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Vice President Harris announced Friday that the administration would invest $125 million to help small businesses in underserved communities. The investment will go to 43 small business accelerators, chosen because they support entrepreneurs specifically in underserved communities. “As Bidenomics continues to demonstrate, when we invest in the dreams, the ambitions of small business owners and entrepreneurs, it creates opportunity and prosperity for us all,” Harris said during remarks in Washington, D.C. Harris said part of the funding will “help connect enterprisers and small business owners with the support and the guidance they need to break into the clean energy economy.”

We're going to be seeing more and more of this 👇 PPV-TAHOE - News Journalist @ppv_tahoe · Follow [News] Man confronts thieves as they clean out store at the Downey Promenade, in Downey California | #shoplifters VIDEO AT LINK................ I'm not saying it's smart to get in the faces of punk thieves who might pull a weapon on you. And some guy out there is going to comment from behind his computer screen that AKSHUALLY, this isn't taking the moral high ground. Then the race-hustlin' commies are gonna say that stopping looters is racist because of the color of these...

A young woman talks about her first 6 months working at a full time job. Is this the final outcome of feminism?

US Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya warned Trump against witness tampering as part of his release conditions. President Trump entered the Elijah Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in DC on Thursday on a new set of garbage charges. ....snip.... Menu Around the Web Texas College Named Worst in America Housely.com Judge Warns Trump Against Witness Tampering, Threatens to Issue Arrest Warrant By Cristina Laila Aug. 4, 2023 11:45 am203 Comments TruthGettrGabTelegramShareTweet Former President Donald Trump is interviewed by Fox News Bret Baier. US Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya warned Trump against witness tampering as part of his release conditions. President Trump entered the...

...The bottlenose dolphin is thought to have washed up on an ancient shoreline after the last Ice Age.Archaeologists have described the prehistoric discovery in Causewayhead, Stirling, as "the find of a lifetime".The father-of-four said he recognised the dolphin's skull by its long snout, rows of teeth and unmistakable shape.The bones were preserved in clay, around 80cm below the current ground level, for what is thought to have been up to 8,000 years.With them was a broken tool made from deer antler, which would have been used to carve the meat.It is thought the dolphin was made into a meal by...

Deleted strategy papers from CEFC China Energy – a Chinese Communist Party-run company where Hunter Biden served as Managing Director – detailed plans for China to “surpass” America as the “world’s leading country” while coordinating forms of “warfare” to influence other countries away from viewing the Chinese Communist Party as a “threat.” CEFC China Energy recently made headlines following a New York Post exposè highlighting how Hunter Biden leveraged his father’s name to ink deals with the Chinese government-linked entity, and several whistleblowers have confirmed these accounts. The company, founded by the now-missing Chinese tycoon Ye Jianming, has been identified...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, “Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds?” Matthew 13:54Today’s Gospel goes on to say that the people in Jesus’ hometown of Nazareth took offense at Him, which led Jesus to say, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house.” It is somewhat surprising that they took offense at Jesus after witnessing His wisdom and mighty deeds. Jesus was very familiar to the townspeople, and it seems that...

The city began setting up a migrant shelter with 100 cots and baby supplies at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Friday as Mayor Eric Adams refused to discuss the controversial move. Workers unloaded items from trucks to retrofit the park’s popular Play Center — which houses a basketball court and gym in hipster-friendly Williamsburg — and brought in “cots, military style,” cribs and baby formula. The facility, which Adams initially said would house “80 adult” migrants, appeared to be prepped for a family shelter — complete with baby wipes and toddler cots. There was no explanation from officials Friday about the discrepancy....

Despite a back and forth roller coaster this morning on social media that saw the Pac-12 miraculously saved then pushed back into a grave, it appears that Washington and Oregon will put the final nails into the conference’s coffin. Both schools’ presidents have reportedly given notice that they plan to accept to an invitation to join the Big Ten.

