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More than four dozen former foreign and national security officials for the U.S. government called on Biden in a letter Friday to drop out of the presidential race. "We write as former U.S. officials who have strongly supported your presidency and your initiatives to strengthen U.S. foreign and national security policy," they wrote. "We have welcomed the measures you have taken to promote U.S. alliances in Europe, Asia, and the Americas; to manage relations with great powers; and to address global issues such as climate change. These initiatives have been built on your decades-long record of support for responsible U.S....

Astronomers at Penn State University have identified an exoplanet with the most eccentric orbit ever observed among transiting planets...Named TIC 241249530, this newly discovered exoplanet exhibits a highly elongated orbit resembling a cucumber rather than a circle. Published in the journal Nature, the study provides significant insights into the formation and evolution of Hot Jupiters, a class of massive gas giants that orbit very close to their host stars...First detected using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in January 2020, the exoplanet's host star exhibited a dip in its brightness, indicating the presence of a Jupiter-sized planet passing in front...

Chilling video footage shows the moment a woman shot a seven-month-old infant in Philadelphia — heartlessly shouting “&*&* your baby!” as the child’s mother screamed in horror. The unidentified boy was sitting in a stroller in the northeast section of the city when the attacker opened fire on his parents — striking the tot in the leg Thursday evening, according to police who are searching for the suspect. The assailant is shown strolling past the mom and child then casually turning and firing at them from point-blank range, according to footage released by the Philadelphia Police Department.

As rumors about President Biden withdrawing from the presidential race continue to swirl around the nation, desperate Democrat leaders have recently resorted to listing a job opening for a new presidential candidate on LinkedIn. According to the posting, the Democrats are looking for four things in a new candidate: ability to breathe, ability to form coherent sentences, a strong commitment to DEI and abortion, and a lack of being named "Kamala Harris." "Yeah, things are getting a little tight around here, so we felt like we might as well go for the full-court press and use LinkedIn," said one Democrat...

At the link, 1 minute video in which Schiff criticizes Hur, saying Hur knew exactly what he was doing when gratuitously prejudicing the public against a candidate. https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1814028232980644216

With the Republican National Convention wrapped up, it’s clear the GOP is unquestionably the party of Donald J. Trump. There is no real dissent from MAGA in the party ranks. Bitter primary rivals took the stage to pay obeisance to the nominee. The crowd booed Mitch McConnell and other Republicans who have run afoul of Trump. On the other hand, the crowd went nuts for Tucker Carlson and Hulk Hogan. Throughout the week, Trump was treated as a conquering king, watching the festivities from his perch and relishing the adoration of the entire convention. It was a full-on MAGA fest....

A mother has been left outraged after a car salesman in Texas came and took her daughter with Down syndrome to a dealership to buy a Honda. Angie Martin, a working mother of seven, was shocked to come home on Tuesday night and not see Hope Martin. She was told a sales person had picked up her disabled daughter and taken her to All-Star Honda to look at cars. 'My heart’s beating faster just thinking about it. I got a text from her father, and he was like, "I got a couple texts from someone,"' Angie told KTAB. Hope, who...

“The View” co-host Joy Behar is taking issue with former President Donald Trump claiming God was on his side.During his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Trump stated it was because of God he was able to stand on the stage after a gunman tried to kill him at a rally. (snip) “What about Corey… what’s his name? Uh… Comperatore. The fireman who also died [at the rally],” Behar continued. “Oh God was watching me and not them? There’s something very disturbing about that.”

Han’s Worst Hits of the 70’s today visits one of the bigger stars of that decade-Rod Stewart. Rod Stewart has always been a frustrating artist to me. Rod was great back with The Faces and in his early solo career but in the mid-70’s he certainly showed signs at least of wavering towards being more interested in being famous than great. He jumped the shark with Do Ya Think I’m Sexy

The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, which thankfully left him with only a small wound to his ear, horrified me and reminded me of two assassinations that changed my life in 1968 when I was only eight. I was shocked when my hero, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was shot dead in Memphis in April. Crying myself to sleep and praying for his family, I promised myself I would devote my life to the Civil Rights Movement and to making America a more just and equitable society for everyone. Nothing I have done can compare with King’s...

