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As the nationally-watched Senate race in Pennsylvania tightens, Donald Trump has just unleashed a hard-hitting "soft-on-crime" TV spot aimed at Democrat nominee John Fetterman."John Fetterman is dangerous," concludes the 30-second spot, which was produced by Trump's Make America Great Again political action committee.Specifically, the ads point out that Fetterman, who is Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, was the lone member of the state Pardon Board who voted to release convicted murderer John Brookins."He brutally murdered his girlfriend's mother with a pair of scissors," the ad declares of Brookins, underscoring that he was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in...

The family entered the Beit Hanina neighborhood in the east of the city with their car and 3 toddlers in it and were pelted with stones. "A mob of Arabs blocked our road and started pelting us with rocks." The event ended without casualties. Meanwhile, during a night of severe riots in East Jerusalem, Molotov cocktails were thrown at police vehicles in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. The Jerusalem sector continues to heat up: a Jewish family was saved this evening (Wednesday) from a lynching attempt that took place in the Beit Hanina neighborhood in the east of the capital....

Explanation: A mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud, this nebula is very faint, but also very large in planet Earth's sky. In the image, composed with 30 hours of narrowband image data, it spans nearly three full moons toward the royal constellation Cepheus. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue-green emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, a more recent investigation suggests Ou4 really does...

Bought this because it's so odd, it was buried for 50 years plus, up in New Jersey in a carriage house under some floor boards. I have looked at it under a loop, looks like just ink on stone no dot matrix. I think the stone is soap stone, weighs 42 pounds, 12 by 16, the original etching which is easy to find was done in 1948 by Gerome Kaplin titled "the Arabs" on what I think is a 42 pound piece of soap stone. Never seen anything like it, Sotheby's is checking it out. Figured a Freeper might know.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that the up to $20 billion lending program agreement between the country and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has to be "finally" approved.In a speech at an event organized by the World Bank and the IMF, the Ukrainian leader specified that the nation needs $38 billion to make up for the budget deficit in 2023 and another $17 billion to cover the costs of rebuilding the critical infrastructure.Ukraine needs another $2 billion in "targeted credit" to reconstruct energy infrastructure so it could continue energy exports to Europe, as well as at least $5...

top election official in Pennsylvania says the state will disregard the U.S. Supreme Court's guidance on counting mail-in ballots arriving in envelopes with typos or incorrect dates, saying that the state's Commonwealth Court has already established the practice as licit. Pennsylvania's election laws have historically required voters to include a signature and date on the outside of return envelopes when voting by mail. However, acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman announced that Pennsylvania election officials should continue counting ballots that arrive with improperly filled-out envelopes, in accordance with the Commonwealth Court's previous ruling on the matter.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Republican Mehmet Oz for the state’s open United States Senate seat, suggests that the movie The Shawshank Redemption justifies releasing convicted murderers from prison. During an on-camera interview with NBC News’s Dasha Burns, Fetterman justified his record of helping to free convicted murderers from Pennsylvania prisons by stating that actor Morgan Freeman’s character in The Shawshank Redemption is about “giving somebody a chance” as opposed to having them serve their full life sentence. Freeman’s character in the film admits to having committed a double homicide.

Germany to 'Thermally Recycle' COVID Masks as Country Faces Energy Apocalypse...According to Bloomberg, Germany plans to incinerate close to 800 million sealed face covers, which are however past their sell-by date, that were purchased in the initial outbreak of the COVID pandemic.Bloomberg also reported that Germany spent roughly $5.9 billion on those same face covers marked for incineration....According to Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, waste incineration in Germany offers the possibility of generating not only electricity but also heat....A minimum of 20 coal powered plants across the country are being restored and/or...

A slowdown of economic growth and the US job market will be “required” to bring down inflation, the Federal Reserve said in notes released Wednesday, adding that prices remain “unacceptably high.” Fed officials also said inflation has “not yet responded” to increased interest rates, according to minutes of the US central bank’s September meeting, and that “a significant reduction in inflation would likely lag that of aggregate demand.”

Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine is now being led by a ruthless commander known by his troops as “General Armageddon.” The Kremlin appointed Gen. Sergey Surovikin, 56, as overall commander of Russia’s joint group of forces in its so-called “special military operation” on Saturday. Just two days later, more than 80 long-range missiles rained down across Ukraine — including one just feet from a kids’ playground — in the most dramatic escalation since the invasion nearly eight months ago. “I am not surprised to see what happened … Surovikin is absolutely ruthless, with little regard for human life,” a former...

The police found that Lindsay Castelli would buy inexpensive clothes from China, put fake designer labels on them and sell for thousands of dollars LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK: A boutique owner got arrested in an alleged $40 million designer goods scam, manufacturing fake Gucci, Chanel, DiorLONG ISLAND, NEW YORK: A boutique owner got arrested in an alleged $40 million designer goods scam, manufacturing fake Gucci, Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Prada, and other high-end labels. Lindsay Castelli, 31, was arrested on Friday, October 7 and now, faces a charge of second-degree trademark counterfeiting in the case.

Since 2018 two prominent members of the Soros family have donated thousands of dollars to help Keith Ellison become or remain Minnesota’s attorney general. According to a campaign finance disclosure, George Soros and his son Alexander each gave Ellison’s 2022 reelection campaign $2,500 in October of last year. Ellison appears to be one of the only individual candidates in Minnesota to whom the Soros’ have personally donated money. Aside from Ellison’s campaign itself, Alexander Soros gave a whopping $100,000 to the People’s Lawyer PAC in June 2018. Per the Washington Free Beacon, the People’s Lawyer PAC was an independent expenditure...

Polestar’s first SUV rivals BWM and Tesla with a 111.0-kilowatt-hour battery pack that can fast charge at 250 kilowatts. 2023 Polestar 3 The Polestar 1 was a niche but exciting product that helped to reframe Polestar as a new EV company, rather than Volvo's performance sub-brand. The all-electric Polestar 2 brought the automaker to the masses with an affordable luxury compact built to take on Tesla. And now, Polestar hopes to change the game with its first fully electric SUV. The Polestar 3 is handsome and borrows heavily from the 1 and 2. Familial facial features like the five-sided grille...

Absolutely astronomical figures in this InfoWars lawsuit out of Connecticut. Alex Jones owes $229 million to just the first three plaintiffs, all family members of Sandy Hook victims. There are nine more plaintiffs to go. Even Jones gave up trying to add up damages: "We've lost count, it's in the billions."

The Associated Press @AP BREAKING: A jury says Infowars host Alex Jones should pay $965 million to people who suffered from the lie that the Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax

The scandal that has rocked Los Angeles City Hall reverberates among many Latino communities in which anti-Black and anti-Indigenous attitudes prevail, experts tell Axios. State of play: Yesterday, Nury Martinez resigned as president of the city council after she and two other councilmembers were recorded making racist remarks.

REDDING, Calif. — According to the Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters, Cathy Darling Allen, fewer than 300 voters in Shasta County received the wrong ballot for the upcoming general election on November 8, 2022. The affected voters live in the areas of Ridgeview and Whitehawk subdivisions off of Placer Street in West Redding. According to Darling Allen, the error happened because of updates that were completed after the primary when new data was received from the Shasta-Tehama-Trinity College District. New ballots and voter information guides have been mailed to all affected voters. The previous, incorrect ballots have been...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More U.S. adults are now feeling financially vulnerable amid high inflation — a political risk for President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats one month before the midterm elections. Some 46% of people now call their personal financial situation poor, up from 37% in March, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That’s a notable downturn at a particularly inopportune moment for Biden, given that the share of Americans who felt positive about their finances had stayed rock steady over the last few years — even during the economic turmoil...

Ukraine needs $57 billion to cover the budget deficit next year, and to rebuild critical and power infrastructure. In addition, no less than $5 billion in credit limits to purchase gas and coal, Zelenskyy says at IMF-World Bank.'