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<p>The judge granted narrow permission to the defense to introduce evidence of the message sent to Weinstein in 2007, when Newsom was mayor of San Francisco and dating Jennifer.</p><p>But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench forbid the defense from discussing the underlying issue behind the email - the revelation of an affair Newsom had had in 2005 with an aide.</p>

Joe Biden is planning to release up to 15million barrels of oil from the US's emergency oil reserves as he tries to stem soaring gasoline prices. The oil release would be the latest portion of a deal Biden struck last spring to release 180million barrels of oil from energy companies. His administration is planning to announce the latest reserve release later this week, according to Bloomberg.

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Monday he has a plan to tackle the high number of spam robots or “bots” on Twitter, as he intends to purchase the social media company. Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, complained in a tweet to Musk Monday night that he was seeing too many bots on the platform. […] Bots are automated accounts that help drive traffic on Twitter. They appear like real accounts controlled by a person. They retweet posts, like posts and follow other accounts. Advertisers, marketing agencies and other companies are looking to reach real human accounts,...

Fending off attacks from his independent challenger, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah worked to distinguish himself from former President Donald Trump in a contentious debate Monday evening. “I stood against my party time and time again to oppose reckless spending. I will do it again and again and again. We need people who say no,” the second-term Republican said. Lee repeatedly pointed to his voting record and twice told the audience at Utah Valley University that he voted less in line with Trump than all but two Republican senators — Rand Paul and Susan Collins. “To suggest that I’m...

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Australia has reversed a previous government’s recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the foreign minister said Tuesday, prompting consternation from Israel. The center-left Labor Party government Cabinet agreed to again recognize Tel Aviv as the capital and reaffirmed that Jerusalem’s status must be resolved in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said. Australia remained committed to a two-party solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and “we will not support an approach that undermines this prospect,” Wong said. Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid expressed disappointment in Australia’s changed position. “Jerusalem is the eternal...

Liberal guests on Bill Maher’s comedy show downplayed the risk of nuclear escalation in the Ukraine vs. Russia war for control of the Donbas region. “They’re tactical nukes — they’re just bigger versions of what a conventional attack would be,” said Neil deGrasse Tyson, a Harvard-trained science and “science communicator.” He said on the October 15 show: “Modern nukes don’t have the radiation problem … it’s a different kind of weapon than Hiroshima and Nagasaki … in the way that we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that. What you really have to...

Hungary's government does not back a proposal for the European Union to start a training mission for the Ukrainian army as this would risk escalating the war, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, on Monday in Luxembourg, where he noted that he lawfully made himself absent from the vote, the only EU member state representative to do so.The minister noted that his absence had not prevented the proposal from being approved, but Hungary does not want to contribute to the costs of the operation.“Anything leading to escalation is not something we think is a good idea,” he said during a break...

Kyle Rittenhouse has started a YouTube channel devoted to his love of guns and the Second Amendment. The Kenosha shooter shared his first video Sunday, telling fans he is 'super excited' to create content 'about guns and talking the 2nd amendment.' In a 35-second teaser trailer for the channel, he appears alongside a fellow gun-rights advocate to promote 'great content' to come from his channel. In the channel's bio, the 19-year-old doesn't shy away from mentioning his controversial past. 'You might remember me as the kid who defended himself with a firearm during the 2020 riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin,' Rittenhouse...

For the Pentagon’s FY24 budget: Buy now, and buy a lot A strategy that aims to lessen risk in the 2030s is ignoring the troubling, rising risk now, argues AEI’s John Ferrari. By JOHN FERRARI on October 03, 2022 at 11:06 AM 1-37 Field Artillery at YTC firing a M777 howitzer The shell is clearly visible in this firing of an M777 155mm howitzer by Charlie Battery,1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment at the Yakima Training Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord. (U.S. Army photo by Sidney Lee, Enterprise Multimedia Center, JBLM.) Budgets may reflect near-term priorities, but they also reflect long-term...

Megyn Kelly urged former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard to join forces with Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem in a 2024 White House bid, joking that it would be “the best-looking ticket ever.”

resident Biden has "done the work" to halt inflation, despite the stat continuing to sit at a 40-year high for months, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argues. Jean-Pierre made the comments during a Monday press briefing at the White House, defending the resident's economic record amid scrutiny from Fox News reporter Steve Doocy. The exchange came on the heels of several polls finding that Americans lack confidence in Biden and the Democrats to bring down inflation. "If resident Biden's top domestic priority is inflation, why doesn't he have more to show for it?" Doocy asked. "The resident understands …...

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday is scheduled to campaign for Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor of Arizona, just days after announcing she was leaving the Democratic Party. Lake's campaign said Gabbard would introduce the gubernatorial candidate at a GOP forum in Chandler, Arizona. The dramatic swing to the right comes on the heels of Gabbard, who ran for president as a Democrat in the 2020 election cycle, posting a video statement saying she could no longer remain a member of a party “now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.”

An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a peculiar image of Earth from space that contains two bizarre blue blobs of light glimmering in our planet's atmosphere. The dazzling pair may look otherworldly. But in reality, they are the result of two unrelated natural phenomena that just happened to occur at the same time. The first blob of light, which is visible at the bottom of the image, is a massive lightning strike somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand. Lightning strikes are typically hard to see from the ISS, as they're usually covered by clouds. But this...

A Southwest Side alderman accidentally shot himself Monday afternoon in the Ashburn neighborhood, the Sun-Times has learned. Ald. Derrick Curtis (18th) suffered a gunshot wound to his wrist around noon while cleaning his gun in the 8200 block of South Christiana Avenue, according to a Chicago police alert.

Democrats have cause for concern that they’re fading at a bad time ahead of the midterm elections after a summer surge fostered optimism that the party could buck historical trends and retain control of Congress. A New York Times-Siena College poll released Monday found Republicans held a 49-45 lead over Democrats in the generic ballot roughly one month before November’s elections. That represents a shift from September, when the same poll found Democrats leading Republicans by 1 percentage point. That poll followed a trend among other surveys that as recently as late September showed Democrats leading Republicans on the generic...

Blow wrote that racist remarks made by the LA city council president worsened his fears New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote Sunday that he was worried "white supremacy" would be replaced by "lite supremacy" after leaked audio revealed Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez making racist remarks. "It is a theory that worries me and that I have written about: that with the browning of America, white supremacy could simply be replaced by — or buffeted by — a form of "lite" supremacy, in which fairer-skin people perpetuate a modified anti-Blackness rather than eliminating it," Blow wrote in...

Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on top law enforcement officials to release records detailing “potential criminal conduct” committed by Hunter and James Biden. “My office has received a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers which have increased since my initial outreach to your offices,” Grassley wrote. “Based on recent protected disclosures to my office, the FBI has within its possession significant, impactful and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden.” Hunter and James Biden, President Joe Biden’s son and brother, respectively, reportedly conducted business through a holding company...

REPORT: Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard is flying into Phoenix tomorrow to campaign with Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. Via Eric Cartellessa from TIME mag. The Washington Examiner has more. Fresh off announcing her departure from the Democratic Party, Tulsi Gabbard will campaign for rising MAGA star Kari Lake, who is running for Arizona governor. Lake’s campaign announced Gabbard, who used to be a representative from Hawaii, will appear for an Arizona Young Republican Engagement Forum in Chandler, Arizona, on Tuesday. The event, which is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. local time, will also feature Blake Masters, GOP candidate for...