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WASHINGTON, Pa. — Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz came to visit the Washington City Mission Tuesday. It’s a homeless shelter and rehabilitation program. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 went along on the tour and asked him about the campaign. The staff at the mission showed Oz the facility. It houses 160 people at a time, which includes help for men, women, mothers and their children, as well as a specific program for veterans. It’s part of his Senate campaign tour across the state. We asked the Republican nominee to respond to accusations from his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, that...

All 98 Washington state House seats are up in the air this election cycle along with 25 of 49 seats in the Washington state Senate. Republicans would need to pick up nine state representative seats to get the majority in the House, while they need four seats to take over the Senate. That’s definitely a long shot. Even if Republicans managed to flip a couple of seats over in the Senate, it would have a big impact on the Democratic majority’s ability to get the 25 votes necessary to pass some of the more progressive bills. For Republicans, the strategy...

Another day, another “whatcha doin’ in Pennsylvania?” jibe for Dr. Oz. Steve Van Zandt Wednesday took his turn mocking the celebrity physician for leaving New Jersey to run for Senate from the neighboring Keystone State. “Come on back to Jersey where you belong,” the rocker said in a video posted by Oz’s Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. “We’ll have some fun. We’ll go to the beach.”

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New York City Republican Party activists are encouraging thousands of GOPers to temporarily enroll in the Democratic Party to help elect the most moderate or conservative Democratic candidates in the upcoming primaries for Congress and state Senate. Because of the Democratic Party’s gerrymandering debacle, there is no deadline for re-enrolling in a political party for the Aug. 23 primary, which means voters can change their party registration at the voting booth on primary day by filling out an affidavit ballot. “I’m speaking to Republican leaders about this issue. We’ve created an opportunity for Republicans to elect moderate Democrats,” said former...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A new plan to reroute how water moves from wetter Northern California to drier Southern California would ferry some of it through a single, 45-mile (72-kilometer) underground tunnel, wrapping around the state’s existing water delivery system and dumping it into the main aqueduct that flows south to vast swaths of farmland and millions of people. The proposal released Wednesday would build one tunnel to take water from the Sacramento River, the state's largest, to the California Aqueduct for delivery further south. It's scaled back from the two-tunnel plan championed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and the latest...

SCOOP: Portland Public Schools is now teaching elementary school students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers,” acknowledge that girls can have penises, and begin experimenting with “ze/zir” pronouns and exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.” Here's the story. The new curriculum translates the principles of academic queer theory into K-12 pedagogy. The premise is simple: privileged heterosexual “white colonizers” have created an oppressive “gender binary” in order to exploit racial and sexual minorities. Beginning in kindergarten, teaches give anatomy lessons with graphic drawings of children’s genitalia. The lessons refer to “person with a penis” and “person with a vulva,” because...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Superintendent Shaun Ferguson chastised journalists Tuesday (July 26) for reporting on the New Orleans Police Department’s worsening manpower problems instead of more “positive” news. But even the chief admitted one of the NOPD’s latest personnel losses was especially disturbing. Scott Fanning, a third-year officer assigned to the Eighth District policing the French Quarter and Central Business District, walked off the job last Friday in the middle of his night watch shift, notifying a supervisor by text message that he was quitting the force. “It was disheartening,” Ferguson said at a news conference at NOPD headquarters, ”especially...

resident Biden met with at least 14 of Hunter Biden’s business associates while he was vice president in the Obama White House, casting further doubt on the president’s repeated claims that he had no knowledge of his son’s foreign business dealings. "I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings," Biden said in 2019. But the president met with at least 14 of Hunter’s business associates from the U.S., Mexico, Ukraine, China and Kazakhstan over the course of his vice presidency, a Fox News Digital review found. Two of Hunter’s Mexican business associates, Miguel Aleman Velasco and...

