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Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake sparred with anchor Dana Bash over election integrity. Bash said, “You called the 2020 election corrupt, stolen, rotten and rigged. There is no evidence of any of that presented in a court of law or anywhere else that any of those things are true. So why do you keep saying that?” Lake said, “Well, there’s plenty of evidence. We had 740,000 ballots with no chain of custody. Those ballots shouldn’t have been counted.”

There’s a reason that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs is not doing well in Arizona. She’s running away from debating her Republican opponent, Kari Lake. When asked about it, she can’t even give any real reason for avoiding debating her, as we reported. Hobbs went on CNN on Sunday with Dana Bash. Bash asked about why she refused to debate, noting that she, Bash, just spoke to Lake. video “She just answered my questions for a lot of minutes. A lot of Democrats are questioning your decision.” If she’s as “dangerous to democracy” as Hobbs claims, Bash asked, why wasn’t...

The combined sales of the two grocery store chains are nearly $210 billion, putting Kroger about $10 billion shy of U.S. food sales at Walmart, the world’s largest grocer. Kroger and Albertsons are expected to divest 100 to 375 stores to pacify antitrust concerns, leaving Kroger to operate more than 4,500 stores nationwide, according to the Enquirer. Albertsons’ investors will own a separate company that includes the divested stores. Both stores currently employ a combined 710,000 associates and operate 4,996 stores, 66 distribution centers, 52 manufacturing plants, 3,972 pharmacies and 2,015 fuel centers in 48 states and Washington D.C.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday blamed high inflation on a “global phenomenon,” pushing back on the notion that Democrats’ spending bills are largely responsible for rising prices. On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan asked Buttigieg about Republicans criticizing Democrats for passing last year a $1.9 trillion stimulus package, dubbed the American Rescue Plan, that preceded a rise in inflation that hit a roughly 40-year high.

Palestinian militants took cover near an ambulance of the Red Crescent and fired from there at our forces Palestinian terrorists opened fire and detonated an explosive device at IDF and IDF forces who were operating (Friday, 14.10.22) in Jenin to arrest a Hamas operative suspected of having carried out shooting attacks against the security forces. The forces returned fire. According to reports, two or three Palestinians were killed. The armed men took cover near the Red Crescent ambulance and from there fired at the troops. The troops left the refugee camp in the city under heavy fire, unharmed. The Jenin...

A Linkedin post shared by Canopy CEO Davis Bell is sparking controversy for shedding light on the growing trend of "overemployment," or secretly working two remote jobs at once. The post went viral on Friday after Bell divulged that Canopy, a mid-sized software company based in Utah, recently fired two engineers who were secretly working two full-time jobs simultaneously. Overemployment has soared during the pandemic, with some saying it allows them to make up to $600,000 a year during a period of record-inflation and soaring housing costs. "To me, this isn't some fun new social trend," Bell wrote. "It's a...

Police in Stockton, Calif., say a suspect has been arrested in a series of killings that rattled nearby communities. Wesley Brownlee, 43, was taken into custody early Saturday, Stockton Police Department Chief Stanley McFadden said at a news conference. Charges were pending. "Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving," he said. "He was on a mission to kill. He was out hunting."

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This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

When computers go wrong, we tend to assume it's just some software hiccup, a bit of bad programming. But ionising radiation, including rays of protons blasted towards us by the sun, can also be the cause. These incidents, called single-event upsets, are rare and it can be impossible to be sure that cosmic rays were involved in a specific malfunction because they leave no trace behind them. And yet they have been singled out as the possible culprits behind numerous extraordinary cases of computer failure. From a vote-counting machine [?!?!} that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally,...

When it comes to music videos, I find that honesty and simplicity is best. Sure, you can spend a million dollar budget showing twerking women riding around in Rolls-Royces and men in pimp clothing sipping on Hennessy making funny looking gang signs and such. But where is the art in that? In this song, Jason Ringenberg plaintively sings about how his beloved town of Nashville has been commoditized by tourism and urban sprawl. The video shot in downtown Nashville is very amateur and done on a budget that wouldn't get you a table for two at the Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville...

