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Welcome aboard Welcome to Your Weekend I find myself dressed in black when I'm working cleaning up messes heck working at ground level and among the people who live on the streets. I see the food from the food banks some of it abandoned. I see the folks sleeping in their cars. I see condom wrappers and even (Warning) the used condoms that I sweep up as trash. It it Biden's America, Fetterman's Pennsylvania whatever it is it is America with inflation eating away OMG?... Here I am your janitor-host heck I've been cleaning the toilets all these years and...

Republicans across the country have made protecting girls' sports from biological male transgender athletes a campaign message as they seek to retake control of Congress next month, with at least one gubernatorial candidate highlighting the issue in recent campaign ad. The issue of biological males who identify as females competing against women in women's sports has garnered national attention and resulted in a feud among the two political parties in America, and one group believes the issue may help turnout for Republicans in the November 8 election. "Americans understand that female athletes have had their scholarships, their trophies and their...

Arizona Republican Kari Lake’s political aptitude is striking fear in the hearts of Democrat operatives who worry she is a “major MAGA star” in the making, Axios reported.

The International Monetary Fund is warning that the world is in for a rough ride, with more than a third of the global economy forecast to contract over this year and next amid a cost-of-living crisis fueled by inflation and exacerbated by factors such as Russia’s war in Ukraine. For most people, it will feel like a recession. “The worst is yet to come,” said the fund’s Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas. Speaking to a packed press conference Tuesday to launch the latest World Economic Outlook, he had a grim warning on global inflation, saying it is expected to peak at...

Mars is increasingly in the viewfinder of planetary scientists, as NASA has made it a goal to send a manned mission to the red planet, sending rovers to its surface and developing technology to prepare for human exploration. The increased focus on Mars has led to some intriguing discoveries - most recently, that life might have existed on the planet before climate change ended it. That's the suggestion of a new study; read on to find out more. Researchers from the University of Arizona aren't positive there was once life on Mars (in a news release, they call it a...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Move over Seattle! According to the National Weather Service, Seattle got less rain between July and October than Arizona did! National Weather Service Seattle released a graphic comparing the total precipitation numbers among different cities across the U.S. The city with the most rainfall totals was Juneau, Alaska, coming in at almost 30 inches! Phoenix marked almost 2 inches of rain, trumping Las Vegas, San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles! The NWS Seattle posted a full analysis on their Twitter page. Seattle, sometimes called “Rain City,” is no stranger to various kinds of precipitation,...

“How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul” (Proverbs 16:16-17).

And as it ended, the skies opened, and rain poured down on this town that sees an average of 10 inches each year... The seventh inning of this National League Division Series’ fourth game featured two strange rallies, a drone delay and biblical levels of upheaval to this year’s playoff picture... San Diego’s 5-3 win Saturday at Petco Park meant the 111-win Dodgers won only one postseason game. The wild thing was the Dodgers actually started their own rally to begin the seventh. Up 2-0 as it began, they managed to add a run without a big hit. They produced...

There is growing "discontent" - both on the battlefield and at home. He told Express.co.uk: "Russia is in big trouble because Ukraine has been making serious advances in both the northeast and in the south. Russia does not seem to be capable and have enough troops to resist Ukraine's advances at present. "When you combine this with the botched mobilisation, you are seeing much greater discontent there as a result of what is happening on the battlefield and also at home." "We're also seeing some of Russia's allies seriously doubting what Russia is doing and, in some cases, distancing themselves...

At least 11 people were killed and 15 more wounded at a military training ground in the Belgorod region in south-western Russia on Saturday when two volunteers opened fire on other troops, the Russian defence ministry has said. .. According to Baza, a Russian news site with close ties to the police, the shooting took place at 10am local time during shooting practice. Saturday’s mass shooting points to growing tensions among Russia’s troops, issues that have plagued its army since the start of the war. The incident also comes as tens of thousands of newly drafted Russian men are sent...

* Will Wilkerson, co-founder of Trump's media company, filed an SEC whistleblower complaint in August. *Wilkerson detailed several allegations about the company to The Washington Post. * An email obtained by the Post showed another co-founder believed Trump was retaliating against him. A co-founder of Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social, said former President Donald Trump pushed another executive to give some of his shares to Melania Trump and retaliated when the request was declined, according to a Washington Post report. Will Wilkerson, who filed a whistleblower complaint about the company to the SEC in August,...

I take you on a tour of 12 beautiful English gardens. The gardens are located in the picturesque English village of Caldy on the Wirral Peninsula alongside the River Dee Estuary in the North West of England.

