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President Biden has narrowly pulled ahead of former President Donald Trump in the key state of Wisconsin and is even with his predecessor in Pennsylvania and Michigan, according to a new 2024 election poll. Trump still leads Biden 47% to 43% across seven battleground states, per the March survey conducted by Bloomberg News/Morning Consult — but the Democrat is gaining ground against his presumptive Republican opponent for the first time in five months. Biden, 81, is backed by 46% of registered voters in Wisconsin while 45% support Trump, 77, in a head-to-head battle. Registered voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan broke...

The weekend came and gave the country a pretty good idea how the Biden campaign is going to conduct itself. Biden has a low approval rating and has screwed pretty much everything up. Americans need an extra $11,400 just to stay even under Biden. Biden keeps lying about the number of jobs created and it's actually worse than realized. Foreigners have scooped up most of the new jobs, and Americans have lost jobs. The Biden regime has routinely overstated the numbers as the revised numbers show far fewer than originally claimed. And many of the new jobs are government jobs,...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once.” John 13:31–32Jesus speaks this line about Himself being glorified immediately after Judas leaves the supper to go forth to betray Him. Jesus had just finished washing the feet of His disciples, and soon He would finish the Last Supper, go to the Garden of Gethsemane, be arrested, beaten and crucified. And this was to all take place through the betrayal of one of...

Something went wrong that night aboard the African Neptune, which was 13 minutes out of the Port of Brunswick with a full load of naval stores. The 16-year-old Sidney Lanier Bridge’s center draw spans were open for passage through the Brunswick River. But it became increasingly clear to those waiting in vehicles on the bridge that the U.S. freighter was off course. Also, it was not stopping. Crew members would later attribute the ship’s wayward trek to a “steering failure,” according to an Associated Press report. They dropped anchor in an effort to stop its trajectory toward the Sidney Lanier...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was given permission by the High Court in London on Tuesday, to take his challenge against extradition to the United States on espionage charges to a new hearing.The court ruled that Assange could pursue his appeal at a full hearing, unless the U.S. provided “satisfactory assurances” on the questions of whether he was able to rely on the First Amendment of the Constitution and whether he could be subject to the death penalty. It added that he should not be prejudiced at trial or sentencing “by reason of his nationality.”“If those assurances are not given, then...

by CAPT. SETH KESHELAs Election 2024 bears down upon us, you’ve undoubtedly heard the term Black Swan flung around. An unfortunate reality of living in the post-2020 world is that we have come to expect government-inflicted bullshit that has no place in a free society, like ours was founded to be. You remember this drill – while many of your friends who still won’t fess up today were diving under their beds to hide from a virus that only infects you while you are walking into a restaurant or boarding an aircraft, you were watching local small business die on...

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Former President Donald Trump’s net worth jumped to $6.4 billion Monday after the merger between Digital World Acquisition Corp. and Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. was officially finalized, according to a report. For the first time ever, Trump, 77, will be listed on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index of the world’s wealthiest 500 people, according to the outlet. The real estate mogul’s previous peak net worth was $3.1 billion. Trump’s net worth ballooned by $4 billion after the merger of his Trump Media group and blank-check acquisition company Digital World.

NEW YORK, NY — After news broke that the bond amount in his fraud case had been lowered from $454 million to $175 million, former President Donald Trump announced he would pay the bond in its entirety with bags of nickels. Trump notified the court that preparations had already been made for a fleet of armored trucks to arrive at the courthouse and begin unloading cases and cases of freshly minted and rolled nickels totaling $175 million. "Beautiful, shiny nickels. So many nickels," Trump said in his announcement. "It's a total sham that I have to pay anything, but...

