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An arson investigation was underway on Tuesday after seven fires erupted overnight at two churches, a gas station and four other buildings near Mississippi's Jackson State University, officials told local media. Video footage showed the worst of the seven fires near the historically Black college left Epiphany Church in ruins. There were no reports of any injuries, ABC affiliate WAPT reported.

The European Union's executive told its 27 member countries at a seminar on Monday that it was not possible to create a gas price cap that would not affect long-term contracts or supply security, two diplomatic sources told Reuters. After much wrangling at an all-night summit, EU leaders agreed last month to task the executive European Commission with proposing a temporary EU framework to cap gas prices in electricity generation and create a temporary natural gas transaction price corridor to bring down costs for consumers. But a compromise between those like France, Spain and Belgium that want a cap, and...

It’s Election Day! Polls are open until 8pm - it’s time for change, Pennsylvania! #PASen pic.twitter.com/WOqETWrswK— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) November 8, 2022Let’s DO this, Pennsylvania!! #Doug4Gov pic.twitter.com/ZneGRcgV8p— Doug Mastriano (@dougmastriano) November 8, 2022

Tweet See new Tweets Conversation Kathryn Watson @kathrynw5 On Election Day, the White House has called a lid at 11:20 a.m. That means we don't expect to see or hear from the president in person today. 10:24 AM · Nov 8, 2022 ·Twitter Web App 277 Retweets

Pennsylvania lieutenant governor and Democratic US Senate candidate John Fetterman predicted on Monday that his Republican challenger, Dr. Mehmet Oz, will take an early lead on election day, only for a "dramatic" change to happen overnight as more ballots are counted, according to the Western Journal."Counting for ballots cast by mail and early in-person cannot begin until Election Day, thanks to the GOP-controlled legislature — an intentional move to help Republicans baselessly sow doubt about the election results when it suits them,” Fetterman wrote in a memo to “interested parties," reads a memo from Fetterman, according to the Washington Post."Pennsylvania...

A jackpot-winning Powerball ticket was sold in California for the record $2.04 billion grand prize, according to lottery officials

A winning ticket for the record $2.04 billion Powerball lottery jackpot was sold in Altadena, California, lottery officials said Tuesday, making the lucky ticket holder the winner of the largest lottery prize ever.The ticket was sold at a Joe’s Service Center, the California Lottery said on Twitter. Results posted to Powerball.com similarly said there was one winner who matched all six numbers in California – the odds of which were 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The winning numbers, which were announced Tuesday morning after Monday night’s drawing was delayed, were 10-33-41-47-56 and the Powerball was...

A blatantly illegal discriminatory move that a new GOP Congress should act on. As if America already didn't have enough of what fascism-savvy Argentines call "the corporate republic," we now learn that big banks are conditioning their credit to big businesses based on "diversity" quotas, not creditworthiness. According to the Washington Free Beacon: Amid an uptick in race-conscious hiring programs throughout corporate America, many prominent businesses are now writing racial and gender quotas into their credit agreements with banks, tying the cost of borrowing to the companies' workforce diversity, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found. The businesses that have struck...

The Philadelphia agency that oversees elections said it will delay counting thousands of paper ballots after the polls close Tuesday night because of a lawsuit that accused it of being open to double counting. The Philadelphia City Commissioners voted 2-1 at a special early morning meeting to reinstate a process called “poll book reconciliation,” which is designed to eliminate the duplication of in-person votes and those already cast as mail-in or absentee ballots. The decision will delay in the vote count in one of the nation’s most hotly contested battleground states. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed on Oct....

Russian mobiks, as the newly mobilized recruits are called, have been complaining for weeks that they were sent to the front lines in Ukraine with no training and little to no equipment. As you would expect when troops with no discipline and no equipment are sent to the front lines, the results are not good. Over the last few days there have been reports that hundreds of mobiks sent to the front lines in they city of Makiyivka in eastern Ukraine were wiped out. Here’s a map created by the Guardian which show the location of Makiyivka:The report about what...

Voters in Mercer County, New Jersey, may face a longer-than-expected wait to cast their ballots on Election Day after an "issue" with voting machines caused a "county-wide system outage" that local government officials said resulted in "all voting machines" going down.Voting machines are currently down, vote on a standard ballot https://t.co/TXVP7Cy8lQ— West Windsor Police (@westwindsorpd) November 8, 2022A notice released by West Windsor officials explained the issue:WEST WINDSOR RESIDENTS: DUE TO A MERCER COUNTY-WIDE SYSTEM OUTAGE, ALL VOTING MACHINES ARE CURRENTLY DOWN IN EACH DISTRICT ACROSS THE COUNTY. VOTERS CAN STILL REPORT TO THEIR RESPECTIVE POLLING LOCATIONS AND VOTE ON...

Ozzy Osbourne has revealed he no longer wants to move back to the UK from America — after previously vowing to ditch the USA due to the country’s gun violence. The rock icon, 73, who hails from Birmingham, England, has lived in California for more than 25 years, and back in August revealed his intentions to move back home with wife Sharon, 70, saying: “I’m fed up with people getting killed every day.” But the Paranoid hitmaker has now declared to Consequence Magazine: “To be honest with you, if I had my way, I’d stay in America. I’m American now…...

"Repubs crushing Dems in very early going in Democratic Clark County, where all the votes are."

Multiple sources provided The Gateway Pundit with reports of suspicious activity at numerous locations in Detroit, Michigan prior to the 2022 midterm elections. Here is what we heard– Our sources have witnessed suspicious activities in Detroit for several days now. Over the weekend, concerned citizens, driving in two cars, followed a Penske rental truck from the Detroit Department of Elections to a non-descript, one-story warehouse in southwest Detroit. The truck ran at least one red light, possibly related to an attempt to shake the followers. Once there, the citizens initiated a round-the-clock vigil that, at press time, is still ongoing...

At least 14 states have spun up their National Guard units to ward off cyber attacks on the national election that concludes tomorrow, but others have not.North Carolina is one of the states that has. “This year, we're in place to ensure that if there's any assistance that's needed, we're working proactively with our state board of elections, not just on the day of elections, but really prior to to do security analysis checks and look into the network to make sure it's as secure as possible,” Maj. Gen. Marvin Hunt, adjutant general for North Carolina’s National Guard, told reporters...

As digital payments have become increasingly popular, many of the largest companies in this sector have used their dominant position to censor users, harvest their private financial data, and threaten them with huge fines if they violate vague and subjective rules. Here are some alternative payment services that promote freedom, reject censorship, and/or have privacy-preserving features: GabPay A person-to-person payments network from the free speech software company Gab. Gab uses the First Amendment of the United States (US) Constitution to guide its content moderation and describes GabPay as a solution that “allows you to spend your processing dollars with companies...

Pima County Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley's ruled Monday the county board of supervisors went beyond its authority by directing the county recorder to count all ballots cast instead of a small sample as required by state law, the Associated Press reports. The judge in a case, brought by the progressive group Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans, which sued to stop the proposed count, said the law allows for only for a small hand-count of early ballots to ensure voting machine accuracy. The group also said the change could create chaos and possibly delay election results. The ruling is unlikely...

Looks like the Fetterman is trying to stuff the ballot box

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Two candidates are on the ballot as both a Republican and Democrat in NH. Both are listed as Democrats in Ballotpedia. Ballotpedia: Mark Brave (Strafford County Sheriff, New Hampshire, candidate 2022)Ballotpedia: Thomas P. Velardi (Strafford County Attorney, New Hampshire, candidate 2022)