President Xi Jinping on Sunday kicked-off the 20th congress of China's ruling Communist Party with warnings that he may use force to retake Taiwan as he slammed foreign interference in its reunification efforts. The gathering of roughly 2,300 delegates from around the country began in the vast Great Hall of the People on the west side of Tiananmen Square amid tight security and under blue skies after several smoggy days in the Chinese capital. Xi began a speech that touted the party's safeguarding of national security, maintaining social stability, protecting people's lives and taking control of the situation in Hong...

Things have gotten so bad in New York City that drug dealers are brazenly selling what appears to be cocaine — sometimes neatly assembled on sidewalk tables — on Broadway in trendy NoMad and farther north in Times Square. Some of the drug-slingers openly solicit, saying, “Weed, coke. Weed, coke” as pedestrians walk by, a disgusted local restaurateur said. The Post observed two different buyers approach dealers on the corner of West 27th Street and Broadway earlier this month and hand over cash in exchange for plastic baggies containing a mysterious white substance.

Scammers are duping small business owners into sending the password reset link to their Instagram page under the guise of confirming their identity.Small business owner Dayana Rizal, 27, is no stranger to dealing with online buyers, but the one she encountered on Oct 3 seemed particularly - in her words - "harmless". Ms Dayana, who sold clay mugs on her now-defunct Instagram page potekceramics, said the buyer was a sweet talker who seemed clueless about how to purchase her mugs online. The buyer, using a private Instagram account with a few hundred followers, sent Ms Dayana a direct message with...

Here are is all the information you need to quickly look up the current “Toss Up” races, to get involved or to donate, to help push each over the edge. State: Incumbent Candidate - Rep. Website AZ: Open (R) Kari Lake https://www.karilake.com/ KS: Kelly (D) Derek Schmidt https://schmidtforkansas.com/ ME: Mills (D) Paul LePage https://govlepage.com/ MI: Whitmer (D) Tudor Dixon https://www.tudordixon.com/ MN: Walz (D) Dr. Scott Jensen https://drscottjensen.com/ NM: Lujan Grisham (D) Mark Ronchetti https://markronchetti.com/ NV: Sisolak (D) Joe Lombardo https://www.joelombardofornv.com NY: Hochul (D) Lee Zeldin https://zeldinfornewyork.com/ OR: Open (D) Christine Drazan https://www.christinefororegon.com/about/ PA: Open (D) Doug Mastriano https://doug4gov.com/ WI: Evers...

NBA Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, one of the best defenders in the league's history, is undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, the league announced Saturday (Oct 15). Mutombo, 56, hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has been a global ambassador for the National Basketball Association for years. He played for several teams throughout his long career, including the Denver Nuggets, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Atlanta Hawks and the then New Jersey Nets.

...eight months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Lukashenko’s Russian-enabled grip on power risks slipping as Moscow pressures him to get more involved in the faltering military campaign next door in Ukraine. Artyom Shraibman, a Belarusian political analyst who fled to Poland after a brutal crackdown on postelection protests in 2020, cautioned that it was unclear exactly what Putin had asked of the Belarusian leader in St. Petersburg but, he added: “it is very clear that Lukashenko is not yet willing to join the war” because of the immense political risks that would bring. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a Belarusian opposition leader and a...

Here are is all the information you need to quickly look up the current “Toss Up” races, to get involved or to donate, to help push each over the edge. State: Incumbent Candidate - Rep. Website AZ: Open (R) Kari Lake https://www.karilake.com/ KS: Kelly (D) Derek Schmidt https://schmidtforkansas.com/ ME: Mills (D) Paul LePage https://govlepage.com/ MI: Whitmer (D) Tudor Dixon https://www.tudordixon.com/ MN: Walz (D) Dr. Scott Jensen https://drscottjensen.com/ NM: Lujan Grisham (D) Mark Ronchetti https://markronchetti.com/ NV: Sisolak (D) Joe Lombardo https://www.joelombardofornv.com NY: Hochul (D) Lee Zeldin https://zeldinfornewyork.com/ OR: Open (D) Christine Drazan https://www.christinefororegon.com/about/ PA: Open (D) Doug Mastriano https://senatormastriano.com/ WI: Evers...

Bill Walton is challenging San Diego city hall to get a grip on its homeless crisis. Walton, a progressive Grateful Dead enthusiast who is hardly a Rush Limbaugh acolyte, has called out San Diego mayor Todd Gloria in multiple forums. The website Voice of San Diego documented several letters that Walton wrote to Mayor Gloria on the issue, including one where the NBA and broadcasting legend said he was assaulted. “Once again, while peacefully riding my bike early this Sunday morning in Balboa Park, I was threatened, chased, and assaulted by the homeless population, in our Park,” Walton wrote Aug....