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It looks like the choice for the next Speaker of the House is leaning heavily in favor of Rep. Jim Jordan. Essentially the battle is between Jordan and Rep. Steve Scalise and Jordan is coming out on top.I may be wrong but the reporting on the speaker’s race has been tilted toward Jordan since he tossed his hat in the ring. On Thursday, Axios reported that McCarthy allies are working to gather support for Jordan, not the traditional choice, which would be Steve Scalise. Scalise is the House Majority Leader and at the top of the party leadership. In normal...

A moose that was found wandering down the tracks of the Stockholm subway and causing havoc was shot dead by a wildlife ranger on Wednesday after the service on the southern part of a busy line had to be suspended. The moose somehow managed to enter the enclosure that surrounds the tracks and roamed the southwestern part of the so-called Red Line with above-ground stations. At one point, seven stations had to be closed. Claes Keisu, a press officer with the subway operating company — owned by Stockholm County Council — told Swedish news agency TT that the animal had...

Did Donald Trump pass secrets about our nuclear submarine fleet to a foreign national? ABC News made a big splash with that report last night, at least with its headline. However, the article doesn’t quite definitively deliver, and there may be a reason for that.During the special counsel investigation into Trump’s classified material/obstruction case, FBI agents and Jack Smith’s prosecutors have interviewed Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt at least twice. Pratt’s name came up because he had apparently bragged to dozens of people that Trump had shared highly sensitive information in April 2021 about America’s submarines as a way to promote...

“We’re going to blow ourselves to kingdom come,” the ‘Star Trek’ franchise director warns, 40 years after his ABC TV movie terrified viewers when it depicted a fictional nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.Nicholas Meyer, director of ABC’s groundbreaking 1983 TV movie The Day After, is set to executive produce Paul Jay’s How to Stop a Nuclear War feature documentary, based on the book Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by the late Daniel Ellsberg. The Day After, which aired Nov. 20, 1983 on ABC, vividly depicted a fictional full-scale nuclear war between the U.S....

The producer's new album, Equanimity, captures the lessons Brown has learned from his obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosis.Since entering the dance scene nearly a decade back, Spencer Brown has made his name on progressive house music that’s lush, emotive and pristinely produced. That last part is not a coincidence. Brown, 29, has always been a hyper-perfectionist, and in the last few years he’s gotten a better understanding about why. “There’s been symptoms and signs since I was a kid,” Brown tells Billboard over Zoom. “It got really intense five or six years ago, but I didn’t know what was going on.”...

Screenshot credit: Fox NewsIf there is a story over the past few days that changed more than the one on the battle over choosing a new House Speaker, I don't know what it is. It's sometimes been like trying to navigate a raft on a rapidly churning river. I'll attempt here to bring you all up to date. We've had everything from candidates scurrying around, working on gathering potential "voters" in the Republican caucus, to even former President Donald Trump hinting that he might be willing to take on the role -- if he wasn't busy leading the Republican presidential...

Six men suspected of killing Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio have been killed in prison. The prison authority in Ecuador reported this in a statement. Ecuadorian President Lasso writes on... Drug violence Villavicencio was shot dead in the capital Quito in August after speaking at a campaign rally, two weeks before the elections. The gunman was killed in a shootout after the attack. Shortly after Villavicencio's murder, six Colombians were arrested. They were linked to the Los Lobos drug gang. It is not clear whether these are also the six suspects who have now been killed. Villavicencio's death shocked the...

Today’s jobs report brought good news for the American people. More jobs than expected were created in September, and even the July and August jobs numbers were revised up. How did market analysts react to this news? Well, I suppose you could say they had mixed views including its implications for the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy. Some analysts believe that the strong job growth and upward revisions to previous months' data suggest an over-heated labor market and increases the likelihood of a rate hike by year-end. They argue that this could put pressure on bond yields and lead to...

Ohio Rep. and Trump-endorsed House GOP speaker candidate Jim Jordan sounds off on being endorsed by the former president, what the American people want from the speaker, and what he expects from President Joe Biden on Ukraine - Via Friday's "The Record."

Sauna ham is real, and it's spectacular.If there is one thing even I can claim to be universally true about the Finns, it's this: Sauna is an essential part of life. On a recent trip through Finland, I'm told this several times a day, seemingly by everyone I meet — whether it's tour guides or bartenders — and each time I'm told it, there's a new fascinating detail. Here's one: The sauna used to be a birthing room. Here's another: It was also a place where people were given their last rites. Yes, this means you could come into this...

