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New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on Tuesday released a report detailing how a white supremacist gunman who opened fire at a Buffalo supermarket in May and killed 10 people in a racially motivated attack was radicalized by fringe websites like 4Chan. While Payton Gendron’s online posts and activity were previously known, the attorney general office’s 49-page report offers a deeper examination of what led up to the May 14 shooting, when he shot 13 people at a supermarket in a majority-Black neighborhood on the East Side of Buffalo, N.Y.

Republican Mehmet Oz has narrowed Democrat John Fetterman’s lead in Pennsylvania’s bare-knuckle Senate election, and the two candidates are now polling inside the margin of error, according to a new survey shared exclusively with POLITICO. Fetterman is slightly ahead with 48 percent of likely voters, while Oz has 46 percent, the poll by AARP found. That’s a shift in Oz’s direction since June, when Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, was leading by six percentage points in the AARP survey.

“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.” Luke 10:2-3Today we honor Saint Luke the Evangelist. Saint Luke wrote one of the four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, was a companion of Saint Paul to whom he was very dear, traveled far and wide preaching the Gospel, and ultimately gave his life as a martyr. He was first imprisoned for two years and after his release was said to have...

As the world watches and reacts to anti-regime protests in Iran that entered a second month at the weekend, former President Barack Obama conceded that, in hindsight, decision-making in his White House on how to respond to an earlier protest movement was wrong. In an interview on a podcast hosted by former Obama White House staffers, he recalled that in the internal debate on how to react to the 2009 “Green Movement” protests some argued that vocal support from the U.S. would undermine the protestors. “You guys will recall there was a big debate inside the White House about whether...

U.S. B-52 bombers and around 60 other aircraft are taking part in NATO’s weeks-long nuclear exercise, which kicks off on Monday amid Russian threats of nuclear war. According to a statement by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 14 countries and up to 60 aircraft will take part in the nuclear exercise known as “Steadfast Noon.” A NATO official said part of the exercise would be held more than 625 miles from Russia, VOA reported. NATO described the exercise as “a routine, recurring training activity” that is “not linked to any current world events.”

President Joe Biden’s administration reportedly pressured El Paso, Texas, Mayor Oscar Leeser (D) not to declare a state of emergency over illegal immigration, even as thousands arrive in the small city every few days. According to an exclusive report from the New York Post, El Paso officials privately and publicly say the Biden administration urged Leeser to hold off on calling a state of emergency over the issue of illegal immigration, which has hit historic levels this year.

We are living in serious times, but Joe Biden is generally good for a laugh. Yesterday he was promoting his school loan boondoggle when he tried to read a URL off the teleprompter. It is comical to watch him gaze intently at the teleprompter, trying to interpret the words and symbols he sees there. In this case, his staff didn’t trust him to read “ReportFraud.FTC.gov” correctly, so they spelled out the word “dot” on the teleprompter. That was too much for Biden to handle: Biden is so gone that he will literally read ANY WORDS they put on the teleprompter...

Ivan Zapien, a lobbyist and former DNC official, argued that tough polling could motivate the Democratic base with the midterms less than a month away. Zapien argued that with 22 days until the election, Democrats have planned well. “Your vote totals are locked in and it’s all execution,” Zapien said. “Dems always knew this was going to be tight and planned accordingly.”

FIRST ON FOX: California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign once again spent thousands of dollars on luxury hotels, including locations in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and New York City. Swalwell’s campaign dropped some serious cash in the California Democrat’s latest lavish expenditures, which included ritzy hotels, luxury car rides and fine dining. The spending comes as Americans both in his district and around the country face sky-high inflation that is driving food, fuel and energy costs through the ro

The headline reads this way: "Independent women voters have massively shifted from Democrats toward Republicans in the race for Congress as a faltering economy becomes an ever-larger issue, according to a New York Times/Siena poll released Monday." If that's true, and that poll has been suspect, it is all over for the Dems on November 8. The GOP will win both houses of Congress. I think that will happen. As I reported on the No Spin News, President Biden has gone from befuddled to delusional. Baghdad Bob territory. He told a reporter in Portland, Oregon the economy is "strong as...

WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden races to install federal judges, Alaska Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan are taking vastly different approaches. Of Biden's 84 federal judge appointees, Murkowski has voted in favor of 64. Sullivan has voted for none. Biden is rapidly nominating judges to counterbalance Trump's volume of appointees to the federal bench. At this point in his presidency, Biden is on par with Trump's fast pace. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scrambling to approve more judges before the next congressional term, when the balance may shift in favor of Republican The judicial process has become...

Two Washington heavyweights are set to campaign with North Carolina Democratic Senate hopeful Cheri Beasley, lending the former state Supreme Court justice a bit of star power in the closing weeks of her campaign. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) will make three stops with Beasley on Wednesday, while Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking Black member of Congress, will join them for their second event of the day, Beasley’s campaign announced.

Lafarge SA is pleading guilty and has agreed to pay a fine of $777.8 million to resolve a criminal charge related to the French company’s payments to the terror organization ISIS to keep a plant operating in Syria.

how bad electric vehicles are for long-distance travel .. it took him 15 hellish hours to drive from Cheyenne to Casper, Wyoming. ... California told EV users not to charge their cars during its repeated summer blackouts. ... runs out of juice .. forced to pay .. a tow truck to get him to the nearest charging station. Secondly, since there are three types of charging stations all of which charge at different speeds.. sometimes he would be forced to sit overnight, only to end up with enough battery power to drive a mere 40 miles. ... Level 3 chargers,...

The woman said she felt something in her eye that she couldn’t get out, had blurred vision and pain... The doctor did a routine examination, but couldn’t figure out what was wrong until she used an instrument to keep both eyelids open and could use her hands to “find out what was going on.” That’s when she saw the contact lenses stuck together. She started pulling them out and asked her assistant to record her. She added that she had never seen anything like that in her 20 years of practice. The patient couldn’t believe it either. After the removal...

Seismic unrest is building at the world’s largest active volcano in Hawaii, where officials are urging people on the Big Island of Hawaii to pack “go bags” and prepare for the inevitable eruption of the giant Mauna Loa volcano. Yesterday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) said that they detected 65 small-magnitude earthquakes 2-3 miles below the Mokuāʻweoweo caldera beneath the upper-elevation northwest flank of Mauna Loa, an increase in activity from the ongoing period of unrest. Global Positioning System (GPS) instrumentation on Mauna Loa continue to measure inflation at rates elevated since mid-September, indicating that magma is building inside the...

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser dismissed Arne Schoenbohm as head of the BSI agency, following reports which "damaged the necessary confidence of the public in the neutrality and impartiality" of his management, the ministry said on Tuesday.... The Cyber Security Council Germany, which Mr Schoenbohm chaired until he became the head of the BSI in 2016, was prone to influence from Russian companies and even the Kremlin’s intelligence agencies, the report said. German media have reported that one of its members was a German company that is a subsidiary of a Russian cybersecurity firm founded by a former KGB agent, which...

The White House on Tuesday brushed off questions about whether it will release more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to deal with rising gas prices, even as it said an announcement will be coming tomorrow. “I don’t have anything to announce at this time… we are going to make an announcement tomorrow so I will let the president speak for himself,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday when asked about whether they would release barrels from the country’s oil reserves.

A Colorado electric vehicle owner called a road trip across the state of Wyoming “very difficult” after it took 15 hours to drive 178 miles. Alan O’Hashi used to live in Wyoming and explained that a trip back to the Cowboy State in his electric Nissan Leaf required lots of patience. “It was very difficult, O’Hashi told the Cowboy State Daily. “For example, [it took] 15 hours to get from Cheyenne to Casper.” The distance between Cheyenne and Casper is 178 miles, which with the speed limit taken into account should take less than 2 1/2 hours. “What I’ve learned...