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Former President Donald Trump has a double-digit national lead over President Joe Biden when third party candidates are included, the latest Harvard/Harris survey found. The latest survey examined the race between Biden and Trump — the latter of whom is the runaway frontrunner in the Republican primary contest. In a regular head-to-head matchup, Trump edges out Biden by seven points — 48 percent to Biden’s 41 percent. Another 10 percent remain undecided. Further, Trump boasts an 11-point lead among independents.

The former House Select Committee on Jan. 6 deleted more than 100 encrypted files from its probe just days before Republicans took over the majority in the House of Representatives, Fox News Digital has learned. The House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee is leading an investigation into Jan. 6, 2021, led by Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga. The panel is investigating the security failures on that day, as well as the “actions” of the former select committee investigating the Capitol riot. Loudermilk, last week, told Fox News Digital his investigation has entered a “new phase” with renewed support from House Speaker Mike...

A Labour MP is still living in a council flat (apartment) more than two years after admitting 'it's probably not something that I need'. Apsana Begum attacked the Conservatives just last week for having 'no solutions' to the housing crisis. Yet she has been occupying a taxpayer-funded flat in a deprived London borough where 23,000 households are on the waiting list and desperate families face a three to six-year wait.

Dexter Scott King, the youngest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, according to statements from his family and the King Center. The King Center confirmed in a statement the 62-year-old civil rights activist died Monday after a battle with prostate cancer. The third child of Dr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott King was married to Leah Weber King since 2013. Weber King said in a statement from the King Center, “He transitioned peacefully in his sleep at home with me in Malibu.” She added, “He gave it everything and battled this terrible disease until the end. As with...

A British man accused of public disorder after joking about blowing up a flight has gone on trial in Spain. Aditya Verma made the comment on Snapchat on his way to the island of Menorca with friends in July 2022. The message, sent before Mr Verma departed Gatwick airport, read: "On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)."

New York Post columnist Jon Levine joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss his interview with Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. >> PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR JOHN 0:07 FETTERMAN CALLING OUT FELLOW 0:09 DEMOCRATS FOR LEAVING HIM THANKS 0:10 TO THEIR PROGRESSIVE POLICIES, 0:13 FETTERMAN TELLING THE NEW YORK 0:14 POST IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT I 0:15 LEFT THE TITLE, THE TITLE LEFT 0:18 ME, PROGRESSIVES MOVED AND MY 0:24 MIGRATED TO POSITIONS I DON'T 0:25 AGREE WITH. 0:26 WE HAVE A CRISIS AT THE BORDER. 0:28 IT CAN'T BE CONTROVERSIAL THAT 0:29 WE SHOULD HAVE A SECURE BORDER. 0:31 THE SENATOR...

Abigail Disney is making headlines again, this time for her involvement in a campaign by some of the world's ultrawealthy to convince government leaders to tax them more. Disney is one of over 250 millionaires and billionaires who recently signed an open letter saying they were "proud to pay more" in taxes to "address the dramatic rise of economic inequality." Disney, who's the grandniece of Walt Disney, is one of the most vocal supporters of higher taxes for the wealthy among the wealthy themselves. She's also a film producer who's frequently criticized the House of Mouse over the years. Disney...

Will Japan's moon lander get a charge from the sun — or will its mission be cut short when its battery dies? Japan's space agency is facing that question now, even as it basks in the glow of becoming just the fifth country to achieve a soft landing on the moon. When it celebrated that feat on Friday (ET), the agency also announced that its spacecraft named SLIM, for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, seemed unable to get electricity from its solar cell. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said its engineers would study the problem, even as it...

CBS political reporter Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) took to ‘X’ to wonder whether it would be a “bad” thing if humans became extinct. She tweeted posted: Why do people work so hard just to continue the human race in apocalypse movies when the world is falling apart? Is it really all that bad if we as a species cease to exist? Alright, Kathryn, why don’t you put your money where your mouth is? Lead by example and go extinct first. The rest of us will join you. Promise. If directly queried, leftists/progressives typically claim not to hate humans, per se. “Gosh,...

WASHINGTON — A closely-divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to cut through or move razor wire Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of an effort by the state to prevent illegal border crossings. The court on a 5-4 vote granted an emergency request filed by the Biden administration, which had argued that Texas was preventing agents from carrying out their duties. The brief order noted that four conservative members of the nine-justice court would have rejected the government's request. They were Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A contractor working on a remodeling job in Washington was removing a bathtub from the home when he made a surprising discovery inside the wall: a grenade. Vadim Kharkhavyy, owner of Polar Bear Construction, said he tore out the tub in the third-floor bathroom of the home in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, revealing a hidden compartment in the wall and an object that appeared to be a grenade. "My first thought was to get out of there," Kharkavyy told KIRO-TV. Kharkavyy returned to the bathroom and captured video of the grenade, which he posted to his company's...

