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The Washington Post is being mocked online for its perplexing Monday front page photo showing mourners at the funeral of an 11-year-old girl killed by a Hezbollah rocket strike, which the paper paired with a headline about Israeli airstrikes. “Israel hits its targets in Lebanon,” the large-type front-page headline announces, positioned directly under a photo of anguished family members mourning over the coffin of Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, 11, one of the 12 kids killed by a Hezbollah rocket strike on a soccer field in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights. Another 40 people were injured in the Saturday strike, making it...

VIDEO"Mr Beast" (the worlds largest, and most famous YouTuber) appears to have an ex employee openly claiming that he rigs competitions, and runs illegal lotteries. With a barrage of situations recently bringing his company under a microscope, there are questions that need to be asked about when exactly a YouTube creator, bridges the gap to be held accountable by larger broadcasting laws with regards to lotteries, giveaways, sweepstakes and game shows. With a career built around giving away large sums of money (with seemingly little oversight)... Mr. Beast is sitting in a metaphorical house of cards.

Chilling leaked messages from Trump counter snipers have surfaced, detailing the moments leading up to the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. On Saturday, July 13th, there was a “colossal failure” of security, according to the former Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle. The ‘colossal failure’ resulted in an alleged sniper, Thomas M. Crooks, taking shots at President Trump from the rooftop of the AGR Building in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Gateway Pundit has published exclusive reports indicating the assembled group yelling, which included local patriot Greg Smith. The group could see the sniper...

MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Sunday offered a provocative commentary on Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), criticizing the GOP vice presidential nominee’s position on abortion and saying “he wants all women to have children even if they are raped.” “He wants to force the victims of rape and incest to bear the children of their attacks,” Psaki, the former White House press secretary for President Biden, said on her MSNBC show, “Inside with Jen Psaki.” “That’s his position, a circumstance that he dismissed as a mere inconvenience, and he said that federal intervention might be necessary to prevent women from crossing...

Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy ===================================================================== Perhaps because gastroenterology, immunology, toxicology, and the nutrition and agricultural sciences are outside of their competence and responsibility, psychologists and psychiatrists typically fail to appreciate the impact that food can have on their patients’ condition. Here we attempt to help correct this situation by reviewing, in non-technical, plain English, how cereal grains—the world’s most abundant food source—can affect human behavior and mental health. We present the implications for the psychological sciences of the findings that, in all of us, bread (1) makes the gut more permeable and can thus encourage...

Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to sit for one-on-one interview after becoming the Democrat party’s de facto nominee last week. Harris’s lack of media accessibility suggests she might run a similar campaign to President Joe Biden, who seldomly held solo press conferences and rarely sat for live interviews. It also indicates Harris might be concerned about answering questions related to her radical record. GovTrack’s scorecard ranked her as the most liberal senator in 2019, further left than socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), leading writers of the New York Times to rate Harris as the least electable of ten possible...

The Democrats think they have a meme that will carry them to victory in November.They say Donald Trump is weird.OF COURSE he's weird! Have you seen him dance?. Like your silly uncle after a few beers, he's lovable.

Heather MacDonald documents the self-immolation of the Boy Scouts of America and the denigration of men and masculinity in America.

Mollie Hemingway ... What we are seeing in this race is the result of what was happening when Biden was the nominee. It wasn't just that he was losing to Trump, but losing very much to Trump, he was also facing this down-ballot collapse. Democrats were facing the potential loss of five, six, or seven Senate seats. They were not prepared to do that, even if they understood they might lose the presidency. What you're seeing with these polls is certainly better than what they were doing with Biden. But the fundamentals of the presidential race remain the same, because...

A priest is suing the gay dating and “hookup” app Grindr after the company reportedly failed to protect his data, leading to his resignation from a top position at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). In July 2021, Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill resigned from his post as the general secretary of the USCCB ahead of a report by The Pillar alleging that he had engaged in inappropriate behavior and frequent use of Grindr. The app advertises itself as “the largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people.” Its geolocation feature is popularly known to facilitate sex hookups...

