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Rep. Val Demings (D) leads Sen. Marco Rubio (R) by 4 percentage points in Florida’s Senate race, according to a poll released Tuesday. The poll, released by the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab, shows Demings with the support of 48 percent of surveyed registered voters who said they would vote in the midterms.

John Fetterman, Democrat senate candidate in Pennsylvania, had a stroke and can barely speak. This is his first public speech in months. He talked for just a few minutes. There’s no way this guy has the physical ability to be a senator. Scary: pic.twitter.com/ExUkkrzKH0— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 15, 2022

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists who are already suing to block a geothermal power plant where an endangered toad lives in western Nevada are now seeking U.S. protection for a rare butterfly at another geothermal project the developer plans near the Oregon line. The Center for Biological Diversity is now petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the bleached sandhill skipper under the Endangered Species Act at the only place it’s known to exist. It says the project the Bureau of Land Management approved last year 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of Reno could ultimately lead to the...

"And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come." "And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." "But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man." John, Chapter 2 1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and...

A woman wearing a Ukrainian Flag was escorted out of a tennis match at the Cincinnati, Western Southern Open on Monday. Two Russian female players were competing against each other, one went to the chair umpire and said the woman with the flag was bothering them, at which time the chair ordered the woman removed. She then asked the chair why and the umpire responded with it is too large and not nice. The woman then responded it’s not nice to invade a country either.

BOSTON (AP) — Boston is seeking to ban fossil fuels from new building projects and major renovations, Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday. The Democrat said the state’s largest city will take advantage of a key provision in the climate change bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker last week. Wu’s office said natural gas, oil and other fossil fuels used in buildings represent more than one-third of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions. New York, Washington, D.C., and Seattle are among the major U.S. municipalities that have enacted similar bans, The Boston Globe reports.

A.J. Rice, president of Publius PR and author of The Woking Dead: How Society’s Vogue Virus Destroys Our Culture, said on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that Generation Z — commonly known as zoomers — are having their human authenticity undermined by a combination of the “Me Too” campaign, lockdowns ostensibly issued to reduce coronavirus transmission, and excessive involvement in the digital world. “The Me Too movement is one of these sort of cultural revolutions,” Rice stated. He warned of interpersonal skills being eroded by manufactured misunderstandings sowed between men and women via the...

Efforts to rescue 10 miners trapped underground at a coal mine in the Coahuila state of Mexico for more than a week have grown more complicated now that the operation has suffered additional flooding atop the initial water inundation. According to Al Jazeera, water in the shaft at the El Pinabete mine was 38 meters (125 feet) deep on Monday, versus 1.3 m (4.2 ft) the prior day, according to Civil Defense National Coordinator Laura Velazquez. A mine rescue team had been preparing to enter the workings to locate the miners missing since August 3 when an excavation incident into...

Team Biden’s proposed new Title IX regulations make it clear: They’re coming for your children. ... Biden is handing teachers a weapon to subvert parental prerogatives. ... This change has far-reaching implications. One is that it will be used to keep parents in the dark on everything from curricular material to the fact that a child is socially transitioning at school. ... Because this new Title IX frames gender ideology as an anti-discrimination issue, schools won’t have to seek parental permission for children to participate in lessons on choosing and changing one’s sex. Indeed, schools will very likely use Title...

A former Democratic senator who made headlines in a 2017 sexual harassment scandal that forced his resignation has sparked ridicule after endorsing Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming in her upcoming Republican primary. Wyoming Republicans go to the polls Tuesday to decide between Cheney, who has been an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, and challenger Harriet Hageman, who has Trump’s support. One poll released last week gave Hageman a 29-point lead over Cheney. Former U.S. Sen. Al Franken, who stepped down from the Senate in early 2018, tweeted his endorsement on Saturday. “I’ve decided to endorse @RepLizCheney for...

