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CHICAGO — A 14-year-old boy has been charged with 14 felonies in connection with a violent crime spree on Sunday, as well as an attempted hijacking in June. The boy was part of a group that carjacked and robbed four people in the 1900 block of West Irving Park around 5:40 a.m. Sunday, according to CPD. As CWBChicago reported that morning, a carjacker driving a white car pulled in front of the victim’s Mazda CX3 to block their path, and two gunmen got out, took the victims’ valuables, and then drove away with the Mazda. CPD said the victims were...

Total vanity, but if Brandon bows out and kamala becomes president she can't appoint newsom as VP, since they are from the same state.

More than 1,400 Black women and allies have indicated their support for President Biden and Vice President Harris in a letter released Thursday. Highlighting the fact that millions of Americans cast ballots for Biden and Harris in the primary, the women said attempts to change the ticket “disregard” and “circumvent the will of millions of voters who participated in a democratic process.” “The suggestion that any candidate who won their primary should simply step aside because victory appears difficult at the moment is disrespectful to the voters, unjust and undemocratic,” the women wrote. The letter is signed by Black powerhouses...

Questions have been raised about why drones were not deployed on the day a gunman shot at former President Donald Trump. On July 13, a gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire from a rooftop near where Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He killed one rallygoer and seriously wounded two others before being shot dead by the Secret Service. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, sustained an injury to his right ear, and made a triumphant appearance at the Republican National Convention days later with a bandage over his wound. Since the shooting, multiple investigations...

In this video some young boys in Uganda are putting on a skit of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. He is loved around the world, and especially in third world countries, because in their countries when a man who truly cares about the people, they get assassinated. So they love that he will fight for them. He is becoming the most loved politician in the world with the common people.

Hulk Hogan is a full blown MAGA Patriot now “When they took a shot at my hero Donald Trump, I realized that I couldn’t be silent anymore” Everyone needs to get LOUD!

Hunter Biden is using a pair of judicial opinions that were favorable to his father's political rival to argue his conviction on gun charges should be tossed out. In federal court papers filed in Delaware, Hunter Biden’s attorneys asked the judge who oversaw his gun trial to dismiss the case against him because of a federal court ruling in Florida dismissing the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. In the ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Jack Smith’s criminal case against Trump on the grounds that the appointment of and funding for the special counsel were...

The Biden administration made a pair of announcements Thursday that aim to bolster solar energy in Puerto Rico — which frequently deals with power outages. The Energy Department announced a conditional agreement to loan $861 million to finance the construction of two solar farms and batteries to keep the power stored even when it’s not sunny. The department will also provide up to an additional $325 million for solar and battery storage as part of a new program aimed at helping the island’s power become more resilient to extreme weather. The nearly $900 million loan will go to Clean Flexible...

Trump won't use word 'Biden' once in GOP convention speech: sources Trump address at Republica MILWAUKEE — Former President Trump will refer several times to the "current administration" or the "current leadership" in his address to the Republican National Convention, but highly placed sources say the former president will not use the word "Biden" once. [cut] "We don't know who the nominee will be at this point," a source in Trump's political orbit told Fox News.

First lady Jill Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have said many things over the years to make millions of people think they are empathetic, kind, decent human beings. Yet what both of them didn’t say this weekend showed everyone the kind of people they truly are. Three days after the first assassination attempt on a presidential candidate since 1972 (George Wallace), neither Biden nor Clinton has commented on their X accounts. The first lady once said, “Decency is on the ballot.” Well, it may have been on the ballot, but it definitely was not on her social...

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According to the Anchorage paper: adn.com And the Alaska Landmine: alaskalandmine.com It turns out a federal judge in Alaska was engaging in a little hanky panky. So were a couple of attorneys who were in his court.

The galaxy PJ0116-24, located 10 billion light-years away from Earth, appears to exhibit characteristics that contradict the standard view that galaxy mergers are required to produce such intense luminosity.The groundbreaking findings, which are detailed in a newly published paper in Nature Astronomy, seem to point to the occurrence of rapid star formation in HyLIRGs, revealing that it can occur through internal processes. The discovery presents new challenges to existing notions held by astronomers about how such formations occur...In the past, it was believed that the intense luminosity produced by HyLIRGs was exclusively the result of mergers between galaxies, which result...

Journalist and Newsmax commentator Mark Halperin said Thursday that multiple sources have told him embattled President Joe Biden plans to withdraw from the presidential election as early as this weekend, with Sunday most likely. "According to multiple Democratic sources, this is happening all of a sudden," Halperin told "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE" from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. "Everyone said it would happen gradually and then all at once. And that's what's happening. According to my sources, President Biden has agreed to step down as the Democratic nominee. It will happen as early as this weekend. "A speech has been...

Data from the United Nations shows that China has surpassed the US in the amount of daily dietary protein available to its population – an important indicator of a modern quality of life, and one that some commentators and politicians in the West thought would be impossible to achieve. According to the latest data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), China overtook the US in 2021, reaching a daily supply of 124.61 grams (4.39oz) of protein per capita. In the same year, Americans had access to 124.33 grams (4.38oz). For comparison, Japan’s daily protein supply per capita...

Germany banned the right-wing Compact magazine on Tuesday, accusing it of being a "mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene" and inciting hatred of Jews and foreigners. Stepping up the government's fight against what it says is a surge in far-right extremism in Germany, the interior ministry said Compact had been working against the constitutional order and ordered property searches in four states. Compact magazine, widely seen as a mouthpiece of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's radical wing, has a circulation of 40,000 and a wide-reaching social media presence. The ban also applies to Compact's subsidiary, Conspect Film, and...

Elwood Francis reveals the origins of his preposterous 17-string bass – and why he’s disappointed it went viral In 2022, ZZ Top guitar tech-turned-bassist Francis Elwood made headlines throughout the guitar press and beyond when he whipped out an almighty 17-string bass guitar with the Texas blues-rock legends. And although Elwood has since admitted he feels uncomfortable in the role he has occupied since Hill’s passing in 2021, his new addition to the ZZ Top arsenal continues the band’s great tradition of wacky instruments (the spinning fur guitars that starred in the Legs video being their most famous examples). Now,...

Earlier this week, the FBI announced that it had accessed the locked phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who opened fire at a Trump rally last Saturday. A new report from Bloomberg today reveals more details about this process and the phone used by Crooks. After Saturday’s Trump rally shooting, the FBI said on Sunday that it had been unsuccessful in unlocking Crooks’ phone. The phone was then sent to the FBI lab in Quanitco, Virginia, and on Tuesday the bureau confirmed that it had successfully unlocked the phone in question Until today, however, we had no indication whether...

President Joe Biden has agreed to bow out of the 2024 race, journalist and Newsmax commentator Mark Halperin reported on Thursday, citing sources. This comes as key Democratic sources told Axios that the 81-year-old could withdraw from the presidential election as early as this weekend. Newsmax's Halperin further cited his source to add that Biden will not endorse Kamala Harris. She would face an open convention for the Democratic Party's official nomination next month.

On Islamist Amna Nawaz's PBS News Hour July 18, 2024. Stephanie Sy refers to the Temple Mount as "al aqsa mosque revered by both Muslims and Jews." Really? Which non Muslims revere a mosque? Question. Why is Muslims regular visits not a "provocation," But only non-Muslims' is? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-netanyahu-makes-surprise-visit-to-gaza