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Former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary field, more than doubling his closest competitor’s support, according to a YouGov/Economist poll. The poll also found President Joe Biden and Trump are neck and neck in a hypothetical general election race. Trump sits atop the field with 48 percent of support among registered voters who plan to vote in the GOP primary, placing him 26 points ahead of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) with 22 percent. A YouGov poll conducted for Yahoo News last month showed similar results among a sample of U.S. adults. Trump landed at 48 percent in...

A Democratic Georgia state legislator from Atlanta has defected to the Republican Party in astonishing move after her party turned on her for backing school vouchers wanting to get tougher on prosecutors. Rep. Mesha Mainor, 48, switched sides to become the only black member of the state GOP after ripping into her former colleagues for trying to 'sabotage' everything she did and embracing 'left-wing radicalism'. Mainor said legislative Democrats drove her out of the party for breaking what they think are party norms including being soft on crime. At a Tuesday news conference outside the Georgia Capitol, she said they...

The Ukrainian army has lost over 26,000 men and over 3,000 items of military hardware in its failed Spring Counter-Offensive, said Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, including 12 US Bradley fighting vehicles and 17 German Leo II tanks.……

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. "And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." Mark, Chapter 6 1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow...

Democracy stinks. History is littered with short-live democracies that cratered between the bloodlettings of factions going at each other’s throats. Our Framers were well aware of their shortcomings from the lessons of history and their personal experiences since 1776. Popular election, the democratic element in the Framers’ Constitution, was limited to the House of Representatives. This satisfied the Declaration’s maxim that consent of the governed serves as the just basis of government. In Article II, the sovereign people assigned their Natural Right to elect their chief executive to another body, their state legislatures. As discussed in a recent blog post...

The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday declined to honor a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for communications related to its investigation of the cocaine found at the White House, saying that to release those materials would compromise the investigation.Bloomberg investigative reporter Jason Leopold posted the response from the Secret Service to his request, in which the agency stated that "disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."The rest of the letter outlined Leopold's options to challenge that determination but offered no other explanation for the agency's refusal.

Usher’s ex-wife, Tameka Foster, is taking the first step to prevent further accidents and deaths by starting a petition to drain the Georgia lake where her son died. On Thursday, Foster took to Instagram and announced her effort to drain Lake Lanier in honor of her son, Kile Glover, who tragically lost his life in a jet ski accident on July 21, 2012, HipHopDX reported. “On this significant day, July 6, we remember the tragic accident on Lake Lanier that forever altered my life. My courageous son, Kile Glover, fought for two weeks with unwavering strength until his passing on...

With around 20,000 passengers passing through it each day, the Westlake/MacArthur Park Station is one of L.A. Metro’s busiest. It is also the most dangerous. L.A. Metro is working to make conditions safer … Among the initiatives: better lighting and changes to the ambiance. “Some of the lights down here have been replaced by brighter LEDs,” said Stephen Tu, senior director at the L.A. Metro who is in charge of the changes. In addition to lighting and playing music, air is now blowing on the platforms. Another part of the Metro’s multi-layer approach to safety is its ambassador program. Ambassadors...

COVID appears to have spread widely among the 30 million deer roaming the US — with some passing mutated forms back to people, according to a government-led study calling it a “unique public health risk.” Researchers, including several from federal agencies, say they found “at least 109 independent spillovers” of the virus spreading from people to deer, including in New York. It then mutated while being spread among deer — with the unique strain found in at least three cases passed back to humans, according to findings published Tuesday in the journal Nature. “Deer regularly interact with humans and are...

First Trump, now Ramaswamy, as ostensible "populists". In the European Union, the clamped-down system of censorship, opinion formation and manufacture of consent goes under names of oufits like the European Journalism Centre (European Centre for Press & Media Freedom) and .ANP (All News Pipeline). Here in the last bastion of belief in freedom, deep state information control has suffered only a tiny bump in the road by Judge Terry Doughty's ruling that Biden can't issue censorship directions to Social Media, in a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri. (You're dreaming if you imagine the bad guys...

In the wake of his aborted mutiny last month, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Private Military Company turned over more than 2,000 weapons and pieces of equipment more than 2,500 tons of ammunition and over 20,000 small arms, the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) said on its Telegram channel Wednesday. A video showing turned over Wagner tanks and other armor, artillery pieces, land mines and boxes apparently full of munitions has also been distributed.The cache of arms and ammunition displayed by the Russian MoD - if it indeed did come from Wagner - showcases Prigozhin's force of high-end weaponry.This list of...

