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Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that Joe Biden is not the first person contacted in the event of a nuclear war emergency. “He has a team that lets him know of any news that is pertinent and important to the American people. He has someone – that is decided obviously with his national security team on who gets to tell him that news,” Karine Jean-Pierre said. Imagine the US being on limited time (where seconds count) to respond to a nuclear threat and Joe Biden is passed out with a CPAP machine on his face. If Biden were to be awakened, he...

The aptly named Christopher Slaughterford hanged on this date in 1709 — condemned, quite possibly wrongfully, for murdering his fiancee Jane Young. Slaughterford owned a maltings at Shalford in Surrey and was known to be paying court to Miss Young when the latter went missing on the evening of the 5th of October, 1703. She turned up weeks later, dead in a pond and it was clear from the state of the body that it had been no accidental fall. The closest relations of the victim in such cases are natural first suspects, and it was no exception with Slaughterford....

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), one of President Biden’s ardent defenders, has emerged as a key public voice attempting to soothe Democratic fears over the incumbent. Newsom was at last month’s debate and was quick to defend Biden after he delivered a widely panned performance against former President Trump. Since then, Newsom has visited the White House with other Democratic governors amid concerns over the president’s health and crisscrossed key battleground states in a bid to shore up support for him. His effort comes as some in the party call for Biden to step aside to make room for a...

Sky News host James Macpherson says in California, LGBTQ activists are opposing the Republican's plan to increase penalties for soliciting minors into prostitution. Mr Macpherson said the activists are claiming the increased penalties would “disproportionately affect” the LGBTQ community. “How does anyone make sense of an argument like that?”

For ten years, Donald Trump has haunted the dreams of Democrats. They couldn't beat him in 2016, and in 2020, they had to weaponize a pandemic and invent scandals to defeat him. But in 2024, the strategy of making Donald Trump the primary issue of the campaign has backfired. The Biden "basement campaign" of 2020 can't be duplicated because there's no current pandemic to keep the president hidden from public view. And putting Biden out in the open where his infirmities are on full display has proven to be a disaster. So Democrats are running around with their hair on...

Everyone was in a glass case of emotion. It seems clear that overtures of a megadonor rebellion, heavyweight Democrats saying he should step aside, and House Democrats adding to the chorus would not pressure Joe Biden to do so following his June 27 debate. The president’s disastrous debate with Trump sparked the Democrats’ sprint into the panic rooms, which has yet to subside. Biden took days to collect himself, probably because he forgot he was president, to declare he wasn’t going anywhere. That wasn’t what Hill Democrats, who are panicked over their races, latched onto an unpopular president whom 75...

WASHINGTON—The White House once hoped the NATO summit that opens Tuesday would showcase President Biden’s leadership of the trans-Atlantic alliance and his differences with Donald Trump. Instead, it has become a pivotal test of his fitness for a second term. * * * Biden will open the summit with remarks Tuesday, followed by a day of meetings and a dinner at the White House for NATO leaders on Wednesday and a press conference with reporters on Thursday. He will also hold bilateral meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

WASHINGTON—An effort by some Democrats to seek an alternative to President Biden as the party’s nominee appeared to flag on Tuesday, with lawmakers signaling no clear path forward after the president made clear he was dead set against stepping aside. House and Senate Democrats held conference meetings for the first time since Biden flopped at the first presidential debate, a debacle for the party that heightened concerns that the 81-year-old incumbent couldn’t beat former President Donald Trump and may not be fit enough for another four years even if he did win. Lawmakers aired their frustrations with their predicament but...

Famous The Oak Ridge Boys singer Joe Bonsall died Tuesday at the age of 76. The iconic country/gospel singer is believed to have died as a result of complications from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), according to a statement issued by the band on their official Instagram page. The band went on to cite the star’s many talents and accolades as they paid tribute to their friend, and band mate of 50 years. “Joe was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and inducted into the Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall...