A new political action committee (PAC) has emerged in Texas that is being funded by leftist billionaire George Soros. Texas Majority PAC is described by Fox News as “a mysterious Texas entity working to build up progressive infrastructure.” The Soros-backed Democracy PAC funneled $750,000 to the Texas Majority PAC in the first six months of this year, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show. However, it appears that Soros is the organization’s fiscal lifeline. A separate filing shows the group raised a total of $752,040 overall during those months. The website mobilize.us promoted a meeting between the new PAC and Dallas-area...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s delegate forecast has plummeted to just 159, representing another loss of 100 predicted votes in the last two weeks. DeSantis now trails former President Donald Trump by over 2,000 forecasted delegates, according to polling data tracker, ‘Race to the White House.’The Governor of Florida has watched his delegate vote forecast plunge by 901 since the start of the year, setting yet another historic low for his campaign. Trump has collected the vast majority of DeSantis’s losses, and is now predicted to take a whopping 2220 votes. Only 1,234 delegate votes are needed to be declared the...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that U.S. bank JPMorgan had this week stopped processing payments for the Russian Agricultural Bank as Moscow demanded action, not promises, from Washington to help Russian grain and fertilizer reach global markets.Moscow has a list of demands it wants met before it will return to a deal, which it quit on July 17, that had allowed the safe Black Sea exports of Ukraine grain for the past year. Under a related pact - also brokered in July 2022 - U.N. officials agreed to help facilitate Russian food and fertilizer exports."As soon as...

Just two points separate Christie and DeSantis in New Hampshire poll. Ron DeSantis is facing a serious threat from Chris Christie in the New Hampshire Primary, according to a new poll from the Manhattan Institute. The survey conducted last month shows just two points separate the Florida Governor and the former New Jersey Governor, with both men in low double digits. DeSantis stands at just 13%, two points up on Christie’s 11%. Close behind them are Vivek Ramaswamy (8%), Nikki Haley (7%), and Tim Scott (7%). This shows a functional diffusion of the opposition vote to Donald Trump, who still...

As Donald Trump was being arraigned in Washington on yet another round of criminal charges, his running mate-turned-rival Mike Pence hurried to capitalize on the news. Pence’s campaign unveiled new T-shirts and baseball caps for sale featuring the phrase “Too Honest” in big red letters — a reference to an episode in the indictment in which the former president called Pence to berate him over his refusal to go along with Trump’s scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “You’re too honest,” Trump allegedly scoffed at his second-in-command on New Year’s Day. Pence’s decision to seize on the...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a GOP presidential candidate, made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Friday, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, the country’s capital. Christie met with Zelensky at the country's presidential palace, where he reiterated his support for Ukraine, according to a pool report, contrasting his candidacy with some in the Republican party who have opposed providing aid to the country. Christie, the second 2024 Republican presidential candidate to visit Ukraine, following former Vice President Mike Pence, said he hoped to get a firsthand look at the wartime atrocities that the country has...

Cybercriminals attacked the computer systems of a California-based health care provider causing emergency rooms in multiple states to close and ambulance services to be redirected. The data breach happened at Prospect Medical Holdings of Los Angeles, which has hospitals and clinics in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. Prospect Medical is working on resolving the issue, the company said in a statement Friday. "Upon learning of this, we took our systems offline to protect them and launched an investigation with the help of third-party cybersecurity specialists," the company told the Associated Press. "While our investigation continues, we are focused on...

In 2017, David Garrow’s carefully researched Obama biography, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, appeared to much less fanfare than it deserved. The media undoubtedly downplayed it because it offered the truth behind many of Obama’s self-adulatory inventions, and Trump’s new presidency occupied everyone’s energy. What makes the book newsworthy today is that David Samuels has interviewed Garrow and revisited narratives in the book, reminding everyone of the scary, power-obsessed nastiness behind Obama’s carefully built façade. The interview on Tablet is long and worth every second it takes you to read it. However, I’ve summarized below some of the...

VIDEOIt turned out that there was only one positive outcome from Tony Blinken's recent trip to Australia. While waiting for Blinken's press conference to start an ABC (the Australian ABC, not the American ABC) foreign affairs reporter, Stephen Dziedzic, flat out admitted on hot mic that he dismissed the lab leak theory for strictly ideological reasons. Dziedzic also seemed quite irked that Sky News reporter Sharri Markson turned out to be absolutely RIGHT about the origin of COVID as due to the Wuhan lab leak. He acted as if Markson was just lucky but as Markson revealed, she did something...

The scenes of asylum-seekers living on the streets of New York City are without parallel in America since the Great Depression. The migrant crisis in New York City is nearing a breaking point with shelters at capacity and asylum seekers now being forced to sleep on the street. pic.twitter.com/DHNUCKnMyU— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 2, 2023'Migrant crisis in New York City worsens as asylum seekers are forced to sleep on sidewalks.' From @CBSNews: https://t.co/YNOBVgs3uB— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 3, 2023Thousands of people who crossed the border have come to New York looking for the city to fulfill its promise of...