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How much of Mexico is under the control of criminal elements? I guess that it depends who is answering the question. To my knowledge, President Andres Lopez-Obrador has not acknowledged that any part of Mexico is run by cartels. He plays games with crime statistics and blames everyone but his administration for the breakdown in law and order. So who is telling the truth? Well, this is a report from Pulse News Mexico:A study released this week by the political analysis firm AC Consultores showed that organized crime groups in Mexico are now exerting their influence over at least 1.59...

Did you hear Robert F Kennedy, Jr’s recent foreign policy speech? It is embedded at the end of this essay, a 30-minute video. It was a very hopeful speech in the old-time peacenik way. He frequently invokes his president uncle, which is both useful and perhaps overdone. As a candidate, he ought to incorporate ideas into his own policy recommendations. But I’m not here to give him political advice. Apparently, he wants to bring back the 1960s Democrat coalition. Starting with an anecdote about the Kennedy White House, and JFKs recognition of the dangers of nuclear fallout and what JFK...

Even President Joe Biden prepares to deliver a speech in Chicago on Wednesday touting “Bidenonomics,” far more Americans think the economy is doing poorly than think the economy is doing well. A Gallup poll released on Wednesday showed Americans’ assessments of the U.S. economy have improved significantly in the past month but remain deeply negative. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index ropse from -43 in May to -32 in June. That is the best score since January 2022, when the index registered at -22.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — An improved U.S. economy has done little so far to improve support for President Joe Biden, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. A summary of the survey’s findings and what they tell us about how the country is feeling about the Biden administration: DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT RELATIVELY WEAK A majority of Democrats back the president’s work, but the figures are relatively low for a candidate who will need their votes in 2024. NO TRACTION WITH REPUBLICANS Republicans are unimpressed, with only one in 10 approving of the president’s performance. BIDEN...

Google has dropped its sponsorship of a San Francisco Pride event after hundreds of employees signed a fiery petition lashing out against it. The tech giant sponsors a series of LGBT events across the US annually, and this year the headline event was due to be a 'Pride and Drag Show' at Beaux gay bar featuring popular performer Peaches Christ. But employees noticed Google removed the San Francisco show from its internal events page after a petition was launched opposing the event on religious grounds, according to memos seen by CNBC. Signed by a few hundred people, the petition claimed...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday that he believes former President Donald Trump is “stronger today than he was in 2016.”“As usual, the media is attempting to drive a wedge between President Trump and House Republicans as our committees are holding Biden’s DOJ accountable for their two-tiered levels of justice,” McCarthy said in a brief conversation with Breitbart News on Tuesday. “The only reason Biden is using his weaponized federal government to go after President Trump is because he is Biden’s strongest political opponent, as polling continues to show.”McCarthy pointed to polls released on Tuesday from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden had a tough sell Wednesday: Convincing voters the U.S. economy is flourishing. With the president set to showcase “Bidenomics” in a speech in Chicago, a new poll finds that only one in three U.S. adults approve of his economic leadership. That 34% figure is even lower than his overall approval rating of 41%, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Biden’s approval figures have barely moved for the past year and a half, a source of concern for a president seeking reelection on his ability to govern and...

Anheuser-Busch's CEO has refused to rule out partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney again – as he avoided answering how much the marketing blunder had cost Bud Light. Brendan Whitworth, US CEO, insisted that his priority was his employees and added that they had poured three times the amount of investment into Bud Light for this year - as the company has lost a staggering $20billion in market cap. Speaking to CBS Mornings, Whitworth was asked if he would send Mulvaney, 26, another can, knowing the backlash. But instead of giving a definitive answer, the CEO instead launched into a...

The Morning Consult has an updated poll {DATA HERE} of the GOP field showing President Trump is pulling even further ahead despite the political targeting efforts of the DOJ.[DATA SOURCE](Morning Consult) – Trump takes lead over Biden in general-election matchup: Trump continues to be the favorite for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination, with 57% of potential GOP primary voters supporting his candidacy. But for the first time since tracking began in December, Trump also leads Biden by 3 percentage points in a hypothetical general-election matchup, outside the surveys’ margins of error.Ramaswamy gets a bump: Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is backed...

