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NBC's elections analyst Steve Kornacki looks into the latest NBC News poll showing "concerning numbers for President Biden" Monday morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Biden's approval rating in our poll clocks in at 37%. That's the lowest a president has checked in, in an NBC poll since the final days of the George W. Bush administration in 2008," Kornacki said.

Kyrie Irving made a bizarre revelation in his return to Brooklyn on Tuesday night, when frustrated fans sitting courtside questioned why the Dallas Mavericks guard did not perform at the same level while still playing for the Nets last season. His response was New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Irving dropped 36 points in the Mavericks’ 119-107 win over the Nets, which prompted some fans to ask, “Kyrie, why didn’t you play like this when you were on the Nets?” A viral video circulating on social media captured Irving’s blunt response. “Thank Mayor Adams for that, bro.”

After prosecutors charged Diashun Dixson with randomly attacking two men, including a 64-year-old, at the Chicago French Market in May, a judge ordered him to pay a $10,000 bail deposit to be released on electronic monitoring. Unable to post bail, he stayed in jail until December. That’s when his attorney, citing the September 18 elimination of cash bail in Illinois, filed a motion and won his release. Barely a month later, Dixson walked up to a 19-year-old female college student at the Union Station food court and punched her in the face so hard that the impact fractured her nose...

A coked-up “delusional conspiracy theorist” in Florida beat his father to death in a rage over the parent receiving a vaccine, according to charging documents. Brian McGann Jr., 44, is believed to have killed his father, Brian McGann Sr., during a rambling, 20-minute phone call with a female family friend that started shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday, records viewed by The Post revealed. During the frantic exchange, the family friend allegedly heard McGann Sr. cry out, “Stop, you’re killing me” during an argument at his Lake Worth Beach home, the document noted. The individual also claimed to have heard McGann...

European Union lawmakers have called for Brussels to impose sanctions on American journalist Tucker Carlson for interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin.Despite the longstanding tradition of American journalists interviewing dictators of all stripes, including a leader of the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, top Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt has called for Tucker Carlson to face EU sanctions for sitting down with the Russian strongman.The former Belgian Prime Minister and strong Brexit opponent, who currently serves in the European Parliament, told Newsweek: “As Putin is a war criminal and the EU sanctions all who assist him in that effort,...

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick is taking heat over the New York financial giant’s massive investment in Tether – a cryptocurrency popular with terrorist groups including Hamas. Last month, Lutnick — a fierce supporter of Israel whose brother was among the nearly 3,000 killed in the 9/11 attacks — touted Tether at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, reassuring investors that the company’s balance sheet is in order. Lutnick would know. Cantor Fitzgerald manages “many many” of the crypto giant’s reported $86 billion in assets, according to Bloomberg. “They have the money they say they have,” Lutnick told Bloomberg...

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), hours before his months-long work on a pro-migration border deal is projected to go down in flames, defended Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas against impeachment. Asked about the House’s effort to impeach the embattled secretary amid an unprecedented border crisis that began under his watch, Lankford said, “It’ll fail in the Senate,” while mockingly taunting, “If I can use the House term, it’ll be dead on arrival when it comes over.” Lankford on House Republicans trying to impeach Mayorkas again “It’ll fail in the Senate. If I could use the House term, it’ll be dead on...

Former GOP presidential primary candidate Chris Christie balked at endorsing current candidate Nikki Haley in a Tuesday interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “Look, imagine the position I’d be in if I endorsed someone who then turned around and endorsed Donald Trump,” Christie told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I’m not gonna be put in that spot again, George. I made a decision in 2016, the only time in my political career, where I endorsed someone purely for political reasons, even though I had some misgivings.” “And that’s when I endorsed Donald Trump,” Christie continued. “And it was the biggest mistake I’ve...

Police are searching for the drivers of three vehicles who failed to stop after striking — one after another — a pedestrian in Pacoima late Friday night...The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.

Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana is expected to announce a campaign for Senate as soon as this weekend, torching plans from top Republican officials to avoid a bruising primary battle in a state that many in the party view as their best chance to win back control of the chamber. Mr. Rosendale, an anti-abortion Republican agitator who voted to overturn the 2020 election, plans to formalize his campaign as Montana Republicans gather for their winter meetings this weekend in Helena, according to three people familiar with the deliberations who insisted on anonymity to discuss unannounced plans. A spokesman for Mr....

