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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office has been working behind the scenes to get House conservatives to drop their demands that a short-term funding bill include an immigrant voting crackdown, Axios has learned. Why it matters: A GOP showdown is brewing ahead of the Oct. 1 government funding deadline. Conservatives have shown a willingness to flirt with shutdowns to push their priorities, which McConnell's team wants to avoid. In a recent meeting with other GOP offices about a short-term spending bill strategy, top McConnell staffers argued that adding a non-citizen voting bill would backfire.

There is a lot to criticize about America’s current military – and I’ve criticized it – but there’s another problem no one seems to want to talk about. It’s scary as hell. The United States is not ready for the kind of war we are seeing played out in Ukraine, a peer-to-peer conventional fight that is rewriting the rules of what we thought war was supposed to be. And, with leadership in the White House sitting in a rocker staring slack-jawed at Matlock reruns, we are not in a position to fix what will mean defeat in our next real...

The Nicaraguan newspaper Confidencial reported on Sunday that Russia established a spy center in one of Nicaragua’s military bases under the auspices of the country’s communist regime. Confidencial, citing unnamed sources in the Nicaraguan military, warned in its report that the communist regime uses the spy base’s systems to monitor embassies and detect possible “traitors” of dictator Daniel Ortega.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) stated that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris doesn’t have to visit the border “to know there is a problem at the border that needs to be addressed in general” and “the important thing is that she ought to be addressing the issues at the border, which, by the way, she and President Biden have been, and we’ve seen the effect of that in Chicago.” Pritzker said, “Well, the important thing is that she ought to be addressing the issues at the border, which, by the way,...

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) had been groomed by the Chinese Communist Party. .... Peter Schweizer ... goes back to the exchange program that he ran and brought hundreds of students from the United States to China. In the early press accounts, Tim Walz describes it as unique and unusual and different, a program that nobody else has. And at the same time that he’s bringing those students there, by the students’ accounting, Tim Walz is saying things like, well, in China, nobody is poor because everybody shares in China as if sort of a compulsive arm of the CCP is...

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated that he doesn’t regret saying that he “didn’t see” chaos in Afghanistan from his “perch.” Because even though “there was chaos,” “the question was asking me just a blanket sort of bumper sticker adjective slapped onto the withdrawal,” and “it deeply offends me, as a veteran myself, that we’re just slapping that bumper sticker on the whole withdrawal and I think that does a disservice to all the brave men and women, civilian and military alike, who pulled that withdrawal off.” Host Phil Mattingly...

For over a year, surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean hit new highs, but that trend has reversed at record speed over the past few months, and nobody knows why. {skip obligatory global warming bs next few paragraphs...} NOAA data shows Atlantic sea surface temperatures have cooled at a surprising rate since May. Since June began, temperatures have been a degree or two Fahrenheit colder than normal for this time of year. That means El Niño will likely be replaced by its counterpart, La Niña, a weather system that allows cold water to rise to the surface of the Atlantic,...

It currently costs NY about $36 per MWH for energy. But the state demanded wind. Let’s discuss the amazing bottom line results. So Much for So Little The Wall Street Journal asks Why Is New York Paying So Much for Wind Power? New York state signed a contract in June to buy electricity generated by two large wind farms, Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind, off the coast of Long Island. The projects are expected to begin in 2026 and 2027, with power delivered to Brooklyn (Empire) and Long Island (Sunrise). The state will pay $155 and $146 per megawatt-hour,...

Zuckerberg responded to questions from the House Judiciary Committee, explaining the moderation of online content on social media platforms, including addressing reports that the Biden administration tried to censor multiple social media companies. "There's a lot of talk right now, about how the U.S. government interacts with companies like Meta, and I want to be clear about our position," Zuckerberg said in a letter to the committee. "Our platforms are for everyone -- we're about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way." Zuckerberg explained that the Biden administration pressured his team for months in 2021...

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Criminals opened fire on at least 134 police officers during routine traffic stops from 2021 through 2023, federal data show. Now, an equity commission convened by the Biden-Harris administration wants to spend $20 million on a pilot program that would deploy unarmed cops to conduct traffic enforcement. The Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity, an Obama-era body revived by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg last year, said in a report released this month that cops don’t need to carry guns or tasers with them when out on the streets enforcing traffic laws. The commission, whose membership includes an activist who once said...