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Joe Biden proposed reforms to the Supreme Court are important because “our courts should not be for sale.” Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “Let’s get your reaction to what you heard from President Biden this morning, calling for a pretty sweeping overhaul of the Supreme Court.” Booker said, “I don’t see it as so sweeping. It’s actually very pragmatic, reforms to the court that most Americans and both sides of the aisle actually agree with. Think about this for a second. Number one, the highest court in the land...

Just days after listlessly endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, former first lady Michelle Obama recruited a motley crew of leftist celebrities to push Americans to register to vote. The cringeworthy ad, which was released Sunday, shows Obama pretending to call several friends, including: Retired soccer player Megan Rapinoe. Actress Kerry Washington. NBA stars Steph Curry and Chris Paul. TV producer Shonda Rhimes. Country music singer Reyna Roberts. “Nonbinary” social media personality Bretman Rock.

When last we left Hunter Biden and his legal team, they were busy being scorched by U.S. District Court Judge Mark Scarsi in the California criminal tax case pending against Biden (and currently set to go to trial in September). As I noted in our reporting on the matter: But there's an even bigger problem with the motion than that: Biden's lawyers contended in the motion that Weiss only brought charges against Biden after he was appointed as Special Counsel. Which, as Scarsi very pointedly notes in his order, is false (emphasis mine): "The Court orders Mr. Biden’s counsel to...

If you are a Democrat bureaucrat who spends his time at the FBI, not doing his job of going after criminals, but instead violating the Hatch Act while campaigning for Hillary and seeking to destroy Trump, and you get caught, you won’t be punished. Nope — the taxpayers will be screwed again by paying your high pension and giving you a kickback of $1.2 million. Justice Dept. settles with ex-FBI officials Strzok, Page over leak of anti-Trump texts The Justice Department has agreed to settle claims by former senior FBI special agent Peter P. Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page,...

Every historical drama bears an awesome responsibility to its real-life subjects, but few films bore a weightier burden than Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 masterpiece, Downfall. While it was certainly not the first film to portray Adolf Hitler, it does have the distinction of being the first major German film to tackle the topic, with the legendary Bruno Ganz in the lead role. Hirschbiegel and screenwriter Bernd Eichinger recognized the awesome responsibility that was before them, along with the potential controversy they might face for telling the story of the last days of World War II. The national taboos associated with Hitler...

A crash is coming. We find ourselves deep into the irrational-exuberance phase of Kamala Harris’s surprise ascension to her role as presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. All of five full days have elapsed since Joe Biden was dragged unwillingly to the conclusion most Americans came to well over a year ago. Already, Harris’s political star is said by her allies to have eclipsed even Barack Obama’s. “I covered the Clinton campaign, the Women’s March, the anti-Trump resistance, the wave of women in the 2018 midterms,” TIME Magazine correspondent Charlotte Alter asserted, “and the momentum for Harris over the last five days...

* Internet and phone services in six regions of France were disrupted after fiber optic cables were cut overnight. * It is the second attack on French infrastructure while the country hosts the Olympics. * On Friday, several arson attacks damaged railway lines. A man was arrested on Sunday, AFP reported. French phone and internet services were targeted on Sunday night, in the second incident to affect French infrastructure while the nation hosts the Olympics. Multiple telecommunications operators were experiencing disruption after fiber optic cables were "sabotaged" across six regions of France, French police told Agence France-Presse. The regions of...

Exit polls (Edison Research, WSJ): Opposition leader González: 65% Socialist dictator Maduro: 31% Results from the Election Council: Socialist dictator Maduro: 51.2% Opposition leader González: 44.2% No leader or media organization should legitimize this fake election in any way. This was stolen from the people. Never forget.

According to a Reuters report, a structure thought to have been a medieval palace has been uncovered in the square outside the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, which serves as the seat of the pope as the bishop of Rome. The site includes walls thought to have surrounded the Patriarchio, a monumental basilica built after Emperor Constantine's declaration of tolerance for the Christian religion within the Roman Empire in A.D. 313. The structure was expanded between the ninth and thirteenth centuries to house the church's popes, who moved to Avignon, France, in the early fourteenth century. The papal court returned...