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American comedy-drama film directed by Barry Shear and starring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. Based on the short story "The Day It All Happened, Baby!" by Robert Thom.

Biden dead-ender Joe Scarborough is on guard for anything that might jeopardize his guy's re-election prospects. So when Joe Manchin, the Democrat senator from West Virginia, yesterday floated the possibility of a third-party presidential run, Scarborough was quick to lead the charge against him on today's Morning Joe....with his usual F-words for Trump. When, teasing the news at the top of the show, Mika Brzezinski mentioned Manchin's musings, Scarborough twice interrupted with a skeptical, "come on, man." Scarborough cast Manchin's flirtation in the most negative terms possible: "Do you think he really wants to help a fascist get elected president?...

Hilarious bit by the legendary Johnny Carson mentioning Joe Biden, who was a senator at that time, in his monologue on The Tonight Show from September 16th 1987

A United Nations agency warned of an increased risk of heart attacks and deaths as the northern hemisphere reeled Tuesday from heat waves. The World Meteorological Organization, the UN’s authority on weather and climate, said global temperatures have reached “unprecedented” levels within the last few weeks in a post on its website. According to the agency, multiple regions around the world including “North America, parts of Asia and across North Africa and the Mediterranean,” have seen temperatures above 40°C (104°F) for a “prolonged” period of time this week. “Heat is a rapidly growing health risk, due to burgeoning urbanization, an...

Used needles and other drug paraphernalia were found littered on a baby’s changing table at a public park in Sacramento — sparking furor among residents over the city’s growing homeless encampment. Amy Gardner, a local community advocate, says Stanford Park has grown dangerous to the point where residents have to clean the park’s three public bathrooms themselves to keep needles away from children. “To think a little kid who might not know could pick up that needle and stab themselves inadvertently, that’s very frightening,” Gardner told CBS 13 about the latest incident Monday

MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. The Pentagon planned to use its biolaboratories in Africa to test unregistered medicines on the local population, Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said on Tuesday. According to Kirillov, documents that were found in Ukraine indicate that the Pentagon planned to use the US army to test unregistered medical drugs on the local population and then submit them for approval by supervisory authorities "in the interests of the so-called big pharma." For these ends, it was planned to use its biolaboratories and facilitating agencies, such as Metabiota.

In a joint statement, representatives from nations involved in the anti-farming pact celebrated the agreement. “Food systems are responsible for 60% of methane emissions,” said Marcelo Mena, CEO of Global Methane Hub. “We congratulate countries willing to take the lead in food systems methane mitigation and confirm our commitment to support this type of initiative with programs that explore promising methane mitigation technologies and the underpinning research of methane mitigation mechanisms to create new technologies.” “Mitigating methane is the fastest way to reduce warming in the short term,” said U.S. “Climate Czar” John Kerry. The news comes as unelected bureaucratic...

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that former President Donald Trump should go to jail if he was found guilty in the classified document case. Goldberg said, “What’s bothering more about all of this, you know, the young person that the — the young man they got for espionage recently, do you know that he’s demanding to be treated exactly the same way as Trump was? He wants to be — yes, he wants to be able to go home and do everything. And that’s the thing for me that is most egregious. Nobody goes home.”...

Here is Ron DeSantis full off-the-cuff response defending Trump vis-a-vis Trump's impending grand jury testimony: “Look, there’s a difference between being brought up on criminal charges and doing things. Like for example, I think it was shown how he was in the White House and didn’t do anything while things were going on. He should have come out more forcefully, of course. But to try to criminalize that, that's a different issue entirely and I think that we want to be in a situation where you don't have one side just constantly trying to put the other side in jail.”

[Catholic Caucus] ‘The growth of Catholic theology’ - Pope Francis’ doctrinal chief speaksEarlier this month, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez as prefect of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith. The archbishop, an Argentine, had been since 2018 the Archbishop of La Plata, and was before that the rector of Argentina’s Catholic University — a role to which he was appointed by then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio.Widely regarded as the author of the 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Fernandez has long been a close collaborator of the pope. Since his July 1 appointment, Fernandez has made waves — because...

A Colorado man in the hospital for a broken bone revealed the moment he noticed his doctor Googling a tutorial before performing his procedure. Joshua Bulman, 27, had suffered a bad sprain and a small fracture in his lower leg from a skateboarding incident. 'I was in my hospital bed when I looked over and saw the doctor watching a video on how to wrap an ankle and leg,' Mr Bulman, a church youth pastor said. He shared the moment on TikTok, garnering over 1.4 million views. In the video, Mr Bulman can be seen lying on the hospital bed...