A video posted by the FDNY shockingly reveals how a charging lithium-ion battery sparked a raging fire in a Queens e-bike shop this month. The video, from King Electronic Hub in Richmond Hill, shows a charging lithium-ion battery surrounded by scooters and boxes shooting up a thick cloud of gray smoke, followed by sparks ... “It only took two and a half minutes for this exploding lithium-ion battery to fully engulf this e-bike shop in fire,” the text accompanying the video warns. “When we tell you illegal lithium-ion batteries can be dangerous, WE MEAN IT,” .. The two-alarm fire on...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a grand temple to Hindu god Ram in the flashpoint city of Ayodhya. He said it heralded "a new era" for India - the temple replaces a 16th-Century mosque torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992, sparking riots in which nearly 2,000 people died. Top film stars and cricketers were among guests at the event in Ayodhya. But some Hindu seers and most of the opposition boycotted it, saying Mr Modi was using it for political gain. General elections are due in India in the next few months and Mr Modi's political rivals...

In a speech on July 23, 2022, before the Conservative Political Action Committee, or CPAC, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced himself to the audience with the words, “My name is Ted Cruz and my pronoun is kiss my *ss.” In 2019, the Vermont College of Fine Arts appealed to a different group. They replaced the term alumni – which is derived from the Latin masculine plural but traditionally used to refer to all graduates of the school – with alumnx. In its statement, the college said that dropping the traditional term “alumni” was “a clear step toward exercising more intentional...

Supporters of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' now suspended campaign are sending a warning to Donald Trump, threatening to withhold their votes from him should he win the GOP nomination this summer. A number of DeSantis backers expressed their frustrations with Trump supporters, whom they tangled with during the nomination race, and signaled that they could be holding a grudge that has the potential to cost the GOP the general election. Another pro-DeSantis account, @KaladinFree, warned Trump supporters that their candidate of choice "can't afford to lose ANY" DeSantis fans. It said that if Trump lost the 2020 election, presumably with...

In this video, Piers Morgan interviews a doctor with Britain’s National Health Service. The doctor can’t bring himself to condemn the atrocities of October 7, and seems to think that the responsible parties are the U.S. and the U.K. This mentality is bizarrely widespread; we see it reflected, too, in the many demonstrations on behalf of Hamas that have broken out across the western world.Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil · Follow The UK banned this video so let's make sure to spread awarenessMossad Commentary

The Yonkers NAACP found “no evidence” that high school student-athletes hurled antisemitic slurs at Jewish opponents during a girls basketball game that sparked widespread backlash. An investigation by the group reportedly found a “rush to judgment” against Roosevelt High School students, who were accused of targeting players from Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, during a Jan. 4 game that was canceled partway through because of the conflicts. But Frank Coleman, president of the Yonkers NAACP and senior pastor at Messiah Baptist Church, said there was “absolutely no evidence of any antisemitic slurs rendered,” according to the Journal...

A new report reveals that more than 10,000 noncommissioned officers (NCOs) in the United States Army who were promoted under a COVID-19 era policy still have not completed the schooling requirements for that promotion. According to Military.com, 52,000 NCOs were promoted under the supposedly temporary policy which waived the requirement to attend leadership academies before promotion eligibility. 20 percent had still not attended the required training. The Select, Train, Educate, and Promote Policy (STEP) was adopted in 2016 and required all NCOs to attend schools before being eligible for promotion. Before that the Army allowed "conditional promotions." The new policy...

The introduction of biometric digital identity cards could be used by governments to track “who actually got a vaccination or not,” Queen Máxima of the Netherlands said at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos this week. Queen Máxima, a longtime social justice campaigner who has served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA) since 2009, urged for the wider adoption of biometric digital ID cards globally during a WEF panel discussion titled “Comparing Notes on Financial Inclusion” on Thursday. “When I started this job, there were actually very little countries in Africa...

Explanation: Can the Moon and a mountain really cast similar shadows? Yes, but the division between light and dark does not have to be aligned. Pictured, a quarter moon was captured above the mountain Grivola in Italy in early October of 2022. The Sun is to the right of the featured picturesque landscape, illuminating the right side of the Moon in a similar way that it illuminates the right side of the mountain. This lunar phase is called "quarter" because the lit fraction visible from Earth is one quarter of the entire lunar surface. Digital post-processing of this single exposure...