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CD Media Big Data Poll finds Kari Lake leading by a double-digit margin over Karrin Taylor Robson, 43.1% to 28.8%, with 18% undecided. Matt Salmon, who dropped out and endorsed Robson, will still appear on the ballot and placed a distant third at 4.3%. Scott Neely and Paola Tulliani-Zen round out fourth and fifth with 3.3% and 2.4%, respectively. The Grand Canyon State has become the latest battleground for control over the Republican Party. Former President Donald J. Trump has endorsed Kari Lake, while the Republican Establishment represented by former Vice President Mike Pence and Governor Doug Ducey have come...

This is only an 8,000 vote lead, so could change. But encouraging.

A Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School Board meeting vote that would have decided on whether or not to open up a Planned Parenthood clinic at a local high school was delayed on Monday after hundreds of protesters showed up outside the high school, adding even more pressure to the controversial issue.

ANDOVER, Mass. — A portion of Interstate 495 in the Lawrence and Andover area was closed Tuesday evening, and video from the scene showed police with guns drawn. A witness who was stuck in the stopped traffic shared video from the scene. Advertisement The video shows police with guns drawn surrounding what appears to be a vehicle on the median of the highway. "There's about 12 different police vehicles, state police that are all across the highway," Gina Sabella told WCVB. "Everyone is behind their vehicle with guns drawn and some have helmets on. All of them have chest protectors...

An Oregon Court of Appeals ruling earlier this year found the state’s initial award of $135,000 in damages against Sweet Cakes By Melissa showed signs of bias. The state of Oregon has drastically reduced financial penalties it assigned a Gresham baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple nearly a decade ago. In compliance with a state appeals court ruling earlier this year, State Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle announced Tuesday that the Bureau of Labor and Industries is ordering Aaron Klein to pay $30,000 damages in the case, down from a $135,000 penalty handed out in...

To hear Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon tell it, Joe Biden’s low approval ratings aren’t due to his ludicrous policies, his failed leadership, or his cockamamie worldview.Joe Biden isn’t very popular because of the way the mainstream media is covering him. The lack of self-awareness notwithstanding, Bacon blames the media because its “flawed coverage model of politics and government is bad for more than just Biden — it results in a distorted national discourse that weakens our democracy. The media needs to find a different way to cover Washington.”Get that? Biden’s unpopularity is a structural problem with the media that...

PHOENIX (CNS) — The Catholic bishops of Arizona issued a joint statement lauding the passage and signing of a bill intended to expand school choice throughout the state. The law, among other things, extends Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program to all children in the state regardless of family income. “We strongly support a quality education for all children in Arizona and believe it is best to have good district schools, charter schools, private schools and home-school options,” said a July 7 statement from the Arizona bishops. The bill “will increase school choice substantially, which is a very good thing,” they...

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Archbishop Viganò said that all those who ‘act in politics and institutions to make this slaughter of the innocent possible’ should be excommunicated.(LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former papal nuncio to the U.S.A., has urged the American bishops to excommunicate “all those” involved in “politics and institutions” who promote abortion. In an audio message delivered via The American Report, Archbishop Viganò cited the findings by Judicial Watch that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) purchased organs of babies killed in abortion. “I learned with horror the news released by Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton that the Obama-era...

ROME – Not only would it be a “disaster” if Pope Francis visits Russia before going to Ukraine, as the pontiff has said he’d like to do, but should that happen, Ukrainian borders actually could be closed to the pope, according to the Latin Archbishop of Lviv. “Not only the Greek Catholic faithful, but also we do not agree with all the gestures of the Holy Father towards Russia; but perhaps we do not understand his intentions and policy well,” said Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki, who leads the 1.5-million Latin rite community in Ukraine. “Let’s hope that the pope has good...

The HIV Prevention Policy Project of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, have jointly released a new brief on monkeypox and meningococcal disease, Monkeypox and Meningococcal Disease Outbreaks Signal New Health Threats for Communities Heavily Impacted by HIV and Demand Immediate Action. There is also an accompanying one-page summary. This brief adds to growing calls for more urgent action and estimates that U.S. monkeypox diagnoses will approach or top 11,000 by the time the first group of people in the United States are fully vaccinated under current two-dose guidelines that...

