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Tropical Storm Rafael formed south of Jamaica in the Caribbean Sea. The forecast anticipates strengthening into a hurricane south of Western Cuba, before advancing northwest into the Gulf of Mexico later this week. Given significant uncertainties in the long-range forecast track and intensity, it is too soon to determine what, if any, impacts could occur. Watches and warnings have been issued for the Lower and Middle FL Keys, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and Western Cuba. Mash the graphics below to enlarge. All links and images are self-updating. NHC Public Advisories NHC Discussions Tropical Tidbits by Levi Cowan News: NOLA.comFL Keys NewsWLOX...

PINE CITY, N.Y. (WETM) — A New York Assemblyman from Long Island has proposed an amendment to a New York State Environmental Conservation Law aimed at reforming animal seizure protocols following the euthanization of ‘P’Nut the Squirrel’ after he was taken from his home in Pine City by DEC agents on Wednesday. Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz of the 15th Assembly District in Long Island announced on Saturday, Nov. 2, a proposal for an amendment called “Peanut’s Law: Humane Animal Protection Act.” This proposed law would amend Section 11-0512 of New York’s Environmental Conservation Law to prevent incidents like what happened to...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — The wife of a prominent Atlanta attorney accused of killing her husband and burning his body has been found guilty on all counts. A jury convicted Melody Farris in the 2018 death of her husband in Cherokee County. Last week, defense attorneys claimed that there was not enough evidence in this case to convict Melody Farris, but the jury felt otherwise. In 2018, the body of Gary Farris was found in a wooded area behind a house on Purcell Lane. After months of testing, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation determined Farris was killed by a gunshot.

A progressive commentator has suggested she will take her own life by ingesting cyanide live on air if Donald Trump prevails in tomorrow’s presidential election. Francesca Fiorentini, a left-wing commentator who hosts The Bitchuation podcast, was asked by The Sun’s chief political writer, Harry Cole, how she would react if Trump secures an extraordinary return to the White House. “I’ll drink cyanide on air and podcast into the night,” she remarked before going on to admit that she will keep fighting for the right to abortion.

Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission in oxygen and hydrogen, wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars...

Billionaire entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban has become a vocal critic of Donald Trump in recent years. However, throughout his public political clashes with the former president, Cuban has quietly owned a luxurious condo in Trump International Hotel and Tower on Central Park West for nearly 25 years, records obtained by The Post reveal. The Dallas-based mogul — who has thrown his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris during the current presidential campaign — purchased the 3,700-square-foot property on the 45th floor of the iconic Trump Tower in July 2000 for $13.5 million. The white-glove condo, located at...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Monday on ABC’s “The View” that she was proud to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. Cheney said, “Look, I think, first of all, there is only one serious responsible adult in this race. There’s just one. It’s not a race where we have the luxury of being able, you know, sometimes conservatives will say, ‘Well, I’m going to write in an alternative. I’m not going to vote for Trump, but I’m going to write somebody in.’ I want to make sure people all across the country understand you don’t have...

Early voting numbers for Democrats are down 700,000 from 2020. Republican ballots are basically the same. Was 2020 a mirage. 2020 🟦 1,587,654 (+1,040,038) 🟥 547,616 2024 🟦 893,998 (+372,799) 🟥 521,199

DONALD Trump could "face a JFK-style assassination" if he tries to end the brutal war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's crackpot crony has warned. -snip- Mad Vlad's puppet Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday claimed Trump may face the same fate as John F Kennedy in 1963 should he win the presidential race. On his Russian Telegram Channel, the ex-Russian president and longest-serving Prime Minister, said: “A tired Trump, issuing platitudes like ‘I'll offer a deal’ and 'I have a great relationship with…’ will also be forced to follow all the system's rules. “He won't be able to stop the war. “Not in...

… This (Jenga), I’d argue, is basically how we should be thinking about the stakes of the 2024 election for American democracy: an already-rickety tower of state would be at risk of falling in on itself entirely, with catastrophic results for those who live under its shelter. We live in an era where democracies once considered “consolidated” — meaning so secure that that they couldn’t collapse into authoritarianism — have started to buckle and even collapse. As recently as 2010, Hungary was considered one of the post-Communist world’s great democratic success stories; today, it is now understood to be the...

