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Oscar Blue Ramirez is a war correspondent, bilingual independent media, covering border news. He discusses his training regimen, getting into a shootout with the cartels in the Darien Gap, rescuing children, his time in Israel, Ukraine, how he felt like he does not do enough, and much more.

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk revealed that he is a guest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s and plans to attend his speech before Congress. Musk was spotted earlier on Wednesday at the United States Capitol ahead of Netanyahu’s 2:00 p.m. speech. Netanyahu was invited in June to speak before a joint meeting of members of the United States House and Senate. When Kelly Phares, a senior Capitol Hill producer with Fox News, asked if Musk was there for Netanyahu’s “address,” Musk said he was. “Do you plan to attend?” Phares asked Musk. “I do,” Musk added. ELON...

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona, during Tuesday’s U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, asked Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris questions regarding Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’s home. The former Navy Seal, representing Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, asked Col. Paris, “Did your team make entry and conduct any investigation of the suspect’s home?” Paris responded, “I believe we had people that participated in securing it; there were bomb assets that we provided on the night of.” Crane continued, “Did you get any reports from any of your agents of anything fishy at the home?” Paris answered, “I...

It’s going to be an Olympics to remember for Coco Gauff. The tennis star has been tapped as one of the flag bearers for the United States during the opening ceremony at the Summer Olympics on July 26 in Paris, joining LeBron James, it was revealed exclusively July 24 on TODAY. Gauff and James were selected by a vote of fellow Team USA athletes through a process led by the Team USA Athletes’ Commission, which serves as the representative group and voice of Team USA Athletes, according to a press release.

Hastily edited machine transcription of the video. I may touch this up over time, it needs links to the various pages the narrator mentions. Alright, today's video is once again about a topic that is pretty much always divisive yet perpetually discussed. And to be completely honest here, I'm getting really sick of watching people mischaracterize, misrepresent, and misunderstand this topic, simply for personal or financial gain. I'm not going to make it overly specific on who those people are. That's not the purpose of the video, despite the fact I consider them grifters of the highest order. However, if...

Here’s the latest from the campaign trail. Vice President Kamala Harris made an appeal on Wednesday to the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting bloc, Black women, as she met with the Zeta Phi Beta sorority in Indianapolis, one of the nation’s oldest Black sororities. Though the event was officially a White House event, she delivered a version of the campaign stump speech she debuted this week in Delaware and Wisconsin, reciting the Biden administration’s accomplishments and attacking former President Donald J. Trump. Chris Cameron | Reporting on politics Here’s the latest from the campaign trail. Vice President Kamala Harris made...

BUTLER, Pa. – Whistleblowers have told Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that a law enforcement officer who was assigned to monitor the roof of a building that would-be former President Trump assassin Thomas Crooks fired from on July 13 left their post because it was "too hot." [cut] "…He or she was too hot and just thought it was unnecessary to be out there." — Josh Hawley The same whistleblower told Hawley that multiple law enforcement personnel were also assigned to patrol the perimeter of the building "to make sure that somebody couldn't just jump up" onto the roof, possibly...

Economist Valentina Bondarenko is dead. She fell from her apartment window, the Russian news agency Tass reported. Newsweek called her "Russia's leading economist." She is yet another prominent figure in Russia to die this way since the invasion of Ukraine began. The tragedy was supposed to have happened on Monday evening, while Russian media reported the woman's death on Tuesday. 82-year-old Bondarenko was a leading researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow - explains the American "Newsweek". The Russian news agency Tass reported that the economist's fall "had no criminal background. - Valentina...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced an investment of $4.3 billion into community-driven projects in an effort to ramp up local climate action across the country. The funding will go to 25 recipients across 30 states, ranging from projects involving forest management to household energy efficiency. It will also help states, cities and territories develop climate action plans to meet local sustainability goals. Details about the latest funding were shared with the media on an embargoed basis Friday, two days before President Biden’s announcement that he was dropping his reelection bid. The funding reflects how the Biden administration is...

Are robots poised to soon become our overlords? Maybe not yet, although billionaire technologist Elon Musk says they could soon take over Tesla production facilities as the company moves forward with plans to begin producing humanoid robots called Optimus as soon as next year. In a post on X, Musk said, “Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026.” First named the “Tesla Bot” and revealed in 2021 at a Tesla AI Day event, the robot’s design has drastically changed over the last...