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The Cargo Ship that struck and destroyed The Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, Maryland appears to have lost power twice before impact with the bridge. The ship’s lights then blink back on right before it hits the bridge support. Here is the video. VIDEO AT LINK...................... Via Monica Crowley: The Francis Scott Key Bridge has collapsed into Baltimore Harbor after a cargo ship apparently lost power twice and collided with it at 1:30am ET. Two rescued, at least 7 people missing. Prayers up 🙏 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A team of researchers from the Vienna Institute of Technology (known locally as Tu Wien) have created a new type of self-cleaning white paint that never loses its white color and also cleans the air. Powered by ordinary sunlight, the potentially revolutionary wall coating is also made with recycled materials and organic waste, making it commercially viable and sustainable. Anyone with walls that are painted white knows that, over time, its bright, clean color is bound to fade. The culprit is almost always substances in the air that attach themselves and accumulate on wall surfaces. While some of this can...

In Texas, where former President Donald Trump carried the state by about five-and-a-half percentage points in 2020, Trump now leads Biden by double that (11 percentage points) among registered voters.

We’ve traced the drift of President Biden and his team away from Israel toward the side of Hamas in the current war. You might say they’re selling Israel out, but it’s not clear what they’re getting in return. You might say they don’t know what they’re doing, but one fears that they do. They seek the survival of Hamas as Israel seeks to complete its campaign to eliminate it as a force in Gaza. Thus the administration’s abstention on the Ramadan ceasefire resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council yesterday. What has Ramadan got to do with it? Hinging...

President Joe Biden is now considering a program that could allow 4,000 undocumented immigrants every year to avoid deportation and obtain a green card to remain in the United States. Those who have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years and have a legal citizen relative that would 'suffer' as a result of their removal could qualify for access to this program, which the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) says allows non-legal permanent residents to apply for a judge to 'cancel your removal' and stay in the U.S. It comes amid continued crackdowns by Republicans in Congress...

Federal government spending is that hideous strength that keeps on chugging along, despite higher rates. Home prices in America’s 20 largest cities rose for the 12th straight month in January (the latest data released by S&P Global Case-Shiller today), up 0.14% MoM (less than the 0.2% exp) Source: Bloomberg That pushed the YoY price up to +6.59% (in line with the +6.60% exp). “Our National Composite rose by 6% in January, the fastest annual rate since 2022.” According to Brian D. Luke, Head of Commodities, Real & Digital Assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices. “For the second consecutive month, all...

Don Lemon’s new online show is grappling with a fast-shrinking audience after he was unceremoniously dumped by Elon Musk — and the pittance in revenue may not even cover the costs of his bare-bones production, The Post has learned. The former CNN anchor — who had demanded millions of dollars, a flight on a SpaceX rocket and a Cybertruck before being fired by Musk’s social network X following a testy sit-down interview — suffered a massive decline in viewers for the second episode of “The Don Lemon Show.” “Nobody is watching,” one media watcher told The Post. “Poor Don, he...

Michael Cohen, the ex-personal attorney of former President Trump, said his former boss “should be worried” about the prosecutors, witnesses and evidence that are coming his way after a judge set his hush money trial start date. “He shouldn’t be worried about me. He should be worried about the Manhattan district attorney, the district attorney of New York prosecutors, he should be worried about the documentary evidence, he should be worried about all of the witnesses that are going to be coming into that trial simply because, as others have also appropriately put it, this is a simple case,” Cohen...

Billionaires who are also donors to the Republican Party are planning to help former President Donald Trump with his bond in his civil fraud case in New York, according to reports. Sources told Reuters that billionaire hedge fund founder John Paulson is one of the major donors who is looking to help with Trump's legal expenses. On Monday, a New York appeals court ruled that the bond in the former president's case be reduced from $464 million to $175 million.

A male volleyball coach at an all-girls New York high school took his own life by stepping in front of a train after being accused of raping a 15-year-old player, officials said. Jason Maser, 22, was a part-time coach at the Sacred Heart Academy on Long Island when he allegedly raped the teen victim on at least two occasions in his vehicle on February 7 and March 7, the New York Post reported. After being arraigned on third-degree rape and criminal sex charges and released on $75,000 bail Friday morning, news broke out of the disturbing accusations. ... Maser left...