Sororities at the University of Alabama, rejecting current political correctness, stuck together as they opposed a biological male attempting to join their groups. University of Alabama student Grant Sikes stated he attempted to join the sororities but was unanimously rejected. According to Outkick, Sikes posted his quest on TikTok, accruing several million views, but the sororities dismissed the idea of a man joining their groups. “Unfortunately, this chapter is closed,” Sikes complained on Instagram. “This recruitment journey is over for me. Being dropped from my last house this morning during primary recruitment at the University of Alabama doesn’t come as...

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill ventured out for a bike ride Sunday morning during their vacation on Kiawah Island, South Carolina during the one-year anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. When reporters asked if Biden would speak to the press he said, ‘no,’ but insisted he has ‘been on the phone a lot’ during his family vacation. Biden was surrounded by Secret Service agents who also rode bikes around him as he slowly pedaled across the sand. Although he appeared in front of media cameras he did not stop to take questions.

Fox News is moving on from Donald Trump, and Donald Trump’s friend, Laura Ingraham, has jumped on board. She wants us to move on and vote for someone else with the same platform. The legacy media will not stop attacking Donald Trump until they destroy him or at least see him arrested. There is a lot of pressure on the DOJ to charge Donald Trump and his associates. DYSTOPIA Arresting Donald J. Trump The Left’s next move is to indict Donald Trump. They have a case building in DC and another in Fulton County, Georgia. Donald Trump could not get...

It’s been fully 19 months since the events of January 6, and the FBI’s explanation for the January 6 pipe bombs is in fundamental conflict with a growing body of widely available facts. Revolver has chronicled the chasm between the official story and the mounting inconsistencies here, here and here. But five facts about the pipe bombs are particularly strange, and their significance has never been fully explicated or connected. We will attempt to do so here. Those five facts are: The pipe bombs — according to the Capitol Police Chief Stephen Sund and Inspector General — were planted as...

An elderly woman who was banned from a YMCA pool after she demanded a transgender employee leave the women’s locker room has been heckled by activists as she described her experience. Julie Jaman had been a regular at the Mountain View pool in the City of Port Townsend in Washington when she spotted the worker in the changing room while she was showering. The 80-year-old was giving a speech about her experience when angry trans protestors ripped down suffragette flag that she was speaking in front of, before chanting loudly over her. Jaman claims that while she was changing last...

First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19, coming about a month after President Joe Biden initially tested positive for the virus. “After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening,” Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady’s communications director, said on Tuesday in a statement. Alexander added that the first lady 71, “tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive.” The spokeswoman said she was given a course of Pfizer-made Paxlovid, which is known to cause a rebound of...

WASHINGTON — Apprehensions of migrants crossing the southwestern border were down for the second month in a row in July, but the number in just the first 10 months of the government’s fiscal year already exceeds the total during the previous year, setting a record, according to data released Monday. Unauthorized crossings typically decline during the summer months. Even so, the number of apprehensions each month continues to be higher than most of the previous years. That pattern has continued since the spring of 2021, a trend Republicans blame on President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to be more welcoming to...

"Few things are as deafening as silence" Bianca Jagger, Mexico's ex-President Felipe Calderon and Pulitzer Prize winner, Andres Oppenheimer criticise Pope Francis for not commenting on recent events in Nicaragua. There, dictator Daniel Ortega has closed down Catholic radio stations and placed a bishop under house arrest.

Left-wing billionaire George Soros may have the last laugh in Los Angeles: after his handpicked district attorney, George Gascón, survived a recall effort Monday — thanks to the invalidation of nearly 200,000 signatures — he can entrench his “reform” policies. The Gascón recall effort turned in an astonishing number of signatures in July: at 715,833, the campaign collected far more than the 566,857 needed, 10% of registered voters. The petition drive was the largest such effort in the history of the county.

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news networks continued their pathetic gambit to shield President Joe Biden from any suggestion that his economy is in a recession. CNBC reported Aug. 15 that The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index “dropped 6 points in August to 49” for its eighth consecutive monthly decline. Anything below a 50 is considered negative. Fox Business reported that the result marked the “worst stretch for the housing market since the 2008 financial crisis.” NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz said in a statement obtained by CNBC that “‘[t]ighter monetary policy from the...