Taco fans, rejoice!Today, October 4, could arguably be the best holiday of the year — National Taco Day. And Taco Bell is here to celebrate. On Tuesday, the fast food chain announced the return of its Taco Lover's Pass, which gives taco fans the right to redeem one taco every day for 30 days straight for just $10. "The return of Taco Lover's Pass exemplifies Taco Bell's innovative spirit and creativity, leveraging digital experiences to deliver unrivaled value in modern ways," Dane Mathews, Taco Bell's chief digital officer, shared in a statement. "We're embracing our fan's passion for this digital...

Greg Kelly blasts Hillary Clinton for her comments towards MAGA supporters claiming they need to be "deprogrammed," weighs in on the 'fake news' bashing former President Donald Trump, and more on NEWSMAX.

The Northern Virginia high school student sexually assaulted in a girls restroom by male student wearing a skirt filing a 30-million-dollar lawsuit... Ray Epps... Amazon launching two test satellites... Ukrainian drone shot down early Saturday morning...on the west side of Moscow... The US State Department kicking out two Russian diplomats... A former US solider accused of attempting to give classified information to China... A contingent of 200 British troops arriving in Kosovo... The United Auto Workers opting not to expand their strike... The US Postal Service planning a rate increase in January... A New York Appeals Court turning down President...

The Northeast looks to another wet weekend ahead as the remnants of Tropical Storm Philippe and an incoming cold front will soak New England and potentially flood New York for a second time in a fortnight. Tropical Storm Philippe lashed Bermuda with heavy rains and winds but lost steam and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone Friday as it churned northward on a path toward Atlantic Canada and New England. But the East Coast won't be spared by the storm as its remnants combined with a eastward-moving cold front will make for another rainy weekend. Maine is set to be...

One of Australia's best known Muslim clerics - known for his share of controversies - has died in Egypt at 82, with members of the local Islamic community hailing him as an Australian icon. ... He died just after he finished a pilgrimage to Mecca, called Umrah. ... He was considered one of the most controversial figures in Australia in the early 2000s after making a series of contentious remarks - including a comment about 'uncovered meat' that sparked a national furore. ... Hilaly's controversies in the public eye are well documented. In October 2006, he sparked a firestorm after...

The Oscar-winning 'King Kong' and 'Tootsie' actress pointed to big franchise films as having "sacrificed this art that we’ve been involved in … for the sake of profit."Jessica Lange doesn’t think she’s going to work in filmmaking much longer after feeling that “creativity is secondary now to corporate profits.” In a new interview with The Telegraph published Thursday, the Oscar-winning actress spoke about her love of photography, bouts of loneliness, never feeling comfortable with fame and why she thinks the industry is not what it used to be for performers. The King Kong and Blue Sky star admitted that she...

Even as criticism continues to reverberate for the Army-Navy game hotel debacle, Gov. Maura Healey has failed to take aggressive steps to stop the flow of migrants into Massachusetts. Healey in fact has called for smoothing the way for migrants to come into the state and work here while spending more than a million dollars a day contracting with hotels in overwhelmed cities and towns to house the migrants. “All of her statements and actions indicate she is supportive of the resettlement of these migrants into Massachusetts,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “She’s not interested...

Trpcic has received three Emmy nominations for her work on 'The Mandalorian' and 'The Book of Boba Fett.'Shawna Trpcic, the Emmy-nominated costume designer who worked on the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka, has died. She was 56. Trpcic died suddenly of an unknown illness in Palm Desert on Wednesday, her daughter, Sarah, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Shawna was one of Hollywood’s pre-eminent science fiction costume designers — a creative force, a trusted collaborator, and all-around delightful person for her friends and colleagues,” her rep Tim Kressman shared in a statement. “She was a...

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that she believed Rep. Jim Jorden (R-OH) was “heavily involved” in what she deemed a “plot” on January 6, 2021. On Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), commentator Adam Kinzinger said, “He is a true believer, but he truly believes that the Democrats, or the left, is an enemy of America, and he will do anything even extra constitutionally to defeat them.”

CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Rep. Jim Jorden (R-OH) was a “Christian nationalist” who is very dangerous. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Do you share the opinion of Congresswoman Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson that Jim Jordan is not committed to democracy and the Constitution?”