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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family on Sunday, following a nationally televised debate Thursday that left many fellow Democrats worried about his ability to beat former President Donald Trump in November, according to five people familiar with the matter.

The Biden campaign is working overtime to quell the overwhelming panic after the President’s disastrous debate performance — and even had party bigwigs set up a call with members to talk them off the ledge, sources said. On Saturday — while Biden rubbed elbows with mega-donors in the Hamptons — the Democratic National Committee held the hastily put-together call led by Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodriguez and DNC chairman Jaime Harrison meant to calm fear and frustration. “They are trying to minimize the debate as much as possible,” a source told The Post. “It was meant to indirectly dismiss...

A Georgia real estate agent has filed a “cancel culture” lawsuit against LGBTQ+ activists she says have repeatedly used false claims to prevent her from earning a living in her field. On Tuesday, Julie Mauck, a real estate agent in Oconee County, Georgia, filed a lawsuit funded by the Coalition for Liberty against Athens Pride and Queer Collective, its leader Danielle Carmella Bonanno, and Fiona Bell (a.k.a. Felix Bell). According to a copy of the complaint provided to CNSNews, the lawsuit alleges that the activists engaged in a “cancel culture” campaign to prevent Mauck from earning a living and to...

U.S. — As summer ramped up heading into the important home stretch to the November presidential election, an alarming new study found that 33% of Americans are dumber than a bag of hammers.News channel CNN conducted a poll asking viewers who won last night's debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, with a shocking 33% of people responding that they suffer from advanced cognitive impairment, officially placing them at or beyond the stupidity of a box of rocks."We can confirm over one-third of the country is drooling morons," said Dr. Bradford Doran, head of the research team conducting the poll....

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas woman appeared Wednesday in court on charges she threatened to blow up Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her office, prosecutors said. Susan Scott, 66, of Fort Smith, was charged with threatening to cause a catastrophe and battery of an officer in the second degree, both felonies, Sebastian County Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Shue said in a news release. Police said on June 14, Scott was still making threats against Sanders when they went to arrest her at her home. Scott resisted arrest and “head-butted” an officer, according to an affidavit.

Thanks to technological loopholes of the CD, bands included tons of Easter eggs on their albums.Just as audiences now linger in cinemas waiting for a surprise outtake after the credits roll, in the 90s music fans would let their CDs play to completion, vigilantly scanning for hidden tracks or interludes to reward their patience. No matter the medium, artists have always found a way to rebel against the confines of commercial music packaging. The trend famously started with The Beatles. A brief acoustic piece by Paul McCartney didn’t fit on Abbey Road and he ordered engineer Geoff Emerick to cut...

Tucker Carlson speaks Down Under from Sydney, Australia, and reacts to the recent U.S. presidential debate.

Well, it looks like Chris Matthews no longer feels that thrilling tingle running up his leg. After Biden’s disastrous debate performance, it’s more like Chris had something running down his leg. Matthews joined Bill Maher to discuss the debacle, and he didn’t mince words, declaring that Biden isn’t “smart enough” to “keep up” with President Trump. Bill Maher said he knew 90 seconds into the debate that it was game over for Joe and the election was lost. And pay close attention to Chris’s “senior” moment, or was it a Freudian slip, when he accidentally called Biden “Obama” during their...

This is the cringe moment Jill Biden congratulated husband Joe "like a child" after his debate horrorshow against Donald Trump. The elderly leader of the free world staggered and stumbled through his 90-minute clash with Trump, prompting calls by top Democrats that he should consider ending his re-election bid. But despite Biden's disastrous performance on CNN, the first lady still praised him for "answering all the questions" as he "did a great job". The US president, 81, seemed almost childlike as lively Jill, 73, complimented him at a rally yesterday night in Georgia."Joe, you did such a great job...

Howls of outrage erupted here over a second suspected sex crime involving a U.S. serviceman that was initially kept under wraps by the central government. “It is absolutely unforgivable that such an inhumane and despicable crime has again come to light immediately after we learned that a young girl was abducted and assaulted,” Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki told reporters on June 28. Okinawa prefectural police said earlier in the day that Jamel Clayton, a 21-year-old U.S. Marine lance corporal, was arrested in May on suspicion of injuring a woman during an attempted rape. The suspect was indicted in June. Three...

