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New York’s neck-and-neck race for governor has suddenly gotten the attention of prominent national democrats — for all the wrong reasons. Party bigwigs appear to be in panic mode, critics note, flooding the 2-to-1 Democratic enrollment Empire State with big names like Bill, Hillary, Joe and Kamala in the final stretch to Tuesday’s election as Gov. Kathy Hochul has rapidly lost ground to Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin. “New York Democrats are smashing the glass and pulling the fire alarm,” state Republican Party Chair Nick Langworthy said Friday. “These are all terrible signs for the Democrats,” political consultant Bradley Tusk...

When Naftali Bennett took over Israel’s premiership from Benjamin Netanyahu in June of 2021, the Likud leader was famously derisive and dismissive of his successor, questioning the legitimacy of his government and promising to return to power quickly. Some commentators criticized Netanyahu then for his apparent lack of decorum, noting that previous transfers of power had been more courteous. Now, a little more than a year later and with Netanyahu set to return to the premiership, a new detail has emerged from that handover. Channel 12 news on Friday published a photo of a note that was left for Bennett...

An influential Orthodox Jewish business group with a history of backing powerful New York Democrats is crossing party lines to endorse Rep. Lee Zeldin over Gov. Kathy Hochul in the race for governor. Saying Hochul “failed” to make key changes to New York’s controversial bail laws and reduce crime, Duvi Honig, CEO of the Wall Street-based Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, told The Post that New York needs a governor that exhibits an “unwavering stand on violent crime” — and Zeldin is the man for the job. “Violent criminals endanger local businesses and institutions, jeopardize the lives and livelihoods of...

More than 1100 licensed priests in the Church of England have indicated that they are willing to conduct same-sex marriages if they become legal. The survey was conducted by the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England over the course of the last month. In a statement announcing the results, the chairman of the organisation, the Revd Nigel Pietroni, said: “It is clear from the feedback after Living in Love and Faith that the majority want the current situation to change.” The list of signatories is being kept private, but the names were cross-checked against clergy databases, and...

An in-depth look into the apparent bias against True The Vote by Judge Hoyt in a Civil Hearing. On Monday, True The Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were taken into custody after a Contempt Hearing in the Konnech v True The Vote defamation case, which after reading the transcripts, had very little to do with defamation at all. Both Catherine and Gregg refused to leak the name of the third Confidential Informant that was in the hotel room when Gregg Phillips was being shown the PII located on a Konnech database in China, and as a result, were sent...

The campaign to pull corporate advertising from Twitter, following its purchase by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, is being led by a network of left wing dark money activists with ties to prominent Democrat politicians and mega donors. An advocacy group formed in 2020 called Accountable Tech is organizing the pressure campaign, which has thus far succeeded in having the likes of Pfizer, Audi, General Mills, and other corporations pull their advertising expenditures from the platform.

The European Medicines Agency says a new wave of COVID-19 infections will hit the continent in the coming weeks as we move towards winter. The EMA held a press conferenc in the Netherlands where officials said the pandemic is not over and that the Omicron variant continues to mutate and therefore to cause concern. "Last week one of these new Omicron variants that is called BQ.1 has been identified in at least five countries in the European Union and European Economic Area," explained Dr. Marco Cavaleri, Head of Health Threats and Vaccines Strategy. "According to the ECDC BQ.1 and each...

Human rights advocates are denouncing Twitter owner Elon Musk's decision to fire the social media platform's human rights department. Musk on Friday terminated thousands of Twitter employees, roughly half of the company's workforce of 7,500. Many of the now-former employees say they were given no notice before being abruptly let go via email. Musk is facing multiple lawsuits due to the mass firing, which potentially violated a California labor law. Workers with responsibilities that included content curation, machine learning ethics and communication were among those fired this week, according to Reuters. Former Twitter employee Shannon Raj Singh, who was the...

On Sunday, October 23, Patriarch Kirill consecrated the Annunciation Cathedral of the Diveevo Convent and called upon the faithful to pray for the secession of hostilities to St. Seraphim of Sarov, whose name is inseparably linked to the history of the Convent. "Today our Fatherland is going through a test caused by Russophobia, by the evil views, evil thoughts and evil will aimed at Russia. There is an idea right now is the high time to do away with Russia altogether. And why so? Because our view of the world, of God, of mankind is contrary to their, because it...

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Covid-19 vaccination coverage has stagnated in half of African countries, while the number of doses administered monthly declined by over 50% between July and September. Although Africa is far from reaching the year-end global target of protecting 70% of the population, modest progress has been made in vaccinating high-risk population groups, particularly the elderly. "The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is within sight, but as long as Africa lags far behind the rest of the world in reaching widespread protection, there is a dangerous gap which the virus can exploit to come roaring...

