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A storm of outrage about the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony took a legal turn Tuesday, with a DJ who performed at the show saying her lawyer is filing complaints over a torrent of threats and other abuse that the LGBTQ+ icon has suffered online in the ceremony’s wake. Barbara Butch’s lawyer said in a letter posted to the DJ’s Instagram that Butch “has been threatened with death, torture and rape, and has also been the target of numerous anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist and grossophobic insults.” Butch’s agent confirmed to The Associated Press that the Instagram account is the DJ’s.

NATIONAL CHEESECAKE DAY National Cheesecake Day on July 30 offers a slice of one of America’s favorite desserts. Order up a cheesecake with your favorite topping. Get it delivered or make it at home. #NationalCheesecakeDay This smooth dessert hits the spot when the end of the meal rolls around. While most cakes have a crumb, cheesecake’s texture is nothing like cake. Indeed, its creamy, thick pudding-like character comes from the soft cheese used as the main ingredient. Depending on the recipe, either cream cheese or cottage cheese is used. When the cheese is mixed with sugar, eggs, and other ingredients,...

Vice Presidential Nominee and Senator JD Vance will visit the U.S. Southern Border in Cochise County, Arizona, on Thursday, August 01, 2024. "For 39 months straight since weak, failed, and dangerously liberal Kamala Harris became Joe Biden’s border czar, monthly encounters have routinely surpassed the highest month under President Trump’s administration," said The Trump-Vance Campaign in a statement

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear.” Matthew 13:43This passage concludes Jesus’ explanation of the Parable of the Weeds in the Field. Recall that in this parable there were good seeds sown in a field. The Sower is the Son of Man, Jesus, and the seed He sows are the children of the Kingdom, which includes all those who are in a state of grace. The field is the whole world. Thus, Jesus is saying that He has sent His followers, each one...

Enthusiasm Over a Vaccine to Prevent Cervical Cancer Fades with Longitudinal Data The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine in 2006 progressing to Gardasil 9, a 9-valent vaccine, for use in children as young as 9 years old in December 2014. The CDC recommends the HPV vaccine as part of the routine vaccination schedule for children ages 11–12, but it can be given as early as age 9. The vaccine is also recommended for adults up to age 26, and in 2018 the FDA expanded the age range to include adults up...

The leftist-populist government of Slovakia has announced that it will not take part in the closing ceremonies of the Paris Olympics over the “insult” to Christianity and the “degenerate decadence” put on display during the opening of the games. Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba announced on social media on Monday that he will cancel his planned trip to France to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympics after an LGBTQ-themed apparent parody of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ enraged Christians worldwide. Taraba, who has been covering certain responsibilities in the wake of the failed assassination attempt of PM Robert...

MI AG Dana Nessel appears to have lied about the owner of 4 semi-automatic rifles with suppressors and modified pistols that were found stored in a Pelican case during a raid of the Democrat-funded GBI Strategies headquarters in Southfield, MI. On October 16, 2020, the Muskegon Police Department was called to the Muskegon City Clerk’s office to investigate what appeared to be a mass voter registration fraud effort targeting urban communities across the state of Michigan. Between 8,000-10,000 voter registrations (many of which, according to the police reports, were fake) were being mailed from a hotel in Auburn Hills, MI....

Home prices reached a new record in May amid an ongoing housing shortage, even as high mortgage rates continued to push affordability out of reach for millions of Americans. Prices increased 5.9% nationally in May when compared with the previous year, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index showed on Tuesday, down from the 6.4% pace recorded the previous month. On a monthly basis, prices climbed 0.3%, according to the index. "Home prices hit a new high in May," said Lisa Sturtevant, Bright MLS chief economist. "But with affordability a growing challenge for homebuyers and more new listings coming onto the market,...

President Donald J. Trump’s first television ad attacking his new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, splices together footage of her dancing and images of migrants crossing the border as the ad accuses her of being a failed “border czar.”The 30-second ad aims to hold Ms. Harris responsible for millions of border crossings and a quarter-million deaths from fentanyl, which the ad says occurred “on Harris’s watch.” It closes with a new Trump tagline for Ms. Harris: “Failed. Weak. Dangerously Liberal.”The words flash on the screen as she dances, footage from an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.It is the...

A Rasmussen poll has found that a majority of Americans want Joe Biden to resign the presidency with immediate effect.The poll found that 76 percent of likely voters approve of Biden stepping down from seeking another term, with just 18 percent of voters not approving of the decision.However, the poll also reveals that 52 percent of Americans also believe that Biden is not capable of finishing his term and needs to go now, even though that would mean president Kamala.Voters overwhelmingly approve of President Joe Biden’s decision not to continue running for a second term, and a majority also agree...