A major conservative activist group is preparing for legal battles in case the Democratic Party chooses to pull President Biden out of the running before or after he becomes the nominee. The Heritage Foundation, one of the United States' most prominent and well-connected conservative activist groups, is laying the groundwork in case a sudden switch-up in the Democratic roster sparks a legal war. "We are monitoring the calls from across the country for President Biden to step aside, either now or before the election, and have concluded that the process for substitution and withdrawal is very complicated," Executive Director of...

GOD'S PERFECTION In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school career, while others can be main-streamed into conventional schools. At a Chush fund-raising dinner, the father of a Chush child delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he cried out, "Where is the perfection in my son Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and...

The decision comes after federal court rulings blocked further implementation of the student loan repayment plan.In response to court rulings blocking key elements of the federal government’s new student loan repayment program, the Biden administration will be giving approximately 3 million borrowers a reprieve from their monthly payments.The 3 million borrowers eligible for the pause are enrolled in the income-driven repayment program dubbed SAVE, and have a monthly payment that is more than $0 a month, the U.S. Department of Education said. About 4.5 million SAVE enrollees who qualify for $0 payments because of low incomes will not be included...

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Honduras still has a long way to go to dismantle the “narco-state” that grew under ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, jailed this week for smuggling a deluge of cocaine into the United States, experts said. Hernandez, 55, spent years in positions of power cozying up to kingpins from some of Latin America’s most notorious cartels, which placed proxies in state institutions while he pocketed millions of dollars in drug money. Extradited to the United States upon leaving office in 2022, Hernandez was sentenced this week to 45 years in jail for his crimes after prosecutors said he had turned his country...

Saturday 29 June 2024 Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Solemnity Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in PhiladelphiaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).These readings are for the Vigil Mass on the evening before the feast.These readings are for the day of the feast itself.These readings are for the Vigil Mass on the evening before the feast.First readingActs 3:1-10I will give you what I have: in the name of Jesus, walk!Once, when Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the prayers at the ninth hour, it happened that there was a man being carried past....

Bolivian forces arrested the army commander who led a coup attempt against President Luis Arce on Wednesday, shortly after rebel soldiers besieged the government headquarters for hours and tried to break down one of its doors. At the end of a frantic day, General Juan José Zúñiga was arrested outside a military barracks in La Paz and taken to a police vehicle on charges of terrorism and armed uprising, according to the prosecutor’s office. “You’re under arrest, General!” said Deputy Minister of Government (Interior) Jhonny Aguilera, according to state television footage. Surrounded by about eight armored vehicles, Zúñiga led the...

FIRST ON FOX: Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno released an ad on the morning of Thursday’s CNN Presidential Debate linking his vulnerable Democrat opponent’s policies to those of President Biden that will be featured on stage in Atlanta. “Sherrod Brown voted with Biden 99% of the time,” the Moreno ad says as two men ride a tandem bicycle with the license plate JB SB, the initials of Ohio Democratic Gov. Sherrod Brown and President Biden, in Washington, D.C. “Sherrod Brown & Biden combined 100 years in office,” the new ad says. “Sherrod Brown & Biden oppose a border wall.”...

Montana GOP Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy is getting some help in his effort to oust incumbent Sen. Jon Tester. Politico reports that More Jobs, Less Government, a super PAC aligned with Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), is launching a $4 million ad campaign this week that will run for about a month before incorporating a radio component July 10. Tester, who is seeking his third six-year term in the upper chamber, has a challenge ahead of him in a state former President Trump won handily in 2016 and 2020. The strategy behind the ad campaign: Nationalize the race, and tie Tester...

A hoard of 1,700-year-old coins has been discovered in central Israel by researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), according to a Live Science report. The 94 silver and bronze coins, which date to between A.D. 221 and 354, had been hidden in a public building in Lod, a city known to the Romans as Diospolis. The building is thought to have been destroyed during the last known Jewish revolt against Roman rule, known as the Gallus Revolt, for Flavius Claudius Constantius Gallus, who ruled the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire at the time. The cities of Tiberias and...