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President Trump will preside over the signing of two historic deals between Israel and two Gulf nations at the White House on Tuesday – a ceremony that will burnish Trump’s foreign policy credentials as he seeks reelection. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sign deals marking the normalization of relations with both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The UAE deal was announced last month, with the Bahrain deal announced on Friday. The ceremony on the South Lawn is expected to see about 700 guests in attendance. Trump told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday morning that other countries "want to...

Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention are steadily removing the “Southern” part of their name in an effort that Convention President J.D. Greear said is essential following a summer of Black Lives Matter protests and increased calls for racial justice reform. In an interview with The Washington Post published Tuesday, Greear said there has been more support to adopt the new name “Great Commission Baptists,” both because of the changing climate in the U.S. and because many have long believed the “Southern Baptist” title no longer adequately encompasses the approximately 50,000 churches that now exist around the globe. “Our Lord...

California Governor Gavin Newsom met with Donald Trump on Monday for a briefing on the wildfires that continue to ravage the state and much of the West Coast. Newsom asked Trump to "agree to disagree" on the politics of climate change, telling the president point-blank that "climate change is real" and is only exacerbating the deadly fires. "We can agree to disagree, and I appreciate your frame on the politics of this, but let me just acknowledge two things briefly," Newsom said in the meeting, which took place at the Sacramento McClellan Airport in McClellan Park, California. "There's no question...

In the world of campaign ads, I have recently read two articles in the fake media saying that the Trump campaign is in a budget crunch because of pulling ads out of Pennsylvania and Michigan. The truth, apparently, is simply that the campaign has decided to shift gears, from messages about law and order to messages about the booming economy. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, I have to admit that a couple of Biden ads that I have seen just today are pretty effective. He has some good ad people. He lies in those ads, of course, but Pravda will never point...

AstraZeneca, which the Trump administration has celebrated for its vaccine work, boosted prices despite renewed promises by President Trump this summer to keep drug costs in check. The multinational pharmaceutical firm raised prices in a way that stood out even among other big drug companies. It announced not just one set of price hikes in 2020 but two, often on the same drugs, according to an analysis of drug pricing data by The Times and 46brooklyn Research, a nonprofit that studies the pharmaceutical industry. AstraZeneca hiked prices on some of its biggest selling medicines by as much as 6% this...

Since Ohio doesn't really register by party like other states, we have to do a bit of detective work to determine who is registering to vote. Kentucky does register voters by party so I figured that these 3 relatively large Northern Kentucky counties that border Hamilton County, Ohio would give us an idea of what's going on in Hamilton County. This I presume is not perfect but I suspect there is some validity to this method. So here are the voter registration totals for these 3 counties from July and August 2020.8/01/20:DEM registered voters in all 3 counties: 120,829REP registered...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo explained Tuesday how he called actor Paul Rudd in a desperate attempt to help him wrangle a new video urging millennials to comply with New York’s coronavirus mask mandate. “My frustration is younger people. College kids coming back from college, they all want to have a party, they all want to drink, younger people at protests are not wearing a mask, they think they’re invincible,” the third-term Democrat explained on Long Island News Radio. “For months, the great challenge is how to get the young people.” Then he got an idea.

Much has been written about surviving riots and civil unrest. But thereÂ’s nothing like a firsthand account to bring it to life. We shared an eye-witness story from a National Guard member who told us about the Seattle riots. Another writer shared her familyÂ’s experience during the Ferguson riots. WeÂ’ve seen brutal videos on YouTube and social media. The violence in our country is increasing dramatically. HereÂ’s a first-hand story of the Kenosha riots. And now, a woman has shared on Facebook what her family recently experienced in the Kenosha, Wisconsin riots. In her post, the thing that stands out...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio summarily canceled the annual Macy's Day Parade on Thanksgiving this year, citing coronavirus concerns, but ignores left-wing activists who violate City Hall's own mitigation edicts, Seth Barron, the associate editor at the City Journal, said Monday. Barron told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that de Blasio, a Brooklyn Democrat, is being "feckless" and trying to crush anything that brings his constituents joy or a sense of normalcy. De Blasio, instead, championed the planned "virtual" parade.