Acting Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe claimed agents couldn’t fly a drone due to connectivity issues. However, former President Donald Trump’s shooter had no problem doing it before the rally.

Significantly more women chose to end pregnancies themselves — using unsupervised and potentially dangerous at-home methods — in the year following the Supreme Court’s abolition of federal protections for abortion, a new study has found. An estimated 3.4 percent of all women of reproductive age reported having tried some form of at-home abortion in the year following the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, according to findings published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open. That’s up from 2.4 percent of all women the year before — a trend that researchers projected...

The mainstream media has run amuck with Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race after Joe Biden stepped out. Despite all that the left is doing its best to push Harris on the American people, President Trump’s campaign is outspending hers, and it shows. [cut] He has been reportedly outspending Harris and her team 25-to-1 on television and radio ads. According to Breitbart, President Trump’s campaign and his allies are planning to spend $68 million between now and the end of August on advertising, whereas Harris is only spending $2.6 million. Breitbart reported that a Democrat insider is concerned about...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro likely lost the recent elections in his country because no one believes the official result. He was declared the winner after reports of the usual shenanigans, which included police forces barring people from entering polling locations. The State Department voiced its concern about the legitimacy of the results because they were fugazi. The sun is down and there’s an all-out battle on the streets of Caracas right now#VenezuelaLibre 🇻🇪 pic.twitter.com/I7TnSvlCH3— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024Full-scale battle taking place on the streets of Caracas right now!#VenezuelaLibre 🇻🇪Via @EmmaRincon pic.twitter.com/xNTbKL8PkU— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024What’s left...

Minnesota's Democrat Governor Tim Walz — one of the contenders reported to be on the short list under consideration for the VP slot with presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris — said this week that socialism is merely "neighborliness" by another name. "Don't ever shy away from our progressive values," Walz admonished the "White Dudes for Harris" call on Monday evening. "One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness," the radical Democrat asserted. "Just do the damn work." Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a top VP contender for Kamala Harris, says socialism is actually just "neighborliness." pic.twitter.com/xISVQSxIUv— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) July 30, 2024Walz...

A letter penned in November 2019 by the father of a Kamala Harris intern is making the rounds again. This California Democrat reported how Kamala Harris throws “f-bombs” around all day and berates her staff. Peter Schweitzer retweeted this report. Interns in Kamala Harris’ office instructed to not “look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members,” according to the father of one, who is a political liberal and was a supporter. https://t.co/qQkcxWoid7 — Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) July 29, 2024 The Union.com reported: Gregory had an eye-opening experience in Kamala Harris’ office that none...

A substantial share of Americans say they plan to move out of their state or even the country if the presidential candidate they oppose wins the election, according to a new poll.A survey released last week by StorageUnits.com sampled the opinions of 1,968 Americans who plan to support either former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. The poll was conducted on July 22, the day after President Joe Biden ended his bid for the Democrat nomination for president and endorsed Harris. Overall, 15% of respondents said they planned to leave their state and/or...

The people have spoken, and last week former President Barack Obama called Vice President Kamala Harris to tell her. His endorsement of her run for the presidency was captured in a short video documenting the candidate’s reaction. “Although you called for an open process,” said Obama, “and you know, Democrats have, have put in place an open process, it appears that people feel very strongly that you need to be our nominee.” But without a primary, without a popular referendum, without even the open convention that Obama was rumored to favor, how did the people make their will known, and...

It used to be Russia, Russia, Russia. When George Bush was running, he had to pick Cheney to get gravitas. It has always been that Republicans are racists, sexists, transphobes, and xenophobes. Anyone who disagreed with the radical green agenda is falsely called a climate denier. Republicans who challenge elections where Democrats ignored election laws in several states are called election deniers. People who dared disagree with Dr. Fauci were called anti-vaxxers and anti-science. Now the new talking points have been distributed. They just call us weird. Democrats’ new line of attack on Republicans? ‘You’re being weird’“I think it’s really...

A former Yale Law School classmate shared with The Times about 90 emails and text messages with Mr. Vance. Here are some of the most revealing moments in their correspondence. Nelson, now a public defender in Detroit, said the two were once close friends, but had a falling out in 2021, when Mr. Vance said publicly that he supported an Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Now, Nelson, who opposes the Trump-Vance ticket, hopes the emails will inform the opinion of voters about Mr. Vance.