, Tester was ahead in the Montana Senate race by 5 points (49 percent to 44). The outcome of the Senate race between Tester and Sheehy, along with the general election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in November, could end up determining who controls the upper chamber next year. The Democrats currently control the Senate by a 51-49 seat margin, including four independent...

College football is becoming a battle ground for politics ahead of the 2024 United States Presidential Election. The Democrats are flying banners over games to attack Project 2025 and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Trump himself reportedly plans to attend the game of year taking place this weekend in Tuscaloosa: No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs vs. No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide....... Here’s a transcription of DeBoer’s quote: I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of celebrity type people here, people who want to be a part of what’s happening on game day. Everyone is going to be watching, so it will...

Nearly 20% of U.S. public charging attempts ended in failure, with roughly 10% of those aborted sessions were due to a damaged or missing cable ============================================================== Rick Wilmer spends most of his work days at the office. But every so often, the chief executive officer of ChargePoint Holdings Inc. will make his way to the company’s laboratory in San Jose, Calif., where he dons safety glasses and wields an array of saws and shears against EV chargers. The goal: to approximate the rash of vandalism sweeping the 65,000 U.S. cords under ChargePoint’s care. “It’s all over the country,” Wilmer says....

We all have our go-to grocery store for everyday needs, and America has spoken about its all-time favorite of 2024. Each year, USA Today releases its 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards for various categories, including the best grocery stores in the U.S. Nominations are made by a panel of experts, and the 10Best editors select the finalists. Readers then get a chance to vote for their favorites, and this year, it may surprise you which grocer came in the lead. Best Grocery Store in the U.S. in 2024 Hy-Vee was voted the top grocery store in America in 2024 by USA...

16 pet cats have suddenly disappeared in Bangor, Maine. No remains were found. Experts don't believe an animal did this. Bangor just had an influx of Haitians.

Mexico finalized plans to take control of a port and quarry owned by Vulcan Materials Co. on its Caribbean coast, deepening tensions days before the nation’s president leaves office. Mexico finalized plans to take control of a port and quarry owned by Vulcan Materials Co. on its Caribbean coast, deepening tensions days before the nation’s president leaves office. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration declared the land south of the resort cities of Cancun and Playa del Carmen a natural protected area, according to a filing in the federal gazette published hours after US lawmakers sought to dissuade such a...

While everyone was distracted, the global elite got exactly what they wanted. The UN adopted the “Pact for the Future” on September 22nd, and the mainstream media in the western world almost entirely ignored what was happening. Instead, the headlines urged us to just keep focusing on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Sadly, the vast majority of the population has never ever heard about the “Pact for the Future”, and so there was very little public debate about whether or not we should be adopting a document which lays the foundation for a new “global order”. The text of the...

There's one thing you must say for Vivek Ramaswamy: he's unafraid to go into the center of controversy. Ramaswamy waded into the pro-Hamas fray in Chicago outside the Democrat convention. And appearing on today's CNN This Morning, Ramaswamy described his experiences in holding a town hall in Springfield, Ohio in the midst of the controversy over Haitian immigration there. [snip] Hunt tried to get Ramaswamy to say that Trump's recent comments about Haitians eating pets have led to the outbreak of tensions. She also cited Laura Loomer's comments that if Harris wins, the White House will smell like curry. Ramaswamy...

Consumer confidence in September suffered the worst decline in more than three years, dragged down by a weaker labor market and rising pessimism about future business conditions and incomes. The Conference Board on Tuesday said its index of U.S. consumer confidence fell to 98.7 in January from 105.6, near the lowest of the range for the index over the past two years. Economists had expected a slight decline to 103 from the preliminary estimate of 103.3 for August. Increasingly pessimistic expectations for the economy’s performance in the months ahead and a weaker labor market drove September’s confidence decline.

(Image Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) NASA’s Perseverance Rover has made a striking new discovery—a black-and-white striped rock on the Martian surface dubbed “Freya Castle,” unlike anything previously seen on the Red Planet. This unique find has sparked excitement among scientists and space enthusiasts, offering a fresh puzzle in the ongoing quest to understand Mars’ geological history. “Team scientists and the internet alike were amazed when Perseverance spotted a black-and-white striped rock unlike any seen on Mars before,” Athanasios Klidaras, a Perseverance team member and doctoral student at Purdue University, wrote in an update published by NASA. “Is this a sign of exciting...

NEW YORK — A representative from the U.S. Department of Justice assured the American public that music mogul-turned-sex trafficking suspect Sean "Diddy" Combs had been securely locked away in Jeffrey Epstein's old prison cell. "There's nothing to worry about," said Attorney General Merrick Garland. "We've placed Mr. Combs in a very... special cell." Diddy was reportedly transferred from his cell in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center to the same cell Jeffrey Epstein occupied at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City earlier this week so that prison officials could keep a closer eye on him. "It's a far more secure...