The political stereotype is that Republicans are always publicly confident that they will win, while Democrats are forever convinced that failure is just around the corner. That’s why some of the signs coming out of the Harris campaign in the last week are so interesting. Increasingly, Harris’ staff believe that they are heading into Election Night in a pretty good place. Meanwhile, Trump’s staff is already conducting post-mortems.

We see eye-to-eye in most situations, but when it comes to Trump she is extremely set in her ways. She constantly says how much she hates him whenever he's on the news, and repeatedly asks me how I can possibly support him.We had to turn off the debate between Trump and Kamala Harris halfway through because we couldn't stop arguing. I don't think our marriage would have survived a second debate!So, as the election approaches, we've decided to stop talking about politics altogether. We've stopped watching the news when we're both at home. We don't discuss what we are reading.This...

DETROIT — In a nod to Michigan’s importance among swing states, Donald Trump will hold his last campaign event in Grand Rapids late election eve Monday. That’ll make River City the former president’s final stop in all three of his campaigns. A nine-year journey that started with an escalator ride at Trump Tower will end at downtown’s Van Andel Arena in Michigan’s second-largest city. “Michiganders love a late-night rally, and President Trump loves Michigan,” Victoria LaCivita, the Trump campaign’s Michigan spokeswoman, told The Post. “From the beginning, Team Trump has known that the path to the White House runs directly...

While the compromised Hollywood elites are pushed to the forefront of the “Anit-Trump” media narrative, actor Zachary Levi claims there are vast swaths of silent voters within the film industry who are voting for former president Donald Trump. During an appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Levi was asked if there “were a lot more stars in Hollywood who are now leaning towards voting Trump than would actually admit it.” “I do think there’s a lot of people in Hollywood that would love to vote for a Democratic candidate because they really don’t like Trump,” Levi responded. “But they’re not just...

Megyn Kelly will speak directly to voters at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Monday and explain why she is voting for former President Donald Trump, she announced during The Megyn Kelly Show on Monday. “Here we are: One day before the final voters head to the polls,” Kelly said as she opened her show, stating that there “has never been, and probably never will be a campaign quite like 2024. “From one candidate surviving not one but two assassination attempts to another being forced out in what looked very much like a coup, and Democrats installing his replacement without...

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[Catholic Caucus] Swiss Bishop: All of Francis' Synods Failed - "We Are Going Round in Circles"Ideological activists like Timothy Radcliffe are looking for every semantic loophole in the final document of the ex-synod in order to continue with their homosexual and feminist agendas, Swiss Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti comments in his blog on 2 November."The synodal harvest of the previous synods is meagre," he writes. The Youth Synod (2018) literally fizzled out. The huge amount of preparatory work was useless, as was the post-synodal letter: "I never heard or read anything about it again."The Amazon Synod (2019) was a disappointment,...

I had ChatGPT run a Monte Carlo analysis of who will win the election: Conducting a Monte Carlo simulation for the 2024 U.S. presidential election involves modeling the electoral outcomes based on current polling data and historical voting patterns. This method provides probabilistic insights into each candidate's chances of winning. Methodology: Data Collection: Polling Averages: Utilize recent state-level polling data for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Historical Voting Trends: Incorporate past election results to account for state-specific voting behaviors. Assign Probability Distributions: For each state, establish a probability distribution reflecting the uncertainty in polling data, typically...

Amid this year's U.S. Senate race, pollster Ivan Moore predicted on Saturday that Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, is going to "lose for sure" against his Democratic opponent, Representative Colin Allred. Cruz is facing Allred, a three-term congressman from Dallas, in a closely watched race that could determine which party wins control of the U.S. Senate. Republicans are hoping to seize the Senate in this month's election after failing to do so in 2022 when a widely forecast "red wave" failed to materialize. There are currently 51 Democratic-aligned senators versus 49 Republican senators, though the GOP is widely expected...

The Harris campaign and allied groups spent more than $2.185 billion trying to prevent former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest comeback in American political history, Bloomberg reported on Open Secrets data. The $2.1 billion investment underscores the challenge Trump faces to win reelection, notwithstanding two assassination attempts and Democrats’ lawfare. The vast sum does not include millions of funds invested in smaller amounts by Democrat-allied organizations. The top organizations that spent $2.185 billion include: Harris for President: $875 million Future Forward: $621 million DNC: $368 million Harris Victory Fund: $321 million