Explanation: These clouds are doubly unusual. First, they are rare noctilucent clouds, meaning that they are visible at night -- but only just before sunrise or just after sunset. Second, the source of these noctilucent clouds is actually known. In this rare case, the source of the sunlight-reflecting ice-crystals in the upper atmosphere can be traced back to the launch of a nearby SpaceX rocket about 30 minutes earlier. Known more formally as polar mesospheric clouds, the vertex of these icy wisps happens to converge just in front of a rising crescent Moon. The featured image -- and accompanying video...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Nikki Haley releases delegates from supporting her at Republican convention to unite around Trump From justthenews.com 2:42 PM · Jul 9, 2024 ·

Higher Taxes: Labour plans to raise taxes on North Sea oil and gas producers. Specifically, they intend to increase the existing windfall taxes from the current 75% to 78%. This move aims to fund their ‘green prosperity plan’, which includes investments in renewables through a state-owned vehicle called Great British Energy. Ban on New Licenses: Labour has pledged not to award any new North Sea oil and gas licenses if they come into power. This policy directly impacts potential developments like the Buchan oilfield, which contains approximately 100 million barrels of oil and was scheduled to produce its first oil...

The same observations also indicate LHS 1140b is a world of mostly solids and liquids, not an undersized gas giant. Artist's impression of LHS 1140b in the likely scenario where one side is all ice, while the side tidally locked to its star has a region of liquid ocean and cloud, which unfortunately looks like an eyeball (Earth for size comparison). Image Credit: B. Gougeon/Universite de Montreal Observations by the JWST have revealed exciting hints of an Earth-like atmosphere on a planet orbiting a relatively nearby star. The planet is likely to be cooler than Earth, but still warmer than...

An Idaho man named Ralph Ginorio spoke out against the Coeur d’Alene city council’s “measuring objective behavior” after approving a new hate crime ordinance, introducing a significant addition to the municipal code. The law was described as “draconian” by the Idaho Tribune, which argued it “will basically make it illegal to think the wrong way.” “If found guilty, you’ll be sentenced to ‘[re]education.'” “Dear North Idaho, you just lost your 1st Amendment right to Free Speech,” the Tribune added.

If you use Redbox’s streaming service, you may have noticed you can’t stream the movies you bought or even the free collection of movies they offer. Earlier today, Redbox’s website stopped working. Now it just displaying an error message where you would typically find the free movies and movies or TV shows for sale. For now, the issue is limited to Redbox, as Crackle, also owned by the same company, is still working. The exact cause of the issue is unknown and Cord Cutters News has reached out to Redbox for comment. If we hear back we will update our...

Last week, Sony broke the news that it is putting the kibosh on its writeable Blu-Ray disc business. While that’s not catastrophic news for physical media fans, it’s certainly disappointing. The first hint about the death of Sony’s recordable discs business was a rumor about layoffs at the company’s optical media plant that recently circulated the web. That rumor was ultimately confirmed by Japanese outlet AV Watch last week. Tom’s Hardware subsequently picked up the news last week and translated it into English, setting off a minor panic about what impact this could have on Blu-Ray fans’ collecting habits. While...

President Joe Biden canceled an early evening meeting with the German chancellor Olaf Scholz at the last minute because he had to go to bed, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reported that the event was an informal gathering in Germany amid the G7 summit in June 2022, and was meant to be a low-key meeting to discuss Ukraine. According to the report, the chancellor and his aides were surprised by Biden's absence and Blinken's appearance. Axios, citing people close to the president, has previously said that Biden worked best between the 10 a.m. and...

Embattled and increasingly bitter, Joe Biden angrily lashed out on Monday when he was asked – yet again – if he'd considering stepping down as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. 'Who else do you think could step in here and do this?' he spat during a phone-in interview with MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. 'Run against me!' he said, daring Democrat rivals. 'Challenge me at the convention.'

One of the most infamous killers in Santa Cruz County history was denied parole on Tuesday. Edmund Kemper, now 75, was denied parole again and has spent the last 51 years incarcerated for the killings of seven women and one girl between 1972 and 1973 in Santa Cruz County. One of the victims was Kemper's mother. He is currently locked in a Vacaville psychiatric center, serving a life sentence. The man known as the "Ogre of Aptos" for his 6-foot, 9-inch frame would pick up hitchhiking UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College students, thus gaining the other nickname the "Co-ed...

The people behind Joe Biden that used illegal voter registration, subsequent ballot harvesting, and ultimately corrupt ballot counting to install Biden into office, have threatened to veto any legislation that would impede their election fraud operation.By now we should all know the essential process being deployed. This is the reason for the open border policies.The Biden administration (DHS) is not “importing democrat voters.” Instead, DHS is importing people, names, that allows the state fraud process to generate ballots. This is an important distinction.The migrants will not use the ballots. The DNC harvesters will collect them, fill them out (Team Obama),...