UFOs are already having an impact on combat training for America's fighter pilots, a top national security official has warned. 'Some of these phenomena, we know, have already had an impact on our training ranges,' according to John Kirby, the National Security Council's Coordinator for Strategic Communications under President Biden. The comments suggest a new approach from the White House, whose press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre coyly dismissed questions about the F-22 stealth raptor jets that shot down three UFOs last February by saying, 'I love E.T. the movie.' Kirby, a retired rear admiral in the US Navy, said the unanswered...

Ron DeSantis refused to fire Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County’s hard-line, COVID-obsessed health director, who venerated Anthony Fauci as her “patron saint,” donated to Joe Biden during her tenure under Florida’s Governor, and even publicly gloated “I’m not being stopped [from pursuing mass vaccination],” while heckling DeSantis at the height of the pandemic, The National Pulse can reveal.The news comes as the Florida Governor lashes out at former President Donald Trump for not firing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci. “Had I been president in 2020, Anthony Fauci would have been fired, and you’ve got...

Last week Ray Epps filed a defamation suit against Fox News for coverage of Epps’ involvement in the January 6. The allegedly defamatory content in question concerned reporting from Tucker Carlson and Revolver News’ Darren Beattie that appeared on Fox News that suggested Ray Epps may directly or indirectly have been acting an asset of the U.S. government — in colloquial terms, that Ray Epps may be a “fed.” [snip] The U.S. Government has a long and storied history of using agents provocateur in similar contexts. Epps’ behavior on January 5 and 6th was considered so egregious that he was...

A space crew discovers a planet identical to Earth hidden behind the sun. Also known as "Doppelganger". In this commendable sci-fi drama, set in 2069, astronaut Roy Thinnes discovers a hidden planet on the other side of the Sun that mirrors Earth in exact detail.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appears to have hit a new polling low, coming in at just 14 points in a TIPP Insights likely voter poll from early July. President Trump’s lead has increased to 39 points in the data, showing the 45th president with 53 percent, and 37-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy gaining to reach seven percent.The news comes as DeSantis announces major shake-ups in his campaign due to overspending and fractious donor relations.TIPP insights was described by the right-leaning Spectator magazine as “the pollster who doesn’t suck,” in 2020.The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam discussed many of the DeSantis camp’s pitfalls...

Photo: AlamyAll six members of the Michigan Republican House delegation are endorsing President Trump for the 2024 presidential election, per The Hill.Michigan Reps. Jack Bergman, Bill Huizenga, John James, Lisa McClain, John Moolenarr, and Tim Walberg, were all endorsed by President Trump during the 2022 midterms and now they are standing by him. The news was announced in a statement by President Trump on his website, noting, “In 2016, President Trump became the first Republican in 28 years to win Michigan in a Presidential Election, and he looks forward to working with this team to win Michigan’s 15 Electoral Votes...

Prime Minister Netanyahu reportedly pledged in a conversation yesterday (Monday) with the President of the United States Joe Biden that he will freeze construction in Judea and Samaria until the end of the year. According to Yaron Avraham's report on Channel 12 News, no more new towns will be approved and no new housing units will be planned or built throughout Judea and Samaria. In a conversation yesterday, Netanyahu told Biden that he would complete the final approval of the reduction of the reasonability clause. "Netanyahu informed the US president about the law that will be passed next week in...

Photo: Alamy“Sound of Freedom” star Jim Caviezel discussed President Donald Trump during an interview on “War Room” this week, where he talked about the smashing success of the independent film that has brought awareness to the horrors of child sex trafficking.To date, “Sound of Freedom” has raked in more than $50 million nationwide, rocketing to unprecedented success, per Forbes.The film, which tells the true story of Tim Ballard and his fight to rescue trafficked children via his work with Operation Underground Railroad, has additionally become one of 2023’s top 25 highest grossing domestic movies, Forbes also reported.During his interview on...

The number of shootings has already surpassed last year's total. Israeli security personnel and ZAKA rescue and recovery organization workers at the scene of a deadly shooting attack near the Jewish community of Eli in Samaria, June 20, 2023. Credit: Flash90. (July 18, 2023 / JNS) The escalation in Palestinian terrorism that started over a year ago shows no signs of abating, data from Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) published on Tuesday indicates. In the first six months of 2023, the emergency service recorded 3,640 acts of terror throughout Israel, including 2,118 cases of rock-throwing, 799 attacks with...