The 2024 presidential election is just around the corner — and young employees are threatening to quit if their bosses express a political belief they disagree with. In fact, a new poll found that nearly half of workers under 35 say they’d quit a job over political differences at work. In an era of polarization, Americans have cut ties with partners, friends and even family members over political disagreements, but now it seems they’re even willing to leave a paycheck behind. It’s a sign that politics has become all-encompassing — and that there’s no place in society left that it...

More than 200 former aides to the three GOP presidential nominees who preceded former President Trump in 2016 — former President George W. Bush, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) — endorsed Vice President Harris on Monday. The majority of the group also endorsed President Biden in 2020. The group wrote a letter announcing the endorsement, USA Today first reported. The letter said it was a reunion of sorts from 2020, though it added that additional Bush alumni in particular were added to the group this cycle that are opposing Trump and backing Harris. “Of course,...

More remarks that expose Vice President Kamala Harris’ totalitarian plans and oddball ideas have gone viral. The latest on the Democratic presidential nominee are her comments about seizing guns from law-abiding Americans, her former plan to eliminate private health insurance, and her bizarre claims that Covid-19 killed over 220 million Americans. The first vice president to believe computer data are stored in the air above one’s head, Harris is also notable for a faulty understanding of inflation and an oft-stated desire to redistribute wealth. The name for her ideology: Kamunism. Gun-grabber Kamala“The problem is that Congress does not have the...

A three-judge panel ruled 3–0 in rejecting the law, which was passed by the GOP-controlled state Legislature in 2021.A federal appeals court on Monday ruled in favor of the Biden administration by scrapping a Missouri state law that declared several federal gun laws invalid.A three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Missouri’s bid to reverse a lower-court judge’s decision to bar the state from enforcing a 2021 law known as the Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA).U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes in 2023 declared the law unconstitutional. But Missouri, under Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey,...

The very weird Kamala campaign consists of its lead actress appearing only in pre-staged clips while recruiting nearly every Democrat elected official to act as her surrogates and her excuse-makers.That means they’re out there faced with the tough task of answering questions on her behalf.I almost feel sorry for them. Almost. The trouble is that many of them are almost as unprincipled as her.“The truth of the matter is, yes, she’s come to the middle. She’s pragmatic, she’s a tough leader, she’s the leader we need for the future,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told “Fox News Sunday.” “So again, while...

Governor Greg Abbott today announced that since signing Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021, Texas has removed over one million people from the state’s voter rolls, including people who moved out-of-state, are deceased, and are noncitizens. That removal process has been, and will continue to be, ongoing. “Election integrity is essential to our democracy,” said Governor Abbott. “I have signed the strongest election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to crackdown on illegal voting. These reforms have led to the removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter rolls in the last...

Hollywood star Sally Field is claiming Kamala Harris stands for democracy even though she didn’t receive a single vote in the Democratic primary. Sally Field announced her return to social media over the weekend with two Instagram posts. In one, she trashed former President Donald Trump. In the other, she endorsed Kamala Harris, claiming a vote for the Harris-Walz ticket is a vote for “democracy.” “Hope is here,” the Norma Rae actress wrote, later adding: “Vote for our country, our children and grandchildren. Vote for the earth and women and human rights. Vote for democracy. Vote for @kamalaharris and @timwalz...

Election officials in the key swing state of Pennsylvania are warning voters that the results of the 2024 presidential race may not be ready on election night in November. Monday’s Fox News report comes as former President Donald Trump (R) and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), are campaigning against Vice President Kamala Harris (D) and her running mate, radical leftist Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). The article continued: To avoid repeated controversy from four years ago, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt — a Republican appointed by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro in 2023 — is explaining to voters that...

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked a federal appeals court to reinstate former President Donald Trump's classified documents case, after it was dismissed last month. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case in July, claiming Smith's appointment violated the Appointments clause of the Constitution, and that Smith had no authority to prosecute the case. The appeal was filed in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where prosecutors claimed the ruling was “at odds with widespread and longstanding appointment practices in the Department of Justice and across the government," according to the Associated Press. It is not clear...