Let’s put aside, for a moment, the scenes of mayhem on the new 6th Street Viaduct - the street takeovers, the cars spinning doughnuts and the thrill seekers scaling the arches - since the visually striking bridge opened this month. Those problems will probably be fixed soon with the installation of speed bumps, a median strip and fencing. Instead, focus on the crowds of pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders, Instagrammers who’ve flocked to the bridge and made it their own. Despite less than ideal conditions (the speeding cars and the flimsy “protected” bicycle lanes), the 6th Street Viaduct has become a spot...

In the closing weeks of her campaign, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, is up with a new TV ad that contrasts her primary opponents' stances about fraud in the 2020 election with her own. The ad, first shared with CBS News, features comments made about the 2020 election by three of her primary opponents during their June debate. It opens up with her main opponent, Trump-backed trial attorney Harriet Hageman saying, "We have serious questions about the 2020 election." "We've got to elect serious leaders. We have to elect leaders who will take their oath of office seriously. Leaders who...

“When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief” (Proverbs 28:12-14).

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- An Oahu grand jury has indicted the Hawaii Marine accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife on the H-3 Freeway with second-degree murder. Sgt. Bryant Tejada-Castillo, 29, remains behind bars on $1 million. Court documents say 27-year-old Dana Alotaibi had stab wounds to her neck, chest, and left temple. She also lacerations to her wrist, hands, and thigh. Related Coverage:Mother of woman fatally stabbed on H-3 Freeway arrives in Hawaii amid search for answersMother: Military spouse fatally stabbed on H-3 Freeway sought help for repeated abuseFriends: Victim in deadly H-3 stabbing was pregnant, tried to leave relationship...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of David Bowie's legendary Starman performance on Top of the Pops

Recruiting among the nation’s military branches is at historically low numbers as COVID, woke leaders and an anti-military culture are keeping young people away. President Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan is also sure to be on the minds of those thinking of joining up, with some wondering, “if the Commander-in-Chief won’t stand behind the military, who will?”The Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve, meanwhile, in early July barred 57,000 troops from their duties and cut their pay and benefits. It’s no wonder people don’t want to serve.“We are on the cusp of a military recruiting crisis,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.)...

Collectors across the country are seeking pieces of shrapnel, bits of bombs and even the uniforms of dead Russians. It’s part of an urge to feel more directly connected to the cause. When Ihor Sumliennyi, a young environmental activist, arrived at the site of a recent missile strike, the rubble had barely stopped smoking. Police officers guarded the street. People who had lived in the smashed apartment building stared in disbelief, some making the sign of the cross next to him. He started poking around. And then, bam! His eyes lit up. Right in front of him, lying near the...

I don’t think Stacey Abrams is going to win in Georgia. Gov. Brian Kemp may not be the most popular guy and there are issues that Republicans have with him. But when it comes down with it, most people in Georgia are going to come out to make sure that Stacey Abrams doesn’t become governor. Because whatever issues Kemp may have, Abrams is a far worse choice.The polls are all favoring Kemp.NEW AJC poll in GEORGIA:Kemp 48Abrams 43Warnock 46Walker 43https://t.co/Tf8UBB0FGs— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) July 27, 2022pic.twitter.com/8ss97tTc1l— Dr. Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) July 27, 2022As Erick Erickson explained to Fox’s Brian Kilmeade, this...

Earlier in July, media reports announced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would lead a Congressional delegation to visit the Republic of China, also called Taiwan. This will make her the first Speaker to visit the Republic of China since Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Taiwan next month to show support for Taipei as it comes under mounting pressure from China, in what would be the first trip by a Speaker of the US House of Representatives to the country in 25 years.Six people familiar with the situation said Pelosi would take a delegation to Taiwan in August....

Meh, I don’t believe it. And yes, I remember that the GOP left Senate seats on the table even in the magical wave year of 2010, nominating Christine O’Donnell instead of Mike Castle in Delaware and sending Sharron Angle into battle against Harry Reid in Nevada. Catherine Cortez Masto isn’t Harry Reid, though. At a moment when inflation is the highest it’s been in 40 years, Biden’s approval rating is well below 40 percent, and Hispanics are shifting towards the GOP, I’m supposed to believe she’s going to overcome all of that and hold onto her Senate seat? She’s polling...