ABC’s Modern Family actor Ed O’Neill says he plans to give back his honorary doctorate degree to Youngstown State University in protest of the school hiring former Republican congressman Bill Johnson as its new president. “I was so disappointed when I heard about this decision,” O’Neill told MSNBC. “He’s a polarizing guy, an election denier. He’s not the biggest fan of the gay community. He’s anti-choice. He’s just a polarizing, far right-wing fanatical guy.” O’Neill, who is from Youngstown, Ohio, also criticized Johnson for supporting former President Donald Trump after the 45th president was indicted, saying, “It’s crazy.”

In 2015, archaeologists working at a cave in southwestern Germany found an enigmatic perforated baton in a cave called Hohle Fels. It was a near-perfect match for an artifact found in 1983 in a cave down the road. Carved from single pieces of mammoth ivory, the Hohle Fels baton—roughly 20 centimeters long, about the length of a large paperback book—had multiple holes with spiraling grooves around the openings. Similar objects have been found elsewhere in Germany and in nearby France, often made from ivory or antler. They date from the last ice age, more than 35,000 years ago, a time...

Today, after twelve years of procedural bollocks and four weeks of trail, Mann vs Simberg and Steyn will supposedly be going to the jury. We shall see. Mark has not been well this week, but he hopes to be sufficiently healthy to deliver his closing argument. Our friends Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer will be there of course, as they have been every day - unlike slipshod outlets such as NPR, for whom court reports do not involve actually sending a reporter to court, or The Washington Post, who dispatched their "climate reporter" to cover a trial. The poor lad...

This quote is from John Miller, CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. It shows just how much New York City is pro-crime. These are the criminals that New York City released without bail, after they assaulted police officers. These are some of the crimes that they committed before they assaulted the police.This quote is from John Miller, CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.It shows just how much New York City is pro-crime.These are the criminals that New York City released without bail, after they assaulted police officers. These are some of the crimes that they committed before they...

Also known as Souplantation in California, Sweet Tomatoes was known for its fresh salad bar and buffet selection of soups, pizza, and bread. The Tucson location that's set to reopen—which is located at 6202 East Broadway Blvd.—initially opened its doors in 1996. Malone said that it's still a "very good unit" located in a great market, adding, "We're thrilled to return."

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is taking aim at Oreo for partnering with an organization promoting a “militant LGBTQ agenda.” The NLPC will release a video Wednesday that begins by citing the names of infamous books on gender and sexuality that have been marketed to young people in public libraries and schools. “‘This Book Is Gay,'” the video narrates. “‘Gender Queer.’ ‘Flamer.’ ‘Lawn Boy.’ Books like these are promoted in our schools and local libraries by PFLAG, and Oreo is supporting them.” PFLAG is an LGBT advocacy organization. “Is your favorite sandwich cookie...

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took aim at House Republicans on Wednesday for their attempt to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Understand this: Everything they do is about Donald Trump. He’s the puppeteer,” she said in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, discussing the GOP’s failed impeachment effort Tuesday. “Sadly, as I’ve always said, he’s shining a light on the strings, and it looks terrible. Everything’s about him.” “So what they’re trying to do — Mayorkas, who is a distinguished public servant, who has honored the law and the policy, executed the law — is they’re trying to cheapen...

Democrats understand that the short-term backlash for our open borders is just the cost for a long-term payoff in maintaining power. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The much-anticipated Senate border bill unveiled this week is another example of the destructive and unserious people who lead this nation. President Biden and Democrats are now blaming Republicans for failing to pass the bill, but the reality is that for the “open borders” Democrat Party, everything is going according to plan. The Democrat Party is well on its way to fundamentally changing America’s demographics, all to secure what they believe will eventually become an unbeatable coalition of...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has revealed on Tuesday why Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to be interviewed by the former Fox host. Tucker Carlson maintains a position that differs from that of other Western journalists, according to Peskov. “His stance is by no means pro-Russian and it is not pro-Ukrainian – rather, it is pro-American,” the spokesman said. “But at least it differs from the stance of all these traditional Anglo-Saxon media.” While Peskov did confirm that Carlson interviewed Putin during a personal meeting on Tuesday, he refrained from providing any further details about the interview. “After all, it was...

Julius Malema has repeatedly called for the genocide of the 4 million Whites living in South Africa. Malema could very possibly be elected as Prime Minister in a few months. Zero international outrage.