When I learned that an alleged shoplifter was stabbed to death Thursday by a drugstore clerk in Times Square, I was surprised only that the killing had happened at the CVS at Broadway and 49th Street, not at the Duane Reade at Broadway and 50th Street. Over more than three years, since New York’s criminal-justice “reforms” collided with pandemic dislocations, this stretch of Broadway and the surrounding blocks and subway stations have become a magnet for disorder and danger. That a nearby resident—me—must weigh up the relative dangers of shopping at or even walking by one store rather than the...

CLAIM: A video shows a “World Economic Forum agent” calling for a cashless society and saying those determined “less desirable” will be locked out. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video shows Eswar Prasad, an economics professor from Cornell University, speaking at a June WEF event, but Prasad does not work for or represent the organization. The video misrepresents remarks Prasad made at the event about the benefits and the dangers of central bank digital currencies. During the WEF session, Prasad was asked about the risks that come with a CBDC, and the pros and cons for governments thinking about a CBDC....

Volodomyr Zelensky got the bad news in Vilnius — notwithstanding lip service from some of the NATO members — the United States and Germany are refusing to let Ukraine join the club out of fear of broadening the war with Russia. Make no mistake — NATO is at war with Russia, but the West is cognizant of its military weakness and is not willing as an organization to risk taking steps that would provoke direct fighting between Russian and NATO forces. A frustrated President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a furious broadside against Ukraine’s NATO allies Tuesday as they began a summit...

Michael Saltmarsh, 48, killed 'soulmates' David Gay, 58, and Wendy Gay, 67, as they walked across a pelican crossing in CaerphillyA drink-driver came to realise he had hit and killed a couple crossing a road with his van after his partner found a handbag on his bonnet. Upon making the discovery he said: "Oh my God, oh my God" and vomited. Michael Saltmarsh, 48, was "grossly impaired" when he killed "soulmates" David Gay, 58, and Wendy Gay, 67, as they walked across a pelican crossing in Caerphilly at around 7.30pm on March 17. Mrs Gay died at the scene as...

After a week of storms and Saturday night's torrential rain and hail, residents across Oklahoma City woke up Sunday morning to hundreds of dead birds in the street. WildCare Oklahoma, a nonprofit animal rehabilitation center in Noble, received numerous calls about hundreds or more purple martins downed from the storm and hail, including near the shopping area north of I-40 in Oklahoma City. "Thanks to the public's support, we were able to save a small number of birds from the colony," said WildCare Oklahoma Executive Director Inger Giuffrida.

'It took five men to take it down'Members of the public jumped on a dangerous dog and wrestled it to the ground before firearms officers seized the animal after it attacked another dog in Cardiff on Tuesday evening. Onlookers told of people screaming in the street in Connaught Road in Roath as a large dog, which they said looked like a pitbull, “locked its jaws around a white cockapoo” leaving a pool of blood on the floor at 8.15pm on Tuesday, July 11. South Wales Police said in a statement tonight that a dangerous dog had been seized in North...

High Point police say a black lab charged at the officer, and was shot and killed. The family says that isn't what happened.A family in High Point is trying to wrap their heads around why their family dog was shot and killed by a police officer Sunday morning. High Point police said on Sunday around 9:50 a.m., an officer was dispatched to a home in the 1500 block of Homewood Avenue. Police said a woman called about a German Shepherd in her yard that wouldn’t leave. That neighbor told WFMY News 2 that she has two children and a small...

New York state officials are proud to announce a new record. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced New York State set a record when it comes to New York's "landmark" paid family leave program. The paid family program allows New Yorkers to take paid time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or bond with a new child. "When I signed New York's paid family leave expansion into law, I reaffirmed our state's commitment to ensuring that workers have the protections they need to bond with their parents, children, and other loved ones," Governor Hochul said. "Now, workers are...

The Houston Police Department’s Robbery Division needs the public’s assistance identifying the suspect responsible for a robbery by force. On Friday, June 30, 2023 at around 9:20 am, an unknown male entered a cell phone store, located at the 8600 block of Tidwell, in Houston, Texas. The male first acted like a customer and then walked around the counter, pushed the employee out of the way, and removed the money from the cash drawer. The suspect then fled the location in an unknown direction.