The owner of a New York-based venue that was scheduled to host the Trump-inspired "ReAwaken America" tour next month has announced his plan to cancel the upcoming event. On Monday, July 18, Scott Donaldson — the owner of Main Street Armory — sent an email to announce his decision to cancel the event. According to Business Insider, Donaldson wrote that he "made his decision after 'careful thought' and in response to an outpouring 'of concern from our community, both good and bad.'" I'd like to say that the Main Street Armory is an equal opportunity and non-political venue," Donaldson's statement...

Ari Fleischer is wrong. In promoting his new book Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong — And Just Doesn’t Care, the former White House Press Secretary writes the following: “The press is not the enemy of the people, but they are their own worst enemy. And they’ve done this to themselves.”Sorry, Ari.The media are, in fact, your enemy. And mine. And ours....As I will argue in a forthcoming book, the American media is now the equivalent of the Stasi, the diabolical East German secret police who acted like a violent criminal gang under communism....

Local news in Maryland is reporting that some precincts weren’t ready this morning because the voting machines weren’t ready. Reportedly because of polling issues, the results of today’s election aren’t expected until tomorrow. Local News ABC7 reported at 7 a.m. — Officials tell 7News that in at least two locations, voting machines were not working as long as an hour after the polls opened. The sites affected were Charles Carrol Middles School in New Carrollton and Hoyer Early Childhood Learning Center in Cheverly. It’s not clear how many residents were waiting in line at the time of the issue. The...

The Pan-American highway was cleared after heavy clashes between crowd control units and protesters keeping the highway closed. The National Police (PN) reopened the Pan-American highway on Tuesday, on the Santiago bridge, Veraguas province, to guarantee movement of the humanitarian corridor to the capital. The road was cleared after heavy clashes between crowd control units and protesters who have kept the road closed for more than two weeks. The demonstrators confronted the police units with stones. The police fired tear gas, managing to clear the road. Once the road was cleared, the circulation of trucks with supplies and food began...

The leading cause of line of duty deaths amongst police was COVID-19 in 2021.States with a large number of unvaccinated first responders “may face major workforce disruptions due to COVID-19 illness,” according to a study released Tuesday by researchers at the University of Miami. First responders are more likely to contract COVID-19 than another population of individuals, but less likely to trust vaccines, the study says. Last year, the leading cause of line of duty deaths amongst law enforcement was COVID-19, with 301 COVID deaths in 2021, according to the Office Down Memorial Page end of year report. This year...

CTH cannot overestimate what is more likely than not, as the Biden administration is now reportedly going to declare a national climate emergency in order to take their Green New Deal policy to the next level via executive fiat. [The Hill Story Here] Any possibility of the Biden administration creating an even deeper economic collapse under the auspices of climate change regulation, has essentially been stalled by congressional opposition to further Green New Deal (Build Back Better) spending and regulatory legislation. Some, albeit not enough, congressional representatives, can see what lies at the end of this fundamental energy change, a...

After the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, numerous states have started instituting strict abortion laws which caused many women in those states to seek abortions in Florida, CBS News reported Monday. Florida currently has a 15-week abortion ban, but as its law is still less restrictive than surrounding states, women who want abortions have traveled to Florida, according to CBS News. Planned Parenthood facilities in the state have had to turn some women away due to the influx. “We had to increase our staffing. We had to increase our appointments,” Samantha Deans, associate medical director of Planned...

Claes Oldenburg, whose oversized sculptures of everyday objects made him one of the leading artists of the Pop art movement, died in his home on Monday at 93. He had been recovering from a fractured hip. Representatives for Paula Cooper Gallery and Pace Gallery, both of which represent Oldenburg, confirmed the news. Oldenburg, who often worked in collaboration with his late wife Coosje van Bruggen, made sculptures that raised objects as diverse as a nondescript light switch, a hamburger with a pickle on top, and a shuttlecock stood on its end to the status of high art. If spotted in...