These days, Miriam Robles spends a lot of time on the phone. In between her day job as an environmental justice organizer at Mi Familia Vota, a Latino political advocacy group that opposes President Trump, Robles phone-banks to register new voters. One new voter she's worked with is her 18-year-old brother, Kevin. "I was super excited to get him registered," she says. "I helped him fill out his primary ballot and made sure that he applied for [Arizona's] Permanent Early Voting List. For him, he is looking at this fiercely as something that he could do for his family." Robles...

President Trump on Tuesday confirmed a plan was in the works to take out Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2017 and that he was supportive of it, but that former Defense Secretary James Mattis was opposed. The president's disclosure that an assassination operation was discussed came as part of a lengthy diatribe against Mattis, but it confirmed a piece of reporting from 2018 that Trump disputed at the time. “I would've rather taken him out. I had him all set. Mattis didn’t want to do it. Mattis was a highly overrated general," Trump said on "Fox & Friends."

Poland’s government will present the EU with a “Marshall Plan” for Belarus that would offer the country economic support if it agreed to void last month’s contested elections and instead hold a free and fair vote. The plan will be presented on behalf of the Visegrad Group of countries, which includes Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as Poland. Later this week, Polish-Lithuanian intergovernmental discussions about the situation in Belarus are also due to take place. It is then hoped that Poland’s prime minister, Matuesz Morawiecki, will present the plan at the next meeting of EU heads of...

Paul Joseph Watson answers the long lingering question about what happened to Matt Drudge

by Ron Kersten Two Ohio high school football players were suspended from the team after they ran onto the field on 9-11 with thin blue line and thin red line flags in support of the anniversary. The thin blue line flag represents support for police officers and the thin red line flag represents support for fire fighters. For the record:** 50 police officers were killed in New York in the 9-11 attacks.** 343 fire fighters were lost in the attacks. The boys were honoring 9-11 victims and their fathers who work as a police officer and a fire fighter. One player, Brady Williams, whose...

Murphy's message, sent July 25, was to inform staff of a definition change, that future references to the violent activity taking place in Portland would be referred to as being "violent Antifa anarchists inspired." The individuals are violently attacking the Federal facilities based on these ideologies. We can't say any longer that this violent situation is opportunistic. Additionally, we have overwhelmingly intelligence regarding the ideologies driving individuals towards violence and why the violence has continued. A core set of Threat actors are organized, show up night after night, share common [Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures] and drawing on like minded individuals...

If the nation’s police officers walked off the job today, it would be hard to blame them. Sunday’s anti-cop riots in Lancaster, Pa., have made the current de facto rules of engagement clear: Officers may never defend themselves against lethal force if their attacker is a minority. They should simply accept being shot or stabbed as penance for their alleged racism.

Two high school students in Morrow, Ohio, have been suspended from the football team after flying flags during a game in support of first responders on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The story: Brady Williams and Jared Bentley, players for the Little Miami High School football team, carried Thin Blue Line and Thin Red Line flags when they appeared on the field for the game, which took place on Sep. 11, the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They previously told the school that they planned to fly the flags to show their support for fallen police officers and...

The self-proclaimed “cleverest band in the world” voted to disband the organization on Saturday evening after 116 years of performing music, making controversial jokes, and disputing with both Columbia’s administration and the student body. In a statement provided to Spectator by band leadership, the club’s leadership, known as the Bored, wrote, “The Band has unanimously and enthusiastically decided to dissolve. The Columbia University Marching Band will not continue to exist in any capacity and will no longer serve as a Columbia spirit group.” This announcement came after a year of transition for the CUMB. Three days before Columbia football’s 2019...

I have no idea what this recall election is about and I don't care. I only posted this to give an idea of how DEMS and REPS plan to vote (whether vote-by-mail, early voting or election day). Go to the county website and you can follow the real-time tracking of how people are voting. You can toggle to "Party and Type" and it shows you what method each party's voters choose. Also saw this with the August primary in Florida. Might not be the most interesting thing but it just gives you a bit of an idea of how exactly...

Jerry Harris, star of Cheer on Netflix and former Joe Biden presidential campaign surrogate, has been raided by the FBI for allegedly soliciting photos and sex from minors. FBI agents executed a search warrant at Harris’ home in Naperville, Illinois, on Monday afternoon. The investigation was launched after allegations made against 21-year-old Harris by 14-year-old twin brothers. USA Today spoke to the boys, who described a pattern of harassment, both online and at cheer competitions, that started when they were 13 and Harris was 19. It continued for more than a year. “Harris is accused of asking one of the...