The World Health Organization says the number of new weekly COVID-19 cases worldwide decreased to 2.3 million last week. The waiting game continues. State epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan told The Chronicle on Thursday that she is “optimistic” about the winter as signs remain elusive of a surge in California caused by emerging subvariants such as BQ.1 and XBB. Case numbers and the test-positivity rate in the state have plateaud, though hospitalizations are creeping up. But worries about the new strains are everywhere: Santa Clara County health officer Dr. Sarah Cody expressed concern about the “grandchildren of omicron,” and new...

A Pentagon memo framed the decision as a response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade(The Daily Signal) – The Department of Defense announced Thursday that the Pentagon will pay for service members and their dependents to travel to abort their unborn babies. A Pentagon memo obtained by The Daily Signal states that it will establish “travel and transportation allowances for Service members and their dependents, as appropriate and consistent with applicable federal law and operational requirements, and as necessary amend any applicable travel regulations, to facilitate official travel to access non covered reproductive health care that is unavailable within...

Union urges voters to support candidates who will re-establish law and order at the border. After another clash with foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S., the union representing Border Patrol agents is urging Americans to vote on Nov. 8 for candidates who will defend them, the rule of law, and the southern border. On Monday, mostly single male Venezuelans, Mexicans and Hondurans crossed the Rio Grande River and attempted to illegally enter the U.S. near El Paso, Texas, and allegedly assaulted Border Patrol agents. The National Border Patrol Council, the union representing the agents, said, "Make no mistake, all of...

President Biden and former President Obama are going head-to-head with former President Trump in Pennsylvania this weekend, underscoring the significance of the battleground state ahead of Tuesday’s midterm election. Biden and Obama will hold a rally for Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) and state Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) in Philadelphia on Saturday, while Trump will host a rally for GOP Senate candidate Mehmet Oz and state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R), the party’s gubernatorial candidate, on the other side of the state in Latrobe.

Freeganism goes beyond the vegan diet – it’s about making sustainable changes to limit our “footprint” on the world. That is according to Dundee-based Violet Fraser who describes herself as freegan. On World Vegan Day, we’re taking a look at this environmentally-conscious movement linked to veganism. Freegans don’t just avoid animal by-products, they also avoid anything that damages the environment. “A lot of where I come from with freeganism actually started more from a wider environmental perspective,” said Violet, 34. “From my point of view, it’s to do with climate change. “It’s so I can think to myself as I...

An investment from CJ CheilJedang—a $23 billion Korean conglomerate which owns a 25-percent stake in the US frozen pizza market—gives New Culture Foods the boost it needs to get its vegan cheese to pizzerias nationwide in 2023. Most vegans know how to order pizza at any chain restaurant: ask if the sauce and crust are vegan, add extra veggie toppings, and hold the cheese. But what if these chains offered a gooey, stretchy, dairy-identical mozzarella but made without harming any animals or the environment? Game-changer, right? This reality could come as soon as next year thanks to Korean conglomerate CJ...

House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said Friday on “The Situation Room” that if Republicans led by former President Donald Trump win majorities in next week’s midterm elections, we are “going to see this democracy come to a crashing halt.” Anchor Brianna Keilar asked, “You recently compared America right now to Germany in the early 1930s. That’s what you said. And you said that we’re on track to repeat what happened in Germany here in America. Can you explain what you see happening here in America that prompted you to say that?”

Ahead of the Golden State Warriors’ game in Japan several weeks ago, the Dubs VIP Steph Curry (weight: 185 pounds) attempted to take on legendary sumo wrestler Hakuhō Shō (weight: 330 pounds) in a good-natured media stunt. Needless to say, the world’s greatest three-point shooter couldn’t get his opponent to budge. Sumo, the full-contact Japanese sport in which competitors try to push their opponents out of a circle or make any part of their bodies (besides the soles of their feet) touch the ground, is arguably one of the most famous elements of Japanese culture. The large, topknot-wearing competitors and...

House Judiciary Committee Republicans released a 1,000 page report on Friday detailing the politicization and lawlessness of today’s FBI. The FBI ran a coup against President Trump for four straight years based on complete lies from Hillary Clinton operatives. The FBI stormed the homes of hundreds of Trump supporters following the January 6 protests for walking inside the US Capitol that day. The FBI is currently targeting and arresting Christians who pray outside abortion clinics. The FBI targeted Roger Stone, General Flynn, Paul Manafort, and dozens of Trump officials for the past several years. The FBI plotted, planned, paid for...

Apart from all the leathermen, drag performers and nudists milling about, the scene at last month’s Bearrison Street Fair in SoMa could have been straight out of Wrestlemania VI. Early in the afternoon, the first of several professional tag-team matches was a contest between a local powerhouse and some challengers from Malibu. Money Power Re$pect, an up-and-coming duo composed of Marco Mayur and Fabuloso Fabricio, went up against MyloBoo Barbie and Barbie Boi to see who would walk out with Full Queer Wrestling’s title belts—and who would exit past the portable toilets with heads hung in humiliation. This was an...