As Vice President Kamala Harris emerges as the likely Democratic nominee, left-wing media outlets such as Axios are rushing to erase the title of "border czar" from her resume, despite their own use of the title. A Wednesday Axios article attempted to claim that Harris "never actually had" the title of "border czar" and that the moniker had gained traction with her conservative detractors. Instead, the outlet emphasized Harris had been appointed to handle the administration's coordination with Latin American nations on the issue.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Tuesday that most recent immigrants who have come across the U.S.-Mexico border are “garbage.” Speaking to Larry Kudlow on Fox Business’s “Kudlow,” Tuberville segued from criticism of Vice President Harris as a presidential candidate to his views on immigration. “I mean, how can you put somebody in charge of a situation where you let 15, possibly even 20 million people come into our country? Now some of these people are good, but most of them are garbage. They come from jails and prisons in other countries,” he said. Tuberville repeated a series of false or...

The ad then goes into a variety of clips of Harris promoting progressive policies and labeling her the "most liberal nominee ever." In the ad, Kamala is quoted calling for the elimination of the filibuster, banning fracking, decriminalizing illegal immigration, abolishing ICE, defunding the police, mandating a gun buyback program, and other liberal policies. ... "Attention Republicans," conservative commentator and author Matt Walsh posted on X. "This is how you attack Kamala Harris. Here’s the blueprint."

Dramatic new footage shows law enforcement standing over the dead body of Donald Trump's attempted assassin moments after he was killed. A Secret Service agent and local police are seen in the video discussing how Thomas Matthew Crooks had been identified as a suspicious person before he started shooting. The graphic clip shows a pool of blood trailing out from the 20-year-old's body, which lies next to the rifle he used during the shooting.

On her first foreign trip as Vice President in June 2021, Kamala Harris was tasked with delivering a blunt message in Guatemala City. "I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come," she said at a press conference, pausing for effect. "Do not come." Three years later, that sound bite may come to haunt Harris' nascent presidential campaign. Despite her warning, border crossings reached historic highs during the Biden Administration. Republican critics cast the episode as a symbol of Harris’s ineffective tenure as...

Analysis Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft Windows machines around the world to crash. The impact was extensive. Supply chain firm Interos estimates 674,620 direct enterprise customer relationships of CrowdStrike and Microsoft were affected. Microsoft said 8.5 million Windows machines failed. The results beyond a massive amount of IT remediation time included global flight and shipping delays due to widespread Windows system failures.The cause, to the extent so far revealed by CrowdStrike, was "a logic error resulting in a system crash and...

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is calling for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu as the Israeli prime minister is in Washington on Wednesday to address a joint session of Congress.“Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” the progressive Democrat claimed in a statement. “It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.”Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested...

Michael Kearney Jr., a community organizer from Charleston, S.C., admits that he isn’t crazy about Kamala Harris’s background as a prosecutor. But after President Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed her as his replacement, Mr. Kearney set his misgivings aside — and opened his wallet.“I’m all the way in,” declared Mr. Kearney, 41, who said he sent $20 to Ms. Harris’s campaign this week. Nathan Gaines, a 43-year-old barber and Army veteran from Milwaukee, said he had been leaning toward voting for Donald J. Trump — he calls the former president “Big T” — despite having supported...

Former President Donald Trump holds a three-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris among registered voters, CNN polling found Wednesday after President Joe Biden stepped aside. The poll is one of the first published surveys after Biden endorsed Harris for president. Trump: 49 percent Harris: 46 percent The poll sampled 1,631 voters from July 22-33 with a 3-point margin of error. CNN’s poll conducted in June found Trump led Harris by six points, underscoring the “honeymoon” period Harris enjoys as the de facto nominee of the struggling Democrat party. The poll found Trump’s support has not changed much since Harris...

A Tennessee gas station clerk was allegedly caught on surveillance video stealing a customer’s $1 million-winning lottery ticket — after lying and telling the winner they had lost. The unidentified winner bought two $20 Diamond and Gold scratch-off tickets from 23-year-old staffer Meet Patel at a Shell station in Murfreesboro and handed him back the tickets to check, according to Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department. Patel returned one of the winning tickets along with a $40 prize — while ignoring the fact that the other one had won $1 million, Lt. Detective Steve Craig told News Channel 5. “He threw it...