Social media has been in an uproar since a member of European Parliament posted a video of a hearing in which a Pfizer director admitted the company never tested whether its Covid mRNA vaccine prevents transmission prior to its approval for emergency use. Though the fact that Covid mRNA vaccines do not prevent transmission was, of course, abundantly clear from the data soon after their implementation, this myth was a primary justification for vaccine passes and a primary cause of the unprecedented venom launched at those who refused Covid vaccines throughout 2021 and continuing through today. Not only did governments...

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the January 6 House Select Committee’s work will quell 2020 presidential election conspiracy theories that led to the Capitol riot. Kinzinger said, “Our mandate is to tell the American people the truth, come up with fixes. I know that my kid and I know that the craziest conspiracy theories kid in 10 years is going to believe that it was Donald Trump that started January 6. So all these conspiracies today will go away largely because of the work we’ve done.”

As we reported on October 4, Eugene Yu, a Chinese immigrant and CEO of Konnech, an election software company, was arrested “as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of [Los Angeles County election] workers,” which officials believed “was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China.” The other shocking part of the story was that LA County District Attorney George Gascon, who’s not known as being tough on crime, announced the arrest and extradition and that investigators from his office had been working on the case. One of Konnech’s software offerings is a...

Rumors have been circulating that CNN anchor Jim Acosta is the next boldface name to exit the cable news network in the wake of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, but those rumors are “absolute bullsh*t,” as one source so colorfully told Mediaite. There have been a number of major changes since the merger, most notably the shuttering of the CNN+ streaming service after less than a month and the cancellation of Reliable Sources — along with the departure of its host, Brian Stelter. Journalist Jon Nicosia (a former Mediaite managing editor) set the rumor mill churning with Acosta’s name with...

A 22-year-old Dayton man, convicted as a serial robber who hit gas stations from Warren to Greene counties, is going to prison for at least nine years, Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said Thursday afternoon. Da’Sean McCleskey pleaded guilty in August to seven felony counts of aggravated robbery with a firearm. County Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler sentenced him Thursday to nine to 10-and-a-half years in prison, Fornshell’s office said in a news release. MCleskey committed seven armed robberies of gas stations in Franklin, Moraine, Huber Heights, Beavercreek and Riverside from Dec. 21, 2021 through Jan. 19, 2022, according to...

Media outlets such as The Atlantic, have referred to Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake as the "Leading Lady" of Trumpism. "The way Lake has imitated Trump's rhetoric is obvious, but as I've followed her in the months since, something else has become clear: She is much better at this than Trump's other emulators," Elaine Godfrey at The Atlantic wrote.The Atlantic article, headlined "Trumpism Has Found Its Leading Lady," stated: "Kari Lake not only won Trump's endorsement but has emerged as his most talented emulator. Is she the new face of the MAGA movement?"Politico has reported that Lake has a...

Ukraine has quickly devolved into a bottomless money pit for the countless nations and corporations that have been bankrolling its war against Russia.On Friday, billionaire Elon Musk hilariously trolled a pro-Ukraine reporter who tweeted that SpaceX may no longer be able to supply its Starlink satellite internet terminals free to Ukraine due to the prohibitive costs of operating them.In response to the Kiev Post correspondent’s tweet noting that the move “comes days after Ukrainian Ambassador @MelnykAndrij told Musk to ‘f*** off,’ the SpaceX founder quipped: “We’re just following his recommendation.” Musk revealed last week that providing Starlink terminals and service...

Overview Newly discovered emails prove beyond all doubt that the “true purpose” of Hunter Biden’s lucrative deal with a Ukrainian energy company was for Hunter to get “high-ranking US officials” to visit Ukraine and persuade the nation’s leaders to “close down” all criminal “cases/pursuits against” the firm’s primary owner, a notoriously corrupt oligarch with ties to Russia. Documentation of this illegal scheme begins with a widely overlooked email on Hunter’s laptop in which a top executive of the Ukrainian firm describes the plan. Now, emails uncovered by Just Facts prove that Hunter and his partners: explicitly agreed to this deal....