President Trump pledged to end birthright citizenship in a recent policy announcement, promising to sign an executive order on his first day in office to prevent “the future children of illegal aliens” from receiving automatic citizenship. The proposal was significant for at least two reasons. Not only does it decisively put the 45th President further to the right on immigration policy than any of his declared or unofficial primary challengers, but furthermore, it clarifies at least a century of constitutional ambiguity on the subject. Immigration has emerged as the most important domestic issue in the 2024 election cycle, with estimates...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)“Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit.” Matthew 7:16–17“So by their fruits you will know them.” This is how our Gospel passage for today concludes. It offers us an exceptionally practical way by which you can discern the working of God in your own life and in the life of others. When you look at your own life, what good fruit, born for the upbuilding of the Kingdom of God, do you see? Some people may find little...

The disturbing moment an alleged child rapist was found with six children in his car after being pulled over for drunk driving with his pants unbuttoned was captured in bodycam footage. Jeremy Guthrie, 42, was stopped by New Mexico state police last year after he was seen swerving in and out of lanes in in Albuquerque, but what officers found was much darker than a DWI case. Recently unearthed police cam video of the arrest shows a sloppy and slurring Guthrie claiming the six children in his vehicle are 'his friends.' He is seen struggling to find his documents when...

(RTTNews) - The Commerce Department released a report on Tuesday unexpectedly showing a sharp increase in new home sales in the U.S. in the month of May. The report said new home sales soared 12.2 percent to an annual rate of 763,000 in May after surging 3.5 percent to a revised rate of 680,000 in April. Economists had expected new home sales to slump 1.2 percent to an annual rate of 675,000 from the 683,000 originally reported for the previous month. With the unexpected spike, new home sales reached their highest level since hitting a rate of 773,000 in February...

President Joe Biden departed the White House Wednesday with a cheat sheet on the Wagner uprising, but still bungled a response when asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin's standing. Biden was asked on the South Lawn how damaged Putin was in the aftermath of this weekend's aborted uprising by the Russian mercenary group. The president said that Putin had 'absolutely' been weakened, but added, 'it's hard to tell really,' when asked to what extent. 'He's clearly losing the war in Iraq. He's losing the war at home and has become a bit of a pariah around the world,' Biden said,...

Debris from the Titan submersible that imploded on the bottom of the Atlantic as it tried to reach the wreckage of the Titanic has been hauled ashore. The huge chunks of metal were unloaded from the Horizon Arctic ship at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St John's, Newfoundland, Canada, this morning. They were quickly covered in large tarpaulins before being lifted by cranes on to trucks that took them away for assessment. It comes exactly ten days after the doomed Titan submersible vanished during a tourist trip run by OceanGate Expeditions. Last Thursday it was revealed that the sub...

President Joe Biden mistakenly said Russian President Vladimir Putin is "clearly" losing the war in Iraq while answering questions from reporters at the White House. Biden was likely talking about Russia's war in Ukraine, saying Putin has been unsuccessful in the conflicts at home and abroad. "It's hard to tell, but he is clearly losing the war in Iraq, he's losing the war at home, and he has become a bit of a pariah around the world. And it's not just NATO. It's not just the European Union. It's Japan. It's, you know, 40 nations," Biden said. Biden was taking...

CNN pushed gun control by citing accidental gun death figures for children but omitted the fact that car accidents kill 27 times more children. In a Monday article CNN pointed to a study in the Injury Epidemiology journal, which “looked at cases over a nearly a decade in which children under 15 accidentally killed themselves or another child with a gun.” It noted that using “data from 2009 to 2018 across 33 states, the team counted 279 cases in which kids under 15 accidentally died due to firearm injury.”

Carlishia Hood, 35, had been accused of getting her son, 14, to shoot dead Jeremy Brown, 32, on June 18. Charges against the two were ditched after Cooks County State Attorney Kim Foxx announced her office had backtracked on the charges. Brown could be seen yelling at Hood to 'get your food!' as she starts to argue with him. While she continued to yell back at him, he shouted: 'Oh my God, if you say one more thing, I'm going to knock you out.' He then took a big swing and punched her, with other customers in the store looking...

Let’s start with Montana. Republican Tim Sheehy, a former Navy Seal, has entered the 2024 Montana Senate race.(source)I think he has a better shot at beating incumbent Democrat Senator John Tester than Congressman Matt Rosendale, who lost to him in 2018. That year, 2018, was a very good Dem year, and Tester won by 3.6%. Montana is more Republican in presidential election years.Senator Steve Daines from Montana is running the GOP Senate effort for 2024, and he is trying to find candidates who have a good shot at winning general elections and making primary endorsements accordingly. An insider tells us...