Donald Trump gave a humble and thoughtful Republican nomination acceptance speech last night that saw him as less of a brawler and more reflective on life and unity in the days following the assassination attempt that almost claimed his life. “I stand before you this evening with a message of confidence, strength, and hope,” Trump began. “Together, we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity and freedom for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.” “The discord and division in our society must be healed. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared...

<p>The veteran reporter took to X/Twitter yesterday with the bold and categorical prediction, allegedly, based on unimpeachable campaign sources, that Biden will drop out, probably no later than Saturday.</p><p>None of it was true. Was it wishful thinking? It’s no secret the media is desperately trying to oust Biden, fearing an electoral bloodbath in November.</p>

New research led by Oregon Health & Science University reveals a promising approach to developing a universal influenza vaccine—a so-called "one and done" vaccine that confers lifetime immunity against an evolving virus. The study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, tested an OHSU-developed vaccine platform against the virus considered most likely to trigger the next pandemic. Researchers reported the vaccine generated a robust immune response in nonhuman primates that were exposed to the avian H5N1 influenza virus. But the vaccine wasn't based on the contemporary H5N1 virus; instead, the primates were inoculated against the influenza virus of 1918 that...

Joe Biden received encouraging support on Friday for his continued campaign for president as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) publicly announced he is sticking by Biden, who faces pressure from a small group of Democrat lawmakers to step aside as the party’s nominee. Jeffries’ statement directly contradicts establishment media reporting on Wednesday that Jeffries abandoned Biden, a sign that leaks to the media are perhaps ploys to shame Biden into quitting. “Joe Biden, as I’ve said repeatedly, is our nominee … he has the vision, I believe, the ability, the capacity, and the track record...

A wild conspiracy theory about the woman who was acting strangely behind Donald Trump as he was shot has been condemned. The woman sparked suspicion over her bizarrely-relaxed behavior after she failed to flinch and even pulled out her phone as shots rang out at the Pennsylvania rally last week. An outlandish conspiracy theory has since emerged claiming that the woman was FBI assistant director Janeen DiGuiseppi - and that she was directing the sniper who almost killed Trump. They also alleged the woman they claimed as DiGuiseppi gave a nod before gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire. But both...

Mayor London Breed said a “very aggressive” sweep of San Francisco homeless encampments will start in August, after a recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the path for widespread enforcement. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that enforcing rules against homeless people for sleeping outside doesn’t violate the Eighth Amendment’s “cruel and unusual punishment” clause. On Thursday, Breed celebrated the ruling and said the city plans to change its protocols and may begin issuing criminal penalties against homeless people. “Thank goodness for the change in the Supreme Court decision,” Breed said at an election debate hosted by a local firefighter’s union....

President Biden is “absolutely” staying in the presidential race, campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, calling him the “best person to take on Donald Trump.”

As Victor Davis Hanson notes, “our Soviet Union” features our own Brezhnev in Joe Biden and our own Pravda in the establishment media that praises the Delaware dullard as “sharp as a tack.” Our Soviet Union also features Stalinist show-trials, imprisonment without trial, government control of media, deep state agencies deployed against the people, and our very own communist party. Long before the Russia hoax, the Soviet Union interfered with American elections by running their own candidates of the Communist Party USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the USSR. The CPUSA candidate in 1924, 1928 and 1932 was William Z....

Trump 2024 communications director Jason Miller discusses the former president's decision to share the story of his attempted assassination at the RNC and argues it will be 'almost impossible' for Democrats to force Biden out of the race.

Amid calls for President Joe Biden to withdraw as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, many people are drawing comparisons to 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run for reelection, citing conflicts caused by the Vietnam war, violent inner-city protests, and widespread poverty. Johnson’s vice president, Hubert Humphrey, earned the nomination and ended up losing to Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee. On July 18, the X account for MSNBC’s Morning Joe posted a clip of hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discussing the 1968 election. Nikole Hannah-Jones, an investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine and...